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Show TIIE BULLETIN Customers Cant Enter This Store But This 6Merchant Prince Thrives en of the ..VJLounted 9 North Carolinian lthough by Captain G. Elliott -- Nightingale Rims a Department Store liell A- Copyright, WNU Sooner UOW TO WRECK A VILLAGE Gossip With His NeigLbors 1 reckon most storekeepers would make fun of my place, says Charles R. Corbett, the merchant prince of but my system suits me Ivanhoe, and my customers. Corbett prefers to sit on his front porch and talk. Winifred? s Kitchen Is Cheerful Place For Work or Rest ' By BETTY WELLS Winifreds kitchen is the cheeriest place. It has all the conveniences, thats true, but some way it manages to seem so much more friendly 8nd hospitable than the usual starkly glaring kitchens. That green and white checked linoleum is one reason. And the light crisp green walls do their share, too. But we think the yellow curtains have the most to do with it. There are two wide tiers of windows, (the kitchen is on the corner of the house) and Winifred has made yellow percale curtains tied back crisply. Then across the top she has valances of the brightest red printed cotton in a Tyrolean peasant pattern finished with row's of bias tape in yellow and green, like a peasant petticoat. The kitchen chairs . have their backs and seats with this same red printed cotton with pleated skirts all around. Yellow oil cloth covers table and cupboard work surfaces and the shelves are all painted yellow. The canisters and kitchen dishes are in light green. Its a big kitchen with room in one corner for a rocker and a round braided rug. Just for old times sake, laughed Winifred, though I must say its a nice place to sit and sew, read or rest, while Im waiting for something to cook that I cant really leave. We liked Ethels kitchen, too. Its quite different from Winifred's no slip-covere- d N. C. Charles R. IVANIIOE, merchant Ivanhoes Corbett, prince, is getting along all right though he. hasnt had a customer in his store for five years. What's more, they cant get in! Corbett's store is a department store without departments. From floor to ceiling is stacked a mass of miscellany in wildest disarray. Whenever new goods arrive they are pitched in on top. The stock has so increased that now there is only a narrow lane between stacks just enough to permit passage of the lean storekeeper. So customers give their order outside and Corbett, armed with a flashlight, goes in and digs out the wanted articles. (Ie can And anything, immediately. Thirty years ago Corbett opened his little store in- this village of a n houses, off the main His stock steadily inhighway. creased in helter-skelte- r fashion, until ore day a voung boy assistant pulled something from the bottom of the pile. Down tumbled a bewildering stack of merchandise. Gosh," he said, how'll we ever get it back?" Don't bother, said Corbett. We've got tco much stuff in here anyway. Long Lodge, Cree p chieftains, andaudacious warriors IE-A-P- and veterans of many a scrap with other tribes, ruled their villages with an Iron hand. They were happy, prosperous and had very little trouble. Shortly after the coming of the red coated pony soldiers of the Great White Mother, the and Long Lodge tribes of Crees had been given a splendid reservation with timber and game and fish in abundance. There they had settled down peacefully. And then one day, to the astonishand ment of all concerned, Long Lodge ordered their tribesmen to pull stakes, for the two tribes were going for a ramble across the country without having any particular destination in view. The handful of white settlers became a bit alarmed, but their alarm subsided when they observed the and Long Lodges were orderly. In time the and Long Lodges came across a large party of white men digging up the ground and also laying thin strips of iron or steel across the flat prairie. What is all this? inquired the Pie-a-P- ot - Pie-a-Po- Pie-a-Po- majestic rented a nearby structure and opened a new store, his present one. He still uses the old store as an annex and has a third building for a warehouse. But the new building has gone the way of the old You can finger on any item in Corbetts department store, because Corbett, though scorning though ft mayputnotyour be the item you want. Heres an interior view of the modern ideas of efficiency, is strangest store on earth. anxious to stock new things. Sixty-fiv- e years old. he is usually tion strikes him. New letters are have got sort of used to my way of to be found on his front porch await- stuck on the inside of the batch in doing things, and I believe a change ing trade. Since there is no space his pocket and he gradually works would worry 'em almost as much inside, he has his office in the them out. as 'twould worry me. Whats the I reckon a lot of storekeepers right pocket of his coat. In the use of wasting a lot of time arrangpocket are perhaps 40 or 50 letters, would make fun of my place, he ing stock and keeping things in and Corbett explains that he an- philosophizes, but my system order when you can set out on the swers correspondence when the no- - suits me and my customers. Folks porch and talk to your neighbors? five-inc- h bigger than a minute for one thing, with white wralls and a plain red linoleum. Ethel cut out stencils of stars in different sizes and painted them bright blue hit or miss over the ceiling with some odd ones on the side walls. White canisters got blue stars painted on them, too And even the white swiss curtains -- SEDTIME STORY- - ' idea in his head, and that was to get out of sight of Mr. Blacksnake as soon as possible. He forgot to ask Buster Bear to excuse him. He forgot that he was tired and hot. He forgot all the pride with which he had been so puffed up. He forgot everything but the need of getting out of sight of Mr. Blacksnake as soon as ever he could. You see, Mr. Blacksnake has a fondness for toads when there is nothing better to fill his stomach. So away went Old