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PAGE SIX 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. Can’t sleep! Can’t eat! 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