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Show THE HELPER TIMES. HELPER. L'TAH returned Mrs. Post. "And Ten don't know what the poor boy's going to do." "Mother! - You tell m- - at once what you're talking about," Lucy demanded, clutching her mother's hand. "Well- ,- chuckled Airs. Post "I Is a wonder. must say my He said he could and he has Are you sure you've never suspected what was going on?" "Oh, I've suspected ! Lucy clasped her hand. She began to feel a sickening sense of her own unworthlness. said Mrs. Post "He's "Well," bought the cutest little new bungalow on Orchard street It belonged to a Mrs. KneiT. She and her husband have parted she got jealous of him without a reason. She has gon home to her mother. Possession She sent Trent given Immediately. tinal word last night that he could have it. You see this house has been sold and he didn't want you to know you had to move until he could tell you you were going right into a home of your own. He has promised to be out of this house- - In ten days. That was why I was coming to help you move. lint now you're sick. So I suppose nothing can be done." Mrs. Post, reading her daughter's face like print, smiled knowingly. "Who cays I'm sick?" Lucy was out of bed beginning to snatch her clothes. "I!ut, my dear!" protested Mrs. Post, smiling more and more. "The idea of our having to move out of this house in ten days and me lying here just as If I hadn't a thing to do! I wonder where in the world Trent put my pumps " At that moment Trent entered. He had come home to see how Lucy was getting along. When he saw her wielding a powder puff he sat down and began to laugh weakly. Lucy stamped her foot playfully. Then she flung her arms about his neck and kissed him. Mrs. Post slipped from the room. "What was the matter with your she asked her daughter a little later us they were packing. "I was jealous of Trent," Lucy answered honestly. "Jealous of Trent!" Mrs. Post looked aghast. "The first milestone on the road of young married life! Well, who was the woman?" "There" wasn't any woman," Lucy gave a sob. "I just imagined her. You never did anything so foolish, did you, mother, dear?" Mrs. Post. sighed and smiled. "Don't we nil?' Bha murmured. THEIR . FIRST MILESTONE LUCY ond Incidentally waiting for her husband to appear at the corner. Lucy was a wife of h year, gloriously In love with her bis, handsome husband, who she felt loved her devotedly. Five minutes ten minutes passed, and still no Trent. The smell of overdone meat rame from the house and she hurried In just In time to save the roast from utter ruin. She burned her finger on the oven door. Just as she was beginning to fear some horrible calamity had overtaken her darling the door opened and he entered. "Oh, I've burned ray finder!" Lucy cried In her pretty, pouting, way, expecting of course that Trent would kiss it to make It well as was bis wont. But, to her astonishment, he did nothing of the kind. In fact, he foemed scarcely to hear what she said. "Any mail for nie this morning?" he asked when they were finally seated at the pretty lunch table. "No!" Lucy answered with a curious look at her husband's preoccupied face. "Just bills." "U urn," Trent murmured, lie ate hurriedly and without comment. Lucy was Just setting a piece of tempting-lookin- g lemon pie before him when the telephone bell rang. She rose to answer it and was surprised to hear the voice of an unknown woman asking to speak to Mr. Carter, Trent went to the telephone, but Lucy, listening, could make nothing of the conversation which followed. "Who called you?" she asked her husband when he returned to the table. "A party on on business," he answered. P.ut he didn't explain. After eating his pie he caught up his hat and overcoat, gave Lucy a curt little kiss on the cheek and rushed from the house. Lucy hurried to the window just In time to see hi in disappear round the corner. lie was running at top speed. As she stood staring after him a painful thought came to her. She was torn by the dreadful doubt that comes of jealousy and suspicion. Another woman ! That accounted for Trent's strange actions. How blind foolishly blind she had been. A dozen incident? little things she had passed by as trivia! at the time became now in the revealing light of clear. suspicion Trent her husband was carrying on an affair with soyie other woman! For the rest of the day she sufJNow she vindicated Trent, fered. now she accused him. After the mail was delivered that afternoon he telephoned. "Any letter for me?" Casually. "I haven't looked," Lucy lied in as calm a voice as she could summon. Since