The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 26, 1927, Page 4

PAGE FOUR 4 over to ese rulers would be to see many s , : — ry The Bismarck Tribune tr vicar ansars brourkt down tthe om wrt An Independent Newspaper ltevel. Shanghai under white rule is pictured as THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER —shumare, civilized city where the poverty and op. (Established 1873) | pression of other Chinese cities are non-existent. Published bv the Bismarck Tribune Company, | It may all be so, But here is a little evidence | Bismarck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at the other way. Ce | ome ond clean mal anjdent’ and Publisher} Not Jone ago the Shanghai municipal couneil ap- : i ! pointe? a commission to study child labor condi- — Subscription Rates Payable in Advance | tions in this European-ruled city. This commis- Daily by carrier, per year ..... Ar + $7.20 | sion’s report discloses appalling conditions. ' 1 Daily by mail, per year, (ia Bismarck) :720| \ The selling of young girls into slagery, it states, Daily by mail, per year, : is common, | (in state outside Bi: Daily by mail, outside o: Member Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press + 6.00 Thousands upon thousands of children work in Many of the children are no more than, six years old; the 12-hour day is the rule. Con- | Brown kid gloves, the gauntlet kind, ¢ with stitched cuffs, I noticed them! particular ‘because,I've always. want- | e@ gome, just like that.” s=tiNow, Maryyy think hard,”)> Ban- ning admonished the Irish girl. “You have testified that you saw Miss Cherry in the grasp of Mr. Clu Deating at his breast with her hani markable book and transferred it, to the screen, where, as an F. B. O. pré- duction, it may be seen at the Capitel| Theatre next Monday when it be- j gins a two day ran. The picture re- fleets the spirit of its author; it is replete with the richness of life, and reveals the depths of human ‘ture as this great woman knew it be. It deals with hearts and souls, and the events that happen to test | man and prove him to be worthy. The cast was selected by Mr. Meehan with ; . «,.{ the greatest care in order that one) However, habits! would give a faithful delineation of, fallen off a lot the character that he or she was to| make live on the een, az Judge Grimshaw picked up his gavel to declare the mid-day recess.! “There—there was a light on in! j the car, The dash-board light, 1 guess it was,” Mary answered belli obviously relieved — th luncheon interrupted = Churchill's ,, Searching cross-examination, i Did you notice whether her hands; TOMORROW — Mary confesses were gloved, or bare?” taxing Cherry's ring. f Cherry leaned toward Churchill, | (Copyright, 1927, A Service, Inc.) BARBS o¢—_________—___-4 VARENTHESES We have it on the word of Mus- wolini that “women ate the agree- able or pleasant parentheses of life.” We who had always been told they were question marks are glad that’s settled now... . Speak of the current styles you could call some of the fair ones exclamation points and area rs win the pennant. of soliloquy have lately i Old Masters i |o—______—_______» ' Who dreamed that beauty passes like | set aside! a dream? | Another For these red lips, with all their} mournful pride, Service, Inc.) Mournful that no new wonder may | A sport writer has one thing to be thankful for these days. He doesn't have to make any wise cracks about clair Lew: Governor Small has Health Week in Ilinois. disarmament conference? pyright, 1927, NEA wa eC ae ak eA ae ae not be far wrong... . Of course ——aea 1" betide, ninco the Charlarton eg saimeh the —_—— Troy pateod away in one high fun- jand more women stand on founda- { eral gleam, tions like )( than like ()... At Temperature and j And Usna’s children died. that, it is a woman's influence that changed many a male 0 intoal.... And in some households the lady is not only the parentheses but the whole sentence. | {We and the laboring world are pass- | ing by; jAmid men’s souls, that waver and ive place, e pale water in the wintry | Road Conditions marck—Clear, 22 * St. Cloud—Clear, 22; roads fai Minot—Clear, 15; roads snowy. j ° ri ‘ace, Mankato—Clear, 28; rough. Under the passing stars, foam’ of Jamestown — Clear, roads! th