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Show THE FAUNA SEN. FAUNA. ITAH 54 Out of tha Dusk Pr ouroao jcnns uwn UITIN I'AUIL M Mite Id !. I ill h dct a it.y way hath ? ly u4 ctgth-f- l h 5 M)1, lore a ral K'd !? hr a ud.iake; au rsa ( yeti lak hunl l"ft thl? Ftij, - tud l f lUrtlll fatjcil, at drove. Up !l.td lp.il !'h1 (fie l.t, ttmo. t.ilOxlf, (he IstfoU.g A Is ltd luk wllil C..:1ck1 (bt-r-r V rmf f.r ran tlvr ftioi dorUrrd theft's iMfliMj quit Lk Payrr Afj'irtil for i sat cf ihr 4 ? lint, I sit U suit il ll genutn U on Mt tayrr; llut turn k iff, nj ( every ptht IMyee is framne, snj h wu4 genulue it You ltd (I o every f) tv S if )v"i wil just U t Ibt Lwxt be M.ld." )laili.i :4 Pothit-t- , Martin pul lor M.e ci tall atol aaitcgrs undi-- the nt cf the (:! itr, si-v- l they atmirj f if l.oi.te, 'll ow'd p fine t fd hfl? be a-- U. r Iilr L Hr liny. r re. ..te toLe Ciictsib J j ((.! and I t ic ; e krf m. have mt 4 froei t.ty o.i.inl,M cola" Id M- - (if tolne, ! lu't hs korwr g'l.J to MO . ret-tlv-- 1 Martin culil " out. rtml a ntt to tek quh-tly- . c"l l!.bk uU In T1 red Tliln.-a'I- I I InotUilig. Aw'Hs I am aurr," !hitig'i lie f rut rani country dusk, and he d'l not tjs.ik again. Fhe, is, cat Hh n. he bad Ml.-i.- nnnitt for kcrjilitg ler d tun. M.-rti- l 'h:imlHrtii!n d ? pd the air. Tithe lot Instance the nutlet of "sjinining the Coniiti uit' or diminishing the sjince which geji.i-rulethe two coasts of the (.'tilled Stales." INi you realize tlmt within seventy eight years the time for doing that has hecti rut down front tweit-tmin fi.nr d t.vt to eighteen hours and tlity-eigtttes? The best way In vvhieh to Illustrate this ns toimding pet Is to cite the career of a man whose life spar. of nim ty seven yet rs lias seen ull of the rajli. changes in t:ansiortation involved in that reduel ion take !aee. lie Is Ezra Meeker or Oregon Trail fame who claims the distinction of being the onlv man to cross the I'n'ted States h.v ox team, stage coach, train, automobile and s Hirjd.ttlP. In Silo Mr. Meeker could have nmllou a letter In New Y.uk which nf.or tlir.-days liy rail and 1 twenty one days h.v stage coach would be delivered In San Francisco twenty four days later In l.sGti another o Ids letters would g by rail it. two and where It would he utr a half days to St. Jnsi-i!i- , rled j.v jinny exj'ress in el' lit days to California; total time ten and one It:. IT days In I'lTti a let ter, traveling hy special t.ain would have gom from New York to San Francisco in inn hours or font day and four hours. If Mr Mocker should mail his letter In New York today to go liy the regular mail routes on extra (are trains it would pet to San Francisco in !'0 hours, or : days and 18 hours. I.u If he put i:n airnu.il stamp on it (as he actually 'id with u letter when the new live com nir mat' rate went into effect last siiiieaei or one day and 7 hours, after it left I 111 hours, New York it would he in the eit.v of the (ioldon chile scheduled Those statistics deal with When dealing wt h methods of what may he termed special effort the reeonN are even latter and even more lllustrati' e of the statement that conditions change nvei night A record In enesing the eontintnt was made a tew years apo when A. II Smith, president of the New York Central railroad died and a special train was provided to lake Mrs Smith f.om l.os Anpole- - ic New York. The trip was made in (ill hours and 11 minutes In till.:! Lieutenants Kelly anil made a nonstop airplane flight from coast to coast In 11(1 hours and "8 minutes For tive years th.at record stood Then one day in August of this year Art Coebel set out from l.os Angeles fot New York, lie arrived in 18 hours and .78 mlnuies Yesterday the Atlantic and the Ilieitlc were 2ti hours ajiart. Todav they are bin I!' hours apart. And that fact Is typical ot the IHUHT NOW rapid development of Hviation What Is now yes terday is old today and obsolete tomorrow He tween the