He added that he himself would be glad to pay ninety dollars a month and board to any toiler worth his salt, because Juliana was now his only reliable helper, and it did seem as if she would never learn to run a tractor, she having no gift for machinery.

If Merle Whipple was bent on toil, why should he not come to the Home Farm, where plenty of it could be had for the asking?
Both Harvey D.and Gideon rebuked him for this levity, reminding him that he did not take into account the extreme sensitiveness of Merle.
Sharon merely said: "Mebbe so, mebbe not." There came another issue of the _New Dawn_.

It was a live issue, and contained a piece by the associate editor entitled, This Unpopular War, in which it was clearly shown that this war was unpopular.

It was unpopular with every one the writer had questioned; no one wanted it, every one condemned it, even those actually engaged in it at Washington.
The marvel was that an army could continue to go forward with existing public sentiment as the _New Dawn_ revealed it.

But a better day was said to be dawning.