TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1928 E-- x Tx "MAIN STREET 3 The Story of Carol Kennicott By SINCLAIR LEWIS " *Don't! Or I will go with you, and afraid there might be some slight brie Perheps some day I'll do I, Good-by."" . Her hand dssppeared in his blmckened leather glove. From the fm dn the road she waved at him. he walked on more soberly now, and was Jonely But the wheat and gress were sleek Yiovet under the sunset; the predrie Olouds were 'awny gold; and she #wung happily into Mein street. II. " Mhrough the first days of June she drove with Kennfcott on his calls. She C] Hi fdentified him with the virile land; [lieved to be assured that she did not #be admired him as she saw with | © bookish what respect the farmers obeyed him. | She wes out in the early chill, after 8 hasty cup of coffee, reaching open oountry as the fresh sun came up im fat unspoiled world, Meadow larks (eaflled from the tops of thin apht fenice-posts. The wild roses smelled lean. _ As they returned in late afternoon low sun was a solemnity of radial : like a heavenly fan of beaten the limitless circle of the grain ® green sea timmed with fog, ind the willow wind-breaks were + Before July the close heat blanket- ed thom. The tortured earth cracked. i pantod through commflalds Behind culiivators and the sweating flanks of horses. While she waited for Kennicott in the car, before a fanmhouse, the seat burned her fing- 'ors and her head ached with the glare on the fenders and hood. A hiack thunder-shower was fol- Bowed by a dust storm which 'urned the sky vellow with the hint of a voming tornado. Impaipable black dust far<borne from Dakota covered the dinner sills of the closed windows, The July heat was ever more sill- ing. They crawled along Main street by day; they found it hard to sheep a' «+ read enviously in the admirable Min- {nesota chronicles called "Old Rai] Fence Corners" the reminiscence of as to whether there should be veal) yy. Mahlon -Black, who settled in lout GF poached egy on hush, she had |g, poo 3 0 00 (To be Continued) WILL A CAVENDISH BE BRITAIS NEXT QUE (Continued from Page 4) natural with them. In the debate no chance to be heretical and over- sensitive. They danced sometimes, in the evening; they had a minstrel show, with Kennicott surprisingly good as end-man; always they were encircled | by children wise in the lore of wood-| chucks and gophers and rafts and| willow whistles, { If they could have continued this normal barbaric Mfe Carol would! {have been the most enthusiastic éit- izen of Gopher Prairie. She was re- conversation alone; that she did not expect the town to become a Bohemia. She was con-| tent now. She did mot criticize. | But in September, when the year was at its richest, custom dictated | that it was time to return to town; | to remove the children from the! waste occupation of learning the |earth, and send them back to lessons about the number of potatoes which ! (In a delightful world untroubled by | commission-houses or shortages in| freight-cars) Willlam sold to John. | The women who had cheerfully gone | bathing all summer looked doubtful | when Carol begged, "Let's keep up | an outdoor life this winter, lets slide | and skate." Their hearts shut again | till spring, and the nine months of | cliques and radiators and dainty re-| freshments began all over. | II { Carol had started a salon. Since Kennicott, Vida Sherwin, | and Guy Pollock were her only lions, | and since Kennicott would have pre-| ferred Sam Clark to all the Posts and radicals in the entire world, her| private and self-defensive clique did | milght. They brought matrresses down | to the living-room, and thrashed and turned by the open window. Tea times a night they talked of going out to soak themselves with the hose and wade through the dew, but they were too Me'fess to take the trowbls. On cool evenings, when they trded to @o walking, the gnats appeared in swarms which peppered their faces and caught in their throats, She wanted the northern pimes, the eastern sea, but Kemmiocott declar>d that it would be "kind of hard to got away, just now." The health im- {son she had found here. not get beyond one evening dinner | for Vida and Guy, on her first wed- | ding anniversary; and that dinner | did not get beyond a controversy re-| garding Raymie Wutherspoon's | yearnings. Guy Pollock was the