TTIE OMAHA KT7NPAY BEE: MARCH 24. 1007.
2
Sibil IK 11
jjttVti Mllisrs rail
SO MANY grnoJ stories have been Bent In that the editor has decided
to carry tho. contest a little further. First of all, we are going to
dlvlrle the Biipy Bees Into two groups, or "sides," aa we aay In Pull
nway, and each of these sides ay to have a color and a captain. One
of the boy, Maurice Johnson of Omaha, and one of the girls, Louise
Raabe. aUo of Omaha, have each won two prizes for stories, so the editor will
appoint Maurice captain of the red side and Louise captain of the blue "ld
for the first contest. The rest of the Busy Deea may decide for themseltes
which side they wish to belong to. and when sending In your stories, att
at the top whether you wlah it entered on the red or the blue aide. The con
test will be to see which side writes the most prize stories.
Bright Members of Ihe Busy Bee Family
Is
The first contest begins April 7. and the subject for the month of April
'A Thrilling Experience."
This leaves just ten days to get In the first stories, because you must
all remember, unbss a story la received by the editor by Wednesday It can
not be uped that week. Won't all the boys and girls begin right away, so that
our first contest may be large? Remember, no story must exceed 250 words,
and each story must be marked "Red" or "Blue," and, last of all, all the
stories must be original.
And here Is something else to remember: We are going to have a vot
ing contest for the captains for May. Watch all the names and read all the
stories over carefully, and then, when sending In your stories, tell the editor
the name of one boy and one girl among the writers that you would Ilka to
have made captains.
i . 1- LJr. J... .J .1
.,vy--'
were not expected home until the next
Monday. It was now Frldny. and Hetty an
nounced to Janet (the nurse) that ho wa
frolnff to have a large party.
"Oh. no. Betty; your mamma wouM rwt
like It," said Janet. "1 don't rnre.' ssUI
Dotty. "I'm (tnlng to write the Invitations
now."
And she wrote some Invitations. Here Is
a copy of one:
Plete come to my hnue at to
o'clock to a party whiten I'm gcin'
to hev.
Betty roveland.
too Boe whnt the mnttrr with her.
Jtiet r .he reaehej the door a nelKhhof
caino In, for nie had heard Polorci prronm,
nnd It had f i lehtiMied her. Polorri si-rianird
and enld tlierr inii't hnye lcen ft ktjife In
there. Uoth women were new B'nlllnp. for
tliry ppiild Fee It wiijt only the Jelly ehe had
on her hand. Then her mother pot a hnsln
of war nnd w.ished It ()rr. For a long
time after liolor. i ooull not believe It was
only Jelly and not Mood that had madt
her cry.
CLARA AND AcTNES LUNDBEIKQ. SOUTH X STREET,
FHEMONT, NEB.
Louise rt a a r.r 2u north nineteenth street, ouaiia.
The prizes for the best original stories written last week were awarded
to Ruth Ashby, aped 11 years, Fairmont Neb., and Ada KIbler, aged 12 years,
717 West Twenty-first street, Kearney, Neb. 4
Honorary mention was given to Helen Goodrich, aged 12 years, 4010
Nicholas street, Omaha.
SMILING TOM
By William WalUoe
N
hud
EARLY everyone knew him as
"Smlllnn Tom." He wii always
hrlnht and amlllng. Not that he
from his store and 15 cents In money. I
spent 2 pennies of the chanre for your
apple. We've still irot 13 cents for break-
more than his edyire of the fast tomorrow. Before noon I must have
irood tilings of life. Indeed, ha
had more than his xhare of the hard thing
of life, Inasmuch as his father was dead
and his mother waa In such frail health
that he waa obliged to work to help keep a
shelter over their heads and food In the
cupboard. Of course, his mother did all
that she could toward earning the living-.
