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Show "I'm 'just back from Massieville," remarked the cheerful citizen. "Ever hear of Massieville t Well, I didn't suppose you had. Not many men have, unless they were born within fifteen or twenty miles of the place. The way I happened to hear of it was .that I was born there, right in the place, and I lived there till I wae 16. v "I was graudated from the. Massieville Massie-ville public schools in 1879 or, to be strictly acurate, fr-nn t'ie Massieville public school and last week I had a lonesome fit for Massieville, one of the entertainment of our citizene ana i for the cultivation of their minds. But most of all, I demanded factories, factories fac-tories to give employment to the idle, to draw the workman frem the erewd! ! . cities, to put into circulation the money that was- to badly seeded in Mas-1 sieville. "We reached Massieville. all right.; Honestly, it hadn't changed a hair, not ' one. hair. Same houses, same facs, same hitching posts,: same trees tame everything. I Jumped out of the bug-1 gy and walkad into the village store kapfi. by leas, Copptnger,. ana. of. my old. "I Was There With Both Feet on the Ground." schoolings. He was tickled to death to see me, and I was just as glad to see him. He took me in with-that glorious hospitality of the countryman country-man who meets a boyhood friend, and after supper we sat on the porch and i smoked and talked of old times, especially espe-cially of the class of '79. We talked : about the teacher, the boys and girls. . what they had been doing since school .rf davs, about the commencement night.' J ' 'Jess,' I asked, 'what in your opin- T. ioa does Massieville needt' ' ' 'Need I' said Jess. 'It don't need a blamed thing. ' " those fits that a man over 40 frequently frequent-ly gets 'for his birthplace. I fell to thinking about the commencement exercises ex-ercises when I was graduated, and the more I thought of that great event tho worse I wanted to see what Massio-ville Massio-ville looked like. When I recalled that it was just about time for the class of 1906 to be graduated from the Massieville Mas-sieville public school I couldn't stand it any longer, and the next morning I had the unique distinction of bein the only man in the world bound (or Mm-sieville Mm-sieville on a railroad train. That afternoon af-ternoon I left the train at a punktown station and hired a man to drive me over to Massieville, which alwavs w.is and probably always will be six miles from the railroad. "WelL. on the way over to Massieville Massie-ville I spent every minute thinking about that graduating class of '79. There was 'Hump' Gore. 'Hump's' essay es-say was a corker 4 Altruism the Hope of a Great Republic' That word 'altruism' 'al-truism' was knockout drops for the village, vil-lage, and if there had ever been need of a Mayor in Masaievilla 'Hump' would have been It for springing toe word. The last I heard of 'Hump' he was doing seven years, I believe, in some Pennsylvania or New York prison for forgery or some kind of crooked work with a check. Laura Timson delivered de-livered a redhot oration on 'None hnt Live Fish Swim Up Stream.' Hen Campbell's subject wss 'The Weak Spots in Our Constitution.' Hen showed the signs young. He's a lawyer law-yer now, and I suppose he'll be in the United States Senate sooner or later. "I was next on the list, and I was there with both feet on the ground no airship or cloud sweeping for me. I spoke on 'The Needs of Massieville,' and I don't mind saying right here that if the citizens of Massieville had listened to my advice or had idlowed it. Massieville would now be a city of which any State might be proud. First of all, 1 demanded a street railway. rail-way. I forgot. that one day the winter win-ter before I had stood in front of my home, which was in the north end of the village, and thrown a snowball through the window of the last house in the south end of the place. All I could remember was that Massieville needed a street railway. "I demanded a sewer system,' too. I think I proved clearly that no city could thrive unless its residents had good health, and I showed how the congested condition of Massieville was not only endangering the lives of those within its boundaries, but keeping other oth-er people from locating there. "Then I cried for a good hotel for the accommodation of the traveling public. I pointed out the impossibility impossibil-ity of luring to our fair city the drummer drum-mer we caled them !ri:miuers then who, I declared, was the advance agent of the commercial world. 'How,' I asked, 'can we expect any man to como from our metropolitan centers to engage en-gage in the erection of manufacturing plants unless wc have in our midst a hostelry affording him the eomfortablo accommodations of the magnitiootit hotels ho-tels to which ho has been accustomed? Where would a man find in our beautiful beauti-ful and progressive city a place whore he. might lay his head and where ho might satisfy the prandial craving of the inner mant' "I demanded an opera-housq for |