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Show THE MIDVALE JOURNAL May 25,1928 I· and YONDER By LEONARD NASON IRWIN MYERS, D. S. C. A NEARBY CHEV RON lllu.tTatioru by Page Seven Few.~ I CuteinaBa C)l\wful at Three QLUHe® •and it's Dangerousby lJuth BPittain By T. T. Maxey Copml'bl bJ Georce B Dwu Com,aa:r. The Floating White House yn~; Ma_vftnwer, a 1\0nden. coal vessel, was llllift at Clydebnnk. Stotland, ln 18!17. and used as a vrivnte yatht by a wealthy New York husiness man. 1 During the Stwntsh-Arner!can war 1 It was vurchasefl by Unrle Sam, converted lnt<• a gunboat and spent mucn lime in Cuhan waters. capturing sev era! prizes. It was retur-ned to the t'arlbbenn sen when trouble broke out In Santo Domingo; later It cruised In European waters, but was returned In lime to perform the most Interesting servlre of conveying the special envoys of Russin and Japan ! to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, whPD pea~e terms which ended the RussoJatJ scrap were arranged. Congress authorized its use as "The Five Presidentlul Yacht,'' In 1007. Presidents, Roosevelt, Taft, \Vllson, Harding and <'oolldge, ha1•e trod her derks. A sllm, trim-looking craft, the Muyflower Is 341 feet long, 36 feet beam, draws about 18 feel of water, makes about 15 miles an hour, now burns oil, carries four six-pound guns and has a crew of 8 otlicers and 187 men, Including 24 marines and a chaplain. It has sleeping quarters for the L'res!dent, his wife, 14 guests and the crew. Equipped with rel·eptlon, smoking and dining rooms. library, plano. graphophone, orchestra and radio, the most luxuriously equipped na,·nl vesset we have, tree from military spirit, embodying the private and peaceful atmosphere of a mansion, the Mayflower offers a welcome means of escape from the strains which rest npon our Chief Executive which bas been enjoyed more frequently by President and Mrs. Coolidge than either of his predecessors. • • • burnin~ up and get that finished and get ren<b to get out of here I" she snit!. ~1"Are you going to run me Into a "Whnt's the matte• with you men?" tent?" asked the sergeant 1\lth a sinkthe head nurse when she Ing heart. make herself heard, "are you all "No, you're going to leave the llos What do you menu by break· pi tal. Go up to the oUice." those plati.'S? What do you mean The wuru wns very qu!tt while the yelling like this? I never heard of Informed three more men that nurse a thing In my life I You. Forty, going Four men that wns wert: they got enough chalked up against rest of them n:ust walt the and all, already to keep you In the guardor so. There wns no month another the rest of your life! Number men watr·hed sailly The laughter. you're alwa~·s starting somepncklng. This conhis did Eadie while you're at the bottom of this! face and his razor. his wiping of sisted were the first man served I I'll In his rnurette, anrl razor the putting '-~~·-· you tor this! What do you taking his O\'liCIIat over hi~ nrm. He by mahlng such a row?" traveled light. Then he went down "I've got •. right to make a row!'' the ward to say bls furewells. Eadie hotly, ready to weep They tonked at the sergeaut pathettears In disappointment and for he wns going hume, and ically, "What the h-1. do you mean Joomed to stay In the word were they and giving turkey to the prisoners bootlicking, camouflaging pets nod fight with the head !lurse Two pu:tlng out beans to the .rest of weeks from now, Number One would By G-d, If you wer~> a mnn l'fl he at hOme in the States, at home right 1p out of this bed and take where it was warm, and a man might round Jut of you, I don't ~nre It eat thick ~teak three times a dny If guts fell out and hung down he so willed. He would be among people who were all "mister," 1vhere my feet I" if a man was insulted'thPre was noth "Is that what the trouble Is?'' asked lng to binder him from poking the In tiead nurse. She laughed a little In the nose. He would have a