gentlest per- He spoke of her new jade and cream frock | naturally, not jocosely; he held her! chair for her as they sat down tol dinner; and he did pt, like Kenni- cott, interrupt b- _.J shout, © "Oh say, speaking r nat, I heard a good story today." But Guy was incur- ably hermit. He sat late and talked mittee of the Thana hard, and did not come again. | dopsiis asked her to take part dn tha Then she met Champ Perry in the | 5 | "anil-fly campalgn, and she tolled | post-ofice--and decided that in the | _@bout town persuading householders [80 use the fly-traps furnished by 'he elub, or giving out money prizes to fly - swaiting children. | Bhe was loyal enough but not ardent, and without ever quite intending to, she began to neglect the task as heat sucked at her strength. Kennicott and she motored North | and spent a week with his mother-- that is, Carol spent it with his mo- | ther, while he fished for bass, ~The great event was their pur- | chase of a summer cottage, down on Lake Minniemashie. Perhaps the most amiable feature ife in Gopher Prairie was the summer cottages. They were mere- two-room shanties, with a seep- age of broken-down chairs, peeling . yeneered tables, chromos pasted on | wooden walls, and inefficient kero- _ #éne stoves. They were so thin-wall- "8d and so close together that you oould--and did--hear a baby being Spanked in the fifth cottage off, But they were set among elms and lin- dens on a bluff which looked across the lake to flelds of ripened wheat sloping up to green woods. Here the matrons forgot social usies, and sat gossiping in ging- ] ; or, in old bathing-suits, sur- f founded by hysterical children, they paddled for hours. Carol joined them; she ducked shrieking boys, d helped babies construct sand- in for unfortunate minnows. liked Juanita Haydock and Maud Dyer when she helped them ake pionic-supper for the men, who motoring out from town each ig. She was easier and more history of the pioneers was the pan-| acea for Gopher Prairie, for all of America, We have lost their sturdi- | ness, she told herself. We must re-| store the last of the veterans to pow- er and follow them on the backwards | path to the integrity of Lincoln, to the gaity of settlers dancing in a! saw-mill. She read in the records of the Min- nesota Territortal Pioneers that only sixty years ago, not so far back as the birth of her own father, four cabins had composed Gopher Prair- fe. The log stockade which Mrs. Champ Perry was to find when she trekked in was built afterward by the soldiers as a defence against the Sioux. The four cabins were inhab- ited by Maine Yankees who had | come up the Mississippi to St. Paul and driven north over virgin prair- fe into virgin woods. - They ground their own corn; the men-folks shot ducks and pigeons and prairie chick- ens; the new breakings yi=lded the turnip-lfke rutabagas, which they ate raw and boiled and baked and raw again, For treat they had wild plums and crab-apples and tiny wild strawberries. Grasshoppers came darkening the sky, and in an hour ate the farm- wifes garden and the farmer's coat. Precious horses, painfully . brought from Illinois, were drowned in bogs or stampeded by the fear of bli zards, Snow blew through the chinks of new-made cabins, and Eastern children, with flowery mus- lin dreeses, shivered all winter and In summer were red and black with mosquito bites. 1111] 1111110 where; they camped stalked into doughnyts, came with riles across their. backs into schoolhouses begged to see the pictures in the geographies. ves treed the children; and the set- tlers fou killed fifty, a. hundred, in a day, Yet it looted and left. In one ship alone he captured 25 pounds in sil- ver, £6,000 in gold and an en- tire cargo of costly silks; in a single raid he secured more THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG. in dooryards, to demand kitchens and Packs of timber-wol- nd dens of rattiesnales, was a buoyant life. Carol Spanish Colonies right than 10,000 crowns. Space un- fortunately will not permit even a briefest resume of his advent be sai urous cruise, but it can d that he returned So England with wealth enough fo buy a fair earldom and that his sails were of damask, his sailors clad in silks, and his top-mast covered with a cloth of gold. ' But not en Captain Cavendish did joy his wealth long. In less than three years he was