time this article is being written and the time you ure reading it some ot the records quoted In if may' already have been hmken and some of the facts which are new now may truly he old stuff-- ' then For the flight of the aviator establishing a record is faster tin n the working1 of the typewriter, the typesetting machine and the newspaper press in putting the story of his feal into priii and getting It to all who would read of it No: him is more typical of the rapid advance ot aviation, than the development of the Bir mail service. There was scuivly a duv during the j.ast sun met that the newspapers did not tell ot some n.-et"tiion of this serviep. Perhaps the most important announcement and the ,ne which hrougld home to most pojlp t tie- fact that aviation w." s h part of tl.eit d..II lie was the imnmiir rate for airmail ati n of the new five-evPut on r i same day Postmaster Ceneral New issued nrt ad ane antiouncemt nt of another innovation stoat ishij, iiirt.lane mall service which woul.i v tran.-porUiti- Mar-read'- , - I frnt. n save 21 hours between New York und other announcement at about tlmt time was tlmt a 1.2t'0 tulle nir mail line wns to he opened from Key West, Florida, to Porto Pico giving t'libn. Haiti. Santo Immlngn and Porto liho service citcli way three times a week and that possibly the service would he extended by way of the Leeward nnd Windward Islands to Pori of Simla In Trinidad. Sl!!l onot! er iinnoum ement nt that time was t lie projected opening of a 1.0 SO mile route from Key West to the Canal Zone serving Culm. M xlco. Ik llze, Prltlsh Honduras. P.rpuldie of Honduras, Nicaragua. Costn ISlea nnd the Canal Zone sevn times a week. And less than s year nfier "Llndys" nonstop Washington to Mexico City flight the air mail was firepaiing to follow lit pi across the border wl:h an iilr mail route of 2,800 miles, the longest lit North America. And these ae only a few among the many o' the air nut i I dev elopiuents which came to jars last stun mer which are taking place as lids Is hein: written and which will he taking place when those words nrp read d One li'gli spot in the senes, because It an ojiportunitv for a recapitulation of nir mall progress, was the announcement lint on a certain day air mail planes hat" flown more than 2.7,00!) miles (or the equivalent of the distance around the earth) owr ".7 states carrying more than seven tons if mull exclusive of express nnd rus Tint statement, ns hud few others, forcibly demonstrated the fact that the day of d mend dde air tram port had definitely arrived and tlmt it was a more Inmortant factor in American social and economic life than most Americans realize It served, too. to recall flip fact that this record of flip mail planes, around which this nation Is building its commercial aviation, was achieved aTter many disappointments and much jiioneerieg Air transport, as we have it today, began with rlie effort of tlie Post Office department to transport mall by airplane between New York n"d Washing ton ten ago. Private capital wi.s not interested and it devolved on the government to prove the feasibility of this form of transport. The jmstoffice expanded the service as funds permitted nnd late In, PVJO the transcontinental route, the longest singlp nirjdane route in the world, was The mail was flown h.v day and established. trained" h.v night. It wits apparent that unless night flying wa possible, transportation of mail and oilier com modifies hy air could not attain maximum benefits A memorable series of tests of night living, over uniighted airways, was resorted to. In July, tU2j the transcontinental air mail went on a night and day basis find the time from New York to the Pacific coast was cut to "2 hours That marked the beginning of the present day era of 24 hottrs-a-daair mail service. Private capital began to show interest in taking over tlie ojieration of mail routes und In 102.7 general was given authority to eon tract with individuals to transport tlie mail on contract, this to he obtained hy competitive Md dng on a poundage basis. P.y September 20. 