Evening Star Newspaper, January 1, 1928, Page 53

. THE TIMID SOUL < H, ADDISON vour rubbers.’ Already Mr. Peavey was one and one-half minutex behind his morning sched- nle: going ba meant that he would You forgot & have to run for his trolley car. And io | & man who prided himself on never forgetting. the words called after him by his wife were irritating. But he went hack, put on the rubbers and set out again, 1nnning ostenstatiously rather faster than was necessary. Near the end of the block he slowed down and thrust two fingers into the Yittle pocket where he invas his toose change. What he touched there shocked him There were only two coins. He drew them out: a nickel and a penny. The fare was § cents. He had hanknotes in his wallet Would there he time to step into the “‘THAT WAS A TWOSPOT, 1 THINK. SAID MR. PEAVEY. ‘STEP INSIDE; GROWLED bly kept | THE SUNDAY STAR., WASHINGTON. D. C. —B Richard The Star’s First-Run Fiction. this) morning to he late. The old man's been howling for that estimate on the scaffolding since before 8 o'clock.’ Mr. Peavey, who hoasted that he never mislaid a document, knew where the estimate was. said so, got it, took it to the front office and came back with his head high. “Boxs say anything?" asked Dow, as one who craves another’s bad news ‘Not a word. And he'd hetter not. I'm not in any too good a humor my- | selr.” Thus he introduced naturally encounter with the conductor. The recital was fairly accurate, except that It ended with a hint of Mr. Peavey's striding off, coolly jotting down the conductor's number. Might us well keep your shirt on,” sald Dow; “vou can’t do anything." “Yes I can. I'm writing a letter to papers.” pers won't print it." | “Yes they will, the way'I'm writing {it. T'll make this letter hot —so hot iUN sizzle,” “Better to give me all “Have yon got chicken feed?” “Refuse to take it.” said the con: | { ductor smoothly, “and T'll put you oft the car.” Later in the day various pat replies were to suggest themselves to Mr Peavey. At the moment none offerad, for the car took u sharp eurve and he own aguln suddenly on the knee voung man alreaft “Pardon m | ing an argument with the conductor ! iYean,” sald the yvoung man | | sat of to—1'm going to take his numbes “What'll you do with his number? 183 I'll write to the company his impudence.” that get you? ‘They the do it now while you got mad up.” “an't yet. Costigan's busy those plastering figures. Costigan—when directly addi'essed, | Miss Costigan—spread her stenog- | raphic services over the needs of five { members of the staff. Usually gthere was a waiting list for her and ap- vointments must he negotiated. A handicap which fretted Mr. Peavey and Mr. Dow was that they had no buzzer. There was, indecd, a buzzer in the cavern beneath their desks, but it was only end: the bution which animated was one in a long row on the | table. When the buzzer buz: Mr Peavey jumped and wen it buzzed twice, both men jumy only Dow went. If either needed Miss | Costigan. he had to wslk to her desk, some 50 feet. ! Mr. Peavey made this Please, Mizs Cost id you come to" | "I'm busy now,” she said, not look- ling up. | "1 mean—after to lunch. it's [ter” “Whatcha doing? me?" ¥ | with an,” he began, Mr. a—personal Dow goes out mat. Trying to vamp T mean it's a . It's very important.” Il rightie. It's a date * % % % HROUGH the morning Mr. Peavey found it hard to keep his mind personal THE CONDUCTOR.” pilgrimage. | drug store and get change? No: the | chuck them letters in the waste bas. car was coming fast. He must brave | ket the conductor with a hill. 1 For this rare, audacious deed, M. Peavey had aritual. Clambering to the | I wax piatform, he searched his pocke! by one, then shook his head, drew | forth the wallet and took out one of | the hills. saying in a tone which died | | said the young man, “if vou I'd write to the news. on his duties. His slide rule was shot vack and forth in anticx which would !have mystified an observer who knew the technic of that ingenious instru- | ment. merals, setting i«h manne Peavey's pencil w of English—"hoor- it to the travel- ing public”—~*tax of this zreat Qimit of endurance.” Once, pencil hegan to write “municip ship—" but at that crisis, crushed revolt and the eraser swept the words away. At noon Dhw went nine minutes later floated to Mr. Peavey. balanced her ghorthand book rossed Knees, “Spit it out,” she said. eat lunch at the Ritz in half an