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Show THE cg By GEOROEA. biwihgmm WNU Service. the "SIMPLY ROTTEN" SYNOPSIS. In London teller of the story tures of the of the adven- "King Tommy," and known hereafter an "Uncle BUI," Is Informed by Lord Norheys. son T an old friend, that Lord Troyte, head of the British foreign office, NorheyB' uncle, has a scheme to make him (Norheys) king of Lystria, in central Europe, through marriage to Calypso, daughter of King Wladis-lawdeposed monarch of that country. A financier, Procopius Cable, knows there is oil in profusion In Lystria, and with e.n English king on the throne the output could be secured for England. Norheys, In love with a stage dancer, Viola Temple. Is not enthusiastic over the proposition. The patriarch, Menelaus, highest ecclesiastical dignitary In Lystria, Is heartily In favor of the restoration of the monarchy, and Cable has generously financed the sentiment. Calypso Is making a living dancing in the Berlin cabaret. Norheys refuses to entertain the Idea of giving up Viola Temple, to whom he is secretly engaged. "Uncle Bill's" sister Emily urges him to secure a passport from Lord Troyte for a certain Janet female Church, strongminded who wants to visit Lystria In the Interests of a society for world peace. s, "Mas-cotte- ," CHAPTER IV Patriarch Menelaus, Lystria, would be sure to find him." "A personal Interview is h dispensable." If the patriarch Is the least like Troyte in character, or like me, Janet Church may have one personal Interview with hlin but will certainly not have another. I suppose she realized that she was not likely to get Into my flat aguin, for she refused to leave until I had promised to do what I could with Troyte about the passport. I kept the promise and made an appeal to Troyte. "I know all about that woman," he said. "She makes trouble wherever she goes. I can't have letters coming to me by every courier from all the legations In Europe asking me to keep that woman at home." "If you set any value on your own peace and mine," I said, "you'll give her a passport to Lystria and then keep her there." "I wish," said Troyte, "that all religious women were In Heaven." "If you let her go to Lystria." I said, "she probably will be in Heaven soon. I don't know the patriarch personally, but he'll execute her be fore she's been a week there if he's half as savage as Norheys says." Troyte asked what Norheys bad been saying about the patriarch. I could only reply that I was mistaken I found a letter from my sister Emily waiting for nie when I got home. "I want you," she wrote "to use your Influence with Edmund Troyte to get a passport to Megalia for Janet Church. You remember Janet, I'm sure." I remembered Janet Church perfectly well. She is a bony lowland Scot, and when I met her at Emily's house she was touring Ireland on behalf of a temperance society. I remember her saying at dinner that she would rather put a red-ho- t poker Into her mouth than a glass of wine. That, I am sure, was not true. Hosv. ever much she might dislike wine she could always spit it out again. She t could not spit out a poker. "Janet Church," Emily went on, "is going to Megalia as the representative of the Society for the Establishment of World Peace through the inI'nion fluence of the Chrisiian churches. There seems to be a wonderful opening in Lystria, which is now part of the Kepublie of Megalia. The present patriarch " According to Emily, the present patriarch is a man of singularly plastic mind, willing to unite his church with any other in the interests of world peace. I put Emily's letter into a nice, flat varnished basket which stands on my writing table and Is meant to contain unanswered letters. Emily gave me that basket last year as a Christmas present. I was glad to be able to use I had of It for a letter of hers. course no intention whatever of asking Troyte to get a passport for Janet Church. But I did not get rid of the business so easily as that. Next day Janet Church called on me. Id appearance she was Just as I remembered her. in determination rather worse. The passport to Megalia had been refused. She attributed that to the hatred which the Foreign office felt to the idea of a world peace and toiljord Edmund Troyte's dread of the Influence of a union of the Christian churches. 