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"A Great an Oce TheA Out of the Tre "They Are 4 Ready, The long train of freight cars whined and grumbled as It strove to stop. In the doorway of a great low building a White capped and gowned woman re leasedi a suinny smile and, turning so her voice carried into the buIlding, called out, "They are ours; get ready for a rush." Just how she could tell they were N "ours" would be hard to explain, for V at the moment she spoke hundreds of t the dirtiest, grizzliest men a woman ever saw came fairly tumbling out of c the freight cars. A moment more she i Was welcoming this muddy rabble with n a laugh and cheering words. SPEAK] Just How th The Stini "Speaking of money," said my sea faring friend of the Mlaine coast, "we b used to have an oldi man here nined GoodIfleld. When he was young he usedi to sing in the church choir-that r, didn't costt niothin'-aniid mtarried one t of the Eimberses, bu(t didn't haive only 6 one chlild, and it died, andl time he got to be about sIxty-eight years l he'd saved upl and was hirin' out his tun ey at about as high a p' cent, as any- h thody3. AMade it aill just tradtiin' anid h bein' careful. whait he spent. 'Care- 1 ful't' lie wouldn't buy htisself a panir g of br-itches buit once in eight yearss, b: and~ w~hien his old1 sister t hat lived with a 'm says one day she wats bounid to see what the inside the pitcher show , thieater' looked like just once beforet she dlied, why, oldi Goodileid and his wife says that was the last straw, sand the&y t1.xed up anid had her hauled otf to live oni the counity. Ills wilfe was just thle samte as him, too. "'Well, along iabouit the muiddl~e o' ~ thet hard wvinte-r, three y'ears ago, ~ (Goodihel took siek, and his wife toli t the ne(ightbors they bothi thiouight it was a pretty good thing, coini' ona him In thle coid wveatIher t hat way, he- a cause fuel wajs soi high andt~ ai person0 in bed don't need to use any. 'ilhey a wouldn't hear of callin' in the doctor', a andi( for two or three weeks tho neigh-.t hors and o ~ld frienda, imost of 'ema, was i suire lie was golin' to die, butt then h lie begun to look so well there didn't a hardly seemi to be mucht hope. Old Goodfield Walks in. d "ie got to goin' out and shalamablin' I around again, and for awhile there c wasn't nobody not iced anythinig mu('h differenit. I re'ckon I was the first, hi utidi it come about Ighty queer. it c was like this: I was workin' in my d shack one nIght pretty late, tryin' to (1 sp~ell out what was (the matter with a h carburetor I'di brought tip from my o boat, wvhen there conic a tail on the t< door, and old G4oodfield walks in. .I rl was kind o' surprised to see him, hbut I dhdn't say nothinm' 'cept 'Good evenig',' a arid all of a sudden he says 'Do you si know howv tuch mn'iy I'm wortht?' y Not of mercy drawn through a of' Unapealkable Pain" merican Red Cross nches for a Br Contrib Dur Boys; ( Everyone, Ins81d1 the building there were More Volnen, all spick and spa In white, vith faces beaming, handing out good home cooked" food over spotless tiled ounters. Some of the boys fairly ran or the f9od ; others went into the long atteries of baths, throwing out their ermin riklein clothes to be sterilized rhile they scrubbed their bodies back o a healthy glow. What luxury it all was-food, tables, hairs, things to read, gaines to play, iaper for writing, a barber shop, a ovie theater and good, clean beds I No one ever thought that these hap [NG OF. N Le Goodfielc giest Couple SHelped the By BOOTH TARKINGTON Of the Vigilantes. "lIe said( it just like that-nothin' efore it-anid I said, 'For the Lord's lk e, Mr. Goodileld, what's the mat yr?" He looked kind of funny to mec. "'I'ini wor'th a hiundired am11( twenty amr thlousandtu three hundred and six. ythr'ee dol lar and 111( ifty-onie centIs,' e says. "~'ll, by3 Or'ry I' I says'. ''Well, sli', lhe begun to Pant1 like e'dl beeni r'uinin' Up) a hill1; lie got to ea vini' lIke a wInded horse ; then lhe t'gun to cry and~ sob) like a womanii int's all excited whien somei oneC's just ieed. 'Well, by Orry I' I says. 'You otter set dIown and quiet yourself,' I ny'a. 'Wh'iat's the matter?' "'I got to (die,' he says'. 'I been lek,' lie says. 'I been sick and1( 1 got "'Well.' I says, 'we all got to (lie.' "Ie kep' straight on cryin' and~ antin' and1( sobinll', "'Yes,' lie saysS, 'buit I niever knowed hiad to!I I never knowed it before I las siek. I kind o' thought I wouildn't (''Ili ha to, wh'len it conie ighit dlown ) it. "'We're all fixed that waty,' I says. Noe all got to havi~e some siekness we 'oni't get ov(er.' "Well, sit', lie lot out a yell that just bout rose my13 hair. "'he rest of y'ou ii't got a hiumilr'ed nnd twenty ~-four 10ousand( thIiree himadred and sixty iree (d01Inars an f11 ifty'-one~ cents I' lie oller's. 