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Show THE HELPER TIMES, HELPER. UTAH nr iri Alabaster Lamps o1 I UJJl by (Copyright.) Margarat Turnbull. WNU Borvica STORY situation at the White house cluded by asking: FROM THE START t girl whom Carter ap- Ned deparently recognizes. livers a grocery order, and tn li!s absence) the girl,, Dorothy Leiden, says that she knows lant name to be Kansccley, :itul that h is the famous banlc- Next morning Ned its son. work a3 a delivery boy. De- iiverlng: an order marked "Johnston" at the "White House," he meats a pirl who tells him she and hci- - mother are alone, the i servant havltiR left. Ned prom- -' toes to pet help. Meeting Dnro-- t shv, his former fiancee, ho evades .telling why ho is in Peace Val-- ; bs-g'.- need-cessit- ley. CHAPTER III '5 He glanced again at the young man beside him and noted the set of bis Jaw. "Anything disagreeable happen to you up at the White bouse?" he inquired. Xed shook his head. "Only saw that girl I told you about. Perfect peach. She took the order from me." Xed relapsed Into silence. "What was their name?" Mr. Dnbbs nsked, getting out his little book end preparing to not9 it. "1 astced Ettie, but she didn'J "Could you do a day's general housework urn cooking, Kttle, for the new folks up there?" "My land, what's come to their cook?'' asked Ettie, country fashlou, refusing to commit herself until she had had all the facts spread out before her, Xed said easily: "They left becuuse they thought it looked lonely. Servants leave nowadays, don't they, without any reason?" Here Claude looked up mid took hold of the situation, lest the energetic little bundle of nerves leaning against her washtuh might take exception to this offhand city person's way of explaining a case. "My nephew, here, says there's Just a young girl up there, trying to run that big house herself and keep her mother quiet. I don't know anything about them, Ettie, but it would be real neighborly to help out. I'll send Xed to take you there tomorrow morning If you can manage it," "I'm bury," acknowledged Mrs. Pulsifer, "but If It's a case of real 1 could go." "That's real good of you, Ettie," Claude said heartily, and indicated to Xed they'd better go. Xed hurried down the lane to untie Jenny. Claude Claude Melnotte Dabba returns from New York to hl general grocery in Peace Valley, i'a. V.'Ith him comes Ned Carter, a Btranger, whom Dabbs to "Aunt Lyddy." Ids old housekeeper, as a nephew. ater Dabba admits to Aunt I.vddy that Carter is a chance veteran of th acquaintance, VY'orld sr, whom he hud in New York and taken a liking to. Carter tells that he has l.roken with his family and his fmnree because of their ultva-- I le leaninsB. With Iabb-Ned visits Clover Hollow. They almost run over a dog belonging- to a the subject. nd con- Continued Instantly, Ned and Jenny started down the road. .Dorothy culled to him, surprise in ltr voice. Was it possible lier dingno-f-'- s f t he Awing maid and the seeking lover could be wrong? "Why, Ned, you're not leaving me like that, fire yon V "I am," Ned called back to her. "I'll! busy this morning. Top seem to for;:;'t that we workers must work." 0 lie stonemason lived .In a tumbledown old farmhouse across the creek, haii'-vabetween Clover Hollow and Pence Valley. It was beautiful to look Mi from a distance, but when you got to, the stony road iu front of it you saw both farm and house had been ed for years. 'lo Claude Dahbs the neglect was fur more evident than the beauty. lie put his empty bos down by what passed for a Kate, so that it might be tiiMcn and symbol of his presence to Neil when he came by, and went up t!w roach driveway lo see Ettie Pulsi-fei- and find out if William Penn Pulsi-feh;,d any intention of working this we. k. Claude had gone to school with Efiio. 11 remembered lier when she was pink and pretty, and he liated to ej lur toiling with so little prospect of lew. i I'd for her labor. Ettie was at a tub in ihe back yard, wa- hiug, with two very small children playing at her feet. Another child, not much older, was driving his ne t brother about the yard as a fire engine. Two more children were lean-in- ? from ca upper window, trying vaii.Iy to reach" a cat on the shed roof. Te cat, being far more conifer' able on the roof than It would be The In their hands, was protesting. o!d"st but one, a girl, was helping Eflie with the wringing. 