1027 a!! of tlie routes were hi ing operated by jirivate companies. Then began a systematic campaign to acquaint the public with the advantages of ail mail and soon tlie poundage eariied began io show increases New routes had been added the Lntt.m mhe and tiie mileage began to a day fgure. Then came the announcement that the new cir mail rate would tie five ci nf for tlie first onnee and ten cents for each additional off-ra- 1 pn-e- ts. v sub-flunti- outve und the public rcsHiiulcd to It ijultkly Now, Jest ten years nflcr the first nmil was run between New carried hy day over a York und Washington there are 2:i route tracers states, serving (L.ooo.otto peode direct v Ing nnd millions mote Indirectly, through an air mall train hookup. The planes which made only two Mops ten years ago now drop out of the Holes onto M2 landing fields, scattered from the Croat Lakes 21S-iuil- - e I to (he gulf and from the Pacific to the Atlantic Cities which were distant yesterday are neighbors today for air nmil has reduced the s'ze of America to the dimensions of Texas, wlieu mens ured In terms of transportation line. (tvor those 2l muter during the first sx months of this year a total of tfi.iio.i.Pi o httois v.ero car rlcd tit, d in that time 1..7 1.7(57 poun Is ot air mall it reached Its destination satcly nml on time Is not iilcre In terms of letters that the new faun n of transport Is important In inodo-a factor in vital e life. Air transport has i ness and social life. Anericgn Increases in the rate of call money have or use hy hunks brought nirp'aiip until Inio a than ever before. With tail! n.oncy hovering mound 8 per cm In Jittit. litis 0 per cent, and rem-idnI year tin highest since Kl'JI. the trails an ! fliiiiiioinl coast where institutions, especially tn the Piich-c.- n tie made it tit-ithree days' saving In hy using air mull, utilize this lorm of irmisportn lion to save interest. Alt', m dvveat hunkers as well sent tin Increased vol.tnc of hus'ncrs air mail to save one or two tin: s ir.'cr, .1. day apptoxi-iiiatrl.?24.lNKt.(K. in i.eai liable taper arrives In all over the conn Wall Street h.v uirpbjno try. It has been estimated li .tl In a year caiatal arriving in New fork Io air mall would total 7.2iHI.(MHi.tMl. nnd Irteiesl saved hv the use ot air mail Is equiva'ent to .1 M.u :tt.i'ii:t when inier est Is figured nt only 2 per eei.t. Thousands of d dlars monthly are saved h.v firms who use air ma'I to fervvaid hills of lading on outgoes like silk. oil. .and rubber landed at seaboard poinis. Colorado sweet pens are being slopped d. ily by air mail and wilh.in 24 hours after they are picked they are oil sale in middlewest florist shims Cnf'fornla orchids ha'P found enlarged markei since they could bp ridiveied over the airway net work Sentimentally inclined swains are rigular In nulling flowers and patrons of the Hinvay presents to distant sweethearts instances ot liovv America lias 'alien to tlie air to speed up communication, to transact liusim-iand to take every advantage oj the faciil l lies which tlie air nmil routes provide indefinitely And tlie end is not vet fm January 1, M2!), will see more routes start opera tiens. while work on air ports, necessary to secure air mail service, is going on in all narts of the conn try and the government tepoeli fiCi dr ports projected In addition to the hundreds nmv opeiai mg. Tlie lighting of nirvvavs continues unit to lay there are "land ml. her fig'- houses on moimtain and prairie to guide I tie n'glit pilot, the tnili-ngof lightt-- airways !ie;ng 7.'Z"t uub-- mid ap.sopri to light 4rm more rnihs have been mini for this fiscal year 1 he dev of tlie ah tni'l l ho aid post rci-- s wo inn diet tle-- the r tv a:t i: r the ii 'i- - o( air .''