Lest this should breed misconception and paint a more halcyon3 picture of these minor4 communities than is deserved, let it be explained that they were not without their vehement5 jealousies6 and bickerings among one another. Often there arose between them sore contentions7 over questions of tax equalization and over political neglects and intrigues8; and here, too, there existed, in generous measure, those queer parochial prejudices—based upon no question whatever, and defying alike inquiry9 and explanation—which are so curious a heritage from the childhood days of the race. No long-toed brachycephalous cave-dweller of the stone age could have disliked the stranger who hibernated10 in the holes on the other side of the river more heartily11 than the people of Octavius disliked those of Sidon. In the hop-picking season the young men of these two townships always fell to fighting when they met, and their pitched conflicts in and around the Half-way House near Tyre, when dances were given there in the winter, were things to talk about straight through until hoeing had begun in the spring. There were many other of these odd and inexplicable12 aversions—as, for instance, that which had for many years impelled13 every farmer along the whole length of the Nedahma Creek14 road to vote against any and all candidates nominated from Juno Mills, a place which they scarcely knew and had no earthly reason for disliking. But in such cases no one asked for reasons. Matters simply stood that way, and there was nothing more to be said.
But everybody was proud of Thessaly. Neighbors took almost as much pleasure in boasting of its wealth and activity, and prophesying16 its future greatness, as did its own sons. The farmers when they came in gazed with gratified amazement17 at the new warehouses18, the new chimneys, the new factory walls that were rising everywhere about them, and returned more satisfied than ever that “Thessaly was just a-humming along.” Dearborn County had always heretofore been a strictly19 agricultural district, full of rich farm-lands and well-to-do farm-owners, and celebrated20 in the markets of New York for the excellence21 of its dairy products. Now it seemed certain that Thessaly would soon be a city, and it was already a subject for congratulation that the industries which were rooting, sprouting22, or bearing fruit there had given Dearborn County a place among the dozen foremost manufacturing shires in the State.
The farmers were as pleased over this as any one else. It was true that they were growing poorer year by year; that their lands were gradually becoming covered with a parchment film of mortgages, more deadly than sorrel or the dreaded23 black-moss; that the prices of produce had gone down on the one hand as much as the cost of living and of labor24 had risen on the other; that a rich farmer had become a rarity in a district which once was controlled by the princes of herds25 and waving fields: but all the same the agriculturists of Dearborn County were proud of Thessaly, of its crowds of foreign-born operatives, its smoke-capped chimneys, and its noisy bustle26. They marched almost solidly to the polls to vote for the laws which were supposed to protect its industries, and they consoled themselves for falling incomes and increased expenditure27 by roseate pictures of the great “home market” which Thessaly was to create for them when it became a city.
The village had once been very slow indeed. For many years it had been scarcely known to the outside world save as the seat of a seminary of something more than local repute. This institution still nestled under the brow of the hill whence the boy Reuben Tracy had looked with fondly wistful vision down upon it, but it was no longer of much importance. It was yet possible to discern in the quiet streets immediately adjoining the seminary enclosure, with their tall arched canopies28 of elm-boughs, and old-fashioned white houses with verandas29 and antique gardens, some remains30 of the academic character that this institution had formerly31 imparted to the whole village. But the centre of activity and of population had long since moved southward, and around this had grown up a new Thessaly, which needed neither elms nor gardens, which had use for its children at the loom32 or the lathe33 when the rudiments34 of the common school were finished, and which alike in its hours of toil35 and of leisure was anything rather than academie.
I suppose that in this modern Thessaly, with its factories and mills, its semi-foreign saloons, and its long streets of uniformly ugly cottage dwellings36, there were many hundreds of adults who had no idea whether the once-famous Thessaly seminary was still open or not.