hour jon was not a simple exer Peavey. Commonly he dealt in standardized term: conforming to plans and specifica 0 be done thorough and workma For these accustomed phrases Mixs Costigan had her private sym- bols, shorter even than shorthand. Office practice held no precedent for a letter to the papers. Mr. Peavey began cris “To the editor of the leave the name blank. Dear sir: There'll be four of these letter “Whatta you mean four “One to every newspaper. After a silence Miss Costigan said “1 know a newspaper man, work the Bee. Runs the elevator there, up 1 night: you might say up and down Rut Mr. M. down bi owe to lunch, and Peavey was the receiving | it | ave been a constant and 8 month ) an on the | getting worse and worse 3 {There he found himself checked, He decided to try walking, | means used by the I ting tongue. He stalked twice und the desks. Misss Costigan | brought out a mirror and patted her | hair. It occurred to Mr, Peavey that he was not a sympathetic persc the Snatching out his watch, he ex. claime ‘Gosh, 1 forgot! 1 had lurich date myself. Can’t finish now.” “You didn’'t hardly start,” said Miss Costigan. H LR got his hat and hurried ont. Once in the street, he went more slowly toward a cafeteria. This w a day for self-service: he could hear tn be exposed to the possible pert- ness of a4 waitre After walked down the street, When he Instead of the habitual nu-| s | “I've gotta | on | s to loosen the | a Y— J. Walsh > | met a postman he glowered; the gray uniform, like that of the conductor, symbolized the vast power behind the individuat who wore it. He crossed wnen the traffie cop was not looking, thus def! the new -walker or- |dinance. He came tuck past the fire at the blue-clad firemen lounging in the doorway. In his own building he went out of the way to brush heavily against the gilded elevator starter and shouted his floor =0 loudly that the operator snapped, “Think 1I'm deaf? Mr. Peavey, in his enmity for all rep. sentatives of authority, was almost ipe for anarchy. D ntternoon he was buey. Onee Miss Costigan made the rare advance of coming to ask if he wanted to give her that letter. “No, no,” he said, “not this after- noon.”” To Dow he explained, “Going to write it at home tonight, where it's quiet.” He walked home. lle was not go- ing to do any business with the street raflway while his protest was pend ing: and, anyway, he nceded the ex- erc To his supper he brought an air of {injury which made Mrs. Peaevey won- | der what could he wrong with her cooking. As he pushed away his ap- | ple sauce, he said b “Rid off { the table, | have to write s ! ""When she did not ask what hi v lite work might be, he added: “It’s a letter to the papers.” This took effect. “Oh, Addizon, what about?" He told the story, this time with more color, Hix wife's indignation mounted (o match his own: it was | hard for her not to interrupt. M to | Peavey often said that he wus never !interrupted in his own home. | "When he finished, she asked: | “Will they print your lette | "I'd like to see them leaeve it ont Miss—er, somebody at my office knows man on the Bee. I'll make it so hot [it'n sizzle.” | “Oh, Addisbn, 1 wish you would put | in something about those clerks in the stores. They're as uppety——" ‘m not writing a book, you know,” fr. Peave: ow, Addixon, you needn't get sore at m too, I'm sure I can write my | own letter. if 1 wish to. He must have left his fountain pen the office—clear evidence he was t_himself toda “Where's the in at n he asked. Tunch he | tation, throwing a klance of hatred | | | | “MR. PEAVEY CAME BACK FROM THE FRONT OFFICE Wi 'Oh, , Addison, it's all dAried up.|one in action, but.such is the fnflu- Only this morning I was saying that|ence of the comic strip she suspected | I have to buy a bottle.$ them all. | “All right, all right. 