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Show THE HELPER TIMES, HELPER, UTAH V3 I QUEER QUIRKS J By i STORY FROM THE Margaret TurnbuII START Cotyrltht. lt2S. by llk-ti.- f CHAPTER II Continued 'I will, if you think you'll stay waile," Claude replied eagerly, . I "ff course I'll stay, and what's Motoring more, I'm going to help. Let me tag stneans nothing to me. kfter you and look things over; he of t kej 1 cun-- Marre WNU Service Melnotte Dabba re Claud to his turn from New Yor-grocery In Peace Valley, gfneral . With hlin comes Ned Carter, a stranger, whom Dobbs Introduces to "Aunt Lyddy," hla !d housekeeper, as a nephew. Later Dabbs admitsIn to Aunt a chance tyddy that Carter acquaintance, veteran of the World war, whom be had met g in Mew York and taken a to. Carter tells that he has feroken with his family and hla Bancee because of their ultra pacific leanings. " Dabbs looked Immensely pleased. be great '. J'Bj: Jimluy ! That'll Suppose you drive with me' t Cbi. f Hollow with the orders. You jtW always pretend jou are a strnn-ge- r gettiug a lift, or you can Jump off and admire the sceuery when we get look like the You dou't Jtbere. pacer's boy, you know." Ned. "My "Well, I am," affirmed Jooks may be against me, but It isn't kind of you to rub it in. I'm your man for delivery or anything else." Ned watched Claude Dabbs handle the i reins. Like everything else he did, he drove skillfully, but apparent- ly wVJiout giving it all his attention. On the way, he told Ned that the car was out and Sim needed the truck for the express stii!T an explanation fit why they were using Jenny and the But Ned was secretly conWagon. vinced that the wagou was being used as a test of his own endurance, and smiled to himself at C. M.'s guile. I Ned was the target for many carl-tuI, , s, "wiwinklng stares before they left the short main street. At last the village lay behind them and the road ran winding past quaint homesteads and inviting side roads. Winding Willow road was its name, Claut!:; informed Ned as they neared TurnbuU, have some excuse besides their money for living. Mouey was enough when I was young. It Isn't any more." lie chuckled at the thought. "The way I reason it. Is that people who nre Just a little off oo some one thing become so much of a darned nuisance that ordinary people either laugh at them or try to run away. This makes them bund together so as to get an audience somehow. At Clover Hollow they can have meetings and argue as often as they like. If one man does all the talking one day, he knows he's got to listen the next "Take this house we're coming to now. It's cnlled a cottage, but it takes' five servants to run it. Professor O'Toole, who lives there, drinks something a good deal stronger than tea. He told me that the purity of his Gaelic depended on a diet of new potatoes, cream and whisky. Don't know where he gets his stuff, nor how he gets It past the revenue officers, hut bis cellar's full. He's against everything on God's green eurth except the Irish republic. I can't help hoping Ireland never Is a republic, for if It Is, Professor O'Toole will be a terribly disappointed man. He'll have nothing left to live for, or talk about. "Course he don't work for his living. His English nnele left hiin so much 'unearned increment' that he Just has to use some of tt tip ou De Vaiera and that bunch." He looked at Ned, and added: "Awful pleasant fellow, though. You'd like to talk to him." "This Is amazing!" Ned said. "Nest house?" "That's the show place. M. Adol-phu- s Mannheim, the East side millionaire who married a settlement worker, lives there. He's a good provider and a nice fellow, if there ever was one. lie's also got some excuse for talking kinda wild. Seems before he made his millions In a chain of stores over here, his family were Russian Jews and had what he calls 'pogroms' happen to them. A pogrom seems to be some sort of excuse for raging round at things In general. "Hut Mrs. Mannheim, why, she sorta forgets. Some of us knew her as Liz- the top of the hill. Ned looked about him. absorbed in the panorama of r farmland and. wooded zie Hanigan, a at Feljpotnfortuble hills. He realized that the lovely road low's Corners twenty miles away. lived up to the first part of its name. Li::zie always was a restless spirit, It wound on and on and not too and she made a strike