Lives A New York woman on her 102nd birthday had a party and 330 young fellows of 60 or more attended. Can’t the police do something about this flaming youth? je sky, on this lonely face. roads fair. ~ 20;' roads fair. Fargo—Ciear, ‘9 roads poor. Senator Jim Reed at Detroit the | other day said he was out of politics,| Mandan—Clear, 25; ronds heavy,' Bef mm so is Walter Johnson out of | poor. s ball, 0’ weed bevgee out} Gi: 5 bs peeds falc. > 1s Sea teh i man, “*¥T| Rochester—Cloudy, 25 roads bad. fen ae Ne a ee, ad’s| taberiis take —Cloidy,” 145° “ronds) © Chie tl have a “Husband's ir. fore her wan Lea rg Bast —Winiam Bat ‘. pit ering cae ie ee +3 Sleep is largely a matter of climate of the World,’ hae in public accarding to a new theory. In cold Tegions men need much fatty food} In 1909, the world’s production of and not too much sleep. In Fo | for preieainl ik wn ere tons, The , however, much s! le timat outpul vr ‘was 100,000 ‘the dest role, Stone, , Bow down, archangels, in your dim abode; nts you were, or any hearts to bahay 4 and kind one lingered by His seal He made the world to be a grassy road = ‘he Rone BY JOE, SACELVA, BEING A PATRON OFTHE: FINE ARTS, AND HAVING THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE SHALLOW Tas . Wi Take Tar se OM oF “our Moun, / ‘ The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to | tractors bring children in from the country dis-| i use for republication of all news dispatches tricts, paying the parents $2 a month for each} 1 credited to it or not ee er tcetat in d ovis hild. The contractors make a profit of about $4} i Fer, and also the local news of spontaneous o ja month per child, and the youngsters are miserably { pablished herein. All rights of republication of all |) TUOs' Pir oa“ tid not at all and are kept like id other matter herein are also reserved. if 8 , Pi Dp tTegular slaves. i ; Foreign Representatives we i In the silk mills are the worst abuses. Thé re-, } ‘ G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPA} | port cites only two mills where relatively humane | q 1 CHICAGO DETROIT | ; ; ji ; } y 1 Tower Bidg. Kresge Bldg. | Working conditions prevail; and one of these is un- | & } PAYNE, BURNS & SMITH {der native Chinese management and the other un-} q ‘2 NEW YORK eve - Fifth Ave. Bldg. der Japanese management! The worst conditions | & "(ONG Cy, Baw ae Oy ON) i were found in the-British-owned and operated mills. | jews .. * { k (Official City, State and County paper | ‘The report cites a long list of abuses. It closes ‘ “Bob” Walton jby declaring that the council has found it diffi- | ' This community was shocked by the sudden death! cult to daw up regulations to protect the children } 4 of “Bob” Walton, local representative of the Amer- | because the mills are on a highly competitive foot-; q jean Raily Express company. For more thanjing and cannot afford to have their profits shaved. | 30 years he served the railway company, either in| This little report is worth remembering. We had} 4 general or express departments. Courteous, effi-| been led to believe that only in native-ruled China| cient and respected, “Bob,” ax he was affectionately | were such atrocious conditions prevalent. This; known, leaves a host of friends. , proves otherwise, ' His carreer is unique among the railroad men of! It indicates, possibly, that the white rule in Chi- the state. Coming to Bismarck in 18k4, he served nese cities is not quite as beneficial far all con-! 4 without interruption the residents of this city in ned as we have been told. ' *Warious railroad capacities | [Sent SSRs ere | “Bob” Walton did the day's job as loyally as he Will Balto Be Happy? | knew how. Though seldom in the public eye, he al-| You remember Balto, the dog, don’t you? | ways took a keen interest in the development of Bis-| | Sure you do. Balto and his companion huski ‘ marck and the improvement of the service in which) pulled a sledful of medicines to Nome, Alaska, he was engaged. The handling of express ship-| couple of years ago, to the plauditsof a nation. ments has connected with it what is known in the; Well, Balto and the others have been ro sting in! ate: es : parlance of the street as “trouble-shooting.” “Bob”! a Los Angeles dime museum ever since. New