If Thessaly had had the time and inclination37 for a serious study of itself, this decadence38 of the object of its former pride might have awakened39 some regret. The seminary, which had been one of the first in the land to open its doors to both sexes, had borne an honorable part in the great agitation40 against slavery that preceded the war. Some of its professors had been distinguished41 abolitionists—of the kind who strove, suffered, and made sacrifices when the cause was still unpopular, yet somehow fell or were edged out of public view once the cause had triumphed and there were rewards to be distributed, and they had taken the sentiment of the village with them in those old days. Then there was a steady demand upon the seminary library, which was open to householders of the village, for good books. Then there was maintained each winter a lecture course, which was able, not so much by money as by the weight and character of its habitual42 patrons, to enrich its annual lists with such names as Emerson, Burritt, Phillips, Curtis, and Beecher. At this time had occurred the most sensational43 episode in the history of the village—when the rumor44 spread that a runaway45 negro was secreted46 somewhere about the seminary buildings, and a pro-slavery crowd came over from Tyre to have him out and to vindicate47 upon the persons of his protectors the outraged48 majesty49 of the Fugitive50 Slave law, and the citizens of Thessaly rose and chased back the invaders51 with celerity and emphasis.
But all this had happened so long ago that it was only vaguely52 remembered now. There were those who still liked to recall those days and to tell stories about them, but they had only themselves for listeners. The new Thessaly was not precisely53 intolerant of the history of this ante-bellum period, but it had fresher and more important matters to think of; and its customary comment upon these legends of the slow, one-horse past was, “Things have changed a good deal since then,” offered with a smile of distinct satisfaction.
Yes, things had changed. Stephen Minster’s enterprise in opening up the iron fields out at Juno, and in building the big smelting-works on the outskirts54 of Thessaly, had altered everything. The branch road to the coal district which he called into existence lifted the village at once into prominence55 as a manufacturing site. Other factories were erected56 for the making of buttons, shoes, Scotch-caps, pasteboard boxes, matches, and a number of varieties of cotton cloths. When this last industry appeared in the midst of them, the people of Thessaly found their heads fairly turned. To be lords of iron and cotton both!
This period of industrial progress, of which I speak with, I hope, becoming respect and pride, had now lasted some dozen years, and, so far from showing signs of interruption, there were under discussion four or five new projects for additional trades to be started in the village, which would be decided57 upon by the time the snow was off the ground. During these years, Thessaly had more than quadrupled its population, which was now supposed to approximate thirteen thousand, and might be even more. There had been considerable talk for the past year or two about getting a charter as a city from the legislature, and undoubtedly58 this would soon be done. About this step there were, however, certain difficulties, more clearly felt than expressed. Not even those who were most exultant59 over Thessaly’s splendid advance in wealth and activity were blind to sundry60 facts written on the other side of the ledger61.
Thessaly had now some two thousand voters, of whom perhaps two-fifths had been born in Europe. It had a saloon for every three hundred and fifty inhabitants, and there was an uneasy sense of connection between these two facts which gave rise to awkward thoughts. The village was fairly well managed by its trustees; the electorate62 insisted upon nothing save that they should grant licenses63 liberally, and, this apart, their government did not leave much to be desired. But how would it be when the municipal honors were taken on, when mayor, aider-men and all the other officers of the new city, with enlarged powers of expenditure and legislation, should be voted for? Whenever the responsible business men of Thessaly allowed their minds to dwell upon a forecast of what this board of aldermen would probably be like, they frankly64 owned to themselves that the prospect65 was not inviting66. But as a rule they did not say so, and the village was drifting citywards on a flowing tide.
It was just before Christmas that Reuben Tracy took the first step toward realizing his dream of making this Thessaly a better place than it was. Fourteen citizens, all more or less intimate friends of his, assembled at his office one evening, and devoted67 some hours to listening to and discussing his plans.