She took In plain sewing, but the prices
she got for her work were acandalously
small. Resides, there were whole weeks
when she did not earn enough to pay the
rent, and other weeks when she waa too
111 to work. So the average of her earn
ings was rnnull.
Tom was only 12 years old and had
worked since he was 10. A part of the
time he went to school during the wlntor,
but as soon as their summer and fall
hoardings were expended he was obliged
to step Into the harness again. Then he
would study at home In the evenings, his
gentle mother assisting him all that she
could, her own education being rather mea
ger. In the winter "Smiling Tom" lost the
position he had held as office boy to a
doctor. The doctor had decided to move
from tho town, und "Smiling Tom" found
himself w'thout employment during ero young face full of Innocence and good will
weather, when It took so much coal to "Well, you are disturbing me," seowlea
keep tholr poor, shabby house of two rooms the old man. "Resides, If I had work for
at all livable. In vain did he search for a boy I'd get one that's had experience,
another place. Hut never once did the I don't want a greenhorn In my office. A
smile leuve his face nor hope eeuso to cheer boy that gets with me must have had ex-
hls heart. After a day of vain searching perlence."
for work he would run home, dash Into "But how could you have become a suc-
the house with, "Hello, momsey! Here's cessfuj lawyer If everybody had said they
your Turn. Like a bad penny, he will turn would not give you work till you were
up." Then, smiling, ho would kiss his experienced?" asked Tom, with his cheerful
mother's thin cheek and say: "Nothing manner. "Tou were a boy once like me
today, momsey. Hut tomorrow then I'll and could not have known so much then,
get something worth waiting for." You had to learn, sir, didn't youT"
One evening when Tom ran into the house Tom's question was well meant, with no
smiling us always his mother said wear- suggestion of Impertinence, and old Jones,
lly: "Dear child. I haven't a bite for sup- the cross-grained, understood the boy's
per. Wo had the last morsel of food for mlnd- Instead of ordering Tom from the
dinner. I had honed Mrs. Dash would room, he sat knitting his brows a minute
I
I A v J
How Little Chicks Are Hatched
and Raised
She then went to the different houses of Py Florence Furls. Aki.I .. noronce, Neb.
her friends and delivered them. At a To ralso little chluks Is to gather the egts!
quarter of Janet dressed Retty Iti a pretty And In cold wen'Jier they have to be
Tlnk silk party dreoa, with slippers and gathered five or six times a day and then
etocklnna to match, and she was ready for be enreful they do not freeze. When they
the party. Soon the guests arrived and are In the house we put them In a busket
they played games until Jajiet brought in with a wnrm flannel eloth In It and In a
cake and Ice cream, and then they went pretty warm room. Hut on warm days
home. Just as they were leaving Mr. and wo only gather them once a day. but the
Mrs. Roveland came home. They came on TPrt f the treatment Is Just the same ns on
Friday, thinking to surprise Betty, but were cold days. Then when we get enough eggs
Just as much surprised as she to find a w put them In a machine called the in
party going on. Mrs. Roveland said that cubator and keep U at a certain tem
becaune Betty had disobeyed her she would prature of warmth. And then we turn
give the doll she had bought for Betty to them every day. fin die twentieth day they
Sarah, a Utile poor girl, and Betty would begin to hatch and on the twenty-first day
have to stay In her room the rest of tho tiley phould nil le out. Tnrn they are put
ay. This disappointed her very much, but n a brooder of a eertiiln temperature ot
sne nas never oisooeyca ner parents affun warmthi Am, ,n thlrt...Bx nour fm
to this day.
A Great Surprise
By Ernest Nellor. AM 12 Years, Beemer,
Neb.
We live in the town of Beemer, Cuming tllB Pallets nro about 7 months old they
when they were hatched they are fed dry
food. Then when they are 2 months old
they learn to sit on perchea. Then they
grow up nnd the cockerels are killed and
sent to the market nd sold. Then when
begin to lay cpgs to hHtch more little
chicks.
The Squirrel
OMAHA.
