Evening Star Newspaper, January 19, 1924, Page 9

: The .Ligtr o ames By William S. Hart A Story Filled With Romance and Adventure ‘Copyright, 1928, by Thomas Y. Crowell Oo. VeV eV TTe ire\ (Continued from Yesterday's Star.) CHAPTER VI .The Rumbling. Those discussions which the new barrister had so fearlessly mentioned Were taking place with more and more frequenoy. In Richmond, little ®Toups of grave men spoke guardedly of the intolerable conditions which the crown pressed home upon the colonies, cf the constantly increasing armies. quartered upon them, of the ceaseless effort to make the military independent of and ‘superior to the <Ivil power, \ This matter of the sol- diery was a festering sore in the colonial - side. The new country, Deaceful, busily productive, was only desirous of harmony and genlal treat- ment {rom its government. It want- ed.its own laws, its own legislation, and these were interfered with ever and anon. It seemed a grinning per- versity sat. behind all its attempts o establish for itself that right and sane jurisdiction which it so sorely needed, baing so far across seas from the seat:of government. Taxes were imposed ‘under which the planters smarted. A’thousand oppressions and harrassments daily Irked the strug- gling new world, crueltits unneces- ®sary and deadening to its growth. “I tell you, gentlemen,” sald Mr. Franeis Lee of Jamestown, on a day in that uneasy summer, “it Is usage of slaves we undergo, nothing less. ‘Who eise could, or would, bear the deprivation of natural rights such as the colonies bear, and stand the yoke in meakness? “Slaves? You say slaves, sir?” cried that Mr. Bainbridge Courthy Wwho had never ceased to pine for the cliffs of Dover, his pale face flushed ‘with passion. ou use the word pon his majesty’'s subjects?’ Y1 do, sir," ‘answered the other steadily, “and stand by my word . “Yes, and I abet i broke in Mr. Carroll of Carroliton. 'We have been too long-suffering, and have reaped as re d_the increased pressure of tyranny. I turn sleepless in my bed (-f‘}rlghts. thinking on the issue.” And in many another in the dis- tricts north, south and everywhere,” said & Mr. Walton, who was up on matters appertaining to the moving of his tobacco crop in Georgia. I know of more than I could count frogn now till night who have thus vitally at heart the same unbearable things.” “Then, gentlemen,” sald Mr. Cour- thy, tensely, “I term you whigs and traitors. and beg you will excuse my presence.” And, bowing stifly, leaving them anger. But Mr. Carroll dropped a heavy hand on his shoulder and swung him ubck to face them. Mr. Carroll's eyes were blazing, too. “Sir,” he said, “I like not to seem discourteous, nor to speak of what none mentions who respects another's tragedy, but I fai lto see, before God, how you, of all men in Virginia, can stand so blindly for a king who gave you practical hanish nt for—a mis- iken political zeal, let us say, which caused you to blunder in the per- formance of a royal commission. You, of all men in Virginia, I repeat, seem to bear the heaviest load of in- Justice, since it is starnly personal. y, How now ?—How now bear your yoke in supine he was for in a white heat of Mr. poor face quivered as it he had been struck. He flung back his shoulders, and lifted his head with a_regal motion, gazing ;zlmll.gnz'fn the tense faces before #T.am a loyal subject of His Maj- esty, King George,” he sald, with a galliht ring to his voice, “and as such would give my life. Bafore that high ldealism, mistaken though it seemed to every man pres- ent, Mr. Carroll dropped his hand and held it out. “Forgive me, sir.” he said. “Every man to his constraining consclence. Whe am I, to question yours?" & The other took the proffered hand ~—and it was to be for the last time, as circumstances afterward proved— bowed to the circle, and withdrew. YA year ago,” sald Francis Lee, “and each and every one of us would | have struck the mouth that called us, traitor! 