for freedom f snoot lily. There were steep hills and and the city. She's got Mannheim Sharp turns before them, but Claude fluttered to death and fooled, but she iiad 'arrived at a place where lie might enn't fool Peace Valley. Leaves her relax and talk. ; big automobile around the corner, and ; "tty Jiminy! It's good to be out of in a plain shirtwaist and skirt and a doors ! I make a break once In so sad smile tries to stir up the girls at often and take out a lot of orders, the factory to fight for their rights. so's hot to get too fat and lazy." They chew their gum and laugh at f Ned smiled. He had suspected that her. Fellow's Corners ain't so far V. M , was trying him out, and now but some of us have heard of Lizzie lie v;is sure. Ilanigan's rich marriage. She got a n Dahhs turned and looked at the hint of that last time she tried to young man's fare with great content, make a strike leader of herself and j. "You do like Peace Vnlley. Just as found she was the whole strike. She's tit felt you would. Grand country, all for plain living and high thinking, iitrsii't; it?" and look where she lives! Five "maids, "Bountiful ! I don't see how one u cook and a chauffeur. And clothes! jo be restless or disappointed down Lizzie struck luck when she married aliiere." Mannheim." e "I know Mrs. Mannheim," Ned said, "It's a queer thing," Mr. Pabhs Introspectlvely, "how this place to Dabbs' complete astonishment, and He take all tin; spunk out of some people Ned's voice was hard. "I'd rather go sT'id makes them so mild and ladylike to her kitchen door with groceries any there's no stirring tliein up to any day, than to her front door. Who You'll soon started this blot on the landscape?" jlil.surt of decent ailihitlon. He diot a Dabbs visibly started. fee that the folks brought up around here are terrible hard to 'rouse. I've quick glance at Ned, but the younger felt that way often myself. Then man did not notice the look. sometimes there are days when sud"Isn't 'blot on the landscape a litdenly the very peace of it ingets on your tle strong?" he inquired anxiously. the face. "You see I'm the agent for the man nerves, sorta slups you I've felt that, too. Hut when I g. who bought the land cheap, and rw:iy from here, I want to come back. thought It'd make a good investment mid it's the d dest, hardest place to as an exclusive residence place. He ""leave that I ever knew." He slapped had u good architect come down here, Jenny lightly with the whip. "If it who whs crazy about remodeling old was anyone else I was talking to, bouses, and soon Mr. Mannheim and man called Green got Interested, they'd think I talked like a fcol about my own place. Hut you get me, don't and they drought the rest here." "I suppose," Ned begun reflectively, you?" "It doesn't sound foolish to me. I us though he had scarcely been listhink I feel Its charm already." tening, "that Mrs. Mannheim thought "And yet. when I was your age, she could get together a set of her Ned, how I kicked at being kept here, own down here, and drag Mannheim tied to u country store." He pointed uway from bis friends." bis whip to a group of buildings at J ho "Don't know." Dabhs answered, a foot of the gentle Incline before them. trille bewildered at Ned's Intimate "Thai's Clover Hollow. What do knowledge of these people. "That's of It?" jfu think Green's bouse over there, union;: the Ned saw several detached houses, trees, where we're going next. Green's most of them built of stone, inure or a character. He can talk white into less elaborate In design, except where looking black, and the other way round. they were merely the original farmHe was a professor, of something or house, or laborer's cottage, remodeled other, In some college. He's In Itus-slHiid enlarged hut retaining some of now." tiie original simplicity of form. They "Who has the bouse now'" In the niidt of gardens and were set 'Don't Just knew. It was rented lawns, some of them quite extensive. the New York agency wnen 1 was by "Attractive looking spot. Hut what school-teache- ! a Is I away. I didn't see the name Sims put on the order, so I can't tell you whether It's money or Just views, but should think It would be money and views. Sometimes, you know, a regular family. Just looking for pence und quiet, land here. But it's generally one of the same." He paused. "Jimmy! Pve never talked so