Halsey Does Not
1 ake a Back Seat
“ were m arried and lived happily
aver a fte r.”
Carl Isom sang a solo w ith
M ary Sm ith a t the piano and they
A Home E ntertainm ent responded to a p e rsiste n t encore
G eorgina Clark joined M rs.
Not Easy to Beat.
Cross
in a piano duet.
The full house F riday night at
T he p a rt tak en by B alf Bund
K oontz’ hall was evidence th a t th e
long series of en tertain m en ts by and Mrs. Kizer lias been purposely
home talent has not surfeited the reserved for separate m ention here.
com m unity, and the applause d u r­ Jt was a separable feature, so tru e
ing ihe play *aud the com m ents in all its details to colored life in
after it showed th a t it was enjoyed the old south th a t spectators from
b a t region declared th a t th e actors
n every d etail.
had
at some tim e lived where they
E . D. Isom was g ra n d p a , who.
took th e p a th across the h ill of
self-sacrificing bearing of an o th er’s
burden, th a t its shadow m ight not
fa ll upon bis :unocent grnddeugh*
1 ter, R uth.
Mr. Brent Doubled Up on the Ledge.
Felt HI mas If Taking Rather an Ele­
phantine Intereet in Hie Young Com­
panion.
rain?” he asked, casting a glance up­
ward. "1 can’t tell whether there are
any clouds or not.”
Freck moved his frog leg closer to
the ember. ’’Can’t you hear that rain
erow?” he asked.
Mr. Brent listened. ”1 thought that
was some one chopping wood.”
"No; It ’s a rain crow,” said Freck.
“TouH get so you’ll know all these
things after a while. Screech owls,
and rain crows, tree toads, and all
them things. You'll like It fine after
you get started.”
There was a snort. Mr. Brent had
almost ruined his frog leg by Jam­
ming It Into the very ashes for em­
phasis. "Y es; I ’ll like It,” he broke out
sarcastically. ’T m crazy about this
sort of thing. I love living this way.
Yes,” he said, “I ’ll like It. I ’ll like It.”
“W ell, you w ill,” Freck protested.
"I know that’s Just the way it was
with Mr. Edwards when he and Jennie
first came out to visit us. lie used
to laugh and make fun of us, hut I ’ll
bet you If he had a chance to get a
little farm he’d be tickled to death
all rig ht
“He’s Jennie's beau,” Freck added.
“He works in the city------ in a foundry
or something of that kind, if he ain't
got fired since I saw him last. He
says they got the meanest boss In
there that ever was. He don't even
let 'em breathe almost.
He's been
trying to get a raise. Mr. Edwards has,
ao he can marry Jennie, but he hasn't
got It y e t I don't think he will get
It.” Freck's voice trailed off while
Mr. Thomas Brent glared at the fire
The very mention of business had
brought back all his worries, all his
uncertainties. “Scrottles won't be able
to handle the plant right,” he was say­
ing to himself. “He'll let the force do
him In spite of everything. Well,” he
added In a resigned sort of way, "I
guess it doesn’t make much difference
to me one way or the other. I f I go
In there and attend to things, It’ll Just
about kill me off. and I'll lose the
money anyway. I f I stay out here I ’ll
probably lose the money and get
killed off Just the same. Six of one
and a half dozen of the other. Huh,”
he grunted after his reverie, and
looked up. "W hat sort of a fellow
Is this Edwards man you seem to
think so much about, Freck?”
Freck's eyes glowed. “Oh, he's a
•m art man. He tells Jennie lots of
times what he'd do with the business
I f they’d give him a chance. He says
they throw away twenty-five thousand
dollars a year, Just wasting It, but
they won't give people enough salary
to keep ’em from starving to death. 1
bet he’ll make 'em see what he's good
for some day.”
"Foundry business?" Mr. Brent
asked. “W hat foundry?"
“I don't know—It's one of the big­
gest ones there.”
"Edwards— Edwards,” Mr. Brent re­
peated the name. “I guess It's Just
because It's a common name that It
sounds fam iliar to me. I haven’t got
any competent people In my employ.