'Aye,” returned Mr. Walton, “but now we must bear with it in patience, aince to the majority we may seem to merit it. 1 pray God to hasten the day when that majority will open s to the same light that we are secing on the horizon.” Speech such as this ' was heard among the chosen at many places; in artain taprooms in the towns, in Irooms and along the peaceful roads where the elm trees drowsed. Jen smouldered and smarted beneath Their wrongs; thought, and struggled thelr consciences and their lovalty. Something was stirring to its borning in the heart of the strong vound land—something destined to dominate the earth. ‘And here and there went one who spoke—and men listened. Om the stream’s edge great visions came’ to Patrick Henry, sitting in idleness, his line a-jerking with its catch, the roan horse dreaming in hip-gropped rest on the bank beslde him. Often the man's blue eyes stared unseeing across the qulet watérs to where the green trees, éripping their slim fingers in the placid surface, made a fine back- zround for the flaming plctures that }ie saw. For this simple man of the forest peered Into the future with the vision of prophecy. He beheld a counttry peopled in every part, mag- nificent and proud; a nation which s its own possession, sane and glad: with liberty. Hg saw freedom rise like a phoentx, snd he knew.there would be flame and -ash below. He saw danger and death and heartbreak rampant all up and down_the land, yet he saw glory shining through the murk like the face of God. Ah! what aid not Patrick Henry see on the background of the still green troes woross the drowsy waters! Like the peasant girl of France, h heard his voices, beheld his vision And e, toc, carried them before th Deople. Sometimes, among a few friends, he spoke words that might have cost him his head: but the gist of his £poegh filtered out in secret ways to spread like oil on water. It reached hereiand there, sent eyes a-following him when he appeared in the streets of_Jamestown. But Patrick Henry was not the only one who felt the great, vague stir. Mr. Washington and his friends were meeting and talking constantly, and the greatest gravity attended them. Day by day more men were be- coming talked about: more names were coming under the opprobrious title! of whig; strong friendships were being severed by difference opinian. Poor Mr. Bainridge was in'a con- stant . fever of anger and agitation, and the Randolphs, old and young, cut sharply every one of their ac- quatntances who did not ring clear Grzv. Dunmore sent out rigorous warnings to stop the dangerous talk and posted the square of Jamestown with, - threats of dire and severs punishment to be meted out to all and any who did not heed. The rising wave of unrest reached the sheltered boudoirs of the ladies of the colonles, and many a pretty mouth_soiled itself with what was termed treason, among them that of Euphenie La Porte; for this willful nn;,fmperlmu girl dearly loved strife and danger of any sort, and the very thought of rebllion fired her from head to foot. But not to her friend Penelope did she say one word of this—Penelope, whom she adored devoutly. Shgfla -Lovelare was another ma wever.” Fof where was there jing feet. R ever sound of drums, far promise of them, rouse the Irish heart? Even before her brother let go and flung himself into the new movement with all the glowing fervor of his nature, Sheila was & whig at heart. S0 these two girls whispered of the same great things that sent men talking in secret groups—fair flowers of girls, dally- ing with shadows of flames! It was when the summer was half done that Timothy Lovelace felt' the touch of the sacred fire. He stopped Mr. Jefferson one day, and with a white face and shaking lips, con- fronted him. “Tom,” he sald tensely, ‘there was a night at the Cock's Feather in the 1y spring when you and I looked rd in each others eyes and saw there grave things that wrung our hearts. Recall you that occasion?" “I do said ‘Mr. Jefferson, and walted. “I was hot in my loyalty to his majesty that night, and did presume to “question you for standing by In friendliness ‘to that shabby com- moner, who was even then In bad repute among all loyalists. Today I big your indulgence for my youth and temper. Today I, too, say, as you sald then, ‘a man’s Intentions are be- tween him and his God.' I, too, know what I am saying and what my words may mean.” The boy wet his pale lips while his merry eyes were dark with the ex- citement of the times. Mr. Jefferson smiled, putting forth his hand_to crush that of his friend therein. The mounting light of patriotism was in his face. “Thank God for you, Timothy!" he sald fervently. I do thank Him for you! Such as you and I—and many of the young gentlemen of James- town and Richmond whom I might name—cannot rest long beneath the iron heel of oppression. The Hesslan blood is intolerable, pressing home its power. How long, think you, can we endure as we are? How long al- low our laws to be abolished at will, our charters taken away, our repre- sentative houses to be dissolved? How_ long bow to a tyranny that grinds us with a thousand studled wrongs? And we are men and Amer- icans, we will