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TJNDAY morning! Sunday morn
ing In June!
Two old men eat tinder the
shade of the maple trees In
the front yard while the church bella
jangled and Jarred and boomed over
the housetops and out across the val
ley. " 'Fears to me like church bells Boun
purtiesV hen you's away off from
em, two or three miles, Bay," volun
teered the old man with the blllygoat
beard, he whom the boys'affectlqnately
called "Uncle Joe." ; '
"Same way with a brass band," b
. served Uncle Billy, he of the smooth
shaven face. "Ton git up close an It
sort o' rasps your nerves an' treaties
your fur all the wrong way. But git
away off, say 'bout half a mite of a
etUl evenin', an I kin shet my eyes
an' Imagine I hear the heavenly hosts
a-twangln on their harps an poundin'
their cymbals."
"Yes, rye noticed the same tbjng,
EU1. gay, do you remember when we
(was little codgers, when we first begin
to go pardners, an' heerd a church .111
the fust time J We 'maglned It said,
I'Come. oh come, Jest as plain as
speaking ":'.?;"" '-''T
"Shorely, shorelyt An that reminds
me! It's gittin' mighty neat church
time, an' I must be potto' along. J"oe
3 wisht-old as you air, too-4 wiatt
you'd go to church oftener.
Old Uncle Joe nodded.
T s'pose you do, BUI, I spose yon do.
-I'd like to, real wen, but not today
jl can't go today. Pact is, BO, 1 fltift
jiwant you to do anything ag'in your
conscience, but I've laid off to take a
IwaDc today, a little walk, out in the
Country. As I said, I don't want yon
co do anything agin your conscience,
jbut IMJind o" set my mind on bavin'
1700 go with me."
; '"Much obleeged, Joseph, much
'obleeged! But I couldnt think of It
l havent missed church for nigh on
jtwenty years. An' do you think it is
, (right to go a-wanderin off that way
n Sunday? Do you, nowT
"Right! Shucks! Of course it is!
1 Look here, Bill! Fer the sake of argy
iment, say we take a walk. We go out
j along the green hedgerows. ; We see
'thewild roses bloomln' an' the growip.'
jorn. We hear the mockin' birds
a-slngin' fit to kilL We take great big,
IfuE breaths of country air same as
.we used to when we were pardners.
Don't you remember how we used to
see who could' make his cMst swell
the biggest? Healthy, wasn't It? AH
tthem things Is innocent, an' all them
Ithlngs is good. Who made 'em? God.
JIWTiat fer did he make 'em? Fer you
.an' me to enjoy. How can we enjoy
iem here in town? We jest cant
rtWbich Is worst; now? You go to
fchurch, an' you sit there on a hard
jseat, an' by an' by, 'stid o llstenin' to
the preacher the fust thing you know
I you feel the soft air stealln' through
the winder, an' then a bird song floats
jln on the air, an' it makes you feel
'good ail over. An' then the fust thing
iyou know you dont know a blessed
'thing the preacher is sayln'. Ain't that
so, now, William? Ain't that so?"
; "I don't know but that It is-some-tfmes."
feeblv admitted Uncle Billy.
"Of course if s so!" triumphantly ex-
claimed Uncle Joe. "Now, let me ten
you what Bill! Too go with me today.
Let's take a walk. Let's take our din
ner along. Lef s go out fer an old fash
jgg&g oLfiaforlP'- ourselves,
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a md time a rate old fashioned en
Joyable time, like we used to have
when we was boys an pardners wy
I'll go to meetln' with yon reg'lar ev
ery Sunday fer six months." Uncle
Billy paused, hesitated, and the man
who hesitatesyou know the rest of
the proverb. Uncle Joe was once again
the, dominant power in the partnership
that had begun when they were boys,
years and years and yeais ago.
While the second bell was calling,
"Come, oh, comer' two bent forms
crept stealthily out through the sub
urban orchard, climbed the fence very
carefully and stole down the Inside of
the hedgerow along a "turning row"
toward the river v ,.
"Joseph" , (when Uncle t BDly said
"Joseph" in the way he said It then,
It meant he was going to say some
thing not quite commonpraoe) "Joseph,
it was Jest seen a day as this when
my first wife when Mary and I was
walkin' home from meeting-down In
the old neighborhood when I mus
tered up courage to1 ask her if she'd
have me. The brown thrushes was
Elngln', an' the wild roses was In
bloom. I remember, 'cause sue asxea
me to gether a bokay of 'em. X had
no lackknlfe. an' pullin' em off I
tore my hand on a big prickly briar.
She tied up my scratched hand with
her handkercher, an' when I fort the
touch of her Boft fingers as ahe cua re,
I tin an act her to let me tan Her
hand until death should part us. An'
she diduntil death parted us.
