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Show 1927 TheR CHAPTER IX -17- T.rf ungraciously Mrs. Raxon per-.ItPd per-.ItPd Agatha Brown to be absent for !ht Very gladly the Raxon girls Lrned of it Robin would be theirs ' , few hours. After cramping con-Mnmtal con-Mnmtal pensions and small hotels. tln!n ' -nt lavish life rather went rzJp hPads. It took the form of a 10 u. if- rnmDlex which Irritated Sd enormously. But he had prom-d prom-d his father to aid him by preserv- r7a heartiness of manner that he Z not feel. He wns wholly obsessed ht the thought of Aeotha. that strange .Id lovely girl who held him at arm's Zeth, snubbed him. harassed him. a& then brought him back with a Ilance of those amethyst eyes. She would tell him nothing about her past life and that worried him very much. What men had loved ber, he wondered, iDd bad there been men about vthom he cared? Mrs. McKimber understood under-stood the situation and sympathized. Her husband was unusually irritable. He could talk about nothing but the lofamous manner In which his press agent neglected to have him featured. It seemed to McKimber that the papers pa-pers were filled with Paul Raxon. Actually Ac-tually some club women had started a "Better Architecture League," with Kaxon as president They were to agitate for classes in architectural appreciation ap-preciation in the high schools. McKlmber wandered about the big rooms fidgeting. Baxon was not to be seen. At midnight, when Sneed stood respectfully at his elbow, McKlmber Mc-Klmber was as nearly nervous as he had ever been. But he was too old a campaigner to show it He followed the butler into a big sexagonal room, entrance to which was gained by a flight of eight stairs. That the apartment apart-ment was furnished with subdued iplendor and was of magnificent proportions pro-portions added to McKImber's Irritation. Irrita-tion. Instinctively he was aware that Eaion was getting ready to use his lavish settings In publicity work. This tower study would soon be fa-iraras fa-iraras through the magazines. It was easy to visualize Paul Raxon leaning back in his customary Indolent way with a specially prepared back-pound. back-pound. McKImber's private room represented rep-resented office furnishing in Its most efficient style. He reflected bitterly that this apartment must have been planned for photographic reproduction. McKlmber decided1 it was effeminate. It provoked in him a feeling of contempt con-tempt which could not dispel the knowledge that Raxon's settings were luperb. But they were presumptuous. Raxon was riding for a fall. . He needed need-ed to be taught a lesson. It would have been wiser for McKlmber to recollect that Raxon had not succeeded succeed-ed through any lack of strength. "This extensive publicity campaign of yours," McKlmber began, "doesn't deceive us any." "Usr Raxon queried. "We who represent an -organized party in this state. We know you're out to get a primary nomination, and as you've got money and a good press agent, It doesn't seem easy to prevent you. These primaries play the devil with party obligations. They encourage encour-age the malcontents and the ambitious." ambi-tious." - "Which am I?" Raxon asked, smiling. smil-ing. "You're ambitious, Raxon. You are overambitlous. The Bard of Avon Bays that's the thing which brought the angels down." "This Is the first time I have been tailed an angel," said the other. McKlmber frowned. He detested flippancy. ' "I prefer to think of you as ambitious am-bitious than to suppose you are wanting want-ing to split, our ticket and let West-field West-field in. If one strong man with his party's solid backing runs against Westfield, he'll beat him." "That cheers me very much," Raxon replied. It was not easy for the domineering McKimber to hold himself In. lie was accustomed to respect In the field of Politics. "You won't be the man," he exclaimed ex-claimed "And you will?" "Unless any spiteful malcontent deliberately de-liberately proves a traitor. Up-state, which I control poltically, has no use jr you. it doesn't know r.bout you. I asked a man from Wayne county the other day if he'd ever heard of Paul axon." McKimber smiled. "He said 4ever went to moving pictures." Your mistake," Raxon said, "was " you did not ask his wife. The "omen know me, McKlmber. My 'Bet-er 'Bet-er Architecture Leagues' are spring-"g spring-"g up everywhere. There's a flouring flour-ing one In Wayne county. The '"ger cities, such as Buffalo. Roch-h Roch-h l SjTacnse a"d Utica, are taking e thing np admirably. Politlcians'of ow old-fashioned kind resent worn- In public life, and you don't con-this. con-this. Politically, women are rpersensitive because they know they nave not accomplished what the world ST1 of them- 1 admit yur p- ,f,e rength exceeds mine, but what bout New Y0rk dtyr A stronghold for Westfleld." R 01 80 much as yon Imagine." mh.!lyaWDed ,ltt,e. "8 though the i?learid hIm- "At all events. be an interesting experiment" lh(, f Penitent!" McKlmber cried. ei at hi& callousness. "It - will tragedy for the party." orted L mr finUn" Raxon -it ii ianr had no animus In 1,8,1 neither raised bis voice shown heat as McKIwber had. " id time politicians, you lack eduse of Fifth