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Show THE SAUNA SUN. .S ALIN A. UTAH EVADE INCOME TAX ' IN DEVIOUS WAYS CASE OF MISS. GRAY. SirvOapoife By JANE OSEORN . Wonder" b l Mcclure Newspaper tsjndicaie.) MJ bertice) N TN SrriE fit his twenty-eigh- t years, Doctor Morley .looked very young; .n spite .of his .youthful appearance and the fact that .he hud been' practicing medicine, only two or three years, he. was one of tiie busiest aud best-likedoctor's in Tilden. One .of tjie older doctors had suggested in all seriousness that, he raise a mous- tache. That would ' make him look olden ..and more professional. Not 'such a bad Idea, .thought Ted Morley, .until he suggested it to Hope Gray, the girl iu spotless white linen who acted as general assistant In . his office. Hope pursed her lips, looked critically" at Ted's smooth face and said she .liked liiiu .belter as he was.. That set" ' tled the matter. . The only time that Ted really felt the need of an" app.earanee of greater .age was when he was acting as chair-jna- n of the .committee of student nurses at "the Tilden hospital. The' fact was, lie was somewhat In awe s of Miss brury, the middle-age- d of the hospital, and on leaving the hospital after visiting his patients .there, he had a- - strong Impulse to office without hurry past her .giving l,ier an opijortunity to confer with. him. One summers day he waSf maklng-r-on' trying- to make one of his hasty exits from the hospital when. Miss Drury pounced upon him. Sorry- to" detain you,, she srti'd, ac- -' But ' there's the case of ciisingly. Gray, .it was 'Str months ago the matter was first presented and we have done nothing about it. It would be quite out of order for me to go ahead with the matter myself. . A new class will be coming in next month; we really "ought to let h'er know. . . To be .sure, said Ted Morley, .and said something about having intended ta get in touch with tlje girl, find something "more "about having been ex. tremely" busy. . for appointYou see she ment in the training school. She has l. no diploma and in such caes candidates have to satisfy the chairmdn of the conmjitfee of their educational fitnek& I would suggest that you send for the girl, and have her go to your, office where you can make whatever Inquiries you want. She lives somewhere In the. country a copy of the letter is included in this " neered for y.ears. The author, Compton Mackenzie, novelist, hjis loused the tlay Island of Jethou, which lies well-know- d ' nm-tro- ... - - M-is- s . . Steam Roller." .A' Singapore the end of the peninsula ntul "nearly on the Equatou, Is the capital of tire British crown colony cbmmonly called the. Straits Settlements. This colony embraces the Province Wellesley, the Dindings and Malacca on the mainland, by National Geographic Socle.s, (Prepared WN'U Service w ii'hIn(fton. Ll. C.J uncompleted British naval at Singqport again may The with workmen. base has been a .political football in British official-circlefor more than a decade. Construction began In 1921 but before, .much progress was made. the project wds interrupted by political quarrels until 1928. In that year the base site was the. scene of much Activity bjitwork again was halted when the Labor party, which opposed, the. project, paqie into power. T tire military strategist, Singapore is- one of Britains main links in its . chain of defenses that stretch from Gibraltar through .Malta,. Suez, Aden and Ceylon, bift to students of geography and readers of fiction, it is the " Crossroads of the East, and a city 'where East meet's West. In all the .swift, significant changes wrought by white men in. the East, no one event stands out more conspicuously than the rapid, rise of Singapore. From a junglg isle, where tigers ate " men at. night, to a magnificent city, tenth among the ports.of the world, In less Gian a century I . Its place on the map, its strategic . position .here at the crossroads of the East, forced It to. a growth at. once Last year unique 'and astonishing nearly 10,000 ships cut the cobalt-blu- e selii of the Jdala'cea stcait, tying up thd trade of Singapore with Europe, Africa, and India,' with Australia, China, Jdpaif, qnd the Americas. . And how Singapore came tfi be a tity romances of Is one of the latter-da- y the Orient. Away bark in history, before, ewen- the days of Marco Polo, the .Malays- had founded tlie.ir powerful states and set" up-aempire on their ."peninsula. Then came the Portuguese and laid waste- - to the strongholds of- the sultans," leaving colonists . whose! descendants, bearing long", aristocratic names oddly out of place ampng Malay cognomens, are still found, throughout THE' s - - the ' . Indies.