-- i ! tin in i ev, so si iiau'-it: w'll go ih o- I, tit Fy all fiist air t as it turned m tie irei-- i when (tot met ts ot ih mi slh r- d in- fio- f rioih rn m p. py ex; ress. Ani-rh-a- Ini-s- Ih-cc- Il.-el- t s eo-th- s - .ira-'a-- i'-i-- - - . i f.-i- t her-- t ki; tlicn at lnt the leaned Hgtiinl l.'i i, hi r head against Id cho.thji-- r gall I p, when lit mother am at the be the futti, and ahe came at I.U rail. .Mother, hero I yl I. preliy tired, got o.T at tl o Junction hy udstake. Youll lHk ti.'icr I crT "Vourre I wi:l, I.U mother raid In her gcrlto way, Co.un, child, you l out." do look all rume Into the house When I.U niothi-fidcndllties lutd won. He found hitiM-l- f hiilng IntriMluced to Marjoite l ine, and for the fit. I lime Martin ruilizcd I Imt he hnd rcsimod n pretty gM. lie dl l imt ece her again mull the next noun, when he mine In from tlie hi mother fields to hnd her nt I In- - Inble. "Why. hello, mother, got n neve girl';" he iist.cil. Mulling. Yes. nnd a good one; nnd I've had cl-- , it with her, and I want her n to May tilt she' real well lignin. You don't object, do you. Marlin?" hi mother asked, her rye twinkling. The brown eve of the girl were wide nnd worried a she looked at him. hul ll was not until later, when he was In (he milkroom, that he knew the reason. There he came up tn him swiftly. Please, If you don't want me to stay. I'll go; hut your mother und It' so lovely and still and I can work Just a soon us I gel stronger" He tou 'tied her hand and looked down from Id six feet. "Marjorie latne. I'm not used to girls and mother startled me a IdL Now. you stay. I mean It. I want you to. We've room to hum and a mite like you doesn't lake up much." lie lidded sm'tin.g. 'Thunk you so much," site said, her brown eyes mist ing. A week later lie was sorry. I'mler his mother gentleness the memory Imd of t;i in filled, hopeless days sl-known vanished ; the country idr nnd food begun to fill ont tier cheeks; and. Mnhhnlv. one day. as site came to call him to supper, tie realized Hint Hie Imd brought something Into Ids life that he wanted to keep there for ail time. He put the Idea from him and went Ids way until another in blent served to stir him. She Imd gone to the villa;:'. on errands, hut he did riot know she had met anyone there until, one evening, I'.arron Flint, the son of a wealthy lumberman In the section, drove in to Invite her to a dunce In the village hall. und parties wi:li MirOilier ren followed. Martin was sorely trochled. hut the farm kept him busy, lie knew that I'.arron and, "hud It n him" In wealtli und in other ways tlu t women esteem. The cKimtx eatae one evening. He was readln;: and resting in the living room after a weary 'day when he htard 'Mirren's car. bringing Iter A moment home, enter the yard. Inter the chimp in. He looked Up with hurt und longing in his heart. She smod silent at the door. Tlie roves in her checks deepened. Her eves were bright with some intense feeling in their depths. 8! e cat.ie cIipo to him. "Maigi.i ven a little hit?" don't you love me Her question struck hint like a blow, and sporeli almost failed him. Why, Marjorie, -" oil. don't say it that way, Marlin. JuM say it. Ive been bulling and hoping nnd veu don t seem- - well. Panin lias ak'-- me; stml if you don't v ant tn. Hun " He her and swung tier bodily a ir with lent, then ho Into ti e log n hunger kissed her. and ail the In I is hean was In Ids kiss Kyo'i. I dii love you. but I f!l that you a big rrnift love I'.arron rather tla-: " !y. laird vv orbing farmer S:,o bn,--- ed uv.'iy I. is word- - wit'-he: Idsi.ft. and lips. hot'u ly one,' I an hap; y vvidi you vvi'h y.-- and tore nrd I v. nt to J ia I. an' love you c'v-- . s!" si answer with si.vldtig eyes. ls-n- y guess the feat of I.yrd ami an (,m-Im- I and Lindbergh tand. of course, Iluili Khh-- r and Arm-l- l Kjihnrl) nml a I of other nrte that America Inn taken to the air, all r!gln !" Hut do you rirll.e how thoroughly Ameilea (iind i lie i i.i.V.h A 1.1. of us and imt Ji.t a few (Irirltiis. ityere) him l.iten to the air. now luirlcnle-lthe "blue streak' of iilr travel I woven Into the fabric ot our tmtlonnl life nml how mtmv phiuw- adect.