suller ing laugh and the ward ground twd. In whlrh a mnn could clvill7.efl teeth at the sounfl. "'l'he prison twice and not tall on the over turn and my goldbrl<-klng friends l!et floor, and In which he could sleep tnrl~'"' and the rest of you d0n't? But hours of the dny with men are all on light diet. It's twenty-four him. Ah, to go home I hinder to none the men on full diet thut get turWhat else did life hold but that? Earlie shook hands wltb them all, Ah, so that was It! Oh, bitter the Hegular, the Marine (he was a ! Bow well they rernembere~ good guy even If be was a leatherthose men, th11t the uurse had nsferred this one and that one full to light diet during the past There had been no complaint. u~e the full diets ate heartily of beef, hardtark and canner! hash. the light diets had dellrnrles asparagus, jo m, and ~a nned •t••wr•'l chicken on Sunday nigbt. But Only the full diets to have tur\Yrath nnd ronm. The men In ward coulfl hear the head nurse iltl~n.(l:llrl~ with Iaugher tu the office. Eadie loy down In his bed and covhls head with the blankets. His lny on the bedside table untol~c~ted, while his heart burned withhim. What did a man get for goto war? What illd It get him to his life In battle? If h& was efl, a hasty hurinl, and If he was de!l. a trip to a hell like this lle harl been treated murh 'hn••nl1to the time he had been gnssPcl thnt he was seriously CHAPTER IX-Continued "What's the matter with you. appendirilis?" "Goldhrick, you ll>n-en't got any kinil a wound. Suppose you lost a leg an arm !n He was one man In n word of Hfty seriously ~-ounded, and the word was one in not only a hospital hut 8 'tOiiCE'nlrntlon Of five ~lmllnr IIOSflltOIS, lludilleil In the colrl murl of one of the desolate sections of F'ranre. If died he went to the morgue and It liv!'d anfl got wPII he would go nut sprnd the winter in a con les!'ent tent. A h:wd tugged gently at the hlnnkahnut P.orlie's henif. lle put out P,re anrl discorPrr!l hi~ f•IPncl, the there, the ODP llllfl hnif tnl(en good rare of him when hP first to the wnril. "I've hP~n sick," sntd the nut·se wily I hnr~n't bepn nronnd to you before. Whnt's the matter. 't ~-ou fE'elin~ well?" ":'\o !" t·rplied P.ndie. •'the henr1 put us all on ll~ht flirt so wr lrln't gpt an.v turke~ ,linnPr mln<l o lot, hecmiRt I waR on rliet nn~wn~·. hut II makPS me to ltnYe a plate of henns shoved mp when I hnd my mouth all set turkey." "Thut old devil!" muttered the "If I trer mret up with that fdlsgtl~tlln~ womnn aftet tht war or where there nren't anv ltnesses. I'll ~Ntnfnly gh·e her ~ of 111y mini! and mnyhe haul out few of hPr hnirs for her! What a trlr·k! ~nmPt!mes I wonder if I ~n ·r t1eJ·twgerl." "\\'t>ll. hut-ray for Thanksgiving dHy. tt.v. Mn~·he I'll get a good dinner (·hrl..-~n;n~." "Nnw, there!" exclaimed the nurse fnr~··t wliut I came o,·er ht>re for wu~ up in the office this rnomlng no I ~nw nn orfler they were getting \'our nn Ill!' wa~ on it." out "\\"hnr for?' demanded Endle In sur"What are they purling my prise llllllle on nn order for?" "You·re going ba<·k to the States on rite first trulnlond that goes I" "Nn! Is tlwt a fort?" crlt>d En die. "It certainly Is," said the nurse, "I w the orfler myself." Rudie at once sat up In bed and "'ket! nhnut. "Hey, orderly I" he eu. "who told you to toke awal' tllslt <If henns? Bring It bnck! -, 111nke out a meal with It now!" The ser~eant's recovery after that rnpid. His friend the nurse l!nrJ let~rl that It would he, for 8 heJiy Pit her kill eo a man or he re.,..,-~,- ..,1 ft·otrt it. one or the other. ann lnnk l'ery little time for either. The w~re remowd from the wounrl n fP\\ ilnys nnrl after he could sleep ni~ht he ntpic!l_v ~alnefl strength. lwei to learn ro walk all over again a child, but he harl plenty of time. week before Christmas he was In the ward, with every prospect not len ving It for anything better a convalescent tent. lie had Issued a uniform, such as It wns, he had his collar omaments and whistle, and his faithful friend nurse bought him a set of sernt's stripes and two very glitterThere Two l II"OUnd st rlpes. -oM••'• muny that conld sport two. One morning Endle finished his and was In the midst of his kly sha\'e when the bend nurse me fluttering up to his bed. "Hurry ""'""'u"' rile United Stutes nnd nil ovPr !