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Show A YEAR'S $1,441,486 Malcolm Works His Way DISASTER RELIEF COST, j Fed Cross Aided 145,000 Vic tims in United States Losses . Total . eventy-tw- j A A AAA AAA wu,uuu,uia disasters, o By JANE OSBORN 4 with kr McCtur. "Oh, snakes!" ( i hnn-- reported killed and injured, and Lre than 145.000 either homeless or called for eiuer- requiring assistance, and the ex- measures relief Pncy y the of $1,441,486.38 American Red Cross during the fiscal ending June 30, 1922, according on the forth- to a statement based of the Red annual report coming greatest toll of life wu Cro. The hurricane and tornado, taken by of rivers, the overflowing the while rales breaking of dams and torrential number of people the greatest drove loss from their homes. The property was estimated at more than $30,- 000. The eluded t. year's twenty-si- x 'y , i . disasters , reported floods, nineteen In- - tor-- najoe. fifteen fires, four epidemics. two theatre collapses two shipwrecks col- Mnp an airship), and a bridge colli, mine explosion, railway ,, 1 . ton,' .th, t loss, . Syndic"") said Tom ""i11 d,s8us. -- lancing at the ,,ttle black notebook that J0 Mm from his coat pocket, "a'colm Giwsoa, sprawled out on hammock on the wide veranda of tile A1Pha Bet. house, looked up with some interest. that's biting you, Higg?" la the be showed his sympathy, "Two engagements for the same time. lou see, I've got to pay my own expenses this year. Dad's sail- Ing close to the wind. So I got nest to the student help committee and hang it all, I soineliow promised to see two people at the same time this afternoon about some work. There's a la,'y willing to give me board and lodging and a little money for what I can do mornings and evenings You , i can., board Bt here. I can't afford it. Then there's a )ob ,,.,, Afl ft it tha. ol.rK . " ' co" rittls y .:'6"s I W Umes a week' Somehow I ar- rHnged t0 Se them botn at four lh!s greatest tBoSSb the and the hhrh nrternoon Snakes! Malcolm sat up, stretched and j yawned. "I'll look Into one of the jobs. There's no nourishment sitting uround here, and I haven't anything to do till after my first class tomorrow morning." "Well, suppose you go see the lady. Just size up the Job. If this sightseeing Job falls through I might be glad to take It." Again Tom consulted his little noteboook. "It's a lady named Mrs. Gregory Glnner, 80 Park Washington, D. C, resulting In ninety-lane. I'll do something decent for you deaths and 125 persons injured. some six day, maybe." beautiof the Situated in the center At four promptly that September ful Northwest residential section, this afternoon Malcolm Gimson appeared motion picture theatre was patronized at the front door of the house of Gregby many persons of prominence both ory Glnner in Park lane. Emma Gin-ne- r In the official and civil life of the Naopened the door and smiled and tional Capital, whose family and perblushed a little, showing that, In spite sonal connections radiated out over The horror was of herself, she was a good deal interthe entire country. ested in students, even when they Intensified by a terrific snowstorm were, or were supposed to be, of the not did it retarded, which, though "sfclf-help- " Emma ushered variety. block Red Cross relief. Malcolm into the living room, family Aid Hand at Finds Airship Crash as being more appropriate than the The crash and destruction of the U. front drawing room, and went to "tell S. Army's large airship Roma In Virmamma." Malcolm watched the slenginia last February with the loss of 84 der figure eagerly as It withdrew down officers and men and 11 Injured was the hall. Mentally he made a note that call for to kind of its the first disaster Red Cross relief in this country. The here was the girl he wanted to take suddenness of the accident tested the to his junior ball. He had always brupreparedness of the organization and rather Inclined toward spirited of the Chapter at Hampton, Va., but nettes, but his prefereuce suddenly the response was Immediate and relief swerved over to the rather shy blonde furnished the survivors, also funds for type. Mrs. Glnner soon appeared, an unthe expenses of relatives of the dead, who came from long distances to claim affected, motherly sort of woman. She their own. explained that since the boys were In the year's oversea record for aid away and Mr. Glnner was so much rendered by the Red Cross are two taken up with business, they wanted fires in the Philippines, one In Manila, to have a young man In the family to which destroyed 1,000 homes, with a look after the furnace nights and loss of Jl.WO.OOO and 5,000 persons morning, to take care of the walks and made homeless, the other