The evening world. Newspaper, February 16, 1920, Page 14

: p er er ae . ; See SS SS) Sa e | TERS SSS Makeever.. Bros. 290 BROADWAY, KEW woRK cry. LIBERTY BONDS |= 7B we reas Se. 8. | 3 en neem atta mre ARY —o t % a wAChES ON CREDIT DEPOSIT REQUIRED mi eancel os | noma mery hs 4 1-4a, 90. bre eee NANCI the steek market to-day. proximated 1,000,000 shares. President Wilson's curt noti to the Allied Powers that he the Adriatic — qyestion | the end of the séssion. ratio of the N and 38.6 per cent. the low VA-year ago the reserve ratio [per cont. uation, and therefore will n “‘Jiand which is not unlikely adopted is that money borrowed on }eall wilt not 8 repayable for from ‘these days to a ‘week { In spite of the fact that the threat- has been ny govrecianie rally and did not fs h etl points, Mexican ePtroleum ot. Crucidie 7 pointe and _Yolatile issues dropped from caused furthey. unsettiement fo change markets... Demand Sterting. fwbich was quoted aa bigh as H 2.42 on Saturday, dropped to $3.% 1-2 icy «i francs dropped 15 centimes dottan to cover their contracts at subs' profits. and oats markets were slightly LIBERTY BONDS. 31-25, 96.60, up 08 10; ‘24 4s, 90. 2d 41-48, 90.28, up .08; 3d 66, off .10; Victory, 43-45, 97.96, Ap off 02: radio’ to-day she was 100 miles Cape Lookout Lightship towing »}abled steamship into port. the steamer was not given. eink west of the lightship. A passing 8 Fj of leading issues dectined from three | Alaska Joes: Similarily the average reserve ratio of the ‘twelve Reserve institutions ‘dropped “td 42.5 ‘per cbrit., compared with 43.9 per cent. the previous week: Im spite of ‘this surprisingly poor “showing -call money rates opened and renewed to-day at 7. percent. and later.dropped te 6 per cent. But Wall ' Street. refuses to accept current call rates as a true guage of the money sit- stocks because of the lowered rates. Rates on time money, due to be paid in sixty and ninety days, continue to rule between 9 aud 91-2 per cent. Bankers are still endeavoring to i ‘continued nervous and | Kimora fudadtsiad No fone ond. bt the session | Pmewon Brant | with buying coming principally from | xndicot: Joinstou, orts who. found ample opportunity ‘The cottén market moved irregular- ly but was generally lower. The cart | rian Rubber... ‘Terw Coast Guard Cutter Itasca reported by ‘The name of identified schooner also was reported in condition thixty miles south- er offered to take the crew off but they refused, declaring the schooner would make Cape. Lookout Cove before night. = |“FLU” SYMPTOMS, shows lair Revo Prices | Aleka Gol! Am fication | ae disap- | am. Sumatm proves-their proposed settlement of | Am. Drog Synd, ., not prompted further liquidation of stocks | 4™- but farnisbed big bear cliques with } sm, |, Much valuable market ammunition. Am. tet Corp, These cliques successfully hammered | 4™ |the market from the opening gong to only | Am Expeew Am. am. 3. & C. Am. i record. THY ai pi jot buy g ? advances in call money rates will | Cera’ |e checked. A plan under discussion, to be rn indefi- | Chi, & Nitwat, of 16 8 1-2 other sw Crucible Steel ‘Orueiile Steel 2 “ muddied itioat situation | Cube Cace sugar. . seed. 2 oettion Cute Cane Sagar jf. Cou, Textile Com, 21's in the Del, Lack, & to the | Dome Mines. Con. brie Brie Tet tgntial | Fema Plyom ‘Pisberbod’ higher. | rreevort | Gamton Generat ne Mou» Creat No, Ay Great, N, Ore. Gry & east of a di Haskell Insp. Copper Inieibore Con, Inter, Cou, Int, Harvester Int, Mer, Mari Anu Niekel, bap Ad, Rumeiy oe. os Vimeet Lowen, * um. Another potent factor in the decline | Am. 6, & R. Ww. was the onsatisfactory condition of | A™ Seof .. | the Federal Reserve Bank, as dis-| A® | closed by the statements issued after | the close on Saturday, The reserve York Reserve Bank dropped to 38.9 per cent., compared | with 39.7 per cent. the previous week *. Pye .. Del, & Hudson. Den, & Rio U. ‘igse Davis Greene Cananes Gulf States Steet & Barker pf, Int Mer Marine “~ 2 cy cay i 44% 80's W., 170 a 10% 10% we 4 [Stl & San rep M4 | Min. de St, now 10% om ay Mo. Ken, & Tex, 7% Ld * +1 Pac seve BM oy 1m +6 Power ..... 