-I our I'iilly exlslcme I h.v avlatl-inAnd do you realize how rapid lire the develop' i: lil it the liiit ments In a via lion-n- ot year' hut Hl'illT N'iW nml how many changing conditions are brought nhout ty the airplane ultimst overnight? This last I one of the iiin.-- t aiiux I fa; tiietor In this subject of Atnerleu'a taking to ir an'lo-- r lie hr By ELMO SCOTT WATSON II you exclalui "tild stuff!" when you read (he title of till article? "Of oiurw, America ha taken to I lie air I Or Die ami Wlll-u- r Wright were 1 1 first to Jo It aaJ that wu '.D year it to. Ami look at all that's (midx-tieIn the InM year finer then. cHjs-rlult- cIlMit. against l.ltn. then Jerk M..k If awi ua wA i, f atrl(t l MiMtrtllririadif Sirx ilj ear ro!hd thtB atnstlily II rt t hlnt hnh!ut I iHsoiiot t iL ! liiive kill th.L t., 0 dun I. -- gtc' Lam. don't " vtilve I 4 M f( of lltlrfUntll DUcvtt'on Went On, but Wite Man Slept Flei-p- , Jc4ltiilt, "I bat ill lh( Ml uf death that t fon-las- f snt for which yearn." (llvlnt tMorts! "lrautl lecp," Wald the rltetnisl, ll an scruiuulaihtn of toxins Ihst all organic activity iitut Is suojiendrd their elimination or mliiiinlju-through chemical thutigo." "JSItsii!" said Hr hs-- , fervently. "Ah. jHipj.y nml iiiMiidragora and all bjr nu d the vltowsy slrujia " "Fhvji," said the htikltieiv man, "If I ran get a good solid eight hours of It, makes me show up at the t'tl desk I" er flglilliig-cocfeeling like said the phlloaopher, "Is "Fh-eji,- " phenomenon which" The wise man sat In the corner and n, , nothing, lb wu Inking a Hill Time. nnp. 1m s To Cool a Burn Use Hanfords Daliam of Myrrh Sou hark hr Sn Mlt V Mf nil. A Mat. athionrd Father Old-- F Judge Hell ll. Lindsey, the clitiuiilon of modern youth, sold at a dinner In : "l!ut of course youth Isn't always In the right. Ail old fashioned father comjilulned to his daughter that he didn't like I he daring way she drissed. "'Oh, don't you? said the girl, and she blew choking cloud o' cigarette smoke Inio the old man's face. Well, I dress to dad, let ee tell you lhl please m.vself. Hut ll takes. he protested, coughing and waving tlie smoke away1 hut It tube so dura little to please you. Hens Long Service ild hen, believed to have set a record for longevity for chickens, recently died nt the farm of Charles WlUliey, of Heaver Valley, Pa. The lien had been the jirojierty of Witchcy all tier life anil laid eggs until about two months before dentil. In recent fours tlie hen hud been rather feeble and lost her sense of bal'it.i .1 lay it. g. ance, hut A P r Consolidated Operations At Worcester. Mass., says tlie Poston (Hobo, three generations of Fred HulMeals lost their tonsils within the space of 4.7 minutes. Fred Halstead, ; tils son. Fred. Jr., twenty-ninnnd Ills grandson, Fred III. four were the three who and made a family ev nt of vvhat might have lirui scattered Incidents. e, fifty-seve- one-linlf- . s I- Ho little boys "play horse" more, or do they g nenilly play Tlie painstaking man doesnt always suffer tlie most pain. HELPED DURING - f,-- i I AGE MIDDLE Woman Took Lydia E. Vegetable Compound Pink-ham- 's Denver, Colo. "I have taken six bottles of Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound and will take more. I am taking it as a tonin to help me the through Change of Life and I am telling cf my many friends to take it as I found nothing before this to help i :e. I had l hi.-.-- any to nary bed feedings nt night that I couhl nut I could no( t.vp find Lr two I was afraid go drwn town loa-j-of My i.v (her took tlie Vegetable (' ipo,.rd years ago with god now i am t.ikrag it dur-jr- g f Life and rerom-- r ( ! tl T. A. Miller. 1011 i:.'' ' Coir-r.dAd.. ? t, s e -i h-- ad s-- ge ;. ,7. N. U., C-- .:t , L.ks C.ty. o. No. |