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Show THE TIMES-NEW- NEPHT. UTAH S. brushed at her skirt, the vein of her long, wrinkled bands catching blue from the dark cloth. She put her hair behind her ear. "We put potato In the oven for you," said Ina. She had never learned quite how to treat these periodic refusals of her mother to eat, but she never had ceased to resent them. "No, thank you." said Mrs. Bett Evidently she rather enjoyed the situation, creating for herself a spotlight much In the manner of Monona. "Mother," said Lulu, "let me make you some toast and tea." Mrs. Bett turned her gentle, blood less face toward her daughter, and her eyes warmed. "After a little, maybe," she said. I think I'll run over to see Grandma Gates now," she added, and went toward the door. "Tell her," cried Dwlght, "tell her she's my best girl." Grandma Gates was rheumatic cripple who lived next door, and when-evthe Deacons or Mrs. Betts were angry or hurt or wished to escape the house for some reason, they stalked over to Grandma Gates In lieu of, say, slamming a door. These visit radiated an almost dully friendliness which lifted and tempered the old Invalid's lot and life. Dl flushed out at the door again, on some trivial permission. "A good many of mamma's stitches In that dress to keep clean," Ina called u Qttl (el infYiiwuTfinni Copyright STNOPSIS.-Gene- ral factotum In the house of her sister Ina, wife of Herbert Doaoon. In the small town of Warbleton, Lmu Belt leads a dull, cramped existence, with which ha Is constantly at enmity, though apparently satlefled with her lot. 8he has natural thoughts and aspirations which neither her sister nor 'her ' brother-in-laseemlnKly can Comprehend. The other members Dl are of the family Deacon, eighteen; Monona Deacon, a child, and Mrs. Bett. Mra Deacon's mother, who has "tan trims." vigor and Its energy, yet In the time which he called "dental hours" Mr. Deacon wished to work In his garden. HI a grass, growing In lute April rains, would need attention early next month he owned two lots "of course property la a burden." If Bobby would care to keep the grass down and raked . . . Bobby would care, accepted this business opportunity, figures and all, thanked Mr. Deacon with earnestness. Bobby's aversion to Dl, It seemed, should not stand in the way of his advancement. "Then that Is checked off," aald Mr. Deacon heartily. ISobby wavered toward the door, emerged on the porch, and ran almost upon Dl returning from her tea party at Jenny Plow's. "Oh, Bobby I You came to see me?" She was as fluffy, as curly, as smiling as her picture.. She was carrying pink, guusy favors and a spear of flowers. Undeniably In her voice there was pleasure. Her glance was startled "but already complacent. She paused on the steps, a lovely figure. But one would say that nothing but the truth dwelt In Bobby. "Oh. hullo," said he. "No. I came to see your father." He marched by her. Ills hair stuck up at the back. His coat was hunched about his shoulders. His Insufficient mouth nose, abundant, and brown eyes were completely expressionless. He marched by her without a glance. She flushed with vexation. Mr. Deacon, as one would expect, laughed loudly, took the situation In his elephantine grasp and pawed at It. "Mammal Mamma! What do you s'posef Dl thought she had a beau " "Oh, papal" said DL "Why, I Just hate Bobby Larkln and the whole school knows It." Mr. Deacon returned to the dining room, humming In his throat. He entered upon a pretty scene.. His Ina was darning. Four minutes of grace remaining to the child Monona, she was spinning on one toe ... w Continued. . At length the; rose. Monona flung herself Uwn her futher. tie ut tier stride firmly, every Inch the father. Father was occupied now., No, nlrVjre.acoa coaxed herauny. Monona encircled her mother's waist, lifted her otrn feet from (lie floor and hung "She's such an active tjnon tier. Child." ventured brightly. "Not unduly active, t think," her : AKPCOMPANX after that "LULU, ONE MOMENT!" I by P.APPLETON . lu observed. lie turned upon Lulu tils bright finite, lifted his eyebrows, dropped bis lids. Stood for n noment contemplating toe yellow tulip, and so left the brother-in-la- room. cleared the table. Mrs. Deacon essayed to wind the