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fMKN Tom left the farm to
go to the city to make-his
fortune he did it. contrary
to the ominous head
shaking and pbopljecies
of disaster of all the
neighbors. Even his fa
ther and mother, with past
years of toil rapidly be
ginning to tell upon them, were pes
simistic of his chances of success, nor
could they resist expressing their fore
bodings.
The old folks loved their boy too
well to reproach him for his desertion
now In the first liusli of ids young
manhood, but their hearts did ache at
thought of the separation.
"You’ll soon get tired of all that
hurly-burly there in 1 lie city, Tom,”
his old father told him. "And when
you do, 1 want you always to remem
ber that we’ve still got a place for you
back here at the old homestead. It
mayn’t be as tine and showy as lots
yob'll see there in the city, but it’s
more the sort that the good Lord In
tended you for. Mn and I are hoping
the best for you, son, but —when you
do find out that your fortune’s not
away oil’ there—Just pocket your pride
and come back hero to us who love
>ou.’’
So young Tom left the farm with
shining eyes and a high heart and ad
ventured into the great, far-away city
In quest of fame and fortune.
How lie fared there and all the sor
ry disappointments that repeatedly
overtook him during that year of ab
sence would be a long and harrowing
story to tell. He chased Ills rainbow
to Its end, yet found the fabled pot of
gold not there as he had so confidently
and blatantly expected.
Tom made applications for nil sorts
of office positions only to find himself
quickly rejected because of his lack
of experience In those specific line
"Well, anyway, Tin young and hus
ky and used to hard manual labor,”
Tom consoled himself. “I can at least
get a job with a contracting gang, ns
n painter, or plumber’s assistant, or
teamster. That w ill suffice to keep me
going for a while until the sort of po
sition 1 want turns up.”
Hut even In those lines of work the
greenl country boy found himself sud
denly'brought up short against u blank
wall. He had no references ns to past
cits employment and nobody would
hire him n,fter once finding out that he
bad no union card.
Huddled In Ids shabby overcoat on
a street corner in the squalid section
of the elty—the Icy wind whistling
around him and biting through his
threndtmre garments—poor Tom stood
on tlie evening before Christians, won
dering where he might find a shelter
In which to sleep that night without
freezing.
Just how long li<‘ Imd stood there,
shivering In the chill wind on the
street corner—bitterness against the
great, unfeeling city rankling in his
heart—Tom did not know, lie was
startled from Ills moody reverie by
hearing a hoarse, wheedling voice at
his very elbow, saying what was In
tended as a confidential tone:
”1 low’d y'like a nice liot feed anil
some coin to jingle in yer pants, bo?
Ain’t hungry, are yn?”
Whirling about, Tom saw that his
accoster was an under-sized, burly fel
low with a tough, truculent visage and
hands shoved deep into the side pock
ets of Ids coat. He wore n battered
cap with the visor pulled low down
over ids eyes and spat malevolently
upon the sidewalk each time before he
spoke.
"Mow’d y’like the idea, huh?” lie re
iterated In Ids raucous, grating voice,
sidling closer ns lie spoke mid casting
a wary eye up and down t lie nearly
deserted, gloomy, wind-swept street.
Tom regarded him with distaste and
undisguised mistrust. He looked like,
a typical thug, llut misery cannot be
too fastidious about the company It
keeps. Finally Tom scowled blackly
and answered:
“What's that to you, anyway?”
"Well, you’re outta luck, ain’t eha,
pal? Yer on yer uppers, stony broke
and maybe with an empty belly, too,
huh, bo? Well, I guessed that much.
I ain’t blind yet, I ain’t! Well, 1
need a pal for a little job tonight and
we both can make a lottu jack out of
It, see?"
"You—you mean—burglary?” Toro
muttered hesitantly, with an involun
tary contraction of Ids heart.
“Humph 1 Not anything like safe
cracking or breaking into a house. 1
dou’t. Too many people staying up
with the kids over Christmas trees to
night. 1 ain’t keen on takin’ fool
chances like that, I’m fellin’ ya! Naw,
this 1 wanteba for is something soft:
safe and easy as failing off a log. You
know the big prices people are willing
to pay for real booze since the coun
try went dry, don't eha? Weil, right
near here 1 know a certain warehouse
that’s got 20 cases of whisky stored In
the basement. Real bonded stuff!