A atranee llsht burned dimly. In Un
cle Joe's eyes as be listened t light
that flickered for an Instant and died
out; even as a tiny flame will some
Hmes shoot ud and die out fmrn a
"deserted campfire smoldering by the
roadside In the darkness. '
He, too, In the long ago, had wor
shiped at the shrine. of Mary but
BDly had never known. -
Half an hour later they were at the
bid sycamore, whose misshapen trunk
hung far out over the pool of water
where, as boys, they bad fished and
bathed on many a happy summer day
Tm glad there's no boys here to
day," sighed . Uncle Billy. "It does
seem awful to me that boys as la
brought up by respectable, God fear
In' parents will be so wicked as to fish
an swim on the Sabbath day."
"Boy nature an boss nature Is pur
ty much alike the world over," sage
ly responded Uncle Joe. "I don't see
that boys is any wuss thanftiey war
when we was boys. Bill, you know
you've been licked like Blxty fer the
same Identical tricks. An' licked fer
what? Jest 'cause you was a-havin'
the oniy downright rale good time
you ever got a chance to have. I
never had any boys of my own, but
Til tell you right here that If I had
forty boys, an' they all wanted to go
swimmin' on Sunday, why, they could
go, an' what's more, I'd go with 'em."
Ttm nntacioiiB wickedness of such a
sentiment fairly took away1 "Uncle Bil
ly's breath. '
"Why, Joseph, you you shoreiy
wouldn't think o beta' so wicked!"
."Wicked . notbin'l . Tbaf s Jest the
way you used to talk when we was
boys pardners. It was 'Josephf an'
'Joseph! An' you was into as much
devilment as I was tool As always
makm folks believe 'at I led you Into
it! Dog my skin! Tm goto' to have
that fish if I have to wade In an'
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Just thon Uncle Joe emerged from
He always .gojtthe worst of a tree In paroxysm of laugh-
Mow. It had been Uncle Billy's fall
ing when a boy not to be able to "take
The btjJWi began to o ttyni of Mtiatf.
physical encounters, but the very next
time be was "dared" he would again
teed a forlorn hope, because be was a
coward, a moral coward.
80 little wonder Is It that, under the
old feeling of moral cowardice, be re
plied: "Oh, you will, will you? Mebby you'd
like to try It right now."
"Bill, if you dont shet your old fool
mouth I'll I'll come up there an make
you eat dirt!" .;
Too will, will your yelled the now
properly infuriated William. Too
will, will you? I'd like to see you try
It on. Try It on right now!"
; Uncle Joe stuck his fish pole la the
sand, spat on his hands and walked up
to bis bellicose "partner." He made a
grab for Uncle Billy's collar, but Uncle
Billy slid under bis arm, caught him
"side holts," and "undor holts" at that
As a boy tussle It would hare been
commonplace. But when old men
wrestle t
Each man's face showed tense, set
Jaws and watchful eyes.
At that Instant Uncle Billy happened
to glance toward the river. He won
dered If any one was . watching. IDs
glance caught the violent sway of the
fishing pole. He broke "holts" and ex
claimed: "Joe, you've got ImP
" Uncle Joe made a clumsy, rheumatic
old run and was just in time to grasp
the pole as it pulled outvof the sand.
Dexterously he guided the fish, for bis
muscular sense told him that the One
was not strong enough to draw the
game captive from the water. He play
ed It as well as he could, hoping to
tire it But his prey kept dashing
wildly from side to side of the pool.
Uncle Joe's old arms grew tired.
"Bill, Bill! You'll have to spell me
a bit I'm tuckered out I'll go havers
with you!"
Uncle Billy had forgotten his late
misgivings in the excitement Of the
moment He relieved Uncle Joe, who
dropped down in the shade, pantlcg.
The big fish began to show signs of
tiring. The struggles grew more fee
ble, the rushes less frequent With a
wheezy shout of triumph Uncle Billy
swung it to land, and
"Jumpin Jehpshaphat!. Billy! Billy!
Oh, myr
Uncle Joe was down on the grass
rolling over and over in an ecstasy of
mirth.
"Wha-what's the matter, Joe? Air
you sick?" anxiously ' queried Uncle
Billy.
"Oh, nuthln's the matter, Billy," an
swered Uncle Joe, when at last he rose
to a slttlnir Dosture. "only your bass
ain't a bass. Ifs nothin' but a dratted
garr
Tftcle"3oeTiao7 wBBe taTEfHg. taSen
. book and line from bis pocket ana
fastened It to an atendqnad pete.
Then be managed to catch a grass
hopper. He Impaled It to bis sansrac-
Aon and gave a cast that snowed be
had once been a not unscientific angler,
But dexterous as was the cast the
bass refused to rise to the alluring
homier. TJncle Billy sat In the shade
and looked on with grave, troubled
face. What would old Brother Mee
cham say If he were to bear of his
deviation from the straight ana nar
row path? No doubt at this moment
Brother Meecham was standing up be
fore the "class" telling his hopes and
fears, his temptations and triumphs,
nrtiHt it th Lord should call me
right now an' find me here at the rivet
Tfce agony of the thought made Un
fa Bffly croan aloud. 1 "l
"Shet un. Bill! Fish won't bite if
von make so much noise." "
"I don't care if they don't! Joe,
you're old enough to know better than
tojQsJLPil-&ind8i1'l.T
Ton came down haw. haw. haw-
Jest like a-haw, haw, baw Jest like
cooaP and be bent almost double in
an ecstasy of mirth. 1 .
