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Show - . . , ' - - l :. - - .:.A...,...t..11 .J..,,..,, w . ... .... , ' ' .. ; r.-- , f, ' THE BINGHAM NEWS. IHNGHAlf. UTAH ' . ' - ' I y hri$tm.a$ ;j "No. I mean how do they happen to be together?" "Why shouldn't they be? They're old friends" "They are I" And, is answer to her look of surprise. I explained that I hud begun to speak of Beasley at Mrs, Apperthwalte's, and described the ab-ruptness with which Dowden had changed the echject. "I see," my cousin nodded, corapre-hendlngl- y. "That's simple enough. George Dowden didn't want you to talk of Beasley there. 1 suppose it may have been a little embarrassing for everybody especially If Ann heard you." "Ann? That's Miss Apperthwalte? Yes; I was speaking directly to her. Why shouldn't she have heard mel She talked of hlin herself a little later and at some length, too." "She did I" My cousin stopped rock-ing, and fixed rne with her glittering eye. "Well, of all I" "Is It so surprising?" The ludy gave her boat to the waves again. "Ann Apperthwalte thinks about him still 1" she said, with some-thing like vlndlctlveness. "I've always suspected It. She thought you were new to the place and didn't know any-thing about It all, or anybody to men-tion It to. That's It!" "I'm still new to the place," I urged, "and still dou't know anything about It nil." "They used to be engaged," was her succinct and emphatic answer.' I found It but too illuminating. "Oh, oh I" I cried. "I was an Innocent, wasn't I?" "I'm glad she does think of him," said my cousin. "It serves her right. I only hope he won't find It out, be-cause he's a poor, faithful creature; he'd Jump at the chance to take her back and she doesn't deserve him." "How long has It been," I asked, "since they used to be engaged?" "Oh, a good while five or six years ago, I think maybe more; time skips along. Ann Apperthwalte's no chick-en, you know." (Such was the lady's expression.) "They got engaged Just after she came home from college, and of all the Idiotically romantic girls " "But she's a teacher," I Interrupted, "of mathematics." "Tes." She nodded wisely. "I al-ways thought that explained It: the romance Is a reaction from the I never knew a person con-nected with mathematics or astronomy or statistics, or any of those exact things, who didn't have a crazy streak In 'em somewhere. They've got to blow off steam and be foolish to make up for putting In so much of their time at hard sense. But dun't you think that I dislike Ann Apperthwalte. She's always been one of my best friends; that's why I feel at liberty to abuse her and I always will abuse her when I think how she treated poor David Beasley." street by a ragged, whining and shiv-ering old reprobate, notorious for the various Ingenuities by which lie had worn out the patience of the charity organizations. Me asked Beasley for a dime. Beasley had no money In his pockets, but gave the man his over-coat, went home without any himself, and spent six weeks In bed with a bad rase of pneumonia as the direct re-sult. Ills beneficiary sold the over-coat, atid Invested the proceeds In a five-day- s' spree, In the closing scenes of which a couple of brickbats were featured to high, spectacular effect. One he sent through a Jeweler's show-windo- In an attempt to Intimidate some wholly Imaginary pursuers, the other he projected .at a perfectly ac-tual policeman who was endeavoring to soothe him. The victim of Beas-ley'- s charity nnd the officer were then borne to the hospital In company. It was due In part to recollections of this legend nnd others of a similar character thnt people laughed when they said, "Oh, yes, I know Dave Beasley." ' Altogether. I should say, Beasley was about the most populor mon In Wnlnwrlght. I could discover nowhere anything, however, to shed the fulnt-es- t light upon the mystery of Bill llamniersley and Slmpledorln. It was not until the Sunday of Miss Apyer-thwnlte- 's absence that the revelation came. Thnt afternoon I went to call upon the widow of a second-cousi- n of mine; she lived In a cottage not far from Mrs. Apperthwalte's, upon the same street I found her sitting on a plea 9-- BEAELEY SYNOPSIS Newcomer In a mall town, a young newspaper man, who tells the story, la amazed by the unaccountable aottoni of a man who, from- the window of m fine house, apparently has converse with Invisible personages, particu-larly mentioning one "Slmfve-dorla.- " Next morning he discov-er his strange neighbor Is the lien.