clock. Well, bow. Ild Herbert any It whs twenty-ttliretonitit when tt struck the half iHst night, or hour mrt twenty-onItvenly-nn- o tonight and last night twenty-threeShe talked of It as they cteared ttie table, but Lulu did not talk. ""Can't you remember?" Mrs. Deacon said at last. "I sliould thick you might b useful." Lulu was lifting the yellow tulip set It on the sill. She changed ber wind. 8le took the plant to the woodshed and tumbled It with force upon the chip-pilThe dining room table was laid for breakfast. The two women brought their work and sat there. The child Momma tiung miserably about, watching the clock, night or wrong, she was put to bed by IL She had eight minutes more seven six live I.utu In Id down her sewing and left (tie rooin. She went to the woodshed, groped about In the dark, found the stalk of the one tulip flower In Its The tulip she heap on the chip-pilfastened In her sown on ber flat chest. ( ouDUde were to ne seen the early rtars. It Is an Id Unit If our sun were es near to Arcturus as we are near to our hud, me great Arciurua wouiu tturn our sun to nolhlnguesa. I till e e 7 l e. In the Deacons' purlor sat Hobby InrUln, eighteen. He was In pain all over. He was come on an errand which civilisation has contrived to make an ordeal. Before him on the table stood a photograph of Diana Deacon, also eighteen. lie baled her with (motion. At aclaiol ehe mocked him, aped him, whlHpered about him. tortured him. For two years he had hated her. Nights he .fell RKleop planning to build a great house and engage her as Its servant Vet, as he waited, be could not keep Ids eye from this photograph. It was Dl at her curliest, at her fluffiest, Dl conscious of her bracelet. IX smiting. Hobby gaxed. bis basic aversion Is her by a mst reluctant pleasure. He hoped that lie would Ijot see her, and be listened for her loose-lippe- d Deacon descended upon hint with an air carried from his supper Well t Let hour, blnnd. dispensing. us have It. "What did you wish to see me about T" with a use of the pnst (en.se as connoting something of and hence of dellcnry a ileety customary, yet unconscious. Itohby had arrived In bis beat clot lies and wl'h an air of such formality thnt bod Instinctively suspect,,Mr. ed him of wanting to Join the church, ffnd, to treat the time with due solemnity, had put him In the parlor until he coil Id attend at leisure. Confronted thus by DI's father, the speech which Hjhy had planned deserted liltn. "I thought It you would gle me a Job," he said dffeoscleKHly. "So that" Itl" Mr. Deacon, who awjltei but a touch to be either Irritable or facetious, inclined now to jte facetious. "Killing teethr he .would know. "Marrying folks, then?" Assistant Justice or assistant dentist ii which T '.Ar Mushed. No, no, ut in thnt MS bulldleig of Mr. Deacon's where his nice was. wasn't there something . . . It faded from him. sounded ridiculous. Of coarse there was noth It now. l& He saw Trere was nothing. Mr. lemn had confirmed him. Hut Mr. so Idea. Hold on. be said bold on. n .Tit fTm. Would IWibhy consider tskln rtinrjte f the grsMsT Tbouih Mr. I ea con was of tlie type which eat Its wa grass and glories In Hi after. "Knrly, darling, early P her father reminded her. A faint regurgitation of his was somehow Invested with the paternal. "What's this?" cried Dwlght bert Deacon abruptly. On the clock shelf lay a letter. Her- "Oh, Dwlght 1" Ina was all compunction. "It came this morning. I forgot." "I forgot It too! And I laid It np there." Lulu was eager for her share of the blnjne. "Isn't It understood that my mall can't wait like this?" Dwlght's sense of Importance wti now being fed In gulps. "I know. I'm awfully sorry," Lulu said, "but you hardly ever get a le- tter" This might have made things worse, but tt provided Dwlght with greater importance. "Of course, pressing matter goes to my office," he admitted It "Still, my mall should have more careful " He read, frowning. He replaced the letter, and they hung upon bis motions as he tapped the envelope and regarded them. "Now!" said he. "What do yoa think I have to tell your "Something nice," Ina was sure. "Something surprising," Dwlght said portentlously. "But, Dwlght Is It nice?" from hi Ina. "That depends. I like It. So'U Lulu." He leered at her. "If com- Jfiilf 