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Worry are the 1 Ones that might get Ben
efitted by it if they Would. The fello
that Drinks too mutch never. Looks ahed
and thinks about The way he in going to
Feel the next morning, and the Only ones
that Don't fret For fear their Boys won't
have as Goe>d a chance as They did
Themselves never had enny chance at all.
"Yes," Uncle Ramsey sed, "that's the
way it Goes all thru Life. It makes me
Think df when I was In the army. Every
time enny fello Got promoted to be a
Captun or Major all the Rest would Get
Sad and think the Next Battle would end
the war and they wouldn't be., a Chance
for Enny of The rest of Them; but the
Fite kept Going on and Every few Days
a Lot- of the Boys that worried for fear
the trubble was all Over would Get killed
in a Skirmish or Sumthing, so the open
ings kept Getting made "rite Along for
new men. • That tot me to Always Look
on the Brite side of Things becoz you
Never can tell what's Going to happen till
after, it's over, and when a Fello sits
T!i!t* rrrrth'r'gr r*?g Go!ng to Brake be
fore Long when Jay Gould was Getting
reddy for the Rainy day. They thot their
boys wouldn't have enny Chance then,
But a Good menny of the Boys have Got
there since that Time all rite, and I'll
bet J. Pierpont Morgan's fond Old father
use to Get to worrying in the nite wlien
the Sad thot would Come to Him that all
the chances would Be Taken when his
poor Boy got reddy to Strike Out ' for
Himself. Thirty or Forty years from
now the Self made man who had Only a
million Dollars to his name when he
started for New York to Carve out a
Forchewn for himself Will Look kind of
Sad at his Boys that he can't Leave more
than about a Quarter of a Billion apiece
to and worry becoz they won't have tU«
Chance he Had."
Poor old hewmun naitcher. This would
be a -Gladder world if nobody had eniiy
hewmun naitcher in His sistem. The
only peeple that Don't look ahead and
Last chance, and Nobuddv has
enry rite to Go on hoping to Get there in
the Fewcher. It make? me Sorry to see
peeple Get so discurridged. One nice 1
thing about me Js that I don't Go around
Ibinkmg all the Brains that was handed
down trom Generation to Generation in
our family Got dammed up in me. I'm
Trinir.rr to Belcave my Boys are Going to
be just as Full of sublime Thots and
things as I ever was and mebby more So.
If the Lord in his murey spairs enny or
Them to Gro t;p and albert if You. don't
Stop trying to Run that pencil In the
Baby's ear I'll teatch you One of the hard
Lessons of Life that'll make you think
the Souler sistem's Got telescoped and
you're Cot between the Bumpers.
"Cne grate trubble With a Good menny
WELL," paw sed when He threw
\u25a0 the paper down, "here's an
uther fello that thinks the
Boys have been robbed of their
(Copyrighted. 1901. by S. S. Me Core Co.")
"I no it's Discurridging to Have that
much munny and still be common," paw
told her, "but I claim Such peeple have
a Chance to work up to Nobuller and
Better things, just the Saim. Look at the
way peeple ust to Shake their heds and
rf t>» Arrcrrlckcn peeple is that they al
ways keep Thinking they've reached the
Limit and 'there's no Use Looking ahed
for Beter i things. George Washington
was the Ritchest man in the Country
v.ben he Died and he Wasn't worth Half
a Million either: But I s'pose Lots of pee
ple Sat around in Those days and Got
Blue becoz, they thot all the Munny was
Getting into a Few hands and Their chil
dren wouldn't have enny chance when
their turn Came."
"But it's a Good deal worse now," maw
soil, "When a person with Less than Fif
teen or Twenty million hast ;to Be Satus
fn'A with a place in the middle Class and
Can't hope to be Called the Napoleon of
Ennything 1 ."
"(Copyrighted. 1901, by S. S. McClure Co.)
*~*-r MAN started an Ottum mobile Llv
f § ery stable in Our naberhbod a Lit-
I I tie while ago, and Ever since he
V. I Opened up paw's been trying to
X Get maw to Go for a ride in the
Country. Maw Fed she would go it paw
would let them send a blacksmith or en
gineer or sumthing along to run it. But
that seemed to tutch .paw's pride in a
place where it was all raw.
"Do you spose," he says, "that it would
be Enny Sattusfaction for me to Bit on
the Back seat as tho I was some fieshy
oM lady That always got the Names of
things rong and Didn't no the difference
between an Armature and an Ampeer?
Not mutch. When I was sixteen Years
old I ust to work in a Country saw Mill
junning the engine, and it wouldn't Be
saying mutch for hewmun Intelligence if
I couldn't Operate a little bit of a ma
sheen Like this after I've got to Be the
fawther of a Fambly that I often can't
hardly Help wishing Sumbuddy else Had
on his hands."
Maw sed She didn't want to Hurt paw's
Feelings, but she wouldn't Go unless he
took lessons First enny way, So he went
and Got to lerning how, and Last Sundy
he brot the masheen around to let us
have a Good time.
"One thing I like about an ottum mo
bile, "he told us, "is that it Won't stand
up on its Hind feet If you happen to Get
to the crossing just as the Train's com
ing Along, and You don't haft to Be bizzy
all the Time trying to keep it From Get
ting its tail Over the rains."
"That makes me Think of an old- mare
we Ust to have." Uncle Ramsey told us.
••She would allways watch for the First
chance to put her lall over the Rains and
u-hen she Got it There she seemed to En
joy Jt so well that we would haft 'to all
most get a pole or Sumthing to pry it
Loose. So once I Got to thinking about
it and pritty soon I invented a skeem."