'My land, Claude, that you!" Ettie called, tossing back a dark brown lock with a wet, soapy hand. "William Pen'n Pulsil'er's gone down to the village with Penny to look about for some boards for soinepiu'. fie told jiic. if yon happened along, to say that l e d tiy to git that crumbly pointed on Bert Oakley's house come next Thursday, If It don't rain." "All right, Ettie," Claude answered aid avoided .looking at her, as he had during all Bttle's nervous speech. Well did both Kttie and Claude know that William Penn Pulsifer had promised to come next week Thursday for P.ut It was Et tie's pome ten weeks. part to hold the bnnner high and so croon some of William Penir Pulsifer shortcomings, and it wus Claude's part not to peep through the rents in the banner lest he might see the naked truth. .Ettie sighed ns she looked over toward (Maude Pnbbs, who had Too; ami the other on his knees uitd about him, '"I declare. Claude Iabbs. seems a shame you're an old bachelor, and you no fond of 'pin. Ought to have had a down of your own." "Thing are uneven In this fine world, Etile," was Claude's comment, as be looked up the road, along which Ji'i-.nand Ned were tearing nt full speed. "!ot n line young man visiting me. My adopted nephew. Here lie comes." He walked toward the g ite. followed by nil the children. ' Presently Ettie, looking up from the washing, saw that he was coming buck fcsMln, accompanied by the children tad the young man. Jenny had been tied to the Inst remnlnlng gate poM. I Ettie ungraciously acknowledged 'in lido's biiroductl.m, though her mind vim perfectly cordial toward the young nu ll. It being no part of country oiWpietf to bolt either pleased or 'om on such au occasion. !et ad am age takoi. What advantage, Mill why, no one knows, but cilmmii la nppar. ntly decreed that they who .ii,'.' their .!!'. l '.g from tl;? soil, shrjl, n.ituie'i? uenero'is teaching. Inurinetivi'ly ('istrust tliIr fellow man. . (.Uuudc. biiertv out lined to Ellie the '!! kuow." "Johnston," said Xed. dwelling on tt. "Miss Johnston." Dabbs stared at him. "Johnston. Oh, well, that's a pretty common name round these parts. Any more in the family besides the girl and the mother?" "Don't know," Xed admitted. "Find out tomorrow, when you take Ettie 'there." "What difference does it make?" Dabbs laughed. "You'll make a pretty good grocer's clerk, Xed, if you can't figure out that for yourself. So many mouths, so many more loaves of bread ordered. Put that isn't why I asked. I've got a dozen or more 'Johnstons' and 'Johnsons' on my and beside. I'm ngent for the property and I really ought to know something about these people." Hut Xed was paying little attention. He was off on another train of thought entirely, as Dabbs was to discover, for he let Jenny have a free rein while he put a cigarette in his mouth. "You've seen the "girl, C. M., for I've just remembered that she came into the store last night. and you directed her to Clover Hollow." He leaned forwnrd to take a light from Dabbs. "She has the most extraordinary blue eyes ! You never saw such eyes. Why, they're like like " He looked up to see Claude laughing, and added quite 'Involuntarily: "Like yours, C. M." "Well I be d d!" was Claude's equally spontaneous retort. "First time In my life any one ever told me I had beautiful eyes!" book-alread- ,Jt,-- At, , V hhmiio-randu- tn y, CHAPTER IV That night Xed lay awake thinking of Dorothy Selden's reappearance in his life, and how little it meant to him now. When he slept he dreamed of a blue-eyeIJapunzel who let down v cj-.- i I ''i.