| Show FIlE FEE AK AI They Are Not All AlilIn in New York Odd Western Journals j New York Mail lall and Express j jIt 1 i It would be a grand thing said Mid the exchange editor in one of or his lucid in intervals j I tervala tenala if some Ome daring person lSOn would publish pub a newspaper new papera real newspaper and print it in ha English h There was wu an angry hiss in the pile of papers in the th corner and each strangulated headline tried to rise and declare that it represented re the real journalism and sud that It was in the Eng BIng English English lish language But the slop slap and slang drowned the hiss and the exchange editor proceeded The freaks are not all in New York nor are the latest late t ideas all aU born here The telegraph places the far western dUes cities as 58 closely ely in touch with the news centers as the New York papers can be be and for that reason the metropolitan papers have lost lo the prestige they once enjoyed S Western papers no i longer look to the east for idea and andas andas andas as a result jesuit they are just as original and just as S ridiculous as some New NewYork Ne NewYork York newspapers The yellow journal flourishes hes In every western city and it is just ju t as audacious and an artistic hIe as it is here Hack writers are not so cheap in inthe Inthe inthe the west so that most of the Sunday I specials are bought bouCht in New York New NewYork NewYork I York papers are clipped cUpped literally literal and thus money is saved to pay fX or r ideas I One idea of or a western paper pa r some years y rs ago was to publish a New Years Y issue dated a century in Ip advance Each re se reporter reporter porter covered his route for that day dayas dayas dayI as it would be covered to his notion a I hundred years hence h Ce The list of acci accidents accidents accidents dents recorded re va S 8 appalling and the court Ourt proceedings society and business events reported r showed that that news newspaper newspaper paper pa er had plenty pleat of ot freak talent The theory of or headlines op on the best papers pa ers is ii that the top ine tine should shOut tell tall I the news There Is one great Western paper whose hose owner has ha a national rep reputation I that reverses this Its top line j is one word usually the most important I I idea a in the item That paper had a two r column olumn headline over ever the report of General Law Lawt tons S death which h was about thus SMILED J AND W OVER THE BREAST BREASTWORKS WORKS I THEN BULLETS SANG I MERRILY ABOUT HIS EARS AND BRAVE GENERAL LAWTON i FELL DEAD That same paper had bad a strange edl edi crial orial column for years It actually published editorials only when it had hadI I art idea worth art an editorial However it t has quit that freakishness and has bas hasso basman I so C many man sticks D cf of editorials a day da now J lust the same as s La other papers palters BO RO mat matter m matter ter whether it has ideas worth edt edi editorials or not TALES OF YANKEE ENCHANTMENT I STORY OF THE BOY jOY WHO NEEDED w mING And His Mother 1 Neglected to Wind Vind Up Copyright by th the Author Au Charles Bat Battell tell You boys who are wound up to run through a whole lifetime and whose machinery so seldom seldom gets Out oot of at order order that js Je if It you are out of or doors a good deal and an dont spend your time read She Put the Pretty Silver Key Into His Bis Neck Meek Necking ing improbable to be able to appreciate the sad ce cue of Jimmy Whortleberry berry of Winchester Mites Jimmy TImmy looked and acted and felt like other boys bo 8 with one exception He had to be wound up like a clock every day Jut Jupt at the back of his neck there was wasa a 8 little keyhole and he h was wound up with a silver key that fitted tt into It Its no use us for you to ask me to ex cx explain explain plain why or how or anything else Some things have hae to be taken on trust If you dont believe this story the first thing Ill ru Wear near is 15 that you have t be believed bethe believed the others and then what would become of or my confidence in myself I Jimmy had a very nry remarkable moth mother I Ier er She was always thinking of Jim Jimmys Jimmys Jimmys mys comfort and Jimmys pleasure and she was so kind to t him that he h actually loved her Now a s great many mothers have to todo todo todo do a 8 good deal for their t lr boy bo They have bave to remember where the tle cap was thrown when the boy came home kome from his play they have to know where he left his skates and an what became of or his top but I never knew of 01 any other mother who had to remember to wind her son up every morning before breakfast You see Ute tie keyhole being in the back of his neck Jimmy reach it himself But his mother was only too glad to keep keen kee the boy going for he was such a 8 cheery eh ry little Jad Jail Up to mischief and dreadfully naughty sometimes but well T worth orth rth winding up for all that It was the funniest performance his winding up I was there the on ott a a visit once and saw Mrs Whortleberry wind him hits She put the pretty silver sliver key into hi hio hie ned nerR and began to turn It It antI artH the blood ran through his veins with a a sweet crinkling noise nola