-'ranee rww for going on two years. never lmow!ng where they were going, anrl having little Interest In their destl nation anyway. "\Ye'll know where we're guln' when we get there.'' was th!'lr motto Another trntn. tmother new set ot colli!Janions the next duy. The men wer·e from dltl'erent Jwspitali now. ~vrn from as fur awuy us ('ontrex vllle. •r:te couutry changed. l'oitier~ Angouleme, Libourne. Bord~aux at last. the great plut form of the Oare du Mltli dimly light er' by the afternoon sun and crnwtled with Atneriran nntl ~·reneh soldiers. The men all des~ended from the train und hegan to gather in gruups, nccorfl ing as their nnmes were called b_v two omce•·s wh•1 had been in charge of the train since Tours. Eadie, being a sergeant, harl his name to1vnrd the head or · rhe list. and so was cullerl early About thiety men 'were finally groupe(] around him and the ofllr~r counting them mar~hed them across the platrorm to another train. "Where does this go?" Eadie asked the t•·olnm11n us he got on. "La Teste and Arca.·hon." was the reply. "La Teste!" shrieked Eadie. "Why, we can't be going to Le Cc.rneau I" The trainman shrugged bls shoulders, ;·1 do not pretend to know," said he. Endle leaped down from the step and frantkally sought the cffirer. "Here I" he cried. "Are we going to Le Cornea u ?' "That'ij what." replied the officer. "Le <'orneau I" cried Eadie, so that ull the men turned to look at him. "'l'here must be some mistake. Why, l'm just out of hospital. They told me l was going home!" "There's no mistal;e," observed the officer. He got out the order to wake sure. "Yes, here It Is; Eadie, Robert, Sergeant 'A,' Seventy-ninth Fl~ld Artillery, and at the top of the order yoo see, 'The following named enlisted men to report to commanding officer, F. A. R. R., Le Corneau GironnOe.' '' "Ah, the - - !" muttered Eadie, "she knew It all the time.'' Then he mounted the train In silence. CHAPTER X Home From a little way south of Bordeaux almost to the Spanish border stretch~s a desolate waste ot sand forested with pit~h pine. Shl'pherds live there and gatherers of pitch, and a few fishermen, and during the wnr the French establlsherl training camps for their Senegalese and Annamite "No, You'r'! Going to Leave the Hos hattalions among the pines. The poorpita!. Go Up to the Office." est, most out of the way, anfl the worst constructed ot these ~amps wns neck), Roaring Forty, Twenty Eight, Le Corneau. SenegHle~e hnd been even the ncwt·orners and the goldhrirk there, and after them the Russians. friends of the head nur·~e. und after the RusslnnB mutinied. had lie was tempted to shake hands been subdued, and take~ away, the with the tlrisoners, too, but It ml~ltt ramp was turned over to the Amerl not do. and then he knew no Gerrnao ~ans. Row after row of t!irty, whilewith whi<'l1 to explain his action. washed huts, sand, black 11 ith l11e filth "Good-tty, ou1·se,'' said be to his old nnd dirt of its thousand• of former ~>nemy, the l1enrt nurse. "11 hen I'm in occupants. u hrick guardhouse 11·ith :\'ew Yur·k artnlltd New Year's, I'll no 11indows. and the dreary strctrhes think of ~011. When 1 ride up Fifth of the forest, such was the camp. aYenue on 1 1te hu~. I'll thin!; of you A rnnn stood at the m:tin gnte of waclin;: arouutl in the nnul he1 e." the <:amp In the early ht.ur~ of the , "Do that, 11!!! .l'nu?'' asl;ed the morning, watching the rletail~ going nurse p!en~antly, "unrl when ron get nut to wot·k and the rompunlpg hein~ to ~ hl'rf'\ er you're g-o inc, l'ememh~r mnrrheil tr• drill. ThP mhn wn~ ~er that l 11 ns the one that sent rou