- - - y three-fourth- . pore. More than fifty steamship lines pnd Its cable net and radio stations tie. Singapore up with adjacent regions, and British Malaya, the Dutch East Indies, and Siam constitute a unit In commercial geography which centers . at the great port. The Melting Pot of Asia, they call this prolific, potent peninsula, bfr cause of the babel of "races, boloys, and castes whloh Its wealth of rubber and tin has drawn to It. But In all" " tlfis industrial army of Europeans, ipemo. Chinese, Japanese, Tamils, Hindus, and A more jemarks arid Ted few South Sea Islapders,- - the . assorted to get started. Dis-- ' managed Morley Chinese are the njost numerous and that. He thrust business agreeable powerful. In his pocket, hurried "to the lejter Tk. Malay himself Is too lazy efefi his car and back the shortest way to be a good fisherman. lie grows a", to hi? office. He by was "especially anx-- . little rice, a few coconuts, and nets ious to arrive before Hope left for' the fish he needs, but Nature Is so kind Ibe day( If he. had the courage, he that It Is said one .hour's effdrt . wanted to asked Hope to marry him, day will support him and his. family. ' lie was quite equal to the ordeal beIf" Is .the Chinaman who Is .the tin. fore Miss Drury nabbed him now be miner, the farmer, shopkeeper, artisan, felt timid. contractor, and financier. Somehow his courage came back as Natures motion picture, as yopr ship he entered his office and saw Hope swings into the narrow, sitting there" at his desk .with, her Singapore roads, Is like a .vision of pretty fair head bent oxer one .of his " some fabled Dream Isles "of Delight. medical magazines'. ... Fairy Dies they seem, floating (n a They sqt opposite each other .with jungle-gownesea", wooded, turquoise the flqt desk between them and in brightest green, . miraculously-broke- Ted lroaj the took telephone receiver from off and cast adrift' - from hook so there might be. no its . . Sumatra and Malaya. . in the Important business he Cruising through these straits, your had hefo-rhim. ship creeps so close to certain Isles . Then his' ddsk and over leaning .that you can actually see the'natives looking agerly into her fair young going about thejr daily life, and- you face, he told her he wanted to marry can clearly make out the Intimate deher. He waited half expecting. Hope f tails of the tiny palm-leashaeks, would.. prosent a final rejection then which stand on stiltlike"pileS out over ' there. ahd Instead, looking rather . the water. she told him that It- - was confused, ' When Not so Charming": rather rash .for him tor propose mar.-riagBut on certain hot, steamy" days In. to. a girl of whom he knew nothearly autumn, when no- - air stirs aid ing. the tide has run very low. these Ishnd-- , . fm not even a nurse, she said.. on. closer Inspection, afe nrtt all so think" enough Then the receding waters .They didnt charming. ' have wouldnt they s.tink.-inleave vast, flat hanks of slimy have seen of some I what Cut after mud, 'alive with crawling creature? nurses, said Ted. Im glad you nev' pursued by birds; and the er took hospital training. Then 'yon myriad mangrove trees that. hug the into to want go training?" shore .are left standing with thair really did' Ever 6ince I was a little girl thirt naked crooked roots all exposed an ha"d been my ambition, said Hope. oddly repellent picture; suggesting the was dead nnd Yon see rhother . my wet', slippery .coils of a million mon1 ster serpents, their bodies all twisted father had quite. a bit of money. I I said before. of never that . spoke together, 'seeming to crawl In and "out rived oij a farm so I do, In a way! of the foul steaming ooze. . Father calls It an estate but 'I go and You are glad, then, "when your sljip has poked her restless nose .past these come In the bus. . Well, I never went somehow manreeking mud flats and you come to the to high school, Just here and there smatter a to get aged amid as a anchorage, tying up strange tutors. I got nnd from governesses fleet' as ever the sun shone oh. to my.