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F A U -S C IT Y N E W S PAO» 1 ' Œ l| r # a l l B (£ tîi| N r u i s D. L. WOOD Publish«’ k n L r.d k l wcond rlâM m »ll tt t t» «MtoffiOT • t Palla City Folk Coantj. Ora»»». aa«a» Ua A rt al (Y o (r»u al Marak S 1ST» Trlrahone-*ewsWlkt. S iUaHsOan fcataa: Ona ya«r. M OO: ai* moatte. M car la, tkraa month», I I crnta aiti(la copy. * at». Adaarttalnf R»taa: Dtaplay. 1 »>-anU«nInch; l u l l 1 taa» Sotioaa. 5 canta a Una; For S*la. Rant, Rxohanfa, Want and Fay Rniartainmant No lle««, t eta, a Una. Card olTh ank» SOclt; La*» lotleea. legal r»taa. Copy for naur ada. andeb»ns«a»hould ba acni I « T h » Naira not laiar than Wadneaday._____ OftMal » a w n i t r » I tha Pity »I Falla Cita I s s v k d E v e r y S a t u r d a y M o r n in g The W ay Joel Said Farewell And Then Changed His Mind About Leaving. By C LAR ISSA MACtCIE When Joel Tykesbury opened the on his mother’s side had died with out near relatives and had left him the comfortable sum of $15,000 in cash there was not a soul to whom he confided the astounding news. Close locked behind his compressed lips was hidden a secret that would have provided the people of Little the waYv mirror with A gloomy frown. "There won't la' one |'< t - son that will miss me «hen I'm pone. I f I ’d been treated decent here I ’d never thought of leaving Little River. It would have done the village good to spend m\ money here. I could build a house as fine as Lawyer Beggs and live on mv in terest mcnev. The women ain’t never noticed me much, and I ain’ t a had looking feller.” Joel redden ed as he lifted shy eves at his re flection in the mirror. Good look ing in spite of the irregularities in the glass. In fact, Joel Tvkeslmn was a handsome man. and although he was forty \ears old there was not a thread of whife in his abuu- dant hair. Suddenly he a ro e and. approach ing the glass, brushed his hair into some semblance of order ' ‘l'H go to New York tomorrow night, and now, after I ’ve had rr> supper, I ’ll say goodby to some of the folks that f ’va had acquaintance with.’’ Joel% scowl was quite black when ho rang the doorbell at Spinnings'; therefore when the portal swung wide and the hall shed a stream of light over his form he blinked and winced like an owl. “ I t ’s Joel Tykesbury, as 1 live!” cried Mrs. Spinning heartily. ‘'Now, this is real neighborly! Come right in and have a bite to eat. We’ve just sat down to supper, lleury, here’s Joel come to supper” ’ "Henry,” she said, addressing her t a . K ' ' “ . 0 vour .upper and be about what I planned. To night at 9 o’clock— everybody, you understand?” Mrs. Spinning nod ded and frowned and smiled at her husband. “ I'll see to it, Maria,” he chuc kled softly. Then, addressing their guest, he said. 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"Tomorrow night, said Joel, interest for the coming winter he]piQg himi* lf t* ^ h e r biscuit. months. "Wish you was going to stay,” Joel kept his secret, and no one iayj the deacon cordially. “ You’ll was the wiser when he closed the be missed, Joel.*’ little harness shop and spent sev- “ Missed!” scoffed Mr. Tykesbury, eral days in New York. But when forgetting his diffidence in his as- s s : : he returned from the city and pro tonishment. “ Who’ll miss me?” “ Everybody in Little River,” said ceeded to sell the contents of his shop at auction prices, when he e pre- the deacon quietly. “ There’s few eented the furniture contained ed in here but what you’ve done a good his lonely bachelor abode to the turn for some time or other. You’ve thriftless'Xickols familv, who lived forgotten ’em, I suppose, but folks on the edge of the village, and final- haven’t! They like to see you and if you " wasn’t *“ so bash ly when the minister dropped a around, ------ J ~~A word in the midst of the Ladies’ ful you’d be the most popular man Aid society’s Wednesday sociable in the village, not even excepting äss M then Little River sat up very the postmaster. Eh, Maria?” “ Of course he would! Y'ou look straight and t k r. lice._________ »<. “ res," saia nr. freeman. mougOt- w - i m n r P o t » , I l i a « f t fullv stroking his scanty beard. some folks that you’re a stony pil “ Joel says he’s tired of Little Riv lar of the church— in deed as well er, so he is going to New York to as name!” Mrs. Spinning laughed “ Do you recollect my live. He seems to feel rather bitter heartily. about the way he’s been received niece, Charlotte Wayland?” she ask in our village. He says he’s lived ed as she stepped into the front here fifteen years and he isn’t parlor and lighted the prism hung much better acquainted than when lamp on the center table. “ She he came.” was visiting me ten years ago.” The United States has enteredthe greatest w ar the world Joel flushed hotly. Indeed, he “ That’s every mite his own fault, has ever seen. The part w e play may determ ine the future o f th e n !’ cried Miss Fanny Pollard did remember the pretty girl at Europe both politically and socially. E very American man, woman warmly. “ He’s the most unsociable whom he scarcely dared glance in and child is vitally interested in this war. Some o f us w ill g iv e man in Little River. Mv conscience church, yet to whom he had irrev- i Much of is clear about Joel Tykesbury. I ’ ve ocably lost his heart. our lives, all o f us must make sacrifices. done the best I could to make it the silence and loneliness of the j pleasant for him in church and past ten years might be laid at the out!” A suppressed giggle from the door ° I his heartsickness after pret- voung girls in a distant corner clos- <7 Charlotte had returned to her is the title o f a new 32 page at'as just placed on the market. It is ed Miss Fanny’s lips into a grim distant home. He heard afterward the most comprehensive work o f its kind and is accurate in the frown. Her small brown eyes shot that she had married, smallest