much to any one before. Ol course heiiiij agent for the property I have to keep my mouth shut Hut what would you do? Turn them out? Aren't they safer here than In some other place? Peace Valley's slow moving." He looked appealing!.? at Ned. for evidently that "blot on the landscape" rankled. Ned said nothing. He was frowning, staring straight abend of him. seeing nothing. Dabbs, glancing at him. puzzled, explained further: "Of course, I've only given you my idea of them. I'd not set you against In fact, they them, for anything. might amuse you." "They wouldn't." Ned Interrupted vehemently. "I don't want to know them." The wagon gave a final lurch as they turned the corner near the Mannheim's back gateway. A slender blonde girl came through the wrought-irogates at a breakneck speed, pulled along by an infuriated young collie on a leash. Neither the girl nor the dog seemed able to stop, and Jenny would not. norse, dog and girl seemed as one In the cloud of dust that enveloped them. As Dalies pulled nt the reins, Ned Jumped over the side of the wagon and landed Rt the girl's feet. "Peter!" she shrieked. "My precious dog! My Peter! You've killed him." "D m Peter!" Ned muttered sullenly. "What are you doing here. Dorothy?" The girl looked at him amazed, then at the wagon and Mr. Dabbs, who had kept his sent and regained control over the horse. Peter, who had not been killed, doubled back and was now cowering against the girl, growling. Dabb3 quietly descended and took the box containing the Mannheim order from the back of the wagon. Ned turned abruptly, went toward the wagon end climbed to the seat. "I'll deliver the order at the next house, Uncle Claude, and come back for you." be announced, und was gone before Claude cnuld protest. The girl, her attractive face painted like a bisque doll, stood staring at the rapidly disappearing wagon. Claude, wisely concluding that he bad nothing to keep him, shouldered the bo and went toward the house. When he returned, a few minutes later, the girl was slill standing there, holding the dog and blocking his exit. Dabbs could see at once that he was not to escape easily. "Nice boy, Ned," Dabbs remarked warily. "Uncle Claude!" the girl exclaimed accusingly. "Are you the late Mrs. Itangcley's brother?" "Mrs. Itungeley!" Dabbs echoed "Mean Mrs. Carter, don't you Miss Selden V" "No, I mean Ned Carter Kangeley's mother." "Ned Carter Uangeley!" Dabbs repeated. "You mean my boy Ned?" "Then you aren't hla real uncle?" "He has always called me 'uncle,' though the relationship Isn't quite so close." Dorothy Selden looked at him shrewdly. "I'm willing to bet every penny in my purse," and she Jangled the little costly beaded article und dropped It back into the deep trouser pocket of her expensive farmerette costume, "that you don't know who lx.ren l.orliner Uangeley Is." Dabbs could not help his jaw dropping a little. "1 do. though," be answered quietly enough, "lie Is a big New York banker, one of the meanest men (Jod ever let live." "Knowing that." snapped the girl, "and knowing that Ned Is his only son. why this silly pretense that his name is Carter only?" "Ned has his reasons." be told her coldly, "and Itungeley deserves to be kept In the dark." X ' H.' liuilKd. "It's rnnnv how ow:tdin people feel they have U women 'tire Interesting themthe art and business of beeselves keeping, und with skillful manage, incut It can be made a profitable Industry. Much ancient lore is associated with the keeping of honey bees. They inusl be told when there Is a dentlt or wedding In the and' their habits of swirmliig lire omens of good or evil. If ihey swarm on the ground or on it dead iroe someone U go!n? lo die, or there w'.'l he r famine, or romethlng dreudfu! will It Is ustonWhlng that conn-trhappen. pei.le eer kept been If they as in superstitions so liable tnese to make them unconifortebie. 