Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 21, 1917, Page 12

(Written Specially The Bullstin) e & games you used ict_school, during and noon hours? was always till he 9 e m;:;h.a“ n.lwnn e was confronted by some pro- into boy who was . was the m“;&“‘A‘l’l"m‘:fl" ‘whatever that might - { ers Tevolved around him and kept keen -watch of his movements. Not & turn head, nor a ficker of the eye- r = twitch of a muscie escaped ite this great promin- rt, I don’t seem to that dnybodytevery really hank- eted to be “It".—volunteered for tus part, as ome might say. If he wasm't caught into it according to the rules B gume, he had to. be drafted for ot and conscrption. 2 , the farmer seems to be “It” this jyear. Judging from the amount of at- he is receiving from surround- Eine Sovesnors and champers of com- @nd banker-capitalists and rail- E 1t would. seem @s if he [held the centsr of the stage and was [what in our school compositions we | mdght have called ~the cymosure of all Teyes” | "It is pertectly clear that he is re- ! with & good deal of doubt. and fthat there is real worry on the part of as to which way he will start “how fast he will move, At the time, (this worry is dsemingl inated to the fear that he wor ‘soon enough or move fast enough some direction, no matter what. The amount of exhortation and ad- snd proffered aid which his throw at him would float a 4 over the Whits Mountains, }—3¢ §t could. be condenszed into rea:ly usetut water. " At fast, and almost -all ‘at once, -mur #riends ot the big cities are waiing Lo %0 ehe wonderful . discovery that = on the farmers for their potatoss and . lamb-chops. Tt talking of thinking of small )a-hmnz_xf-fich and New London jena tic and Putnam, where ithe reel country is so close at hand isnd yeal farms so ready of access that is still neighbors with them. /s the big towns. like New York and Boston and Chicago and Philadelphia. which set the fashion for urban man- nérs ‘end dominate the tone of city talk. . And it's in them that the farm furor s now at its hight. ‘Why, the very newspapers, so ex- chmtvely devoted to city affairs end city _13%0 mon ago, ithoy Revir anowdd v iikion o tanm rtopics to get into-them, unless in small 2ype on an inside page, bottom of the column, away from reading matter. ‘thase same papers are now “featuring” ithe farm and the farmer in big-headed S wont to ruffie up backwards, in E‘ Cat Shey reatly 15ve a - ey ve us an i Not only that. but they're i ot 3 cpening Abeir columing. to' {tie ‘most heterogen- Jot of appeals and exhortations | to please be nice and please be dols and pleass be eaving and Eoed, y, that - ever O thara ihe. word), the from the People” column of on. ‘ous D There seems to be smail doubt in minds of the big city editors that facing an E-mergency (with a Big- T, please,~“and as usual in such cases, they “view with apprehension” orere st wiul Iot of that : aye an awful a Pviewing with apprehension” on the part of professional wiseacres,” when- jever anything = little out of the drdin- ary ;-“mm?w The present "is no jexception. o who aidn't use to fcnow the difference between a pitch- fork and 2 double-wheel hoe,—or pre- | they didn%.—are now seriously firying to understand the meaning of a balanced” ration. and to comprehend 1ihe exmact effects of huraus and nitrifi- <ation modules and nitrogenous com- Powmds.on the nutrition of vegetables. Thers's no more sneering at “Lhe crossroeds” “hayseeds from Instead. were belng Nreated with a Tespect. not to sav a idevotion, which is so new that 1t must Be about as awicward for us as for its ‘evelvers. People who live and do business in e city but own country estates which 5y i%e as a sart of summer vaca- on 2Te pouring in letters tel how ihey are going te plow up golf and tennis courts and plent {Potatoes: turn their Tromt lawns into