revolt. And I say, for one, the sooner the betteri” Timothy Lovelace came to attend the small gatherings which strove so earnestly to get at the root of this momentous matter: and there he sometimes met and listened to Patrick Henry, whose wondrous spiritual fire clothed his words with magic. And, be it sald to the voung blade's honor, he went once and gave his hand to the lank man of the backwoods whom he had once reviled. Patrick Henry took it, hardly recognizing its owner, for he was so high in the clouds of patriotism that the im- mediate things of earth seemed nebulous that day. ‘Word of Patrick Henry by this time had flown all over the colonies. He was called whig and traitor, and other things as bad; vet there were many who swore by him as a man of true vision. The great travail of the future took hold on him and sent him restlessly here and there, wherever were gathered those who would listen to him: for he had begun to discover that he bore between his lips a charm. Always when he spoke men listened, and he knew dimly that when he was in full power of his simple speech he could swing them hither and yon as he_willed. There was that In his persuasive volce which plaved upon the human hoart llke—like—a woman's fingers on_a spinnet's keys! Those spinnet keys at the Cock's Feather Inn had struck deep in among the melodies of his nature, and he seemed on many occasions to hear again their nameless tunes sighing in_the twilight of the tender spring. But the man had scant time for romancing, what with his constantly recurring visions, his rides of forty, sixty and a hundred miles from this mesting roint to that, and the ter- rible gravity of the moment. He did. however, recall, with a thrill, the earnest face of fhe voung girl that day by the courthouse door, what time he pleaded his famous case, and once he presumed upon that memory. It was twilight in of a silent summer's day, and Doxey, alone for once, since her father had gone to Richmond on some errand ®f pro- vender for the inn, sat playing her airs, as was her wont, in the outer room. Upon her spirit had fallen, too, the unrest of the times, and her mouth that smiled 8o often had taken on new 1lines of stald repression. The pouring music that came from be- Reath her fingers was of a different fiber from those elusive tunes which she was_wont to play some several months before, belng in accord, un- consclously, with the surcharged feel- ing of the day. It streamed into the darkness of the warm night with martial seeming, with a vague fore- cast of drums and the tread of march- The girl's falr face was lifted in the shadows, and it bore the look of martyrs—the keen, rapt look of one who serves—a God. a country or—a king. She beheld in fancy the glory of her sovereign. as sha had been taught to do since baby- Lood. And she was tory-born. But youth is versatils, given to quick transition, and mood follows mood like the ripples of wind {2 grass. Presently her sweet face dropped in pensive tenderness, and she fell to playing “The Rose and Thorn.” If she fancled a tall form darkened the shadows by the door, she was none Ito blame. " Thus she played on and on—her maiden thougnts as pure and jehadowy as moonlight on thistle- down—so that she did not hear at first the deeper, finer, softer timber of the music that seemed to flood the right. It seomed only a deepening of her spiritual mood, a richer appre- ciation of the tender song. At last her fingers drooped on the keys. stopped of thelr own volition, as_their owner lost herself in her or the faint that did not “jreflections, and for a full minute the glrl did not realize that the music =il went ont” ut of the dew-damp ni, be- yond her window and the nv‘::"floor the strains of “The Rose and Thorn' still trembled with their inimitable longing! Doxey Falrweather opened Ter beautiful month in astonishment and Ilistened. Without a doubt, a spell was on the forest—witcheraft was here—for a sobbing wvoice was pleading with the lover in the song, oven as her spinnet had pleaded— but in what exaulsitely golden tones, what heartbreaking melody % She held Rer breath and listened. One capable hand was laid to her beart, as any of her daintier sisters of the aristocracy might have laid their rose-leat fl:‘r{sn. She was on e moment all wirl, and musio was forgotter. hesmgstiat earer came the 'plaintl like a disembodied ~soul, Warl‘iflt‘l;'r across the dust of the beaten yard, idrew near to the dusky door, and the mald beheld against the stars o tall form with a violin upon its shoulder. As_the last strains of “The