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Show BEAVER PRESS f. SERVICE-TH- AT by McCIure Newspaper Syndicate.) the world, Coxie somewhat of an enigma. He one of the most successful life insurance agents In his district, eyes of IS large metropolitan .one, and yet he never seemed to get anywhere. That seemed to get anywhere Is, he neve In the sense that his less successful-colleague- s did. People In a position to that Coxie's earning estimated Judge capacity, what with the policies he was writing from year to year, should Inhave carried him to a a e come. The Jolly little fellow, worming his way up from office boy of the vice president of the huge company that employed him, had managed to capture the liking of the theatrical proMost of his policies were fession. confined to the people of the play world. He had a way with thein. He loved their emotional, volatile, friendly qualities and they In turn, because of those qualities, reacted with ea thusiasm to Coxie. He was so downright likeable. His face radiated round, amiability and something strangely deeper. Coxie had a soul. He felt it. And here let it be said that there who were those In the profession that Coxie knew, almost reverently, had a soul. These were the people who knew why Coxie, unlike his colleagues who drove cars and bought country homes, continued to live, a somewhat reluctant bachelor, In a rooming house and use the subway. It was said of Coxie by one of these clients of his who had reason to know that he had a soul, that It was simply for the little insurance Impossible agent to sit by and see a policy lapse for want of fund3. Ills faith In human nature was so enormous. His confidence In the ultimate decency of human beings was Infallible. If his confidence In these dealings had on various occasions been undermined, Coxie was the last to confess It. He went on believing and he went on digging Into hl3 own pockets to meet payments that for one reason or another could not be paid and all these reasons were passionately poured Into Coile's sympathetic ears. Men and women died blessing Coxie la sentimental and unashamed gratitude. Coxie had saved many a gay Thespian from a pauper's grave; and many a Thespian's child from the pinch of poverty. And the little man himself, known to all Broadway, loved by Broadway, loving It In return, gloried In his Job. Service . . . that was Coxie. The fly In the ointment, however, vas as big as a frog In the puddle. There were ragged hurting edges to Coxie's heart and the reason was Annabelle Evans. Strangely enough, she was not of the theater. She was a forelady In an artificial flower factory. She and Coxie had met at a theatrical benefit for disabled children and for twelve years had been unofficially engaged, as the saying goes. Twice a week, Coxie took Anna-bellwho was pretty In a birdlike fashion, to a theater or to a motion picture and on Saturday night spent the evening with her In the prim parlor of the prim little flat she shared with a prim little aunt, Coxie loved Annabelle and, In what was becoming tearful, patient and almost hysterical fashion, Annabelle loved Coxie, The fact of the matter was that Coxie could not afford to marry. That is, unless he permitted Annabelle to continue her work In the flower factory. That prospect was abominable to both of them. Not only did Anna-Ml- e dis'ike her work, but she had developed a curious racking cough from her surroundings. Time and time again, Coxie, who ''"re with her beratings because he 'fit he deserved them, promised to conserve his income which in Its entirety was more than sufficient for tli'tn to start life together In comfort find even a small degree of luxury. R"t year after year showed a deficit in Coxie's finances. He could not let policy lapse and since his writings w,,re In the name of the most Improvident people In the world, constant and iiultipie were the demands upon him. And then the Inevitable happened. Jt luid not ever occurred to Coxie that could happen, but it did and that s probably the reason that this "U;e man of Indomitable good faith, K"od will and good heart, found hlra-'- f crushed. A rival for the hand of Annabelle K v"ns stepped In. It had all haD- I'wd so quickly that Coxie walked "found Broadway for two days there-"r'o- r with hla face all fuddled with daze. A young shipping clerk la the factory where Annabelle was employed fallen heir to ten thousand To Annabelle'! astonishment, It denied that he had looked upon her 'Hi yearning for years and now