onlon-beds; devote their. “paddocks” 20 cabbages, and make over their yete lakes into carp-ponds. They're ®oing to stop talking about a new court-house in New York city. flll up %he_excavated site and plant it to cu- They lar draft to provide abile-bodled faborers for farm service as being Wuite ex essential as a draft for sol- Wlers. Men who never did and don't yet fhe -difference between @ “coun- estate” and a farm are filling the ‘with advice to real farmers how their Dusiness better. York oity some extremelv eald to have raised a 900 which they are go- farmers, “without re- headliners state, to help fn their summer campaign. (A yeading of that characteristic fact that the loan is in return for approved owning unincum- greater than the { (L 1 il | il F o farmer for the possible profit he may secare!) and yet feel at liberty to make fun As. ususl in this country, whaere wind is the chief product evolved from too many buman organisms, — sometimss miscalled “men” — most of the staft which is now fliing the pub- sven less techniqus. As the first waves of & rising storm bresk on the sea-beach in frothy spume, 5o the first tides of eny pPop- ular movement in such a country as ours ars sure to be white-capped with the sudsy spin-drift of mal-informa- tion which, by reason of their light- ness and ‘worthlessnees, rise easiest to_the surface. It is the hair-brained and (he empty-headed whose lucwbrations n- vartably come o the front first. They’re most strikingly, in evidence, Tight now. | res So far as all thess outpourings of “metropolitan” journalism indicaig, the one great central truth hasn't yet dawned upon them that the trouble with farm production is largely, nay, chiefly of their own making. By their own conduct in permitting the developement of a svastem of mis- handéiing rural products such as. in ite inefficiency, its greed and its dishon- esty, has had no equal gince the out- Tageous economico-financial idiocy which dreve France to ths Revolution of 1793, they have caused or permit- ted the producting farmers of the country to be robbed, year after year, of their just dues in the way of hon- est_prices for their products. Now that they are beginning et last, to reap the results of their own ehortsightedness, — or worse, — they want the farmers to save them. very farmers whom they have for generations being either sneering at as ignoramuses, or denouncing as Shy- locks, or ignoring as ‘nothing but o!d Bayeced: Let them clean their own houses befors attacking oura! 1 understind that the Ne: County agent reports, after census of the farmers of his county, that their annual “labor income,” i. e. their wages after faxm.h;g expenses are deducted, averaged, 0 a year, That is just 2 trifle over $35 a month Lees, you'll observe, than the average wages, including “privileges” of ‘the most - ordinary farm jaborer. Haven ‘carefui Do you know many city industries which are being managed on a basis of ‘paying ttie emploves higher wages thdn the managers? » - When the country was new and its soil loaded and patked with the ac. cumulated fertility of miilions of Gn- tilled and years, “any fool could farm it” _All that was needel ‘was to “tickle the ground with a noe and it-would. laugh with a. harvest. But now, after some years.—in cases, some centuries—of fool farm- ing which has at last exhausted in un- intelligent wastefulness the stored-up fertility of the pest,—now farming has become an art, mot to say a science, ‘which “any. fool” can’t tackle. It requires a different sort of skill and training to manage a factory or a raiiroad or a steel mill from that re- quired to e farm. But not necessarily any kigher form of ekill or training. The successful farmer of today mu«t know, and know with close and em- cient comprehension, the ineides of a larger number of intense _problems than the manager of any factory or il devoted to producing one. special Iine of goods. Yet that farmer, in ore of the most densey populated end intensely cul- tivated counties of New England. a county full of cities and busy meau- facturing towns which furnish unlim- ited markets almost at the farmer's Joor.