Rowe and Thorp” died piteously upon the rirht she thought of the words of her ifather after the episode of the night of the card game—'a fshing, fdding ne'er-do-well”—and knew ' upon the instant, that the man in the outer shadow was Patrick Henry. i But the exquisite. blending of the instruments, 80 that she had. not known where the spinnet left oft and ‘the violin began, was jrresistible, and she.sat still as -a mouse. half trem- bling' with a vague delight. . - 2 l;zv:;-lon:: moment no word was 'l*un the.man sighed, lowe violin, and waited. There wan soni thing imperfous in that silent wait- in,r!,mnng t;t& flr‘l'hlt 1t. A & . she not move, and present Patrisk Henry spoke. o “Mistress,” he said in that deap volce which seemed to have such power ,(“can_ you resist “The Rose and Thorn? It drew me once and T have followed since. It lives in my heart. WiIl you not come to ita call, even 8o far as the sill of the door = " (Continued in Tomo; s Star.) THE I'M T HAPPIEST MAN INTHE WORLD TONIGHT . THe DucHess o "’ FLATBUSH 13 GONNAY il BGcome MRS. JGFF ISl on wAsHinGron's T i n.fl DAN CUPD'S FINALLY LANDED JEFF. T'LL CALL UP SPINIS AMD TELL HIM THe SAD news: Hewroll - RIVveRrsiDe SIRTHDAY! * T'LL HURRY HomMe AnD TELL MUT T, 2 Shall He Marry Her Because She Loves Him, Though He Cannot Reciprocate Her Love? The Lonely Wife Who Wants to Adopt a Baby EAR MISS DIX; Tam a bachelor thirty-five vears old. I have a woman friend of twenty-six with whom I have gone around for several years and whom I have regarded as a good pal and chum, and nothing else. Three weeks ago this girl's parents moved to a distant state. The evening before they left I took the girl to dinner, and I got the surprise of my life when she told me that she did not want to go away and leave me and that if 1 told her to stay she would be glad to do so, because she loved me above eversthing else. I told her I didn’t care for her in that way and that she had better go on with her parents. But ever since she went away she has written me dally letters telling me how heartbroken she is ‘without me aud begging me to let her come to me. Here is my problem: Shall I marry her, make her happy and make myself miserable, or shall T tell her that I cannot marry her because I do not love her, and thus break her heart? GEORGE S. Answer: When women take the initiative in love making and pop the question they have to take the risk of getting the mitten, just as a man does when he goes a-courting. And men have to learn how to spunk up and say “No" to the women they don't love and don't want, just as women turn down a proposition from a man for whom they do not care. You are in great danger, George, of wrecking your whole life, because you are so flattered at having a woman make love to you and propose to you that you are about to lose your head and do the most criminally foolish thing that a man can possibly do. And that is to marry a woman whom he doesn't love because she loves him. Lots of men do it. Lots of men have married women that they knew at the time were not suitable wives for them—women who didn’t belong to their strata of society, women who bored them, women they knew to be brainless little fools. But the women clung to them and cried at the thought of being parted from them, and the poor, befuddled men didn’t have the backbone to break away from the clutching hands and flee from the tears and save themselves. Don't be this sort of a weak, sentimental fool, George. Just realize this: That if you don't love a woman before you marry her you will come to hate her after you are tied to her, because every woman puts her best foot foremost before the wedding. If she doesn't charm you when she has got on her company clothes and her company manners she will be actually Tepulsive to you when you see her in wrappers and curl papers, and when you have to put up with her nerves and her temper. It takes a lot of love to enable anybody, and especially & man, to stand matrimony. ‘And don’t think that you will make the woman happy by marrying her when you don’t love her. A shanghaled husband is a poor- substitute for a Volunteer one. You will always resent her having got the better of you. You will always feel her a burden, and you will let her know it. Besides, the chances“are that some day you will meet the One Woman and fall in love with her. Say “No"” to the a of'a’broken heart. They never do. irl and stick to it, and don't worry about her dying DOROTHY DIX. - * . e EAR MISS DIX: I am a woman of thirty-eight and live in the country, but I find it very lonely, as my