at Tonio, lock up nights when Mr. Glnner was which drove 3,000 from their dwellings. away. They kept one maid, and there In medical relief that was quick and were little things around the house effective the smallpox epidemic In San that the boys used to do before they Domingo, which had a total of 22.000 went away. He could have a room cases with 225 deaths In a single day, on the third floor that one of the Boys tested the readiness of the Red Cross had had. Mrs. Glnner was sure he'd for action, and the same can be said be comfortable. He was Just the sort of the San Domingo hurricane, which of boy she'd like, reminded her of one killed 12 persons and reduced the of her own sons homes if 1S2 persons to wreckage.- - A Malcolm was about to say that he flood in San Salvador, with a death was looking up the position for a toll of 50 and 2,000 refugees, was also friend, but he was Interrupted by effectually handled by the local ChapEmma. ter of the American Red Cross. "But he doesn't look a bit like Relief Machinery Perfected she said. "Fred has light hair Fred," The year has seen the further perblue and eyes and your eyes are fection of disaster relief administraaren't they?" she suld, turning brown, tive ni.iasiM'es in every field of American Red Cross activity, and that the to Malcolm. Malcolm grinned and said they v.ork may be carried on to still greater were. Red accomplishments the American "Well, goodness, but your eyes are Cross is appealing for widespread resharp," said Mrs. Glnner, laughing, to newal of membership during tiie anher daughter. "I hadn't had time to nual Roll Call, to be conducted this notice what color his eyes really were year from Armistice Day (November all I mean Is that he is the sort of 11) to, and 'including, Thanksgiving Mr. " she boy that our boys are Day (November 30). did you "What Malcolm. looked ap to was?" name say your Red "Malcolm Gimson," he said, "but" Roll "Mr. Gimson," she smiled, "but I Malsuppose we'll all be calling you colm before long." She quickly said something about The Annual Roll Call of the Amerl-Cii- n the rate of payment for extra work, Red Cross for registration, of the but Malcolm did not heed this. He membership for 1923 will begin on was so Intent on watching little Armistice Day, November 11, and Emma, who seemed lovelier every close on Thanksgiving Day, November time he looked at her. i'O. The ground work for this stu"N.w. 1 guess everything Is agreed the mem-- b on," Mrs. Glnner was saying. "You pendous task of ''ship throughout the world has been can send your trunk and things tomorlaid in a plan for the first complete row morning. The room is ready, and comprehensive system of registratMr. Glnam sure we'll get along well. ion of the Red Cross membership In ner has no end of admiration for a boy idl its S.aOO active Chapters at home that Is plucky enough to work his own and abroad. way through college.'' An iniortant feature of the Gimson Mr Glnner, thought Malcolm Roll Call campaign will be father fat the was why yes, that a universal effort to the servbis own fathEmma, 'incomparable the ice of e Red Cross workers In of some day. And he admired er-in-law the peace program by their particitheir way through worked who boys pation in the Roil Cull. In this way . norhnns he would be more In the vast army of volunteers will once If him as a '""re affiliate with the work of the clined to accept him(.p,f instead of tak-lieCross in Its manifold Dhases. Co- - he ai" wo . um h operation u h . ... ai,rA h, ; Ing the allowance his rtncle so rreeiy Government and private maritime In.-- larly and terests in a deep-se- a Call that R" All' and j Roll is designed to reach every member right." said Malcolm, rising here be for' 1H the door. or potential member in every mk,g part of tiie world who may be en voyage or of waiting .o the lounge i temporarily in any port. ior house t inousands of Chapters the fraternity Th ,d rot me, flie home canvass plan of enrollment ("No housework Jobs m ake enougn on I'll "And Much originated in Pittsburgh, where . .,yfully. Job to be ame 10 'st year it resulted in a membership this It was nne vi g In this year's campaign will be kept to look up that other Job. U ia " n standard size cards to be AMI om missea have i would of saved tort tjjch chapter for tutor see you Uyou property mark or od xw, nunc in the vicinity of VIeksburg and Natchez, Miss., forced 31,000 persous from their homes. A National Calamity In the Red Cross disaster relief records there will probably remain for many years one calamity which " touched nearly every state with a of loss. This was sense of horror and of the roof collapse distressingthe Theatre in of the Knickerbocker iatunties, j , Call