Avenue By WYNDHAM MARTYN Copyright in the United But. WSD Seme. mental agility and you won't reconcile yourself to new conditions I l?Z past you have been of great use 11 the organization. Toda? you a merely amusing." McKlmber flushed red and instinc tlvely .clenched hl "g nts. p, Kaxon noted the gesture. ."That demonstrates It perfectly" he said "When you lose a point or hear a disagreeable truth you want to hit a man. Elemental stuff. We are here to discuss political conditions in this state. I think that Is how you put it " "You want me to back down and leave the field to you. I refuse, if the pa-ly thinks I've the better chance they'll knife you in a minute. It isn't possible, surely, that you believe gratitude grati-tude has anything to do with practical politics?" McKimber did not answer Immediately. Imme-diately. He was conscious that he had allowed personal antagonism to color his conversation. He adopted the confidential con-fidential tone which had often won success for him. "Raxon," he began, "I'm putting my cards on the table." "Save yourself the trouble,- Kaxon replied. "I can see them just as well when you hold them in yur hands. All you need to understand Is that I have a better chance than you to go to Washington." "If we two fight eacn other, West-field West-field goes," McKlmber said earnestly. "We need a senator at Washington." "That's why I Intend to go, as you may as well tell your friends. I've "He Said He Never Went to Moving Pictures." been working much longer than you can guess for this very end." "Don't you realize you will be denounced de-nounced as a traitor to your cause?" "If the cause means so much to you, throw your influence my way. If you did that, Westfleld wouldn't have a chance." "You're d d well right" McKimber shouted. "The man I Indorse would get in even If you were he. I'll tell you just this, Raxon. From now ou I'm going to devote myself to showing you np for the crooked ward politician you are. My God ! To think you expect ex-pect me to work for you !" "If you're going to be abusive," Raxon said coldly, "we may as well stop." McKlmber struggled into a little leer-violent leer-violent mood. He might yet be abH to divert the Raxon ambition to some less lofty height. "I take that back," he said. "I recognize rec-ognize that you deserve some reward for what you've done In the past, but I'm entitled to the nomination. It Is my just reward I want" McKImber's McKIm-ber's voice became almost conciliatory. "Don't you see the Justice of it? 1 want In my old age the opportunity of serving my country." "And I," Paul Raxon sneered, "want in my early middle age the opportunity opportu-nity of serving myself. Why drag your country In? Do you think I'm a political polit-ical idealist Just because bad achitec-ture achitec-ture offends me?" McKimber rose to his feet. He knew he had lost and he wanted to go before he forgot the slender, sneering sneer-ing man was his host "They told me you were a dangerous danger-ous man," he said slowly, "but 1 don't Houses of Worship The miners In the Myndd Newydd coa. mines in Wales have no caU to Save, shine their boots, or don Sunday Sun-day garb when they go to worship. Thev have a chapel all their own at bottom of the shaft so that when Ev descend the pit they can have short service before going to their trough wooden benches wd the oldest among them acts as pastor. A chapel, more finished In appearand appear-and the Anthony, exists in the saU mines of Wieliczka, Austria. It has altar, crucifix, and Me-slze figures S tne saints, apparently In black marble, but really made of salt THE LEIII SUN. think they gauged your rottenness cor-reetly." cor-reetly." "I take good eare to keep that from them." "Put you're giving It away to me, a confessed rival." Baxon laughed. The spectacle of this tail, portly man, whose career had been i-o successful, amused him. "The trouble with you, McKlmber." "e nnld, "i, that you don't undw-star-d you are a corpse. Politically, you are dead and burled. You are not a rival. Don't flatter yourself to that extent." ( 'I tell you." McKlmber thundered, all the world shall know what has passed between us." "If rou don't lower your voice, all the world will hear. You're not a broadcasting station. Sit down. 1 sent for you because there's a . lot 1 have to say which you wouldn't care to miss." Reluctantly, McKlmber sank back In his chair. He was enwrapped by a certain and unwelcome uneasiness. The man facing him seemed so secure, so unconcerned, so sure of ultimate triumph. "The first tiling to tell you," Raxon began, "Is, I am going to Washington You will quit In my favor and len-1 me all your great influence. Naturally you must have an excuse which seems a true one. i have It all ready prepared. pre-pared. You are too heavy even for your height and the pouches under your eyes are unhealthy signs. You had better drop out, because your specialist tells you there Is heart and kidney trouble. I shall refer to the fact In my speeches with great regret." re-gret." McKlmber spoke with deliberation. "They told me you were dangerous, and I know you are a traitor to your party, but not until this moment did 1 believe you were absolutely crazy. They call your sort of