The watchman Is an old pal o’ mine
and is willing to let us swipe it If
we'll split ou the coin we get ttfter
rwards. I’ve got another guy With li
ifllvver that’s ready to meet us about 2
o’clock tlds morning to haul away the
stuff as fast as we pass it up to him
through the alley windows. We’ve
got It all framed for u fake capture
and tying up of our other fail, the
night wutehman, so that the bulls can’t
get wise to Idm. We’re willing to split
four ways on the swag if y’ wanta go
in on it. with us. Whalcha snv now,
bo, huh? Safe and easy as falling off
a log!”
The sinister appearance of the ruf
fian repelled Tom, and the very
thought of tlie crime they contemplat
ed struck him with frigid. If. meant
Jail, disgrace, if they were caught.
“But I—X never have done any
thing like that in my life,” lie stnm
' roe red weakly, teeth chattering in tlie
biting wind. “It would lie criminal.
'The whisky doesn’t belong to us. It
would be illegal for us even to try to
sell it afterwards.”
“I’uh!” spat tlie ugly-visaged man,
sneerlngly. "You look pretty, u bird
like youse, talking that way about
wliat’s lawful and all that! Lots that
.these rich guys have cared how you
got along since you came to town,
from 1 lie looks of you! They’ve got
fine, warm homes and coin and every
thing. Wotta they care whether poor
bums like us have to go hungry *r
freeze in the gutter on Christinas eve?
(Why should you care about them when
they don’t give a rap about you?
You’ve got to go on living, ain’t clia,
hull?”
Tom hunched Ids shuddering shoul
ders against tlie wind, trembling as
much because of his own moral irreso
lution as from tlie terrible cold.
“Well, bo, how about, it? Are y’
on or uro y’ still so almighty particular
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"How’d Y’Like the Idea, Huh?”
about 'how y’ handle the stuff belong
ing In all them rich guys?"
"God!’’ groaned poor Tom in tlie
abyss of ids wretchedness. “Yes, I'll
do it! I will! I will!”
The other clapped him roughly on
the shoulder with a siituniine leer and
attempt at Jocular fellowship.
“Well, 1 thought elm would,” lie
rasped hoarsely. “We'll meet dm at
the corner by tlie lumber yard at 1:30.
.Don’t you fail to he there now!”
“I won't! I’ll be there all right!"
Tom muttered brokenly. Already in
Ids cringing soul lie felt like the thief
he hud pledged himself to become. Oh
heaven, If only—
To kill time until the appointed
hour, lie dug Ids numb hands deeper
‘down Into Ids pockets and wandered
'aimlessly on. He had no particular
objective in mind save only the need
;to keep moving lest he freeze or go
'mad with the strain of waiting, lie
UhVank from letting himself think of
•the deed to which lie was about to he
jparty.
Involuntarily Ids dragging footsteps
took him back into the more brilliant
ly lighted retail shopping district,
where tlie crowds already had thinned,
hurrying home to their families and
happy, expectant kiddies with tlie holi
day celebration in mind.
The hours dragged slowly by. It
came near tlie hour for tlie stores to
close. Hut still there was time, if
poor Tom had only Imd money, to
have rushed in, bought the presents
|he wanted for tlie old folks and chil
dren, and caught tlie midnight train
hack to tlie country. Ho easily could
reach there by morning and appear as
a joyous surprise to them —
llut ah ! Why drive himself to dis
traction by thinking of that when
there was no chance that—
And right then, suddenly, he espied
it lying there, almost at his very feet—
a ldg, fat wallet, with not a person
nearer than a hundred yards of him.
Tlainly someone had lost it in their
mad haste to get home.
Tom stopped and scooped it up like
a flash. Around the corner he surrep
titiously examined it. Bills—both
green and yellow, of large denomina
tions—they fairly stuffed it! There
were seven hundred doiiars or more!
—a small fortune to the miserable boy
who had not even eaten for fourteen
hours. Money! Money! Money!
Far more than he possibly could ueed
even In his most extravagant dreams.