it M all come about and was nnnHlh!p. The young shipping clerk wanted to niilrry at once, and suddenly, after Vp!irs of the procrastination, the and the disappointments and the d"frred hopes that went with Coxie; "'re a a concrete opportunity to good-humore- d e, moon-roun- d she hated, a chance health she was afraid to of regain the it was too good a chance. losing Annabelle'! longing hopes were dazed with this chance of fruition. Coxie was terrified by this blow mpre than by anything that had ever happened to him, feeling the entire meaning of nfe slipping between his heart and his fingers, but he dared ont intercede. Annabelle was right Annabelle'3 aunt, who had long since lost patience with Coxie, was The young shipping clerk'sright. name was Macy. A nice enough boy a with lean face and a nervous habit of blinking his eyes. When Coxie first laid eyes on him the evening that Annabelle had told him her decision, it seemed to him almost more than' he could bear. This young man was about to inherit the earth. Coxie must go out , empty-hear- t empty-handed- ed. And then, as if Fate had not been sufficiently content with hnriin im this the abstract, there dethe course of the brief conversation Coxie bad with Macy, this Ironical fact: The money which young Macy had inherited was from a distant uncle whom he had never seen. This uncle was an actor whom Coxie had insured ten years before. Time after time, Coxie had met these premiums, reluctant to let the old man's policy lapse. Meanwhile his wife and those immediately dependent upon him died and In stepped this lad as the only surviving relative. Life had played boomerang to Coxie, except that the story does not end here. Curious thing. When Annabelle, who was not present during the conversation between the two men which brought about this disclosure, came back into the room, that new look wallop in veloped, in of decision which had been on her face for the last few days was suddenly removed from it. Looking at her, the two men seemed to know almost that Annabelle was simultaneously not going through with the engagement to Macy. That is precisely what happened. Coxie are together three evenings a week again. Coxie, with his kind, round face fairly bursting with determination, promises that this year his deficit in his Income is Annabelle and to be a surplus. They plan to be married on New Year's eve. "Changing Britain," as Seen by German Writer I have the impression that the phrase "changing England," or, better yet, "changing British empire," really holds good, for a great transformation has begun whose end no one can foresee. At the beginning of the World war, Bernard Shaw said that It was terrible difficult to hammer a new Idea Into the heads of the English, but that It was utterly Impossible to dislodge an Idea once It had entered there. It was years before England recognized the significance of the decision It had made when It declared war and came to understand that things would never take care of themselves again In accordance with the belief to that defect. In like manner, It has taken England years to understand that the end of the war did not mean a return to prewar conditions. Things were allowed to proceed of their own accord, and at first they went well enough, but presently they began going from bad to worse, yet nobody grew excited. Up to a year ago most people believed that time would adjust everything, and only a few private Individuals or politicians thought that radical measures were necessary or even desirable. Now, however, opinion has altered fundamentally, and the English no longer say: "It will all come right In the end," but, "Something has got to be done." This Is a vague enough conviction, to be sure, but It signifies a tremendous change. England has a new Idea In Its head, and Shaw knows his fellow countrymen. Paul Cohen-Porthel- In m the Tagebuch, Berlin. Famous Painting Reitoreo! In the baptistry of the cathedral of Seville Is a famous painting of "St. Anthony and the Christ Child" by Murll-lo- . In 1874 the kneeling figure of St. Anthony of Tadua was cut from the canvas. Soon It was offered for sale In New York by a Spaniard, who sought out a well known collector, Mr. Schaus. The latter, who knew of the theft of the figure from the Murillo painting, paid $200 for the work. He then notified the Spanish consul. The figure wai returned and amid public festivities It was restored to the baptistry. dol-hx- t- de-h,- y lulvnge happiness. Ejttli (GiAy that racked was a tempting