gP:tnt Eurlie mtd it wa~ tl11> morning · tlwre.' uftPr his nrril·al nt I.e ('ot'llPnu It "A lot yo11 had to do with ~Pndlng was rold. a clamp rnw winr! that !;qrt me out of hospital.'' stoff(rJ Earlie. the thermonwter hm·er1nu around the "You'd be surprised I" rpplied tht freezing point <lrtl\'e hefore it n colo nurse. rain. and the mnt·rhing men bent their "By golly, It I dared to bt•liPYe ron hends ngnin>t it. \\'hal n u"elrss I'd forgh·e you for all the stnll' you've thin1! on OH'T~PR~ rnp wns in a r:dn! pulled on liS the ln~t few mnnths." Ea•lle had hrenkfa"tP<l on ~nur hash "Gond-hy." ~alt! tlw nm·se suddenly, nud haron, 11 !th a rupful of eoll'Pl' anti slammed the offire door in !Cadle's grourul• to wn~h It rlown 11 !r h II<' fn~e. hHil slept in his ~lotllPS nacl .,,.f'rf'nnt At the louding j)ialforrn the men hut Hell then he had ht•en enid F'irst gathered, two uud three from eath rnll fnr rfr.ill hnrl hlowu, nnil tt1en n• wurd, pullld with their stuy in ltns semhly, hnt P.arlle harl not assisted p!tal, each one huurhed in his oe11 at roll rnll. f1p hn<l hePn In his ramp "''erc·ont. and earh one with the little hefm•e nncl kne11 t11at It would hP se~ canvas hng the Hed Cross hatl giveu Pral rla~·s lwfnre his nunrp wnulrl np him o1·er his shoulder. The men werp pear on tile t·oRter. He hnrl nlso gonl' tonded in, some of the hospital per away from his l'IIDlp the l>lSI limP sonnet went along the train and rtis without thP fnrmalily of n trn\'el nrtrltmted c11ns of ha~h. bully, tomntoe~. tler. anrl jam. with o !nat of bread to earh ''I think I'll rio It aga! '-' :nuttered comportment, the doors were hanger!. sergeant "It's cold. tliOul(h now the and the trnln he~an to rattle Its wn.v the trnins don't ·un to th~ rrrmt onrl to the seahonrd. more. Wher• woultl P -.:u:v I(O?' an.v Horne! The first sllrge uf the jour why rush uwuy? !Je 1Hio1 Clnl_t Yet ney! 'fhe cnrs were cold nne! the 'rhry might d few hours. her·e been seats hard and uncOI'Ifortable, but the from here hornr him send to goin~ he men were going home and tbey would ll'a~ the arril ('ornenu Le all nfter have gladly walked to the sea, weak ened as lhPy were. or cruwled on tery replaceme1;t camp rm ti•P A R: hands and knees. Horne 1 That was 1". and woul<l he the log!rel plnre to "~'nrl on nrt!IIPr~·mnn who had nn out the place for a man. :\'ext day the train stopped and 1he ftt. £-lp roulrln'l expec·t ro go home men were all hunrllf'd niT und on to all b.v him~elf like n rPttu-r.inJ1 tourist another. They ate supper from the And his nnrse fri~>nd hnil ~nit' •he hnfl cans of food they had witl_t them, and seen h!s name on the Mrl~>r to go spent the night trying to be c,tmfurt· home VPh, hut when? T~• whole A ~~- 1•'. was goln~ home ,:nrnr iln.r. able. The second day the train wan P.ntlie !ar~d the othrr wa~ anrl the all F'ran~t. across dered its way lime In the flood plain of til<: Loire, a lookeil at the wull of fon•st urross tht flat desolate muddy se~tion that .-on<l. The l~st time he h:til heen 11ere stretches without a brenk 1~ Its mo- he user! to go Into those wn.t<l> en•ry roton.v clear across F'rnnre. TJ,at tiny and lie up unde1 thf pinto~ until n!gltt they rolled Into a station the hour for clrlll was OI'Pr It hnrl marked Snint Pierre des Corps. whl're been summer then Hltd 1vnrm. The !rains fur rours leave the main line. [Jines looked ifrear.v enougl, no11 dripThe night they spent In the CnsernP ping with rain nnd swaJ ing In the wlnd. Still the sergPunt had better Lafayette In Tours. The landscape along the track was be getting under co\'er, for a man the same old country that Eadie had standinR about with no el'fdent purseen so often. Sheets of rain, swollen pose would be the llrey of the first of brooks, muddy cart tracks crawling ficer that went by In search of some op green hillsides, small dirty houses. one to cut ldndllng wood or dig a lui· wayside stations, Iorge towns wherP rine, no mutter If the man