'Guess T can | sha it vi E E & The dignity of Mr. Peavey was not | | shape it up with a pencil. Il get| e CERTY Ol | Miss Costigan to copy it, anyway, to- morrow.” | “Well. T suppose vou have got some | | stationer: i . SN She brought a_ box of assorted e erenn ‘raye bridled 4t} papers. from which he chose a large She never had actually seen| mocme o PeTumed. mottied, edged in i = | “Addison, you ain't going to use! that nice paper to write on in pencil?” “I certainly-am. This is an impor- tant matter.” | For 20 minutes there was no sound except_ the clatter of dishes in the | Kitchen. When Mrs. Peavey came in. | taking off_her apron, she said: “You know we was going to the movies.” Although at that very moment Mr. R pher. | \ | . With a martyr's gesture he clipped | | the silver-plated pencil into his breast | | pocket and went with her. At the | movies he incurred a mild rebuke | {from the usher. The inspiring effect | of a drama of passion and renuncia- ! Peavey was stuck, he did not say so. | ITH HIS HEAD HIGH.” revised, copied and sealed in a pur- ple-lin~d envelope addressed ~To Editor of the Bee.” “Thers up stifly, “Thought you was going to write it 10 all the papers,” said Mrs. Peavey. “Why—why, my hand is tired Any- Bee is the Lig paper: all the big poople read it If the Boe takes up a thing all the others just got to take it up. too. Il give it to the Ree exclusively.” “You're tired. Addison. Il just run down to the post box and mail ! vou." “Thank you, Sarah. She took the letter. amp.on it,” she said. “Well, put one on, can’t you?" “There ain't a stamp in the house.” For Heaven's sake” he cried. “ean’t ever keep anything in the house? Down at the office, now, Miss Costigan keeps a box in her desk"”—— “This ain't Miss Costigan's office.” his wife retorted. “You can just take vour old letter and get Miss Costigan said Mr. Peavey, getting in a squeak rry, haven't got any thing smalle The condnctor handed him § cents said: “Fare in the bao: Mr. Peavey's unsteady palm five nickels and seven pennies and mo- tioned him into the car. Mr. Peavey paused to say, was a 2dollar bill. “Th—that was & maid Mr. Peavey. “Hul “Step inside,” growled the conduc. tor. “Got mo time now for remarks.” Mr. Peavey sat on the edge of the mearest seat and tried to glare while more passengers entered. At last the conductor pawed over his money, seemed convinced against his will that the 2dollar bill had come from Mr. Peavey and crooked a dingy finger. “Here’s your change.” Rising hastily, Mr. Peavey received 18 more nickels and 16 more pennies, ‘This was not merely justice delayeg; it was justice outraged. A moment he hesftated, then asked: “That spot, T—I think,” “That's just what I'll do," said Mr. tion was ruined by the news reel in Yo Whien thousands of URited 'States | \ionher awn mands for sou T sick | Marines marched straight toward him, | a4 tired of your old letter, anyway.” as if to crush him in their might. | ""The next day it rained again. The When he got home he doggedly sat | neighbor's automobile splashed past down and finished the letter. It didd without so much as a flutter of the | not exactly sizzie. but he could warm ' sidecurtains. Mr. Peavey must go by 'it up at the office. trolley. Standing at the corner, he | In the morning Mrs. Peavey made | clutched in one hand his umbrella and | him promise to bring the letter home | the letter. and in the other the exact paper | Peavey. “I'll show this—this rufan | up. | “That'’s right.” said the young man. “Send a hot letter to all the papers. | A hot one. Make it sizzle.” i | *x %% | T)URING the remainder of the trip to his offce Mr. Peavey’s brain | fried sizzling thoughts, none of which, | however. seemed to cook into sen- 'tences. The elevator carried him up two extra stories. He was quite cer- tain that he had announced his floor: it was his unchanging habit to do so just as the fourth floor was passed. Bu: the operator said, “Why don't | you speak up?”’ Forced to walk down | the iron staircase, Mr. Peavey was | three mjnutes late in punching the { time clock. When he reached his desk, butten. ing his alpaca office coat, he raw that | his neat stacks of papers were being riffied by Henry Dow. | “Gosh! Where you heen?" Dow, who was his visa-vis, desks standing back to back. said their “Bad Science of the Stars Predicts Restless WTwelve BY MARION MEYER DREW This annual astrological fore- east by a professional expert is offered solely for the enter- tainment of those who are in- terested in the ancient, mystic science of the stars. HE year 1928 Jooms shead to the view of those interested in astrology as one of the most_eventful and Important periods * through which this Nation will have passed since the Aays of the Civil War. We have lit- tle prospect of actual warfare in the coming year, but our relations with foreign countries, our finances, busi- ness and internal polities will be such ax 10 insure sleepless nighis for even the drowsiest public official Changing captains in the midst of a storm ix not considered the hest