Evening Star Newspaper, November 9, 1928, Page 38

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 9. 1928 the block of corn. The horse half | “But I've no money to hire with, so| The farmer's eyes had softened. man. Their one railroad was a nar- , | gin Monday night, -according to M. P turned into @ lane leading up to the | T told you.” “T ‘mever take much stock in run-|row-gauge affair, whose chief "Dumm“% NIGHT AIR LINE TO OPEN | Scomin iy gy B ilroad. In the b was a middle- “I don't wish any. It's the work]about hoboes™ he hesitated. “They're M THE EVENING STORY teed min and s g among the corn that I'm asking for, | unreliable and work-haters. But I |Was having engines and cars slip from| o; oinnatiCleveland Mail Planes| He said the planes would leave Louis- “Well, may’s well go on, Molly,” said | not payment for it.” don’t know. Look me in the face.” wornout rails. Now a new double track | | ville at 7 p. arrive at Watson airport i the man as the train began to move.| “Then I certaingly don't want you,”| The man did so with a half smile. was surveyed through the richest part to Fly After Dark. - ::,E l:\!r;and - .1.1“3 . p.r;zo :0,,:“::,::, | £ k ting “T wouldn't wonder if your ma was get- | emphatically. “That kind of hiring| The farmer studied him for some : iy g | 3 oversils. ‘T ‘wrapped them In & Duntle | ca e tent S T e P | 100ks too Tieky for ms.” Mo te then modded. “T1l take the |Of the country, and work at once com-| CINCINNATL November 9 (#).—Reg- | with both east and west bound planes ‘When the Corn Yellowed. | ing_impe groceries $ I and tock several bills from his pocket, | stopped longer in town than I meant.” | “Wait” in a quiet voice of authority, | chance.” he said. *I rather like the menced. To the farmer's delight it] ular night fying on the Louisville-Cin- | {0 insure delivery in New York and Chi- | i *| straight way of your looking, and you're | crossed & corner of his land, on whict; | cinnati-Cleveland air mail route will be- ' cago the next morning. HE man finished his paper, laid e e Lo i - o ) er,” suddel 2 as the farmer tightened the reins. . I it on the seat and watched it |and pinned them to & bit of paper on | “iheres & man in our comfeld You dont understand. = Years and well sct up. But youTe o0 YOUNg a g station was to be bullt, He wanted 3 gl Moll - slide to the floor. So It was |which he wrote: “To pay for the haniing the ctalks as though he might ) years ago there was & barefooted boy| Man to be—what you are. I won't ask)to donate the land, but the hired man | | where you got your high-toned shoes.|persuaded him to accept damages in-! with much of his lifs. ‘Things | clothes.” Then he twisted in the hook |pa "ol o%en M el TORiianhe any | who was obi . were not worth saving or pick- | on which they had hung. Then he gnns to h“n:nnc\x',Tcouidcthleg?" ki ’:x:?n‘,mxgm"f:u? {:ngo‘.wv:xyu:o.e?rigi!'fhflt isn't my business. But they're|stead, as the sum the comvany offered Ever thln I roned ing up. g .. | dropped from the car. | 7 “No,” following her geze. “Likely | longing to do things. But there was an | not fit to work in. Take them off and | wzs so great as to enable him to stock y g “Be another half hour before she's| One of the passcngers near the en- } he's just looking at them through cu- |old woman whom he loved znd who |I'll give you a pair of good. serviceable|and equip the farm in a manner be- | 2 on the rails” a voice said ouiside. |gine turned as h2 did s riosity, and not meaning harm. See, | loved him. After beatings he went to|cnes. Now, all I ask is that you don't|yond any of his dreaming. | 1zc a pound. How easy for He leaned out of the window and| “Tha isn’t it?” he said en- |pave céming toward us now.” her for comfort, but when the man|do 8ny crooked business while with me|” When the corn was husked it was you! Your entite bundle is glanced up the track. Many of the viously he tearing down the | "“p. \ajted a few moments, then sald: | wos there he went end hid in the corn-| —and we'll let that end such kind of | the farmer himself who begged the| washed spotlessly clean and passengers were standing about the 4 ever heprd he was the | “pello, friend, sdmiring my corn? | fisld, which wes his only other friend. | talk. Most of us make mistakes. You'll new man to stay at wages, =Already ot ? ironed by machine at this low engine, watching the wheels being | 7’5 a mighty nice field, if T did do the | At Jength the old woman felt so sorry | have to come right into my family and he was proving himself invaluable. | . 4P price. Only fancy pieces need > | for him she advised him to run away.|live as we do. for I have no different | when the relative died th> farmer| touching up. Shirts are hand. fitfed to the Tails Then his gz wen: | Imt” enswered. the other, alto ot ills and vall turning curiously. “Maybe his brain's “ | i 2 on- | way to treat hired help. You can put- 4 re earnestly. 