Cross Heard World Around : round-the-wor- ld st war-tim- n. ! son-in-la- ",t ., j "T:- :- will-adop- sight-seein- -- g ? What sort of time did you have? I suppose you can Just phone the folks that something else has turned up"No," said Malcolm, "I'm to going take the Job myself, if you don't want It." "Tou take a Jobr shouted Tom. You. the richest fellow In the fiat, with a trust fund of goodness knows how much and no folks at borne to tell how to spend it " "Oh, of course I have a little money. But still there are hitches sometimes. Well, the fact Is, I have my own particular reason for to earn tuy wanting own way this winter." So in a day or two it was bruited about through the fraternity and finally all about the campus that Malcolm Gimson hhd lost, his money but was taking it like a brick and not saying how It happened. Meantime he moved away from the frat house, went back only for the weekly meetings and was looked upon as a "darned good sport," to be willing to take a housework Jub rather than chuck college eutlrely. Meantime Mulcolm Gimson fell more deeply and deeply in love. He! decided that the time to tell the' charming Emma of his sentiment was at the Junior ball. By Christmas he hud asked her if she would go to the ball with him aud was Infinitely relieved when she accepted, with the ; entire approval of her mother. Then came a telegram from Malcolm's uncle aud guardian, Roger Smith, who had apparently decided to travel five hundred miles to visit his nephew, It was disturbing aud Malcolm did not conceal from the Glnner . I family that he was disturbed. "I'm asking an enormous fuvor," he said to Mrs. Glnner. "He'll be here only a day while he Is here would you mind letting me pretend that I am boarding here, not working? I'll ex-- , plain it all sometime." Mrs. Giuuer I agreed, but later was puzzled over the request. If the uncle believed that the boy were not working then it must be that he had enough money sent him to make It unnecessary; If he had the money, what did he do with It? Perhaps he had lost money gambling or something, and was working to pay a debt of honor. It was too much for the easy-goin- g Mrs. Gin- - j ner. So she kindly asked Malcolm j to Invite the uncle to a famljy dinner at which every one. Including Mr. Glnner himself, would be pruned to treat Malcolm like a paying boarder. But something very unexpected happened at dinner that night Mr. Gin-ne- r recognized In Roger Smith bis very dear, old college friend. "If I'd known that niy nephew was boarding with the family of my old friend, how happy I should have been." "You certainly ought to have been congratulated on having a nephew willingly work his way through college even when be has no money," said Mr. Glnner. "Works bis way!" exclaimed Mr. Smith, and then there had to be explanations. Mr. Glnner had forgotten for a moment the Instructions of his BE Most any old kind of apple is the OHSAFE SIDE PROBABLY SAVED dealer's harvest apple. and no work la too 'e to think about nowadays. All play expen-s- l Judging from recent weather there ia no fuel scarcity on the sun. Never Rily wise to Commit One'e Self Too StrotiQiy 0n Paper on Any Subject "The American standard of living" There are few precepts more worthy la the one fixed by the neighbors. of acceptance than that Which bids us People who rant about bobbed hair to beware ofihe written word. have bobbed their sense of evidently Think before you speak,". U excellent advice. "Think befvre you write, humor. and then don't write or at any rate not In these days a good provider la one what you Jiud at first intended to say," who can afford to keep the gasoline is better. To write a thing is far more serious tank full. than to say it. The glamor of per One of the hardest things a fashion sonui presence is not there to color the has to do Is to make a short arbiter the charm of the meaning; manner, shades of tone are lacking; the bare skirt long. . words must stand on their own merits. The man who's always getting some We toilet too often that written off his chest seldom has a shirt thini; words canutit be followed by immedito his hack. , ate explanations, may not be moditied by iniiection of voice or glance of Vacations would be rather nice If we eye Tnere tun be no illuminating sense enough to stay at home and hud no gesture, merry or tender facial exenjoy theui. i pression, Moreover, it is impossible to foreAs for this nobbed hair fad, what Is see the frame of mind in which a letter may be received. It may be a the reaction to It on the part of mattress factories? mood to which perhaps (the writer would never have addressed such The flapper usually can tell a single words could he or she have known uihii from a married