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Show THE iiiiiiniiiiiiiiiixiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiMiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiuii TIMES-NEW- S, mimiiiimimimiiiimiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiitj' ROADS CONSTRUCTED By BOOTH TARKINGTON Copyright by DouHsday, Page THE BOY, FATHER OF THE MAN. Here's another of those Booth stories Tarklnttton and that aeit everyone laughing days of youth. living over again the like "Penrod" Is much Thi one and "Seventeen" and "The Oriole. It carries It's different, too. In that Dora RamHey Milholland and through school and college life to early maturity In the World War. So It's serious as well as funny, and It's oneUsof BoothThat's kind. best of enough. rl Yo-cu- m CHAPTER I. Johnnie comes marching home again. Hurrah! Hurrah! e'll give him a heurty welcome then, Hurrah! Hurrah! The men with cheers, the boys with shouts, The ladies they will all turn out. And we'll all feel gay, when Johnnie comes marching home again! The old Minn and the little hoy, his grandson, sat together In the (shade of the big walnut tree in the front yard, Vhen watching the "Decoration Pay Parade," as It passed up the long street ; and when the last of the veterans was otit of sight the grandfather murmured the words of the tune that came drifting back from the now distant band at the head of the procession. "Did you. Grandpa?" the boy asked. ."Did I what?" "Did you all IVel gay when the ans,y got home?" "It didn't get home all at once, precisely,,'!.--ttie grandfather explained. -- "When the war was over I suppose we fell relieved, more than anything else." "You didn't feel so gay when the war was, though, I guess!" the boy ventured. "I guess we didn't." "Were you scared, Grandpa? Were you ever scared the Johnnies would win?" We weren't ever afraid of "No. that." "Weil, weren't you ever scared yourself. Grandpa? I mean when you were In n battle." "Oh, yes; I was." The old man laughed. "Scared aplenty I" "I don't see why," the boy said promptly. "I wouldn't be scared In a battle." "Wouldn't you?" " 'Course not I Grandpa, why don't you march In the Decoration Day parade? Wouldn't they let you?" "I'm not able to march any more. Too short of breath and too shaky In the legs and too blind." "I wouldn't care," said the boy. "I'd be In the parade anyway, If I was you. If I'd been In your place. Grandpa, and they'd let me be In that parade, I'd been right up by the band. I.ook, Grandpa I Watch me, Grandpa ! This Is the way I'd be. Grandpa." He rose from the garden bench where they sat, and gave a complex imitation of what had most appealed to him as the grandeurs of the procession, his prancing legs simulating those of the horse of the grand marshal, while bis upper parts rendered the drums and bugles of the band, an well as the officers and privates of the tiill (tin company which bad been a feature of the parade. The only thing he left out was the detachment of veterans. t "rutty-boo- Putty-boo- I Putty-oom-loo- m boom !" he vociferated, as the drums and then as the bugles: "Ta, ta, ra, tara I" He addressed his restive legs: "Whoa, there, you Whlteyl Gee! Ilawl Git up!" Then, waving an lmnglnary sword : "Col-luni- n right I Karwtid march I Halt! Carry barms!" He "carried arms." "Show-dle- r harms!" He "shouldered arms," and returned to bis seat. "Thal'd be me. Grandpa. That's the way I'd do." And as the grandfather nodded, seeming to agree, a thought receutly dismissed returned to the (nd of the comHslte procession and w-- t asked: "Well, why weren't you ever afraid the Johnnies would whip the Unions, Grandpa ?" "Oh, we knew they couJdn't." "I guess so." The Utile boy laughed disdainfully, thinking Ms question satisfactorily answered. "I guess those nle Johnnies couldn't whipped a flea I They didn't know how to fight any at all, did they. Grandpa?" "Oh, yes, they did!" "What?" The boy was astounded. "Weren't they all Just reg'lar ole cow. ards. Grandpa T" "No," said the grandfather. "They were pretty fine soldiers." "They were? Well, they ran away whenever you began shootln' at 'em, didn't thryT "Sometimes they did, but roost times Sometimes they fought Ihey didn't. like wildcat and sometime ws were ran away." the ones "Hut the Johnnie were oad men, weren't they Grandpa?" tlt "No." The oy's forehead. ctiMotnarlly vacant, showe I some little vertical shadows, produced by a sfnggle to he began slowly. think. "Well. "IJMen, Grandpa.. Ilfn here! You a id you said ' on never cot scared the o'e .Mitinlcf were goln' to win." "They IIJ win pretty often," said Jut" Si Company E iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiizsiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinitiiiin Hie grandfather. "They won a good many battles." "I mean, you said you never got scared they'd win the war." "No, we were never afraid of that." "Well, but if they were good men and