way 1o steer the ship, but that is Just what we are going to do with he ship of state in the coming elec- tion. znd not only the captain is going 10 change but the whole crew and a good many of the passengers. In spite of President Coolidze's wonde Tully strong birth chart he fw not | Aicated by the mtars ns our future Chiet Executive and, while I am on the subject, neither is Gov. Kmith Coolidge hax poor sspects for the Eummer months, an unfriendly atti- tude being shown in the press and eamong 1he public generally, while saden changes in hix poiicies and a perticularly “st” frame of mind even for & Vermonter will not win him any new supporters smong men of in- | fuence, Mr. Mellon will suffer from eaverse comment and his adherence 0 Mr. Coolidge's program will not strengthen St with the people i popular mnd O LA 1wo men whiose the horoscopes 1o stand high in emeern are Herbert Hoover Ritehie of Marviand: but it ix my firm opinion. based upon o eareful study of the starmaps of thix coun rry for the present that we have iefore ur ymation of new poiead Hpeupms and, while we ma change the mames of the old paril Jumt yet, we will certainly chang 1reir policies s0d adopt new principl eut looke from old ones wnd 1 ites of the country will no long divided by the Mason and 1 son Bomething tmely, sital, will party offibiations this vrnr ton? Well its e Jout whgever (he Preside ever hir 1 don't envy hix Job. Ahe next toun yenrs are 10 b difficult Tor this couttry 1928 % only he beginning Wa wart with the pesition of on agwin'ut Ahe troubles wnd Lo of modern Europe, but if we can Y from mixing in the wrup event we will be Aotng el s mo new prediction on my part way that Enginnd ix on the veige collapre. 1 have been wiving this the posl four years something the ol Jommsn senntor who wever u wpeech withoul snding with Carthuge must fall” 1 that the next four the enid of what ritish Kanpire e poappiine Ari ety the thio wniy b 1o rule Byer ' the nis father's swiay. g marvake to e a werioun love chect and o will s e the . s [ At any ale x wnd Fpsin Timly hoe uwnettied all " i 1hat e | 1and. in the case of the last named, {bound to get the worst of any foreign ! {contest and extremel Y | {ean avoid internal wars. All Spanish- | speaking countries just now are under the constricting influence of the | |planet Saturn in the sign of Sait- |tariux and will experience poverty | injustice and disaster in either politi- | cal or physical conditions. | LR |"THE United States, because of cer- tain positions in its national horo- |acopes, finds natural enemies in the nations of Spanish derivation. While we have pussed the time of most |Acute stress in this Saturn aspect we | !still have @ year or more ahead of ux during which we will feel frrita- |tion in our relations with Mexico and {Routh America. We will have to make ®everal more threatening gestures; the months of July, August and De- cember, 1925, are particularly liable |10 bring about this sort of thing. | The entire year, however, in warlike | matters, business deals, new ventures of any kind and lova affairs or social undertakings to be very disappointing. Old interests and forgotten friendships may be successfully revived, however, conmervative affairn ma prosper reasonably and care of thelr health will see them past periods of Iliness without serfous sethacks. Another group who will find 1928 a time of turmoil-—far more strentous i “THE LETTER SLID FROM MR. PEAVEY'S FING {and let her read it before it was | mailed. own resentment had | | dwindled. “I'm not going to let you| make a fool of yourself in all the pa- | pers,” she said. | | A'meighbor whe drove downtown in | his automobile gave him a lift and a | | few suggestions. But warming up dia | | not improve the letter enough to mak | it At for Miss Costigan's chill eye. | During her lunch hour he sat down at{ | her machine to type it himself. This | was' dificult, and the clock moved so { fast toward her return that he deciced | | to copy the jetter at home ncaily in| longhand and send it so. Again he walked honde, again Mrs. | | Peavey cleared off the table and| | brought him the stationer: | He whipped out his pen and went to | work. This was better. But on the | Airst_page the pen ran dry “Did you get that ink?" he called. At the sink the pans rattled. “Oh. Addison, 1 forzot agsir. Mr. Peavey stared at the wall. Th: he sighed. “T'll write it with & pen. At last it was done, read