—that farmer averages, in a year of exceptionally high prices, less wages for his managing ability and his tech- nical skill and his actual hard tabor, all combined. than the hired man whom he emplovs! e averages less than haif what railroad empioyes carn ®ho ewear thev “can't live” on their wages. He acquires only about a Guarter of what the entire workins force of Bethlehemr steel milis average in wages. £ And the one reasom for It is that the consumers, mostly of the cires, ave in the past permftted and en- ouraged the in-between toll-takers 2nd merket-controllers to bludgeon the farmer out of from fifty to sixtv per cent. of his true earnings. This, not even for their own advantage as coneumers, but solely for the giory and gain “of the middlemen and market sharks. 2 When the conditions of marketing and of pay-collecting are. so reformed that farming shall again become & vaying businese, then the trained and on-the-Job farmers of.the country will supply the goods,—ail that are wanted or can be wanted under any possible combination of wars and rumors of wars. But you can't cure a disease by putting a plaster on the symptoms. Tou must remove the cause. THE FARMER. They Seem Invincible. Try as they may, the allies can't halt the German retreat. The kaisers army sweeps victorfously on toward home.—Philadelphia North American. Should Count 100. Ofexico, upon sober second_thousht. may refiect that she has to live next door to the United States indefinite ~—Toledo Hlade. “Ard so it goes and so it is” as About 70 Enrell for Home Guard— List of Membere—Twenty Pigs in & and completed the - examination those who have enlisted in the Home Guard. Nearly all were present. About 70 names are enrollea and 66 have been examiined. The members will meet soom for organization and will work. The following citizens are on the roll of members: Clayton B Hunt, Frank Charles mond Strickand, Brie. W Bosnct, mond ckland, Brio W. 3 Howard Whits, Leonard Strickland, William Judson, Brnest Collins, Wil- llam Fredricks, Harold Lyman, Hen. Brown. Victor Brousseau, Herbert Gonins, Baward Labontie, Charles La- bontie, Deloss Willls, Harvey Collins, L. Fugene Winter, Herbert P. Coilins. Eoiand Smith, Raiph Buell Aubrey Winter, George A. Cobb, Luther Buell, Hyde Doubleday, Rev. T. N. Owen, Charles A. Fredricks. Raymond . Ly- man, Lester J. Hutchins, Henry G. Schiaffer, Conrad Schieffer, A. T. Gre- goris, Heary B. Hutchins, Heniy La Fleur, Louls Hennequin, Robert S. Cobb, Stanley D. Hunt, Curtis A Hoimes, Claude Grigzs, John Tim- mins, Bdward Phillips, Madison Wood- ward, John Bligh, John W. Locke, Meyer Bitten. The Columbia band was presemt at the meeting Sunday and plaved pa- triotlc selections. Twenty Pigs In Litter. The siogan of Increased Production has reached Columbia. The first to nd to the call was a Chester White sow owned by F. A. Hunt which presented her owner a litter of 20 fine pigs. Two of the mumber were accidentally killed and a few were put out to board with other farmers. It was almost a case of overproduction. At Summer Home. George Sawyer and sister who have besn spending the winter in Brook Iyn, N. Y., are at Brick Top, their su mer house by the lake, and will Te- main for the summer and fall. Wins Gilead Bride. Stanley D. Hunt of Columbla and Mise Mary Kalirt of Gilead were unit- ed in marriage Friday evening of last Week at Willimantic. Rev. Vernon W Cook officiated. Mr. and Mrs. Huni will reside in Pine street for the pres- ent. Mr. Hunt is a member of the Columbia band One Hupdred and Fifteen in Red Cross The local Red Cross chapter met at Porters hall last Tuesday afternoon There was a large attend- The Star Spangled Banner was Waving in fromt of the hall. The chap- ter now has 115 members. Miss Tda Holbrook, for many years a dressmaker in ‘this vicinity, has de- cided to_retire from business. Mrs. Willara B. Clarke, who has been spendinz the winter at various places with her children, has return- ed to her home in Columbia. Franchise League's: Whist.