61% a “ 1% | Middio States Gil , 38% 120% 1K 120% 26 Sel Auton ne O14, 9 ee] Nat scutes im 122 0% | Set Conk & Sut, OT% 102% JOR 100% Nat Condutt ’ a a oe a) is H+ | Nat dead... 1% Par ae th 14 |New Of T & M.. 40 16 — 14] NX Asrorane ., 86% — 4 YS ¥ Cone Pet} NY ook , ms - S/N YN eH Nova Obio Cities Gas, Okla, P. & KR. Ontario Silver Bt Jowwh Lead Un, Bag: & Paper. Union Pacific ... United Drag United Fruit Stores Smelter... B. Stee Utah Cooper Va, Cum, Cinan. Vuradium Stoel Wabaeli Wabash pf. a West Mamiand Wow, Pac. Weeem Union WN 20% — % coy 1% Winite Motors. | Wien Co, Worthingio Worvaim Wooworch or “Bxalividend ‘Tranmie & Williams 55% Com. AL NEWS AND PRICES By ne ty sé 2 & ™ 1M wo % 11% Ss “a — % va a 10% “ wa “ Wie 3M 4 — 4 oe on 8% we — 1% “ — 2 8 128 18 eh — Me ey 1% Ie cy 1% som — 4% 44s — PERMA NT What to Do. * eo 5 er 3g Fatigue, Fever, Headache, especially jover the eyes, Cold in the head, MISCELLANWOUS. EXCELLENT | Sneezing, Chills, Aching Joints, Back | g..,0. Tiss. Low. lan. SALARY. AT START ad Limbs, Watery or Bloodshot eyes | ‘1:0y Acme Coal ....+++ 1% 1% 1% (New Wace Scale) d nausea. Get a bottle of CAR- «i ™ 1% EXPERIENCE NOT’ 3; SICK BENE. Fire (FREE); INCHES AT COST. EXTRA PAY TO THOSE WHO PRE. -! FER NIGHT WORK. RS EX ° ORLD ERIENCED IN) NICAL, ELECTRI, R STRUCTURAL EXPECTED. DP ‘willing balk ean, TER'S LITTL | take 4 to 8 as a physic. Soak onade and go in bed at le | Drink ‘hot | promptly. Stay LIVER PILLS, and het mustatd water for ten minutes, feet in to bed ast two days AFTER the fever, Keep the) {200 Bit. Am HOT sickroom well ventilated. Open win-| (0% (uu dows at top. Avoid draught. Im-| {io Gauri mediate relief will follow.—Advt. LOST, FOUND AND REW: T, Tyo, a oo, black walk ind” of crdok gold “Upi WH £10.00. reward, erped to Hoou 18 in rom, ene 1200 Submarine Boat ‘tan eu S10 Vowan “ar, | 800 U 1000 U. 8. Btoam m Mare Teunde, 141 W, o1~o. LOVEZ.—GRORGINA ee | fRroadway, 66th st. ae iasesiaianenue i r™ Bij, ef 1411 Clinton ay, Funeral services Monda at the chape Interm: aged rs John aPoM 4321 P >| RIGGS.-LEON FUNERAL et. Tucsday, 2-0, M Services TH (Frank 6. ( . Tuesd Services 2BLIE.--ALMIRA FUNBRAL CHURCH, ft. Zeeedar, 49 + M. Broads ond Mag. ef Bat Manton sat CAMPBELL PUNBRAL CHURCH, Services THE FUNBRA® CHURCH (Frok E. Camp Broadway, 06th st, Tuesday, 1 MITCRELL.—-Feb. 14. WILLIAM MITOH- Kensico Cem OAMPBELL OHURCH, Broadway, Services CAMPBELL | ARDS. 100 Orpheum 200 Verteetic 1200 Republic 200 Root state at 200 Armour 3 400 British Am Tebscco coup Tobacco rs Hmerald Asphalt Motors ‘8. High Speed Tool : 1100 United Piet Prod 2700 United Profit Sharing 300 United Met 2 Ohie Oi 30.8 OM of Cet n n Tire ‘Tire Rub Vandervort dy STANDARD OILS 330 Shares 08 On of NI 60 8 ON of NY Mian. 408 dou i INDEPENDENT OILS Allied OU Amal Royalty. oll Cities Service Cosden & Co 1000 200 9200 1800 Dugeme 1100 Fk Basin Pet Dominion O11 7400 Kngineers 800 Rrtel O11 1000 Federal Oi} 200 Gilliland Ol 200 Home Oi 300 Houston Oi) 1900 Hudson Ou, Petrol pd OL | 1800 Int 1000 Wyoming, Cushing Pete. 500 Gienrock Vil. 200 Guffey Gillespie 1700 Indiahoma Ref ot b. 16, at oth B FUD Dum poe oP. Sern) ' A FUNERAL ARRANGEMENT once placed in our hands, means atten- tion to every detail, no matter how seem- ingly unimportant. vine tay Superior “CAMPBELL SERVICE” is the result of years of experience combined with tion of materials Call ‘‘Columbus 8200’ hi the right Any Hour, selec- ice, or Night FRANK E. CAMPBELL “THE FUNERAL CHURCH Broadway at 66" St. Flowers for all Occasions. Artir’ aN 23” Street Funera! Desten: ie. at 8 Ave. our Specialty Last 85, 390 low. 08! 