'Til coon you, you miserable old
white headed reprobate!" And then
the two old boys had their last boy
fight
When the battle was oven Uncle
Joe's shirt collar was minus a button
hole, his sleeve was torn, and toe was
expectorating roouthfuls of sand and
grass that had been forced Into It by
the Irate William. For Uncle Billy
himself, he had a scratched face from
which the blood oosed In little sweat
like drops. But for once In his life he
had whipped his "pardner," made bin
eat dirt and say "enough."
Then tbey both agreed that it .was
all in fun.
"Billy, alnt you afoerd your papH
lick you fer gain' to the river m
Sunday?"
Uncle Billy responded with a feeble,
mirthless laugh, and then bis old face
took on a look of Infinite yearning.
Out of the gathering shadows arose
the old log farmhouse with its roof
of clapboards. Leaning upon the
"paling" front gate was his father
his father as be had been In middle
Ufa, five and sixty years ago.
He saw himself a barefoot boy, In
homespun trousers, coming up the
wood's path that led from the fishing
bole. He could bear the swish of the
beech sprout wielded by bis father,
could feel again the sharp pate of Its
strokes. - He heard his mother, who
was straining the milk at the spring
bouse door, say:
"Thomas, don't be too hard on the
boy. like enough that Joe Graham
coaxed him to."
A sense of pain wrenched his heart
as the scene faded, and he slowly an
swered: "I dunno, Joe, but 'pears like rd
swap my soul off, hide and tail, as the
feller says, if I Jest was a boy ag'in."
And Uncle Joe, with a childish qua
ver in his old voice, responded;
' "Me too!"
Hard Times in Kansas,
The old days of grasshoppers and
drouth are almost forgotten in the pros
perous Kansas of today 5 although a
citizen of Codell, Earl Shamburg, has
not yet forgotten a hard time he en
countered. He sa;s: "I was worn out
and discouraged by coughing night and
day, and could find no relief till I tried
Dr. King's New Discovery. It took lea
than one bottle to comjletly cure me."
The safest and most reliable cough and
cold remedy and lunr and throat healer
ever discovered. Guaranteed by Charles
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W1UI B IIN1 VI uuguat vuv.w I -
dlBDatcbed the shark of inland waters,
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and the "pardners" ate tneir amner.
After dinner they sat m.tne snaae
and grew reminiscent Bygone sports,
sleighing, picnics, shows the young
folks of two generations ago were
hconeht to life again. Sometimes their
voices rang with almost boyish laugh
ter. Sometimes their eyes grew misty
with tears, and over all the glorious
ekv of the June Sabbath and through
all the voice of the water falling over
the riffle up stream.
"BflL shore's I live, there's a rea-
bird's nest in that ellum. Shew! I
wish I was sixty years younger. How
I'd like to look In that nest ana see u
redbirds' eggs look like they used to
when we was boys. You used to be a
mighty good climber, Billy. What say
you to climbin' up an' gittin' me an
egg or two?"
"Me climb at my age!;'
"Whv. ves. Tm omy a year older n
vnn Billy, but you are a dozen times
mnro noonle than l De. I've waccueu
vonr back as you go down the street
on' vnn atm as SDrV OS a DOT W
twenty."
Uncle Billy was not proof against
thla flattery.
"If I bed a rail an' you'd boost me
a little. I might try.
Uncle Joe found a rail, put one ena
aeainst the tree and gave Uncle BOly
the iwiillreR boost
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He reached tne lower umns in saieiy
and in a short time had secured the
eggs, which he dropped one by one
Into Uncle Joe's "hankercner." 'men
h (started to Eet down. When he
reached the lower limbs the rail was
gone. . , -, . -. .
"Sayr Joe, put back tnat ran,"
"l mess you'd better stay up there
Rfiiv where von kin keep eooL It's
awful hot down here."
" "please, Joe! Don't act a fooL Please
nut tin the rail. Please dor
"Oh, I dunno, Biuy.- 1 guess i u nev
to leave you now. Ifs gtttln' late, any
how. an' I don't want to he out in tne
night air." And Joe started as If to
leave.' ". r
"inef Joe! Come back. Joel Come
hnrfd Please!"
"No, Billy. Guess va veuer git dock
to town an' let folks know where you
air. What you s'DOse Brother Mee
cham win say when be bears yonrve
been flshln-n, robbln' poor little in
nocent birds' nests? Think of it! You,
at your ago an' on Sunday tool" And
then Joe was gone. , r
Humiliation and rage were tumul
tuous In the soul of, Uncle Billy.
With a bravery born of desperation
he "cooned" out along the limb. It
swayed under bis weight but he knew
an elm limb would not break. Lower
and lower It swayed under him until
he felt safe in dropping to the. ground.
When he touched ground and con
vinced himself that he was free from
hurt a mighty resolve entered his
heajt.J.If he could only lay hands on
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