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Show THE YANKEE PRODIGAL SON. Boy Leaves Home Pennlleia, Returna with Fatted Calf. Ware, Moss. Unllko the prodigal son who returned to eat his fatlier's calf, Arthur Ovens, tho 19-year-old son of Mr. nnd Mrs. James Ovens of this town, who disappeared tho night of May 11, penniless and with only tho clothes ho wore, returned to his home at 11 o'clock ono Sunday night recent ly, and brought tho fatted calf with him ln the shapo of a pair of four year-old steers weighing moro than 3,000 pounds. Ho also brought n U Arthur Ovens and His Ox Team. brand-new dump-cart and about $300 as n peace offering. Tho boy says that when ho left homo It was with a determination to convince his father that ho could do better If allowed to havo his own way In tho matter of trading than by spond-all spond-all of his tlmo tilling tho soil. His first fow days woro of a strenuous nature. Ilclng without funds, ho felt tho pangs of hunger many times, but after traveling trav-eling several days ho met Fred Foster, Fos-ter, a lumberman nnd cattle dealor of Warner, N. II., who gavo him a Job driving cattle from place to place and allowed him to trade on his own account. ac-count. For his first week's wages ho took a yearling heifer, and be f oro ho renched tho next town ho had traded It for a carriage. Tho carriage was hitched behind tho team that followed tho cattlo, and was sold before, he had go no flvo miles further for about four times what (he heifer cost him. This was tho beginning of his trading after he loft homo, and ho continued to trade until he thought ho had enough to convince his father that ho knew his business. Mr. Ovens says ho Is convinced. Tho trip took nearly a week, and the boy says they averaged 2G miles a day. |