husband is out at work all day. I have no children, and will never have any. I am very anxlous to adopt one, but my husband will not consent to it It would be a great comfort for me to have a little one to love and to take care of. Will you give mg Sour ideas about adopting a baby? Itkink, Mrs. C. L, that the finest thing anybody can do is to take a little homeless, orphaned child and to bring it up so that it will never knaw that it is motherless and fatherless. Also, I think that it is the best-paying investment that anybddy can make. 2 When we get middle-aged we begin to lose interest in ourselves. We know pretty much what we are going to be and have. Fate has dealt our cards for us and we.know our future. Nor {8 there very much more that we want_for ourselves. Then is when the blessing of children comes in. They bring new life and gayety into the house. They bring fresh interests. They bring hope and ambition, so that people literally live their lives over again in their children, and they can look férward to their children doing all of the things they would have liked.to do and couldr't do. If you haven't any child of your own the best thing to do is to get a substitute one; and adopting a child has some advantages over having one of your own. You can pick out a girl or a boy, and the kind of a looking child you want, instead of having to take what the stork brought you. And-it may very well be that this child will have fine talents inherited Answer: Y63, SPWIS, JeFe's eALLen FOR A DAME. =o==~-SURSE, \€ He WKhcw WHAT AL US MARRIED MEN koW HE'D PREFER THE GLecTRIC CHAIR, WE CAN'T CounT Hita IN ON ANY MoRe ]‘-fi ? LION TAMERS PARTIES: 4\ We'd never know some fellers had been prominent politically 'lf we didn’ read that they’d re-1 { sumed th’ practice o’ law. After your mother dies ther'’s no market fer a personal griev- ance. (Copyright National Newspaper Service.) Changes in Stations of Army and Navy Officers Of Interest to Capital ARMY. Maj. J. H. Jouett, air service, at Langled Field, Va., has been ordered to Brooks Field, San Antonio, Tex., for duty Master Sergt. John Radeliff, 34th In- fantry, at Fort Eustls, Vu.; Sergt. Luchlous Smith, 10th Cavalry, at Fort Huachuca, Ariz., and First Sergt. 0. F. O. Bernhardt. ehgineers, at Mot Ham: phreys, Va., have been placed on the re lérPd list on account of age. coapt. P H. Mallory. Quartermaster orps, ha een appointed constri Quartermaster. Waeningion. B roct 8 Second Lieut. A. G. Kelly, infantry, has been detailed to the air service and ordered to Brook Fleld, Tex., for duty, NAW Lieut. Commander &. E. Hoard has been assigned to the eland, and Ldeut. ommander R. P. Meclewski of the Cleveland, to the 5th naval distriet, Hampton' Roads, Va. Lieut. Commander C. B. Camerer, Medical Corps. has been transferred | from' the Naval Hospital. New York, to the Naval Hospital, Mare Island, Calif.; Lieut. L. M. Desmond, Dentai Corps, and H. W. S. Sargent, Medical Corps, from the Naval Medical School, | this city, to the Naval Hospital, San | Diego, Calif.; Lieut Harry Atwood, Supply Corps, from the Navy Depart- ment to_the® Altair; Lieut. George E.! Duffy, Supply Corps, from the Navy {Department, to the 15th naval dis- trict; Ensign P. C. Healy, from the Bruce, to the Navy Department, and | Ensign P. C. Wirtz, from the Nayal Hospital, this city, to the West Vir~ [ 1 | phis. EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1924." MUTT AND JEFF—]Jeff Profits by the Experience of Others, (Oopyright, 1923, by H. C. Fisber. Y IF HE GGTS (K ARTER g MNE gcrotic His WIEE WILL SoAk HIM wiTH A RoLLInG P WHAT'S THAT 2- RIGHT®! HE'LL WAKE UP Trade Reg. U. 8. Pat. Of.) AETER HE's BCEN IN SLAVERY A week, BuT— Epitome of Events Up to January 19. FOREIGN. Plot to kill President of. Ecuador bared. Two killed, score hurt in Parls communist riot. Hidalgo capi- tal taken from Mexican rebels. One hundred and sixteen Mexican rebels killed in Pachuca fight. Experts to begin probe of German budget. Com- mission begins work on German money stabilizing plan. Tehuacan lost by rebels. Fifty reported dead as new earthquake strikes Japan. Reichsbank head called to testify in experts’ probe. ' Baldwin concedes tariff fight lost. French taxes go up 20 per cent to stop swift fall of franc. Mexico shuts down all radio stations. Dawes denounces rumor of commis- sion's dissension. Americans leap from windows to escape death in new (Toklo quake. Finnish premier re- signs. Baidwin forces start last fight. Bubonic plague terror strikes Volga region. British rail men to walk out Sunday. Three thousand