-Davi- Beasley, prominent pol-itician, and universally respected. With Miss Apperthwalte, he Is mi unseen witness of a purely Imag-inary Jumping contest between : Beasley and a "BUI Hammersley." Miss Apperthwalte appears deeply Concerned. I do not know why It should have astonished me to find that Miss Ap-perthwalte was a teacher of tnathe-- Oiatlcs except thnt (to tny Inexperi-enced eye) she didn't look It. She looked more like Charlotte Corday! I had the pleasure of seeing her op-posite me at lunch the next day (when Mr. Dowden kept me occupied with Fpencervllle politics, obviously from fear that I would break out again), but no Btroll In the yard with her re-warded me afterward, as I dimly boped, for she disappeared before I left the table, and I did not see her gain for a fortnight. On week-day- s she did not return to the house for lunch, my only meal at Mrs. Apper-thwnlte- 's (I dined at a restaurant near the Despatch office), and she was out of town for1 a little visit, her mother Informed us, over the following Satur-day and Sundny. She was not alto-gether out of my thoughts, however Indeed, she almost divided them with the Honorable David Reusley, A better view which I was afforded f this gentleman did not lessen my Interest In him; Increased It rather; It also served to make the extraordi-nary didoes of which he had been the virtuoso and I the audience more than ever profoundly Inexplicable. My glimpse of hlra In the lighted doorway had' given me the vnguest Impression ef his appearance, hut one afternoon a few days after my Interview with Miss Apperthwnlte I was starting for the office and met him n as he was turning In at his gnte. I took as careful Invoice of him as I could without conspicuously glaring. There wa'' something remarkably "taking," ns we say, about this mnn something easy and genial and quizzi-cal and careless. He was the kind of person' you like to meet on the street; whose cheerful passing sends you on feeling Indefinably a little gayer than you did. He was tall, thin even gaunt, perhaps nnd his face was long, rather pale, and shrewd nnd gentle; something In .Its oddity not unreinlnd-fu- l of the late Sol Smith l;usell. His Bat was tilted back a little, the slight-est bit to one side, and the sparse, brownish hnlr above his high forehead was going to be gray before long. He looked nbout forty, i The truth Is, I had expected to see a cousin german to ron Quixote; I bad thought to detect s!gns nnd gleams of wlldness, however slight something a little "off." One glance ef thnt kindly and humorous eye told me such expectation had been non-sense. Odd he might have been Gud-zook-he looked It but "queer?" Never. The fact that Miss Apper-thwalte could picture such a man ns this "sitting and silting nnd sitting" himself Into any form of mnnln or madness whatever spoke loudly of her cwn Imagination, Indeed ! The key to "Slmpledorln" was to be sought un-der some other mat. ... As I begun to know some of n,y on the Despatch, and to pick up acquaintances, here and there, about town, I sometime tumlc Mr. Heasley the subject of Inquiry. Everybody knew him. "Oh, yes, 1 Know Duve Beasley!" would come the K'p'j, nearly always with n cliuoklluj; sort of laugh. I gathered that he had a nune for "easy-going- " which amount-ed to eccentricity. It was said thai what the ward heelers anJ camp-follower-got out of him 'in campaign times made the political mniinirot-- ery. lie was the first and readiest for every fraud and swindler that rme lo Wulnwrlgbt, I heard, ami yet. In spite of this nnd of his hatred of "speech-making- " ("lie's us silent ns Grant !" said one Informant), lie bad a large, practice, and was one of (lie most successful lawyers in (lie state. One story they told of lilin (or, thpy were apt to put If, "on" him) was repeated so often that I saw It had become one of tliti town's traditions. One bitter evening In Febr.iary. they rfilal'jd. be wad approached upon the "ITow did she treat hlmT" "Threw him over out of a clear sky one night, that's all. Just sent him home and broke his heart; thnt Is, It wmild have been broken If he'd had any kind of disposition except the one the Lord blessed hlra with Just all optimism and cheerfulness and I He's never cared for anybody else, and I guess he never will." "What did she do It forr "Nothing!" My cousin shot the word from her lips. "Nothing In the wide world !" "But there must have been " "Listen to me," she Interrupted, "and tell me If you ever heard any-thing queerer In your life. They'd beeu engoged Heaven knows how long over two years; probably nearer three and always she kept putting It off; wouldn't begin to get ready, wouldn't set a day for the wedding. Then Mr. Apperthwalte died, and left her and her mother stranded high and dry with nothing to live on. David had everything In the world to give her nnd still she wouldn't! And then, one day, she came up here and told' me she'd broken It off. Snld she couldn't stand It to be engaged to Dnvld Beasley another minute!" "But why?" "Because" my cousin's tone was shrill with her despair of expressing the satire she would have put Into It "because, she said he was a man of no Imagination !" "She still says so," I remarked, thoughtfully. "Then it's time she got a little Imag-ination herself!" snapped my compan-ion. "David Beasley's the quietest mnn God has made, but everybody knows what he Is! There re some mre people In this world that aren't all talk; there are some still rarer ones that scarcely ever talk at all-- end David Beasley's one of them. I don't know whether It's because he con't talk, or If he can and hates to; I