-i- -- i i vTjc-'Y'igffnf. ', .--' ?w,i i-t -"-f? wy 'ftWW' ' ' "w?7 , -' .r ' mmmmS .i SUNNY DUCROW My IIUNHY ST. JOHN COOI'ER 77Zi? GUMPS Chester Blm Gump, Aren't You Ashamed? 1 ' K 1 f d ki TU1B HTAHTB THE BTOltV I mitabetli Ann Ducrow, known as '"Sunny," tella Uert Jackson that she intends to make tomctMnp of herself land ride in a motorcar tone any. (mi.-.. ... . ,.. .. m.w,. tnrinrM. Jy 'Bunny Uvet tuith her prumblw aunt on Kf 'a mean street, Hungering for a day i n mo country ana imvinu u inurtcin fiunni atirf Hert sing on the street for i penntei and one arrested. At the court f.i ouo ,eHe .Vontrcsor, actrc. ' Bhe Is inprrosrft iclfft 8titm' orig inality, and brings cr lo Max Item- mlngway, theatre manager, who gives her a small part In a revue. Uert Is taken on, too. Sunny has rare mcrl t a bom actress white llcrt's atoJ.--ward stupidity Is mistaken for real acting. On her first appearance Sunny 'forgets her lines, but, ever resource J , "' appeals to the audience to be pa-f-' tlent and "give her a chance." tier I refreshingly ntiglnal speech makes a mw A. oouquet concealing m moml tiendant from Lord Dobrlngton handed Sunny at the close of her first night. Sho rclitrtis the pendant, Bert outlines a plot for iipio play. Bunny lends tin pounds to itr. John ton, of the pickle factory, and has a half Interest In the business. Dobrinp- f.v ' pent eniangicu loiin a nuiunuim W actress to the extent of offering to I marry her. Ills mother appeals to J Bunny to save her son from "that woman." nunny learns inai --wiiiy is an cx-eonvlct and has served nine vionths for shoplifting. With threat of exposure sue forces "Uiuy to rrun- ?'uish all claim to Dobrlngton, and de tvers to him "Gilly's" note breaking the engagement. Hunny lays before her partner, Mr. Johnson, a plan for building a new factory and houses for the workpeople, AD ltntlE IT COXTIXUEB QATUHDAY lie wan Knrmcr Barstowe again, and ho trninped his fields nnd watched the growth of his grain nnd tho fattening of his cattle, and Interviewed hlo bailiff and his farm Bervants. Sun day ho woa Squire Barstowe, and net a good example t6 I'otshnll. Ho rode to chur.ch In an nntlqtio family hnroucho, drawn by two fat white homos. Ho sat with his stout, comfortnble, good-natured wlfo In tho snulre'fl new. which f i.M ......... .1 1 ,., .......II.. ...l... U. HA iinu iHnvti iu null luiiiJimiy viiuii iiu tiv.- qulrcd rotshnll Manor House. In fact, for thrco day.i out of seven Barstowe was a simple-minded KnBllRh country Kcnttemnu, who seemed to havo no In terests on this wldo earth savo thoso connected with the crowing of crops, the rearing of sheep and cattlo and pigs, tho housing of lila tenants, and tho setting of a good tfxamplo on Bundays, while the other four days out of tho seven ho was a different personago. He was Bar stowe of Barstowe JtcaimK, tho giant of the music-hall profession, tho man who had Realms dotted nil over tho country -Manchester, Bradford, Hull and Llver- fiool. Glasgow, Nowcastlo and Binning iam. and nt least a score of other towns beside ; tho man who had a clear knowl edge and a firm grip on each separate branch of the great llealm establish ments, who linew to a penny the salary every artist was drawing from hlni, nnd exactly how long tho contractu lasted , " wiihi inu ritiutjun were. xuvrn was . Mn ...!. i... t-l i i. 1 .... iiv (i4.ii win, mivw Ills uuniiii'BS ut-licr from A to 7, than Barstowo on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, nnd on the other threo dayB ho knew nothing, and, by tho expression of his face, gavo the suggestion that ho had never heard of Harry Lauder and did not know who Gcorgo Robey was. And today wns Wednesday and a. Slorlousty ftno Wednesday. "How far Is Potshall?'' Sunny nslccd. "I'otshall, mlss7 A matter of threo mllo !" the porter said. "You go straight on there, and then turn when you como to tho Courtney Arms, then straight on for a mile, or majbo a mllo and a half, then " "All right!