( +s- A whist was givén by the Eiual Franchise Teague a: Yeoman's hall last Friday evening. s Sirs. Jessio Carpenter and Sacghter Nellle entertained the formers Mre. Bessle Glimour, and daughter, Jessie, of New Britain, for the Week- end. s ‘Charles B. Buck and, sisters have moved to the tenement i the Old Lo merly occupled by Horace s o % ren aitended the Tale school of Religion meeting at New Haven this week, The Red Cross headquarters will be formaily opened next Monday eve- ing at, 8 o'clock, "3fiss Taver of Wilmantie wil be resent and instruct in regard to sur- Ficai dressings, etc, Miss Taber i3 2 full feaged Red Cross nurse. Mrs. Welch will report the doings of the Red Cross conference recently hela at New Haven.~ Also o special message Mr. Stau the capitol Wednesday when the W man saffrage bill was bemg consid- ered by the house. COVENTRY Grange Falr Association increases Premiums—Flag Raising This Noon —Home Guard to Organix Coventrs Grangs el Inc., has its 1917 premium Toady for distribution. The list Fas Leen increased 5100 over the 1516 ome. One page has been set aside for special premiums for children up to 18 years of age which are denated by friends of the association. . The Ladies’ society met in the chapel Wednesday afternoon. Food Value of Vegetal The regular meeting of the Erauge was held Thursday evening. The lec- turer's hour was a discussion on the food value of vegetables and was led by, 1. P. Fiske. TW. S. Green has secured 2 position in South ‘Manchester, where he is em- ployed three davs each week. Newlyweds Return. Mr. and Mre. Clarencs S. Fiske re- turned Monday from their wedding trip, visiting Boston, East Orange, ‘Washington and other. places. Tuesday evening the young people gave them a very enthusiastic serenade. Mr. Fiske hae rented the W. P. Rose house they will begin housekeepins Soon. Edmund Klespies lost 2 cow thls week, the animal being choked with an apple. Andrew Anderson has taken a con- tract for team work in Talcottvilie. Death of Hannah Edwards. Hannah Edwards, who for many years was boarded by the town at W. P. Rodbine’, died at the state hospital at Norwich. and the body was brought here Wednesday for burial In the North cemete Flag Raising Today. The Ready Helpers have ralsed a flagpole on the church lawn and pur- chased a flag which will be raised tais (Saturday cises. The members of the Home guard will meet tonight in the town ha'l to organize. All who wish to, become members have been asked to come early and enlist before the organiza- tion. t h patriotic exer- MT. HOPE Aise Gertle Martin of Chaplin Is caring for F. A. Young, who is ill with kidney trouble. George Alble is emploved by F. A. Young on his farm for the summer. Mrs. Betells Shumway of - Chapiln is_home il with grip. There was a large attendance at the Ladles’ Aid soclsty meeting hell at Mrs. David Russ' last wesk. Miss Helen of Willimantic and’Dana Perry of Shelton were call- ers jin scenes. Miss Hazel Cary told bout Life in Deiray, Florida. 54 4 Body Brought From Norwich. The Body of Georse Brennan brought from Norwich, cemetary. a former resident of Rev. Moore of m‘:fl:h?