THE
HERMISTON
HERALD,
SPEAKING OF MONEY
Just How the Goodfields—
The Stingiest Couple in Town—
Helped the Red Cross
HERMISTON,
OREGON
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Fred W. Mulkey, Multnomah
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For United Sates Senator
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Charles L McNary, Marion
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N. J. Sinnott, W asco county.
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Bv BOOTH TARKINGTON
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‘Speaking of money," Mid my sea
faring friend of the Maine coast "we
used to bave an old man bere named
Goodfield.
When be was young he
used to sing In the church choir—that
didn’t cost nothin’—and married one
of the Emberses, but didn’t have only
one child, and it died, and time he got
to be about sixty-eight years old he'd
saved up and was hirin' out his mon-
ey at about as high a p' cent, as any-
Made It all just tradin' and
body,
belo' careful what be spent ‘Care-
full' He wouldn’t buy hisself a pair
of britches but once in eight years,
and when his old sister that lived with
’em says one day she was bound to
see what the inside the pitcher show
theater looked like Just once before
she died, why, old Goodfield and his
wife says that was the last straw, and
they fixed up and had her hauled off
to live on the county. His wife was
Just the same as him, too.
“Well, along about the middle o’
the hard winter, three years ago,
Goodfield took sick, and his wife told
the neighbors they both thought It
was a pretty good thing, cornin' on
him In the cold weather that way, be
cause fuel was so high and a person
In bed don't need to use any. They
wouldn't herir of callin' In the doctor,
and for two or three weeks the neigh
bors and old friends, most of ’em, was
sure he was goln’ to die, but then
he begun to look so well there didn't
hardly seem to be much hope.
Old Goodfield Walks In.
“He got to goln' out and shamblin’
around again, and for awhile there
wasn't nobody noticed anything much
different.
1 reckon 1 was the first,
and It come about mighty queer. It
was like this: 1 was workin’ In my
shack one night pretty late, tryln' to
spell out what was the matter with a
carburetor I'd brought up from my
boat, when there come a tap on the
door, und old Goodfield walks In. 1
was kind o' surprised to see him, but I
didn’t say nothin’ ‘cept 'Good evenin',’
and all of a sudden he says, ‘Do you
know how much money I'm worth?’
“He said it just like that—nothin'
before It—and 1 said, ‘For the Lord's
sake, Mr. Goodfield, what’s the mat-
ter?” He looked kind of funny to me.
“ Tm worth a hundred and twenty-
four thousand three hundred and six-
ty-three dollars and fifty-one cents,
lie says.
'• Well, by Orry r 1 saya
“Well, sir, be begun to pant like
he'd been runnin’ up a hill ; be got to
heavin' like a winded borse; then be
begun to cry and sob like a woman
that's all excited when some one's just
died. 'Well, by Orry I' 1 says. 'You
better set down and quiet yourself,’ 1
says. 'What’s the matter?’
•' T got to die,’ he says. 1 been
sick,' he says. T been sick and I got
to diel'
" ’Well,’ 1 says, ’we all got to die.’
“He kep’ straight on cryin' and
pantin’ and sobbin'.
“'Yes,' be says, 'but I never knowed
1 had to I I never knowed It before I
was sick. 1 kind o' thought I wouldn't
reely haf to, when It come right down
to It
" 'We're all fixed that way,' 1 says.
'We all got to have some sickness we
won't get over.'
"Well, sir, he let out a yell that Just
about rose my hair. The rest of you
ain't got a hundred and twenty-four
thousand three hundred and sixty-
three dollars and fifty-one cental' he
hollers. 'And 1 got to diel' he says;
and he kep' on kind of shoutin' It *1
got to diel I got to diel I got to
die ! And then he pitches over before
I could catch him and fell down on a
couple o’ busted lobster traps.
"Ole Cap. Whitcomb, he woke up In
his shack next door and put on some
clo’es and come In, lookin’ scared to
death.
Him and me picked Good
field up off the trnps and got him
home, half carryin’ him, and him kind
of whimperin' and slobberin’ right on
to when we left him doubled up on a
rickety chair nt his own house.
“Next day he was around, just
about the same ns ever, and never
said nothin' about nothin’, and the
week after that he took Fred Owens
boat In for a debt and you couldn’t
told there was anythin' the matter
with him. What I mean, you couldn't
told nothin' on him In daytime, but
after dark he'd go shamblin’ all
around the village, and then when It
got late, If he see a light somewheres,
he'd go In there and have a spell just
the same he bad with me.
Scared
people with them spells, be did.
The Last of Goodfield’s Money.
“ 'Long about September his wife up
and supprlsed everybody, because she
went to all the expense of havin' the
old man declared insane and hauled
oft to the asylum. He cut his throat
with a piece of broken bottle op there,
and the funniest thing happened—they
found the old woman dead the same
afternoon tn their bouse here. The
court gave the estate to a trust com
pany, and 1 guess that was the end of
old Goodfield’s hundred and twenty-
four thousand three hundred and six
ty-three dollars and fifty-one cents.
“Well, sir, you know all that about
old Mr. and Mrs. Goodfield made a
kind of a sensation, as you might call
It, and there was quite a good deal of
thinkin’ and talkin' about It here In
the village.
There was some that
claimed they figgered out how It all
was meant to mean somethin'.
“Anyway, when the call come from
Halifax last December we sent off
mighty near half a carload of first-
rate clothin' right In a few hours, and
there was two hundred and seventy
odd dollars susscribed Just In the vi I
läge, and you know there wasn't hard
ly any of ns real sure we could see
the winter through ourselves.
“Yes. I'll put my name down for the
Red Cross, and I’ll shell out 1 guess
you won't have much trouble glttln
susscriptions from the rest, either
V e got a good many boys from here
over there now, and we wouldn't like
to think of 'em shot and layln’ out In
the fields twistin' around and nobody
to tend 'em because us at home hadn't
found out yet that It’s a mistake to
think we're still goln' to have our sav
In’s right nice and with us when we’re
dead I”
Mr. Customer
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