300 dorsement by July 1 next by trying to sell the ex- German ships, has added another i: taking over BILLION FROM DEFICIT | te ERE BASE: { tae American International Shipbuilding Company's title to che land of the Hog Island ship yard at Philadeiphia, than which no more appropriately named enterprise comes to mind. The Shipping Board takes title to the land, Days the company $2,000,000 to refrain from building fifty-eight ships con- tracted for, nd arranges for the com- pany to complete twelve ships now on the ways, at a total expense of about $4,000,000. twelve, it is Inasmuch as there are about thirty-six slips now on the ways in Hog tstand yard, and the Ship- ping Board is paying for only jumed here that the other twenty-four ships are to be the intention whole -malodorous Project by public sa Possible. A stock of fabricated stee) stored at the yard and vaiped at about $11, 000,000 will be turned over to the Navy Department, to be used in the con- struction of auxiliary naval vessels. GIVES SLIGHT RAY OF HOPE TO TAXPAYER. The Hog Island transaction affords taxpayers a slight opportunity for hope that their interests are not con- sidered completely dead. question arise; donmient of all shipbi ities there, contract ai ment, ied, ment idy of that the row created bv. It is worthy of note adjusted, Act, passed by them or national emergenc: the dis ping Board. Shipping Board plans. side i It vate shipyarde. of ships 1p cluttering up Shares. 1000 Kay County Gas. 1100 King Petroleum 400 Home Star @ 500 Livingston 100 Magna Oil... Merritt Oil. 200 Métropolitan 400 Mexico Oi! 1000 Midwest Ref. 200 Morien Pete oi 1000 Omar Oi! 400 Phillips Pete 1000 Producer & Refiners 200 Red Rock Olt 1¥500 Myan Oil 300 Balt Creek Prod... 500 Sequoyah Simms Vet. 1900 Skelly Oi 700 Goutherh States 700 *Spencer Pi 100 Victoria Ot rT 100 Vuuleant °O1! 400 Western States 1600 White Ol MINING 100 Alia Br Col * 1000 *at : 15.0 "Belener Divide . kat 1100 Big Ledge *Wooth & Mont... “0p 1000 Candelaria M 250 Con Virginia... 100 Cresson Gold 200 DeReers Mines 12000 Divide Ext 300 Fl Balvador 10¢0 Bureka Croesus 90 40 Mining : 200 Golden Gace ' 2060 *Gold Cons 2000 *Goid Devel ind n of ALL ship! ‘acts and the sale or ‘transfer of ALL surplus material and the bandonment right now of a plan of Government ownershi; and MS gam oy of the merchai ita’ 2 ae sans" ers Events tread one upon the heels of another in these times. to dispose of the Hog r this If economy and fair government are to be served by the sale of the Hog Island plant and the aban- ing activ- should not said service The Evening World togical conclusion ‘ards, uild- t of year? id iP it It may. be thi amended in 1917 and 1918. gave the President power to forbid the sale of American shipping to a foreign power during a period of war y. By an Execu- tive order, dated July 11, 1917 President delegated all his power as to sition of ships to the Ship- within the limits of reascn to expect he proposed sale of the unwieldly Vaterland,’ now the Leviathan, and twenty-nine other former prides of the German mer- chant marine, may bring out all the facts and drag into view the interests outside the Government which are advocating the subsidy system. the pre- ponderance of evidence which been taken by the Senate Commerce Committee in hearings on the plan of formulating a permanent marine policy has been that American ships in first cost and in cost of opera- tion will be handicapped in competi- tion with foreign shipping when in- ternational trade conditions are re- merchant CAN PREVENT SALE TO ANY FOREIGN POWER. ‘The members of Congress¢who are voicing piercing cries of alatm over the prospect of the thirty ships ad- Vertised for sale by the Shipping Board falling into British hands evi- dently have not read—or have for- gotten—the provisions of the Shipping 1916 and This act So much at this time for the pro- posed sale of the former ships and the chance that the tax- payers will soon come into large ben- efits through the abandonment of the Now to some es about the Shipping Board. has been charged that turned out by the Shipping Board are not up to the mark in workmanship and stability with vessels built in pri- German beyond dispute that scores structed under Ship- ckwaters in varidus har- ited States coast, only to men ships has the 19% 3s | 2 9 % ‘Prove