only thank the Lord he's put a few like that Into this tslky world ! David Beasley's smile Is better than acres of other people's talk. My Providence I Wouldn't anybody. Just to look at him, know that he does better than talk? He thinks! The trouble with Ann Ap-perthwalte was thnt she wns too young to see It. She was so full of navels and poetry nnd dreaminess and hlghfalutln nonsense she couldn't see anything as It really was. She'd studj her ndrror, and see such a heroine of romance there that she Just couldn't ltnr to have a flonce who hadn't any fLane of turning o it to lie the crown-prlne- a of Kenosha In disguise! At tbe very least, to suit her he'd have had to wear a 'well-trimme- d Vandyke' nnd coo sonnets In the gloaming, or read 'On a Balcony' to her by a red lamp. "Well, sir, Dave's got some-thing at home ts kep him bury enough, Ihess days, I sxpect." Tl UK t'ONTINU:!).). As I Btgan to Know Soma of My en the Despatch, and to Pick Up Acquaintances Here and There About Town, I Sometimes Made Mr. Beasley the Subject of Inquiry. nnt veranda, with boxes of flowering plants along the railing, though Indian summer was now close upon depar-ture. She was rocking meditatively, and held a finger In a morocco vol-ume, apparently of verse, though I suspecteil she had been better enter-tained In the observation of the people and vehicles decorously passing alone the sunlit thoroughfare within her view. We exchanged Inevitable questions and news of mutual relatives; I had told her how I liked my work and what I thought of Walnwrlght, and she was congratulating me upon hav-ing found so pleasant a place to live ns Mrs. Apperthwalte's. when she In-terrupted herself to wnlle and nod a cordial greeting to two gentlemen driving by. They waved their huts to her gayly, then leaned back comforta-bly against the cushions nnd If ever two met. were obviously and Incontest-nhl- y on the best of terms with each other, these two were. They were David Beasley and Sir. Dowden. "I do wish." said my cousin, resum-ing her rocking "I do wish dear Da- - vld Beasley would (tet a new car of some kind; that old model of bis Is a dl.sRrace! I suppose you haven't met him? Of course, living at Mrs. Apperthwalte's, you wouldn't be upt to." "But whot Is he doing with Mr. I)ouilen?" I asked. Kite lifted her eyebrows. "Why Viking him for u drive, I suppose. " Both Wets and Drys Arm for the Fray tlnued speakership of Representative C.IIIett (Mass.), and are making over-tures to the farm bloc members. Their choice Is Representative Sydney An-derson (Mian.). The wet plans also call for wet or-ganization throughout the country, with branches In every congressional district; organization of a liberal bloc to support wet candidates, whether Republican or Democratic, and an ap-peal to the congressional and presi-dential elections of 1924. Release of all foreign vessels seized outside the American three-mil-e limit with liquor aboard where there Is no evidence of communication with the shore by means of the vessels' own boats was ordered by Secretary Mellon. Both sides are still ta'.klng over the fact that California, the leading wine grape-growin- g state, has gone "dry" after ten years of voting down prohi-bition measures. A majority of 1.9.C21 voted in favor of making the Eight-eenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States and the Volstead act statute law of California. Naturally they are also discussing Ohio. The proposed constitutional amendment which would have legal-ized wine and beer in Ohio was turned down by a majority of 187,854, by the complete returns. XX A SHINGTON. Definite " v plans I ave been made by wet and dry forces to put the prohibition question Into politics to repeal the Eighteenth amendment on the one hand and to pre serve It on the other. The Association Against Prohibition announced plans for preparing a legis-lative program, the first step of which would be to take the teeth out of the Volstead lrw by eliminating the provi-sion limiting the alcoholic content of g drinks" to one-hal- f of 1 per cent. They hope to raise this to 4 or 5 per cent as the first step In the return of beer and light wines. The drys ridicule this, but they are busily counting noses to see if there Is to be strength enough left In congress to smash the wet program. They propose to take advantage of Iho western revolt against the con- - Aspirim Say"Bayer andJ.l Unless you see the nama "Bayer" oa package or on tablets you are not get-ting the genuine Bayer product pre-scribed by physicians over twentytw years and proved safe by millions tot Colds Headache , Toothache Lumbago L'arache Rheumatism Neuralgia Pain, Pain Accept "Bayer Tablets of Aspirin only. Each unbroken package contain proper directions. Handy boxes o twelve tablets cost few cents. Dreg" gists also sell bottles of 24 and 100. Asperin Is the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoacetlcacldoster of Balicylicacld. 