c'ti- ' was an efficient “trouble” man. He had tact and zens of Cleveland, Ohio, have bought them and will! . knew how to make the rough smooth and pour oil | provide a home in the Cleveland zoo for them,! v4 : = high commendation for the kind of express service It’s a fine-idea. Only we have a hunch that Balto he gave to this territory. and his mates would be a lot happier if someone R ¢ I , S ° f Bismarck is going to miss “Bob” Walton. | tock them back to Alaska and hitched them to | C1 ntimate tories 0 \ The sympathy of the community goes to his be-| sled once more. They're of the breed that needs he Sid f Offi $ 1 Seiad tacily. | Svavleiatilfdencasstostuiuie) t ‘omans Side o! icia A Ce een Skee eee oma : ow, wf ae ife in the Capital White Rule in Shanghai 5 We Love Fairy Stories t e =e Adjudging the rights and wrongs of the present = ho says we are a hard-boiled, cynical nation? | By Allene Sumner < giving a party on the day that/are the best buckwheat cake makers situation in China is a difficult job. | Why, hang it all, we still believe in fairi iNubbiietore Mika ones ieee Constituent "arrived a very in their state and are willing to come It is made even more difficult by the fact that Two men have been arrested in Chicago char ed | ytuee dogs, oF ata 4 Bade coun dtupan votre te the White House to flip and flap it is hard for us in America to get accurate, un- With getting out one of the wildest wild-cat mining tat fficial on the ice cream. {the president's own, “if an agreenble fined informaté - wei . stock scl ye vengE ah ‘ two offic women together! The morning of the party, the! wage'is offered.” biased information about the situation there. | stoe ate You can imagine. They claimed to |; this question apt to, farmer's wife arrived. She had drum- Aol tiny snemmentaeoerabnwiehout In consequence, there are a number of rather own land in South America which not only pro-|¢irculute over the te {med up several hundred votes in her/ tne state's longest hair or the hes hazy impressions abroad which may need a little duced oil, but had gold, platinum, diamonds and |. Ses ing “what district for said congressman and| squash pie-maker, They come, ju Simei other (ltlactank ; i from?” For by the! felt no hesitancy in becoming their) sie toh. wuntine tance the tient correcting. er little trinkets as well. The natives of this sifts constituents send| house guest. In order‘to make sure,)P8!" folks eevee oi Most of us, no doubt, feel that Shanghai, the “in. Tegion, the prospectus said, ate and drank out of|ttem may you know the home ad-, however, that she would be welcome,|,,Their tastes ure simple enough. ternational city,” is a sort of out; y haven of | old and platini csels. en On dens shecbrought.-with: her about a 20-| The enespricaless ‘boonisaf course. 1 national city,” is a sort of outpost or haven o' platinum vessels. | Official Washington from the great! pound cheese from the dairy state. | 8" opportunity to shake Calvin Cool- enlightened civilization and modern culture in the They sold nearly $1,000,000 worth of stock on/ven spaces must find real houses | And It Wasn't Mild idge's hand, midst of a sea of ignorant semi-barbarians, this prospectus! with cellars und garages, not apart-| w, if it had been mild cheese,"| Since the president shakes hands It i ity ipenerally alt Ah ai i] Cynical? Thi % i ments, for livestock descends upon said the official lady who told me the|every noon of his life with those who is pretty generally felt that to turn Shanghai | 'ynical? 1s nation just loves fairy stories, |them--horned owls, prairie dogs,|tale, “but it wasn’t, and not only|present themselves with cards from — — mormon sin lane fee — + sss... | beef on the hoof, and even rattle-] was it not mild, but she was so glad|their congressman, it is’ all very lisse: ni when she heard I was having a party|simple, but the smart. congressman a e 'e PS) ‘T THE MOVIES” Why do the folks at home send|that night and we could cut the|makes the visitor think that the AT THE MOVIES | such white elephants and black rat-leheese So we had ‘strong cheese] privilege in a fate boca knd ‘wltat he Aid aw INNKCr “yy — eee ! tlesnakes? | Just to -show off the] with spun sugar violets,” and my [is sienally honored. ; ELTINGE THEATRE grandeur of