-' Sunny said. Sho noddpd to him blithely and stepped out down tho road. "Law. nln't It pleasant to be In the country" When 1 get on a bit and get good money, I'll live In tho country inv self," she muttered. "I'll havo a nice llttlo houso nnd a garden, and keep a boo nnd a pig, nnd nnrt a hen or two, that's tny mark ! Docs you good, doesn't It, to get nwny from tho smoke nnd the row and all that? Not that London's so dusty!" nho ndded. "I seen worso places, and It nln't treated mo bad!" Sho walked on, whittling shrilly In tho lightness of her heart. sue had martn tho thlrty-ilvc-mllo Jour ney from London to see Barstowo and to discuss the futuro of her and Bert'u ketch with hlni, but Just how sho was going to manage It Sunny did not know. Arthur Curtlss had warned her colcmnly and tragically. "It's llko this. Sunny." lie said. "IT ou go to I'otshnll and run Barstowo to earth nnd get talking Henhn to him. ro done for crood and nil : hn'll nevpr forgive you : he'll nover look at you again nor listen to you. rotsnau is sacred pacrcd to crops and pigs and cows ; no ono ever mentions Barstowo Realms there. I went down onco and I know. Take It from me, If you go thero think ing xo gei at nun tnat way, yotrro rid ing for a fall, nnd then good-bv to all ,M J'""' chances at Barstowe Realms. Seo?" " "I see '" Sunny said, "nut there's mora ways ln a houso than through the front door, old dear. You leave It to me." Sunny wrinkled her brows In deep thought as she walked nlong. She had no plan -no plan at nil with which to approach tho great Barstowe. Ah Arthur Curtlss had said, sho would rldo for a fall If she attempted to tackle Barstowo on music-hall matters on n day sacred to pigs, horses and cows and crops. "Hello;" she said to herself suddenly. She stopped and looked through "a pateway. A tine, old-fnnhloned llllza- bethnn house, standing far back Horn tho muln road, In Its spacious grounds , It ya.H a noble-looking old house, nnd It Si boro every cvldenco of tho utmost rnro m having been taken In Its upkeeji. Tho Jf grounds were In lino order There was a .' huirn lawn, dotted with knlm-wiM ii-aau lake In Iront of the houso which mir. rored tho whole structuio on Its placid rfnee. Stretching away to Hunt and left sunnv could seo orchnrds and largo tract's of land, evidently miliar fruit nnd vege- . table cultivation, uhilo In the far dis tance ueio linos of farm-bulldliigs and distant views of arable nnd meadow lands, "Who's this belong to?" Sunny risked ino larm inwirer to wnoin slio ud dreesed tho question, touched his hat. "Mister Batstowe. inlHS," he said "Squlio Burslowo that Is! Rich gentle man, miss, and the biggest dinner here abouts. They do say" ho paused "they do say as ho has something to do with a theatre in London." "I'vo heard ho has" Sunnv said. "Thank you !" Sho wulted till the old mnn hnd imno then sho pushed open u Bldo gnto and went In, Uninvited. Sunny wandeied about at her own sweet will fur about half an hour, then she happened ncioss u, i. borer. "I'm Just taking a look about Mr. llnr stowo's grounds, ' sln said. "Ui-owh a wonderful lot of fruit, don't he"' "Yes, miss, uondmful'" tho man said 'Curran's nnd niii'lien-les and o that, I suppose -tons of 'cm, eh'.'" Sunny tiskcd "Yes. miss; wonderful line croppers Mr. Barstowo has got, and he looks niter the soil too. 