Evening Star Newspaper, December 7, 1927, Page 34

i ) «+ (Gran'ther. @ I don’t believe in life in- surance for people situated | #s we are,” said Marvin Webster, emphatically_and decidedly. Marvin Web- ster, farmer, was usually decided after weighing a question. That was why the neighborhood elected him to posi- tions requiring judgment and honesty. #“Prejudice has nothing to do with it, he added. “I've though the matter over fairly, It's a luxury we can’t afford.” Why?” atked Gran'ther Webster. “Because every dollar put in to in- surance would be taken from the chil- @ren’s clothing or schooling or some- g equally how hard the ther. I work day and yet every dollar that c crawling in has to go flying out. “I know, son, I know. But ye've surance on house an’ barn.” little, yes. hey might burn leave us or the caitle homeless.” cems to me life insurance is pret- ty much along the same lines.” “Maybe,” calml I'm not against fite insurance for those who can af- ford it.” *“You might die.” here is a chance of it, certainly,” #dmitted the farmer. “But it's onl & chance, while the mor s to provide against it would be an in mediate and positive loss to the chil- dren. ‘A good education and fitting for some profession or trade, as they seem inclined, is the best insurance I can leave them. But Gran'ther vinced. mes didn't seem con- any ifs an’ ands an’ better 4 make t 3 good whi seen heaps de help would Sound se , but not ips, an’ so it to be pro have prevented tro d work are “Why not empty that stocking heel or tin box or wherever it's kept, into the idea?”’ suggested his son, te: ingly. “Provide for a gap, gran'th The old man chuckled. “Havé your fup, son,” he said. “Boys will be boy You're only 40 and I'm 80—an’ th makes me think T must ‘go right out an’ cut over my ’spa bed.” He rose and went out, and his son, after a few words with young Marvin and Alice about their school books, went back to the planting he had left at sound of the breakfast bell. All the Websters were workers. The children, with their two or three hours before and after school; Mrs. Webster, who looked after the poult and superintended the kitchen in addition to doing the regular house- hold work: her husband, with his 14 to 16 hours a day, and gran’ther, who was always “puttering” about. Gran'ther was, gomething of a mys- tery to the others. I was-evident that most of his puttering had direct, tan- gible results, as with his asparag and scarcely less profitable *‘rozberry patch” and strawberry vines, -~ He doled out enough fruit for table .use and took all the rest into town him eelf, hitching thé old horse, who had long outlived field usefulness, to,a buggy even more ancient. He never took the new buggy or one of the |es have g | won’t think of that. of tobacco years before because it “cost too much.” Byt not one of them ever thought of Gran'ther Webster as a miser. Dear, no! The gentle-voiced old man who always had a cheery word or kindly act for others, with never a thought for himself, was the last man in the world to be miserly. They knew. Somewhere in a stocking heel or a tin box or perhaps under a loose board lay a little hoard waiting for something that gran’ther had in mind. Prosperity was not smiling on the little rocky farm these days., The 14 or 16 hours, the mother’s diversified labors, the children’s help, all went up to make & trifle less than the living and mortgage interest and taxes. The rest went to swell the mortgage. " | There was only one apparent way out It occurred to Marvin Webster more than once and was dismissed with re pugnance. Mrs, Webster thought of it and her face clouded. Even e children knew, and it was young vin who first spoke the thought 4 “We'll have to sell or rent the farm and move over to the factory village father,” he said. “We can all get jo in the miil at good pay. The Phillips. ne and the Wilburs The boys say it's easier and better pay. ntence, maybe,” add- “No, 10 my boy, we There's an apt saying, ‘Once in a factory never out. 1 was put in a mill when a small boy, not. half so old as you, and I couldn't get out until after 1 a man grown, when my obligations died off. Then I broke 1 don’t want any of my children to follow my footsteps 1f you should look over the when they come through the e you wouldn't see one in fifty so ong and healthy as you and Alice hen there's your civil 1 se to be started i ind Alice entering high sch her mind made up as to what she s to be.” 'That's just the trouble,” burst out young Maryin protestingly. “It's just for Alice and me. We don't want so much fice. I'm not a boy any longer, father, but a man grown in size if not in years. I can see things. You're not old enough for your shoul- ders to be stooping and vour hair to be so gray. And mother's looking tired out, too. We can't—"" The old farm son's shoulde Iy boy,” he inter- our mother and I want you and Alice to do it for us. It has heen e great thought in all our work nning for years. I didn't get chance; 1 don't want you to lose it isn't right,” faltered the boy. “Alice and I could work in the factory for a year, saving all our money, then go on with our studies. horses. Old companions were most suitable, he chuckled. They were three of a kind. ‘What the children and their father and mother earned could be seen in food and clothing, a few school books and other things.. The money their labor brought in ‘eould be accounted for in visible objects, almost to a, cent. When gran’ther’s fruit and asparagus disappeared at a bend in the road it was the end. He mever brought any- thing back. He had given up the use CARBON KNOCKS are a ace to motor efficiency- A full assortment of Silk and W ool Interwovens at. .. men- no motor will negotiate heavy grades with a retarded spark---Carbon Knocks result from high compression occa- sioned by reducin g the size of the combustion chamber with layers of carbon deposits. 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All right, agreed. “And I'll y did before, to more self to take some of the nother year passed, and the little larger, and the figure of Marvin Webster a little more v looking. But_the weari s not in the eyes. They s be growing younger with the progress of his boy and girl. Then one morning they found gran READY for Service Our organization is main- tained at maximum effi ney— veady to give KFerguson service on short Pal Vi both trade d every craftsman_on our staff is - complished in the art. An e:timate will prove interesting—as it proves us lowest for best work, R. K. Ferguson, Inc. Painting Department. 212 B'SE NW.""Fr. 208 Interwoven is one of our rong lines You'll find these popular numbers here — Silk, Lisle, Wool and Silk—in their famous grades. 0 Jose the farm it | ther | was in bed 1d gone away. Only his body Afew days after, they looked for the stocking or tin box, or whatever it might be, going about the room with loving thoughts and reverent steps. But nothing was there. robably he has sent it away to relieve the distress of some old friend,” his son said softly. ‘“Gra ther had a good many friends. Likely some old soldier's family.” Gran'ther had been an officer in the Civil War, with a record. His com- mission and_other cherished memen- tos were in his little horsehair trunk Webster looked them over, with sht of saving them for the chil- ENTERPRISE SERIAL Building Association 7th St. & La. Ave. N.W. 59th Tssue of Stock Now Open for Subscription Money Loaned to Members on Easy Monthly Payments James F. Shea Secretary James E. 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