8 out across the hills an H usly. “May Th> man took off & greasy cap and | But he wouldn't agree until she con- | Way to p. You can put-|urged wages more earncstly. The | (0 R e It was a beautiful undulating coun- | breke loose. Had enough to make it, I | approached the buggy. “You're to be|#-n'~4 for him to come back on a | ter around in the cornfield and do any|awarding of damages by the railroad | try, though that he did not_ particu-|guess. Got his hands ito the middle | DRI o “ althy visit when the corn turned |such odd jobs es you've a mind 10| later brought up the wage question for | wrapped separately inside your envied. sir, for doing the work in such | stealthy vi | tackle. Tl give you board till time|the third time. | Everything-Ironed bundle. Mini- larly notice. He had been in many of things up to th> elbows almost be-|a’ faa™ toiated. - “RERy low. He loved it more then than at 3 beautiful countries and left them, |fore he stopped being a boy. Girl he'd | Bunt Anisn it A de same of the|any other time, and in spite of abuse | for husking, and then regular wages.| we can't keep on like this” the | mum wash, $1.25, Phone for our ‘wandering onAdBut sugdr‘rgy l;:; gaze | been r:loninfg“{,or b;}ok; {,‘," \\"erd and | jy;sking?” he would never have left the old woman | '1;1hal Sh my }lmusr OVE{II lyonder“;n%eé farmer msxsudx. ‘T m\;;t pay you good | Driver to call seemed arrested. He stared wi eyes | married a fellow who’ en trying to -, 27 ’ except with the hope of seeing her|the cherry trees” pointing wi wages now. in afford it. Or, if| % A job?” the farmer's face hardened D! h D! whip, . “You can walk across lots to ywflmn., take wages, some Kind of a | fixed. Then his face grew eager. On ruin him, and, to cap it all, his friends, i 1 » 2gain soon. She was the only friend g across the fields was a block of corn|being envious and thinking him soft, "?hl,-'u\yv:i"eTS:dn'ntmbgll::g"t:;!%:;en;-:;g*hg had then, and the only real friend | it while we go round. And T guess| partnership. Your planning is worth . " just turning yellow. ¢ made up a game to clean him out. | cap and jumper. Nor the well shod |he has had through all the years since.” | we'll find dinner about ready.” a dozen men's ordinary labor.” i { “Why not?”” he said aloud, wistful-|Only he proved smarter and cleaned | fect, either. “No,” he added, “there| “Did you go back?” asked Molly, as| So the nian without friends became| ~I want a partnership.” the man I ly. “It was the happiest time of my |them out. But it left him without faith | jsn't any work in the field now. Tho | he paused for a moment. one of a family who were friends to|said quietly, but with a tremor in his| | life, even with all its hardsaips. 1Ii|in anybody. So he's been a Wandering |last cuitivating has been done and| “Yes. I only went a few miles. but | everybody. For a time he studied them | voice—Molly." s | would be an elixir to wander through | derelict for 10 years and still nearer 30 | husking won't be ready under three or | it seemed a long way to me, for I was | curiouely, then thoughtfully, and then| “I don’t understand” looking puz- | 2 thet corn and watch it ripen, and then | thon 40. f | four weeks. I might be able to use only 9 years old. = When the corn |with strangling heart-hunger again zied | € g take part in the husking.” jiaws J E i5|a man for a few days then. But for |was turning I went back. But the old | com 1g to his eyes. “I love her and she says that she| i He rose suddenly and took a suit- |pron-riy. It's the most part I do all the work with | woman was dead, and the man caugh: | After that wonderful things began | loves me. | \ case frqm the rack above, heid it for| “Sin, you mean,” till enviously. |my daughter's help. I'm only a small|and beat me until a neighbor inter-|to happen. A forgotten relative of the| This time the farmer did not hesi- | i a mement, and then replaced i i the | "Den't make any difference whether | farmer, with little money for hiring.”|fered. When able, I went again, this| farmer died and left him enough totate. | rack. he's good, bad or indifferent. It's a &in | “TIl 'wait for the husking” the man |time a long way. From that time I|add the adjoining farm to his own and | *If Molly wishes it you have my R enbere of tNe\TARNECoRRers Nutlonel Aacils “Too elaborate for a c [ for any man to have so much with no- |said. “And I notice there are a good | have never been near a yellowing corn- [to build & new house. A perplexing | consent,” he sald, heartily. “I could | e e Y ssociation muttered. “I took none awar. body but himself and not enjoy it. But | many weeds among the corn, some of | field until now. When I stroked some | question eppeared in a paper, with a |not ask for a better man to come into 1101-1109 Raum St. N.E. Lincoln :;fl 8388 not take one bacl the wheels are on and the train's ready | them going to seed. It isn't good for | of the stalks it almost seemed as though | choice of any make of automobile for: the family.” | | Services for Every Home and Requircment As he was leaving the car he noticed | to start. Better get back to our seats.” | the next year's crops for weeds to go|I might be patting the old woman's| the right answer. a peculiar one, and (The End.) in @ recess an old cap and jumper and | A buggy stopped in the road above |to seed.” face.” | Molly won it, with the aid of the hired (Copyright, 1928.) The Hub—Seventh & D Sts. 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