the state. | guests pronounces it—behind my Their tastes are simple. But when % i sat F he Fruit Bel back—the ‘ e 6 I wishi Lois M : & rom the Fruit Belt back—the ‘queerest party they had|67 come in one month, all wishing a © (927 & NEA SERVICE, INC. a * | pucti*and ‘dae re Mulhall with Wee de] The most envied official set are|ever attended.” It was.” to see the Washington monument, it When Mary Kearney again took] whia Fitaniee.,, ili ka t the Elti ze Meet those from the fruit belt with their} When the tired congressman home-| means that some official hostess YY ag hispered excitedly: “I had taken at the Eltinge for Monday and Tues- i * j ii the stand on Thursday” morning,| my gloves off! I took them off to| day in “God Gaye Me Tone ances crates, of apples and oranges and| ward wends his weary way at even-| omg uo to the dof just 67 times Banning kept her until almost e him back my engagement ring!”| Dixie Wilson's. short” story, Mike #tapefruit, their boxes of raisins and| fall, his spouse's cheery greeting is,| with them. Pca twelve o'clock before he permitted] ” 1. bad , 4 ‘n{colorful record of a short ies grapes, their figs and dates _ “Well, what did “they want today? (To Be Continued.) Churchill to begin his cross-examina-| Mary Kearney’s answer to Beamnen| four lives, ‘They. were persone whol gut’, Herbert Hoover, for instanee,|,Then ‘he tells the grist of the day's —_— : tion of the state's star witness, destion came, she loaned back hate | might well have come from the ends, 2Nws Presents a tea table londed| mail, Headache, Neuralgia Banning’s last line of questioning | {closing her ceen we ite one WP] of the earth. All were young, hu| ith huge California raisins. Froud Father Started Something ie returned to the subject of Cherry's | iyoce toe remy, ees Mya, hE MEF three were old in the wane et Dut! Sometimes the constituents come| Three-fourths of it was from those Nervous Dyspepsia appearance when she had entered) syigs, (fins (QF Mary Kearney! wortg, The fourth, Mary, was throne! Cling in person with their gifts. {who wanted to come to Washington * rp the downstairs hall of the Cluny| S14? into a vortex created’ by life. and! Sere ey cee may | and, shake the president's. hand.| Bowel Pains, Jaundice magsion, admitted by Mary. iqa'e Was still wearing her gloves.) only saved because of her faith and Tank, % certain way according to the| Reuben Bland, of Georgia, said to be “Now, y, tell me as nearly as|% trust. and State Departmen id the social sec-| the father of the nation’s largest aad you gan remember how Miss Cherry) | When at last Churchill had his} After having been married less Tetaries: put umong themselves they| family, who came to see Coolidge,| Red Cross Pills restore lost tone was dressed,” Bunning directed her.| chance at the witness, he went at|than a week, deliciously happy in her} 7ank quite differently. Informally,] started trouble for the congressmen. |to overworked kidneys, liver, stomach “Well, sir, she was wearing a/her with head down, eyebrows heet-|new paradise, she is told that Steve the one of highest rank are the ones! Every mail brings tidings of— oe agen ee Flagg o Moge brown jcoutsuit, and a little brown] ling over his keen, frowning eyes,|has taken another woman aboard Wose home states are farthest from] The woman with the longest hair|stipation and conditions tending to hat. “Velours, us girls call it,” and/ like an angry bull charging. his ship. It is unbeliev: the cupital, and thos€ of least degree! in her state— a weak digestive system. ‘ ry a ‘zing. Pp. nbelievable, but as h ch: he ce pen A The ii di in Red C: Pill: Mary simpered as she smiled toward| “Mary Kearney, you have testi-|¢he hours pass, her mind starts dis.;27¢ those Whose home states border] The boy with seven toes— le ingredients in Red Cross Pills Cherry, who was regarding her with| fied here that you recognized Mr.|torting this awful thought. She sets, the District of Columbia The father with the biggest fect—-jare those generally mead by the wide, grave, golden eyes. Chris Wiley as he sat in the car,|out for the dock and— A Gift in Hand The best squash pie-maker in her| world’s best physicians in liver, kid “It Was snowing, you have said,| Now. i dark outside, wasn’t it?