Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-07-20

No, he's just like some blind, I'M
conscious thing heavlng under.
ground"
It'll he breaks through and leaps
out into the daylight" she finished for
him, cheerily.
Into the smoke" said Bibbs. "Look
at the powder Of coal-dust already dir
tying the decent snow, even though
It's Sunday. That's from the little
pigs; the big ones aren't so bad, on
Sunday! There's a heck Of SCOT on
your cheek. Some pig sent 1t out into
the air; he might as well have thrown
1t on you. 1t would have been Drawer
for then he'd have taken his chance
of my whipping him for 1t IL could"
rs there SCOT on my cheek. Bibbs?
Is there?'
us there? There are SCOT on your
cheeks, Mary-a feck on each. One
landed since mentioned the first"
She halted Immediately, giving him
her handkerchief, and he succeeded in
transferring most Of the black from
uCI ldCt " tuc Iuey were
entirely matter-of-course about it.
An elderly couple, 1t CHANGED, had
been walking behind Bibbs and Mary
for the last block or so, and passed
ahead during the removal Of the SCOT.
"Therew said the elderly wife. You're
always wrong when you begin guess
ing about strangers. Those two young
people aren't honeymooners at all
they've been married for years. A
blind man could see that"
81 wish knew who threw that SCOT
on you," said Bibbs, looking up at the
neighborlng chimneys, as they went
on. "They arrest children for throw
ing snowballs at the street cars, but"
But they don't arrest street cars for
shaking all the pictures in the houses
crooked every time they go by. Nor
for the uproar they make. wonder
what's the cost in nerves for the noise
of the city each year. Yes, we pay
the price for living in growing
town. whether we have money to pay
or none."
"Who is it gets the pay?" said Bibbs.
"Not I!' she laughed.
Nobody gets 1t. There isn't any
pay; there's only money. And only
some Of the men down town get much
of that. That's what my father wants
me to get"
YES" she said, smiling to him, and
nodding. "And you don't want ii, and
you don't need it."
walker, MaryT He had told her of his
fathers new plans for him, though he
had not described the vigor and pic
turesqueness of their setting forth.
you think I'm right?"
"a thousand timesr she cried.
"There aren't so many happy people in
this world, / think-and you say
you've found what makes you happy.
If it's dream-keep it,"
"The thought of going down there
into the money shufiie-I hate it as
never hated the shop" he said. IL
hate it! And the city itself, the city
that the money shuttle has made-just
look at it! And the dirt and the ugli.
ness and the rush and the noise aren't
the worst of 1t; it's what the dirt and
ugliness and rush and noise mean
that's the worst! The outward things
are insufferable, but they're only the
expression of spirit-a blind embryo
of a spirit, not yet soul-oh. just
greed! And this go ahead nonsense.
Oughtn't it all to be fellowship?
shouldn't want to get ahead If could
I'D want to help the other fellow to
keep up with me-"
81 read something the other day and
remembered it for you," said Mary.
''It was something Burne-Jones said OF
picture he was going to paint: In
the first picture l shall make a man
walking in the street of great city,