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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-07-13
Oxford.

DR.. Ernest Hall of Augusta, who came
here with his family to visit at c. 8.
Hayes, was taken suddenly Ill. he was
found to be suffering with appendicitis,
and an operation was performed, DR..
Cakes of Aubur IN, DR.. Bradbury of Nor.
way, and DR.. Farris being present. II
was found to be severe and advanced
case, and he died Friday afternoon.
Mrs. Hall is daughter of Mr.. Hayes.
Elbridge Wight of Otis6eld was found
dead in the field where he bad gone to
pick strawberries. He leaves widow,
a son, one brother and four sisters.
The Fourth Of July celebration passed
off satisfactorily, no accidents occurring
There were fantasies, races, music by
the band and a regatta In the evening,
when the boats were decorated with
flags and lighted with Japanese lanterns
Mrs. 1. N. Keith and Miss Flora Nc.
Neal have moved from New Hampshire
into the parsonage of the Congre-
gationalist society.
Mr.. Pananjen, an Italian student,
preached at the NJ. E. church Sunday.
Mr.. Augustus Perkins of Cambridge,
Mass, is visiting bis brother, Mr.. II. o.
Perkins.
Charles Bryaut's buildings were burn
ed Tuesday.
Harry Hayes and wife Of Baltimore are
visiting at C. S. Hayes.
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Hebron.

The 4th passed very quietly. There
was the usual picnic. Speaking by Mr.
Weber of Auburn and music by Hebron
Military Band.
Mr.. Fl. Fl. Quincy and family of Au'
burn visited at C. q. Georges recently
Miss Eva Barrows is at home for the
vacation.
Mrs. A. NJ. Richardson and ALDER,
have been to Camp Ellis few days.
Geo. Wing, Jr., of Auburn spent the
4th at Il. X. Stearns.' Mr.. Stearns has
been quite sick with the measles, but is
better at the present writing.
Prof. and Mrs. Dryer returned last
week from a short wedding trip and are
now occupying part of Mrs. j. D. Don
hams house.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hanscom and little
daughters of New York are at Fred
Cushman's.
Prof. and Mrs. Ira NJ. Bearce and
Helena and Miss Isabelle Benson are at
Prof. j. F. Moody's.
Miss Grace Bumpus spent Wednesday
with Miss Prince at the Ridlon cottage
on Pennesseewassee.
Mrs. NJ. NJ. Marshall of Boston is visit
ing relatives here.
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CONTINUOUS SHOWS.
They Were Started by q. T. Keith u
aa.knn QtorA

They Were Started by q. T. Keith In
a Boston Store.
It was I'm the month Of January, 1883.
that Mr.. r. F. Keith. who had been
studying the show business with far'
seeing eyes for many years, presented,
I'm n store that he had leased In Bos-
ton. the first continuous show ever
seen on any stage. He paid bis per-
formers 500 week for single turn
and $40 for double and required them
to give eight or nine turns day. His
stop liner" or chief attraction was
pound and half baby. The doors OF
his playhouse were thrown open at
noon. and from that time until half
past 10 Mt night the performance went
on without interruption.
Patrons were allowed to spend the
entire day I'm the theater, and at first
so many avaIled themselves Of this op'
portunity to get substantial filling OF
amusement Mt small cost that Mr..
Keith realized that he must either
abandon the idea Of continuous en-
tertainment or else invent some meth
cd by which the audience could be
driven out Of the building and place
made for those outside who were walt
ing for admittance Necessity Is the
mother Of invention. especially when
II is mated with sharp Yankee wit. and
II WIS thus that what is known as
1.-THE chaser" came into the world
James l.. Ford In McClure's Magazine
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Mexico.