Nobody In the whole shop knows
enough to pound sand Into a rat hole."
"Burning your frog leg," Freck
broke to.
Thereupon thoughts of mergers and
the foundry business were dropped for
a time while Mr. Thomas Brent, capi­
talistic Invalid, gingerly began to chew
upon the browned and well-cooked
flesh of a frog saddle, and after the
first bite was forced to admit to hlm­
eelf that frog legs cooked over live
embers on a forked stick were rather
good after all.
(To
be continued^
8ee that the generator charges suf­
ficient amperage at all times to avoid
battery damage.
• • •
Motorists have paid liberally and
without complaint for good roads. The
“detour” still persists.
• • •
Keep the foot fist on the floor b oar!
unless sctually shifting gears or slow
|ng quickly to s stop.
• • •
Blow your suto horn at the rail
road erosalng so that the limited train
w ill know you're around and won’t
run the risk of being knocked from
the right-of way.
e
Mrs. C lara L aF o llette was the
g randm a who pretty plainly hin ted
t° grandpa th a t two people m ight
live more happily together th an
alone, even at th eir age. She was
rath er puzzled by hia dow ncast,
worried reception of allusions to
th e com ing years, which, unknow n
to her, brought to bis m ind visions
of him self be ng led aw ay to pay
th e legal penalty of a n o th e r’s
crime.
Buford M orris, as R obert Post,
arrived as a sum m er room er and
recognized gran d p a as the m an on
whom he hau sworn vengeance for
wrecking a bank and clouding
with despondency the declining
years of P o st’s f a th e r s life. He
told g randpa he would phone for
police b u t was finally shown p ro o f
th a g ra n d p a ’s burden of odium
was vicarious and, through m u tu a l
regard for R u tb , an agreem ent was
reached to consign the subject to
oblivion.
H arry H ussey, C harles W rig h t,
N ora C oldiron and
G eorgina
• 'lark were th e young people w ha
w ent th ro u g h the th rills sn d pangs
of love and the m a k in g and
breaking of engagem ent", and M rs.
Rossman was a neighbor.
Of course at th e conclusion all
coaid observe the eandnet of our
black-skionad brethren and sisters.
Every sally by them brought roars
from the bouse. Balt’s raim ent
fitted as if be had b:en melted and
poured into it, and he surely had
been pressed in.
Mrs. K izer (Zu-zn) announced
during the play th a t ahe and the
cullud geinm an were m arried.
* He was p a y in ’ too m uch ’tention
to dat yaller gai a n ' ah jea’ put on
m ah hat an went ah* snaked ’im
i n .”
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Increased Development of Self-Control One
Modem Generation’s Needs
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By DR HENRY VAN DYKE. Ex-Prineatoa Professor.
The modern generation has advanced much in justice and hnmad
kindness, but has dropped behind in the third essential of goodness tail
control.
’
I certainly do not fear that humanity is stricken with a mortal di»«
ease.
If we look to science for eiplanation of the method of development
of life, and to religion for the origin, there should be no clash between
church and laboratory.
When I go on a vacation I always take a Bible and a rod. I need
to hunt, but not now. You know. I don’t like the accusing look in the
•yes of the dying animal whereas the eyes of fishes don’t say anything,
I m getting old, but that has nothing to do with fishing.
Now. the man with a lot of property
L in .n g U p F ro n t W h e e ls
Many car owners fall to make head­ which is not paying, whether It be farm
way when lining up the front wheels t land or mercantile business, Is In poor
because they fall to true up the wheels condition to pay heavy tax. But the
and tires separately. The front wheels man who Is making money can easily
may toe In the proper amount, but the
rims may not run true, thus throwing pay a tax. Hence, the logical conclu­
the tires out of line. This ran be de­ sion is that an Income tax for all pur­
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arately and noting how true they turn. City Times.
Any vurlatlon may be due to the
wheels being too loose on the axles or
The Alford school visited the Harris
to the rims being screwed to the school Friday afternoon and played
wheels unevenly.
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