noi that sounded like BIte music boxes miles and ami miles away aw Jimmy always s liked to be wound up It was waa like taking a tonic He wound run and jump and sing Iring sally gaily and act for all aU the world a u as if he had been charged with ith electricity Not halt half the boys bos in Winchester who played plaTed with Jimmy knew that he hud had to be wound up for be he was just ju t as nat natural natural ural uial as any boy and could uld climb and skate and wrestle with the best beet of them One day the boys got up a foot loot race In this they were aided and abetted by old Mr Dixon They were to walk from Winchester to Arlington Center CenterI and back again for a silver medal that I Mr Dixon had promised to the winner Old Mr Dixon is a s gentle gentleman nan man whom all the boys like because he is 1 still sUll a e good deal of a boy himself 1 in spite of his 70 years I think that Jimmy will win if he be run down said Mr Whortleberry Whortleberry berry Run down indeed d said Mr Dixon hotly Jimmy wont run down when he knows it is a walking w kl g match Hell win fair you rou nay may depend upon u It From it D seen n Jimmy was a favorite with the old man manThe manThe The Tl race was to be run rep on a Satur Saturday Saturday day It so 0 happened that the be night before be oe Mrs irs Whortleberry was taken ill iU with an attack of ef VIP Ftp and In the th morning she sh was too tick sick ck to rise She told the maid to wind Jimmy my but the maid was wu a rather feather f ther I braised brained ed creature and aDd forgot all about I it It and ad as for Jimmy Timmy he was so full of or the race that he never nevet neve noticed that h he had not mot been wound Of Ot course just justas justas as it If is I with clocks could run several hours overtime so M h bit Ia was wag able abie to go SO down to breakfast and aud 4 then run ran in ald kiss his hm mother goodbye arid and tell her ber that he be was sorry lOrry that she ahe was too sick to come and see me the start Just as he was leaving the room mom she Jimmy TImmy felt unusually buoyant He H bounded round around until Mr Dixon said Boy if save nAve some of that energy for the race I a doubt but win the medal Elgin Eight Waltham knew that Jimmy had to be wound up and he said Did they wind you yeu extra e tra tight Jimmy I Jimmys mys fp aee went white mite bite as u it struck him that he lie had not been wound at atall atall atall all but he thought hed probably probably ably get through all right BO eo he said saM nothing But h he stopped jumping and said Lets hurry up and get to the library There Thero was as quite a crowd of or Win Winchester Winchester Winchester chester people at t the library for the local paper had hod contained a 8 notice of or orthe the coming race and as a It was Satur Saturday Saturday Saturday day nobody in town t wn had bad anything to todo todo todo do That is Is nobody who counts for tor anything I believe some of the grown grownups grownups grownups ups did have some dome work to attend to but after all what are grownups Only children who have outlived their usefulness have great times when you grow up and some of ot you wont regret that you are no longer children but I tell you that when a fellow is a boy bo everything is fresh and new and he know kno it all even if he sometimes thinks he does When he grows up he know it all either but he certainly does know that he was awfully lucky to have had a boyhood and the more he keeps his memory on it the better time he will have right up to the end of or the chapter At 10 old DId Mr Dixon started them off It was to be a square heel heeland heeland and toe walk and for O a 8 block they the kept pretty prett close together Then Jimmy TImmy and Elgin began be n to walk away from the others and it began to look AS ae if it I were going to lie between them But its ire a a long way to Arlington and some ome of ot the boys boS were reserving ng their force for the end emI of the contest so there was I hope even for plodding Dorchester Mod Med Medford ford who at the Ute end of the first mile mUe 11 was two blocks in the rear of the pro S 1 Mr Dixon had hired a wagon n and he heAre heAre 1 L S Are You Wound up Jimmy J She Called S rode along cheer the bj ys urging urgIng ing lag them to do their best Say thin thi is Ie be dhul easy said aid Jimmy TImmy It lies between me ne e and you and I bet Ill win He mid and Elgin were neck neck c have tb tao take an electric to do doit doIt doIt it then said Elgin with spirit Any Anyhow Anyhow how a boy wound up ought ou to go faster f utter than a plain every day boy bey I dont think it was fair to let you in Again Jimmys heart beart sank What if Jr he should run down He felt all alt Ight but he knew that when he stopped hed stop all aU at once and without any warn warning warnIng warning ing Dolt Dorit talk Wk walk said he shortly U and pegged away his lithe little legs swinging i back c and forth with the regu they reached Arlington Med Mod Medford MedI ford had crept up to fourth place and I Somerville Newton was neck and neck with Elgin but Jimmy had gained the lead and was steadily increasing it Across the tracks they went and around the station and back hack across the tracks old Mr