had as the train changed engines, and de- many str!p~s ns a zebra ou hi~ arm. mobilized french solfliers stood on the P.adle turned and moved out of the plutform witll their hands In tlte! 1 ~ate to the rond, where he stopped to con"i<ler the best route to tak~ pocl;Hs antl idly watched the train "! know tlti;• country," observeu "Get tl1e h-1 back insirle that gate l" Eadie tnmed. There were two Eadie. "We must be going bome from Borcleaux." horsemen there, that, ridln~ on the g-rass beside th(< road, bad Uilprouched "uh huh !" agreed the other men They had been herded up and down without his hearing thew. They were Ht"Hted with pistols and had rifles In their gun boots. "Gwun !" snarled the man again. "G-d d-n yvu, get the h-1 hack there! IY It ere the b-1 do you think you are, unywny?" Eadie still looked at the two men. They ''ere not military poll~e. tor they wore no brassards. They had carnpalgn buts, with red hat corfls. nnd must be a part of the permaneut rersonnel ot the camp. Tl.ey bar! hen'l'y, unintelligent faces and cruel mouths with tobacco-stained lips. One of the men spurred his horse toward the sergeant nnd kicked at him sav ngely with his spurred heel. Eadie turned and went hack Inside the gate. What good would It do him to stay In the road to resist tl•ose two brutes? The guardhouse, perhaps. Even sup pose he hurled a rock at one of them, the other would shoot him down. "KIIIed by accident," the casualty lfst would read. A fine ending to a milltary ~areer. The mounted men looked at him a minute or two and then rode on. "They're a fine pair o• birds, ain't they?" Eadle tut·ned. Another soldier stood beside him, a red-faced man, older than Eadie, and this man also wore the campaign hot that marked him as a member of the camp personnel. "Them kind o' guys are sprlngin' up all over France,'' observed the man without waiting for Eadie's answer. "The war Is over an' they ain't afraid of beln' SPDI up to the lines any more. War Is bell, but It ain't got nothln' on peace." "I'll say," agreed Eadie. "I've seen hard-boiled M. P.'s In my time, but 1 always knew that under his bardboiled skin the M. P. was just a soldler trying to keep himself out of the guardhouse like the rest of us. But those two slave drivers l They're bruti.'S, that's the word. Imagine Americans putting thugs like that to guard ot11er Americans I" "How long yuh beerr here?" grinner! the other man. "I've just come," sold Eadie. "I was here last summer and went over the hill to get away. I'm going to do It again." "Don't," said the other moo sober ly. "The guys that's A. W. 0. L. Is S 0. L. now. The first thing they do when they catch yuh Is to pass yuh n beat ln. There was a huddy o' mine that went up to Bordeaux no' hadn't more'n got off the train before thev had him. Be was In the Casino d~ Lilas a month, lug~:tn' ralls all day Then be got sent down here an' got three months more for heln' 8hsent In Bordeaux. It di<ln't makl' no differ ence that he was in the mill up there, he wns gone a month an' thlll wa~ f The Czar of Lights THE brightest beacon which guards our coast Is that in service at Navasink, N. J., which marks the entrance to New York harbor. 'l'his czar of lights flashes from a massive stone tower, built ln 1862, and located at the highest point along the Atlantic coast for hundreds of miles-north or south-the light being 246 feet above the water. l:la\ing the power uf 710,000 candie~. thls light Is plainly visibly over 1,000 square miles of water. Under normal conditions, It can be seen for 26 miles, and, under unusually good has been atmospheric conditions, sighted by Incoming ships flO miles at sea. The great lens, surprisingly beautiful nnrl displaying every colot of the rainbow, is five feet In diameter and made up or nearly 400 separate prisms, held together by copper frames and set to focus the rays of ligltt into a single oeam. U rests on a turntable which In turn re~ts on a bed of