nothing beyond | there is thi Board complained quite bit- terly on Saturday about something I sald in article last week about Shipping Bourd vessels which were breaking in two om the ocean and overworking the tugs. He maintained | that the ships constructed by the pes ge Board are in the main sea- worthy and of high qntity, and that accidents to Shipping Board craft euch recently figured so promi- nently in the,marine news were due bd wild forces of nature at large on e SHIPPING BOARD VESSELS IN ONE DAY'S NEWS. In yesterday’s newspapers I read that the Shipping Board. steamship ‘William Henry Webb, b footer was built at Hog Island it on her maiden voy- age from iladelphia to New York and was towed into New York harbor by three tugs after being assisted up the Jersey Coast by the Panama liner Panaman. There also appeared in yesterday's paners the news that the Shipping rd’s tanker Avondale, bound to ew York from Greenock, Scotiand, became barrassed by the failure of her engi: in midocean, and is being towed to port. Further news about Shipping Board craft disclosed that the freighter Watonw: bound from Norfolk to Honolulu, had proceeded as fi a point off the coast of Florida when her engines gave out and she was under tow to the nearest port. It may be said that these instances that three Shipping Board vessels were reported in one day's news as disabled by the failure of their-engines. But they open the way to inquiry, Another item of interest as related to the proposed operation of the mer- chant marine by the Shipping Board, in view of the fact that oll is to be used for heating the boilers of Ameri- can ships in the future, is the letter sent by Chairman Payne of the Ship- ping Board to Secretary of the Inte- rior Lane on Saturday, asking him! to take the Government's royaity on | oil produced on Government lands in| oil instead of cash, and to sell the oil thus obtained as royalty to Govern- ment departments. MUST PAY HIGH ‘FOR OIL IN OPEN MARKET. The letter reveals that the needs rd cit hia annual commitment were rejected because of the insufficient ity offered, and that the has for two years been purch: (Mig ly on the Pacific Coa oil royalties for 1920 will amount to about 4,000,000 barrels, or aout one-fifth the Shipping joard’s requirements. ‘he last annual report of the Ship- 1919, in line with the procedure of Government departments, which get their appropriations a year ahead and issue their reports all the way from| six months to a year behind. The last report of the President of the Ship- ping Board and the United States Emergency Fieet Corpordtion to the trustees was mude on June $0, 1919. Figures as to the transactions since June 30, 1919, are, therefore, to a con- siderable extent unofficial. In view of this fact, and in view of the immense sums of money which will be required if Congress does not suddenly amputate the Shipping Board and tts plans from the body of the Government, a little inside history is of interest here. Late in May, 1918, President Wilson suggested to Edward N. Hurley, then President of the United States Ship- ping Board Emergency Fleet Corpor tion, the adoption of an audit system to cover the expenses of the corpora~ tion, The suggestion of the President was embodied into law and the Secre- tary of the Treasury notiried President Hurley early in September, 191 that the Treasury Department would require monthly statements from the Corporation, beginning July 1, 1918. Much correspondence and conver- xation between the Treasury Depart- ment and the Emergency Fleet Cor- poration and the Shipping Board ensii On May 12, 1919, almost a year after the President made his suggestion, Secretary of the Treasury Carter Glass wrote to Mr. Hurley, calling his attention to the fact that no statement for July, 1918, or for any subsequent month, had been re- ference, Secretary Gla t' consideration the stoppage. of fur- ther payments from the Treasury to the Emergency Fleet Corpora- tion. jauelr AFFAIRS FINALLY GOT INTO SHAPE. Hurley wrote back had done