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SPEAKING OF MONEY
' Just How the Goodfields—
The Stingiest Couple in Town-
Helped the Red Cross
-Speaking of money," said my sea-1
faring friend of the Maine coast, "we,
used to have an old man here named
Goodfield, When he was young he
used to sing in the church choir—that
didn’t cost nothin’ —and married one
of the Emberses, but didn’t have only
one child, and it died, and time he got
to be about sixty-eight years old he'd
saved up and was hirin’ out his mon
ey at about as high a p’ cent, as any
body. Made it all just tradin' and
bein’ careful what he spent. ‘Care
ful? He wouldn't buy hisself a pair
of britches but once in eight years,
and when his old sister that lived with
’em says one day she was bound to
see what the inside the pitcher show
theater looked like just once before
she died, why, old Goodfleld and his
wife says that was the last straw, and
they fixed up and had her hauled off
to live on the county. His wife was
just the same as him, too.
“Well, along about the middle o'
the hard winter, three years ago,
Goodfleld took sick, and his wife told
the neighbors they both thought it
was a pretty good thing, comln’ on
him in the cold weather that way, be
cause fuel was so high and a person
In bed don't need to use any. They
wouldn't hear of callin’ in the doctor,
and for two or three weeks the neigh
bors and old friends, most of ’em, was
sure he was goin’ to die, but then
he begun to look so well there didn’t
hardly seem to be much hope.
Old Goodfield Walks In.
"He got to goin’ out and shamblin’
around again, and for awhile there
wasn't nobody noticed anything much
different. I reckon I was the first,
and it come about mighty queer. It
was like this: I was workin’ in my
shack one night pretty late, tryin’ to
spell out what was the matter with a
carburetor I'd brought up from my
boat, when there come a tap on the
door, and old Goodfield walks in. I
was kind o’ surprised to see him, but I
didn't say nothin’ 'rept ’Good evenin’,’
and all of a sudden he says. ‘Do you
know how much money I’m worth?
WORK OF ARMY RAG
PICKERS DANGEROUS
By HENRY WOOD
(United Press Staff Correspondent.)
WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES,
March 21. —Cleaning up batilefields has
now become one of the Lie! I ■ organiz
ed and perfected auxiliary services
of the French army.
The amount of material saved in
this way for the future use of the
army amounts to hundreds of thou
sands of dollars a month. It is one
of the most effective “efficiencies"
that the present war has produced.
Paradoxical as it may seem there
is nothing that produces a more pain
fv; impression on the occasional per
son who is allowed to wander over a
battlefield just after an attack than
the great quantities of highly per
fected war material that lie scatter
ed about with seemingly a reckless
waste an dprofusion The dead bodies
both of the enemy and the attacking
troops do not produce the same pain
ful degree of impression.
There is this difference. The dead
soldiers have done their duty and their
role is ended. But all this material
was made through long hours of
sweat and labor, and toil to be used
in saving the fatherland and here it is
all lying j n great quantities unused
about a dead battlefield, having unful
filled its purpose and having served
no end.
It is the thought of this great waste
of human genius, of human skill, of
human toil that produces the painful
impression—or rather that did pro
duce it in the early days of the war.
Now nothing goes to waste on the
battlefield. With the great cost and
difficulty of manufacturing war ma
terial, with the steady decrease in the
worlds supply of material from
which these things are made, France
at least, sees to it that nothing falls
short of serving the purpose of which
it is made.
Hardly have the troops passed for
ward in an attack than a second army,
usually of aged territorials follows it
into the battlefield and begins the
cleaning up process. Sometimes their
companions call them the “rag-pick
ers of the army”, and sometimes the
*' divers of spoils,” but in the pres
ent official organization of the French
army they rank as a very important
corps
Their work, too is often as danger
ous as that of the troops who dash to
the assault as not only have they to
handle abandoned explosives of the
most perilous kind to touch but often
enough their work has to be carried
Bv BOOTH TARKINGTON
Os the Vigilantes.