Rev. George NJ. Park of Presque Isle
is making a week or more visit with bis
brother, Henry w. His daughter Eve
Ign is with him.
C. L. Howard is receiving visit from
his son Charles and a grandson from
Haverhill, Mass.
Mrs. Betsey Walker, widow of Jason
II. Walker, died the morning of the 18th
inst, aged "a years.
Asa Flagg, after seventeen years away
visited town the first days of this month
Came from Pennington, Me.
Julius R. Austin purchased six acres
of the Jarvis w. Richards farm last year
These acres front on the Harlow Hill
road and adjoin the Daniel B. Austir
farm on the west. Mr.. Austin has bull
q large, very nice house on the lot anc
has already moved into it.
Albert S. Eustis and wife from Bos
ton, Humphrey NJ. Eustis from Mime
apolis, and Mrs. Sarah Mitchell, al
schoolmates and village mates of the
writer In Dixfield from babyhood unit
other haunts were sought, spent par
of an afternoon with Henry W. Parl
Monday, the 5th. This meeting brought
together three members of the Dix6eld
Brass Band of 1857. Geo. NJ. Park and
Il. NJ. Eustis had not met for forty
years.
Several house owners and family men
have gone to Alberta, Can, and taker
up land there under Canadian preemp
ton laws. They write roseate letters
regarding the country, quality of land
climate and prospects for big advance II
price of land, rapidly increasing popula
ton, and will dispose of homes here ant
have families 60 there as soon as the!
can.
We did not have very noisy Fourth
of July. There was no drunkenness tina
observed or heard mentioned.
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East Bethel.

A. NJ. Bean visited relatives at Berlin,
N. g., over the Fourth.
Miss Bessie Fisk of Princeton has
been the guest of Lester Bean.
Mr.. and Mrs. Irving Kimball Of Bos-
ton passed the Fourth with their parents
here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Bartlett passed
the Fourth at q. E. Bartlett's.
Chas. Holt of Lynn, Mass, visited at
j. L. Hollis last week.
Mrs. R. c. Clark and two sons OF
Saugus, Mass, are visiting her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. C. NJ. Kimball.
Miss Florence Skillings closed her
school here July I'd. A picnic was held
in the grove which was much enjoyed
by the pupils and a number of invited
friends
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Bartlett, Miss Bessie
Fisk, Miss Florence Skillings,
Lester Bean and a number Of Others
passed the Fourth at Birch Lodge,
Howard Lake, Hanover.
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Loyell.

Aunt Rachel Knight, who came over
from Sweden few weeks since. and 10
making her home ct Lloyd Poor's, suf.
fered Q stroke Of paralysis recently and
is quite low.
James q. Walker, who has rheumatic
fever, remains about the same, having a
nurse from Portland
Mrs. 8. L. Plummer went to South
Paris Saturday, accompanied by her
daughter Grace, who will visit there for
q while.
Many of the farmers are haying, but
slowly, ON account Of the poor weather.
Mrs. Warren Charles. Miss Ella Charles,
and the three boys of Millard +. Charles,
are here at the old homestead for the
summer.
The number Of summer residents and
boarders Is increasing every day now.
DR.. 8. s. Stearns and family came
Friday from Washington.
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Norway Lake.

There are several more cases of mea-
sizes at w. II. Kilgore's.
Mrs. Winnie Hall has bad throat, an
abscess probably.
Ernest Murch, wife and son Clayton,
were at W. S. Partridge's over the 4th.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer T. Dunn are both
sick with the prevailing grippe.
Miss Leola Noyes and Miss Halle
Walker are at j. L. Partridge's for few
days.
Bonnie Bottle of Lynn visited relatives
here few days recently.
Mrs. Belle Jersey is caring for Mrs.
G. F. Whitney.
Another case of mumps. Grace Flood.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Burns and little
daughter of Lynn are stopping at W. o.
Perry's.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Wood OF Sabattus
came to Asa Frost's the Sd OF July and
stopped until the 9th.
Goldie Frost Is working for Mrs. Ar
thur Holman.
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LlNcoLN,s HOUSE.
An Occasion Whom He Did Not Rsees.
nixs Il at First Sight.