chance. For Annabelle had confused her love of Coxie with a love of bowe-- of comfort, of safety. To her, marriage meant freedom from the misery of daily grind tn a factory. Freedom to make a home that would bring happiness not only to herself, but man who provided it for her. to the And now here was her chance At once, without further delay, she could have her home, freedom from work By FANNIE HURST high-figur- omT It J ears COXIE THE mn rw. iiccuuiu rrom 8he hated" neTh;;i9thW0rrlSOme WAS ( A home of her Many Scotch Pewj Empty Religious leaders In Scotland are be- coming: alarmed over the decline in church attendance. Congregations In some parts of the country are dwindling to only a faithful score or no. Churches capable to seating 500 or COO worshipers are attended by a few doz en. It Is predicted that i number ol places of worship must be closed for lack of support Machines That Are Almost Human By E. C. TAYLOR ' The Telehor a robot similar to the THE telehor, machine, gets pictures at places where human being cannot live, such as at the bottom of the ocean or high up In the air. The robot picks up the picture at the sea floor or In the thin air of high altitudes and transmits It by radio to a receiving machine that translates the electric waves Into a photograph. The robot Is lowered Into the ocean, . and sent aloft In a balloon. It is directed by men on the ground, and Street In Agana, Guam. when It is pointed at the object to be starts sending Its (Prepaid by the United States Department beaks, and Intense colors, some of photographed, of Agriculture.) WNU Service. them a deep greenish blue, others flashes of vibrations that are recorded THE Interests of governmental broadIN'economy the lonely Island of Guam, looking as though painted with blue like the Image of ona television caster Is recorded the television reone of the smallest of American and pink opaque colors; variegated called "sea butterflies" by ceiving set. possessions, will be taken from the Chaetodons, horns The mechanism of the robot translist of American naval bases and the natives; trunkfishes with and armor, leopard-spottegroupers, mits the pictures direct from the obturned over to another government dehideous-looking, warty toadflshes, ject being photographed without the partment, possibly the Department of with armed spines, much necessity of making preliminary expoisonous Interior, which has already suggested the dreaded by natives, and a black posures. It sends the electric Impulses that Guam would make an attractive of the picture one at a time, and they fish with a spur on Its forehead. national park. are picked up by the receiving apwhen the In the mangrove swamps Guam's military Importance has aland flashed before a camera. fishes low little hundreds paratus tide of is of been ways theoretical, but as part A seen be complete picture can be sent in with may protruding eyes the chain of American step of a second1. hopping about in the mud and climbping stones, leading from California Equally as remarkable In the eyes the roots of the Ithlzophora through the Hawaiian Islands to the ing among most people is the robot that bends of a to These belong Philippines, Guam has also provided and Bruguiera. group of Ashes Interesting from the photographs by telegraph and by raa handy landing place and relay stafact that their air bladder has as- dio. The sending of pictures by teletion for cable lines across the Pacific, sumed In a measure the function of graph Is universally done nowadays. and a base for repairs and supplies When a great news event occurs In lungs, enabling the animal to breathe for American vessels plying midway a far distant country, or In a part of atmospheric air. lanes. More than 1,100 miles of open the United States far from home, phowater separate It from the Philippines Natives of Good Appearance. of It are sent In a few mintographs while the ocean Jump to Midway, The natives of Guam are, as a utes to the newspapers that we read. nearest of ehe Hawaiian Islands, Is rule, of good physique and pleasing Pictures of the Inauguration of a new even greater some 1,700 miles. appearance. Owing to their mjxed President of the United States In Guam's strategic value Is out of all blood, their complexion varies from Washington are printed within an hour proportion to Its size and population. the white of a Caucasian to the brown In newspapers on the Pacific coast. In area It Is about three and a half of a MrJay. Most of them have glossy When there Is a great