madness megaloi mania." McKlmber rose to his feet "I've met all sorts of knaves and fools In politics, but you're the worst yet" "What a senator you would have made !" Raxon commented. "Do you suppose I should have talked like this If I had not been certain you were harmless, a rattler with his poison sacs extracted? My success has come mainly because I understand human motivation. I'm going to show you how it is that when you leave here It will be to start a Raxon boom In your own city. Sit down, McKimber." John McKimber, who prided himself upon taking orders from none, dropped again into his seat. It seemed to him he was talking to a Raxon he had not until now understood. He found himself him-self noticing what a cruel mouth the other had, and how in those brown eyes were little flecks of red. Paul Raxon gazed at him as an executioner might stare at a prisoner delivered to him for death. McKimber knew that he had been holding too cheaply one who had a dynamic and evil personality. person-ality. "If I stay," he said huskily, "it will be to hear you give away more secrets about youself. Perhaps H shall learn by what trickery you got this place, and how It was you sent Hazen Brewer Brew-er to his grave." "I got this place," said Raxon with his old urbanity, "as I have got everything every-thing else in my life, by using men as tools. I studied men and found them pugnacious, noisy, and vain. It was hard to influence them by my suBdued personality, even though I had the right on my side. I do not mix well. I knew that had to be overcome. over-come. In other words, I determiued to develop something to make up for it. My success has come from finding, almost unerringly, the weak spot In every man's make-up. I got my chance at International Motors by finding out so much of Brewer's life in London that he was forced to take me in to protect himself." "You're a d d blackmailer," McKimber Mc-Kimber cried hoarsely. "I am," Raxon agreed. "The phrase does not offend me in the least Why should it? Is there any more powerful power-ful weapon? Most traitors In the grat war were forced into espionage r rouse the enemy threatened exposure ex-posure as th pri.hr of refusal. In the drawer befo.e me are two articles. One is an automatic pistol." Kaxon opened the drawer and put the weapon on tbe writing table at which he sat. "I am not going to threaten you with it Thut is old-fashioned, stupid stuff. I am merely reminding you I have it at baud If you should attack at-tack me." There was undisguised amazemeui in the bigger man's voice. "Attack you? What for?" (TO BE CONTINUED.) Found in Odd Places In the old German town of Ober-stein Ober-stein an ancient church stands In a great rock rising from the river. The front Is of stone, but the church itself it-self is hollowed out of the rock and penetrates far Into Its heart This cv rlous church is now the only Protestant Protes-tant place of worship in tht town. A church in a Pennsylvania town b said to possess the distinction of b Ing the work of one pair of hand One man carried every block of atone of which It was constructed, cut each of then Into shape, and laid it la place. ' On the Way The road to heavea ! nilHl folks going llcitety b way. Niagara Fall Rei wtik the LEni, UTAH What's the AnQWAf Quettion$ No. 22 1 What is verbena and has It any Particular value? 2 In what state are the Shoshone falls? 3 What is the most popular patriotic patri-otic song in France? Who wrote It? What President was known as "Old Tippecanoe"? 5 Who was the first commander in chief of the Union army in the Civil war? 6 Wbat is meant by rationalism? 7 Which team won the Army-Navy game last fall? -Who wrote "Little Lord Faunt-leroy"? Faunt-leroy"? 0 How many Justices are there In the United States Supreme court? 10 When was the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ In America established? 11 What distinguished American story writer Is the wife of a physician and mother of physicians? 12 -Where is the region set apart as the Yellowstone National park? 13 What portrait painter, the most distinguished produced by America, died in 1925? 14 Who was the most valuable player In the National league lust year? 15 When was the Erie canal opened? 18 How many states seceded from the Union In 1800 and 18C1 and what were they? 17 What Is physics? 18 What Is a vireo and what Is its particular virtue? 19 What Is the salary of the chief justice of the Uuited States? 20 When does the astronomical Say begin? Answers No. 21 1 On November 19, 1803. 2 Sequoyah, of the Cherokeea. 8 That science that treats of the phenomena of the mind. 4 Bubbling Over. 6 Whistler's portrait of his mother moth-er was purchased by the French government gov-ernment and placed in the Luxembourg Luxem-bourg gallery at Paris. 5 Salt lake. 7 "The Compleat Angle:-" by Izaak Walton. 8 It has attained the length of 80 feet and feeds on mammals and birds. 9 Fifteen thousand dollars. 10 104,200,000. 11 Joseph Hopkinson, 1703. 12 Franklin Pierce. 13 A Greek scientist of the Sixth century, B. C. 14 Frank Lockhart. 15 Sarah Bernhardt ; of French nativity na-tivity and Jewish descent 16 Seattle. 17 As an exciseman. 