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Show Pace Seven The Cache American. Lojran, Cache County. Utah wrisc CIRCLE PATTlllSS Dainty First Clothes for Baby Versatile and Smart Two-Piec- HOMER, thing bocoute they're roolly rolly Tills FAR! Amos Croy and his wilv, whra trst married telllrd o a farm la Missouri, whert Homer waa bora. Every Sunday meant church, company for dinner, and steer weighing. Dehorning the calves, curing hams, wean, tng calvea and tausag making war all part of llomrra work. The Croy at. tended tha Omaha Exposition, whert saw his ftrst horseless carriage, motion picture and hula" dancer. Renro, former hired band, returned and purchased a farm nearby and waa welcomed by everyone. Homer started high nr bool, the first of the Croyt to attend. At first he frit out of placa but toon be to mats friends. Other students always mad first advances. He-tne- r F 4 F Lowngre to jpvellirirthrotel5minuteaooth. inc, comforting treatment that reaches off the vay Wu. For ) ; ; ; 8 (our lia, throat irritation or hoarse- doo resulting from eoldaorsmoking, soothe With F 4t F. Box, only lUf. ltt','MtM ! ! S ! I I ln CHAPTER XVI It was not long until I was back farm for my summer work. on the WHEN CONSTIPATION tnikei jar fed ea stomach punk a the dickens, brings upset, sour taste, (assy discomfort, taka Dr. Caldwells famous mediant to quickly pull the trigger on lary innards and help you fed bright and chipper again. DR. CALDWELLS It the wonderful senna laxative contained in good old Syrup Pepsin to make it so easy to taka. MANY DOCTORS ns pepsin preparations in prescriptions to make the medicine more palatable and agreeable to taka. So be sure your laxative ia contained in Syrup Pepsin. INSIST ON DR. CALDWELLS the favorite of million for 50 years, and fed that wholesome relief from constipation. Even finicky children love it. CAUTION: Use only at directed. DR. CAHILL'S SENNA LAXATIVE CONTAINtO IN SYRUP PEPSIN My mother was sitting out on the porch, with a quilt over her knees. I was shocked to see bow frail and hollow-eye- d ehe was. When I spoke of it, the said, 'Til toon be feeling better. After few minutes she said, "That's the hill your Pa and I came over the first time I ever saw this farm." The idea waa still In my fathers mind that maybe I would stay, and he hinted around. But, much as I liked the farm, I must go on with the thing that was deepest In me. He tried to Interest me by asking my advice about this and that; but my heart waa not in it He was beginning to realize that the day was coming when I would pull away from the old farm. I was Impatient with the farm; work, work, work. City life for me. As inconvenient as it was for Pa. and the necessity for keeping a hand Pa was proud that he had a son off at the university." When he went to town on Saturday, he took my last letter along and would casually get It out to check some statement be had made. "Yes, that's what Homer writes me from the university. Or "I guess they have a pretty good school down there. At least my boy seems to think so." When he spoke to me in person It always was, "You must get all you can out of it Lots of boys don't have the chance you have." That Indeed was true, for I was the only one from Knabb who bad gone. One day there was a telegram on the mail table in the hall, and I knew. "Your mother is failing, it said. Uncle Al, Instead of Pa, came to meet me. But when we got to the farm, Pa was standing by the gate, d waiting. He held out his hand. "I guess your Uncle A1 has told you." Yes, I said thickly. "We did all we could for her," he continued. "We can go in and look expected. There had been a wash- land, he had cut every wheat talk ing rain Thursday night which had with a cradle. The old cradle, with extended well over Into Friday Its warped arm, was hanging in morning. The water gap waa out. the granary. The McCormick ReapSome disease in er was now doing the work. Comeastern Kansaa. Did I plan on combines, carrying six head of mules, clattered across the fields. ing home aoon? . . . 1 waa aelltng enough to give me A change had come fur me, too. some so I walked in For when milking lime came, I and resigned a proud moment found I was not expected to take a Indeed when I announced I was going bucket and march to the milk lot. "East" Then I started home to see I was becoming a "city man." In Pa and the old farm. He waa at the other words, just about useless! depot, as always. "Ml carry your I found also a change in our famgrip, Homer." How fast we talked, ily life, a distinction that was subtle how much must be said all at once. and Important My mother had al"I expect you'll want to see some ways sat at the side of the table next of your old friends. to the kitchen, so she could "Jump We walked up and down the street up and run in," but now, through visiting with those I knew. Pa stand- some unspoken family arrangement, ing proudly a