one. The single beforehand. man Is not so fresh. AH this applies to ordinary letters written in confideuce between friend The ole swliumln' hole It very enjoy and friend. Still more does It beIf you have a place to take a bath able hoove women to beware of what they write to men. It is always best to . when you come out be on the safe side, and not too near The race track follower who knows , the edge, either. The strictly punctilious person who when to quit can be added to the Hat of mythical persons. would entirely prohibitletters between lovers would be hard of heart, Indeed. We can't- - recall a single Instance of What is more, any such objection would be useless. What would become an American who stayed at home beof parted lovers if they might not ing killed In Mexico, write to one another? Telling one's love on paper may be an Indescribable Charity begins at home, hut that Is comfort when It cannot be told by no reason why you shouldn't make It go as far as possible. word of mouth. Nevertheless It Is well for even fond Now that the five-celovers to remember that sweets are cigar has come back, every man knows a cheap valued in exact proportion to their Affection should, if possible, way to get rid of a bore. rarity. be tempered with discretion. Doctor says face powder Is dangerAssurances of love in a woman's letter ought to be like the seasoning of a ous. It certainly Is when a man wears salad carefully' proportioned and not some of It on his shoulder. too strong. The love which shows .between the Hues Is more alluring than The automobile and the automatic that which is openly expressed. have the same beginning, and lots of Nor is It wise to commit oneself too them provide the same ending. strongly on paper with regard to what one will or will not do in the future. The claim made In British Columbia All these good resolutions and fair that their salmon Is shipped East for promises are apt to confront one later use In "hot dogs" sounds fishy. on to one's confusion and dismay. it is useless to urge prudence upon The Japs call their first home-mad- e people In love. "To love and to be motorcar a Jutsuyo, but tl name can't wise in love is scarcely given to the change the nature of the machine. gods above." What, then, can be expected from The man who has never spoken a mere mortals? When frequent meet- ' cross word to his wife Is doubtless wife. Just Then all eyes turned on poor, em- ings are Impossible, the love letter has as discreet about other things, also. a more Important part to play In courtbarrassed Malcolm. Still, if people, women especially, ship. now the out of the cat's A man doesn't talk about his humble "Well, would only remember that engagestart until he gets to a point where bag." laughed the uncle, "why don't and not that ments are unbreakable, you teli us why you did It?" it is no longer necessary to be humble. InMalcolm looked very Intently at those for whom letters are not tended sometimes sec them, It might Emma and Emma blushed. "Metamorphosis" Is a big word, but mortification and sorrow "Because," said Malcolm, looking save infinite understand It if you read a you'll first straight Into the eyes of Mr. Gin-- , later on. Exchange, novel and then see a screen versloa ner and then at his uncle, "because of It Calls Dimples Marks of Beauty. the first time I came on an errand for Or of mark a Is the dimple beauty? a friend of mine, I decided that I wantEvery man or woman who runs over She maid with that bewitching ed to to take Emma Glnner to the is It child seems to have been birthmark and the Cupid's bow mouth and kills a junior ball" at driving "only moderate rate .of than her "Wanted to take her to the Junior less beautiful and Intelligent speed." these without attractions? sister ball!" mocked the uncle good Dr. A. S. Warthln, eminent patholo"Why don't you be frank Let us be thankful"jror lawyers. of Michigan, and say you decided you wanted to gist of the University Think what other lawyers would do to a bear the relationship says they marry her?" to us If we couldn't hire one to prothe cleft palate which nevThere was a little startled cry from harelip and tect us. or have In land er other this any yet Emma and a gasp from Mr. Glnner. been accepted as beautiful. They mark "That Is what I might have said, sir," A lot of men who think they are a girl as "below par," says Doctor said Malcolm very solemnly. Then are simply too shallow-mindehmndmlnded Warthln. there was an awkward silence ' and afford to anchorage for an He said It during a lecture on "The then dinner progressed and every one opinion. in which of he Inheritance Disease," was very merry. made a direct appeal for eugenics, betThat evening a little Inter Malcolm