“He said It just like that —nothin’
before it —and I said, ‘For the Lord's
sake, Mr. Goodfield, what’s the mat
ter?’ He looked kind of funny to me.
“ ‘l'm worth a hundred and twenty- ‘
four thousand three hundred and six
ty-three dollars and fifty-one cents,’
he say’s.
- ‘Well, by Orry !’ I says.
“Well, sir, he begun to pant like
he’d been runnin’ up a hill; be got to
heavin’ like a winded horse; then he
begun to cry and sob like a woman
that’s all excited when some one’s just
died. ‘Well, by Orry!’ 1 says. ‘You
better set down and quiet yourself,’ I
says. ‘What's the matter?
“‘I got to die,’ he says. ‘1 been
sick,’ he says. ’I been sick and I got
to die!’
“‘Well,’ I says, ‘we all got to die.'
“He kep’ straight on cryin’ and
pantin’ and sobbin’.
“ ‘Yes,’ he says, but 1 never knowed
I had to! 1 never knowed it before I
was sick. I kind o’ thought I wouldn’t
reely teas to, when it come right down
to it
“‘We’re all fixed that way,' I says.
‘We all got to have some sickness we
won’t get over.’
“Well, sir, he let out a yell that just
about rose my hair. The rest of you
ain’t got a hundred and twenty-four
thousand three hundred and sixty
three dollars and fifty-one cents!’ he
hollers. ‘And 1 got to die!’ he says;
and he kep' on kind of shoutin’ it. ‘I
got to die! I got to die! I got to
die!’ And then he pitches over before
I could catch him and fell down on a
couple o’ busted lobster traps.
“Ole Cap. Whitcomb, he woke up in
his shack next door and put on some
clo’es and come tn, lookin’ scared to
death. Him and me picked G<mml
- up off the traps and got him
■ home, half earryin’ hrm. and him kind
of whimperin' and slobberin’ right on
to when we left him doubled up on a
rickety chair at his own house.
“Next day he was around, just
about the same as ever, and never
i said nothin’ about nothin’, and the
i week af’.'«r that he took Fred Owens’
on under a terrific bombardment.
’But they do it as heroically,as sto
ially and as methodically as do their
brother territorials who carry the
hot soup up the the fighting line
through a barrage of machine gun
fire, shrapnels and high explosives.
First there the unused French shells
which the batteries and trench mor
tars had to abandon as they dashed
forward. Sometimes they lie in piles
of a half dozen or more and sometimes
scattered singly about. But everyone
G e > eedingly valuable for the metal
of which it is made, for the high ex
plosives it contains, for the skill and
ni:i- that has gone into the con
struction of its highly perfected fuse
and mechanism. Less delicately made
t r ench bombs and areial torpedoes are
likewise gathered up
More dangerous are the unexploded
German shells, which lie scattered
about They may explode at the first
human touch, but nevertheless they
must be gathered up both for the re
moval of such a menace and for the
value of the material they contain.
Then come the hand grenades. These
may have been abandoned, or drop
ped by the “poilu" as he dashed for
ward to the assault. Or agains they
nay be unexploded ones, either
French or Germans, w’hich may still
go off at the first touch. But they
must be gathered up.
In another pile are heaped up the
steel helmets gathered from the field.
They again may have fallen from the
head of soldier in heat of a charge
or may have fallen to the ground as
tbe wearer himself fell pierced with
a bullet.
’ On every battlefield hundreds of
t thousands of rifle cartridges, both ex
ploded and unexploded He scattered
about. These must be gathered up one
at a time, often under a heavy artil
lery fire.
| Then there are the bayonets or
( rifles that the soldier may have been
forced to abandon or that fell from
his nerveless hands as his life ebbed
I
away. But no matter how how they
came to be there, they must be saved
After this comes the knapsacks, the
canteens, the straps, the old shoes,
the caps, the coats, the overcoats, the
( thousand and one different things that
(lie in the trail of thousands of men
who have dashed forward in a hell
: where no attention can be paid to
anything except to attain the object
assigned and still live if possible.
Cite Prisoner For Rescuing Guard.