1 dare say she was right in blaming Troyte. Knowing what he did about the condition of Lystria, be cannot possibly have wanted to add to the confusion of the coming revolution by letting loose an earnest Scotchwoman In the country. Also he probably thought that the Patriarch Menelaus would be too nimh occupied preparing for a royal marriage and coronation to have any lime to spare for planning a world union of Christian churches. "With the pence of Europe hanging In the balance," Janet said, "and the prospect of another war within ten years. It is of vital Importance that the Influence of the Christian churches, of all of them " "All," I murmured sympathetically, "all, all." "Should be brought to bear on our And bow Is that lo be statesmen. done?" "Only," 1 said, "by meaos of a union of Christian churches." "Kstwcially the Church of Lystria,"" said Janet. I could not see why the Lystrlan chnrch, which must be qnlfe a small body, siiould be so very Important. Bnt Jane' Church evidently thonrht It was. Ho, dare say, did Emily. "Cnuldn t you." I anld, "write to the patriarch Instead of Rolnf to see .ImT" flls nam la Menelaus. A letter addressed U Hi Realltade red-ho- Far as Germany," She "If Said, "I'll Manage to Go on Some I Get as how." Look here, Troyte, let'a passport! compromise. I'll say no more about Miss Temple and the morganatic mar riage if you'll let Janet Church go to Lystria. She'll worry the life out of me if you don't." 'I'll tell you what I'll do," said Troyte. "I'll lot her have a passport to Germany, but not an Inch farther. She can go to Berlin If she likes and stay there." I "That's something." replied. She'll be out of London anyhow." "I'm sorry for the Germuns," said Troyte. "Oh, they deserve It. After all. what's the use of our having won the war if we can't do anything afterward to make them feel uncomfortable?" I called on Janet Church in her ho tel and told her my news. I was with afraid she would be furious Troyte for limiting her wanderings. To my surprise she loos It very well. "If I get as far as Germany," she said, "I'll manage to go on somehow." and good "Weil," I said, "good-bluck. If you find yourself languish ing In a Siberian dungeon, send a line to the nearest British consul." "I'm not going anywhere near Si beria," said Janet. "You may not mean to," I . said, "but you never know where you'll fetch up when you start traveling in the Near East." y CHAPTER V Janet Church left London next day and I congratulated myself that I had escaped one worry. I actually enjoyed several peaceful days. Then Norheys came to me again. "Did you tell Uncle Ned," he said, "that I'm going to marry Viola and no one else?" "No. I uldn't," I said. "I told him exactly what you said I was to tell him; that you were determined to marry Miss Temple, but were quite ready to marry anybody else as well." Norheys grinned. "How did he take that?" be asked. "He said just what I expected him to say, that he'd never agree to your committing bigamy." "If that's so," said Norheys, "It puts the lid on the whole black princess scheme. What I always say Is this: a fellow ought to knuckle under his family uncles and aunts and all that lot so long as they're asking him to do the things which don't annoy him much ; but as soon as they begin chipping in in really offensive ways then he oughtn't to. That's my I Idea of a fellow's duty, anyhow. don't know If It's yours." I said that a great deal depended on his definition of the word offensive, and that so far as I could see, Calypso was anything but that. "Anyhow," said Norheys, "whether you agree with me or not, you can tell Uneie Ned what I say." I did ; -- and Troyte told Procopius Cable. Norheys was back with me two days later and this time be was In a really bad temper. "Look here. Uncle Bill," he said, "I'm getting a bit fed up with this sort of tiling. I don't say it's your fault, but there It is, and I'm d d if 1 stand any more of it." "What's happened to you now?"' "This way of going on Is simply rotten," said Norheys. "As long as it was merely a matter of Uncle Ned persecuting me day and night and pelting me with oil paintings of Indian squaws, I didn't mind. But It's a bit too thick when he sets on a slimy to try bribing Jewish money-lendViola to give nie up. I didn't think Uncle Ned would have played It as low as that." "I'm perfectly certain," I said, "that he never did any such, thing." Lord Edmund waa extremely anxious to rescue the head of his family from an undesirable entanglement and he wanted to see Norheys as a established European sovereign. But be would not hire