1 "Oh, Dwlght" said Ina. "Who?" "From Oregon," he said, toying with bis suspense. "Your brother!" cried Ina. "I be coming?" "Yes. Ninlan's coming, so he says." "Nlnlun I" cried Ina again. She wa her moist lip excited, round-eyeparted. Dwlght's brother Nlnlan. How long was It? Nineteen years. South America, Central America, Mexico, I'annma "and all." When was he coming and what was he coming for? "To see me," said Dwlght "To meet you. Some day next week, ne don't know what a charmer Lulu Is, or he'd come quicker." Lulu flushed terribly. Not from the Implication. But from the knowledge that she was not a charmer. The clock struck. The child Monona uttered a cutting shriek. Herbert's eyes flew not only to the child but to his wife. What was this, wa their progeny hurt? "Bedtime," his wife elucidated, and added: "Lulu, will you take her to bed? I'm pretty tired." Lulu rose snd took Monona by the hand, the child hanging back and shaking ber straight hair In an un convincing negative. As they crossed the room, Dwlght Herbert Deacon, strolling about and snapping his fingers, halted and cried out sharply: "Lulu. One moment!" He approached her. A finger was exhis lips were parted, on his tended, with some Bacchanalian Idea of mak- forehead was a frown. ing the most of the present, Dl domi"You picked the flower on tb nated, ber ruffles, her blue hose, her plant?" he asked. Incredulously. bracelet, ber ring. Lulu made no reply. But the child "Oh, and mamma," she sold, "the Monona felt herself lifted and borne to sweet tut party and the dearest sup- the stairway ami the door was shut per and the darllngest decorations and with violence. On the dark stairway the porgeouaest " Lulu's arms rjosed about her In an "Ornnimar, grammar." spoke Dwight embrace which ieft her breathless and Herbert Ieacon. He was not sure squeaking. And yet Lulu was not what he mennf, but the good fellow fond of the child Monona, either. really felt aoroe violence done somewhere or This was a dischurge of emotion akin, other. say, to slamming the door. "Well." snld Dl poHltlvely. "they see were. I'npa. my favor." She showed him a augur dove, and "Wstt, I'm Bsrfs brother," he clucked at It. said Ninlan. "So I can come In, Tna glanced at them fondly, her face cant nsHtiUilng Its lovrllrst light. She was often ridiculous, but always she was the hnppy wife and mother, and her (TO BE CONTINUED.) role reduced her Individual absurdities nt least to Its own. Photographic Htnt The ordinary photographic plate, The door to the bedroom now which Is nt color sensitive. Is really opened and Mrs. Bett appeared. "Well, mother!" cried Herbert, the bllud to. certain colors. These colors "well" curving like an arm. the are reds, yellows and greens. The re"mother" descending tike a brisk slap. sult Is that nil are rendered blnek In the print. Suppose one wanted to pho"Hungry nowt" Mrs. Belt was hungry bow. She had tograph a aim! with a design In emerged Intending to pass through the blavk, red, yellow, and green. The orroom without speaking and find food dinary plate would render these colin the psntry. By obscure processes ors almost all the same. In the p'c-tar-e It would be difficult to say where her son In law's tone Inhibited all this. the red ended and the yellow began. "No," she said. "I'm not hungry." But by using Now that she was ther, she seemed plat uncertain what to do. She looked and a color filter on tb let is. the difand the de from one to another n bit horeiesely. ference would he soijiehow foiled in bar dignity. She sijto would be elear. "No. to Ses Yeur Father." Oh, Hullo," Said He. I Came ir color-sensitiv- e shn -- Mr. Clarke Will Work for the League Ever since the plan for the League of Nation was laid before the world John Hessln Clarke of Ohio has been one of Its wannest advocates. So convinced Is he that the United States should be a member of that league that he has resigned from the high position of associate Justice of the Supreme court to speak and write for the cause. Talking recently with an Interviewer, he sutd: "I believe that the future of the United States depends upon our entrance Into the League of Nations. From a moral standpoint, and from political and business considerations, we are gravely in error to stand aloof. Reservations