two o'clock she had been looking for the postman only to have her vigilance rewarded by the dally paper and two or three open letters. She resolved to watch that mail box hereafter even if she never again stirred from her own front steps. Trent's telephone message was n culmination. and despair Worry brought on a furious sick headache. Her heart sank lower ond lower and her mind whirled round the devastating thought: "Trent loves another woman and who Is she?" When he came home at night Lucy was really too miserable to rise from the davenport. Her reproachful eyes followed him gloomily as he teleMrs. phoned for the doctor and Creet, their next-doo- r neighbor, to come over. When the doctor finally arrived he asked Trent if Lucy has been overworking or had received any shock or bad news. But Trent was sure she had received no bad news. As for overwork why she might have been doing too much because she was expecting her mother In a few days for a visit. Mrs. Creet made Lucy a cup of ten, and after she had taken the quieting medicine the doctor had left she felt much better. It looked as if she was well on the way to recovery when the !oor bell rang and Jack Coulter appeared. "This letter came to my house by mistake," he said. "Seef The direction looks like Coulter instead of Carter. And there's no number." He banded Trent a big white envelope. Flushing highly Trent took the letter. With a furtive look In Lucy's direction he crammed It Into ids pocket. Immediately after Jack went away Lucy was seized with an attack of It took the combined efhysterics. forts of Mrs. Creet and Trent to her to anything like calm. While Mrs. Creet was getting her to lied Trent ran out and sent a long distance message to Lucy's mother demanding that she come at once. It was noon the next day when Mrs, Post arrived. She was ushered into the darkened room where Lucy, of camphor, pmeHlng whs lying r.gi'.lnst pillows no whiter than her own faro. "Oh. my poor child I" Mrs. Post cried with all n mother's yei'inliig a.vinp.'ilhy as s'ie gnthmd lior daughter Into her arms. "What a shame for you to ho taken III, and at tl.i.-- i time of all others! Just when Trent 1. iiiiiing the grandest Hirprise for you " "Surprise Trr.t !" I .!!")' gasped, steps . heart-breakingl- y i.ed re bvll upright In bed. JyJr'Z&tt . Never Say Die Any lime PERFECT MARK Sin Caught 63 Games Without Making a Single Error. at .J By LILLIAN WESTON son-in-la- (45bD. J. Walsh.) CARTER in a red sweater sweeping snow from the '' BASSLER SETS Tunney Gives Marines Mascot I 1 it yK k ty V :5 . 'i '3 V. ", ' r s IS The Photograph 4 rvfLkkJ i U f J Shows Champion Gene Tunney and Jiggs II. Meet TTiirgs II, the new marine mascot, and Gene Tunney's gift to his old outfit. The champ's gift is a rough, tough little bull pup well qualified to fill the collar of flie late lamented Sergeant Major Jiggs, who for many years brought good fortune to marine football and baseball teams. When Sergeant Major Jiggs lingered too long in the chow line and paid the penalty of high living, marines began to search the country for a worth-whil- e successor. This was not easy, for Jiggs was a remarkable Jap Plays Baseball He was a perfect specimen of English bull with an undershot jaw that stood out like the piazza on n bungalow. His legs were as bowed as a barrel hoop, and his chest was the size of the G. I. bucket. It was Gene Tunney, champion if the world, who finally located the right dog. He bought the pup and gave it to the marine corps, in which he served during the war. Jiggs 11 weighs 47 pounds and Is 17 months old.. He has all the points of Sergeant Major Jiggs, including the jutting Jaw and billiard table legs. drfg. 1 Janie, butnpr that the briClH swuewhere back of u- "ij t.mllEItE'S "What's the use, if one ""'"n mother?" "You'll see it soon ll na k . ... ''"ft wonder that von "I'm so discouraged, r dotft to live at all without my Row? "You're tired, child - C!t big clialr no, not the rocker I . you quiet. Lean bark und let hands lie Idle no, don't !a;p J05 let thein rest See how still y0nf be. Let 'every" thom'i.t 6 111 W: ... ; . i.. juu iu irtii uim - ii wake nnv v. . inn, Arthur Bourchier, the London actor, while getting ready to assume the part of Henry VIII, cultivated a beard. One day when It was fully grown he went to his club and was challenged by the doorman, who did not recognize him. "What name sir, please?" he Inquired. "Henry the Eighth," replied Mr. Bourchier without the flicker of an eyelid. The doorman consulted the list, run his eye down the IPs and closed the book with a bang. "No longer a member, sir," he