--oi- .e -' d in My Life Anyone Told Had Beautiful Eyes." "Firct Time Me I her hair. Claude Dabbs, also wakeful, puzzling how to keep Xed Interested in Peace Valley, finally slept; to dref.ni of a beautiful woman named Johnston pursuing him, accompanied by gigantic dogs all answering to the name ot Peter. Xed again surprised Claude hy rising early and cheerfully setting our for PuTSifer's farm. However, William Penn Pulsifer and his son Penny had decided to work, for awhile, nearby. Eecause of this, Ettie felt that she must supply them with a hot dinner, and so could not come to the White house until one o'clock. Ned agreed to come again at one o'clock if Miss Johnston still wanted her, and took his way to the White house. It promised to be an amusing day, he thought, as he knocked at the kitchen door. "Blue Eyes," with flaming cheeks, opened the door. This had been a terrible morning of starting open fires, lighting a kitchen range, and trying to find things in a strung kitchen, In a frange house. Ned proceeded to explain Mrs. Pulsl-fee'absence. her murmured listened, Mary thuiiks, and praised Mr. Dabbs for his kindness In sending help. She would tbe glad to 'see Mrs. Pulsifer that afternoon. "What will you do now?" Ned asked, snxlously looking at tbe pile of dishes on the table before her. "Let me help you." paused to say to Ettie, as he separated himself gently from clinging Tittle hands: "The way I look at it, the mother probably won't do anything, and it's a good deal to fall on the shoulders of a girh" "Won't hurt her none," snlrTed Mrs. Pulsifer, "but of course all them Clover Holiowers pay good money, and it's a real nist place, I own, Claude, I kinda like to see what they've done to the house. It certainly is a pretty home." "Yes, ain't it," Claude agreed appreciatively. "Well, I'll send the boy round at half-pas- t eight, Ettie, to take you to the 1 declare I don't know (heir name. They came while I was In Xew York." "That's a pood morning's work, son," he said amiably as he mounted the wagon seat beride Xed. Not for worlds would- lie allude to Dorothy Selden and her revelations, for that was, as Iuibbs would have phrased it, "up to Xed." If it was, Xed showed no signs of being about to introduce the lady Into the conversation. "I say, C. M there's something I'd like to fix up with you before we jroi to home and Aunt l.ydtiy. Though you found :ne on a park bench, I have some money, and I'd like to pay my way." "Look here, Xed," Claude (lushed and stammered, "there's no necessity and and when I usked you to Peace Valley, I usked you to stay witli inn. I can afford It. Afterward, If you lil.e. we can arrange something, if you'll only stay." Ned smiled at him. "Surely, III siay. If you keep me busy." Conversation languished after thu:. for Dabbs waited for Xed to choose - s Shortly Claude Melnotte Dabbs, grocer, will take a place in this story that you hardly would ex- pect TO Bli CONTINUED.) peculiar religious festival known "Thumping Monday," an allusion to as "Wnkes Sunday" used to be held, the lighting ihul so frequently marred In Cornwall, Wakes and is still observed In the north of the festivities. England and elsewhere in honor of tbe Sunday was known a "Feaston SunAnother nunie was "Hopping day of dedication of tbe parish church. day." Sundny," derived from the dancing On this anniversary It was cmtotimry for the younger parishioner lo keep which took place. watch In the church upon the night from which preceding the Woman Urged Inoculation In derived the curious lenn "wakes." Lndy Mary Wortley Montagu, v!f Seventeenth middle the of About the of a Britit-- ambassador to ord.ibied ihut It was uoweter, century, Is credited with having been upon ail church wakes were to bo first the person to eneoiiruge Inoculaof i.li flvst Sunday In Ortoter Instead tion against sn.allpox amot'g th" ..n different dates ua bad previously British doctors. She bad s.uch good been the case, and for about tun resultf In Turkey that the later nnd Wakes later. Sunday yei'.rt A y i Coastj-.li-tlnople- , la-I- bun-die- Di.-r- - the d.iy following wus a receguUci! "ffbtlviil, akin to the modem Ihink holiday. In Hereford fiilr the daj following Woa Sunday Waa tn-tion- HAPPENED not long ago the ITvery Monday after New Year's day, to be exact.