With a gurgling cry, Tom stuffed the
wad of bills into his trousers pocket,
threw away tlie fine leather purse and
made a mad dash for the nearest de
partment store.
No need now to keep his sinister,
criminal appointment—no more neces
sity for—
* * » * * » «
But the most gladsome feature of
young Tom’s homecoming that next
day was his blushing announcement to
tlie old folks that he had had enough
of the big city; that he had come
home to stay, as they had prayed he
would.
1320, Western Newspaper Union.)
PEARSON ’TRIBENE, PEARSON, GEORGIA, DECEMBER 24, 1020
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A Ford son Tractor on (he farm means more prosperity for the farmer, ft doesn’t mat mj li:Y>rence how you spell that pros
perity —whether it is in increased production; whether it is in the saving that comes from i in . : : horse or a mule; whether
it con sin a release from the drudgery and all-day and all night labor on the farm for K-.i:• man u. ■ i:—because the Fordson
answe s all those problems to the satisfaction of the farmer.
If can't be otherwise. These are the days of progress, and power on the farm is ’ • access,;y. j* ; s only ,i question of what
kind < f power the farmer s going to have, but no farmer with t he facts now before him can question the monetary advantage of
machine power over horse and mule-power. Ihe 'J ractor is the farmers necessity just a- muHi as the sun is a necessity for growing
crops.
All that is necessary for a farmer is to know his Fordson Tractor is familiarly he n; der-Mniis handling a team of horses. He
wants to use the same aim uni of reason and common sense. In the Fordson Tractor i.» <•• ■nc'-ntrated power of eighteen horses, and
as flexible as the movement of your arm —much more flexible than horse control —and h ■ • niparison much more economical
both in service and in keep. Then it will do so many things that horses and mules . i t doesn’t eat when idle.
We don’t believe there is any question in the inind of any farmer as to the m Tractor, but he may have some
doubts as to what make of Tractor,so that is the reason we are putting this advert i- -m rt ■ ; j > r ;,> draw his attention to the
Fordson Tractor, 'this is why we put the above arguements before him, and whs we a to r :e in to our place of busi
ness and view the Fordson Tractor. Let us show him what it has done. Let us pr >v, i„ ; uiority over any other Tractor.
It means more to him than it does to us. When we sell a Tractor, we make asm hen he buys a Tractor he buys a
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TeLs How Ziroti Iren Tonic Helped Hs Daughter
After Operation for Appendicitis.
AFTER any serious Illness, the
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The sooner you get your strength
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Your doctor will tell you this Is
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I°t<ofcssi oqql < ’quels.
VETERINARY Sl' IK I EON.
DR. R. W. BOYCE,
Harvard Graduate,
Twenty years experience In treatment of all
animat#.
Preventive treatment for Hog Cholera.
Tel. No. 28. Wi Li.At’Oot hr.i- . Georgia.
DR. 1!. S. MAL< >NE,
Dentist
Office In Malone Block
PEARSON, HA
WALTER T. DICKERSON.
Attorney and Counselor at Raw.
1 U:\HSI >N ASK UOMKIIVO.I.K. G.V.
Will he In Pearson every Thursday and can
he found at the Clerks Office.
Will practice In all courts State and Federal.
LEON A. HARGREAVES,
Attorney and Counselor,
Pearson, Georgia.
Office In the Pafford Building.
Prompt attention given to business In both
the State and Federal courts.
TALMA DDE S. WINN,
Attorney and Counselor.
Pearson, Georgia.
Will do a general practice.
Office up stairs in tlie Palford building.front
room on the left hand side as you go up.
GEO. 11. MINGLEDORFF,
attorney and counselor,
office in the New Palford Building
Pearson. Georgia
Practice In all the Courts. State and Federal
BEN.T. T. ALLEN
attorney and counselor
Offices In the Allen building,
Pearson, Georgia.
Will do n general practice In state and Fed
era! Courts.
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vice-president of the First National
Bank. Graceville, Fla.: "My daughter
had been in bad health since last April.
She was operated on for appendicitis.
She has been taking Zii a for two
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has been. Her nerves are better, and
she says she feels better ... I know
that Ziron is good for weak and feeble
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