Russians exiled to White sea. rowly misses bomb. Von Kahr gov- ernment seizes fascist funds, NATIONAL. Mellon to debate Eighty fanatics Split on tax Couzens invites on tax cut plan. slain in Filipino ro; plan _divides republican leaders in the House. Elimination of Watson seen as gain for Coolidge. Drastic shake-up In Gotham police. Butler plans banditproof city in Phila. lelphia. Battle to finish for liberal tules begun In House. Senator Bur- aum proposes new bonus bill. Mur- dock resigns from trade body; for- mer secretary to President Harding may get position. Chairman Green fears tax bill will be killed, Fall charged with hiding source of funds fn Senate Teapot Dome probe. Dem- ocrats choose New York as conven- tion city; seen as blow to McAdoo. Bryan may lose delegate race. U. S. to protect ships in Mexico. Mellon hits back at Couzens' stand. Work asks change in reorganization of his department. Tax bill attacked from many sides. Shenandoah safe in hangar after wild night in gale; proves stability of ship. Polar dash is assured, Moffett to_command trip. Probe of 'Maj. Gen. Wood and son asked by Senator Ladd. Bankers ask tax bill adoption. Fall announces he is through with public life. Texas denies pleas of Mexican troops to ross border. Bok peace plan inquiry enate to start Monday. Renew struggles over House rules. U. S. warships may prevent blockade of Tampico. Canal _Atlantic defense Quickly taken by “attacking Ma- rines.” Presidential hope denied by Baker. . DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Officlals invited to attend District pay hearing. People’s counsel for pital asked by Zihlman. Rev. Dr. Chappell to take new post in Mem- Unity in school board row is sought. Peyser says Lloyd is playing politics. Fair rating of United States workers urged on floor of House. More light manufacturing fer Capital recommended. Retirement act de- clared unjust at joint hearing, Favor- able action on police pay bill assured in House. The Star inaugurates news story essay contest; praised by Ballou. District child welfare laws taken up. Great art center sought for Washing- ton. Committee “to get favorable re- port on police-fireman pay bill. to school pay blll drppped. Forced from its ancestors that are not in your blood. Don't be afraid of the child's not loving you or of your not caring for it as much as you would for one of without getting crazy over it; an helpless hands that goes right to your heart a baby, And when he sees how much happler your husband opposes your adopting take one for a little while on trial. your ©wn. d there is something in the cling of little ‘Why, you can't raise a puppy and stays there forever. So, if just persuade him to let you you are and what an interest it brings into your life. and when he feels the little soft, warm thing nestl ed in his arms, he will never let it go. Some people hesitate to adopt children, fearing that they may turn out badly. Well, that is the ‘We have to tal turn out badly than do the children gi D child up in the way it should go, hether it is your own flesh and blood or a stranger's. Bring a it, no matter W EAR MISS DIX: A D®Xept it- 1 have wri fuses to return it. I 1 ;:ck. Can you tell me how to do so? Answer: makes her sex & C| they know that men treated. way you can get it is to w by a certain date you W' with. having gotten goods und There is nobody more des loak for her dishonesty. Many girls graft on men because have not the nerve to treat them as they deserve to be This girl has stolen your ring and means to keep it, and the only rite her word that unless she returns it to you i1 swear out a warrant against her, charging her er false pretenses. (Copyright, 1924. risk people take with their own children. ke a chance on everything in lite, and no more adopted ven us by nature. and it will not depart from DOROTHY DIX. girl asked me to let her try on my class ring and she tten her several letters and asked her for it, but she prize my ring very highly and am anxious to get it TAD. picaBle, Tad, than the girl who DOROTHY DIX. i —— i ————— U e e STOCKHOLDERS BASE | BEVERIDGE ATTACKS SUIT ON GOULD CASE Evidence to Be Utilized in $200,- 000,000 Fight Against Directors. Assogjated Préss. ’,Nl:w Y‘am(. Januafy 19.