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Show THE RICH COUNTY NEWS, RANDOLPH, UTAH plates, but I didnt notice," Sidney was obliged to confess. Isnt your machine a Hammerhlll Not Enough Speed By R. RAY BAKER. , 1921, by McClure Newspaper Syndicate. In casting about for a wife, Sidney Johnson, owner and general manager ef the Toga Searchlight company, failed to find anyone that suited his matrimonial tastes quite as well as Jessie Fearmont, assistant general manager of the same concern. They had been associated In the same offices now for four years,' and Jessie had grown on him. At first he had given little attention to her personal chaTms, one reason being that he had not felt Inclined to settle down, another being that he had established a business rule. never to fall in love with an employee. . But now Sidney felt that the time had come, for he was twenty-seve- n and the home Instinct had fastened Its grip on him. Then there was the everlasting restaurant menus that were tiring him both psychologically and gastronomlcally. So he set out to find a wife, and he traveled In a circle and decided the object of Ms quest was right in his own office. Jessie was young about twenty-fou- r and a brunette of the charming type; not at all the kind that is considered real business woman timber, but In this case being the exception that proved the rule. There were two drawbacks Jessie was too slow nd she wasnt human. In specifying these drawbacks In his mind Sidney meant too slow in the lateral sense; Jessie simply couldnt move fast. Everything she did was done In a slow, methodical, machinelike manner, and she had never been known to get excited In the most momentous business crisis. And not oace, to Sidneys knowledge, had she ever made a mistake. This latter fault was In her favor, from a business standpoint, but when viewed from a matrimonial angle It was quite the opposite. He could scarcely reconcile himself to wedding a girl who could not err, because he was prone to make mistakes himself. In fact, If It hadnt been for Jessies watchful eyes the firm would have lost many dollars, due to Its head's carelessness. But would this exactness prove a blessing In marital life? Sidney feared not. He wanted someone who was human for a life partner. It looks as If Ill have to remain a bachelor, he confided to himself one sunny morning as he sat at his desk and watched scurrying forms In the street below. Jessie Is almost the right person to be my wife, but those two drawbacks are Insurmountable barriers. Of course I dont know that shed have me, although without being conceited, I am Inclined to believe she might True, I dont know a thing about her outside of business hours, but a person who works so methodically myst play the same way, and If she cant make a mistake in business shed be just as Inhuman In a home. I guess Ill have to give it up. As he watched from Jhe window his eyes chanced to light on a figure plodding along the sidewalk below. It was a girl, and she was taking her time, with other pedestrians hurrying on all sides of her. There she comes now," Sidney sighed, and his heart beat Just a little That everlasting gait of quicker. hers would drive me to distraction If I had to live with her. Why doesnt she hurry just once? It Isnt that she doesn't get results, for she does, but shes so methodical. Presently Jessie entered the office, laid a number of long envelopes on her desk, exactly In the center of It, hung her coat and bat on the same hooks they had adorned for the past four years, walked leisurely to her chair, seated herself slowly, touched up the knob of hair on her head as she always did, and said sweetly: Ive Just been to the auto license bureau and procured . your number and those of several othYou remember you filled out ers. your blank the other day and had It sworn to before a notary public. It certainly is convenient mot having to send to the capital for them, as you used to. ' He agreed that It was a good morning and that her statement was true, as her statements always were, and he couldnt help thinking how adorable she appeared as she sat there It was gratifying to opening mall note that the tIArd finger of her left hand remained bare, for Siddey was constantly fearing she would show up some day with a diamond ring. He took bis license plates with him when he left the office that evening and attached them to his car. He was a motor enthusiast when the weather was good, but It turned cold that night, and for two days he did not take his machine out of the garage, Consequently he was more than a little surprised one morning, three days lifter the opening of this story, to receive a telephone call from police headquarters requesting his presence In court to answer to a charge of violating the speed laws. "But I havent had the par out, he said over the phone. Tell It to the Judge, was the curt reply, and Sidney went to police court. - He had some trouble explaining, but his standing in the community caused the judge to give him some heed. "What