aloud on 1 | track creeping toward it. fare. a nickel and three pennies. The ear stopped and Mr. Peavey lowered his umbrella. Drops of rain splashed the envelope, heighteninglits mottied design. He set foot upon the step. With dismay he noted that the com- ductor was the same. “Here. you.” shouted the conductor, Jerking the bell rope. “Get on. get on. Watcha think this is, a hearse™ The car meved The conductor reached for Mr. Peavey to pull him. |aboard. The sweeping hand struck the envelope. The letter siid from Mr. Peavey's fingers and the driving rain beat it down. Mr. Peavey looked back. The letter lay in a rut. a brown pool from the A stout man left behind. but running valiantly, trod squarely upon it. The letter be- came one with the mud. “Come. come, far= in the box and step inside.” said the conductor. Mr. Peavey obeved. The car took the curve and he sat down on his wet umbrelia. THE END. (and unexpected than the troubles !which may befall the preceding lists | —will be those who cele hirthdays around the last weeks of either March or September. The un- ruly planet Uranus will bother t ifolk for the entive vear and perhaps A bit longer, and no condition of peace In any of their s undings just now [ will luxt for more than & few days The pet activities of Uranus a A Highly Eventful Year Ahead, Says an Expert in the Tales of the Stars. Saturnine, Uranian and Mercurial Vibrations Insure Sleepless Nights for - Potentates, Politicians, Financial and Movie Magnates—Yet the Year Should Have a Pleasant Spring and a Happy Ending. sudden business, and or divorce residence _speculation, changes of te their [ none of which turn out as well as was are, | expected. | Among this group of people are [ found Glorla Swanson, Andrew W Mellon, F_Scott Fitzgernld and Gutzon Borglum, the scuiptor. Many leading motion picture people come in these weeks, which lends me to think that great changes are due In the person- that is what they will finally show themseives to be. Save yourself trouble before it is too late. The worst times of the year for you will be June and July. Money matters will be unsettied for the country at large during the com- {ing year. We find a condition of {optimism and extravagance ruling the | Anances of the first few months. suc- ceeded by deception and intrigue {which will in some way react upen |our business and expenditures. To- iward Fall the stock market will be | | very dull. Strange to say. impractjcat | or untried schemes for investing {nel of motion pictures as well as in!money will be much more apt to find | the business management of this new ! support during 1928 than safe and sound securities. The middle of shows some exciting davs speculntors, while early is another period of tem: - F you or any of your frifnds come | Soiiember In this Uranian group, try to side | Gon step the Impulsive schemes or Wild [~ Gne of the business projects most [decision which will head your way. | ui fto experience new developments | They won't seem wild 1o vou. of (i the motion picture industry. Not course. hut take my word for It that oy js the Government supervision v ox ;m general atmosphere, even though we may not succumb 1o it. | It ix also more unsettled in regard 10 weather conditions than even 1827 hax xhown itself 1o be, the early Win- ter helng A particularly unpleasant | reuvon, with fipods along the Atlantic | Const, 'warm, muggy and with much | roinfall. Fog and mist will be com- mon at this time and shipping will { suffer from this, while the Central Btates will aixo feel the tendency to- | ward dampness and rain. February | will be o month of great wtorms and hurricanes. but calculations place the brunt of this violence in the Orlent. We will feel some traces of the dix turbance here around February 16, but the papers will tell us more abour it | than we will notice on our doorsteps. | The Bummer months will be warm: or than we experienced last year, and the Jute Rummer and Autumn #hould bring remarkably hot weuther Next October and [ ber whould be well up toward the rec. [ ord temperatures for that time of Lyenr with Juck of wuter as much of a problem ns excess water hax been | { during 1927 A British sxtrodoger thinks that the | United Brates will go through & 1t | nudo or cavthguake period late in 1925 But 10 seemx 1o me 1o be merely in tense heut with sudden shifts of tem BY MILT GROSS. ONK! HONK! TOOT A-LING CLANG! Loo Waddaya mean—ya can’t git thoiteen of us in yer cal) Hey—off ma ankle, bozo! Pipe down, Snoot, willya?? Put Red an’ Dusty on top—An' lay Moe over de hood—Wait a minute, G DING. Mr. Grubnick—Hm—Look, Noftolis, | genkaters! Mr. Noftolis—Bomx'! Mr. Klipstein —~Goot Aronk ones yat! Lo, Mister Grubnick'! Huppy rome on over wid us for nottings-~ Mr, Noftolis=—Iar from a plea Lony—Drop _over de house bringin’ a surprise over—3'long, TOOT!! TO Inidore —1 don—They've brigglg & ludy—We heard theb tulkik—Id the perature, However, we hoth agree | ':L',:rm. J‘:.”:. 