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The beThe greatest drainage basin in Canwrong because "every woman has t.v quest of Alexander had been declined, send her photograph taken ;n a bath- ada Is the Hudson bay basin, 1.4HG.0OO Rome confining herself to acceptance ing suit so that her physical perfec- square miles draining into the hay. of the king's treasury and evading tions may be discussed by judges, The basin drainage Into the Arctic the responsibility of extending her most of whom are meu." ocean contains 1 ,21)0,000 square miles; rule to the Egyptians. the Atlantic basin, 554,000 square The gift of Bythlnla constituted miles, and the Pacific basin 3S7..W) Friend Her a threatening embarrassment for square miles. a Miss Chatters wife? Support Rome and undoubtedly that was the Why, that poor fish couldn't maintain purpose of Nlcomedes. Conservative u wnversatlon. Ways of Men statesmen counseled refusing It, but Her Friend Well, that's all right, "What's the matter? Your husband the public's thirst for grandeur and the influence of greedy financiers dear. He wouldn't have to If be mar- admits you are right." ried you. "Yes, but he keeps muttering." prevailed against the nobles and the bequest was accepted. It meant war From a theatrical point of view a I am a friend to a man when I with the ablp and powerful Mithri-dateIs divorce can without worse think aloud In his presence. publicity Pont ns. Luculius. one king of of the consuls for the yPur, perceived than marriage. In the campaign against MIthridates an opportunity for great glory. He conspired successfully to win the command. Mithridates gathered nn army of 1 50,000 to repel the Romans, enlisting aid of all the Greek cities of the East. He also concerted nn agreement with Perforins, rebellious Roman governor of Spain. At the sidjrp of the Roman stronghold of Cyznciis. the Pontic soldiers were reduced to eating their dYad comrades before the king would raise the seige. Luculius. with a small army ef .".n.lkxi, defeated Mithridates In a long campaign and eventually destroyed his army. The victory over Milhrhlites established thp supremacy it Rome in Asia and gave birth to a new era of aggressive conquest. His success hIso changed the character of Luculius. lie had been famed h n stern, nnsterp aristocrat of th old and school; now be sbandoned himself to filch orgies of eating, drinking and setitunl luxury that his name has come down the iiges us a byword. BzSclwlVs YEMIS SO e J3 JJrug-gl&t- j, Colds Coughs Ji J Per-gam- s. Km-erso- At Least Sane neeus-tomeEsther was ten and w-- ;ihr:is.s. to use One d'iy her mother was ill. In the evening a neighbor came to In"Wh;it quire and asked of In the world Is the matter with mother?" "Well." replied the loflvI ther. "she's got a headache end a cold r.nd I don't know what ee, but we think slie Is all iiioniaMy." d Reader' Cycle ' g I . Vladimir the Great, also St. mir in the calendar of the Uusslan church, was as bloody and treacherous a monarch as ever reigned. Ia his youth expelled from Novgorod by his victorious brother, Yaropolk, he wandered over northern Europe with a band of brigands until be bad eplisted force enough to drive Yaropolk from his kingdom. He won his first bride, Itogneda of Polotsk, by kliling her father and brothers. Other wives he seized In much the same fashion and of concubines he acquired more than business has beep modernized arid the has old village straw b( ehl gone, together w;th nu.nv of the curious observances associated with beekeeping. n Bus-sia- Vladi- UK CON TIN UK D.i Inveterate reader go.s Every through tin endless cycle In the kind to mm of book he rein's. of the Detroit librarians. The cyd goes something like this; F'ctlon. poetry, biography, hKtory, sdnue-the- n It begins all over eg In with ficPvolu'hn tion. P.Ut ll does riot n.'-nfor be render, becni.-- . on pact, Pi;; ,e tefil- - to liiipiovf thf qtiei'ty of tli elns of books ha happens t be tend' ma Orson Wiiliams v grown In Worcestershire, and potato's, which, when dug up, are quite scales in favor of Christianity for and Evil Omens Surround Honey Bees Mirny i By HARRY R. CALKINS The Treasonous Arrow freighted with ASPKI'DING arrow missive turned the It?" Good DESTINY WNU Servit: All right, then, Dorothy, just who is Loren Lorlmer Rangeley? Does the plot get thicker or does It get thinner? (Tu IN HUMAN I "It's h Jke on the man ilmt built It." Claudo said thoughtfully, "and 1 ought, to know because I'm bis agent. You see, he thought out this scheme for bringing a good class of people Into the neighborhood, and by so doing WHt his nutlve vlllag". financially and otherwise. And this In what he got ! "It 'a a kind of collection of good-- ' nnturcd crunks.'' Dhhha resumed, after waiting for comment, which did nut come. 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