Dixon cheering ch lustily lu Uly and growing almost apoplectic apo with his exertions Its Jimmys race ra he shouted anti and any one could co tell that he be was 98 glad Well Veil Jimmy was a general favorite and next to winning winDing it himself 1 I guess gu every boy would rather have seen neen Jimmy win it than any auy one else e I The pace began be n to tell tea on them all alt allon allon alton on the way back blick but they were game lads and while the old gentleman g rode along as pacemaker they would not have given up if the way had been ten tiniest times as long They were all Mama Massa Massachusetts chu etts boys and there are no boys to beat those unless a it is l the boys boy of oC the rest of the United States State They were within t r quarter of a mMe of or the home stretch when Jimmy to slacken his pace This encouraged Medford ledford who bad been gradually grad ally work working ing ln his hia way up in the procession and ande tie e passed pa Somerville had long ago distanced Elgin Elgia and steadily ad advanced advanced advanced until he was waa within a red of or S I I Ce r ra i t l a u I t BUT THE HAD ITS LIMIT OP OF R RUNNING G celled out t Are you wound up Jim JimI I but uti was w half halfway way downstairs doW 1 S hy by that time and bear hear her He Het I put t on his l cap and started off at a dog trot tor for Mr lr Dixons house for that was to be the meeting place for forthe forthe forthe the contestants There were Chelsea Concord and Dor Dorchester chester cheater Medford and Elgin EI and Somerville omerville Newton and aud Ids his broth brother er Center Newton Old Mr Dixon was ia in I tiptop spirits and gave each eack of the boys bo an orange orance A die rhe start was to be made from the thi Winchester library and to P g t the line of the trolley road cad to t ton tori turning at the th railroad station n nand and earning back over ores the uie e same route ro te Jimmy I I It had been a 8 remarkably rem close race mcd mc and no fi one oner on Had dropped oat You should hays bays seen Mr Dixons face taco when be he saw his favorite losing ground As for Elgin EltrIn he h was so en Sn encourage courage that he be broke into a run and andor of or course lost his hie chance of ot winning For one brief brier moment Jimmy thought that he had run down but when he re realized realized that he move a step af at atter ter the machinery had stopped he be gave and increased his lead by three threet f et There was now just an eighth of a amile amne anub mile nub left and the race looked to be Jim Jimmys mys for Medford was walking hi hl his prettiest and gain gaiT an inch oc OJ the leader jl The beautiful building of ot the Win I chester cheater library is now in sight A A crowd of Winchesters best citizens are I standing there waving Sags flags and cheer cheerIng cheering Ing lug Jimmys father lather the num nuts number number ber Jimmy sees him hint and alid wishes that his mother might be there too Five Fl hundred feet nwe and Jimmy will be champion championS But the mechanism had h reached t its limit S of running The maid had bad lost t the race for him in the road he lie dropped di his arms anna moving spasmodically once on or twice his legs lees kicked a I little Utile and he lay an inert moss mass nia on the macadam m J JAnd 5 And then Medford did a very noble thing Disdaining the ft fUt that it was wok now his race rac b cropped r out o t and stooped to pick up JImmy a ai 1 Somer yule Newton walked ia lq over ver line and won the medal amid the perfunctory perfunctory tory cheers of the A doctor ran up to t Jimmy but Elgin Eight Waltham said Youre Y Youre ure not what he wants he wants a akey key I ma 1 but Elgin started for 0 m ms house to get the Uie key and ran plump Into Mr Whortleberry u uThe The key the th key ke he he gasped Jimmys father had bad seen hIS son fall fail falland falland failand and like every other member menther of or the Whortleberry family he Ite carried a key that would fit the lads neck He ran rari to the boy and said sakI to the doctor I am his father He only oaly needs needa winding That doctor was the most astonished physician in eastern Massachusetts but he said nothing The bystanders saw Mr Whortleberry Insert the key and then they heard a faint Int and mu sisal sound which as I have said was Jimmys blood coursing through his veins and then the boys bos legs began beganI I s sHe He Rose Hose to His Feet Peet to work back and forth and his arms arias armsto armsto to pump and he rose to his feet and went vent on with the race Jimmy boy said saig his father sadly the race is over It would have been yours if only you had been wound up Poor Jimmy realised then thea what had happened and being a boy even did have mechanism inside of him in instead stood steed of vitals he burst bur into tears And then occurred a 8 pretty scene acetic Somerville Newton went up to Mr who was hastening to shake hands with Jimmy and he said in a s aloud aloud loud voice so that all aU could hear fIr I dont think we ought to call caU this thle a race If Id known knowl Jimmy wound up U Id never have entered Say we have haveit it again next Saturday SaturdayS S Hooray shouted d all the boys in including eluding old Mr Di en |