•'inventing things seems to run in your
Xambly," maw Told paw and Uncle Ram-
sey. but they Didn't pay Enny a Tenshen
and Lncle Ramsey sed:
\u2666 *,"^l n tV er X w . ould Go out drlv ing with
the Old Mare after that I would put on
an Extry rain and then Let her get h°r
ll " w er .i t rIte , , at the Start - After that
she Would go Along satusfied all day and
never give anuther switch. The hewmane
society thot it was crewill tho, becoz she
couldn't keep the Flies off and Hold on
to the rain at the Same time, so They
made me give it up or I mite of Got it
pattonted."
"That's the trubble with Horses." paw
sed; "if you don't let them Have their
own way it's Crewill to Them, and if you
Do it s no Fun for the peeple that's driv
ing. Its different with the Ottum mobile.
You can run that All day and not Haft
to be Afrade that mebby it's* suffering
with the Botts or a Raw place where the
harness Rubs. Now corns on. As the
poet said: \u25a0 . \u25a0
Far from the Maddened crowds ignobull strife
We'll turn the current' on and Zip away
And get a Little taste of Country life.
And smells the pluzzcnt smells ot new mown
Hay.
Full menny a team that slowly jogs along
we'll cover with the Dyst we raise Out there.
And let the children raise the Merry song
And leave broad streaks of gladness In the
Air.
Me and paw and Uncle Ramsey were on
me 1< runt seat and maw and Little albert
and the baby Got on Behind.
\v ait, ' maw sed just as paw was Giv
ing it a Start.
"What's the Matter?" paw ast.
Dld . you J? ay y° ur Llf e insurance that
was Due this month?" maw ast; "becoz
it «^c m w b , e . trubbl ? Getting the muny if
to GftVaKafe/' US Ha PPened
T^h-e'r 8 .
neenle start away with trubble on Thei?
Mind when they are Trying to have a
Gcod time. Yes, it's paid. Now try to
Think of sumthingr cheerful for a while
and see how it seems." u " 8
We went along nice and Easy for a
r h^f'. n w Ever y b «ddy was commenclne
to Think it was Going to turn Out for the
Best, only Little Albert's hat blew off
Every few Blocks, so after while, paw
Jammed it under the Seat, and Told us
to hold Tite becoz he was Golng'to Turn
on a Few more ampeers. Maw wanted to
no what an Ampeer was, but paw** told
her it was Dalngerous to Talk to the
operator when he was Operating, and
Allmost before we new it we were Out In
the Country.
"This is what it Is to be Ltving in the
Twentieth centcherry," paw sed. "This
necks Darwin's theory All Jo smash. You
can't make me Believe that a man who
could get up a Thing like this and One
that can run it The way I am ever got
Distended from munkeys. God made man
in his own immidge, and " \u25a0 •
Along about that time we Got into some
deep Sand, and the first thing we new the
Ottum mobile Gave a kind of Sad grone
and stopped. Paw put on all the Current
in the Box. but she just stood there and
Trembled, and kind of humped up a Lit
tle.
"Well, confound it," paw sed after
while, 'can t a Few of you Get Out?"
So we all clum down except paw, but
still it wouldn't go and the wheels kep
petting. deeper in the sand all the Time.
Then paw got out, too, but forgot to pull
the Handle hack, and him and me and
uncle Ramsey got Behind and-Commenct
to push and pritty soon she Gave a
jump, and the sand Flew and the ottum
mobile went down the Rode like the, man
that's hypnotized goes over the Benches
tords the stage when the professor tells
him to Come on. _ . .
Maw Got Little albert and the Baby up
on the Bank and told me to Hurry behind
something. Then Paw started to run
after it; and Uncle Ramsey yelled:
"If you catch it, come back this way.
we 11 wait for you here."
They was a turn about a half a mile
below, but the ottum mobile kept on
Strait and jumped the fence into some
body's orchard and when paw Got there it
"was trying to' Climb a tree, but broke
sumthing before it Had. got up Very far
After while a farmer came Along with a
Load of vegitabulls for the market next
Morning, and we Got him to chain us on
Behind. When we Were on the Way
Hoqne and all neerly choked with the dust
the Farmer's horses made Uncle -Ramsey
Bed:
"Anuther good Thing about an Ottum
mobile is that when it's broke down you
Don't haft to "Worry for Fear it mite be
In Pain." .
Maw laft out Loud, -but paw sed some
peeple are bilt bo they never seem to No
when a Joke's gone Far enuff.
Dishpan full of Water and Threw It all
Over both of Them. y
After the trubble was ended Uncle Ram- h
sey sed: . . i
"I'm glad Jt Happened becoz now I no
ou Luv me For myself and not just
ecoz you Expect to Get myteunnv when
die, or you would of Let me pVirrish
\u25a0when you had the Chance,"
Ever since that paw goes around Look
ing like a purson that was ronged But got
his Innosunts proved. GEORGIE.
Vlf I was out in the Country I'd almost
think a Chlgger or Two had Got after
me." and Then he Jumped up with a Tell,
and commenced to HoUer: "Put me out
quick. Put me out."
Paw Grabbed up Our best rug and Got
a kiml of a Strangle Hold on Uncle Ram
sey. Then he tried to Rap the rug Around
him, but before Uncle Ramsey got So he
would Stand quiet Maw Came in with a
down to wait for His own funeral It's a
pritty Sure sine that he Won't cut much
of a Figure when he Goes to it, after all."
While paw and maw Were Lafllrig at
"What he Sed Uncle Ramsey lit his pipe
again and Some of the Ashes fell Down
inside of His vest, so pritty Soon he Gave
himself a kind of a Rub up and down and
Sed:
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