'iney my It lakes Kent to groV straw berries, but you should see nun men ino plums. I earth I A ou'r nor 1 fl 3 1 sur f. of It pirn gavotho man flvo shillings nnd set off afoot onco moro for Potshall, She had learned that Mr. Barstowo wns at I'otshnll Market, and that ho made his headquarters at tho Lion nnd Garter, Straight to tho Lion nnd .Garter Sunny went. Tho coffee-room was filled with men, farmers and farmers' sons. Thero was a strong flavor of- tho land about tham ; they wero eating an Immenuo lunch. Sunny ordered lunch for herself and sat at a side table, and whllo sho ate, sho watched and listened. It was not long before she spotted Barstowo sit ting among tho farmers. Ho was holding forth on the subjects of ma nuns. Tho other farmers listened re spectfully to lil.i views, for he was a mnn who knew. "Wood-nidi," Barstowo wan saying, "that Is whnt I phi my faith onf It tightens tho soil, and tho soil's too heavy hero I I used hundreds of tons of wood nsh." Ho went on laying down tho law nnd thumping tho table. "Then take poultry," ho said. "You men don't understand tho value of poul try. You keep half a hundred mangy chlckenH and allow them to run about anyhow. You get a few scoro eggs now and ngaln you get none when eggs aro fetching their price. And yott get too many eggs when eggn aro worth nothing, camparatlvcly." , "What do you do, squlro?" a man asked. "Me? I keep four thousand fowls, and every onn Is picked. I keep first cross only," Barstowo went on. "I al low two hundred fowls to each aero or orchard nnd fenco 'em In ; every six months I clear 'em off tho ground and " Sunny listened. Interested. Tills was a man who knew. Ho was teaching these other men, too, and they wero lis tening Interestedly. "That's how I get my crops that set vou all wondering,1' ho cried, "and that s now I get eggs and sell 'em at n big profit at a time when you don't see an egg In tho whole of your henhouses Tho other men wero rising and going out, ono by one. Presently thero wero Barstowo and a few others left behind. Ho had talked ro much that ho had forgotten his lunch. "I'll try that wood scheme of yours, squlro," onn man said. Barstowo nodded. Thn other men went out; only Bar stowo nnd Sunny wero left behind. Sho had finished her lunch; sho roso and went over to his table and sat down. "Good morning, squlro!" sho said. Barstowo started and looked at her; ho blinked nnd frowned. "Good morning!" ho snui nrieny; un turned red. .... "I heard what you said nuout iowis and llko that," Sunny said, "loure right. I don't know much about It, but what you said sounds llko sense ! ' "Hum!" Barstowo Bald. "I'vo been looking round your Place," Sunny said. "I didn't get per mission, but I thought you wouldn t mind. That's a flno lot of plums you vc got coming on." ..... "Very tine yes, a fine lot ! ' Bar stowo said : ho looked at her suspicious lv. Ho knew her, of course, and watted for what ho thought was coming, nnd ho frowned again. "And you look like getting a b g crop off tho rns'berrles nnd Curran a this year!" Sunny said. "A very big crop," "i o-nt tnlblni- to one of vour men. nnd ho told mo about tho way you market 'cm. I fancy you'ro wrong about that ! Wrong, noyv wnai no ynu mum about marketing fruit crops, Miss Du crow?" . "A bit!" Sunny said. "Oh !" he muttered. "You do. do you? "What you want to do Is to fix n cer tain price, a fair price, nnd seo you got it." "That's easier said than dono, young lady. I havo to tako what tno marKei fetches." . , "There's no need," Sunny sa,Id. "Take us. Wo litiv nt a fair fixed price, but the trouble with us Is to get tho fruit good nnd dry nnd fresh." "Who aro you?" ho netted sharply "Me? I'm Sunny Duirow !" "I know that, hut you say wo buy whnt do you buy?" "Fruit nnd vegetables for jams and pickles," she said. "I'm partner In Johnson & Ducrow tho John Crow Jams, you know." "Oh!" ho said: ho stared at her, "John Crow r know tho name I" "You ought!" she said. "It smacks you In tho oyo on every boarding. Wo'ro out," sho went on, "to do tho finest