| There you have one of the most! pint raison, is that those whose}eounty. Node apie Picen rg UM eae 4 " Wacharie wean elit dramatic, poignant episodes ‘ever, Lome Addresses are most distant are]! The freaks rarely have funds for|they remove sickness by inducing the ait? ity transferred to the silver screen, [fest bothered with the constituency,|'the trip. They expect the congress-|body secretions to act; they elimin- MR aie iat a coatiuitcBhe-aiaps| “Hows tayewan that: coc. thontahe fui 5 hile those from bordering climes|_man to send them a ticket and“ betate disease by destroying bacteria in ped right out of the closed coupe in. | doorway, Mary?" CAPITOL THEATRE keep open house continuously. —_—_fglad of the chance to show what ‘his|the bowels. 3 to the house, you know, and didn’t| “It was parked just outside the| When Gene Stratton-Porter wrote ,, ut, 48 We were saying, sometimes | state can produce. Red Cross Pills are put up in have time to get cold. Porte cochere, about twenty-five feet | “The Magic Garden,” she unknow- the visiting constituent brings her{ Experts on Buckwheat Cakes | watch-shaped, screw top bottles sold “Don't draw conclusions, Mary.|from the front door. Parked side-| ingly followed the old precept of *ift in person. j Probably 1,000 letters have beon|by druggists for 25c. The genuine Just answer the questions as they | ways, and T looked out the door to| keeping the best for the facet ot; Mrs. B. from a milk and cow state} received by congressmen and sena-{has the Red Cross Insignia printed are asked. Now, Mary, did you! see how Miss Cherry had come andj before her death the popular au. ,f°ived such a visitation, Mrs. B.}tors from women who baast that they | on hox.—Adv. notice whether Mixa Cherry was! I seen the coupe parked there, The thoress completed the story which —— ! : ss sid bald 4 SONS) wearing gloves?” Banning sprung| window of the car was down and [| later proved to be her greatest, it was ‘4 his question with a meaning smile| seen Mr. Chris Wiley sitting there] also by @ tragic coincidence to be her OUR BOARDING HOUSE By Ahern at the jury. | by the wheel,” final work, J. Leo Meehan, Mrs.! sell “Yes, sir, she was wearing gloves.| “In the dark?” Churchill snapped, Porter's son-in-law has taken this re-| «<3 WW THAT CASE THERE WILL BE Ro FEE ! a. BUT IT WILL TAKE ME SIX MONTHS TO FINISH THE “CANVAS, ALTHOUGH T AM “HRouGH GREAT INFLUENCE AMONG ART CIRCLES, I WiLL SEE THAT Your ULTRA MODERN RoRTRAIT OF ME 6 HUNG IN ALL THE IMPORTANT WITH You AT THIS SITTING J MY FRIEND, TONIA, WILL PLAY tHIS SIAMESE DRUM AT TIMES FoR ME, So 1 CAN GET Your ATELEPATHIC THOUGHTS AND ADD 76 “he PoRTeAIT != HE STORY ° | CHAPTER L—With a strange whom he introduces as his nephew, | | Ned Carter, Claude Melnotte Dabbs |returns from New York to his gen- eral grocery at Peace Valley, Pa. {To “Aunt Liddy,” his housekeeper, he explains that Carter is a chance acquaintance, veteran of the World | war, whom he had met and taken a | liking to. |. GHAPTER Il.—Carter tells Aunt ‘Lyddy he has broken with his |family und his sweetheart because jof his resentment of their ultra | pacific tendencies. With Dabbs Ned visit: of “collection of good-natured leran| according to the ‘grocer. |They almost run over a dog |longing to a girl whom Carter ay |parently recognizes, Ned delivers a grocery order and in his absence the girl, Dorothy Selden, reveals! jthat she knows him to be Ned Carter Rangeley, son. of Loren! Rangeley, New York banker. CHAPTER Ul. Next day Ned commenecs work, as a “grocer’s ‘boy. At a residence, the “White ; House,” he delivers an order marked “Johnston.” There he meets a gifl |who tells him she and her mother are alone in the house, the servants \having left them because of the “loneliness.” He promises to try to procure household help, Arrange- ment is made for a cook to go to the | Johnstons’, |} CHAPTER IV—The cook being un- Cloper. Hollew,’ abiding place!’ ogetty of the pool. | there! ‘sight! t6° gather some: flowers Ned thought he heard a faint cry. It was such , a.tiny, muffed sound that he didn’t think It important and would have {gone about his business had he bot seen that Mary was no longer No longer anywhere jn He ran at a tremendous rate of speed, such # spurt ax he had never accomplished in all his university dayd. The pool was muddy and dis. turbed. He couldn't see Mary, but there was a long streak in the muddy edge that showed where her foot had slipped. His coat was off, and he was ia the pool, Groping, his hands came in contact with her dress, He / put forth all his strength and rose to the surface, dragging Mary with him. Now that he held the motionless irl in his arms, he wondered if is was the end. He knew, inthe same dim uncertainty, that if it was he would go mourning all his days for what had been denied him. He put the girl down on the grass and still in a daze of mingled effort and dream, began to work to restore her breathing, and as he raised and lowered her arms kept repeating: “Oh, my dear, don't die!” He must have said {t aloud, for her long lashes lifted. the blue eyes looked straight at bim, and Mary said, “1 won't. Do stop and—let me up,’ please.” Ned helped her to her feet, “Oh, Tn so ashamed,” breathed Mary. Ned, not yet able to speuk, or ‘look at her for very long ut a time, ltook her hand and tried to hurry + her to the farmhouse. Though ft luoked deserted. Ned thought he could ‘see signg 6f fife.’ Mary was so‘ hampered’ by her wet garments, which were plastered to her with mud, that he picked her up in his artis, refusing to listen to her pro- test. After the initial request to be put down, Mary ply let her ; head rest on bis shoulder and \ shook with cold. At least that was Ned's bellet able to begin work at once, Ned vis-' until he looked down at her face. j its the White House to inform Miss | Johnston of the fact. Explaining | the situation to her, mother, the |. “Mary,” is astonished by tha‘ lady's emotion at the Dabbs’ name. for groceries. They are | Dorothy Selden. about Mary vaguely familiar to and daughter. Mrs. Johnston ac- eon. Dabbs sees his wife, “Polly,” and is disturbed. | He informs Ned he has something on his mind that he would like to tell» CHAPTER VI.—Claude revea!s to’ |had married, while at under peculiar circumstances, and his wife left him the day. after the ceremony. He is convinced “Mrs. naturally wants td know, Mary? Th hia’ office, C. M."Dabbs, more embarked on his difficult of composition, wrote, tore up and rewrote all afternoon. finally ceased writing he had com- pleted a short note, which he thrust Into his pocket, carefully de- The cook arrives, and ¢f noth! | Mary, with Ned, goes to the village wipe seen by strea | Dabbs, and he is highly interested in baby village gossip concerning the mother pock companies Mary to an inn for luneh- kerchlef and gravely Mary 1, Mrs. Johnston” 13 ed ft. Laughter still trembled al Ned a romance of his early life. He can't stop for that. She was quivering with Inughter. ‘can't help it" she gasped. ¢ I'm grateful for your saving my mention of !Ife, and all th but T can think ig but how much I want to our face, It's—it's so ed put her down and laughed. CHAPTER V.—There is something: ie ought to see what you look You look exactly like a mud 1” he told hervas he felt in tix et for a handkerchief. * Gravely, Ned divided the hand- the corners of her mouth, however, as she took this opportunity of wringing some of the water from 1 | her garments, “Come,” Ned commanded, Now then, pe college, and let's see what the farmhouse holds for us.” “I hope it holds just one woin- Johnston” is his wife, “Rally,” and 80. Bo matter how old or fat,’ be- who is Cause In so waterlogged ahd mud plastered I can scarcely ‘lft one foot after the other.” <“T hate to blast your hopes, but * once see approaching us an ancient mat task with whiskers. He has the look of a hermit. No, cheer up. He's When he calling Phoebe, and by all the gods, she's young.” She wa: Phoebe Sayer was fourteen, but for all that she kept stroying the others. He still could house for Uncle ‘Nate, and mlser not decide whether or not to seud It. Dorothy Selden, having In vain for some sign of Just anger, or at least indignation, from Ned, him ride by; happy and contented, with Mary Johnston sea: ly beside him. It was not to be borne. Dorothy threw herself sud- telegraph blank and pen, wrote rap- inessage read: “Ned here under assumed name. What shall I do? “Dorothy Selden.” Tt was directéd to Loren Lorimer Rangeley. Ap ote settlementer.” meant to call attention