earthquake or times as large as Nantucket, having a black hair, which Is either straight or other disaster In Europe or Asia, length of less than 30 miles and an slightly curly. It is worn short by these robots send the pictures to Amer-lea- n average width of about six miles. the men and long by the women, newspapers by cable. This Is a s Only 18,020 people, more than either braided, coiled, or dressed after companion device to the radio for the of whom are native Gunmese, the styles prevailing In Manila. speedy dissemination of news to the a people similar to the Filipinos, Inthe natives of Guam are Though people of the world. The habit this coral-reefeoasis. and quick to Intelligent This sending of pictures by wire Is naturally It learn, little was done for their educapopulation, however. Is growing. an Important factor In busibecoming jumped 40 per cent In the last decade. tion until comparatively recent years. ness. An engineering firm In New The Island of Guam was discovered The college of San Juan de Letran York city recently sent a set of comon March 6, 1521, by Magellan, after was founded by Queen Maria Anna of plicated mechanical drawings to San a passage of three months and twenty Austria, widow of Thllip IV, who set- Francisco. They arrived In time to days from the strait which bears his tled upon It an annual endowment of enable the firm to complete a contract name. 8,000 pesos. Through misappropriaseveral days ahead of the specified tion and dishonesty the annual Income time, and thereby made considerable Raided by Magellan. The natives of Guam came to meet of the college gradually dwindled to profit for the firm. the Spaniards In strange "flying praos" about 1,000 pesos. The greater part The latest fashions are sent by wire now. Important financial announce(canoes provided with outriggers and of this was absorbed by the rector, triangular sails of mats). The Span-lard- s who was usually the priest stationed ments are transmitted Just as they had dropped anchor, furled their at Agana, and by the running exhave been set op In type at the home penses of the school, which were the office to prevent error In resetting sails, and were about to land, when It subsistence and wages paid to Janiwas discovered that a small boat which the type where they are received. tor, porter, steward, doctor, and the rode astern of the flagship was missPhysicians send photographs of patients showing conditions that need ing. Suspecting the natives of having lighting of the building. stolen It, The people are essentially agricu- Immediate diagnosis. Facsimiles of Magellan himself went There are few masters and checks have transferred large gums ashore at the head of a landing party ltural. of 40 armed men, burned 40 or 50 few servants on the Island. As a rule' of money In a few minutes when they houses and many boats, and killed the farms are not too extensive to be have been transmitted by wire. seven or eight natives, male and feThe robot frequently goes to the cultivated by the family, all of whom, male. He then returned to his ship even the little children, lend a hand. aid of the police In catching criminals. with the missing boat and Immediately Often the owners of neighboring farms Photographs and even fingerprints set sail, continuing his course to the work together In communal fashion, have been sent to distant cities to aid one day on A's corn, the next day on In the hunt for criminals. westward. This robot sends out electrical viB's, and so on, laughing, singing, and The natives did not fare much betand one at a time. They are retheir at work Misbrations stopping ter at the hands of later visitors. skylarking whenever they feel so Inclined to take ceived by a device attached to a writsionaries came In lCftS. a drink of tuba from a bamboo vessel ing pen that draws a line as each ImThough Guam lies within the trophanging to a neighboring coconut tree. pulse Is received. The pitch of the ics, Its climate Is tempered throughout Each does his share without co- vibration of each Impulse makes the the greater part of the year by a brisk trade wind blowing from the northnstraint, nor will he Indulge so freely line light or heavy. These lines are east and east. Its mountains are not In tuba as to Incapacitate himself for drawn very rapidly, and when the enwork, for experience has taught the tire operation Is completed In a few high enough to cause marked differences in the distribution of rain on the necessity of temperance, and every minutes, there Is