Is your license number?" Isnt It that gentleman asked. Good-mornin- g. f 1 j T9854 7 I i dont know. I put on the a n Mro-lli- ?. touring car?" Yes, he admitted, but Im sure It hasnt been out of the garage. Better take a look at your plates," the judge advised. There must be some mistake. I take it for granted you have more sense than to work an d stall like that If youre gullty. So Sidney went home and looked at his number. There had been some mistake, for his number was 79853. But where could the mistake have, been? Surely It must have been the officer that copied It when the traffic ordinance was violated. ' . He went to the office and phoned his Information to the judge, who promised to 'look up the new number In the records and let him know the result Then he sat Idly and watched his assistant manager work, admiring her from behind a newspaper. Presently the telephone rang- - and Sidney answered. Theres a mistake Somewhere, all fj You got the right, said the judge. No. 79854 Is listed as wrong number. ft. yours, all right and 79853 was issued " a Miss Jessie Pearmont She drives NjPg by-'Hammerhlll, apparently just like yours, and shes an old offender. I find she has paid fines twice already for speeding. I cant understand how the mistake was made, but Til press the matter further." Sidney replaced the phone on his desk and sat silent staring at his assistant general manager with eyes that shone with mingled unbelief and admiration. Presently he got up and The Water Front at Bagdad. walked across to her desk. She looked up with Inquiring eyes, but now he (Prepend by the National Oeofraphlo It up until it was .raised to the level seemed to detect a hidden vivacity Waahlnstoa. D. C.) of the land, over which It was then which the Arab new of state, Irak, that he had never suspected existed by canals. In Babylonia Emir Felsal recently was proclaimed distributed there. the surplus water was drawn off dimanBritish under Miss Pearmont king, provisional he said, clearing a xgreat canal system, the his throat I do not wish to be In- date, strikes a new note to many ears ; rectly by ancient arteries still whose banks of quisitive, but er er a have you but despite Its unfamiliar name It in formidable ridges across ever been a have you ever had any Is a land whose Influence upon the stretch, the plain. difficulty with the automobile speed history of the human race It would Under the system of Irrigation both laws? scarcely be possible tooverestlmate. lands were astonishingly fertile. Even Yes," she answered readily. 'Tre For Irak Is none other than Mesopobeen arrested twice for going over the tamia, that Jjetween-the-rlvestrip today .It can be seen that only work Is needed to bring back limit I just cant help It somehow. of land which Is believed by many to When the restraint of the office Is have been the original home of the the ancient fertility. After the spring removed I feel like opening the throt- human race the Garden of, Eden. rains, the Mesopotamian slopes are There In the dim and misty ages be- clothed with rich verdure and ate tle wide up and letting er zip." fore Mstory began, men first attempted gay with flowers. Bht of old, these to eyes her left Sidneys strayed hand and he breathed relief. There to form themselves Into organized lands were the wonder of the world was no ring there as yet communities, there the Hebrew race for their richness. There seems to have been a mis- found Its origin, and thence their Of Babylonia the Greek historian take, he resumed. Is It possible you first leader, Abraham, went out In Herodotus, wrote 2,350 years ago; gave me the wrong license plates? I search of the land which he should This territory is of all that we know hesitate to ask, because you never afterward receive for an Inheritance. the best by far Tor producing grain; make mistakes, but It is a long and comparatively nar- as to trees, it does not even attempt Youre wrong, she Interrupted. I row stretch of country, running up to bear them, either fig or vine or make loads of mistakes. Mother says from the Persian Gulf toward the olive; but for producing grain It Is theyll be the death of me some day. Taurus mountains and that lofty table-Jan- d so good that It returns as much as Im so painstaking In my work that I which we now know as Armenia. two hundred fold for the average, go to the opposite extreme In my pri- On Its northern and northeastern side and when It bears at Its best, It pro vate life. Ill look the matter up." duces three 'hundred fold. It is bordered by a fringe of mounSidney actually staggered as he re- tains, gradually sloping up toward the You had, then, a land which. In sumed his seat, and Jessie phoned great northern ranges. On the south- constant human occupation and with her mother about the license. ern and southwestern side It fades attention to "Youre right," she announced. away Into the great Arabian desert. constnt and organized was the details of capable irrigation, Ton have my number and I have of almost anything; but at the same Its