and tho best In pickles nnd Jams nnd sauces In this country. We sell tho best nnd tho purest, nnd wo want to buy tho best wo can get nt a fair price. It would pay you better to sell your crops direct to us at a fixed price than to stock the markots," Barstowo put his elbows on the tabic: he was filled with wonder, but ho said nothing. This girl, he thought sho had como to pester him with music-hall af fairs. Ho remembered tho trick she had nlaved on him In his car that day when sho sung to him through the crowded streets of London. But this talk of pickles and Jams and standing crops was moro to his mind. "Well, what aro your Ideas?" lie asked. "I'll tell you straight!" Sunnv said. Sho too put her elbows on tho table j she talked quickly, now and again she waved her hand. "you see, wo make a point of telling 'em nil tho time. 'You pay a penny a pound more for purity,' ami wo guaran tee purity nil tho time. And when we guarauteo purity, Wvo got to satlsfv ourselves that wo nro buying tho purest sugar nnd thn cleanest nnd soundest fruit. Now you can sell tho sort of fruit wo want, nnd we'ro in tho market for It at n fnlr price." "Hut your output?" he nsked. "It's growing. In n little time wo are taking thrty-slx ncreH of ground and putting up a model factory, whero tho publlo will bo Invited to come nnd look round and seo how everything Is done It's got to bo nil fair nnd nbovoboard. We'ro going to ndvertlso It and give nice pictures of tho fnetory and tho girls' club nnd tho swlmmlng-bnths nnd llko that, and If you llko, we'll put In a pic ture or two showing tho great orchards on Squlro Bnrstowe's estates nt Potshall which supply some of tho fruit used In' us." "You're very young to bo Intel ested In such a business!" Barstowo said. "joining line stnitlng early'" Sunny said 'I'd like to tako another look round them oi ehards." "Ko jou shall" ho said Ho was in terested. No ono Ilstenlmr tn thrr. limn KucHscii tor one moment R ours In the season. too- It's a wonderful year for plums mlBH, I'll show ou " , ' Ha took her round, and Knmi mw :i gieat deal The man spoke titily Bar stowe evldenlh knew n great deal about fruit culture "What does h" do ullh It?' nil0 asked. .UltllieiH , IIIIF-H : KCIIIlH it up to I'OI. Ing Garden, what wo can't sell locally " ..r."1. i Be0i'." s,",1"v "altl tiiightfiiy. "But does It pay linn" ' "I expect It does'" ho Mild. "Hut of course thcies n lot of waste, nnd some' times, when fruit aim selling well In the muiket, hu don't h.v much ptoin , , It. Take them plum- lhere' gZ be o. glut of plums, the say, this y"5r wa shall t nml.o next to nothing .... - - b .-,, would that Barstowo had any connection with tho music-hall world, or that Sunny was anything elho In life than one. Interested In tho production of pickles and Jams At four o'clock that afternoon, when li.UStowe's business nt the nmrkot ....... r... ,, ,. , , . ., --......v. ,,,0 ""i o" "" imi-K io ino .Manor House and Sunny droo with him. "It's a. good Idea thnt," ho said "n very good lib it I bad thmtoi.r thing of the sort myself, but I'm a bum" man. My time during the week Is oc pupled ; tho two days a week I can p."ro to the woik hero aro very much fill,! During the rest of tho week---" ' "You've got something to do with i, muslo-hall world, haven't you?" 's ln " asked. "uniij I lo looked a her and irninin.i ., . ... . . --.---- i..i i inoiigiii i hiiow your unme $".'.-. "r;: nT;;, "m :r' t.er now and cherries and curren's and- .-Mjniiy un laiuy tired out when n,,- she plums s owo had conducted her torn,,! the or" chards and trult-giowlng plots ngnTn M was growing Into too -non rlv ..', ami Sunnv realized that. ML ?P- nniiouiuei iy struck USTOEK CWJR-VOVJIL CElTfMMLV hwe: TC -smoyj MORE, MANNERS AT TVE TAWr- UNCLE BM DOESN'T LIKE UTTLE SONS WHO AE Not PDUYE- POM't TOBGCt Wvterl VOO'RE AT J.TWE TAQVE. ir'TS , -VvV E MOM ANC WD 1 I T MOM- HO iTLR. ANt pm mm's sir-A, WM wMa f CHESTER- VMLL. VoU HAVE 50MG ) BEAMS? n 3 1 I Ktt l' ' By Sidney Smith , ! I)'!) 