little to one side. His Phebe did not move Into her place boy'd been off in St Louis! Said but sat at the foot of the table. theyd had considerable heat We At the end of supper. Pa spoke of went to the grocery store, more something that was on his mind. Had friendj there. Finally we got In I decided I wanted to come back to the hack and spread a lap robe over the farm? as this seems, it our knees. When he came to town moved me Simple deeply; for I reulized alone he didn't fool with a lap robe. more sharply than ever the cleavWhen we got to the brow of the come. had age hill, my eyes swept over the farm. I want to go to New York." "I The white house and the red barn, The old gentleman looked up to the comcrib and the granary and a mothe hay barn with the cupola and see if I was pranking. It was could before he ment speak. the hayfork track extending out a "Have you fully made up your little past the side of the barn. And there were the cattle and the hogs mind? I choked out. "Yes He did not speak for a much longer time. "I wont oppose it. he said finally. "I'd like you to go to your mother's grave before you go," he said, ... ... ..." at her. cut like a knife. CHAPPED LIPS SOOTHED QUICKLY! Cracked lips so cruel, and painfull Caused when raw, bitter weather dries skin cells, leaves them "thirsty. Skin may crack, bleed. Mentholatum acts medicinally; (1) Stimulates local blood supply. (2) Helps revive thinly cells so they can retain needed moisture. For sore, chapped hands, lips Mentholatum. Jars, tubes, 3 Of. mmUSM We went in together and stood beside the coffin. "She was a good mother to you," he said. The next day Pa and Phebe and I got in our hack, the neighbors fell in behind, and the procession started for the Cain Cemetery. When we came to the lane that leads off the main road, someone opened the gate for the hearse, and we drove through the pasture to the knoll where so many of the pioneers lay. The neighbors, who had dug the grave, were standing there, waiting, still holding their shovels. A clod was tossed on the box, then the men began to work their shovels. Finally, Pa and Phebe and I walked back to where the horses had been hitched to the racks. Two or three of the neighbors stayed and helped get supper. Pa bent his head, as I had seen him do so many times, and thanked God for our blessings. The next day I went back to the university and again took up my schoolwork. After I was through with school I went to St. Louis and applied for a job on the St. Louis and, since they had been active in launching the school of journalism, I pretty well had them. They offered $20 a week and I went to work for that. I now realize it was a mistake not to ask for more, for it is much easier to get an extra five dollars a week when you are bargaining than after youre established on the payroll Some way or other, when you get fixed at a certain figure, it takes an act of God to lift you out of it. In addition to my job, I was writing stuff "on the side, and some of it sold. Just enough to keep me running after it, like a mule with a nubbin dangling in front of it. Things I wrote seemed good to me, although now I realize how simple and naive they must have been. In fact, all my life the things I have written seemed good to me at the time I wrote them. Some people seem to have the ability of But I havent and it has The cost me many a heartbreak. things I have slaved over and believed in so deeply, have made no impression whatever. While some of the things I have tossed off, with hardly a thought, have made a place for themselves. What makes one go and another fail is something I dont understand. And now I have a little philosophy of my own I do everything as well as I can and hope for the best. Sometimes I get it; often I don't. Once a week I would get a letter d corfrom Pa. In the upper ner would be the return form with his name writter in indelible pencil. Everything was as well as could be Post-Dispatc- h left-han- 8339 comet In sizes 11. 1L ahorl 14. 13. 18. 18 and 20. Six aleevet. requires S yard at 38 or 38 Pattern No. Dave with his big homely bead and his churn feet. and the cows and a peaceful air of contentment. "I guess you see I've divided the hog lot!" We walked out across the farm, as he always wanted me to do when I got back. He had something he wanted to discuss with me. What did I think of changing to shorthorns? I knew what that involved and realized how much it meant to him and tried to discuss it with him, but was soon mired down. He knew a thousand times more about farming than 1 would ever know. What did I think of lespedeza? I had never heard of it. We came to Dave. There he was Dave with his big homely head and his churn feet and his wide saddle-scarre- d back. His step had grown slow; his eyesight was bad and his teeth were going. He had trouble getting in and out of the barn. Pa said. He didnt shed right and long scraggly hair