An Occasion When He DID Not Heee9.
nizs Il at First Sight.
Mrs. Lincoln played good joke on
her husband when he was practicing
law and journeyed about from court
20 court on horseback" says Major
i.ittinger. Those trips often took
reveral weeks at time.
ION one Of these trips Lincoln was
gone for about four weeks. He re-
turned late one night. Stopping his
horse, he dismounted at the usual
place. He turned to 90 into the house
ard then stopped. Although he was
man of temperance, he thought he
rust have been imbibing on the sly
some time that day, for before him
TODD building he had never seen
afore. He thought 1t over for min
a:e and then went across the street
ard knocked at a friends door. They
we're In bed, and some one sang out:
"'Who is It?
"Abe Lincoln was the reply. I've
been looking for my house. Can you
tell me where It is? Guess I must
have been lost. ] thought 1t was just
across the way. When l went away
the building was one story high. and
now 1t Is two
at was explained to him that dur
ing his absence Mrs. LincOlp had add
cd another story. He laughed and
went back to the strange house"
He used to tell the joke on himself
many times, according to the major
National Magazine.
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Hiram.

Mr.. Elias Gould, who celebrated his
95th birthday on May 30th, is still erect
and vigorous, and has been in the fields
during the present season, not necessari-
ly, but from his inability to give up his
lifelong habit of diligence and industry.
He is visited by his grandchildren, Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Gould, of Skowhegan,
and his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Alice
Gould, of Lawrence.
1t has been quite comfortable on some
of these July evenings, especially the
4th. to sit near fire in the old fashion
ed fireplace. There was high wind on
the Sth.
Mrs. Mary Barker Dodge, the poetess
of Boston, and her son, Clinton Dodge,
are boarding in town.
Rev. Mr.. Stuart Of Newburg, N. Y, is
preaching in the Congregational pulpits
of Hiram and Sebago.
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A Ghost In q Clock.

So Basingst0ke provides a remarkable
story Of n ghost in the form OF clock.
At the approach Of midnight each
night the otherwise peaceful grand
father" becomes inhabited by spooE.
The ticking changes into a deep and
peculiar humping. the clock increases
In stature. while pair Of gray feet
protrude from beneath Its base. Pass
Ing through transitional stages the
humping is replaced by a spasmodic
breathing. and upon the stroke OF II
the pendulum door opens. revealing IN
enormous ashy gray hand with mai
SHAPED fingers. The clock face dis
appears. displaying a frightful gray
head. large and round, with abnormal'
~ long. pale blue eyes. Beyond a
quiet stroll. which causes weird tap
plugs along the landings during the
night. The apparition is lnoffensive and
is sid to prove OF great service In
sending every one early to bed.-Lon'
don Tit Bits.
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Maine News Notes.