fought like wildcats. Grandpa, and kep' winning battles and everything, how could that be? How could you help beln' scared they'd win the war?" The grandfather's feeble eyes twinkled brightly. "Why, we knew they couldn't, Ramsey." At this, the little vertical shadows on Ilnmsey's forehead became more pronounced, for he had succeeded in thinking. "Well, they didn't know they couldn't, did they?" he argued. "They thought they were goin' to win, didn't they?" "Yes ; I guess they did. But you see they were wrong." "Well, but " Itamsey struggled. "Listen! Listen here. Grandpa ! Well, anyway, If they never got scared we'd win, and nobody got scared they'd win well, I don't see " "You don't see what?" But Itamsey found himself unable to continue his concentration. "Oh, nothin' much," he murmured. "I see." And his grandfather laughed again. "You mean : If the Johnnies felt just as sure of winning the war as we did and kept winning battles, why shouldn't we ever have had any doubts we were going to win? That's it, Isn't It?" "I guess so. Grandpa." "Well, I think It was mostly because we were certain that we were right." "I see," said Itamsey. "The Johnnies knew they were on the side of the mffikB" GOOD HIGHWAYS BARGAINS IN LATE SALES; BATHING SUITS IN SOUTH Ramsey Milholland lifliitiiiijiiiiiiiiiiiifiiiiitiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiritiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiii NEPHI. UTAH myself, yesterd'y afternoon, and you get back In line or I won't let you b'long to it at all!" The pretender succumbed ; he Instantly dismounted, being and overawed. On foot he took his place in the ranks, while Itamsey became sternly vociferous. n company ! Farwud march ! harms! Halt! right! Far-wu- d march. Carry harms " The army went trudging away under the continuous but unheeded fire of orders, and presently disappeared round a corner, leaving the veteran his walnut tree chuckling feebly-unde- r and alone with the empty street. All trace of what he had said seemed to have been wiped from the grandson's mind ; but memory has curious ways. Ramsey had understood not a fifth nor a tenth of his grandfather's talk, and already he had "forgotten" all of it yet not only were there many, many times in the boy's later life when, without ascertainable cause, he would remember words and sentences spoken by the grandfather, though the lishad heard but the tener, sound of an old, earnest voice and even the veteran's meaning finally took on a gTenter deflnlteness till It became. In the grnndson's thoughts, something clear and bright and beautiful that he knew without being just sure where or how he had learned It n, Col-lum- Itlght-showdl- THE merchant finds himself In possession of a few suits and coats at the end of a season, that for some reason have not been sold, he is usually willing to sacrifice them. They may be among the most desirable garments that he purchased, but If cash means more to hira than stock on hand he will cut more than the profit out of such merchandise and this is the barIt la good gain hunter's opportunity. business to pick up these unusual values, f the garments are made of staple materials and In conservative styles. In choosing a suit, a straight-lin- e coat, like the one pictured, a box ly, to here that Is entitled that adjective. It demonstrates Is one that the bathing suit de luxe is not a daring affair and that it la as far from being ordinary as the east is from the west. This one is modest and beautiful and it calls to mind the eatla breeches and picturesque mantles of romantic times. It has many points worth study, especially by the woman who cannot stand the ricid test of the average bathing suit. Please note that the wearer of this masterpiece of its particular kind Is clothed from head to foot "In silk attire my lady goes" down to the sea or the sea sands and probably it la terials lAWr. (Prepared by th United States Department cf Agriculture.! Road building has recovered from the setback received during the war, and prospects are bright for the future. Approximately 14,000 miles of road were constructed during the present season by the states in conjunction with federal aid, according to the bureau of public roads. United States Department of AgrlcuUure, and probably an equal amount Independent of federal aid. More miles of Improved road were built than dpring any other year. Costs of road gradlpg and construction with local materials Is down prac tlcally to the 1014 level. Some reductions, also, have been made In freight rates on road mat rials." The 1m- portance of this item Is shon by the fact that in some cases It has been estimated that increased freight rates cost of have added 10 per cent to a road. Prices of manufactured road materials tend downward; tfle present level Is materially I wer than that of a year ago. With the new appropriation by congress of $75,000,000, added Impetus will be given to new