was on his underside and his back sagged. I patted him and rubbed his nose, but I am not sure he knew me. After a time we walked on. St. Louis had given me an outside point of view and I could see the changes that were taking place The "road-drain our section. had come in and it had affected our was roads greatly. The road-draonly a sort of land sled. Each farmer had one and was held responsible for a length of road. As soon as a rain was over, the farmers would get s out their and mash the clods and fill the ruts. This hastened the drying of the roads and allowed us to get to town two or three days earlier than otherwise. It was one indication of community effort; a democraworking out of small-scal- e cy. Another change was the rural free delivery, and the farmers telephone. Slowly, bit by bit, the farmers were becoming part of a community; the farmer who kept to himwith no one, self and was passing. A change was taking place in the e farms too. The farmer was disappearing, the farmer who tried to make a living off eighty acres. Three houses, which once could be seen from our front porch, had been pulled down. The big farmer was coming in. This was augmented by the increased part that machinery was playing. The three-tineandled fork, was gone; a sweep rake, operated with two horses, was doing the job. The sickle bar on the Moline Mowing Machine had gone from four feet to five. A farmer and his boy no longer went out with pitchforks and flopped the hay over; a hay tedder was now kicking it around. When my father had first come on the g g road-drag- one-hors- hickory-h- d We got in the buggy and drove to the knoll where the pioneers lie. The graveyard is in the middle of the old Cain farm; cornfields come up on two sides, and on one side is a pasture. There are maple trees which reach protectingly over the graves, fence to and there is a hog-tigkeep out the stock. In winter rabbits skip across the graves. In summer the corn whispers and the grass is exceedingly green. We stood beside the grave. "She was always a good mother to you." he said. You drive It came time to go. and Ill shut the gate." be said. But unconsciously he did oppose my going during the following days. Things were going well, he said; he had bought some land on the north and some on the east; the farm was expanding; his idea of swinging over from corn to cattle farming was working out. City life was perilous. You could be fired out of a job; then where would you be? On a farm you could be independent. If you No man was your boss. worked hard and were honest, you could build up a farm that would take care of you in your old days. The appeal was powerful, but there also was the desire to do the kind of work I wished to do. More and more my mind was filled with fancies; I seemed always to be thinking how I would write this sentence, or why that word wouldnt serve, or how I could describe the people I knew and, possibly, make readers see them as I did. And those people began to appear in stories in my mind. One day in Booth Tarkington I found something that expressed exactly what I felt, but hadnt been able to put into words: I try to write in such a way that there is no film between me and my reader. I knew instantly that was the way I wanted to write, so easily and naturally that the reader would not be conscious of any style at all, only of what I was trying to say. Going to New York meant more preparation than going to St. Joseph, or to the university, or to St. Louis, so we drove to town and bought a steamer trunk, and the old tin ked trunk went into Pas room. When the day came the three of us went to the depot and stood waiting for the train to come. When it was time for me to get on. Pa held out his hand. "Let us hear from you whenever its convenient. As I pressed my face to the window I could see the two standing alone on the platform. When I got to New York, I had the same sinking feeling of inadequacy that I had had when I had started to high school and when 1 had gone to St. Joseph and later to St. Louis. Maybe I had better return home and help on the farm. But again there was that inner impulse to do what I so deeply wished to do. So I had some cards printed at a place and went to the address I knew so well on Lafayette Street. I was surprised when I saw the Puck building. Why, it was just a big red brick building! Not an edifice at all. But that was all right. It was the habitat of an editor; a man who had been buying my contributions and printing them for all the world to see. At the entrance were two stone columns, one on either side of the main door; and there was a most impressive gold statue of Puck looking down on a foolish world. However, when I stepped inside, it wasnt quite so grand. I got into an ancient elevator, a man pumped a handle back and forth, and we started aloft. But that was all right. 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