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Show - - Wanted His Bights. : Some rears ago a wealthy manu-facturer manu-facturer in the west employing nearly a : thousand hands established a "model" citv, thus giving the workmen and their families many eomforts and luxuries i that U.ey could not have attained un-: un-: aided. Of course there were regula-' regula-' tions to govern the model city, which, as a rule, were cheerfully observed. There were fault-finders, however, ' and especially a newcomer named liaseomb. Among the rales was one forbidding the burning of soft coal, on , account of the odor and smoke, and ; liaseomb objected strongly, j "My goodness!" remonstrated a friend, ' "I don't see what you are growling j about. We get hard coal at cost, and j as one ton goes as far as two of the other, you ain't out of pocket." "'T-.iii't right to forbid it," asserted i Bascomb. I "N,., here," demanded his friend, i "do you really want to burn the nasty stuff?" : "No I don't wanter," replied Baa-; Baa-; ;oinb, "but I wanter have the right in ! 2ase I wanter!" . ... |