9V ( why CHesteR-) WWAT ? J (no SOMEBODY'S STENOGBou. Page a Reformer! V!C? opyrljht. 1051, ty rubllo Lfdr Co By Hayward uoe.: come i . : : . a - . .... -- . . .i tn i- n rit n n. ijii . s . ... x i i j , n n it . . t . . r m v-ji ' y i i i' 1 1 ,AJ5STERDAV AFTCRAJOOAl CAA VMA1T SKATING. SHE WORE SOCKS'. ui.. wiih LlTTLfe TICKUY PUR EDSES OH. 'EM -AND LISTEN -WE FOUNO OUT-VE. FOUr40 OUT-SHt HAS GOT -DlMF.ES IM HER KAiEES JUST AS SA,DiE SIMPSON SAIt SHE HAD ! OLD MM dONES WHO WAS A LOG TO BUILD A FIRE MUST HAVE SEEN 'EM TOO FOR HEKEPr RIGHT ON SAVWINfi. ALTOGETHER IT WAS A SUCCESSFUL. DAW. AT THE EXT.REEA LEtT hOU SEE- A BEVW OF AJEGLECTEO BEAUTIES. FOUR MEN VERE KILLED IN THE RUSH. THE BOSS -SON IS A fiooh PWIR AAlft rtlER TUP Mil I c,ii ccr -r?.itSi.,,JUpT ABOVE. HnZusTuZon Ac aaaoAVcX. T,'"& rlZVlOAJ HOMEWARD OP AAARRIED LADIES OVER rViRTVVViTW fH..AR'EHUSBAMD5 UNDER tWtv?RUE gAWi , . , . . n rr -E.-nw.ywi.u -V3f cam was du& eHrrrt7VuJ?rzz2 zmrE. mps Smith's face. tin extbeem ri6h The Young Lady Across the Way About to Land After a 923-Milc Trip to the Frozen A'orA wl ija.1 .. t4k Iiu Fontaine Fox SCHOOL DAYS liy DWlu (it(0 YoWeWtoHtl THAT ISN'T YoOK HUM PUHCMNt BAT, r TMTi Te MAL 3rLU00ri AHO rnose. thkue m&n are LlttllEHAHlS KL00r, FAKKBLL eHQ HlNToN f The young lady across the way Boys Darwin wrote a great deal, but probably his best known work is "Tho Origin of Specie Payments." ? 3S " it PETEYA Great Help "l Wy,Bo Voor mm Tea M h Fil I )Smmm j 1W.T vwi. mm- ftucceo vw ihto f I wMmmmMi j " RoatfiH wei. is SKow mw Aiemsioaj j MnlmKMxM ' . ) . 6F we Boo ' P.a Jrte c0wit I , jffil i liA'" TZ? ss i-tw9- t-ysi-gr - m, i-.-- tfp iS?' .p, JJJ, -;::::::& 5 g- - WEs5 Oi tr .Cf? :?l Oi V t 1fe rWfccNsrEnr -i - HA-HA-ISWT t A SCREAM T S AW OLD HAT HAD BEP012E . I was married . I t LX IJ r I nn r rvj I I 0) I TClIC "PPTtrV UPAO, I W-1LJ ka' i "VX Xw - IJL? A A 1 f . V li wvj, jpv rm? uit nin i . .xnv wr jm '.mii i i x x XX "'w . - - Mr i ' t n l i v - -w t VxA nil V V . KT 1 ... i I J .IK I1 C? i Wr e NIKE.' VHATI r' -.'' 7- p -, -: v " -Ha-ha-ha IMAtime. AWVOWE FAU- IMC IW LOVE VJITH ME VlTHl THIS 0KI THE CLANCY KIDS A Draw TT!i.. i. ... i I i ni vMnc.Ni t jVi 1 Nou - rO . "-iOf 1 y T Jr JT! 1 TTTiW fl? II I 1 i ) V By C. A. VoiffM " " ' !!. .. them. Hunny nodded. "I low would jou say jou hno "X recKou not fur short four tons,'' he said, ".m, KOi a woiiorriui neiief In many puin of three to Hu slowo'd then them appUs. all iln, ,lt ".' ""' Sunny tpent mioilier hour, at tli, Cinl snmn ivnn.i ' for tho Jam factory, im ,"u...,u.".le', far off as ever from h-J ,7..', ..' ." blieteh. ' "p"" ThlH new factory scheme of ,ouis- Harslowo said. "Ih It In operation yer" ' ".Vnt quite yet, hut f goC ,,,'. I'm going l,. lei Homo of mv fr?J . come In and take a share" Smi.C said money grand Yo ,.,. we'll want' V ,lt n ! street I business now n rutwa hut thn place Isn't hlg enough an, Vint that alone ll Is not tho sort of" c ' want. I want n show pi,,,.,, ,,',,,.. make plrtuies of and get the news Li ptoplo to iou.( .low,) nnd h", ' ' ,el ll. oa I "An.i-.,,,,,! ,, Mlllll. Ing"?..?-' ",0"l'y Wl" i"" l,u k- "Aliout twelve tlnnisand '" Sunnv ii.i "And tl.nt'M for buying the Inn "reeh 1,1 and pulling uji the building,! v! making tli.. gondii III nil tho tlmo an I a.. ici'lhlng big noiv " "11111111- icuntini'hh tu.muimiow , lloi'liltfM. mi, by a. V, fulnam Soim n ? fte you've 1 TH6N DonV 05Gir FOR A CO CCA R. By Percy L. Crosby 7 5 s2k r-J nu - 1 v1- J ,M l 1 wnii , ', .'l.Si x ,
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