321""1-n.5‘"fi'.'.‘- the v.t—n:'h’.-: ”um |r-’ fur lem;Imm whe'd be u riot—Tha Bugkey meld i “'l- il 3‘.';""‘:_“‘” ‘d dock theb wll off their fost - A free from sudden ltmml;:'m ORUAA TR I Drea 00 74, HRREN Kiipstein Hext Aprit Nuturnlly, such severs climatie nun.' knoch dem, [ pippte! ditioms will affect our bwalth, and the peophe born around U 400 Lo 16th of s Goot nite' Gool nite!! Goot [ nite-goot nite—goot nite Decomber of any yeur should e i Mo " teulardy caveful duning 1925 1o avold Mr. and Mrs Feitlebamm - Hool - we're Fwiil b v N picherinm, Haff from e humm Wl A [ feet whe'll Goot nite poople. wmong whe ik Bex Beach, tien. ey Doanin Gilwam, ftuth | Wit - Mart ing Lavdner snd e Ty, D Cadman, are all_under Lo srong influene of tie planet Bsturn [during 1926, which tends dev thely innete lhaning towsrd cong wnd even tuberoulosis and they should Lot choose thix time for any g Lmands upon phyeical sirength Qurance. They will also Aind money Chirben 1o ilnesses affecting the brenthing und | 14 make I a point o eat sensibly. Ly wherr e de Meesos Grbniek - Sk | s odder wnean wkecn ool [ T T colde, giip. 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Meet do goil U grmmdder = e Goy ernor let her home over de holidavs Hhe wanted to meet ya Pop Ihl tender— She's vickety, but she pmekn w awiul - wallap—Ooaps =don't Linind dut Pop she hites everyona when whe's stewe We got her teeth-—dw't ]'n...r_\ Grwinnedanes wid ‘er, Pop, or elxte she gits mad - Comm on Aggle friend Take ver tings off yer Wik too Hey hey—not all of dem-Alnt she & Pl Quoen of do Undorwoild in her duy--Nemember — Hox Car, Kate®? Datn her! G'wan Aggivedo old mans a good exs - Give him a twll O hoy Agiio—-by de way-<we gt a hale needs cnnin'= dhe's . kool shoe mink t Pop—=tnng around me Pop and you'll meet bis people! ¥he WRIER 10 he a curtooniat thoush-- wtory abont dat left eye minsi mention 1t to her Pop-dhe's touchy on o dem tingee-Hub o Baoot? Bhe's wiitin' a book—aint shet* Hor Mews ovien—Hoy, Oh Hovedere'll be u shot seamper for de Cunmidd Line—when hoviss, | Handie | Well doy all it dat way—1Us a sl | ~Dan't | about apharent changes and the de- | mand of the vublic for a hizher stand- ard of Mternry merit will produce re- sults Another industry which will feel the ree of an unfavorable planetary rav s the tobacco business. Aviation and automobiles should prosper. White ras | dio ought to follow a new turn in the | th and come Into even greater pop- ularity The theater business is under poor | auspices. severul accidgents being due o take plice in theaters, motion pies {ture houses and amusement centers, particularly during the months of Felruary, October and December of e In at lvast one of these catas trophes there will be some has of lte, and the locale of the evenis is very cloxe to New York City The same aspects which influence | amusements in the horascope for the vear also show the conditions sur rounding chiltien and the buth vate. | [and under positions which paint to [ great diseussion of new forms of man [ Mage and & constant lowering of the | proportion of hirths to the population, L A ITHERE s sich a thing as foretell 4 g pleasant events however. even | ] though astralogers seem to spend most | Lof theiv time chalking up the biack | marks againat the coming vear, and in spite of our political upsets. owr | sho'll tell ya—De Keely | inancial furcies and our several pub. | A fuko- Nhe's a good okt sould | e calamities we are swe to feel o Hest counterfoittey sinee | number of mast pleasant influences | de Walf kot sent up—Sneots | Threughout (he eountry at certain | her paycho anatyged —ainteha. e now to be specitied, in the o f th next 12 months noat—1 ser- lot's see yor wateh | (hese 1 place near March ¥ and con [ponytuee, 1 aint gonna steal fte—- | Wt apecifieally with Now Vork and | Mac=1x he fnaultin’ vi— \Whe de hig { 63 enviranment The second