‘ onducted : J. Locket: of Greenfield, Mass, former pastor in this place, is town calling en friends, 2 Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Halstead and little daughter, left the ‘ast of the week for a visit with Mrs. Haistead's parents in Poughkeepste, N. Y. W. B. Sprague was in Hartford, Wednesday. Postmaster James Green has added a new car to his traveiling outfit This viilage was well represented at the dramatic performance last Friday evening in Hillside hall, Mansfield De- pot. Mre. T. M. Ross has improved so much that she is able to take sbme automobile rides. Washington County, R. 1. HOPKINTON Funeral of Mrs. lsabelia 8. Hull, N tive of Norwich—Stafford Springs Purchasers of Larkin Property. The funeral of Mrs. lsabélla 8. Hull, 67, who died Aprii 10th, was heid at FLer home Friday aftermoon, April 13. The services were conducted by Rev. . P. Mathewson, who spoke comfori- ing_words from Psalm 46:1-2. Lioyd R. Crandall and Mrs. Charles N. Ken- yon sang two hymns. Beautiful floral iributes were contributed by her son and his wife. the grandchildren, her brother and his wife, nephews and rieces and other friends. Burial was Saturday afternoon in Flanders cem- ctery, Fast Lyme, heside her parents 2nd sister, Mrs. Della. Waldron. She zu"'bolr‘fl ;l'l ,Pll!n lfl“il Nm;.‘fcwm A . 49, a daughter of ter G. anpg Mary A. Stéwart Gadbois. She was twice married, on her 20th birtn- 8ay to Edward MoGonegal, and ber second husband was James S. Hull, a veteran of the Civil war. She is sur- vived by W. Irving Gadbols, of Tast J.yme, 2 brother, and by a son, Wiil- iam S. McGonegal and five grandedll- dren. She was a cheerful, helpful and popular woman and will be missed by al who knew her. Community Seci The community social .was held at the home of Amos Kenyon, in Tom- aquag Valley, Wednesday evening :his week. A feature of the evening’s pro- gram was an old-faghioned echnol break. Stafford Springs Purchaser. The Jonathan 8. Larkin piace; own- €4 for several years by Mre. John E. Wells, has been eoid to Everett H. and Hattle Brown, of Stafford Springs, Conn., who, it is reported, will occute the premises at an early date. The date for the annual meeting of the committee on revision of taves was Triday, April 20th. It was ex- pected that & .large number of agrieved persons will be heard on’ ze- count of the increased valuation made by _the assessors last year. Roger W. Lewis was in Kingston, Monday, serving as grand juror. Dan- jel A. Crandall went down there Tues- day at a petit juror. USQUEPAUGH Dr. Eenyon spent Thursday in Providence. Mrs. Caroline Palmer, who has spent the winter in Providence, is at her bome here for the summer. Mre. T M. Kenyon and Master Ev- erett Kenyon, spent Sunday in Prow idence. Mr. and Mrs. Erroll Wilcox and children of New London, spent Mon- day, with relatives here. F. K. Crardall and son wers in ‘Westerly, Monday. J. L. Briggs is working for Offver Wetson. 2 Mrs. Julla Paimer. of Rocky Brook is visiting her som, Rev. C. H. Pal- mer. ‘Warren Dawley of Richmond was & caller here Thursday. - Mrs. Fannie -Bushnell, who spent the winter with her niece -at Nerth Easton, has returned home. RICHMOND Everstt R. Moore and son Ralph were working in East Greemwich the first of the week. Mrs. Mary Crandall is 1}l at her home in Exeter. = Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Wright, Mrs Carr and two sons and Walter Durfee of Cranston spent Sunday et the Moore homestead, coming in a touring car. ROCKVILLE Rev. I L. Cottrell returned home Monday from ‘Waterford, Conn., where holding evangelistic meetings at the Seventh Dey Baptist church. James Charnley has a new truck to. Mrs. Cariton Irish, who has been il for the past week, is being cared for at the home of her parents, Mr. and Afrs. A. S. Baboock. . FRANCIS BU -Mat. 2:30, 10c Monday e Eve. 7, 8:30, 10c, 180 Tuesday WM. FOX Presents _ GEORGE WALSH Melting Millions TODAY . ETHEL CLAYTON in THE WEB OF DESIRE Fox Comedy, His Merry Mix-up with Chas. Conklin BOBBY USES DIPLOMACY SUNDAY, APRIL 22,3 P. M. R. H. HIRSH of Brooklyn, New York WILL SPEAK ON “WHAT IS A CHRISTIAN?” ALL WELCOME SEATS FREE NO COLLECTION ‘Papa,” began Bobby one after dinner. “Now, things bigh nowadays.” “You don’t tell me!” his father e: claimed, as he laid down his news paper. “Who says mo? Yo lable person, 1 am sure.” 