Two Famous Rivers. yours. Has anything happened? Far up In the tableland of Armenia, time it was a land which, left to ItOh no that is, nothing of consewilderness. He again walked to her about 800 miles In a straight line from self, went back quickly to quence. of summer withdesk. Miss Pearmont, will you mar- the gulf, rise two great rivers the The parching heat ered everytMng on the Mesopotamian ry me? Ive been thinking of this for Tigris and the Euphrates. The former some time, but never got around to breaks through the mountain wall of uplands; the low levels of Babylonia the tableland on Its eastern flank very speedily became marsh if the asleyon before." Half an hour later the police court and flows In a southeasterly direction waters were not regulated. ' So, the hand of man being withjudge answered the telephone to hear throughout almost Its entire course. Mr. Sidney Johnson ask, In a very The latter breaks through on the drawn or checked, both Mesopotamia western flank and flows at first west- and Babylonia went back to the state happy tone of, voice Say, can I pay Miss Pearmonts ward. as though making for the In which they were originally, and In fine? Its frth It, believe me." Mediterranean. It then turns south which we see them now. They beand flows directly-- . southward for came great barren wastes. then sweeps around In a great There are few things more remarkawhile; FIND MASTERPIECE OF ART bend to the southeast and follows a able than the way In which this land What Is Described as a Perfect Venus course v gradually converging upon that which had once been supreme In the of Its sister stream. Finally, near history of the world, and which for Unearthed During Excavating the sea, the two unite and Issue as centuries was one of the great moldOperations In Greece. one Aver Into the Persian Gulf. ing forces of human history, passed al' trav SraeA by these two most entirely out of the thought and land The What Is described by archeologists as the most perfect statue of Venus rivers has, like the sister rlverland of memory of civilized man. ' We know It, of course, from our hitherto come to light, has been Un- Egypt, been from tyne Immemorial of historic centers the one of great In Bibles. The name of Nineveh, "that earthed the ancient baths at Cytene, where extensive excavations are being human development It divides Into great city, and the story of Nebucarried on under the direction of Pro- two portions of fairly equal length. chadnezzars pride, as he looked round For the first 400 miles the country upon palace and temple and tower, fessor Ghlslauzonl. The statue, somewhat larger than life size, Is In a per- gradually descends In a gentle1 slope and said: "Is not this great Babylon, fect state of preservation, the. head from the mountains, forming an Ir- which I have built? These things and arms untouched by time, and be- regular triangle between the two are part of our earliest and unforgetwhich the land becomes table impressions of history. n longs to the, period, rivers, within bearing a strong resemblance to the less and less MUy, as It sinks southVanished From Memory Venus of the CapItoL It will be re- ward, till, as It nears the Euphrates, a It broad becomes which, men who wrote the history and steppe, The membered that another magnificent statue of Venus, unfortunately head- beyond the river, rolls off Into the the prophecy of the Old Testament less, was discovered a few years ago desert This portion Is strictly, the did so when these lands were living, at Cyrene and Is now one of the great- land called by the Greeks "Mesopo- and at the height of their glory. est treasures of the Museo delle Terme tamia. Then came down midnight So utIn Rome; When Professor Ghlslauzonl The second division Is totally , dif- terly had the local habitation and the saw the work of art emerging from the ferent In character. It Is simply a name of these great cities vanished soil like Venus from the waves he be- great delta, like that of the 'Nile a from the' memory of man that 400 came so excited that he shouted to the flat alluvial plain, which has been years before Christ, when Xenophon Arab workmen to put up their spades, entirely forped of the silt brought and the Ten Thousand marched lest they might Injure the statue In the down from the mountains by the two through the land after the battle of slightest detail, and with eager handff great rivers. Cunaxa, they, passed the ruins of proceeded to remove the millennial The process of land making is still Nineveh and never knew of them, and earth reverently, as If unveiling a god- going on, and the waters of the Per- encamped beside the ruins of Kalah, dess. sian Gulf are being pushed back at the another of the mighty cities of Asrate of abqut 72 feet per annum. syria, and spoke of them as "an anAustralia Settling War Debts. What this slow process may achieve cient city named Larissa. While Americas war debt and the In many centuries Is evidenced by the The Young Turks, who came Into redemption of the loans to the