off to the Main again. This time he commanded an expe- dtion of three ships and two sloops. But the voyage was to end as disastrously as the other was a success. The little fleet was caught in Winter seas off the inhospitable coast of South America, and dur- ing the crews The s bleak months the suffered untold agonies. ick were put ashore, almost naked and hungry, and perished miserably. Mas- ter Anthony Knyvet, one of these vived land, their s removed their socks and found their toes came too; they blew their noses and the nose fell off; and disease rotted away their bones. Many crazed with Jain ended their sufferings y committing suicide. At length Cavendish found himself with men hardly sufficient to navi- gate his ship. But his spirit unfortunates who sur- and returned to Eng- told terrible stories of ufferings." Men, he said, the fleet separated and Indlans were every-| was indomitable. He refused to return to England, but the crew rose in mutiny and the ship's course was altered. At last, overcome by his misfor- tunes, the gallant captain succumbed. He had staked his all on one throw of the dice and lost. But despite his failures and shortcomings the name of Captain Thomas Cav- endish ranks high among the foremost sea heroes of 'Eng- land. THE GREAT DUKE. Of the many great men and picturesque figures which the House of Cavendish has given to history's pages, none could boast of more ability nor of a greater record of public ser- vice than that of William Cav- endish, first Duke of Devone shire. A noble of high mor- ality, at a time when public morality. had sunk to its low- est depths, Cavendish, then Earl of Devonshire, distingu- ished himself by standing ale most alone against the BYCO~ phantic court of James II. He consistently opposed arbitrary government and won for him- self the enmity of the King, who, upon the flimsiest of pre- texts, imposed an almost ruin- ous fine upon the offending noble. Devonshire was one of the nobles to invite Wil. liam of Orange from Holland and was the first titled man tc meet him when he landed, For his many services to the Crown and the public at large he was later created Duke of Devonshire and given the highest honors within the gift of the King. His last publie service was to assist in cone cluding the union with Bcot- land. In him it may he said that the of 285 'ITS WORTH TETCHMG beeches eth hh ct Do PPE A A ict ly Patients from Elginburg, Higinburg, Feb. 6--The sacrament- al service for the circuit was held in the Biginburg Methodist church on Sunday. Percy Frazer has gone to the hospftal for treatment. On Thurs- day fast, Miss Jennie, Robert and William MeCause were removed to the General hospital, all three suff- ening from pmeumopta, Miles Stoy- er spent the week-end with friends in Yarker. Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Kiel, Joyceville, recently visited friends in thie place. Miss Margaret Hughsoa is taking the course &n domestic sci- ston, Kepler, at W. Clogg's; Nell Pix- ley and Charles Purdy, Catarequd, John Silver's; Mrs, McFadden Mrs. Day at R. Clogg's. About the time ded getting ahead a Mttls and to take it easy he has to furnish wedding for daughter and a for son-in-law, ence at Inverary. N. Graham fs suffer- ing with Jumbago. Mr. and Mrs. C. Simpkins spent Tuesday last in Joyceville, the guests of Mr. and Mrs. H. Keill. Visitors: Mrs. H. John- GOOD ADVICE! ON mother m: l 4° out and. skoke¥ 5 Aled Eve, er youngest daughter. m arytous to Learn, at BTN 13k, Br: every Lule oushter-- Ty fl - + (H Ves duughbors: 5 don L be IC T here S$ NO use Tn ™7 forbidding, But keh niEht sudeub of DIY, vate, Bice £urlia Looks ssi] Rdg IG A full-size, full-weight, solid bar 'of. good soap is "SURPRISE." Best for any and all househo d use Warmth for the Winter Days The man.who eats the right kind of 'food doesn't cover himself with heavy flannels, and he doesn't shiver under the blasts of Winter. The low of health is in his face. i He never "catches cold" =--is always happy and ealthy, always on the job. The breakfast he eats is \ rR Shredded Wheat No use trying to warm the body when you eat foods that are lacking in heat-making, tissue- i ; elements. Shredded Wheat with hot milk es a warm, nourishing, meal for all members of y, and solves the breakfast busy house- to get the children sa -. the problem for many a who has off to school, 3