'Well, anyhow, they are, persisted, laugbing uncertainly. A mie Kelley she eald her father was awful mad to have to get her new ‘rithmetics again. gee, it was only a little while ago we had_ne ones and. they cost awful! Nellie r eays it's always shoes or new 10 buy, but her mother is a peach and she don't her. Now, Bam's father he acts just like as if Sam went to work specially to make boles in shoes and things just 'cause he ain’t got anything else to do. “One day we was all sliding down some boards the workmen left over in the big lot and whon it came turn there was a big nail spru and tore a great hole in lis pan: 1t was one of these here Jaggy holes and am sald the tailor told him it wasn't scarcely worth mending. You see, he stopped over to the tailor's on Aunt Mary's strest to ask. He thought maybe he could get it all done without anybody knowing it, but the old tailor had to go and act iike that and so he had to show the hole his folks. Y told him then that thefs was things 1 41d hate, Jike taking medicine and having to be polite, but T was thank- vening awtul Bobby sald en't got the b o sighed. “It mignt a -worse comeback. 1 Kaven't 50 cents to my name, but here wo_quarters, if they will do as —Exchange. Ecergency Army Rations. . Of the emergency rations of the fighters of the worid, the moat oste) tatius n's ration of com- presscd maize meal with meat farina and three chocoiate bars. This ration is deficient in fats, for the' very good reason that, even though hermeticaily zealed, it would becoms rancid if it carried any more fat. It is mot, there fore, a balanced ration: but:the com- o an. tainer holds enough actual food to keep a zoidier from starving for twen- ty-four hours. The British troops well as’ the Dutch have a sausage made of ground peas highly salted, “reported to have| been originated by the Scoteh, and which put up in regular sausage skins. 1t is ®aid to be the most sus- taining emergency ration known. The Tt3] butter-ball is interesting because of the perfect preservation of to goodness my folke wasnt so 1 cranky about things that hap- o8 “Thanks for father said dryl leading?” “T don't know exactly what vou mean,” Bobby said hastily. “But any- how, ‘Scrubby and I we took Sam for 2 partner playing marbles over at Billy's 'cause we felt sorry for him. ie complimen: " hiz “To what s it to al it 1y. MY OFFICIAL WIFE DAVIS T#E2 the unsal had ever been‘in a condition to be un- the albumen w: rioss, although still softelike gelatine we are fast, jooked. The Chinese are reported before now duired the taste. lets of “tea make it able, mouth and allowing it 1o dissols Today and Tomight LIONEL BARRYMURE —IN— THE END OF THE - TOUR A Five-Act Metro Feature of Rare Power and Charm PATHE WEEKLY CHRISTIE COMEDY Young 4 Shows Today THREE BIG KEITH ACTS 9 A TRIANGLE PHOTOPLAYS KEITH VAUDEVILLE TRIANGLE PHOTOPLAYS WILTON & DELONG SISTERS| ENID BENNETT In the Rube Pisture Show “THE | 1o the Flve-Part Inss Predustien DIAMOND PALACE.” intro- “THE LITTLE BROTHER" ducing Singing, Comedy, A pretty Tigthe gir and Music has to be & il papers on trousers, and fight just PISTEL & CUSHING regular fellow. A brimf laughter and just plain svery In & Breath of Old Time Minstre! “THE STRANDED MINSTRELS" DELL & EVA Sensational Trampoline Novelty TRE LAY A SELF-MADE HERO Triangle Komedy Mat. 130, 3.15. Eve. 6 and 8 P. M FRIDAY, April7th HERE IT IS AT LAST! WORLD'S BRIGHTEST, BIGGEST, 7, MUSICAL SUCCESS MESSERS, SHUBERT PRESENT The Phenomenally Popular Fascinating Operetta THE BLUE PARADISE (BY THE AUTOR OF THE MERRY WIDOW) YOUTH, BEAUTY, MIRTH, MELODY, MERRIMENT, ROMANC CHARM, REAL JOY h From Its Sensationally Succeseful Record Mun of One Fr C ndar Year—82 Consecutive Weeks—to Crowded Houses of aygoers st the Casino Theatrs, New York, With a Splendid Compan Big Beauty Chorus, Special Orchestrs, Elaborate Production. A Wea of Stunning Go nd That Famous Girly Galaxy of Gergeously Go od Bros.