to. Ned's, folly and presumption, but it wa: also a jibe. at Mary. he. must hard up for a wan,” was the com- ment. oe ‘The pair under. observation. en- gaged in the most absorbing game in the world, hastened toward Great Cold spring, ome of the beauty spots:-of the countrys! Although the road was as new to Ned as to Mary, he digcoursed | learnedly on its history, its Indian name, which he was compelled to admit: he had forgotten and couldn't pronounce anyway. Mary Mstened, interested. and amused, especially as Ned informed her that jhe ‘had just “boned up” on the sub- Jeet this morning. “Uncle Claude supplied me with the local color,” he told her honestly. “It isn’t at all in my Hane, but I thought Mrs. Johnston might expect something from her ‘hired man.'” te “Mr. Carter,” asked Mary hud- denly, “was your mother Mr. Dabbs’ sister?” Ned started. “Oh, no, Claude Dabbs is really .no relation to. me at all, I'm fond of him, and I fall hi Vere oe La “Oh, t you me you were ‘adopted,’” and Mary lapsed again into. silence. She saw only one thing very clearly, and that was Ned's profile. She liked ir. The Great Cold spring, Ned told her, was just a Quarter of a mile away. As he sight of a plack the ‘spri ; Some distance up the road, be- yond the lake; was a great old farmhouse which appeared desert- ed. A® they. neared . the. spring. Mary, exclaimed with pleasure. 8i- multaneously the rear tire biew out. ‘i {Ned's exclamation was not one | of pleasure. He the ma- chine, at the side of the road and made ready with ‘and wrench, Mary went toward ¢ pool was deep, but did not look so, Ned bad the tire on.in record Hine, As he ‘stooped te had again the privilege of seeing floor, serene- Mary, ordered hii Idly, When she had finished, the tittle short, if anything, and hers The village saw Ned and Mary | l’hoebe ride by and snickered: “Dabbs’; wents, whose dainty fineness she nevvy was chasing ‘round after «| marveled at, into a washtub near The snicker was. the door, Plays Inland Hamlets , the though he was, he loved Phoebe. Xow, though, he had growled ited something In his tattered whiskere about having a “passe! of half- drowned ri on his clean kitchen Phoebe, who had scented ex. cltement, and fallen tn love with out tothe barn overalls for Ned nele Nate to the with a pair of cl Though it cut denly, but gracefully, into thechair heart, she made him take with him at the writing desk, and seizing &® 9 shirt and a pair of socks, Phoebe was just fourteen, a were the only feminine garments in the house. Slowly, and with much hilarity, Mary was inducted into “the longest things I've got.” When Ned emerged from the barn and brought the car up to the door, the blinds were up and throwing the wet gar- She saw Ned and called back to the open door, Johnston, your young man fo * br you,’ Ned, wondering how Mary would take this classification; looked with interest at the doorway ax Mary emerged. She’ wep tn in, Phoebe's dark blue dresi,aGheqlece yar- ment that ended at the knees, She had Phoebe's best black cott: stockings, which didn’t quite reach thome knees, sa Mary had rolled them. She had tled her dark hair with a bine ribbon and she looked Nike a charming actress ready to play “Alice In’ Wonderland.” (TO BE CONTINUED.) Last of Hay Burners A ge cr Mariano, Fla., March 26.—()— The circus has kept pace with other big Business in consolidation and modernization, but it has one. sur- viver of the old wagon show days- Ernest Haag, whose tent show is known to denizens of the big tops as “the Mast pf the hay-burners.” . Long before the big circuses have completed their winter overhauling, laag show starts its annual trek up the Atlantic seaboard, dodgin; railroad towns with its wagons ond trucks and prospering mightily by playing inland hamlets gaudy. sions are. Ever; out, with the . vestments of 35 years ago. ‘ } ry , Even motor equipment, has: been, added reluctantly by Haag t old “hay burner” "wagons, Prove bought- from farmers, winter Haag offers to sell road beckoning years cannot resist, A THOUGHT g The ; when parvucth SPrayerte aii me Guilt ha: ‘to accusation al yielding to an i wi eas § Sensi: Sana sts cee Of Plalntiatg, As hts ~~ mara ut the comi f spri the call of the pat beckoning ‘wig? an appeal that even. hia seventy wi <