may or may not be necessary. The main thing Is to Join the league. And I wish to devote a large part of my time to an effort to persuade the American public that this is the right viewpoint." Li?rrrmfi.lg.ai 11 Mr. Clarke was born In- Lisbon. Ohio, and took an A. M. degree from Western Reserve University In 1877. He Is a bachelor. He Is a newspaper man to the extent of owning stock In the Vindicator at Youngstown, Ohio. For years he was a corporation lawyer, and represented, among others, half a dozen railroads. Then he was made a federal Judge In the Northern District of Ohio (the third busiest district m the United States) In 1014. It was on July 14. 1010, that he became, by President WilsoC's appointment, an associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. , ... ' pany." hard-presse- voice. i Mr. er rat mm) mm Wants to Impeach Attorney General No one who knows Representative Oscar EX Keller of Minnesota and his political history was surprised when he took the lead In the movement to Impeach Attorney General Daughrty for that official's action In obtaining the temporary Injunction agallst the striking railway shopmen and also for his alleged failure to enforce the anti-trus- t laws. Mr. Keller Ir large measure owes his presence to the house of representatives to he Is ofganlzed labor, although classified as a Republican member, with the prefix "Independent." Quoting from the official sketch of Mr. Kller in the Congressional Directory: Jt."-.-"When the late Congressman Carl C. Van Dyke died, an convention was held to nominate candidates for the special election; Mr Keller lost the Republican nomination In the convention, but was persuaded by Us friends to run as an Indepen dent snd with the support of labor wan eiecied in a very spirited caiiii.nigu. on Republican defeating his Republican and Democratic opponents; h ticket to congress by a large majority." Keller secured the services of Frank P. Walsh, counsel for labor Interests, to handle the Injunction end of the prosecution and of Samuel Unter-mye- r to look after the anti-trupart, and then, to his surprise and disgust, the house Judiciary committee sidetracked the wtiole matter until the December session of congress. Sixty-sevent- st Vice Foe, Beaten, Is Not Discouraged John S. Summer, who succeeded the late Anthony Comstock as head of the Society for the Suppression of Vice, has by his activities stirred up considerable reaction against censorship, and among the liberal minded there was rejoicing when he lost his 1 case against a New York publisher whose arrest he caused for the sale of three books, "Women In Love", "A Young Girl's Dlnry" and "Casanova's Homecoming." The publisher has sued Mr. Sumner for $10,000 damnges. But Mr. Sumner Is undismayed. "As to the threats which have been made from time to time to smother me and the society with damage suits, we pay no attertlon whatever to them," said he. "We will continue to ask for prosecutions In all cases where we believe that It appears f ' ' mn,ti rlalnly that the law has been violated. toMjsWssWsssssssMt-a- i "The society has so fur this year ohiuined thirteen convictions of magazine publishers because of obscene matter. A Ipfge number of convictions has been obtained for selling or posmaterial. We have not this year obtained any convictions sessing for the publication of- Indceent books, but we did last year." n y f InrV.-ce- - Queen of Beauty Young Columbus Girl of more then 500 amateur professional beauties. Including t civic beauties from all parts of the United States and two from Citnada. Miss Catherine Campbell of Columbus, ().. was selected as the most beautiful. Therefore she wos crown'jd queen of the Atlantic City national beauty tournament and proclaimed the "Miss America" of the pageant of lIKiT. She Is only sixteen years old and has Just entered the Ohio State university. Coles Phillips, whose girl types have adorned the rovers of many magazines and who was a member of the board of Judges, said that the Selection of Miss Campbell, by sis of the eight exerts, means the Insugu-ratioof a new type of American girl "Years ago there was the 'lll son girl'," he said. "The last fe years the American Ideal hits been of two types, either the Flo Zleg- feld type, bobbed balr ajid so on, or the Mary I'ickford tjpe. .Neither of these girls tj pities the American girl. Her tpe Is the rather tall girl, with broad shoulders for swimming, a clear eye and clear. Intelligent face. Measurement's really mean nothing." The description seems typltled lr Miss Camhell. 