YORK, NEB.
a steady Job."
I cannot tell you of the lore-and pride,
mixed with fondest pity, that throbbed
In the breast of that poor mother. She
said very little, but she acted, oh, so
much. "Smiling Tom" understood, and
while the smile was on his honest young;
face tears dropped from his blinking eyes. (
The next morning Tom again began his
work hunting crusade. He went as a last ALBERT GOLDBERG. SHENANDOAH, HOPE HULTON, 09 WILLIAM STREET. EVA M. ALLEN, 419 IOWA AVENUE,
resort Into the office of a crabbed old
lawyer, who was notorious for his evil
tongue, so full of abuse for those tn his
employ. He was called "Old Jones, the
crank." "Smiling Tom" tapped respect
fully at the door of Jones' private office.
Then he walked In, removing his cap and
bowing. Old Jones was sitting at his desk
writing. He looked up with a frown at the
youthful Intruder.
"What do you want?" rudely asked
Jones, frowning his displeasure.
"Work, sir," explained Tom, smiling.
"Well, who told you to coma here for
It?" again queried the sour old man. "I'm
not an employment agency."
"I know, sir," admitted Tom. "But I've
been almost everywhere els and failed, so
I thought Td try here, sir. I hope I didn't
disturb you," still smiling, and his fair
By John Kngel. Ag.M ! Years. 1709 South
Eighteenth Street, Omaha.
The equlrrel lives In the woods. Dur
ing the summer it plays among the
branches of the trees, skipping from one
branch to another. It is a pretty creature
and moves so quickly that It seems al
most to fly. The iii!rrel lives on acorns
and nuts. It holds them with Its teeth.
If.
-A vV'.g.---
Vs?"' X I
county, Nebraska, and our auntie lives
across the street. One day auntie got a
large sack of apples. My little 8-year-oUl
brother, Ralph, was over to auntie s and
suddenly came rushing home. "Mamma,
give me a basket, " he cried. "What for?"
asked mamma. Ralph replied: "Aunty
said I enn have all the apples I want, and
I want ail she ha a."
An Unexpected Visitor
By Dorothy Welps. Aged 10 Years, Tlatts
mouth, Nolx
Once there wa a little boy whose name and When It throws away the shell you
was Johnny. He wanted to go to school may bo sure there Is no meat left In It.
very badly. So one day he asked his The squirrel builds two houses, ono for
mother If he could, but she said no. Ho summer and another for winter. The first
was too small, but he could when he waa la a neat In the branches of a tree and
older. Johnny did not want to wait so Is made of leaves, sticks and moss; the
long. He had a sister whose name was other is generally Inside a hollow tree,
Man. She wa4 11 years old and waa In where It will be safe from the wind and
the seventh grade at school. Johnny went cold.
off In a corner and thought about It. After
awhile a thought came Into his head. "I
will ask mammi If I can go out and play
end then I wll', go to the school house In
stead." Pretty soon his sister came home.
He did not say anything about It to her.
When she went back to school again he
watched for her until she was out of sight.
Then he went In and asked his mother
If he could go out to play. She said he
could. So he went strlght to school and
walked right In. AH the scholars began
to laugh, but he went up and sat down
by his sister. She tried to make him go
home, but the teacher said he could stay,
and he did all the afternoon. You should
have heard his mother laugh when Mary
told her all about It.
A Florida Alligator
By Thomas L. Kimball. Aged 9 Years, Or
momd, Kla.
My father was on a trip up the Tamska
river In his motor boat. He saw an
alligator on the bank. When father eame
back he was still there. There was a little
creek going In behind the alligator. Father
ran his boat In the creek between the alli
gator and the water so that the alligator
had to go under his boat to get Into the
deep water. He was going- to shoot It, but
It Is against the law. Tl alligator waa
about twelve feet long. I am an Omaha.,
boy. We are down here for the winter.