replied. well-know- n In Darkest Australia Among the natives of the northwest und coast of Australia cattle-kiliincannibalism have been reported at Perth, by a pioneer pnstorulist, who declares that graziers are losing as much as from 25 to 30 per cent of their cattle through native Cannibalism, he says, slnwr'iierlng. generally occurs after a tribal fight the victim being a girl. Hunger Is not the motive of the sacrifice; it Is a ecr emonlnl practice. Leaping Fish Lands on Boat While en route from Thursday Island to Townsvllle, in the South Pa eilie, a bouita, nearly five teel long, landed aboard the Sydney horse-ferrKarttkaru. In tin mouth of the giant tl.sh was n flying lish. The big !is!i bad sprung for Its prey and hud been It must hnvc unable to check list-Ifleaped a distance of IS fe-- t and a height of S feet to land aboard the ship. . An Estimate "I could Make a lot of money out of that young inun," said the cynic. "Indeed! How?" "By buying hlni at my prtee and selling l.l.ii at his own," fu murmured to her child; ve'n right into the cloud you think tF i.v-- nuu it luuiiuvut ua starry scot uawes or ongiit wntl Happy little ,. drops that make our flowers grw The weary girl slept and n dreams the clouds were full 0f r& bow gleams. Meanwhile the mother hurried her work of cleaning and putting order Janle's tiny house. There been a year of radiant happt wumn its wans. Tragedy had ti ha1 ' lowed. The eagerly awaited baby ba had lost his uieu, nnu go. Shefe. janie naa let everj-ttnngrown listless, end developed a r "1 King habit. She reproached her bat band for being out of work, and naa tett bonie and had now been a montn wunout a word. ToJj Janle's mother had arrived and tab! charge. Mack Enthusiastic Over When Janie awoke her home s Chances of His Players spick and span and dinner cookh 2i She got up refreshed and the ehesrj Connie Mack, waxing enthusiastic over tho prospective chances of the aspect of the rooms gave her new Jiie found h Athletics to get Into the next world's hope and courage. mother in the little kitchen and ike series, predicts that Ty Cobb, Eddie smelled the dinner, nearly ready. Collins and Zach Wheat will turn the Johnny Bassler. trick with their heavy hatting, writes "The way to have your Robert Joe Vila in the New York Sun. Y't of the league, ' Johnny Neun ranked back, girl, is to make a magnet the venerable manager &eems to forget fifth among league first basemen, with. bis home to draw him back; make that Cobb's legs couldn't stand the LouTilue, the regular Tiger first baseso strong in cheer and love that strain last season and forced him into man, at the bottom of the list, exceptwill pull him back. He loves you, temporary retirement, while Collins, ing for Bob Knode of Cleveland, who your gloomy thoughts and bitter for the second time in two years, be- played In only 11 games. words nearly drove him desperate At second base Gehringer ranked came similarly disabled. Let s play the wishing game ostS The White Sox, led by Collins, were sixth, making 16 errors. Both Gehrtno dinners cookeu. ten me your going great guns In August, 1925, and inger and Eddie Collins of the White first wish." "I want him back, my Pobert.' appeared sure of finishing in the .first Sox finished with fielding percentages division when the king of second base- of .073. "Good ! Now It's my turn 1 Tavener was third among regular he has found work. A man's men suddenly broke down. In the lanshortstops, but was fifth if the figures ease and cross when he's out of wort guage of turfmen, he "bowed a tendon," which put him out of commis- of the veteran Peckinpaugh and Scott It was that that drove him away. He'D are considered. These two were In be back as quick as be finds work. He sion for the rest of that year. As a result of Collins' injury, the 46 and 3S games, respectively. was sad, too, with the loss of tie Warner ranked sixth among third White Sox Immediately hit the slide baby." and wound up among the trailers in basemen, being topped by Kannn, "Then why didn't he stay to WcManus and .fort me? the second division. Collins experi- Hunnefield, Lutzke, - ' enced the same misfortune last Sep- Haney. "He was out of a job, and you m The best fielding Tiger In the outer tember. One of his knees gave way all the time und nass'.nf plaining and he had to stop playing. Believing gardens was Harry Hellmann, who hlin. Sure, It was the best thing made 7 errors and ranked number 13 could do to get out. but he'll cow that Collins was through. Owner from the top. Both Manush and Foth-erglreleased him outright. back." were in the lower section of the There