8iie has a pink and white complexion, long, wavy brown balr, with anhtirn tints, and brown eyr. I S feet 6 Inches tall, wears No. 5 gloves. No. 3 shoes and h'Kb proportions, according to Judges In the toamsmcnt approach perfetljo. Out aiid fifty-elsh- - GOOD HIGHWAYS ALLOW FOR FUTURE TRAFFIC Surprising Facts Shown In Count Taken en Roads in Tenneeseo AuDoubled. tomobile th Dnlt4 States Department (Prepared by of Agriculture i In building a ruud liberal allowance should be made for future Increase in truftlc, says the bureau of public roads of the United States Department of Agriculture. A traffic court conduct- - ' It 1 rloaat Before Oklahoma and After Cemptetbxi. ed by the bureau tn with Tennessee officials oa a number of roads In Davidson county, In which Nashville Is located, shows surprising facts when compared with a similar count In 1916. During this period automobile registrations have doubled, while the number of motor vehicle on the road Is five times as great as tn 1918. In 1016 horse-drawand traffic were almost equal In volume. In 1921 horse-draw- n traffic had decreased only sllgfttly th' volume and constituted 16 per cent of the traffic, motor vehicles constituting 84 per riaro-Surtac- n motor-- vehicle cent Observations In this and ether counties lead to the conclusion that volume of traffic may Increase In much greater proportion than the number of motor vehicles and will also depend t a large degree on the condition of Improvement of the road and on the economic condition In the adjacent territory. SLAG TESTS BLAST-FURNAC- E Us of Material for Road Construction to Be Given Test by Bureau of Roads. e slag as a material rr concrete road construction- I to be thoroughly studied by the bureau f public roads, United States Department of Agriculture. With the enormous demand for material, officials say, economy demands the use of material close at hand wherever possible, and the bureau Is now conducting Investigations of different materials with this In view. Great quantities of slsg are to be found at blast furnaces In various part of the country. Samples from 32 plants have been collected atd will be made Into concrete and tested for resistance to wear, strength, water absorption and general utility. These results will be compared with similar tests made on other materials. In addltlnn-tthe laboratory tests It la possible that the experiments will be followed by an Inspection of number of concrete roads built with flag as the coarse material. These roads will be selected In various part of the country and the remits, together with the laboratory tests, will furnish Information which can be fully relied upon. Blast-furnac- rend-bnlldtn- g MANY WORXERS CN HIGHWAYS .eeordlng to Figures Given Out by Builders' Aetoclation, 114,325 Parsons Are Engaged. According to statistics given out bf Rond Builders' assocta-Mo- n there are 114.32A persons engaged tn rtwd hulldlng work. There are SO.OtH) federal, state, town and county blptiwiiy officials. 7,() rond contractors, 2,000 bridge contractors, 15.000 civil end highway engineers. 10.000 automotive and chemical engineer .he American ad JR!S geologists. BETTER ROADS ON INCREASE Total of 28,000 Miles Constructed Last Year, Half ef Which Was With Federal Aid. According to government figures, ft lotnl of 2S.O00 mile of good road were built lo the United State last year, or distance equal to ten times th width of the country. Half of this mileage ha been built by the state governments In conjunction with federal ait The remaining 14.000 milo were constructed Independent of federal assistance. Strstch ef Lincoln Highway. The finest existing stretch of th IJnmln hlrt;wy between New York city and Kim r'ranclseo Is snld to be road betwvn Elizabeth a new and Rahwsy, In New Jersey. sli-nill- e National Parks Inaecessioie. Without the highway, our great national parks, the playgrounds of th nation, would be largely Insccesstbfa, Paved With Good Intention. Pome of our highways r pai 1th good Intentions, |