Stories have been received from the fol
lowing Busy Bees, to be published latert
Bert Krelle. Omaha; Ida May, Central City;
Lawrence Scott, unuina; jrannie itolur.
How Dolorez Was Deceived
By Agnes Gaughan. Aged 13 Years. North Omalia: Cello. Noone, Omaha; George Jen
Bend Neb nlngs, Efcat Omaha; Laura Williams, Hen-
One day as Dolores waa washing dishes
BYRON
NEB.
W. M'DERMXT. BELLEVTJE,
IRl'TH ASHBY, FAIRMONT, NEB.
TACLINE PARKS, YORK, NEB.
and waa scraping out a pan which had
contained Jelly she pulled out her hand
and screamed. Her mother hurried out
son; Henrietta V 111 buns, Benson; Uertha
Brown, Omaha; Irmiu Qraham, Omaha;
Michael Rouse, Omaha; Zelda Btnkley,
Omaha; Nora Elliott, Omaha; Lulu Mae
Coe, Omaha; Jessie Spigle. Omaha) Luulile
UoeL Omaha,
come for her wrappers that have been
ready for the last fitting these last two
days. I meant to ask her for a part of
the money down. I suppose the bad
weather keeps her In."
"I expected things would be so," said
Tom. Then he smilingly drew from the
bosom of hl overcoat a big paper bag,
which he emptied on the table. There
was a small steak, a loaf of bread, some
butter and a great rosy apple, which ho
held up, saying: "This is for you, mom
sey. You like apples so much, and when
I saw this fellow In the window I Just
whipped in and got It."
"Hut son, where did you get the money
for all these things?" asked his mother.
"Have you got a position?"
"Well, not exactly," answered Tom
evasively. "But I'll get one tomorrow or
next day sure. I must must have one
you know." And anatn Tom smiled and
looked as though worry waa a stranger
to him. But could anyone have tramped
the streets with him day after day and
looked Into his poor, despairing little
heart one must have seen much tudnesa
there, despite the smile on the fair young
face.
"But where how did you get these
things for supper?" asked his mother.
"Well, momsey, as I have no secrets
from you I'll tell you how arid where. I
went to Mr. Jenaon's grocery store and
awked him If he did not have some sort
of odd Job for ma so that I could get
enough things for our supper. He at
once put me In the cellar to sort over
potatoes. I worked all afternoon there,
and when I was through the potatoes ten
bushels were nice and clean of withered
and decaying ones. Mr. Jensen went down
and Inspected the Job und was much
please,). He came up and told me I hid
earned W cents. So I got these things
In silence. Then he asked, brusquely:
"What can you do?"
"I can't do so very much now," admitted
Tom, "but I can learn to do most anything
than anyone else can do, sir. All I want
Is a chance to show you that I'm In earn,
est. I am only a boy, but I've got to fill a
man's place now, for my father 1 dead
and left me to occupy his place. I must
earn the living. That' the way the matter
stands, sir. Though the smile never left
Tom's face, there was the faintest sugges
tion of a tremor In his eager voice, a
tremor that waa not lost on the ears of the
learned lawyer.
"Well, come back this afternoon at 2
o'clock. And come to work, too. No Idle
bones loaf 'round my office. Remember
that, young man. I am through with the
interview."
"Thank you. sir, and good morning,"
smiled Tom, bowing as he withdrew from
the mighty presence ot "old Junes, the
crank."
That afternoon Tom was on time to the
minute. He performed every errand as
signed him quickly and thoroughly. Old
Jones looked surprised several times that
afternoon. He had at last found the boy
he had been waning for so lony. But be
kept his pleasure to himself, for he was
not one to speak words of praise.
So the week wore away and Jones found
Tom of the greatest value to him. He was
quick In his work, orderly, reliable and al
ways In a happy frame of mind. On the
morning of the last dny of his first week
In old Jones' office something happened
Y'4 1f t" S -V U M
U
22
iULiltleMfc
RULES FOR YOUNG WRITERS
L Write plainly on one side of the
paper only aad u amber the
8. Use pen and Ink, aot pencil
3. Baort and pointed articles will
be g-lvea yrsfarsuos. Bo Dot use over
850 wards.
