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THING HAPPEN. Clean up your town, your streets, your vacant lots. Fave well.your streets, particularly those that the passersby can see. Paint up your buildings. Make everything along the highway and the railroad look so clean, and fine, and grand, that those who drive and ride through will involuntarily stop and stare, because they are seeing things here they do NOT see in other towns. Then, when they read your sign, they will nod their heads, because they have seen what you are bragging about. Make your town so sweet and swell a place to live that it will delight the hearts of your own home people.

"And then when you have done that, people will want to stop and look at Jonesville. They will want to drop a line back and ask all about it. They will tell others on their journey of that beautiful little city they went through that fairly made their mouths water with its amazing attractiveness. Then Jonesville will start to grow. It will grow from within, first. Then, it will grow from without. But the people of Jonesville won't be worried about the passdrsby. And when Jonesville reaches that stage, it will start to be a metropolis."

Thus he spoke and departed. And they stared at one another in Jonesville. And they knew that they had listened to the undraped truth itself. And they went to work to make their town what THEY'wanted it to be, rather than what they wanted someone else to think of it.

And the thing is working.

And Maggie has irer job back.