of the finance committee I have called the latter together and talked
with them concerning this proposition of an issue of bonds which I
knew would be brought before you to-night. We agreed to recommend it
heartily, and I move that the question be put at once."

The motion, made and carried quickly, was greeted with deafening
applause by the visitors sitting, standing, or balanced in the window-
seats, and then some one moved for an executive session, and slowly
the crowd began to stir and go out.

"It's going to be all right, Mary." Mr. Moon patted the latter's hands
encouragingly. "We are going to increase the taxes, accept the money,
and build the schools, and if you will please take Mrs. Moon home I will
be obliged. Her face has been like a beet all the evening. Oh, how do
you do, Mrs. McDougal?" and he shook kindly the rough red hand held
out toward him.

"And I'm glad to see you, Mr. Moon. I tell you this has been a night,
ain't it? I've had a fine time, though I'd had a finer if an edjucatid
tongue was in my mouth, and I could have mentioned some of the things I
know of as Yorkburg needs. What we goin' home for, being you ain't
through, they say? I hope you will tell those men who are to act on
something that if they don't act right they'll never get a vote from my
boys when they turn twenty-one. I ain't sayin' I understood all what
Miss Cary said to-night about bonds and things, but I'd follow her in
the dark, and ain't anybody such a fool as not to know what fifty
thousand dollars could do for a place or a person. Of course, being just
a woman--and men think women is just canary birds or dray horses--I
don't have no say in things like this, but I've borned five sayers, and
I'm goin' to keep my eye on 'em to see what they do when they get a