4. Original stories or letters only
will be nsed.
B. Wxlte your name, nga and ad
ores a the top ef t&e first page,
First and second prises of books
will be given for the best two coo
trlbutlons to this page caoh week.
Aiarass all communications to
OKIlOalH'l SSPAKTJoXirT,
Oaiaha Bte,
a cripple! But, though Jessie thought, am
she started to cry again, "What's the use
of crying? Mammy feels bad enough, but
with me, whom she calle 'Sunshine,' crying,
what will she do?" So she braced up and
helped her mother. Jessie Is a grown
woman now. Daddy and mammy are both
dead. But Jessie has the same sweet tern,
per which she used to have. Always
thoughtful for others, always cheerful and
always unselfish.
(Second Prize.)
How the Panther Attacked
Robert
By Ada KIbler, Aged 12 Years, 717 West
Twenty-First Street, Kearney, Neb.
Robert wai a very happy bpy, he was
going to go with lila father and Mr; Brown
out camping. They packed their bedding,
food and clothes in a wagon and tliun they
wore ready to start. Robert kissed his
mollner good bye and got In the wagon.
They rode ur.tll night, when they put up
their tont and built a large campQre. Rob-
Jessie's moti.er, was a fat, good-natured rt picked up the st.cka for the fire and
woman. She crossed the roam and took up hn hey hunS the lr-n kettle over the
the pall. "Well, now Jesuie, If you ain't fire- ""'Psy fashion. After supper Robert
gone and got Daddy a pail; If he won't be Bald- that ho waa tired, and went In the
pleased." she exclaimed. "Put it away In lcnt anl 'ay down. Aiter a while the men
the cupboard, mammy, and tomorrow when had thtlr necks turned to the tent and
Daddy's dinner Is ready you -put It in his Rbrt was aalecp. when a pimther crept
new pail." Early In the evening after the slowly toward the tent. He looked to sea
dishes were put in the cupboard and every- that no one wa looking, and then he
thing done, Jessie went Into the room '"pped into the tent, where Robert waa
where Daddy and mammy were sitting, sleeping. He went to the opposite aide of
Daddy's paper was on the table, and aa th tent a"u made a leap at him. Ha lit
usual Jess. read to him until time to go to nl" b011 and Rufcert cried out in pain.
bed. Early the next day Mrs. Jonos packed Hls 'atner heard him and rushed to the
Daddy'u dinner pall. Daddy was a brake- re8,,ue. He grabbed the hatchet from where
K
Queens of England
ATHARINE Parr, sixth wife of
Henry VIII, was the first Pro
testant queen of England. And
more than once ehe Imperiled not
marriage with Henry very well fixed
financially.
Shortly after her second widowhood
Katharine was to her own terror wooed
by the much married king. She could not
but recall the wretched, cruel fates of four
only her throne but her head by of Henry's five wives, and trembled at the
advocating the doctrine of the reformation.
She waa of English birth and fourth cousin
to Henry VIII. Biographers differ as to
the year of her birth, but the best au
thority places It In the year 1513.
Although she descended from really
til
delight: "Why, Just the thing for Daddy!"
Ehe had It wrapped up and waa soon rk'p
plng merrily homeward. Jessie, for that
was her name, rushed Into a neat llttla
kitchen where a woman was scrubbing a
pine table. "Mammy, please, mammy, see
what I've got for Daddy." Mrs. Jones,
(First Ptlie.)
