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Show A TALE WITH A STRONG MORAL fanner0 J' A,,rKU,,s W,,H " I'"iitouh ofHe saved money and got to be well Ho bought his Bluff nt the store in oii and so did his neighbors. Almost oery tiny Henry drove to whleh0h,Wl,,,,,u ,0ai1 " WMiethliKi which ho sold und then "visited nrouii," Wnh hlll 1K.,Bltbora j,;1," j""l his brother rnr.ners. wl,". ke hlinseir. drove In often and'Tt wm!!1 Mi curao 80'otlnies m-vi, uVi,S "'''' n,ul "oelnblc mid ov-n ov-n 'vTCr10 T ."Vfrybody else, llenij J Aufgang had n telephone In his house and a rural rree .1,. verv rt1n lroiiKlit lilm u dally paper rrom 'he big cities every day , T '"II up the doctor In town If u folks took Hlek or he could i ( , 1 'phone und take some In to sell if tho price was right. One day ho got a catalog from n iniill order house" and rend what It isald about saving monoy by buying of (lie big concern (which was many Morlos high according to the picture on the cover of the cntalog nnd employed em-ployed thousands and thousands of people). henry thought as he read the catalog cata-log "IJuslnesii la business," ho snld, nnd sent In an order for n stove i to his rrlcnd, the storekeeper In the town, who In tho past trusted him nnd credited cred-ited him when ho wns hard up, but to tho man ho had never seen tho mnn who ran tho mall order houeo In tho big city. j "HusliiesB Is business." Henry got his stove. One or tho legs wns loose wouldn't fit. His rrlcnd, tho blacksmith black-smith lu town, fixed it. Ho ordered his clothes and his hats and his shoes mid his wagons nnd hla furnlturo nnd his cm pets and his crockery nnd his boots nnd bIiocb und rubber boots from the mull order house. "Huslntvs la business." Mnny or his neighbors followed hn example "business Is business." Honry had been so busy getting In the crop nnd sending orders to tho mnll order houso thnt ho forgot nil about going to town ror soino months. Ono day ho thought bo would tnko In 8onio dressed poultry nnd fresh okkb mid visit 'round. Ho called up tho storekeeper to find tho prlco or his stuff. Contral said "lino disconnected," and Henry wondered. Finally he went out and hitched up. Went to town; didn't seem to bo much doing tliorc. Drovo to tho storo It wns closed! Went over to tho furnlturo atorc closed, too. So was tho drug storo; also tho hardware store nnd tho hotel and restaurant didn't look prosperous. "Nobody mnkea tho town now," snld tho hotel mnu to Henry. "Business too poor town going back stores nil closed." Honry sought his rrlond, tho blacksmith black-smith yes. ho wns doing business nt tho old stand. "Whnt'n tho matter with tho town?" Inquired Aufgnng. "Nothln'," Bald tho blacksmith, "except "ex-cept n lot or crnzy peoplo nround hero nnvo tnken tho notion thnt they don't need nny town nnd nro Bonding all their monoy nwny to millionaires who run tho catalog houses. Course they've' got to como to mo nnd I'm heresyct JUBt because tho ontnlog fellows haven't have-n't dovlsctl wnys nnd means for shoo-'"? shoo-'"? I'orseB by mnll. Hut when they do III hnvo to fly too." Honry was astounded. "Why, I'd no Idea ," ho commenced. CoursQ you hadn't," rejoined tho jilnckhmlth. "Coursojou hadn't; you hndn t nn Iden. You don't think. Well, you had better do bo now. Where are you going to soil your butter and eggs? Can you sell 'em to tho mnll order houses? ou enn get rid or your wheat at tho olovntor, but you won't hnvo any run nny more In this town visiting with your neighbors 'causo thero Isn't nny town nnd tho peoplo you used to know hnvo nil gono nwny to somo plnco where thoy enn mnko n living, Pretty soon the town will bo nil sone. Then your good ronds will bo gone, too. And you can't bring your " , fowolry ami castings to town to be repaired, ir your mall order shoca ; don't lit you'll just nntur-nll nntur-nll have to squeeze your rcet and bear It. If youP mall order cothes which you buy 'sight unseen' aren't what you want, what are you going o lo about it?" h h ,0 The blacksmith paused. It was a ioMAu8rg2 fr hlm n"d u h"" K" "HiiHlneas Is business," flimlly said Henry. "Vcs, and foollBhncss Is foollBh-ncBS," foollBh-ncBS," niiBwered bis rrlcnd. "You may think it's business to kill off your town, but I don't. Think It over, Henry, think it over." Ilcnty did "think it over" na ho droc slowly homeward with tho dressed poultry and eggs which he had Intended to sell lo hla friend, the itorckeeper. As he neared tho house hla lips moved. "Business la business," ho snld to himself, "nnd Bclf-preservntlon is nature's first law. We've got to preserve our town nnd our neighborhood neighbor-hood nnd our good rondB. Thnt'a business." |