An embarrassment68 arose almost at the outset through the discovery that five or six of the men present thought Thessaly was getting on very well as it was, and had assumed that the meeting was called for the purpose of arranging a citizens’ movement to run the coming spring elections for trustees in the interest of good government—by which they of course understood that they were to be asked to take office. The exposure of this mistake threatened for a little time to wreck69 the purpose of the gathering70. Mr. Jones, a gentleman who made matches, or rather had just taken a handsome sum from the great Ruby71 Loco-foco Trust as his reward for ceasing to manufacture them, was especially disposed to resent what Reuben said about the moral and material state of the village. He insisted that it was the busiest and most progressive town in that whole section of the State; it had six streets well paved, was lighted with gas, had no disorderly houses to speak of, and turned out an annual production of manufactures worth two and a half times as much as the industrial output of any other place of its size in the State. He had the figures at his tongue’s end, and when he finished with a spirited sentence about being proud of his native town, and about birds fouling72 their own nests, it looked as if he had the sense of the little assemblage with him.
Reuben Tracy found it somewhat difficult to reply to an unexpected attack of this nature. He was forced to admit the truth of everything his critic had said, and then to attempt once more to show why these things were not enough. Father Chance, the Catholic priest, a broad-shouldered, athletic73 young man, who preached very commonplace sermons but did an enormous amount of pastoral work, took up the speaking, and showed that his mind ran mainly upon the importance of promoting total abstinence. John Fairchild, the editor and owner of Thessaly’s solitary74 daily paper, a candid15 and warmhearted man, whose heterodoxy on the tariff75 question gave concern to the business men of the place, but whose journal was honest and popular, next explained what his views were, and succeeded in precipitating76, by some chance remark, a long, rambling77, and irrelevant78 debate on the merits of protection and the proper relations between capital and labor. To illustrate79 his position on these subjects, and on the general question of Thessaly’s condition, Mr. Burdick, the cashier of the Dearborn County Bank, next related how he was originally opposed to the Bland80 Silver bill, and detailed81 the mental processes by which his opinion had finally become reversed. The Rev83. Dr. Turner, the rector of St. Matthew’s, a mildly paternal84 gentleman, who seemed chiefly occupied by the thought that he was in the same room with a Catholic priest, tentatively suggested a bazaar85, with ladies and the wives of workingmen mingled86 together on the committee, and smiled and coughed confusedly when this idea was received in absolute silence.
It was Dr. Lester, a young physician who had moved into the village only a few years before, but was already its leading medical authority, who broke this silence by saying, with a glance which, slowly circling the room, finally rested on Reuben Tracy: “All this does not help us. Our views on all sorts of matters are interesting, no doubt, but they are not vital just now. The question is not so much why you propose something, but what do you propose?”
The answer came before the person addressed had arranged his words, and it came from Horace Boyce. This young gentleman had, with a self-restraint which he himself was most surprised at, taken no part in the previous conversation.
“I think this is the idea,” he said now, pulling his chair forward into the edge of the open space under the light, and speaking with easy distinctness and fluency87. “It will be time enough to determine just what we will do when we have put ourselves in the position to act together upon what we may decide to do. We are all proud and fond of our village; we are at one in our desire to serve and advance its interests. That is a platform broad enough, and yet specific enough, for us to start upon. Let us accept it as a beginning, and form an association, club, society—whatever it may be called—with this primary purpose in view: to get together in one body the gentlemen who represent what is most enlightened, most public-spirited, and at once most progressive and most conservative in Thessaly. All that we need at first is the skeleton of an organization, the most important feature of which would be the committee on membership. Much depends upon getting the right kind of men interested in the matter. Let the objects and work of this organization unfold and develop naturally and by degrees. It may take the form of a mechanics’ institute, a library, a gymnasium, a system of coffee-taverns, a lecture course With elevating popular exhibitions; and so I might go on, enumerating88 all the admirable things which similar bodies have inaugurated in other villages, both here and in Europe. I have made these matters, both at home and abroad, a subject of considerable observation; I am enthusiastic over the idea of setting some such machinery89 in motion here, and I am perfectly90 confident, once it is started, that the leading men of Thessaly will know how to make it produce results second to none in the whole worldwide field of philanthropic endeavor.”