Jessie
'Jessie" By Ruth Ashby. Aged 11 Years, man. and had to take his dinner with him. u lay on ",0 luund and with one blow
Fairmont, Nab. Jessie always went as far as the candy k"lei1 the panther. Robert was taken home,
It was Saturday, tho day when Martin & store and carried his dinner pail. This an1 a ,:e not bu't very bed on
which marked It a red-letter day for Tom. Kallogg's deourtment store hild their an- morning Daddy was much pleased with "ot well
A client with as sour a make-up as old nual tinware s-le. A little girl with sweet his new pall. One day about two weeks
Jones' own came In to rake the lawyer ever blue eyes, yellow curls and a pretty f ice after Jessie pave him his pail he was (ltcnorary Mention.)
the coals for losing a lawsuit for him the was rummaging on the counter piled hlxh working as usual, when he met with an Bettv'fl DiS2TJT)0intment
1th tinware. As she was rummaging th, accident. One of his legs was crushed so By Ht!en "hood Ich. Aged 12 Years, 4010
un, n iw radly .Meholas fctroet, Omaha.
thought of putting her own head tn the
nooee. Also her still youthful heart had
already responded to the ardent wooing of
Sir Thomas Seymour, tha favorite gallant
at the court of Henry VIIL But Henry
would brook Ho refusal, and conquered In
his suit for the hand of Lady Latimer.
Within a very few months after Lord
Latimer's death the beautlflul and virtuous
Katherl ne Parr laid aside her weeds to
again be led to the altar In -marriage.
For four years Katharine lived a life
with Henry VIII that could not hare been
envied her by the humblest, Henry waa
slowly dying. His appetite had. made him
a thing of disease. Ills legs were oovered
with ulcere, his feet swollen with gout and
his temper never amlable--waa now almoat
unbearable. And It Is very probable that
had he kept his health a little longer
Katharine would have1 been another victim
to add to the wives gone before. She had
been accused of heresy; a warrant signed
by the king's own hand was Issued for her
arrest. Only through her own keen wit
and wonderful tact did she so handle the
king that he became repentant of this piece
of Infamy, and when the lord chancellor
with his guard came to serve the paper
on Katharine and to carry her to tne
royal blood on both paternal and mater- Tower Henry burst out Into a rage against
nal sides, her father was only a knight klm- driving him from his presence with,
being Sir Thomas Parr, a courtier in high epithets as "fool" and "knave," and
favor with Henry. angrily ordered him to "avaiuit from my
While In her fourteenth year Katherlne presence!"
Parr was married to a widower of ad- Henry VIII died January 28, 1S43, and
vanced years, who at the time of his Katharine was for the third time a widow,
union with Katherlne had sons grown to and for the fourth time she became a wife,
manhood. He was Lord Borough of marrying the only man she had ever really
Gainsborough. He died a year after iove(j, sir Thomas Seymour. While she waa
w. sip k trvi.-.
KATHARINE PARR.
day previous. He fumed and swore about,
calling Jones several very undignified
names. Jones, his
brought to light a large dinner iull. Her
She exclaimed In
--a- - 1
own temper letting grave face brightened
71
that it had to be taken off.
Jessie felt! Gocd, strong, brave Ditddy,
Katherlne became his wife, and the girl
widow fell heir to lands and money to a
very considerable amount.
But she did not remain long a widow.
Betty's parents were at the be.mhore ar.d for ln ner twentieth year she was married
almost aa much married aa was Henry, her
matrimonial ventures were of so different a
nature thut none could condemn her.