a picture that, when suffione must do his share if the services photographed on a smaller scale, Is a Island, and the Island Is not of are to be reciprocal. In the evening clear copy of the original picture. cient extent to cause the daily alterThe same device is frequently used nating currents of air known as land they seperate, each going to his own by radio, and sea breezes. Generally speaking, rancho to feed his bullock, pigs and to transmit photographs electrical the through Impulses a In After with sending a measure chickens. the seasons conform good supper they the air Instead of over wires. But the those of Manila, the least rain falling He down for the night on a pandanus mat spread over an elastic platform wires so far have been found to give In the colder months or the periods greater accuracy In reception. called winter by the natives, and the of split bamboo. A movie camera operated on a simwarm In All the Raise greater rainfall occurring Crops. is being used by the ilar months, which are called summer by None of the natives depends for his Unitedprinciple coast and geodetic surStates the natives. livelihood on his handiwork or on vey to take pictures of tides and waThough the mean monthly temperatrade alone. There are men who can ter currents beneath the surface. It ture varies only 2 degrees on either make shoes, tan leather, and cut stone the work of several men, and does side of the mean annual temperature, for building purposes, but such a thing It accurately. does so are of Guam the "winters" yet as a Chamorro shoemaker, tanner, The device recently was submerged definitely marked that certain wasps stone mason, or merchant who sup- In Chesapeake bay to make studies of which during the summer make their unports his family by his trade is tidal currents. It contained a comthe nests In the open fields among the known. In the midst of building a pass and a revolving dial, on which bushes Invade the houses of the peostone wall the man who has consented the direction and strength of the curand hibernate there. to help do the work will probably say, ple at that season were recorded. One picture was rents The forest vegetation of Guam "Excuse me, Senor, but I must go to made each half hour and the machine of strand trees, my rancho for three or four days; the almost entirely worked steadily and without attention epiphytal ferns, lianas, and a few weeds are getting ahead of my corn." for a week at the bottom of Chesaof the The majority And when lime Is needed the native Careful analysis of the bay. peake species nre Included In what Schlmper to whom one is directed may say, recorded aided in the planning chart! has called the Barrlngtonla formation. "After I have finished gathering my of a sewage disposal plant. The principal trees are the wild fercoconuts for copra I will get my boys (ft. lltl. WHtiro Newspaper Union.) tile breadfruit; the Indian almond; to cut wood and gather limestone to Jack-Ithe box, and the giant banyan. make a kiln. Never fear, Senor, you JndfY. Black Cap shall have your lime within six weeks." How They Catch Fl!h. The custom of a Judge donning a On one occasion a blacksmith was black The fruit of another common tree cap really a square piece of (Barrlngtonla speclosa) the natives d'ilfijed two weeks In making a plow black cloth when sentencing a prisonuse to stupefy fish. The fruit Is poundowing to the fact that the man from er to death Is a relic of the ancient ed Into a paste. Inclosed In a bag, and whom he got his chnrcoal had been so days when covering the head was a busy supplying visiting vessels with sign of mourning. The Judge, therefore, kept over night. The time of an especially low tide Is selected, and bags fruits and vegetables that he could not In putting on the black cap. Is assumof the pounded fruit re taken out on find time to burn It. ing mourning In view of the fact that the reef next morning and sunk In Agana, the seat of government and he Is about to pronounce the forfeit certnln deep holes In the reef. The principal town, is about eight miles of a life. On top of the Old Bailey, from Apra harbor, a fine anchorage the famoua London court of Justice, fish soon appear at the surface, some of them lifeless, others attempting to but closed to all foreign ships. Guam the familiar figure of Justice can be iwlm, or faintly struggling with their Is a lonely spot, seeing only an occato Indicate Imseen. It Is blindfolded ventral side uppermost. The natives sional army of navy transport, the the scales