the best it could. [am told that the audit af- fairs of the corporation are now in good shupe. This information comes from the ¢orporation, but the fact re- mains that the Treasury at one time threatened to cut off payments be- cause of lax business methods to the Government bureau which points toward building and running all the ships in the American merchant ma- rine, An official of the Shipping Board points out to me an error in my state- ments about the monetary require- ments of the Shipping Roard which I am glad to correct. In the Secretary of the Treasury's report of appro- priations demanded for next year he said that the Shipping Board expect- ed to ask for $285,000,000 for the pur- pose of carrying out the plang for the merchant marine. I used these fig- ures. I learn that Chairman Payne bi tice that this money, or at 000,000 of it, will not be needed. Here is a saving of two and a quarter million dollars gle to be observes Board, which, in sympathy with the war spirit preva- lent in Washington, 18 planning to continue on the basis that the coun- try is still at war, and take over the operation of a governmental branch which would certainly pile up tre~ mendous deficits, did not know last fall, when it turned in its request for Mr. that the corpofation The Shipping appropriations, within $225,000,000 of | How much it would require for the 1921 — | ho ica! | Rr to periodically pump ‘ | A gentleman associated with the | Shipping igh seas. | |would avail you nothing, But| You'll fall in love with “Bab” at the start. She’ @ regular guy and a good pal all the time, and this story of how she tamed the wild men of a Wild West town will give you more laughs than you’ve had in a month before. and es 7 by W. 3. Watt and Company.) i REC! CHAPTER X. HOSP with whom Mrs. Wilkes had been speaking, antict- Pating an unpleasant scene, discreetly turned their backs and began talking rapidly and toudly about whatever happened to come into their minds. ven Gertrude Wilkes deserted her mother in this emergency, and started toward the refreshment stand alone. Mrs. Wilkes refused to retreat, how- ever: She had not anticipated that Barbara Murphy would show fight. At had been her experience that un- forvunates whom she damned with h@ careless talk ‘hung their heads and crept away, But Barbara Murphy had not been created from that sort of clay, ‘Mrs. Wilkes had considerable color in her face, but her eyes were flash- ing and she drew up her ample bust as if to form a. bulwark behind which she might seek shelter during the clash to come, Barbara: walked Up to within three feet of her, and stood there with ‘her hands upon her hips. She looked Mrs. G. William Wilkes over slowly from head to feet and a sneer formed ut the corners of her lips, 2 “So that’s the kind of thing you Barbara Murphy said. "My dear young woman’ ‘That'll be enough! Don't get up- stage with me! I've seen your kind before. You may have some of the poor hicks of this burg buffaloed until they think you're it, but in any really civilized community you wouldn't be tolerated, unless they wanted some- thing to laugh at!” Mrs, Wilkes's face Mushed again, the more readily because she heard a snicker in her immediate vicinity.- “[ hud a little clash with ydu on the train comin’ here, because you was playin’ hog in the dressin’ room, Barbara said. * you've been sore at me ever since, ¥ Just because you know blamed we that I can see straight through you and the bluff you're throwin’. You know that I'm wise to you, Mrs. Pou- ter Pigeon, and so you hate me. Very well! Litue Barbara wouldn't have it otherwise, I assure yo Mrs. Wilkes started to turn her back. Barbara \ook two quiak steps and faced her again. “Don't run awa. “You've had your say, and now I'm goin’ to have mine, You said some nasty things about me, and they ain't true. You intimated that I ain't straight—and I am straight—yow bet! I reckon I've fought all my life to keep straight. I've had a pretty hard nd rocky road te hoe, I reckon, but I've hoed her! And @ aiy't goin’ to stand still now and let any woman like you say I'm a bad girl! I can fight women as well as men “I think we might as well end the conversation,” Mrs. Wilkes said, try- ing to adopt a superior air. ks Barbara said say, L said. got to fight a woman nasty, with ber own kind of weapons, f can do it Say things about me, will you? Sup- pose I said a few things about you?” “Really, 1 am of the opinion that it Mrs. Wilkes, laughing a bit. imagine that the people here know me, and have for years. I feel quite sure that my position is secure, and [ doubt whether a newcomer about whom the town knows nothing could harm me with idle words. “Idie words, Barbara said, yet!” shp said. “rm It I've huh? raising her voice a little. “They know ou, do they? Maybe they do, and again maybe they don't. Maybe they know all about you here at home—but you take a little trip once in a while, don't you? And maybe they don't ything that goes on then.” "Young woman”—— “Oh, I'm havin’ my little say now! I don't stand still and take a wallop and not hand you a bunch of fives in return! I guess | could tell the folks of this burg a few things about vou Intimate that I'm a bad womian, hub Half a hundred persons heard her. Mrs. Wilkes's face was flaming now. Mrs. Wilkes realized that the people of Dusty Bend, whom she had treated as inferiors, would be only too glad to roll their tongues around a choice morsel of. gossip. Barbara Murphy turned out another Word, then, an tin Garret. She ate the ice cream he had procured for her, danced once more with him, and then hurried back to the restaurant to prepare for the crowd she hoped would come Barbara, assured that overything was in readiness, walked through the dining room to the front door and stood at the corner ‘of the building, looking down the street towagl the dance hall. She sat down on a box that hap- pened to be there, and held her chin in her cupped hands, and locked down the narrow street.’ bathed now in bright moonlight, with here and there a kerosene street lamp that cast a fitful glare. “I feel-—like the props had been knocked out from under me,” she told herself. Her spirits ebbed for a moment, She felt horribly alone. Toe distant music from the dance hall was like a dirge to her. ‘The street lamps seemed bombastic. Nothing appeared to be real exoept the nameloss longing Barbara Murphy felt “Am 1 gettin’ homesick?” she asked herself. “Or is it just whet that old cat said? Phat's what it is—that old jeat! She didn’t have—any rieht™ —| | Somebody stopped at her side Just | in time to prevent a flood of tears and she glanced up to find Justin ret there. There was a peculiar ex- pression in his face, and Burbara felt sure that he intended to talk ser- | |iously about something. | “I'm glad T found you out here, | Bab,” he said, “I've got something to say.” way with- met Jus- flecal year 19 Prices realized on Swift & Com; tr carcate beef tn New York. City (or Week end fudar, #. 14th on shipments sold out TH ‘cents to 23 ceuls er bousd auch averaged F ceaie pes pou Aare a aa i a “Yen? “T know all about it, Rab. the other women told'me, She had no right to speak in the way she did, of course. Ghe's & meddiesome wom- One of EDING CHAPTERS. an with a imuitituae of faults, And nobody would believe her for am int stant.” . “I'm not so sure about that,” Bar> bara said, “That gang that trots with her would belleve her in a holy minute. ‘They'd believe bad abut anybody—they’re that kind. And 1 don't aim to let any idea like that get around town. I'm decent! And she ain't—got any right’—— Barbara was perilously near to teats again, Everything—Wwas so fine,” she said, ‘And I—was feelin’ good: And thea— that old cat"— “I know, Bab, Buck up! always telling other people to do that. Don’t give up tie ship! But if you must fight, fight her decent.” “Fight her decent, huh? Maybe 1 can, at that. I've found oat a few things.” ‘ Bab!" “Now, ‘Ob, I didn’t mean about the cat's 1! You just wait and watch You're . Garret!” Can't we make it Justin?” he I