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A state-ment Issued by the secretary said the reason for his action was found In statements contained In a book written by Fortejscue. The secretary quoted this passage: "Americans esteem a good bargain, even if gained by dishonorable means, to mark the highest form of ability. The United States cannot engage In any form of competition with us, from athletics to diplomacy, without using foul play. They niust win, if not by fair skill, then by prearranged trickery or violence ; If not by open negotia-tions, then by garbled maps and forged documents. There Is the fact. It may be unpleasant, but It cannot be denied." "An author entertaining these senti-ments," Mr. Weeks said, "Is not con-sidered to be a proper person to ad-dress the students of a government academy." Mr. Fortescue Is president of the Royal Historical society, librarian of Windsor castle a. id keeper of many of the confidential archives of the royal family. He Is deputy to the keeper of the Royal archives. He Is sixty-fou- r years old, and is the fifth son of the third Earl Fortescue. Mr. Fortescue said that he had In-tended to take occasion on his appear-ance at the military academy to re-cant the remarks he had made In criti-cism of Americans In a volume of lec-tures published eleven years ago. He had been convinced by the war, and American friends he had made during the conflict, thnt his earlier opinions were entirely erroneous, and that he bad Intended to confess to Americans that he had erred griev-ously. This Is his first visit to Amer-ica, the historian said, end the cordial-ity of all had more than ever con-vinced him that he owed America some amends for his critical words. Demonstration; Counter Demonstration leaders that they were on government reservation ground nnd the penult thej had obtained was invalid. The band thereupon disappeared, but those participating In the proces-sion remained with the banners about the grounds for an hour before ad-journing to Lafayette squure, where an open-ai- r meeting was held. The meeting In Lafayette square op-posite the White House had barely gotten under way, when a young man. accompanied by a half dozen negro boys, appealed with a new set of ban-ners. These banners ns soon as dis-played, started a counter demonstra-tion as the amnesty seekers showed unmistakably that they resented the inscriptions, some of which ran as fol-lows: "Treason Ain't No Crime Benedict Arnold Patriotic Association, Inc." "We Extend Our Sympathy Pick-pockets' Association." "Greeting and Good Cheer Sne:.k thieves, In " "We Want Out, Too Chicken Thieves' Society." Police had to Intervene between the two sets of demonstrators. PETITIONERS for general amnesty for Imprisoned violators of war laws are trying to Influence President Harding to pardon ' the 04 men still serving sentences under the espionage act. With a band of five pieces playing "The Marseillaise," and two color-bearer- s carrying American flags at the head, the amnesty seekers, more than 200 string and with banners, de-scended upon the White House. The procession proceeded until It reached the entrance to the grounds near the executive offices when a husky park police lieutenant stepped out, choked off the band In the midst of "Onward Christian Soldiers," and Informed the Seniority Succession Rule in the Senate CREATION of a steering committee to represent the sentiment of that body and abo-lition of the seniority succession rule re advocated by Senator Medlll (III.) In a letter he sent to Senator Republican senate leader. The letter says In part: "We owithe country the creation of kMch a s'eerlng committee and the abolition f the binding seniority rule. "We ko,w tiist although In a ma-jority of romances the men who have become chairmen through seniority have been good chairmen, there have been others who were' unfitted for their posts by reason of extreme age or fall-ing health, or beentiso of grave differ-ences of opinion with the majority of tliclr Republican associates. "I would be the last to challenge the lht or the duty of n sonaror to as-sert his Independent opinion or to dif-fer with any majority, but the chair-man of n committee nets not In Ids sole representative capacity but as the representative of the majority of thnt outn.Iltes au! of the majority In the senate. He Is the executive agent of the committee for consideration of the bills reported by It. "The old system served very well In the old days. In the majority of cases the chairmen have been capable, but the Bepubllcon conference owes It to the country to put aside the rule and to make provision for a ,rtily repre-sentative steering committee which shall meet regularly and, ns occasion may require, meet with the correspond-ing committee of the house. "There Is no other way In which wa can dispatch the ureal volume or buaL nPMi devolved upon congrets." Proving the Proverb. " 'Distance lends enchantment to the view,' some poet says," "That's right. At any rate, It's easier to admire a girl when she's well off." . Boston livening Trunmxlpt. Efficient. "Is your new typewriter girl effl-clen- t? "Four proposals already, Tin Courler-.Iournn- i. |