—Stock- holders of the Denver and Rio Grande raliroad who have a suit for $200,000,- 000 pending against directors of the rallrosd will- take advantage of the Gould accounting sult, now under way, In pressing their own case, Gus- tavus A. Rogers, counsel for the stockholders, announced. He sald the stockholders would base their case on evidence given in the. accounting sult, in which fifty heirs of Jay Gould ask for an ace counting by the three surviving trus teps of the estate. - ‘Briefs were filed by the stockholds ers in support of thelr recent motion o substitute the executors of the :}Nr:e Gould estate as defendants in‘the $200,000,000 suit. Arguments on the briefs will be heard within few days. In their suit the stock. holders allege dissipation of the as- sets otfl the uflr:ud by the d‘:::s't::; in the fight twenty years ago 2 the Gould interests and’E. H. Harrl man, e S Passing the Buok. From the Boston Transcript His Wite—You always act lke & fool. ?g(r.')\”e’ek—_‘WuIL my dear, I always follow your advice. ' 5-T0-4 COURT RULINGS Suggests Arguments Twice When Slim Majority in Opinion Ap- pears Imminent. Associated Press. W;’;w YORK, January 19.—Public resentment -against the increasing frequency of fivesto-four decisions of the United States Supreme Court in- yalldating important congressional Jegislation threatens to curb or abol- |lg the powers of the court, former Senator Albert J. Beveridge of In- dlana told the New York State Bar Association, in annual session last night. lg!’arhhb!. he sald, “the’ justices might agree among themselves that they will not invalidate an act of Congress unless two-thirds of them agree that it is unconstitutional Stgely the overthrow of a national statute i{s as important/as a verdict of guilty In an impeachment trial or the rejection of a presidential veto, oach of which requires a ‘two-thirds majority. Would not all of us pre- fer decisions of the Supreme Court to be unanimous or by decisive ma- Jorities?” As a still \wiser remedy, Mr. Bever- tdge -uuel&ed: “Reargument in all -constitutional cases where on a first hearing the court finds a five-to-four decision likely would.change the unfortunate condition. At any rate, a publio an- nouncement_by the court that in all such doubtful situations such cases must Be twice argued and twice con- red id make annulment of even a judicial majority of one’ Juktiée, faF, miore accéptable. to the public m’lnd and conscience.” ginia. thirty-year retirement act for federal i emploves asked. reported with $1,000 exemption amend- ment. Neglect of development of Great Falls declared crime by Sena- tor Norris. who sees big saving for District. Wealth of city has dbeeh in- creased. Committee favors electric MARINE CORPS. Brig. Gen. T. P. Kane has been de- tached from the ist Brigade, Haitl, and ordered to Marine headquarters, this city. Capts. H. R. Mason and Wi-P, Rich- ards and First Lieut. E. -A." Craig have been assigned to duty at Cavite, P. I e First Lieuts. B. Moore, J. M. MoHugh and C. C. prawn have been ordered to Peking, Ghina, for duty. Second Lieuts. H. DT Spangler and T L. Cagle in_Santo Domingo and Sccond Lieut. W. O, Brice in Haitl have been ordered to Quantigo, Va. pt. J. E. Betts has been trans- terred from Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, to San Francisco. FLORIDA BISHOP DIES. Episcopal Prelate . Sucoumbs o] Year's Illness. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., January 19.— Rf. Rev. Edwin Gardner Weed, Bishop of ‘the Diocese of* Florida, -died. at his home here last night .aften an iliness lasting more than a:year, whioh nad ts inception while he“was' Feturning from: the general conventioz of. the Episcopal Church held at_Portland, Oreg.,.in Sep- tember, 1922. He.was: next4n seniority to Presiding Bishop,Gasrett of” Dallas, | Tex: Bishop Weed, was born in Sa- vannah, Ga., July 2351847 He was at- tending the Universify of Georgla when enlisted in the 7th Georgla Cavalry the age of sixteen T { PERPETUAL |~ BUILDING ’i for memorial armory adopted. Presi- dent.meets dry leaders here. Educa- tion board {ssue is dropped. Mount Weather site for prison unlikely. Franklin honored in Thrift week ex- ercises here, Isaac Gans re-elected head of Chamber of Commerce. Clean- up drive urged by Commissioner Bell. City heads firm in gas tax stand. Sen- ate passes bill to ban District of Co- lumbia gallows. Board on allev prob- lem named. Legion post here opposed to bonus. Downward trend in District ASSOCIATION Pays 6 Per Cent on shares maturing in 45 or 83 months. It Pays 4 Per Cent ‘on shares withdrawn be- fore ‘maturity. Assets More Than Surplus More Than > $850,000 - Corner 11th and E Sts. N.W. JAMES BERRY......Presid Secretary footl. Asaneddition to school or business Junches or for between meal snacks it is vastly superior to most of the sweets commonly used. Trade-mark on every package Made only by Established 