- - Tom Brlnsley had started tbe year off right, as he thought, by spending the evening writing to Helen Beaston asking her to be his wife. Helen Btaston was a very ellicient young woman who was now proud to be called the general manager of the query department of a large research organization. Through time and the custom of her work she had become very precise, Nothing that might conceivably be done today did she ever leave until tomorrow. Surely uot the answering of a business letter, and Just as surely not the answering of a personal letter. Helen did not like to have personal letters come to her office, and Tom knew she didn't, but once Tom had got up enough courage to nsk Helen to be his wife he was impatient to know her answer. Helen bad been away for over the holidays and he wanted her to rend and answer the letter Monday. Helen read the letter us she ate her luncheon or she read It as her luncheon became cold before her and was finally left almost untasted. Clearly Helen was much moved by the contents of this letter, but her mind was "no." She had spent made up some years In working up to the position she now occupied. Shs felt that she was needed there. It was somewhat cold that Monday after New Year's and as Helen took ber chair before her desk her lingers were numb. It was also the first business day since the first of the year. Helen used her personal stationery; and as she rolled tbe sheet into the typewriter she was framing the words of the first sentence of this really difficult letter. ' She always dated her letters at the top. Her lingers started to write 1920 then she restrained them. One of thfe Dguies should be changed. Instead of writing 1027 she New-Year'- s I sanded Doctor Multland to Introduce It Into England. Dr. Edwnrd Jerner In the one who placed luocuh-lluupon aclentltlc Ii.Aa. I I Proved safe by millions and prescribed by physicians for Neuralgia Headache Neuritis Toothache Colds Pain Lumbago Rheumatism DOES NOT AFFECT THE HEART to-sa-y wrote Accept onlv "Raver" packaia vhicii"contains proven directions. IlEndy "Bayer" Aapixln i the trade mark of Sjw notes of 12 tablets Ai30 bottles'of 24 and 100 Druggists. n? 8nUrjl!aic! MaMfaetcr f Lives Saved by Parrot Phone Directories The Bell Telephone system last year published almost 25 ,000,000 copies of 2.000 different directories nt a cost The of approximately $10,000,000. paper used weighed 00,029,000 pounds and required 20 solid trains of 23 cars each to haul It from the mills. The paper cost $2,400,000. parrot which hud never talked probebly saved from Injury or death members of the. family of B. M. Corn, of Oakland City, Ind., when awakened to find his home on fire, with the flames making such headway that they A threatened to prevent escape of per- Indiannpoli3 News. sons In bedrooms. 1937. Helen felt that this was a stupid mistake. But she decided to go on with the letter. Later when she had taken the sheet from the roller she would erase the mistake and rewrite It correctly. "Dear Tom." she wrote and ber eyes glanced up at the Ugures 19o7 fitaring at her from the top of the sheet. "I spent my entire luncheon hour reading your letter." Again she Bather unsaw those figures pleasant looking date, she thought. Helen wondered Whether she would still be sitting there before that desk In 1937. "It Is not easy to write my answer In fact, I think It would be easier to talk to you instead." Then another look at the figures. Helen that in 19"7 she would be thirty-eight- . She would be living alone In 19"7 as she was living now. "Somehow I want to let you know bow much I admire you." Helen wrote that because that was part of the letter she had planned on ber way from tht lunchroom, but again the figures stared across at her. Helen wondered where exactly she would be In 10.17. She was ambitious and she had found what success she had gained sweet Indeed. But in a way she had reached the top rung of tbe ladder. There were no better-paipositions open to women in her organization But she would be able to do soinethini else. Yes, In ten years more she ought to have doubled her present salary Still It wasn't Just more salary that counted. The figures at the top of the letter seemed to grow larger and larger that was perhaps the effect of comliig'lnto the heated oliioo from tbe cold outdoors. It would have been bo much easier to write the letter if she had not seen that horrid dat. iy:!7 19::7. In With Tom It would be different. teu years Tom would, us he hoped, be a very prominent lawyer. There was not the slightest doubt of that. He would have friends loads of them It soeuied as si wonderful home and If a voice somewhere outside of her whispered the words "a wife," and then, as Helen protested that