quicksilver weighing five tons. The lens and table ll'eigh ten tons nnrl are turned IJy 8 clo~k-llke mechanism The light Is turnished by three lneanclescent oihnpor burners within the lens Its Intensity t•e,-embles a flash ot sheet ll~htnlng. The flash lasts for three-fourths of a sec·ond, followed hy tl\o seconds of darkness and Is so distinctive that, 'tl~ said, no experienf"ed ohserwr could mistake It for un.v other light. Its closeup glare i' su blinuing r h:\t the kPepers nre ohligl'd to wear rlark·smolwd gi<Hi;ses to ti\C>id '!'riou" eyP injury. enough." "Well, what do they flo ,ylth the men here now?'' asked Eadie. "Bow Jon~ do they keep a guy here? They used to send up replacements every week but they don't need rcpla~ements any more.'' "They send wounded men here for said the other. "A guy in A ~lass goes bach to his out fit ~ gets duty in nn omre or gets a job In o camp like this. C gets con;.tlescem ramp, an' D gets 8ent !June right off You'll be gnin' orer in a dnl or tl\o tf you come in yesterda.l'. 'fhe rlur- looh ·em ore1·." ''!:luppo<e a gn~ !(c'!~ D rla"s- hu\\ cln~sification," long hefore be'tl go hon,e'?" (£) 1928 Sam-What're you dotn· now, Jedi 1 Jed-Runnin' a trn~tor plow fer or Dave Hopkins. Sam-What does he pay you? Jed-Twenty-elgiJ; dollars a month Thutnb sucking does look sweet in -,. Sam- Pretty durned poor pny. baby, but It Is disgusting Jn the three• Jed-Wal, I'm coin' some prett~ year-old and sometimes it hangs on durned poor plowin'.-Ladies Home until fifteen or sixreeo! The habit Journal. may cause an ill-formed mouth or in· duce adenoids; and It always inter· JUST SO feres with digestion. Pinning tbe !.'leeve over the hand; attaching mit· tens, or putting on cardboar8 currs, which prevent bending the arms at the elbows, are some of the ways to stop . the habit. Another bad habit-irregularity In bowel action-Is responsible for weak bowels and constipation In babies. Give the tiny bowels an opportunity to act at regular periods each day. If they don't act at first, ,a little Fletcher's Ca&toria will soon regulate them. Everf mother should keep a bottle of it handy to use in case of colic, choldiarrhea, gas on stomach and era, a open gonnu Monk-J'm First constipation, loss of f'leep, or bowels, store. is cross and fE>verlsh. Its baby when bustmonkey Monk-More Second over baby's i'J'Stem Influence gentle eh? ness, enables him to get full nourishment from his food, helps him gain, Folly strengthens his bowels. The laughter falters tor awhile, Castorla is purely vegetable and And sorrowing dray.-s near; \s reckless Folly seeks a smile, harmless-the recipe Is on the wrapBut only gains a tear. per. Physicians haYe prescribed It for over 30 year;-. With each package, Lost Both you get a valuable book on Mother· ''Poor ~label! She quarreled with hood. Look for Chas, H. F\etcher's Jack over her pet dog, and he declared signature on tbe wrapper so you'll get she must either give up the dog or the gen ulne. bim." "\Yell?" Had Its U1es "\Yell, In a fit of anger she said !il;e to see a girl with Man-! The she'd give up Jack, and he hnd hardly face. happy shining, a left her before the dog got killed by doesn't. That's why Maid-She The an automobile.'' she carries a handbag. They Didn't l'tl. S. relates that a wife who was Inclined to he jealous took her husband shopping with her and while buying o tlress she noticed him gazing admiringly at a passing mannequin. "You neHr looked at me like that," she reproa~hed him. "You ne,•e r looker. like that," be snapper! hoc!< at her. Neglected Talent "Tonuny, which is the way to the Theater Hoya~?'' Small Bor-How do yer know me name's Tomm~-? "I guessed it." "\\'ell, guess the way to the Theater Royal then~" Critical Information MOST peoplo know this absolute antidote for pain, but are you careful to say Bayer when you buy it? And do you always give a glance to see Bayer on the box-and the word genuine printed in red? It isn't the genuine Bayer Aspirin without it 1 A drugstore always has Bayer, with the proven directions tucked in every box: "I hn,·e read all of your speeches,'' remarked the admiring constituent "I ha\ e been thinking ahout changing my 8ecretary,'' nnswered Senator "I wi'h rou would tell me ~orghum. If ~·ou tl1ink the ~veeches ~-ou rend are Ull ~ good."