1780 Mills st Dorchester, Mass, " and Montreal, Caneda Yowler Takes a Turn. Never move until yeu know The way is clear for you to go. —Dauny Meadow: Mouse. TYowler the Bob Cat grinned as Gray Fox took to his heels. He snarled once, Just to make Gray Fox run a little faster, if that were possible. Then Yowler turned his attention to that rusty old tomato can, which had landed Just in front of him. It had landed right end up, Now, Yowler may have as much curi- osity as any other, but he seldom al- lows his curiosity to overcome his sus- picions. Yowler is a very susplicious person. That rusty old can looked harmiess en h. Yes, sir, it looked harmless enough. Just the same, Yow- ler was suspicious of it. If it was as harmless as it looked, why had Gray Fox lost his temper over it? Yowler sat for a long time, staring at that old can, his short tall twitching. Then he slowly walked around the can Pilsudskl nar- at a safe distance, never once taking his eves from it? “It is nothing but what it 100ks to be, an old can,” thought Yowler. “I've “IT IS NOTHING BUT W] LOOKS TO. BE, AN OLD CAN THOUGHT YOWLER. seen dozens of old cans like it. quite harmless. me."” Having made up his mind to this, Yowler walked over to the old can_and sniffed at the opening In the top. Such 3 Shanse as came over Yowler then. _ eyes falrly glowed with eagern. and’delight. His Stub of 4 tail twitched faster than ever. There was a mouse in that old can. There wasn't the least bit of doubt about it. He understood now why Gray Fox had been knocking that old can about. He had been trying to_get that Mouse out. Yowler took anether good, long sniff. His mouth began to water and he be- gan to purr with satisfaction. He would have that Mouse himself. Yes. sir, he would have that Mouse himself. You see, at first it didn't enter his head that he might have any trouble in get- ting that Mouse. Here it was right under his very nose. Of course, he could get it. He reached out and gently tipped the can over on its side. Then he crouched flat to the ground, just a good jump back of that old can, and waited. He walted and walted 'and waited. He 1t is It can't possibly hurt Rider]come out. Reciprocity Wil 18| much wisdom since meetin | chair for exe¢utions in District. Bill i thrown about fo in that old. can. didn’t make & sound. Only that stub of a tail moved. It twitched every now and then. Yowler ‘was walting for Danny Meadow Mouse to make up his mind that the way was clear and to So he waited and walted and waited. ° But Danny Meadow Mouse had gained Gray Fox. He wanted to get out of. that old. can. He wanted to get back to the safety of kis home under a cértain stump on the edge of that garden.. He mnever had wanted anything more. He was bruiged and sore and dame. {fom haviig been ut i | ) —By BUD FISHER SPIVIS, THIS 15 JCEE BROADCASTING . THE RUMSR. ABOUT Me GETTING MARRIED 15 A LIE! By Thornton W. Burgess. he was wise enough to know that he didn’t know if the way was clear out- side, and he did know that he was safe inside. So Danny remained right where he was. He strongly suspected that Gray Fox was lylng in wait for him somewhere. You see, as yet he knew nothing about Yowler the Bob Cat. (Copyright, 1924, by T. W. Burgess.) ‘The next sto owler's Patience Comes to an End.” First 0il Discovery From the Kansas City Times. The first reference to the discovery of petroleum in America is contained in a letter written in 1628 by Joseph. de la Roche d'Allion, a French mis- sionary to the Indians. He had crossed the Niagara river and made his way southward through western New York into northern Pennsylvania, where he found a spring from which oil flowed. This oil was highly esteemed by the In- dians for medicinal uses. The letter of the prieat was publ ed in 1632 in Sagard's “Histoire de Canada.” in 1620, An Enclosed Porch brings in the out- doors. Itisnota lux- ury and can be had at a nominal cost. It means an extra room for your home —a cheerful one filled with sunlight. Have your builder give you an idea how little it will cost to enclose your porch. Use Plate Glass Founded 1864 HIRES TURNER GLASS COMPANY WASHINGTON, D. C. ROSSL VA. FAMILY PROVED ITS WORTH “I have three children,” said Mrs. Clair Gurney of Belfast, Me., “and all our family have proved the worth of Father John's Medicine. My husband has taken it with good results, and we have given it to the baby to build up her strength and it helps her very much. '-’ v ror COUGHS AT HANG DN No Alcohol or Dangerous Drugs Flonzaley Central High School Lot wdar th K and 2w e bl i thaso Victor tademeris