Tom said he would never marry anyone else, the voice seemed to laugh and another serious, proper sort of voice said, "Anyway you wouldn't want M think thai Just because you didn't want ti tit Tom would never, never many. You ought to be glad to think thai men always do get over such ills Yoo really want Tom appointments. . d to "Wakes Sunday" Long Festival in England feust-da- 1 ByJANE OSBORN By MARGARET TURNBULL Copyright. U2S. All FOR, Her Reply to. Hi3 marry" Says' Sgereos Varicsss tm H Reduced at Homo Rub Gentlyand UpwardToward ounce bottle of Moone's Emerald Oil (full strength) and apply night and the Heart as Blood in Veins morning to the swollen, enlarged Flows That Way. veins. Soon you will notice that they are growing smaller and the treatIf you or any relative or friends are ment should be continued until the So peneworried because of varicose veins, or veins are of normal' size. bunches, the best advice that- anyone trating and powerful is Emerald Oil In this world can give you is to nsk that even Piles arc quickly absorbed. your, druggist for nn original two-- Your druggist soil.-- lots of It. Thi Wrong Knowledge Sam's Trouble Sam Johnsing and his girl VIctro!a Jackson were perambulating along the boulevard on Saturday night when they met a handsome young colored lady who gave Sam a very vicious look. Victrola noticed the look and demanded : "Who's dat woman dat looked at you jes' as if she owned you? Youze gwlne bah er hard time explainin' ter me who she is, Sam Johnslng." To this Sam blurted out: "I'ze gwine harder time toniorrer hnb er heap-lo- t night explainin' to her who you Is" Exchange. a' As o man's wife thlnketh, so lie Is. Dr. Charles II. Parkhuret, the famous clergyman, said on his eighty-fourt- h birthday at Lake Placid: "The young know too much, nnd at that it's the wrong kind of knowledge. Even little children nowadays n "A schoolteacher chalked the numerals XXX on the blackboard. "'What does that mean, children?' she nsked. "The class of children giggled in. a shocked way, and a little girl piped : Bo-ma- "'Kisses.'" What thin partitions thought divide. Pope. sense from MOTHER- :- Fletcher's Castoria is a pleasant, harmSubstitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric, Teething Drops and Soothing Syrups, espe cially prepared for Infants in arms and Children all ageS. less To avoid imitations, always look for the signature of Privn dirTttons on enrh psr'tcnro. Physicians everywhere recommend It That was as much us Ib'b'ti cuiild Release It Yourself! The Big Thing stand She snatched Ihe piiier rnuu to drive) bis Binks White wife My wife is very busy. She'a (teaching her typewriter with a yank that it Bel ease the clutch! Belense the going to address a woman's club. desk off her machine sent the most Whit She's working on the address, tfutch ! of sheet Then she quickly ran another His Wife Don't be silly! I haven't I presume. paper Into place. She didn't bother ?ot hotd of It! While No. the dress. with any date. all "Denr Torn." she wrote. "1 A man's good deeds are limited, but Love of the whole human race Is a inj lunch hour reading your wonderful Is no end to the mischief lie can there emotion most iroit'lei' Individuals than letter It Is hard to write my answer :an compass. accomplish. tell I see t" you want you to became bow happy yn have made me.' nf "f to all your q'le course my see me tiAns is 'yes.' please come n talk in the have can We itil;ht. little parlor downstairs. Always our I tL I yj-- n and i.li'y yoitr.t." Without rereading the Htor llfien for fevcTfll mlnctre with Cu'Jcant Ba'.be t'.i signed it and tucked It tn an cnveloj Then fc!;5v with a light by har.it. whlcti !! ad Scap and warm w.ter, ,'"",lr of ,,n aryM-v:i?- n Curtsva '"'r Ohitn:snt, " rently rub'ewd th' she Vc!c1 Is most nuictssfal i.i Te'.irir.g v This trrar.-,ci- t m:i ernilet by. I bat s j!i,1;!'-ii"tvd comforting tired, hot, acl.u-barring fcvU "Tik" tbN. ver to Mr. Lrindiey'" told she M T"r)v;. n", 1 oft'ee In the Mute lu.ild'ng." r.1c. p!T5. (VrfmTt 23 him, "iiml see that yon giw 't to h'ni ft , Juj.li.i. Culu Shtvirg Stick tic. i personally. It Is a matter of very lie business." portaut s-- iiii-w- 1 Cuticura Comf oris Tender AIM i t 5, F- J" i - ,('. ;k if |