- Washington Star. USED CARS Western Newspaper Onlon,1 "Oh," said the ntltL'r. "if you got tr Bourgeois a Town Dweller rww ~ ou ought to he hnme for Fourth of July. !-101; long dicl it tnke to g<•t • Tl1e utiddle tlas~. HS a llnmiuunt ro tile A F.. I~ to Frnnre? Ki~l ro tl\o cluJ hnrl.l, is u cuwparatively oew ({OW fh(1 ~· gnnnn gt 1 Plll hnm~ s·enr~. thiug. wr·ifl's Uilhert !:l<'lrle~ ill lhe Surany qul<-kPr?" urtla.l l>nuing l'ust. l"rirm the days ''That'S ri!(llt,' lliUilPr~d E:t<lie. "It ol l 'urinlantN to tho>P of Lt •uis XIV . looks ns it I II'HS to ~peru! some time If ~uu wanted to 11u1e an,l' lar·ge group \\'ell. how of peopl~. j'OU <lit'el'lerl yout·~plf to the in this hell hnlp nfter ult do they eat here?" ~weat~ mlrhle, the gt·cut Ultwa,hetl Tile ot11er man's fac·e ci:III<PrtPtl The hour~ois, ot rhn~e fiBHl~ WHS', l:lS '\\'ell. I'll tell ~uh." he said hilt!'rly lite name inclit'ntlS, a town dweller, a 'it wnulr! pul<e a hn7.7.artl !" cltizt•n, Utili wltnt is mm·e, he was "I guess It's gning 111 11e " lianl win n~ually a ft·ee citizen ter!' rPnwtkPd Endi safll_v. ''lt '" thnt," nl(reed tile l' thN. "hnr Static Sparks if you l(o tt·yln' to gel nwa~· nn gpt !lay the tuoriu;, parts ol dry a Ou •·aughr. it'll he ''•Is harder I" O\\ out ~(lal·ks of stntk tht uwchiuet·~ Earlie went hnrk to the c·oltt 11::r electl'icit~ wltich sometime~ cause an nl! '"- ThP Itt! I< were unhe:.t;·tl a11t1 explosion. like the gas in an uutomo in ntlrlit Ion, open to nn.v wantl~'t·in;: ltrt•eze. Tlte wPat her wn~ Just •·oltl hile engir•e, if the uir is lieu ,-ilv laden wirl1 dust or an.v kind o< tin~l.v pul e11n1Jgh rc. be raw and uncomfurtahf~. Flour mills. dry ,-erized ruatt~r. liJ(e n r·ain.l' day in late SPptenther nr home. ~Jpn sat ahout on tlw tlouhle cleaning estHblislunents, <:Gal mine~ tll>d the vicinity of tht·eshi'lg ma~hines tlet"k hunks. their hands pluugt•rl lnEt• their cont pot"kets and thPlr hen•ls are some of the !Jlac~s where fire~ sunk Into their coat collars. The 1 may result from these explosions. were all stranget·s ro ead1 otltrr alt;l no one fe~t like making frlenfls wlth Habit his neighhor. !~ncb wanted tu he alone The word "habit'" has oeen so badwith his 1111 n black thoughts ty use!l that children ure ufntld of It There were a lot of men 1n tile huts. They nre warned uguinst all sor·ts ot men marked sick In quaners. IUI'II habits. Wh_v not encourage children heutiug rtrlll, speci~l rluty men wJtn~e 1 to form hahfts that will come in rtuty wns not press10~ for the nHttHeut. handy instead or wnrnlng them so newcomer.< who, lil<e t.;arJie, were mud1 about ltabits that will bring nwaitillg clussitit-ntlllll. lYe take the negative Instead grleft (TO BE CONT!;-;!JED.I of the ro~itive approu~h.-Gr-ove Patter8on. In ~lohile Register. 1 LIKE RETURNS Asplrto Is the trade mark of Bayer Ma.nutacture ot l.t:onoacetlcacldester ot Sallcrllcacl4 1 I I Another Version "Need un~· h£llp, neighbor?" "Yes, thanks! Got a scre\\dl·her? I cnmr nwa.v 1\lthout nil of my tools.'' 1 Turning the Tables Automatic Telephoning The funtlaruentul idea of uut01uatlc Composition of Wood te!Pphnny wus conceived in 188(1 IJy / \\'nod is cum[losetl ol millions of Almon B Strowger. While the sys rem continue~ to bear his ruuue, Its ' tiny cells. some tiller! with w1ter, some .urcesst ul E~eHio!'ment I~ duefts clue with air. and some with oil. When wood is burnl11g, the heat makes the !II t~te eonttntwd effnrts of I ile en!