road construction. Many of the states are considering en- - te CHAPTER II Ramsey Milholland sat miserably In his conscious being consisting principally of a dull hate. Torpor was a little dispersed during a fifteen-minutInterval of "Music," when he and nil the other pupils in -- fhe large room of the "Five B. Grade" sang repeatedly fractions of what they enunciated as "The Star Banner" ; but afterward he relapsec Into the low spirits and animosity natural to anybody during enforced con Federal-AiRoad In Western State, finement under Instruction. No alleviaJust Completed. tion was accomplished by an Invader's temporary usurpation of the teacher's larged amounts of state aid, and the near law will have a tendency to enplatform, a brisk and unsympnthetleal-!cheerful young womnn mounting courage this policy. It will also secure thereon to "teach German." the construction of a systtfm of InterFor a long time mathematics and state and tntercounty h'guvays, rather German had been about equally rethan haphazard selection of roads as In some cases in the past. pulsive to Ramsey, who found himself Winter Suits Anticipate Spring Styles dally in the compulsory presence of both; but he was gradually coming to model or a simply cut and loose-fittinrubberlzed silk in the suit, certainly HEAT INFLUENCES CONCRETE regard German with the greater hor- one, with a skirt comfortably In the cap.' Silk stockings and bathing ror, because, after months of patient wide, will line plain up with the suits of any shoes laced like sandals finish off her Discovery Made That Edtes Curl Up mental resistance, he at last began to season, and not suffer by comparison. handsome costume in the right way, and Down in Response to Temcomprehend thnt the German language Suits of this kind are easy to remodel, but the detail that is sure to captivate perature Changes. has sixteen special and particular ways when the time comes for changing everyone appears in the rosea that of using the German article correand will prove satisfactory for adorn the girdle and mantle. them, of concrete roads That the sponding to that flexible bit of a word more than one season. Black and navy Black satin, aa always, finds many carl up endedges down in lesponse to so easily "managed in Kngllsh the. blue are the In colors, but certain devotees among those women who are best What in the world was the use of shades of dark brown and dark changes in temperature Is the discovgray not fond of the high colors that are ery recently made by the bureau of having sixteen ways of doing a thing are also dependable, and the leas deco- - popular In wool bathing suits. These that could Just as well be done In one? public roads of the United States DeIf the Germans had contented thempartment of Agriculture in the course, of experiments at the department's selves with Insisting upon sixteen use less variations for Infrequent woijls, experimental farm at Arlington, Va. such as hippopotamus, for Instance, Curling Is caused by the nnequal exRamsey might have thought the affair pansion and contraction of the upper unreasonable but not necessarily viand lower sides of the concrete slab cious It would be easy enough to under the Influence of hett. It has avoid talking about a hippopotamus been observed during the middle Of If he ever had to go to Germnny. But the day when the surface of the road the fact that the Germans picked out becomes hot It expands more than the a and the and many other little words cooler underside and causes the sides In use all the time, and gave every one to move downward. At nfght when of them sixteen forms, and expected the surface Is cool the 'fontractlon causes the edges to rise slightly. The Ramsey Milholland to learn this dizzying uselessness down to the last extreme movement may be hs much as of an Inch. crotchety detail, with "When to employ n Which" ns nausea to prepare for the While the warping of the concreto final convulsion when one didn't use Is not In Itself detrimental to the road. Which, because It was an "Exception" It may lead to failure of the surface there was a fashion of making easy tinder the wheels of vehicles which hellish. matters hard that was travel over It when parts of It are The teacher was strict but enthunot resting on the ground. siastic; she told the children, over and over, that the German was a beautiful HAUL PRODUCTSTO MARKET language, and her face always had a lf I v glow when she said this. At such Enormous Amount Carried Over Countimes the children looked patient ; they try Roads 8 how Necessity of ' supposed It trust be so, because she tf Better Condition. was an adult and their teacher; and 11 ?iff ' I m they believed her with the same manThe necessity of keeping country ner of believing which those of them who went to Sunday school used there roads In good condition is shown byjt when the Sunday school teachers were report recently complied by the bureA of markets and crop estimates. United pushed Into explanation of various matters set forth in the O'.d TestaStates Depsrtroent of Agriculture, ment, or gave reckless descriptions ot showing the extent to which they are heaven. That Is to say. the children used In hauling fsrm products to mardlil not challenge or deny; already ket. According to the report, which shows the tonnage of 11 products they had lieen driven Into habits ot hauled on country roads, giving the resignation and were passing out ot the age when childhood is able to re yearly average for the period from Ject adult nonsense. 