Mr.. and Mrs. Simeon Goodwin cele-
brated the 9th anniversary of their mar
riage at their home in Litchfield Mon
day.
During the first six months of the
year $50 automobiles were registered in
Maine, 344 of them during the month of
June.
Secretary of the Treasury Franklin
McVeagh was in Maine last week on a
tour of inspection of the custom houses
of the state.
Robert Brown of Sargentville, IA years
old, drew a gun toward him by the muz-
zle with the usual result. He died in
the hospital shortly afterward.
For the first time in ten years the big
porgy factory at Boothbay Harbor will
be started up shortly. This is due to
the great swarm of porgies reported
headed this way.
State Superintendent of Schools Pay
son Smith was elected president of the
American Institute of Instruction at the
closing session of the annual meeting of
that body which was held at Castine
last week.
Leslie c. Homer, prominent business
man of BuckspOrt, died Friday at Isles
boro as the result of injuries in run
away accident there on July 4th, when
he was thrown out and injured about
the head He was IS years old and un-
married.
The Maine Central has already begun
the double tracking Of its line from
Etna to Hermon Pond-a distance of
eight miles and a half-and the job en-
tails change of location and lessening
of the grade in Carmel for distance OF
PC miles.
The torpedo boat destroyer Flusser
will be launched from the Bath Iron
Works, Tuesday, July 20, and the event
will be an important one in the history
of the Shipping City. The Reid, sis
ter ship, will go overheard about the
middle of August.
pop" Williams, second boatswain's
mate of the U. S. battleship Georgia.
was found suffocated in room of the
Park Main Hotel at Rockland, after a
fire that damaged the building some
1000 had been put out. Williams was
IS years Of age and enlisted at Boston.
Nathaniel Place, Jr., aged %, was
drowned at Bath early on the morning
of the Sd, by falling from a dock into
the river. He leaves a ~ife and one
son. He was a member of Acadia
Lodge, X. of p, and of Bath Company,
u. R, X. of P, also quartermaster OF
Camp Kateon, Spanish War Veterans
Association.
The balloon ascensions in Portland's
celebration on the 9Th resulted in one
fatality and one injury. In the after
noon James Corcoran of Everett, Mass,
% years of age, lost his life. The signal
was to have been given by gunshots
for him to make the parachute drop. 1t
is supposed that he mistook the pro-
miscuous firing of revolvers by the
crowd for the signal, as he cut loose
when only a few hundred feet in air.
There was not time for the parachute to
open, and Corcoran lived only about ten
minutes. At the evening ascension
Joseph LaRoux was going up, when the
balloon struck first tree and then a
wire, mixing things up considerably.
LaRoux Immediately cut loose and
dropped few feet to the ground, sus-
tanning badly sprained wrist and other
slight injuries.
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East Greenwood.

Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Emmons have re-
turned from their trip to Madison.
Flora Edgerly is spending few weeks
with friends and relatives in Harrison.
Walter Emery's two children of Port
land are visiting relatives In town.
Mrs. Lendall Yates spent Saturday
and Sunday with her sister Lucy at
Poland.
Mrs. Ed Pike has Finn woman work
ing for her.
/ Mr.. and Mrs. Abby Noyes Of Bryants
Pond spent Sunday with her sister, Mrs.
Alma Estes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Freeland Herrick of
Poland are spending few days with her
sister, Mrs. Aaron Cox.
Mrs. Annie Holmes of Buckf1eld spent
Sunday with Mrs. w. r. Yates.
The school in the Tubbs district
closed Friday after very successful
term Of ten weeks, taught by Myrtle
Ring. A treat Of candy and peanuts
was servsd. 1t is hoped she may 70
turn next term.
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Bryant's Pond.

A party from the Kicker house took q
days outing this week at the beverley
camp, North Pond.
Elmer r. Bowker Is visiting his sister,
Mrs. Essie Stanley, at Bethel.
Frank Cushman, j. S. Smith and
Ernest Cushman returned Tuesday from
a weeks fishing in the Wild River
region.
Mrs. Mark c. Allen and son Mason are
visiting in Jonesport.
Arrivals in town this week: Charles
Morton, New York; W. s. Wight, Bethel
Mrs. Eta Tilton, Worcester; Edwin R.
Perham, birmingham.
Winfield j. Powers, assistant freight
agent, has been given the position OF
night operator at Bethel. Robert B
Crockett takes his place at this station
Herbert Cole and wife of Lynn, Mass,
visited at F. P. Coles this week.
F. NJ. Morse has sold his REQ automo
bile to j. E. Stephens. Mr.. Morse
leaves Monday for st. Johnsbury, TAX
ing the position of travelling salesman fol
the Golden Tonic Co. of Westbrook.
But few have commenced haying ex'
cept around the village, most farmers
thinking their grass will improve by the
middle of July.
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East Sumner.

The Children's Day exercises at the
Baptist church on Sunday, July 8, were
carried out in pleasing manner. The
programme consisted of songs and reel.
tations by the children, solo and short
address by the pastor, Rev. F. N. Lamb,
and an emblematic piece by thirteen
young ladies. All the parts we're we'll
rendered and the emblematic piece was
especially fine. The church Is much
pleased with q fine individual commu.
MON service recently presented by Mrs.
Julia A. Psysop and Miss Flora Robin
son of Medfleld. Mass, and Maria Pettee
of Foxboro, Mass, given in memory of
their father and mother, Lucius and
Ann Bonney Robinson, who were men,
bers of this church for many years.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-07-13
Green wood.

