The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-01-01
HA- HUynOR PATHOS
|O1AA ROMANCE
CHEM IVY
StO1eya Day

Tor FRIDAY evening my usual ones.
ieA, Friday good bye
~ run over to New York every
two weeks 10 see "A show says the
farmer. hanging up the receiver. 4
catch the ishoT flyer Mt IrNlinn-
apolls, spend ten hours In the hey
day OF night on the Yappian Way.
and get home In time TO see the
chickens go 20 roost AZ hours later
oh. the pristine Hubbard nquasherino
Of the cave-dwolling period is getting
geared up some for the annual meet.
Ing OF the Don't Blow Outlined Gas ms.
ISOLATION. don't you think. MIR,
Bunk7'
81 seem 20 perceive rays 7. n Kind
Of hiatus In the agrartan traditions
In which. heretofore. have rcposed
confidence
Sure. Bunk says he. The vel
low primrose on the rivers brim II
getting to look 90 us Reubs like a
holiday edition de luxe OF the Ian.
guago of Flowers with deckle edges
and frontiHpioce.' o
Just then the telephone calls him
again.
"'Heilo. herlo- says he. w. that's
PerkinA. at Milldaie. I told you $500
was too much for that horse. Have
you rot him there7 Good. Let me
sec him Get away from the trans
mitter. Now make him trot in a
circle. Faster. Yes. can hear him.
i<Hep on-farter yet. Thaf'll
do. Now lead him up 10 The phone.
Closer. Get HIS nose nenrrr. There.
Now wait. No: I don't want that
horse. WHAT No. not at any price.
lie inierfercs. and he's windbroken.
Good bye
Now. Bunk says the farmer.
do you begin 10 realize that agricul.
turc has had hair cut7 You belong
In byFpne era. Why. Tom Lawson
himself knows better than to Try 10
catch an up-to-da,e agricuiturtst
It's Saturday. the 18th. on
the farm. you bet. Now. look herr.
and see how We keep up with the
days doines'
table with two things for your ears
like the penny the.hlot affair."
puts Il on and listens. A female
voice starts IN reading headlines OF
accidents and other polltl.
cal CASUALTIES. ss
What you hear says the farm.
rr. ~ a synopsis Of today's news IN
the New York. Chicago. 81 Louis
and San francinco papers. ~ Ia
wired In 10 our Rural News bureau
and served hot 10 subscribers. on
this table YOU rec the principal dai.
lies and weekliss 81 the country. Also
q special H~r7'in OF advance sheets Of
the monthly maKnxinrs'
II picks up ono sheet and H.es that
rs headed; Special Advance Proofs.
In July. 1909. the Century viii SAY
and 30 forth.
Then he passes the Henry Gays
and sets out bottle Of green chart.
reuse. and goes over and looks at
Tho ticker tape. i.
Consolidated Gas up two posnts.' |
Jays he. oh vers we'll
Ever monkey with copper ! Il
askn.
stand back says he. raising his /
hand. 'or I'll call the dog. I told you
not TO waste your time
After n while be says: bunk. N
Fou don't mind my telling you. your
company begins 20 clog slightly. I've I
rot TO write AN article on the
-himcra of Communism for a maya.
.ine. ana attend a meeting OF tho I
Race Track Association this after. /
loon. or course you understand by 1
now that you can't get my proxy for /
FOUR remedy. whatever Il may be-
We'll. cir. all could think OF To
10 was To 30 out and get In the /
'uFgy. The horse turned aroun1
md took me hack TO the hotel.
iitchcd him and went in TO sec Andy.
N his room I told him about this
arner. word for word; and I sat
at the table cover like one
ereft OF saRaciouanesA
- don't understand IL Gays I.
a sad and foolish little
ong TO cover my humiliation.
Andy walks up and down the
Dom for "a long time. biting the left
nd OF his muataehe a. he does when
n the act OF thinking.
Jeff says he, finally. I believe
our story of this expurgatcd rustic.
nat I am not convinced. IL looks In.
rcduloua TO me that he could have
aoculatcd himself against all the
reordainsd systems OF bucolic bunco.
sow. you never regarded me as
nan Of special religious proclivitlcs.
ID YOU. Jeffy' says Andy.
Wen Gays !. No. But says /,
ot 10 wound his feelings. I have
lso observed many church members
those prociivities were not so out
iardly developed that they would
how on a white handkerchief II
ou rubbed 'em with IT,
81 have always been deep stu |
ent OF nature from creation down, Z
avs Andy. and | believe in an ul.
matum design OF Providence. I
'armers was made for a purpose. I
nd that was to furnish a livelihood
. men like me and you. Else why
fas we given brains? II Is my be
ef that the mama that the Israel.
es lived on for forty years In the
rildcrness was only figurative
FORD for farmers: and they kept up
he practice TO this day, And now
ays Andy, I am going TO test my
heory once farmer. always "A
in spite of the veneering
nd the orifices that a spurious civ.
ization has brought TO him.
You'll fail. same as | did says
This ones shook off the shackles
( the sheepfold. He's ontrenched
ehind the advantages of electricity,
ducation, literature and intelli-
ence.'
I'm try said Andy. There are
ertaln laws OF nature that free
ural delivery can't overcome
Andy fumbles around awhile In
he closet and comes out dressed in
suit with brown md yellow cheeks
s big as your hand. His vest is