- taking the consent to "father In' about theft your ship Swarming hospital training but apparently they bobbing 'canoes, little Malay boys come 'i. i didnt want me-- so I saw your adverto dive for nickels, for do not and 'you know the rest . I tisement American sahibs observe tjij odd custom of throwing money Into the sea as thought maybe I had hetter tell yon j' about It because; they approach a tropic port? . Because then. I would understand The white man's life today In Singayou didnt want to marry me? why pore, as In other tropic parts, Is easy The British and and comfortable. Ikpe put her two hands across the American trading firms are ail staffed, '. desk and clasped one of Teds. Of 'in the higher positions, by men from course I want to marry you how the home lands. Office hours are co'uid I help' it?' short, down In this equatorial ' It was not until late that night that clime, for the white man must 'have Ted remembered the memorandum more recreation then In the Colder from Miss Drury that he had thru-- t . in his pocket He glanced quickly countries of the north. through the letter written six month-ag- o Here, near the Equator, dasy nnd and at the end he saw the sigare about equal ; toward dark bights the din of barter and sale subsides nature, Hope Gray. nope arrived betimes the next and the streets begin to empty. The houseboat folk of the river and the morning had insisted on working nn wharf workers quiet down. Chinese til Ted found another helper. Ted showed her the letter. It was all mv shopkeepers shuffle out to put up their fault you didnt get an appointment, shutters. High above, the star pictures of heaven are hung out the he said. They would be gad to ta! e vou I am sure. Ierhnps If you knew sprawling Scorpion nnd the majestic Southern Cross. Ixmg before ten (hat it would make a d' (Terence, o'clock this magic, mongrel city of tin, Hope " But what- - Hope said made Ted feel trade, and turbulence is sound asleep. sure she would rather marry him than No speeding Joy rider, owl car, or Jazz breaks the delicious train In any hospital. stupor of Its repose. , n with Its smaller sister, Herm, Just east of Guernsey, In the Channel Curiously, this lea'se Is takea frem the British government, at an absurd figure amounting jo perhaps $1 a. week and If the. novelist lives "there six' months" In the year he may live In England itself the other six ' months and- entirely escape the! income burden. ' I y virtue of his Investment, he assume may fly his own flag and maay feudal privileges of the ancient duchy of Normandy, for these Islands are a part of that dukedom. There are no taxes on tobacco, splr-- . Ita, on gun licenses, nor has he a tax t'e pay to his local, government. Herm, next door, also was leased In n similar way, and has a curious history of fts lease to Prince Bluch-e- r n of .Waldstadt, Germany, of Bludher, the general of the battle of Waterloo. The "late Prince. Blucller was strongly nttract-e- d to the Australian, kangaroo and bred them on Herm. The Island- Is ' now In .Its original state and the kangaroos hpve vanished. great-grandso- Pink Granite in Highway Pink granite from the mountain- side was used to build tlie recently opened highway In Cadillac mountain, the highest on the Atlantic seaboard, in Acadia National park, ' Mount Desert Island,- - Maine.. It has-granite fence on the outside of the ' road! ; are not patent medicine Their appetite needs no coaxing. Their tongues are never coated, cheeks never pale. And their bowels move just like clockwork, because they have never been given THESE a once or twice a week will avoid all this. 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Often the bowels hold enough 'deansing, with none of that painful griping, or burning feeling afterpoisonous. waste to dull the senses! ward. It isnt expensive. A spoonful of delicious syrup pepsin . Railroad , The Pope The new railroad In Hie Vatican (half of. City IS only. 600 feet-lonwhich Is tunnel) but Is double tracked,' has an elaborate .station ahd one of the most elaborafe. trains In the world'. The latter, for the pope.s Wtso Is he who learns from the especial use, is made up of three ' coaches. One Carries a throne,. an experience of ethers. a other a private chapel and tbe third a combination dining and sleeping car. All coaches are of steel, painted maroon with. the., pontifical ceat Of. arms In bronze. . If a man hasnt the germ of uprightness in him, praying for gnid-iane- d gets no response. tfigh-sfhoo- . d - " e After the Portuguese. eftme the Dutch, sweeping from Malacca ter Manila, only t& he followed later, hy the British, who, with their genius .for colonization, are here to this day." ft was this hundred British" adventure, about years ago, .that lured. Stamford Baffles," bo.-- n at sea, into fhis restless re- gitm of the then unknown East. And Fate willed that he should .found this . great Singapore. not like was conquered Singapore Hindustan, nor. acquired as a" readymade colony, like Hongkohg ; If was simply bought as New York was, and Stamford . .Raffles settled, when-S- ir selected It as an outpost for British . traders on the China route- - and pur- chased it for the East India company from the Sultan of.Johore. It was a Island then, peopled hy jungle-covefe- d a few score savage Malay fishprfolk. 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