is no guaranty that Cobb and "He said he never would.' Collins will escape a return of these list "And so the cloud makes believe Ift leg injuries if they attempt to play all dark, but it's not ; It's full of of the Athletics' schedule of 154 games. when we get into it. It's your turn For that reason Mack .appears to be a to wish Sgain." trifle too optimistic when "he hold.'y "I wish be loved me." states that Cohb and Collins will play "He does. N'ow It's my turn. I w!4 with their old skill and stamina. ! when be comes again he'd tell y that Wheat's" case is different. In that he Horsewomen in Paris are forming a every hour that he loves you and vide never has broken down completely, polo federation. the in woman the you're only though troubled with Charley horse world for.hlm. It's the only way to now and then In recent years with the . Ice hockey is the fastest and one of content a woman. She thinks more Robins. the most popular of sport spectacles. of a fancy word than of deeds, and man finds It so hard to believe that" "I wish when . he comes again I Harvard Yale and crews Orioles Sign Marquard rowing could learn to make him happy." have met each other for the last 70 "Ah. now you're talking! lie pc years. ful. restful, ktep a place within par heart u man can 'turn to when lie'' Kansas City lays claim to having more basket ball teams than any othnn,l dlKCOUrnCUd, wJ find comfort and courage. A mas er city of similar size.. ' comes home often, beaten, and sick at w Edvln Wide, the sensational runner heart, and he wants no nngglnS ami wants He sympathy of Sweden, drinks two or three cup-ful- s You'll never lo a bit of babying. of coffee at a single meal. W xnt If you baby a man and tell he's the best ever." Football is said to be responsible "It's n month since be left, nnd wl for fewer fatalities every year. Exwish Is that he comes home today." cept, of course, among raccoons. "Sure, and perhaps he will, Tie you're a nice object to greet Mm! near One trouble about these slow clubs house Is clean nnd the dinner's being Instituted in colleges is that the on ynr ready. Run, quick, and put football players might join 'em. If" prettiest dress to welcome him word a not and rememlwtr, comes, . Clarence Turner, for many years one reproach or he'll be leaving ffaln' IK of America's tn'st jockeys, is giving Junle fled to her room, gay dress up the saddle o become a trainer. hope, and put on her prettiest The soft color came Into her cnwM Mr. Iloppe, oldest of the contenders with excitement nnd she looked In the recent tournament, lost his 18.il the girl her man had courted. The photograph shows K.ihe Marbalkllne billiard championship but ran back to the little dining quard, who attempted a comeback successfully defended his title of Boy nnd laughingly placed a clutlr " with the New York Giants this spring Wonder. house. plate for the muster of tiie and flivvered. Jack Dunn of the Balto even not begun had They timore Orioles has signed the lanky The 1'nlted States hasn't won a pon the en when they heard a step twlrler as a relief player. marathon in the Olympic games since a key In the lock. They held tnw man 100S, when little Johnny Hayes, now breath and waited. The young dead, bis to fought way Dutch Z willing Says to victory owr who cume In so timidly as if dlltra Dorando Pletro In London. of his reception was a lovable tV Play Game on Square merry-faceand strong, ni"l ,s Much Is holntr Mr. Edward Harrison written mannhnut ir,i willing, brightened ns his glance wf1 ager of the Kansas City Blues, whose ward O. Senbert rising from a news-- i orderly room and rested on hi VJ real name Is ' Dutch," was n lecturer boy to president r.f tho sion.i..i r.n t tily drerwed wife. He stammered the other duy, although really perhaps company. But how about thof-- news-boy- s excuse for his long absence. that rose to be prize lighters and only n talker. He said some thingi "Jtmlc, love, I've got a line job,co before the $xrts-cluof the Pusoo baseball stars? ter than the last. I wouldn't high school, and whether It was nn near you till I got one, but I've nn A Japanese golfer Is oration, address or talk remains for said to have nnd It'K triad I BUI to err mndo two boles In one In n history to decide. mother singl agrin. I'm . glad. your ... . . "Play the game on the square," be game. It Is all right for the Japs H ynn. It . s .kind she is to com. I' said. "Whatever pawn; you're goit' copy us, and even (xceil ns jn Bobert. down. you're j'15t "Sit ' Into, play it by tho rules and by y0,:r twity. but It hurts to see tliem outto n nre flow. c.i.,,1 conscience, and then