Allies fact that we know that the ancient power in the political upheaval of are occupying attention here, little town of Erldu was, about 8000 B. C., 1908, made an effort to reclaim the attention's given by the United Stateg an Important seaport on the Persian lost garden spot,' but did not make 'All activities populace to the methods being used Gulf. It Is now 125 miles from the any great headway. by the other powers to return to some sea. stopped, of course, with the outbreak This But since the degree of financial normalcy. of the World war.. Control of Waters Necessary. Is especially true as regards the strugBoth lands were entirely dependent British occupied Bagdad In 1917, the the Young Turks has gle England Is making to refund the for their habitability and fertility on work begun by much debts of her colonies, and especially farther. Many which traversed them. In been pushed rivers the of Australia. been drained and dams acres have Euthe and the Tigris Australia owes the Imperial gov- Mesopotamia have for long stretches chan- and canals have been constructed. ernment approximately $433,000,000 phrates rail neled deep Into the soil and flow be- Bagdad has been connected by Perfor financing that colonys war activinear the low the level of the land. In the low- with Basra, the port extendties. Recently an Interesting agreeer district Babylonia the ordinary sian Gulf ; and a line has been ment was made by which the Ausfrom direction Bagin the ed opposite of the rivers Is frequently above to Mosul. tralian government has arranged to level of the the Tigris half-wa- y dad, up so ; that that plain surrounding settle the debt on the basis of a 0 Inundations are of frequent occurIt is planned under the new Arab per cent annuity, with Interest on the rence, and tracts of the country state of Irak and the British manlarge capital sum payable at rates from 34 are now unhealthy marshland. date to continue the great engineering to 5 per cent work that will be needed to rejuvenboth In for cases, therefore, though The margin between the interest ate Mesopotamias ancient irrigation was the hand reasons, man of opposite payable and the 8 per cent annuity to make the rivers helpful. In system. But there Is much to be done needed will provide a sinking fufid which will the water was con- before the Garden of Eden will redeem the principal debt In less than Mesopotamia and dams, which held bloom again. dikes trolled by 87 years. Utica Globe ft- jt 46 ' fr I' i ' rs Greco-Roma- well-direct- ed Beer, Not Milk, Caused Chicago Fird My husband and I wb were newly weds werqylsltlng with some friend Mr. and Mrs. John Kokes, at 140 West 07 . Taylor street, that Sunday. Ths Kokes home, was almost opposite Mrfll OLearys place, 1ST Norths De KoveS street We sat under the trees In thil back yard. This town has been CHICAGO. the fiftieth anniversary of the great fire. And one thing new Is the discovery that Instead of the Immortal hoof ofMrs. OLearys cow, a Sunday afternoon bacchanals was to blame for the fire, according to interesting 'new evidence reported by Miss Caroline M.'McRvalne, secretary of the Ghicago Historical society. J. M. Pyott of 217 North Waller avenue, of Holmes, Pyott & Co., Informed Miss McRvajne that Ms mother-in-laMrs. Anton Axsmlth, who was an eye- witness of the conflagrations beginning, refuted the traditional about the lantera-klcflln- g cow. "No; It wasnt the cow's fault, said Mrs. Axsmlth at her home at 1902 South Ashland avenue. "Why, the fire broke through the barn roof at 9:30 that terrible Sunday night, and Mrs. OLeary had milked the cows at six oclock.' "Across the alley we saw six mes who were sitting In the shade behind tflg OLeary house. They were drink) lng beer, smoking and laughing. pretty jolly bunch, I guess. 0 dear, wMspered Mrs. Kokes tl me, Isnt that party noisy. If somd i thing doesnt happen before night 1 I dont know' what "And something did! That event nj just as my husband and I were settlnl out for home near by, we saw thl flames. They were gushing from thl hayloft of the OLeary shed. We ran back. A south wind swept the Art across the alley to a barn storing paint on the Kokes property. Latei the Wind shifted to the west and thi flames went rioting across the city. "We remembered that some of thl men In that drinking party had goni Into the barn, clambered Into the hayloft and dropped asleep. They had been smoking pipes, and probably oni of these, slipping Into the hay, was the real cause of the start of the 1 Hardin County, Way Down in Egypt Land ill. Travelers monotony of the flat expanse of level prairie land In northern and central Illinois find It hard to believe they are still In the same state when they Invade Hardin county In this corner of "Egypt, as southern Illinois Is called. A bit of rugged scenery has been set down In this Isolated corner, framed by the great bend of the Ohio river. "The hills, which stretch back forty miles from the river, are a continuation of the Ozarks, extending east through Missouri and southern