'And I got to die I' lie says; nd lie kep' on kind of shioutin' it. 'I~ ot to dlie I I got to die I I got to le I' And then lie pitches over before could catch him and fell down on a r~uple o' busted lobster traps. "Ole Cap. W~hitcomnb, he woke 'up in is shack ne(xt dloor and( put on some lo'es and1( comie in, lookln' scared to enth. Iiitn nnd meo pieked Good. eIIli p off thie .traps and got him omie, half carryin' him, and him kind f whiniperin' and( sloblberin' rIght on > when we left him doubled up on a lkety chair at his own house. "Next day~ ho was aroumnd, just bout tha samie as everi, andl never lid nothin' ab~out nothina', andl the 'cek after that he tank Fre,1 nmans' ,athing Space uted by James Montgomery Flagg, .Net for a Rush?" p)y, stulling wouien might be tired, nor were they tied ll v'n, even though all dlay lon, they had been serving train after train of Frenc' h and Eniglish troops, literally thousanlds of theml. Yet what did that snatter? For these boys that Came ait the endo of a long day-these boys arc- "ours." If your boy is InI France ou mo] ay be sure hie has a song of praise for the fIne womien at work In the railway caniteens of our own ]ted Cross, for at -s ever Imprtan rala Jucion ter Is Rn f ued Cross nen n boa infr et.ad o oud' wih i. WhtIren yucud' utld notin Jaeonomer dyt1meabut Elftr ahr Rud osh!i'"l gt earinf hen eeIght se wres, no he' go lin thec rerd have thouspell s thed same hmerihad wothme.Sae deo N them spellsrheIdid. aTe LtOI of Froodfield Mony.i "'ongs liallyut htembe is woftemup Yet nda dupid evrybody, ecaus so he went5 toii a ei the ense of av ongh oldy man declared insainie yondmayue sorf othe hasylum sng out hmiso tha fondeod womanorkad the raea itenooutr oe hCrss f'rla eery lianit russtailwasuct theeo sond Gofoudlied hunred andtenty-n fou cati!ltousn thre huared woand reylhtre Amelricand witoene ns "Wi l ir ouow 'alnha.sou boin o a et, and you mcouldnal tlin there was ithin th mat earo ith vimlg. Wher w smea o thatn' tlad othey' ongre hiowayie utl waie art ht' goa shamethin'al "yarou , theilgn then whme ito gllfa ot laterobfrh e se h onwhcr mi'lgoatyere hav a srloa Jufist thre ae lie hudwirae. Screvd pddeolar wit srthesellsuhe id. v 'Lg, a out kowrterterhI wile' hard the wite~rt( Othryuh orysee s h "es, to'll t mypnme down frn the old Crosm adli helt Inai gaueds ou to't have muchiiin ltroCud gIiSttroi' wusipthions(' (frloe tetreal, upther, rie gt ua leot tunra o'ii('-te here vefteeoow nd I i dwn ea wouednso m[e [oithink of 'em st ia ndliiit lin'toutTin rhe fmeidstweit' iiarud anid riobotty. tou tilndiern tbeue usli at'u homea hadn' ottndl siut you that ilt's aitae t hit, a rid stion' ito have gour say-~i O I' hright' nice tald wi'loit It wherewe'r tea ilg. TeewrssC h WILLIAM FO) "Jack and thi A SPECIAL F1 WONDER I This Age-old Story brir dear to all, whether old or y, Series of Fox Kiddies DON'T FAIL TO SEE 1 Moving picture for children were ir ing pictures were invented, but it has beE that they should not have been actually i that the world can produce is only to be I of the young. Now we learn that the g films entirely suited for children has been Children have long enjoyed their have had their own art and music. It is c their own moving pictures, for they are a and few would have the hardihood to att< them. The solution of the question has b lines. There are some tales that above o young. Almost invariably the first to ari who follow them is "Jack and the Beanst for the beginning of this work. It is ge famous fairy tale in the language, and it zation. * The youngesamaz~e ! *Carpenter, Vi aLee Co~r Famous Kidd)i/ Mvie "JACK AND THE OPERA HOUSE, Fi 10 anel PRESENTS e Beanstalk" )X KIDDIE >ICTURE igs an irresistible charm )ung--First of a Wonder Feature. HE KIDDIE STARS evitable from the very moment mov n part of the norma! course of things iade until this time. The very best 3id before the sincerely critical eyes rave necessity that has arisen for met. own literature, and in recent years ertainly proper that they should have mong the chief patrons of the films, empt to deny them the right to go to ?en found along the most natural thers have a universal appeal to the se in the minds of children and those alk," and this Mr. Fox has chosen nerally recognized to be the most lends itself wonderfully to picturi stars in the world--Francis bin--in the World's most BEANSTALK" eiday, May 24th 2Octs