(i n~enng stnfl' of the Automutir loJiec- contents of the cells expand until the tr·tc company, under tile teuclership of 1 cells burst, causing miniature explothe group of pioneers who tonk Strow- slons, familiar to us as "crarkles" · ger's Idea and ga\'e It practical form. The first public automatic exchan~\l Shinto Temple Gateway• 11as Installed at Laporte, Ind .. In 1892. 'l'he gateway of any Shinto temple, It was o somewhat crude arrangement, and bad a capacity ot only 100 or of a tope, Is called tori!. Properly subscriber~. Nevertheless, ~ompared it Is constructed of two uprights wltb A to other type~ of switchhoat·d~ of the three superimposed crosspieces. Tori! Great the Is ~xample celebrated lime, It wu~ a distinct improvement. of the Shinto temple, on Miya-j!ma Island. inland sea, Japan. WoTth While I Something If science Is so woudr•rful as It Plants in Sick Room claims, why doesn't It make some efIn the case ot hay fever, Except u with plnnt ruhlter the fort to cross or similar tll~ease, It Is henellclal to ~tee! plant und grow tires with metal jllave growing plants In the same room rims? with a sick perroo. Quickly Relieves Rheumatic Pains A l!ltl• lamb 'n \\'all street frisl<s, On profits hopes to cram: Bul Wall street. by some elever twl•ts Soon [risk• Elmt little Jamb. Inspection Open 12 Days' Free Trial "I hnl'e come up," remarked the lnndlot·<l to the delinqut"nt tenant, "to see If ron're !!oing tu pay your rent.'' "All right look aronnrl awhile," replier! thP man who was always hard I To get relief "II hen pain tortured joints and muscles keep you In constant misery rub on Joint-Ease. It Is quickly ahsorbed and you can rub it In often and expect results more speedily, Get it at any druggist In America. Use Joint-Ease far sclntlca, lumbn~o. sore, lame muscles, lame back, chest colds, sore nostrils and bumlug, aching feet. Only 60 cents. It penetrates. Send name and Address for l z day trial tube to Pope Laboratories, Desk 3. Hallowell, llfalne. urPitcheT Was Knocked Out "\\"hat lin~ happen~tl now?" demanded his ~lrl. ''The pitcher was knoc-ked out." "Yon never told me it wus a prize tight. ! · thought It was a h,tll game." I I Judge prints the following mriatlon on an old theme: "Nobody laughed when I stepped up to the plano. The se~ond payment was months overdue uno I had come to take It back." FREE Th a! W ou ld Do It I • Ease J0 Int. l.awJ·er-If _I"OU _expect to be acquitted, your w1fe w1ll lt:ll·e to weep a - - -. little cllll'ing the tt·ial. Stop! L11ten! 40 Acre Farm $650 d "'I , • , . J . 'l'h 1 e Acrm::e ---.J J,Jt s ea~~. u~t te I I Terms. Free 11st. ).fcll:rath, Mountain View.Mo. -- ltet rru going to lle nrquitt~>d.-Sn·ny J Plu•no~r&Jlh Rf'C.•o"l~ EIP<'trlrnlly Rt>f'OE'dt"d, Storie~. de· The Amateur 0Tator ere1· ~peak l:u·ge nn<lienc-e, Pat? l'tlt-." F11irly large, l (lid ~like-And what did J ou l'at-::-:ot gniltr. 12 Iat<'~t seledions excellent tone, $1 10 Un~-red: complete catalog ,,n request. B. DoPr· ftinJ..:"cr, 894 Ea!'lt 163rd f;t., N~w York City. ~lil<e-Ditl ~-e Nc r;me foT the Usual 1\"ife (as hushnnd is going) -You might leave me the mmu•y fnr a new bnt . .Jolm. Mr. Commuter-\Yity didn't you speak of it sooner. !'1·e nn time to 1 argue with roo now. Abaorbine reduces otrained, puff:v ankles, lymphangitis, polle~l fistula, boils, swelhngs. Stops lameness and allays pain. Heals sores. cuts, bnliaea. boot eha!es. Doea not blister or rernovehalr.Horsecan be worked while treated, At druggiats, or $~.60 pootpaid. Describe your ease for 1peelal lnat•uctlonll. Eorsc book 5-S free. Grateful oser writf'a: 41 Have tried e•err• thing, Aftt:r a apphcatJons of Abeortnne, fw.und 1\Welling gone, '!hank you for the wond.Jrful re~ultB obtained. ''1 will reeom• mend AbtorbJne to my nefa1lbors". Tricks ot Trade Lawye1· I h:l\·e ltr•l uew~. 'flte jury \\"ill ron>i ,t t'ntit·dy of wom~n. F:ur ('lient-O:J well, I II "Mk on thPir l~t•arl . trfn~~ h.\ wrarint; cotton btoekirtg~. For Mosquito Bites, Sting of Bees and Venomous Insects HANf'ORD'S BALSAM OF MYJUUI , ll~~~>eyfl&ektorllntbo\ttelfaotllllllf4. All~, |