18 An Interesting plant of the Sundew Sun-dew family which bears leaves serving serv-ing as traps to capture insects. It Is found in North and South Carolina. 19 William M. Jardine of Kansas. ,20 May 8, 1818. Younger Indans Turn From Faith of Fathers Sixty or seventy years ago the Fox Indians , of Jowa began the acquisition of the English alphabet from missionaries. mission-aries. They learned a ' method of writing their own language by means of the English alphabet, separating their words into syllables. Since there Is only a rough conformity between be-tween the characters as employed by the Fox Indians and the actunl sounds, it Is necessary to restore the phonetics of any Fox text so that the symbols may correctly represent them. Dr. Truman Michelson, of the Smith sonlan Institution's Bureau of Amen can Ethnology, has been foremost II this work of collection and restor ation. Doctor Michelson, whuse work has made him the foremost authority on the Fox Indians, descrioes their rituals rit-uals as consisting mainly of eating, dancing and prayer. As Is natural with a primitive people, their prayer invite material benefits such as long life, freedom from disease, that the chiefs village should be strong enough to resist Its enemies, and that no foe should even be permitted to gossip' agaftist the village. - According to Doctor Michelson, the younger generation now turn these once serious ceremonies Into occasions occa-sions for amusement Up to some 13 years ago the tribe was so conservative conserv-ative as to resist education, but It has since grown progressive and all the young Indians are anxious to go to school. The tribe are good farmers and compete with the whites in the state agricultural fairs. Very Concrete . "Oh, you Easterners can boast ol yonr fine buildings and their splendid workmanship." said the Angeleno, "but out my way we are so careful what ' we put in a building that rre even In i-pect every grain of sand." "Maybe so," retorted the Rrctonian "but here in the East our build.nss go up so quick we have to use quicksand to mix with our cement before II solidifies. Othenrlw the cement wouM be all up In the forms before the sued iot Is it" Los Angeles rUBa. Coif Playing at Night . With Luminous Balls It looked at first like a jubilee celebration cele-bration of some kind, as flare after flare streaked the night horizon of Van Cortlandt Park golf course, New York city. Cut these rocket-like streaks were nothing other than "luminous" golf balls being tried out by their inventor, M. J. Bloomer, scientist of Columbia university. These luminous balls keep their light for ten minutes after being be-ing bit from the tee, and thus, with the eld of electric lights over the greens, the night becomes as day to the Insatiate golfer. Sportsmen now picture additional possibilities for night golf with the aid of this ball and Illumination of tee flags by employing the piercing rays of the now-popular neon light which can be seen at great distance and through fog, mist and smoke. In bis experiments with the luminous lumi-nous ball. Mr. Bloomer drove off eight balls from the first tee and located all of them within six minutes. Like huge glow worms they nestled among grass, leaf and tree far down the fairways fair-ways and In the rough. Freak Coif in Scotland A freak golf match was played recently re-cently In Scotland. It was an 18-hole course and the players agreed to meet by moonlight They started at 9:30 p. m accompanied by spectators. No one could see the bull when It left tbe tee, so all stood in strained silence trying to hear It drop. Two brave men, all In white, went ahead lighting matches to give the players a clew to the right direction. They escaped with their lives, although a ball passed between the feet of one of them. The balls were traced with the aid of electric elec-tric flashlights. The match ended at 12:20. Not a single player made a hole In one, the match going to the expert who achieved a hole In 03. All Start in Kansas A landmark, or "datum," placed at the little town of Ogden, Earn, by the United States coast and geodetic survey, sur-vey, Is the starting point for all surveys sur-veys and boundaries in the United States. All government surveys are trade on that basing line probably because be-cause that is the geographic center of the country. Capper's Weekly. Romances of Industry ' More than CO subjects Involved In the romantic task of taking wealth from underground are depicted in a series of motion pictures prepared by the bureau of mines, says Popular Mechanics Magazine, and elaborate equipment, Including portable lighting facilities that furnish 12.000,000 candle- power, has been devised for the task. One of the illuminating units is a huge searchlight somewhat like that 'used on airplane landing fields. Fifty trunks of lighting apparatus are em ployed. In filming the "Story of Cop per" many of the reels were taken 8,000 feet below the surface. Headaches from Slight Colds Laxative BROMO QUININE Tablets relieve re-lieve tbe Headache by cartng the Cold. Iiook for signature of E. W, Grove on tbe box. nuo, Adv. f Potato in First Place Potatoes retain their popularity while fads and fancies come and go, according to J. W. 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