In on partialityholding mall steamer, end a few American scoop them In their hands, sometimes hand, and a sword aloft in the other. commercial ships. Tourists are un- The even diving for them. scales are the symbol of fairness. Nothing more utrlklng could be known. The official currency of tb Mand Imagined than the picture presented To Restore Old Capitol Is of the that of the United States, but the conglomeration strange by After three years" research for aushapes and bright colors snnkellke old Spanish code of laws, slightly modIn America and Europe, data thentic , ified, still Is effective. Kngllsh, Span-lusea eels, voracious garColonial capltol of Virhistoric the and native languages are spoken. like houndflfllies, with the'r jaws proginia In Williamsburg, completed In The schools are conducted In English. longed Into a sharp beak; long snout1705, has been made In miniature icale-modThe principal exports are copra and ed trumpet fishes, flounders, porcupine form and will be restored by fish, bristling with spines; squirrel coconut oil. Interests. The capltol Rockefeller the The governor of the Island, a naval stood at the eastern end of Duke of fishes of the brightest and most beau-tifcolors scarlet, rose color and officer appointed by the President, Gloucester street, three quarter! of a takes precedence over and Is entitled mile from William and Mary illvcr, and yellow and blue; parrot college. to due admiral. an to the honors fishes, with large scales, parrotlike I elvs - i mid-Pacifi- c one-eight- h College of Engineering Polytechnic IJtl u Haa Sta., OaUats, CtUforai, Leading Engineering School Univetaity Standard ia Technical Sciences EitailiAtJ in 1S04 Ortt $200,000 PUmU ChonenJ to put itfntt is toil All subjects omitted. In tensive practical thorough ooursea In Electrical, Mechanical, Civil, Mia. injr, Architectural and Structural Kb. gineerlnr. New cimrsea la Aeronauti- cal and AirlaJ Knglnearlng. Special enure r in Airplane Mechanics, A a to Machine Shop, Eire trie Mechanics, Shop, Ignition, Battery, etc. Complete Rleetrlcai, Hydraulic, Steam and Tea tins' laboratories. Stvoniout tvo ycon' timt Students aselstod In financing1 their courses. Write (or free catalog. W. Vf. K. GIBSON President . I WOOD Registrar Mennonites in Paraguay ,.' The Mennonites, reputed descendants of the Dutch Waldenses of the Middle ages, have found a haven ia the Paraguayan Chneo. They went to South America after their venture had failed in Prussia, Russia and Canada. The government of Paraguay granted them a colonization concession In 1921 and the colony now numbers 1,400 persons. Their charter . allows them to maintain schools In their own language, Ger-inuAlso, they are exempt from military service and swearing In court, affirmation being sufficient. The Mennonites are desirable colonists, especially if allowed to live according to the traditions of their ancestors. n. GIANT NEON ROOF SIGN Beacon of Hospitality nine-tenth- d con-gis- ts llzard-flshes- ll i s '" I'll 1 85 "s! isa'n Iih lit ll'fi'H 'D'lllUt HOTEL Newhouse SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH One of Salt Lake City's finest hotels, where guests find every comfort with a warm Garage in connection. Cafe and cafeteria. 400 Room. Each with Bath lionpi-talit- y. I. to .00 SUTTON, IHanagor $2.00 W. E. Dream Fulfilled In Belmont (X. C.) on business W. D. Kennedy dreamed that one of his children had been killed, so he wrote a letter to his wife asking If they were all right Mrs. Kennedy replied on a postal saying the children were all safe, and gave It to Charlie, As he was son, to mall. crossing the street to a mailbox he was run over and killed by a truck, four-year-o- ld truck. Sea Story A quartette of revelers were down on the waterfront one moonlit night, singing "Sweet Adeline," when the tenor fell off the dock Into the bay. The Incident passed unnoticed by the leader, but he perceived thnt something was wrong with the harmony. " 'Smatter with you boys?" he "One of you don't sound cora-plnlne- d. right" "It's Jack," rumbled the basso, "He's off quay." solemnly. Life. Role "I can only give you a thinking part." "Sir" "But this Is Ibsen. deep thinking. It require! Sleep In peace, and wake in Joy. fl(cop)!! mosquitoes killed quicker if you 5j cnynr Larjost Seller tn 121 Conntrlee el PTTnannt connection. Part or fait flfltl VrUl.1 Una, Men. women. PruSta NUt fIn(1? hers t!m Hiperl"nee.!nvetiierHanneo7T, V NORTH AMUBCAN AID tOCILTf, WKHirft. KANS. W. N. 8alt Lake City, No. 31. |