a Jew to offer bribes to Miss Temple. "Anyhow." said Norheys. "the brute came, a fat flabby animal, and tried to persuade Viola to take a check for ten thousand pounds. If Uncle Ned didn't send him, who did?" "Did you hear bis name?" He sent In his card "Yes. I did. to Vloln and she kept It. Here It Is." He handed mo a visiting card. I half expected the name I saw on It Procopius Cable. "That's the same swine," said Norheys. "who's doing the deal with Uncle Ned about the oil." But I'm sure your un"Exactly. cle didn't send him to bribe Miss Temple." Procopius Cable, eager to get at the Lystrlan oil, had tired of Troyte'a cautious diplomacy and begun to act for himself. He had made a mess of It, a far worse mess thai I knew or the fort of a man who would tackle a king." I aald, "he'll probably be able to deal with Janet Church. Why aot give bar Is gucR--- i ten. It does look as if Procopius Cable had made a met of And the result? tningt. (TO ht& CONTINUED.; Queen Lover of Cherriet The rich and ruddy cherries for which England Is famous, were Introduced Into that country from Flanders in the year 15441. Tbe establish, ment of their popularity was due In mo small measure to (Jueen Elizabeth who had a great liking for cherries ripe. Whereby hangs the tale of Sir Francis Carew, who delayed the ripening of his cherry tree until a month after the end of the season la order that the cherries might attain maturity when her majesty stayed wit him. This he accomplished by erecttent over the tree, and on tbe ing queen's arrival tbe trull was at pte faction I NEPHI. UTAH S. er In saying that he thought about the patriarch at all. The person he called savage was the princess. "lie seems quite sure," I said, "that she's black." "lie knows perfectly well that she's nothing of the sort," said Troyte. That's merely an excuse to get out of marrying her." "I suppose you know," 1 said, "that he's formally engaged to Miss Temple and means to marry her." "We must get him out of the m tnngletnent," said Troyte. "And the best way of doing it is to push on the marriage with the Princess Calypso.' "Until you've convinced him that she Isn't black" "Don't talk nonsense." said Troy te. "She's an extremely good look ing and attractive girl, far too good for him. I've given him her photo graph." "Photos are often faked," 1 said, "Couldn't you get a colored portrait so that he could see for himself that she isn't black. If you bad her paint ed in an eenlng dress It would go some way to relieve tils mind about the tattooing. He'd know that her arms and neck were clear, anyhow." "I wish you wouldn't be fllppnnt,' said Troyte. "This Is rather a serious business. There's the question of oil a matter of Imperial Interest and Cable says he's pushed things on so far that Lystria Is on the verge of a revolution. I really don't know what would happen If the patriarch end Couni Casimir were to bring off their roup d'etat and there was no king to put on the throne." "I wonder," I said. "If anything In the way of a morganatic marriage could be arranged 7" Certainly not." "It's sometimes done," I said. "I'm sure I've heard of cases." "Certainly not The last king, Wladlslaws. was far too fond of that sort of thing. Ills life was a scandal, and the patriarch was on the verge of excommunicating him several times. The patriarch holds very strong views on tbe sanctl'y of marsubriage and and all cognate jects." "If the patriarch TIMES-NEW- AMERICAN I LEGION (Copy for Ttau Lesion Nawt Sarvloc.) American Deprtmni tiuypll-- d hf tb Li Ji1 jo ' E-- T i II LP M6 H 2T sS Ml U i M H j ij16 rT20 18" 13 PUBLIC GENEROUS IN GIVING TO FUND ' j I 1 Marked success Is being met with the public appeal for the American Legion $5,000,000 endowment fund for the disabled and the orphans of the World war. Legionnaires and the general public are giving generously of time, effort and money to the fund. Many posts are raising their local quotas for the fund in a day or two of effort At Corydon, Ind., Commander C A. Keller and his post service officer raised the quota of $350 in two afternoons by their own efforts. Evansville, Ind., home of State Chairman Marcus S. Sonntag, raised nearly its entire quota of more than $15,000 in three days. Indiana was the first state to make tbe public appeal. The mine disaster at Sullivan, Ind., in which 51 men lost their lives shortly before the campaign, drove close home to the people of that state the need of such work for