nothing ever will lying 113. nnd kl come up that you'll have to answer - ,r'r 101 ' ..... wul l""o'-V Now regulator fur." re necessary in the inolhe." wtU l"''k tjir Later, iK!! "Dutch" delivered bis lecture seated football, saj.s a conth, because Hie own home, tm-- l ns si rate, en a chair, legs crossed, tlsts are constantly Ilmlliis frld--- , homey-lik- e ,fllk' not daughter pood by she ucrot-arm the back. He answered provided against In the old. ranifi'n In vnnr ovn IriUiN. P;"'- a' . That's -a- nd there's i liinny questions about the dilTerer.co i. j nlfo i... .i.i.. nothing n tho new ruies ii.rn lioi.n: i:i--r,.i, ' iiiiMK In trailing for buselmit and football, that says a hnlfhaek UC nil In the lovcikut things can't rld um on the rules und sport parlance. horae. " ... . A. ,j ci WS1 XV 3 1 Hf J Iff b A 111 7 com- - Photograph Is of Kay Miyakawa, Japanese student at Harvard college, who is a candidate for a berth on the varsity team this year. He was a member of the freshman team last He is a good ball player. year. fatfOBclNofe The Amarillo club has signed Lefty Fonken, an Amarillo semipro pitcher. 6 Larry Kopf, veteran shortstop, has tlgued with the Indianapolis club of the American association. Horace .Milan, brother of Clyde Milan, Memphis manager, has signed with Bridgeport of the Eastern league ll tmnl-nrpii- Off the Roll ,t,i r Strategy of Cyrus That Won Babylon Stories of the capture of Babylon by Cyrus the Great are so conflicting that it is difiicult to arrive at the true account of the event. Details of two or three sieges seem to have been mixed up and it is impossible to disentangle them with any assurance. There Is an interesting tradition that Cyrus proved himself an engineering genius by thinking up an audacious scheme to humble Babylon. A big dike had been built up by the Babylonians to keep the Euphrates from running into the bed of an old canal that had lone been dry. Since were unusually the walls of the strong and a deep ditch outside them hindered the besiegers, Cyrus saw that the only way to enter the city was to divert the river to the old bed, then enter by way of the present bed when it was drained. He sent thousands of soldiers to dig out the dike one night and by midnight the Euphrates was flowing through the new channel. The drained river bed passed straight through the city aud offered an easy means of entrance to" the army of Cyrus. Kansas City Times. " tVbile the Detroit Tigers were the Amerisecond best liittim? team in the season, ranking only can leagne last one point behind Washington, they were one of the worst fielding clubs. The official fielding records for the sixth place with year show Detroit in a percentage of .008, only two points better than the erring Yankees. In only one position did Detroit Johnny place a player as leader. Bassler, catcher, went through the seascn without nn error. He had one. in which passed ball in the 03 games and Cleveland of he worked. Myatt Pox of the Athletics aldo had perfect records, but, appeared in only a few games. In the pitching records Ilolloway, Johns and Stoner fielded flawlessly, as did 13 other American league pitchers. Fifth place was the best Detroit lniieiders could show in their records as compared with other players Thomas A. Crooke, former umpire of the International league, is one of the new members of the Coast league staff. Toronto Internationals have purchased Alexander, crack first baseman of the Charlotte (N. C.) club, for $5,000. A rookie pitcher with the Giants burst into tears when be lost his first game. If at first you don't succeed, cry, cry again. The Columbus American association team announces the purchase of Walter Itehg, outfielder, from the Louisville colonels. 1 . fault-findin- ' The New York American league baseball club announced the sale of Adams, utility Inflelder, to the St. I,ouU Americans. Sam Meyer, veteran fir?t baseman, purchased by Pittsfleld from New Haven last season, has announced his retirement from the game. Aiphonse tion (Iiefty) Dugas, combina- pitcher and outfielder, from Nor- wich, Conn., has been signed by Hartford of the Eastern league. Albany bi'S traded Outfielder Hobby Emmerich to the Bridgeport club for chamHarold (Yank) Yordy, home-rupion of tho Eastern league last year. n To make sure "that his outfield will rot be shorthnnded. Jack McCiiliNter hst wtcU had the Cleveland club claim Bernle Nels on waivers from Washington. There Hi's been some h!iridlnking over the fact that McGrnw has no veteran catchers, hnving pinned Lis hope on three rrnipurntlvely young men to work with his pitching staff. h - vei-se.- ' |