Illinois. . Elizabethtown has the distinction, unusual in Illinois, of being a county seat without railroad, telegraph or electric lights. Its mall stllj arrives by boat and most of Its freight and passenger traffic Is water borne. The few roads over the hills are wretched at their best, and at their worst Impassable for three months, out of the year. This town Is the second oldest settlement' In Rllnols. In the main part of Its brick hotel, standing on a Mgh bluff above the river, the Marquis de Lafayette spent a night when he visited tMs country In 1824. The main room of the hotel was erected In 1807, but additions date from 1840 and Civil war days. . . Elizabethtown, ? In the hotel yard Is the grave oi Elizabeth McFarland, for whom thl town was named, and of John McFarland, her husband, who built and operated the hotel for nearly a half cen' tury. . There are no movies In Elizabethtown. Once or twice a year the Cotton Blossom, or one of the other show boats plying along the Mississippi and OMo rivers, noses Into the bank for 8 night, and the hill farmers ride in faf fifteen miles around to attend the performance of "The King of Tramps," Unde Toms Cabin or East Lynne;" But Hardin county has the largest flourspar mine in the world, which has been continuously worked for forty years. Now there Is a strike on In the mine and Elizabethtown has been "discovered by the newspapers. Still Another A. E. F. Romance in France a neighboring farmer, N. Y. Brought here BROOKLYN, as a technical deserter from' the A. E. F., Sergeant his home Henry W. Rumpke, who-lef- t in Cincinnati In 1884 to enlist In the Marine corps, with wMch he served throughout the war, continuing In the service for fifteen months after the expiration of his enlistment, was freed from the "brig at the Brooklyn navy yard by the federal court In July, 1919, a series of. Misadventures separated Rumpke from Ms command, the Fifth regiment Second division, then stationed at St Algnon, France. He then, with the aid of his father, a merchant In Cincinnati, bought a small truck farm at Vltry spr Seine, and went to work as a farmer. There he met the daughter iff Louise Mouroe, and they became engaged. In April, 1921, he presented himself to the American army headquarters at Paris and told Ms story. Rumpke said that Ms commander gave him a pass and sent him to a Red Cross hospital for certain supplies.' When returning to the regiment the military police arrested and detained Mm because he had lost his pass, and when he got Ms liberty and bad reached the American lines the regiment had moved to embark at Brest . The paymaster of the division told him he would have to make Ms own way to join the command. Rumpke had no money and walked half the distance before he quit The military authorities held Rumpke until June, then sent him here. He had been a prisoner at the Brooklyn navy yard more than two months when a court martial decided that It had no jurisdiction, on the ground that he had served beyond enlistment at the time of the alleged desertion. Rumpke appealed to the Legal Aid society. The federal court then assumed jurisdiction. Rumpkes father has found Miss Mouroe In France, and both will arrive here next week for the wedding. Aviators Life Has Its Ups and Downs Carl Stieler, who INDIANAPOLIS. share of the $234,-00- 0 y Standard Oil company mall at Whiting, Ind., In 1919 In a two-yeorgy of airplane and automobile buying and travel, was arraigned in the federal court here. The wife who was with him while he spent the money, and who, when it was gone, took In washing and scrubbed floors to help him, Is with him. "If I hadnt given myself up the police would never have got me, said Stifeler, who Is twenty-thre- e years old. The police knew that I was mixed up with the robbery, but they never saw me In Chicago. It was the same way when we got to Los Angeles. Even when Bessie and I were married under our own names they didnt get wise. Wherever we went It was always under our right names. Why, I was pinched for speeding once In Los Angeles, and In the courtroom where they fined me my picture, with a reward under it, was hanging on the wall. And they never recognized me. , His Interest In flying, he said, was the result of Ms service aspn enlisted man with the Four Hundred and Ninety-eight- h aero squadron overseas. rob-ler- ar His record of expenses, as kept, he said; against the time when federal agents might get him, follows: One airplane, $9,600; one airplane, $4,500; one airplane, $5,500 ; one airplane without motor, $2,000; one airplane motor, $6,250; Installing motor, $600; one automobile, $1,700 ; organizing airplane company, $L250; jewelry for wife, $200; living and traveling expenses, $13,400. The gilder with ths fine engine I used to carry my wife and myself around iflzona, New Mexico and Texas until the money gave out It wag great Sport, but I wish now that thi cops had been smarter that they had Caught me at the start. Then I would have two years of my sentence behind me Instead of all of It before me. x |