perid— | Ash? Let's drop ‘em all down de aiv | 408 In the Arst three weeks of At | Whalt—1'1 take do one wid de hiue ) —WIll be generalty felt wver the entive | nosell - ln~-'\l\||»|r3'."m~e||\1‘|l¢ vemarkaly e foe | HOON AN R ~ 1810 mechanival or sclentife interests | [ BANG - CRABH= |57 " Wtter Nalt of June shourd stiv | 1 Haip PLL SUE DEM IN |1 peonle up aver matters connected covnT! WIth printing. publishing or Heeravy | Mr. Feltleh Activities of some Kind Transparta | e tiahauew ton problems will also be subiects of Rengsters ?u\l N Txadore == Raba — Rastun | mportanee. Johdwod | 10 b net & bad wenth as & whate, Mrowd's fthor sed. cad they fddish | and Uty will be good far the wmaks holling hin praddfathors wake here? the peaple. anly COrtaim groups Thoy B0t put out of the other places- the Mercuvial vitwation of that Db They've dowdstaivs dow=1 lodt | tine whioh Will disturd waney and theh voupr Sunduy suit for Ris gead | Buasivess, AN AN he the Mther ~They waid he looked har alive (WK harn neae Cheistmas, March 32 WU (had You Batia —Rad they cobe | JUne 233 0 30 and (he kst week Uik o Octaber. The st week of July witl AMACK :u rl.h whth l:mlh“\\mllw vwn.i R ey L inent wen, w AN a0 At wal .\uT hyl\lu:\uun\» Not i de had == | quq'y % & worvene wetd oA HEPPY NOO VIRR! pan B FeAT 1 Waney AConviieht AmTy h - T to continue, but the sinternal policies of the studios will begin to bring Aat comes out —Ast her about Relfe thous [ L A The fest of | ROON POLISS, Yi vl VNl goeve you-—you i i » oficinly St will feel the { that eats throy fduing all this Months Ahead force of popular opinion in regard te private matters throughout Septem- h o the middle of the month seems good. October will be quite dis- turbad, however. and violence and in- irigve i Al the papers at this time and influence the election sctivities. Never before have 1 studied an elees tion figure where accusstions of fravd and deception were indicated as plainly as in the horascope for the election of 1325, and thess rumors will continue througsh the month of Ne- vembher. December, while somewhat sad amens the people. is a good month fur the country at harge and should heighten our standing as 3 nation in the eves of the world We end the year 13:8 with the United States re CeIvIng the approval of these whose opinion is to be valued doth here and | abroad. Cable Troubles. p‘nmxs Rave leen heard ‘o v mark that they should think that e submarine calie pevple wousd be Sl that they do nut have to vontend With the weather as telegraph com- Manies do. Now. as a matter of fact, e overhead wires have comparatives v little tivuble. and the submarine cadles about all Kinds 12 overcere t is A constant fghting of the e ments. not during a_storm alone, dut I of the time. There is oha winst rocks. there is the danger anchors frum steswers or schooners SRAPPING cables there ate ovean beds Where certain al acthon proceeds A cuble like the rust 0N A piece of iron left unprotectad out of doors. The cadles are wrupped @ n gaivanised ron wires mors jute o coverad sutta There iv a scientite way of and it i only afier & thoarvugh stady of the oowan ded that the, maker of the cadly can el how: much to apply. In the miktie of ccean, Where the sotion of the surtace Curtents is nob s g eat. the cadle 8 O more than Balt as well protected; dut near the xhore ends dovole thieks Nesses of insulath st de vend to Protect against wear By ocontact with ane Nind of ded fer 08 the heart of the N a fountation are put on the whale percha. there is that mak cuble man rekke of glodering cose Hers & cable maw lo for 30 48 even S0 vears amd R Will Be in alout as gosd comdition as when Mkt cgisally. This oose W Wade UR o a4 fne deposit ol deoeln powal ahelis ald acts MUeh as whites WaRh does i eeery g (e eabiv QR PEEVENES Lhe MIRUTS DOFRE S0 WORBAS. Tom destior ing (he outer coverings N wrounding (he covbit. 1t am stmes the shape of minute globules At mEht well be compared o w wich fie chalk Rivsses vapslly when s bed o slobeving ovse i Towad, s 5 s A Mile of Ribbon, T i veported that there is & enplniad i Enghand tee metallic ribhon at the vate of Wil & minute The malten caused th MW INORSR one Nossles 1N 4 WAIR Strewm wpon periphery of & aphily rotat! conled deum. The metal WHALOY AN i ThewR off from Artice of the drum I the form CORLIMUOUS And uniform ridbon, Possible, 1t s ML 10 obwin TN an onethousandth of an X WIS, . Re. i, oo have been ehta