the disabled and the orphans as the Legion Is doing and as tbe fund is Intended to maintain. Kentucky was the second state to start the campaign, radio barrage. following a three-nigh- t Westtield. Ind., resorted to an interesting device In raising Its quota of $250. A Legionnaire remembered that there were precisely 250 pockets In the machine gun belts used by the Germans In the war. The belt was placed conspicuously In a store win dow. As contributions came in, the pockets were stuffed with dollar bills. The quota was quickly completed. Senator William B. McKinley of Illinois was the first person to make a large individual contribution to the fund. Lieut. Wayland Brooks, D. S. C, and Michael J. Cullen, D. S. C, presented the appeal for the endowment to the senator. They suggested that he contribute $2,000. He handed them a check for $5,000. Brooks and Cullen are members of the Combat Medal Men's association of Chicago, which was the first organization in Illinois to contribute. A Chicago newspaper feature column recently ran this : " 'I believe,' says the 'I Believe' card of the American Legion In Its drive for a $5,000,000 endowment fund, 'that the orphan children of those who made the supreme sacrifice for America are entitled to the same chance In life which they would have received had not their fathers given their lives to the nation.' That's pretty easy to believe. But believing isn't enough. We want to do something besides just believing. Therefore now watch us closely, American legion we do here and now gedtink $100 Into said endowment fund. Splash !" Tennessee's first contribution came from Canada. It was a check for $50 from Phillip N. Llbby of Lemiskamlng, Province of Quebec. Llbby Is a former member of Hammond post. Kings-por- t. Tenn. Many governors and former governors are Interesting themselves actively in the endowment movement In their respective states. Among the honorary ' chairmen chosen are: Gov. Austin Peay, Tennessee; Gov. Henry I Fuqua, Louisiana ; former Gov. Thomas C. McRae, Arkansas ; Gov. W. W. Brandon, Alabama; Gov. Clifford M. Walker, Georgia, Joint honorary chairman with Chancellor David C. Barrow, University of Georgia. Among the active chairmen are: Gov. E. W. Morgan, West Virginia; former Gov. Thomas E. KIlby, Arkansas; former Gov. Hugh M. 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Thus No. 1 under the column headed "horlsontnl" define. word which will ail the white spscrs up to the Sret block square ta the rla-bt-, and a number under "vertical" defines a word which will nil the white ssiuarra to the aril blnrk one below. No letters bo In the black spacca. All words used are dictionary words, csccpt proper names. Abbreviations, slnnu". Initials, technical terms nnd obeolete forma nro Indicated la the deBnlttona. 4 I I I I I 1 I I I I I 1 I 1111 I I II II II 1 I I I I I I I 1 I I I I I 1 I I I II I I I I I I URSERY RHYME PUZ ZLE4) fiUlsiluKUUn.UmillillUili! A lose P application for adjusted compensation. Friends of John McNichol, of Durango, Colo., were grouped nbout tbe grave when an automobile drove up and a group of American legion men stepped from It. They made known their request, which was complied with. During his last hours McNlcliol's friends made out his application papers for compensation. He was so weak that he could only afllx a scrawled In the presence of mark to the pnp'-rwitnesses. At the last minute It was discovered that his finger prints had not been obtained oed the posthumous tin ger prints were taken. f1 s To Bar Sectionalism in Teaching History At a recent conference of the national eieutlve committee of the American Legion, the committee endorsed the movement tor the publication of a popular history of the United and States, which will be and will have 'he backing of more than 30U history experts. Tbe editor Is Charles F. Home of New York university, late of tbe A. R. F. The purpose Is to do away with sectionalism In tbe teaching of history. Legionnaires point nut that today there are hundreds of histories, and children In different sections of the country are being tanght history colored by local prejudice, the versions exactly contra dlrtlna each other. 1 '''' In I v TJIUSSY cat, pussy cat, where have you been) A worse cat for gadding never was seen. 1 j behavior not at all nice-W- hy don't you stay home and rid us of mice) thinlc your I led two ther pereene. Upper side down, en aide down en apron how. apre upper' ! |