1915 to 1010. there were 27 tons of these 11 crops hauled for every 100 Ramsey Milholland did not know whether the Kngllsh language wn acres of land. The average tonnage itesutlful or not; he never thought of the 11 crops hauled on country about It. Moreover, though bis decpet roads each year for the period men, Inwards hated "German." he liked hl tioned amounted to 8d,.W).0OO tons. German teacher, and It was pleasant The 11 crops referred to In the report .' to look at her when that glow cam are com, wheat, oats, barley, rye, rice, ".. , upon her face. flaxseed, cottn (Including seed), to bacco, potatoes and cultivated hay. Modest and Beautiful Bathing Suit MYo- - bet your Ufa I hate Bonds for Good Roads. bar. ' TascWs Pet,' that's has Just sold 111,200.. Pennsylvania on to blnck are are suits bloomthe suits better ration satin made that with I what call bar." per rent Interers of the same satin or worn over 000 bonds besritig 4 see long service. Long, roomy con t s are even more wool trunks. In this season's suits the est the last of a $.V,000,000 Issue for (TO BE CONTINUED.) bloomers are usually attached to the road work for $104.31, which shows adaptable than suits, and ran be on for several seasons wear. skirt, but when woolen trolls are that, however the market for other Limited Ru!. TI.e coat shown here Is of bo'lvhi cloth worn a short, straight one piece dress bonds triay be, there's a mighty brisk "tVlleve yourself happy and yu art with n ttlde collar of seal demsnd for nontaxable. of satin Is worn over thetn. pltili happy," says a writer. t"nforttinate!y Into a border ami cuffs. mar. work when a that rule doesn't to think are not Want to Spend t1S.000,0OO. thinks he Is wise, for then lie Is other of Iieslgners suits andexpected In the bathing , dignity The Massachusetts department of w Ise. Inntini-fbut If a bathing siime public works wants to spend $15.noo,. s ilt ran ever h 4ci Tilnvl as stitte- X0 year on roads snd bridges of the U on bumble earth One cottage itste during the next 20 years. etter than a (1 ten castle In the air. school, e d d g devil." But at this, the grandfather's laugh was louder than it had been before, and Itamsey looked hurt. "Well, you can laugh If you want to!" he objected In an aggrieved voice. "Anyway, the Sunday school sup'lntendent told us when people knew they were on the devil's side they always " "I dare say, I dare say." the old man Interrupted, a little Impatiently. "But in this world mighty few people think they're on the devil's side, Ramsey. The South thought the devil was on our side, you see." "Well, that kind o' mixes It all up more'n ever." "Suppose you look at It this way: The South was fighting for what It believed to le Its right to be a country by Itself ; but we were fighting for 'Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and Inseparable.' There's the reason we bad the certain knowledge that we were going to win the war. How plain and simple It Is!" Itamsey didn't think so. He had begun to feel bored by the conversation, and to undergo the oppression he usually suffered In school. The earnest old voice of the veteran was only a sound In the boy's esrs. "Boom " The veterans had begun to Are their cannon on the crest of the low hill, out at the cemetery; and from a little way down the street came the t of a toy drum and aounds of a fife played execrably. A file of children In cocked bats made of newsfa-ler- s came marching Importantly up the sidewalk under the maple shade trees; and In advance, upon a velocipersonage, pede, rode a shrieking Incessant command hut not concerning himself with whether or not any military obedience was thereby obtained. Here was a revivifying effect vpnn young Itamsey; Ms sluggard eyelids opened electrically; he lea;.ed to his feet and. abandoning bis grandfather without preface or apology, sed across Ibe lawn and out of uHm the the gate, charging commander of the enmpnny. "You get off that loclpede, Wesley "Yon gimme Bender!' be bellowed. that sword ! What rights you got to go beln' captain o' my army, I'd like to know! Who sot tip this army. In the first place, I'd like to know ! I did. rat-a-ta- 1921 Approximately 28,000 Miles Built Dur. Ing Year Just Pasted Ma- y "I Wouldn't Care," Said the Boy. "I'd Ba In the Parade Anyway, if I Wm You." IN I one-tent- h uie.-el- Imv 'il i' m I'yf'j V "r |