details. little angry sparks at the gigglers. “ I remember,” he said faintly. There are 15 pages o f maps in three colors (15x11) covering “ That ia very true, Miss Pollard,” “ She’s in Little River. Come to soothed the minister peacefully. “ 1 ^isit my sister. Charlotte’s a widow minutely the various theatres o f war, and showing all the towns am sure we have all done our best and as pretty a one as I ever saw. and villages mentioned in the daily dispatches from the front. to make Joel feel at home in our I declare, it don’t seem proper for There are pages o f photographs, many o f them made e x midst.” a widow to be quite so good looking pressly fo r this book, o f persons, places and things about which so Mrs. Deacon Spinning bit her as our Charlotte.” Mrs. Spinning much is said and so little definitely known Photographs o f zeppe- thread with a sharp click of her smiled innocently as she thrust false teeth and folded up the ging- a photograph into Joel’s hand, iins, submarines, submarine chasers, mines, torpedoes, torpedo ham apron she had completed “ That’s Charlotte. She’s coming nets, anti air-craft guns, gas masks, gian t guns that shoot 2-ton “ Seems like I ’ll never forgive my- , around tonight, and you’ll have to shells, German trenches, etc. self if Joel Tykesbury goes away &ee her home.” Th ere is a complete chronological history o f the w ar to date, from Little River feeling sore about A t that instant the bell rang the way he's been treated. I don’t clamorously, and, with a slight and the answers to a thousand and one questions on every phrse o f believe any of you really know just chuckle of delight, Mrs. Spinning the costliest and bloodiest stru ggle in the history o f mankind. how kind hearted he is. Only lie’s hastened to answer it, while Joel dreadful shy, and it’s a setback to devoured the picture with his eve», him. j now hopeful, no longer shv or dilfi- “ Maybe he is going to get mar dent. Their depths contained a Possession o f this book will enable anyone to g iv e exact in ried. Now I come to think of it I new purpose, a new light, a new form ation on subjects on which his friends speak from heresay. shouldn’t wonder a mjte if that was courage. Here was something to I t is a valuable addition to any library and contains a wealth o f the secret of his going. He’s going fight for and win— Charlotte Way- to get married to a widder, maybe, land that was! facts on the one subject in which everyon e is interested at the and she, having a houseful of furni- The door opened, and into the present time. ture left by her first husband, won’t room streamed a merry crowd of The book itself is printed on the finest grade o f enameled have no need for Joel’s things.” men, women and children. All the paper and is the best that skilled workm anship can produce. Mrs. Spinning beamed around the folks in Little River seemed gather- bus*- circle. “ I ’m mighty glad to pd together under Deacon Spin- Falls City News one year and Atlas $ 1 .3 0 think he’s going to get married, nine’s hospitable roof. “ Surprise, H e’s just the nicest kind of man. ; Joel Tykesbury!” they cried in uni- He’ll make some girl a good hus- *on as they crowded around him. band. I ’m disappointed, though. That was the beginning of the I kinder hoped he’d pick a wife happiest evening Joel had ever THE FIFTY DOLLAR BOND from Little River.” known. Before it ended he had for- their money to win her victories. There was a long silence after ever dropped his cloak of reserve, found his longue at Iasi,* said Miss But it is not patriotism alone In ¡aiming Liberty I.oan Bonds this, until at last Mrs. Willowell, end he found that his fellow towns- Fanny Pollard rather acidly. “ Seems that urges the buying o f Liberty like he’s all took up over that at whose house they had met, an- nien met him more than halfway. A in a denominftion as small as $50 loan Bonds. Thrift and a wise nounced that refreshments would "trange new jov sang in his heart, flighty widow. I guess Maria Spin the Secretary of the United States economy in investing small savings he served in the dining room, and for the widowed Charlotte had ning knew what she was talking so for the time being Joel Tykes- blushed beautifully when their eyes about when she said he was going Treasury has put it in the reach commends these Liberty Loan to marry a widow.” o f almost every American citizen hurv his were forgotten. met, and he had a; ked the pleasure Bonds to small investors. They Mrs. Spinning overheard th r re Joel himself, given away j of her company home and been ac- to do a real and actual service to are safe, and considering their mark and smiled mirthfully. “ I furniture disposed of his cepted. All at once his plans chang- didn’t know a thing, Fanny. Char his country. tax-free quality— free from all lightning rapidity, business, sat in his lonely room in ed with ............ He Not all can fight, not all can federal, state and local taxes ( in lotte’s coming now was a dispensa the heat hotel the village afforded , would remain in Little River. ne tion of Providence.” render personal service in other heritance taxes excepted ) and and wondered what he would do would build the house, and Char- “ Dispensation of Providence, as ways, but those who are denied free from any war tax that may next. i lotte— he would win her! He was sisted dv Maria Spinning!” “ I 'll shake the dust o f this here glad that his inheritance was still the privilege of serving their hereafter be levied, affording an Miss Pollard, quite unconvinced. absolutely net income o f 3$ per village from my feet,” said Joel » secret. country in person have the privi cent, they constitute an ideal in morosely, eyeing Jii$_jT flection in; “J2oJ Tvkoshnry «pera* * > have THE NEWS CAN SUPPLY THE WORLD’S GREATEST WAR Candies, Tobaccos and Cigars, at L B. 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