PARIS, May 8. —A German prisoner
( named Friedrich has been officially
( congratulated and cited by the mili
tary authorities for bravely rescuing a
guard from drowning in the Seine at
the risk of his own life.
AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
! boat in for a debt, and you couldn’t
' told there was anythin’ the matter
with him. What I mean, you couldn't
1 told nothin’ on him in daytime, but
’ after dark he’d go shamblin’ all
around the village, and then when it
got late, if he see a light somewheres,
he'd go in there and have a spell just
the same he had with me. Scared
; people with them spells, he did.
The Last of Goodfield’s Money.
" ‘Long about September his wife up
and supprised everybody, because she
went to all the expense of havin’ the
old man declared insane and hauled
off to the asylum. He cut his throat
■ with a piece of broken bottle up there,
and the funniest thing happened—they
found the old woman dead the same
afternoon in their house here. The
court gave the estate to a trust com
pany, and 1 guess that was the end of
1 old Goodfield's hundred and twenty
four thousand three hundred and six
ty-three dollars and fifty-one cents.
“Well, sir, you know all that about
old Mr. and Mrs. Goodfield made a
kind of a sensation, as you might call
it, and there was quite a good deal of
thinkin’ and talkin’ about it here in
the village. There was some that
claimed they figgered out how it all
was meant to mean somethin’.
“Anyway, when the call come from
Halifax last December we sent off
mighty near half a carload of first
rate clothin' right in a few hours, and
there was two hundred and seventy
odd dollars susscribed just in the vil
lage, and you know there wasn’t hard
ly any of us real sure we could see
the winter through ourselves.
“Yes, I’ll put my name down for the
Red Cross, ami I’ll shell out. I guess
you won’t have much trouble gittin’
susscriptious from the rest, either.
> We got a good many boys from here
over there now, and we wouldn't like
to think of ’em shot and lavin’ out in
the fields twistin' around and nobody
to tend 'em because us at home hadn’t
found out yet that it’s a mistake to
think we’re still goin' to have our sav
in’s right nice and with us when we’re
dead I"
mOOHCEMEHTS
To The People of the Southwestern
Judicial Circuit:
I respectfully announce myself a
’ candidate for the office of Solicitor
-1 General of the Southwestern circuit
in the coming state primary. I prom
ise, if elected, to perform the duties of
die office, to the best of my ability, and
a strict accord with the obligations
im posed by law upon the holder of
this responsible position.
I A’ill greatly appreciate the support
j cf the people of this circuit in the com
ing primary. G. Y. HARRELL.
.To the Voters of the Southwestern
Judicial Circuit:
I hereby announce my candidacy
for election to the office of sollcitor
■ general of the Southwestern judicial
j circuit, subject to the Democratic pri
; mary, to be held on the second Wed
uesday in September.
I will appreciate your support, and,
f elected. I promise to discharge the
iuties of this office with fidelity and to
the best of my ability.
Respectfully,
ZACK CHILDERS.
To the voter of the Southwestern
judicial Circuit:
I beg leave to announce my candi
dacy for office of Solicitor General, in
September primary.
If elected I shall perform, with cour
age and fidelity the duties fixed by
law upon the holder of this office.
My conception is that there can be'
such policy of its administration, as (
that the office will stand as a menace (
to wrong-doing, and as well, a posl
tire aid and encouragement <x> con ,
strnctive good and peace to tbe coun
ties of the circuit.
Every effort will be made to make
practical realization of this concep
tion.
Opportunity for extended service is
the strongest reason for this decision
Will sincerely appreciate and try l
bard to justify any confidence an in j
terest shown tn my race
Respectfully,
JULE FELTON.
To The Voters of The Southwestern
Judicial Circuit:
I hereby announce my candidacy
for the office of Solicitor General for
the remainder of the unexpired term
of the late Hon. J. R. Williams, the
election to take place tn the Septem
ber primaries.