reckon so. Yeb! You just keep your two eyes on littie Barbara Justin. And send word to that old cat she needn't worry about me cir- cwlatin’ any lies—as long as she talks right with that mouth of hers, And you tell her, too, that I'm fightin’ yet—but I'm fightin’ clean “That's the stuff, Bab! Weil make the fight together. We'll bo pals, eh? I'm on her black list, wo, remember,” =: Barbara’ got up and wiped aWag her tears, and then flashed a smii> at him, ‘Pals,” she said, and extended a band, which Garret clasped. “And now I guess I'd better get back inside and ‘tend to busine See you later, And—thanks!" ’ “Bal CHAPTER’ Xi. HE residence of Mrs, G. Will+ iam Wilkes was on the crest of the hill a short distance back from the street. (Her husband had purchased two lots there during the boom days, after he had sold some mining claims for a for- tune; and, after his death, bis widow had erected the residence, which was quite a pretentious one for Dusty Bend. The apathy into which Dusty Bend fell after the boom bubble burst caused many things to be forgotten. ~~ ‘There had been two or three attempts to wake the town up in, but they had failed. Lots that bnee had been sold for fabulous sums were taken in ‘or taxes, and of recent yeats there jad not been a single real estate transaction except in business prop- erty. Mrs. G. William Wilkes clected to * remain in Dusty Bend, where sho could rule in one sphere while Cyrus Welch ruled in another. There was sort of unwritten law observed by them—that she should not invade the lecal financial field, but would leave that to Cyrus Welch while she ruled supreme socially. Welch cared for some of her investments, and Mrs, Wilkes invited him to a social affair once or twice @ year, Between them they dominated Dusty Bend. Mrs. Wilkes, too, had taken ad= vantage of the fact that there waa considerable real estate going to Waste. Originally the street, as it tan up the hill, bordered on her lots. But it had been moved fully one hundred feet westward. One rainy day a teamster had found a better way Up the hill there, and others hud followed, making a new thorough fare. Mrs. Wilkes deliberately extqnded the front of her property to the street, nobody appearing to have the! slightest objection, enlarged her front lawn, planted her flowers and built her wall. She also maintained ‘a Vegetable garden south of her own’ lots, watering it through irngation ditches from a ‘well at the rear of the house. Nobody fussed over boun-+ Gary lines in Dusty Bend. Outside the immediate ‘business centre there was land going to waste, Two days after the dance Mis. Ge William Wilkes arose at a late hour and had breakfast in her boudoir after the. manner of a society queen, and then opened a window and walked out on a tiny baleony that ran alongside the house. 2 wie denied the companionship of Ger trude, her daughter, who always spent some time in bed after a danecy being delicate, according to Mra Wilkes, Mrs, Wilkes glanced toward the south--rubbed her eyes and jooked again. She had beheld sudden ine dustry. o men were setting posts and running a single strand of wire along them, fencing in the lot to the south, and incidentally Mrs, Wilkes's vegos table garden Mrs. Wilkes felt a sudden inte: and made ber way majesticall the walk to the fence. voice and called one persons to her “My man, what are you doing she asked. ' Fencin’ in the lot “For what purpose? ost y along She raised her of the laboring ma'am.” T don't know that, ma’um was just hired to do the work told to rush it, We're to fence lot and put up a sign that sé how there ain't to be any tr een using *th ‘ ears,” Mrs, W f Possibly you are making a ke* “Ain't no mistake, matam.” Who sent you to do the work?" the carpenter, mutat T reckon he got the contract for t job.” e But who efigaged Mr 1 don't know, ma’am.” “T sball promise Block Mrs. Wilkes ried back to thie hou with the intention of dressing and going down the hill, to hold a conference with Cyrus Welch (Do Not Miss To-Morrow's Amusing instalment.)