\way — e PRICES—4$2.00, $180, $1.00, 70c 60c, 360 and 28c SEAT SALE WEDNESDAY MAIL ORDERS NOW sheets and ary ez the Chinezs aeee en y eured black d whiie it 81d not taste lfke the eggs accustomed 1o eat for break neither did it taste us bad as constder tnese end Europeans to ha The compresssd tab- possible for one eat his tea, It Waler is not a the Russians getting what il & dry cup of tes by sl tle tablet of compressed te rations upon depend when tha t The Christian Heraid a great delicacy, g Worse Than & Lawn Fete {ow that war has been force ub. Tet us lobk the | thing e its dread face. Iet us not Ourseives fnto “the belidt Ltk wyih s ‘great power resembaies way & Sunday schos picnie M All_sorts of meat and fish Sam makes me tired al} over, but I Zare was some sorry for him. Wa found 2 fine dry place for marbies, but it had to go and rain and spoil it all That feller that lives in the new pink flats he wants to play for keeps and we dldn’t know that, but it was only once we played with him. He's the feller they call Mike, but he’s got some kind of a fancy name his mother got out of a book. Anyhow, he comes when You hollow Mike and he ain't worse only he does. want to mi keeps. “That's a rule we don't break,” said Bobby's father. “On, 1 know that, all right” Bobby acknowledged hastily. ‘And _gee, 1 wouldn’t want to, the kind of Juck I zet. Billy he's a worse player than me. but I'm next worst. The trouble is T ain’t got any shooter that's worth shucks. You see when we got through playing with Mike he walked off with 2 lot of our marbles and we ain't got snything hardly worth whils left. “Of course.” Bobby explained hastily, “we didn't know we was piaving for keeps, but we never thought to ask him was he, and he just took ‘em and we_couldn’t say a thing. “Now, of course, there was Sam and Be was all cleaned out arnd he dassent £ay 2 word 1o ask anybody.of his folks for some more. He didn'tfilave such a great lot, anvhow, spite of his always boasting on what he's got. He talks like 2 tin lizzle about all the things he’s got and he ain’t got hardly any- hing. Well, anyhow. we felt awful bad that he didn’t have but a few marbles left and them no good. We follers we dldn’t pay scarcely any st- tention to him. but Nellie Foster she told me that Susle said ehe thousht us fellers hadn't acted saquare. I don't care a ding what Susie goss around ving, but by §inks she ain't got any right to make Neilie Foster and every- body think we ain’t acted sqmare.” “T should think not.” Bobby's father asreed. ‘Anyhow, T got the fellars together 2nd we up and divvied with Sam. Of course that was easy for Billy and the rest of 'em, but it ain't so nice for me and Scrubby. We ain't got but about three left now. It was that very sam. afternoon I seen that boy -from south side that's cousin. to Aunt Mary's hired man. out on the farm. Well. he's hers for a couple o' days, sause he's golns to go out west to live—and, say, but he's sot a swell lot ©* marbles!” “He'll cut quite a dash out west.” “Not on your life,” Bobby said fer- vently. “He's going on 3 ranch where he's the only feller and he savs he ain’t going to have any use for any marbles.” “I_suppose he'll give them to the daserving poor, then. Maybe to some Beigian boy.” “Give them?” Bobby repeated soorn- fully. “I guess you don’t know him! 1 should say not. He's a faller who's on the make. you bet! He wants, well an awful lot.” “Some millionaire them. T suppose® “Oh, gee: mo!” Bobby said hastily. scn will - get!