The glorious Fourth is now among the
events of the past, which means that old
Father Time has worked up the first
half of the year 1909, and is we'll started
on the second and last half. And prob
buttons made up for the present year,
has been broken, and quite likely the
remainder will be before 1t bows itself
down and out.
They had sort of apology for a cele-
bration at the City, but since the writer
was not there to take notes he will pass
it over to those who were.
The strawberry harvest is about ended
and a bountiful one it proved to be.
Divers cans Of the small fruit have been
put up for next winter, and although
fine for preserves at that time of the
year they are little superior when
eaten fresh from the field.
The potato bug war is on and probably
it will take month to flight 1t out on
this line'' and gain the victory. With
the grasshoppers the case is different.
Myriads of them have Matched out, and
since comparatively few are devoured,
and should the weather continue favor
able for them it remains to be seen how
the crops look few weeks in the future.
New potatoes are on the market and
selling for 40 cents per peck, but proba-
bly, they grew several miles farther
south than our location. There is no
hurry for that luxury here since there
are still several bushels of old ones in
the cellar, still fine and mealy as when
reported last fall.
Miss Cora Morgan finished her ten
weeks term of school last Friday. 1t
was her first one and there seems no
reason why it will not be reported sue
cess. The school closed with declama-
tons by each scholar and little help
from outside, followed by fine treat on
bananas and confectionery, the writer
taking humble part in each and espe-
cially the latter. Those who were not
absent one-half day were: Della Bryant,
Harold Ring, Elsie Durham.
Sylvester Cole has just been here on
his weekly round, having two of the
three little boys belonging to his son,
Fred Cole, with him, the younger having
an abscess forming in the abdomen and
giving the little fellow a good deal of
trouble.
Benjamin Ring has been living with
his son, Wesley Ring, several years and
until lately has enjoyed very good health
for one who has lived his three score and
ten, but lately has been failing. Former
ly he has taken pride in having the finest
garden in the neighborhood, but this
year he has done nothing in that line.
Windy and cool, haying commenced
and the click of the moving machine
again heard in the field.
Mention of the Richardson family de-
ferred for want OF time, another week
coming probably.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-07-13
West Sumner.