After perfecting his seedless waterter living conditions that should breed went on his accustomed trip to the melon. Luther Burbank might give ns reca and for the better humans, plea folcellar to tend fires and, Emma a cantaloupe we can see through beognition of certain inheritances. lowing his whispered Injunctions, went fore buying it. old declares that the He proverb, with him. Standing In the coal bin has Its will truth tell." "P.lood proven together they plighted their troth, and throughout the ages and that today The memory of a Journalist rarely five minutes later back In the family falls to the point vhere he can't reand was fact this recognized becoming living room craved their families' member every pair of pants he has that civilized people were at least conblessings. what could be done to breed had In 40 years. sidering t j a better race. t "The Death Wave." If people were as reluctant to finance ' That the ninth wave of the ocean Is wars before beginning them as they "Rope of Rat Tails." A rope made of 3,000 gopher (ground more are after winning them, there Irould powerful and overwhelming than the preceding eight. Is a super- squirrel) tails was recently on dishe less fighting. stition which existed In Ovid's time play at the office of fhe Montana exseldom has the cour-pig- e The tluht-wa- d (before the birth of Jesus Christ). tension director, awaiting shipment to of his conviction. He always Today the fishermen of England speak the biological survey of the United of this wave as the "death wave." States Department o looks embarrassed when the collecAgriculture. Others claim that the tenth wave Is The rope was made by the Blackfeet tion plate passes. and his tribal most to be feared. In Scotland they Indian chief Split-Ea"Dreams and ambitions are excelbelieved a distempered cow could be assistants, who live near Browning, in cured by being washed in nine surfs, Glacier county, Montana. The Inlent things to have If you don't realwhile the fishermen of Iceland say dians have taken an active interest In ize Hie m." says a writer. Then mol that there are three great waves which tlte campaign against the rodents, and of us are thrice blessed... follow In succession. In which It Is after burying more than 1,400 ground A Once n man's position In society was highly dangerous to launch boats. squirrels decided to save tails for the It is fixed by the number .of bathrooms In legend of St. Patrick says the waves IMoot rope now on exhibition. Now he Is judged by the tils bouse. are caused by serpents which the saint estimated that at least 15,000 rodents Inclosed In a box when he cost them were destroyed by the Indians during spare Hres on the hHck of his car. the drive. out of Ireland. The mystic numbers Has It occurred to anyone to sug 3, 9 and 10 seem to have been gener-allCanine Mixture. used In connection with the exthat gest pay Its debt One day Blllie chanced to stray In to AmericaEurope might our tourists for by planation of things among the ancients our taking yard, and upon seeing our dog he nothing, and letting them board It which were not easily understood. j ' : . began to admire It 4 out? Finally he said: "Oh, we have a How the Aphis Breeds. at our place." The amazing fecundity of the hop little dog Comparatively long skirts may rehim what kind of a asking Upon the Smithsonian j Is hut one may hope that never by turn, reported aphis he had, he said: "Oh, ours is a will woman allow fashion to Institution. The, mother aphis pro- dog again s collie and mixture, de-- ! g enroll her In the duces 13 generations In a year. As bull." Exchange. each generation contains on an average partment. reof one hundred Individuals, It Is First of the Month. The automobile has abolished the that her progeny barring vealed Flubb They live like two doves In ,uraiid old. eneof attacks the destruction from livery stable as a loafing a love nest. I place, and the garage It has brought mies and other Datural causes will Yes. soon but Dubb Ml out ! to Itfe Is no substitute which satisfies they'll number well into ten aextlllloa aphlda when the billing begins. I people who like, a horsy smell, annually. ' : d '. r, ! y -- three-quarter- four-fourt- street-sweepin- LIVES Lighthouse Keeper Proved Man of Resource and Courage in Time of Emergency. Europe Bhowa a disposition to debit America with Its credit. Words Once Written Cannot Be Obliterated. MANY The Indians called the Island Natls-cott-e the country of wailing, and under the modern corruption of Anticos-t- l It has added to Its terrible renown. Its whole history, from the day it was discovered by Jacques Cartler In 1534, to the' present is a record of humun suffering. in August, 1809, the family of