She did not live long after becoming Sey
mour's wife, and though they had been a
loose, rose roaring to the occasion. At last office before that indlv dual knew whit evening you'll get your wages ln an en-
tUe dispute had almost reached the point of uaa doing. Then, u he ahut the door on velope. Say nothing to mo about the sum
blows, when Toih, coming from the outer him he turned to Tom, saylny: "Ye3, Tom, you find there. 1 pay you for your work,
efflce, laid a restraining hand on his em- show that man the outer door." your good horse sen.-e and y ur smile,
ployer s arm. saying in a calm voice, his Hut Ttru was not meded to perform that There, ao on f.ilnir those douments. I
to Lord Latimer, who was alao a widower mni)t cIJBenlal coupl, Auring thelr ,hort
wun a lumny vi email ana nair-srowu
children. But fate seemed to have de
creed that Katherlne should know much
of widowhood, for when In her twenty
ninth, or thirtieth year (biographers are
not certain on the point exactly) she was
den death of Lord Ijitlmer. Through his
face smiling and serene: "Remember. Mr. errand. The cl.ent, swearing all sorts of have some letters for you to take to the a second time made a widow by the su l-
junes, mat you ve an important case unuar venea.nce, hurried awuy without the cour- oflloe."
way. and you can't afford to let this man's tet,y of the office boy. Tom, smllin re- Tom did rv t answer, but went about his
ucgentlemanly conduct work on your turwed to the private office of hi em- duties, which kept him so buoy that quit
nerves. You need all your wits f .r tl.U ployer, resuming his work without a word ting time arrived before ha realized the
case you are studying on. Allow me to of what had Just occurred. hour. As he put on Jm overcoat and hat
show this man out, sir." For a while Jones sat watching the boy to go old Jones, the crank, held out un
Old Jonee. the crabbed, was at first dumb- frm under his shaggy brows. Then he envelope to him. Tom did n ;t open It untU
founded. He stopped In his trade to hear called him to c ne nw. "Say, young lie reach, d home, Then, sitting l--side his
anal torn was saying ana arter he heard ctl;LPi you re made of the fliveet metal I
he stood open-mouthed, staring djwn into Ver saw. You will make a cool-hendtd.
the smiling blue eyes of r.U,oruee boy. Jot reasoning man-one who will kn ow him-
what he might have done under the clr- -elf under all eJrcunmtanor.. Yen are
union she waa very unhappy Jur.g the Ill
ness which killed her. Imagining that her
lord waa growing tired of her and desiring
her death that he might be free to woo
her royal stepdaughter, the Princess Elisa
beth. Katharine died In her thlrty-sevonth year.
death Katherlne came Into other vast having survived Henry one year ana six
properties, thus being at the time of her months. MARY GRAHAM.
ILLUSTRATED REBUS
OLD JO.NiS WAS SITTINQ AT HIS DESK WRITING
cumtancce cannot be explr.lned, for before
he had recovered his voice his angry
Client, resenting Tom s request to show him
to the door, rallied forth: "How dare a
sniffling kid a frcckieU-noMd office meuUU
offer to show me to the door! Why"
But he didn't flnisl. the sentence. His
turning so angrily on Tom was the point
needed to make Jcties act In a d.ITer, nt
manlier than he otlui might have dJi.e.
Taking the surprUed client by tlie khvul-
worth a great dt-al to me if it Is for noth
ing more than that clierful smile of
yours." And Jom-s. the cmnk,
smiled as he put ut his hand to Tom.
"Your cool head saved me a deal cf ex
tra trouble Just now. You were right; I
must put all my enerrics to wtrk on this
most Importart new cay. Sniull fry, like
that foolish, hot-headed old greenhorn
must not be allow-d i., ruffle my temrer
and iitkt n.y mind from my wu.'k. This
mother, he tire the paper wrapjier open.
There were thre $5 bills, ore marked w.th
"For your eervlca a c.ftico boy." a second
with "For your level-head' dness and ad
vice' an 1 the third "For your smile,
wl i h sweetens the sour side of my hard-
really ened lift-."
With tars in her eyes, the mother kissed
her hoy. "You are all and more th.m Mr.
Jum s l as found y u to be. You are a
mother's pride and Joy. Praise bt? to the
Altn'ghty for sending nie such a son."
And "Smiling Tom" put his arms about
i.ks mother luv.nly. He aas supremely
hapj-y cow.
11115
-w -, .v. ,f in m sfifiiMi iin-
'-?rflJl5. J?