The new arrivals at Ryemoor Cottage
are Miss Kelton of Cuba and Miss Gates
of Boston, who is soon to 60 to China as
missionary.
E. &. Doble and w. E. Bisbee had
green peas of their own raising the 4th
of July.
Dot Heald has whooping cough and
bronchitis.
DR.. E. Il. Andrews of Brunswick was
here Thursday calling on friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene McKeene of
Stoneham spent the week end with Mrs.
McKeene's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. B..
Wheeler.
Lester West, wife, and little daugh-
ters, Margaret and Frances, of South
Paris, are the guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Geo. West.
Mrs. Omittie Robbins, who spent the
winter in Lynn, Mass, is here for the
summer. Mrs Robbins is keeping
house in the little cottage near her son
E. D. Robbins farm house.
Mrs. Abbie Bates is having some re-
pairs made on the interior Of her house.
Mrs. Bates has had a room plastered
with the new pulp plaster. The first of
its kind in this village.
Rev. and Mrs. G. w. F. Hill of Paris
Hill have the sympathy Of the entire
community in the loss Of q promising
son who was their only child. Mr.. Hill
is the pastor of the Baptist church in
this village.
Mrs. John Foster of Bryant's Pond
visited her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Free
man Farrar, last week.
Elias johnson Of Strickland Ferry is
here in his auto. Mr.. johnson started
up his mill and got Geo. Redding to run
it for him and sawed lumber for house
frame for r. L. Chandler.
The barn dance at F. L. Chambers
farm the 5th of July was we'll attended
There were about fifty couples present
in the evening Benefits orchestra
from Buckfield furnished music, and 1t
proved to be a very enjoyable occasion.
S. B r. Club was entertained by Mrs.
W. E. Bisbee Thursday afternoon. Roll
call; current events; poem from Rud-
yard Kipling read by Mrs. NJ. J. Pulsi-
fer; The passing away Of the beloved
Sarah Orne Jewett; Longfellow's place
among the poets of the old and new
worlds, Mrs. Alice Buck. The following
officers were elected to serve the ensuing
six months:
Pres.-Rosetta II. Ryerson.
vice. Pres.-Hattie G. Howe.
Sec. and Librarian-Helen 8. Robertson.
Treas.-Amanda Bisbee.
Refreshments of fruit and lemonade
were served. The next meeting will be
held with Mrs. Ryerson July 22d.
Author, Henry van Dyke.
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Mrs. Elizabeth Green Gardner Of Port
land ID the guest Of Mrs. q. h. Nulty at
Hotel Long.
Misses Mildred and Vera Could Of
Freeport are visiting their grandparents.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. E. Waite.
Miss Amy Shaw went TO Boston Mon
day to attend three weeks session of q
summer school of music.
Mrs. Major Alden and SON Dwight OF
Deering are guests Of Miss Lizzie Allen.
Ex-Barber W. q. Conant officiated 10
the tonsorial parlors OF W. d. Kicker
during bis absence Tuesday.
Mrs. Claude Blair of Portland and
Mrs. Chas. Jewett OF Somerville, Mass,
are guests OF Mr.. and Mrs. A. 8. Hol-
land.
The Fourth passed very quietly here.
Monday morning there was the usual
amount of small boy noise and 10 the
afternoon . game Of ball between the
married men and the Alerts, which was
q close and interesting game till the
eighth inning, when the married men by
series of costly errors and few timely
hits BY the Alerts turned the tide and
the Alerts won by score of ten to three.
The Buckfield Literary Club was de-
lightfully entertained at the home of
Miss Nellie Dudley Tuesday. About
twenty-three of the members were pres
emit.
Mrs. Carrie Spaulding went to Caribou,
Me-, Wednesday morning for visit
with relatives there.
James DeCoster of Mechanic Falls was
in town Wednesday.
A. A. Farrar and wife of Brockton,
Mass, have been guests OF Rosalvo
Crockett for few days the past week.
Ralph a. Morrill, has purchased a new
automobile of the Overland make which
he brought home Wednesday.
Mrs. Anna Buck, matron of Sturtevant
Homo at Hebron, is with her mother,
Mrs. Elizabeth Waldron, at the home Of
Alfred Cole.
Mr.. Lyman Irish of Whitman, Mass,
has been calling on friends and relatives
In town for few days.
Mrs. A. c. Haley of Lisbon Falls has
been the guests of Rev. and Mrs: A. w.
Pottle.
Mr.. James Kehoe and daughters of
Kezar Falls were in town calling on
friends this week..
Mr. C. s. Childs has broken ground
for new residence on his lot opposite
the home of G. NJ. Irish and will pro-
coed to build at once.
Miss Louise Buck, who has been visit
ing Miss A. Fl. Prince, returned to her
home in Traverse City, Michigan, Friday
morning. Miss Buck has been In Bos-
ton two years studying music and this
fall will 20 to Nashville, Tenn, to teach
music in girls school there.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-07-13
One View Of Saving.

Tx Marvel. author Of the "Reveries
Of n Bachelor" was all his life opposed
to the modern commercial spirit. A
young disciple from the west once VS.
tied the aged writer In his New Eng.
land home. The youth, poet, said he
thought he would put away his verses
and write magazine love stories, so rs
to able to save money.
Bu; Mr.. Mitchell frowned and shook
his head
Saving" he said. lis the mania for
depriving yourself Of things which you
want now for fear you may not have
things which you won't possibly want
forty years hence"