Edward Pope, keeper of the Ellis Bay lighthouse, was stricken down by typhoid fever, and to add to his misfortunes the revolving apparatus of his light broke. The government steamer had gone, and Pope hau no means of communicating with the marine department at Quebec or elsewhere. The light revolved or flashed, as the technical phrase is, every minute and a half; and If It flashed no more it would probably be mistaken by iuiv-invessels in that region of fog iwr the stationary light at the west point of the Island, and thus lead to dire loes of life. Pope found that with a little exertion he could turn It and moke it flash, and at once determined to fill the place of the automatic gear. Accordingly, this humble hero sat In the turret, with his watch by his s.d.f, turning the light regularly at the time every night, from 7 p. in., until 7 a. m from the middle of August until the first of December u n I from the first of April until the end of June when the government steamer come to lils relief with a new appar- atus. All through the first season, Pope's daughter and grandchildren were 111 unto death, with nobody save htm to nurse them. lie waited on them tenderly through the day, but as nglit fell on the coast he hastened to his vigil in the turret, doing h's duty to the Canadian government and to humanity with unflinching devo tlon. In the second season his daughter, who had lived through tiie fever, took Irbn-boun- d turns with him In the light room. This man may have saved a thousu'id lives. He died In 1872, and his deed well deserves to be chronicled, for of the heroes of Antlcostl, as of the lor.g roll of her victims, the world knows nothing. Montreal Family Herald. ( V Where the Sparrow Justified Hlmse'f. News dispatches Inform us that toe English sparrow "invaded Alaska tins spring for the first time." Arriving in America about liiSO, it "has been grad- ually working westward ever since," driving out most other small birds us it goes. It has already spread over nearly the whole of Europe, and in spite of everything seems likely to make a place for Itself all the way round the world. Because of its fecundity, its Inability to live peaceably with other birds, and the depredations It has been accused of making on brick chimneys and buildings, sbnie people even bird lovers have greatly deplored Its coming to this country. But it can be a useful bird, as It proved to South Carolina farmers in 1917, writes a correspondent of Pennsylvania Grit. In the spring of that year the army worms started an Invasion of our fields, devouring everything as they went. The farmers were In despair, when they saw how bare the worms were leaving the earth. The'i the English sparrows swarming in the fields In greater and greater numbers dally, began to devour the worms with a voracity truly gratifying. The number of worms which one sparrow would devour in a day was Incredible, a farmer told me. And the poisonous mixture, with which the worms were finally exterminated, before they had Injured the crops Irreparably, had no CI effects on the sparrows. They ate worms so long as there were any, dead alive, to be found. I No Flies In Alaska. Everybody knows that mosquitoes are a frightful pest in Alaska ; but it la news to learn that houseflles do twt exist there. This Interesting fact was definitely ascertained by Dr. J. M. Aldrich of Che United States National museum, ta the course of a recent expedition Which he made for the purpose of Studying Alaskan inserts. De found two entirely new species at? mosquitoes. Horse flies were abundant everywhere. But there were no henseflies. In vain did he explore grocery stores, restaurants, canner es, garbage dumps and other likely places for them. The fact Is that the housefly Is by origin a" tropical Insect. It cannot cold weather. In temperate latitudes a few houseflles manage to live over the winter In heated houses enough of them, tiiat Is to say, to start a fresh crop In the following spring. Philadelphia Ledger. en-du- re Post Mails for the Far North. office regulations, stamps and a new Imprint bearing the name "Ak- - lavlck" are now on their way to the Arctic circle, where the Dominion government soon will open the most north-- ' erly post office In Canada. Aklavh k Is a trading post on the delta at tM mouth of the Mackenzie river. Two malls will leave the ne post office by steamer during, the season of open water, and one mall by dg team durln? the winter, the latter Ijeing the longest and most lonely postal route on the continent. j Now Many Postmistresses. Washington has recently officially sanctioned the title of postmistress. The number of women serving In tli! capacity Is increasing rapidly in the United Slates. : j t |