When young Mr. Boyce had finished, there was a moment’s hush91. Then Reuben Tracy began to say that this expressed what he had in mind; but, before he had the words out, the match manufacturer exclaimed:
“Whatever kind of organization we have, it will need a president, and I move that Mr. Horace Boyce be elected to that place.”
Two or three people in the shadows behind clapped their hands. Horace protested that it was premature92, irregular, that he was too young, etc.; but the match-maker was persistent93, and on a vote there was no opposition94. The Rev. Dr. Turner ceased smiling for a moment or two while this was going on, and twirled his thumbs nervously95; but nobody paid any attention to him, and soon his face lightened again as his name was placed just before that of Father Chance on the general committee.
Once started, the work of organization went forward briskly. It was decided at first to call the organization the “Thessaly Reform Club,” but two manufacturers suggested that this was only one remove from styling it a Cobden Club outright96, and so the name was altered to “Thessaly Citizens’ Club,” and all professed97 themselves pleased. When the question of a treasurer98 came up, Reuben Tracy’s name was mentioned, but some one asked if it would look just the thing to have the two principal officers in one firm, and so the match-maker consented to take the office instead. Even the committee on by-laws would have been made up without Reuben had not Horace interfered99; then, upon John Fairchild’s motion, he was made the chairman of that committee, while Fairchild himself was appointed secretary.
When the meeting had broken up, and the men were putting on their overcoats and lighting100 fresh cigars, Dr. Lester took the opportunity of saying in an undertone to Reuben; “Well, what do you think of it?”
“It seems to have taken shape very nicely. Don’t you think so?”
“Hm-m! There’s a good deal of Boyce in it so far, and damned little Tracy!”
Reuben laughed. “Oh, don’t be disturbed about that. He’s the best man for the place. He’s studied all these things in Europe—the cooperative institutes in the English industrial towns, and so on; and he’ll put his whole soul into making this a success.”
The doctor sniffed101 audibly at this, but offered no further remark. Later on, however, when he was walking along in the crisp moonlight with John Fairchild, he unburdened his mind.
“It was positively102 sickening,” he growled103, biting his cigar angrily, “to see the way that young cub104 of a Boyce foisted105 himself upon the concern. I’d bet any money he put up the whole thing with Jones. They nominated each other for president and treasurer—didn’t you notice that?”
“Yes, I noticed it,” replied Fairchild, with something between a sigh and a groan106. After a moment he added: “Do you know, I’m afraid Rube will find himself in a hole with that young man, before he gets through with him. It may sound funny to you, but I’m deucedly nervous about it. I’d rather see a hundred Boyces broiled107 alive than have harm come to so much as Tracy’s little finger.”
“What could have ailed82 him to go in blindfold108 like that into the partnership109? He knew absolutely nothing of the fellow.”
“I’ve told him a hundred times, he’s got no more notion of reading characters than a mulley cow. Anybody can go up to him and wheedle110 his coat off his back, if he knows the first rudiments of the confidence game. It seems, in this special instance, that he took a fancy to Boyce because he saw him give two turkeys to old Ben Lawton, who’d lost his money at a turkey-shoot and got no birds. He thought it was generous and noble and all that. So far as I can make out, that was his only reason.”
Dr. Lester stopped short and looked at his companion. Then he burst out in a loud, shrill111 laugh, which renewed itself in intermittent112 gurgles of merriment so many times that Fairchild finally found them monotonous113, and interposed a question:
“There’s something besides fun in all this, Lester. What is it?”
“It isn’t professional to tell, my dear fellow, but there is something—you’re right—and we are Reuben’s friends against all the world; and this is what I laughed at.”
Then in a low tone, as if even the white flaring114 moon and the jewelled stars in the cold sky had ears, he told his secret to his friend—a secret involving one small human being of whose very existence Mr. Horace Boyce had no knowledge.
“The girl has come back here to Thessaly, you know,” concluded the doctor.
Fairchild nodded assent115. Then after a moment’s thought he said:
“It’s too bad we changed the name of the organization. That cuss ought to be the president of a Reform Club!”
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