I have been filling by appointment
the first part of said term and am
new asking to be permitted to
serve the remaining two years there
UIIISON MS OVER
JAPE OMIMII
TOKIO, May 8. “The Japanese
government is perfectly aware that.
the most momentous consequences, ;
but the people may rest assured that
Japan will never embark on an un- :
necessary war. We will not hesitate'
to go*to war to uphold the interests,
of Japan, as well as the Allies, but
such a step ha snot yet been justl
ged.
This statement, made by Premier
Count Terauchi in the National Diet,
may be taken as a pretty accurate
summary of Japan’s attitude toward
Russia and the possibility of Japan
ese intervention. This calm declara
tion of the premier, coupled with the
aypathetic policy of President Wilson
and the United States toward Russia,
has just about quieted the clamor for
an immediate Japanese military ex
pedition to Siberia which was re
sounding throughout the island empire
but a few days ago.
Indeed it is remargable, now that the
idea of hasty action in throwing a mil
lion troops into Asiatic Russia seems
to have been abandoned, to recall the
situation a fortnight ago. A coun
trywide mobilization order was expect
ed momentarily, reservists had been
directed t o remain at their homes,
wild rumors of landing at Vladivo
stok were reported and the newspa
per correspondents were preparing to
hie themie>c« toward the frozen
banks of th’ Amur.
Whispers cf war, made with bated
breath and lowering eyebrows, spread
from the columns of the press to the
little one-storied homes and shops of
Tokio; there was something in the
omnious ilent tenseness felt on the
eve of the Russo-Japanese conflict over
e decade ago. There was no emotion,
no fear—the Japanese are taught to
conceal their feelings—but there was
a grim recognition that the bloody
hand of Mars was about to descend
upon the Land of the Gods. If you
were a newspaper man, a dignified Lil
liputian ■policeman, with flowing mus
ache and clanking sabre, marched into
_ your office almost nightly with writs
prohibiting the movements, the delib
erations of the foreign advisor coun
cil, or other matters considered of
•grave importance to the welfare of the
Empire,
1 A large section of the press, aided
by talkative statesmen, publicists and
1 professors, loud voiced their impati
ence at the seeming dilatoriness of
L the government in sounding the call
to arms. It was even hinted that the
‘ American attitude was responsible for
! preventing the salvation of Russia and
the crushing of the German menace
’ by Japan.
I It’s different now'. Overnight, al
-1 Dost, came the realization that a mil
itary expedition to Siberia might in
many ways be impracticable, that the
German menace was yet a long ways
1 from the Orient and that there might
be ways of saving Russia other than
r invading her territory, with the risk
' that she would be thrown in the wait
* Ing arms of Germany Domestic op
position to intervention developed,
there was talk of a ministerial crisis.
| Tonnage, finances and other items
’ forced themselves to the front.
1 j Most important, however, of the fact
-1 ors which determined calmness in
dealing with Russia was probably Am
erica. It is now recognized in the
' most responsible quarters that the '
j United States is not opposed to inter
vention in principle, nor does she
, question Japan’s motives, but that she
does not wish to run the risk of arous
ing Russian hostility against armed
intervention unless the German pene
tration eastward makes such a policy
absolutely imperative. It is a’ao ap
preciated that if the dispatch of Japan
ese troops should become inevitable
Japan would be backed in her move
ment by every ounce of aid America
could give her. In the meantime, Pre-
Jmier Count Terauchi is endeavoring to
j steady the restive elements.
TO PAY FARM HANDS ON
PROFIT-SHARING BASIS
PIERRE,S. D., May 8. —Farmers of
( South Dakota are arranging to pay
( their help on the profit-sharing basis.
I The average wage scale for farm
hands now runs $55 a month, with
board, room and laundry. In wheat
growing sections, a sliding scale of
SSO minimum; $55 for wheat of ten
bushels to the acre; s6o if it goes
over 15 bushels to the acre and $65
if it goes over 20 bushels is being
considered.
of. If elected I shall give to the office
the same conscientious and painstak
ing attention that I have heretofore
given it, and I shall sincerely appre
ciate the endorsement and support of)
the people Gt this circuit. Respect- J
felly JOHN A. FORT.
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