Mr. Toad, hop. hoo, hipperty-hohop, hop, hipperty-hop- ! But he had to stop after a while. You see, his legs were so tired they just wouldn't go any longer. And he was so out of breath that he wheezed. He crawled under a big piece of bark and there he lay flat on the ground and panted and panted for breath. He would stay there until jolly, round, bright Mr. Sun went to bed behind the Purple Hills. Then Mr. Blacksnake would go to bed, too. and it would be safe for him to go home. Now. lying there in the dark, for it was dark under that big piece of bark, he had time to think. Little b.v little he began to understand that his invitation to dine with Buster Bear had been part of a plan by his old friends and neighbors, whom he had so snubbed and looked down on when he had been puffed up with pride, to teach him a lesson. At first he was angry, very angry, indeed. Then he began to see how foolish and silly he had been, and shame took the place of anger. As he remembered the deep, grumbly-rumbllaughter of Buster Bear the feeling of shame grew. I deserve it. thought Old Mr. Toad. Yes. sir, I deserve every bit of it. The only thing that I have to be proud of is that I'm honest and work for my living. Yes. sir, that's all." When darkness came at last and he crawled out to go home he was feeling very humble. Peter Rabbit The latest in outdoor play suits is this ensemble just arrived on the boats happened along just then. Old Mr. from Paris. It features strictly tailored shorts in natural silk-colshanToad opened his mouth to speak, tung with four pockets. The belt is In green and beige grosgrain and the but Peter suddenly threw his head scarf is green, while and beige. Also note the comfortable beach sandals. up very high and strutted past as From Parisian Smart Shops didnt see Old Mr. Toad at all. Mr. Toad gulped and went on. Pretty soon he met Jimmy Skunk. Jimmy went right on about his business and actually stepped right over Old Mr. Toad as if he had been a stick or a stone. Old Mr. Toad gulped and went on. The next day he went down to see Danny Meadow Mouse. He meant to tell Danny how ashamed he was for file way he had treated Danny and his other friends. But Danny brushed right past without even a glance at him. Old Mr. Toad gulped and started up to see Johnny Chuck. The same thing happened again. So it did when he met Striped Chipmunk. p, y ts Oh . . . t. Pie-a-P- ot Pie-a-P- ot horse-pow- er Pie-a-P- ot right-of-wa- Pie-a-Po- r V Peter suddenly threw his head op high and strutted rast as if be didn't see Old Mr. Toad. At last Old Mr. Toad gave up and went home, where he sat under a big mullein leaf the rest of the day, feeling very miserable and lonely. He didnt have appetite enough to snap at a single fly. Late that afternoon he heard a little noise and looked up to And all his old friends and neighbors forming a circle around him. Suddenly they began to dance and shout: "Old Mr Toad ii a jolly good fellow I Hli temper Is sweet: dispot (ion is mellow I And now that hti bubble of pride is quite busted. We know that he knows that his friends can be trust'd. '' Then Old all was well ly he began niest dance Mr. Toad knew that once more and presentto dance, too, the fun- that was ever seen. T W Burgeu.-W- KU Stanton's Resignation President Lincoln was greatly distressed over Edwin M. Stanton's resignation as secretary of war. We quote from Lincoln, Upon the anby Rothschild: nouncement that Lee was about to surrender, Edwin M. Stanton tendered his resignation. 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Send 15 cents in stamps or coins (coins preferred) for this pattern to The Sewing Circle, Needlecraft Dept., 82 Eighth Ave., New York. Please write your name, address and pattern number plainly. just building a railroad, replied one of the workmen. The Crees moved on into the west and when they were about a mile or so past the end of steel the two chiefs ordered the tribes to pitch camp. Slowly but surely the end of steel crept closer and closer toward the Cree encampment and it was later discovered that the camp was situated on the right of way of the railroad. As the end of steel moved closer and closer, engineers and foremen parleyed with and Long Lodge, entreating them to move either to the right or left, off the right of way, so that the work could go on without unnecessary delays. The chiefs stood firm, and in time refused to parley further with the engineers in charge. Then, one fine morning and Long Lodge were visited by two d horsemen, a sergeant and constable of the Northwest Mounted Police. The argument was soon going again, and matters reached such a stage that the sergeant informed them that they had better move or he would do the movlet out a ing for them. howl, and soon ninety the sergeant and constable were surrounded by hundreds of howling, painted Crees out for blood and scalps and the complete destruction of the white invaders. During a lull in the melee, the sergeant took out his watch and told that he would give him exactly 15 minutes to move off that railroad Instantly there was another demonstration of anger and truculence, and the two Men of the Mounted sat their saddles as best they could in the milling mob. As the last tick cf the fifteenth minute parsed into eternity, the serge ant of the Northwest Mounted Police dismounted right into the midst of that bloodthirsty mob. He forced his way through it and walked right over to teepee and kicked the keypole down. While squaws and children howled and screamed under the collapsed tepee, the sergeant walked to the next tepee and kicked the keypole of that one down. From one to the other that lone sergeant strode, kicking keypoles down until every tepee was flat. Young bucks and "braves followed close on his heels, pushing against him, making faces at him, cursing him, and doing all they could to annoy or frighten him, but the sergeant just kept right on going until all tepees were flat, and in spite of their proximity, not one Cree had dared to strike a blow at the courageous sergeant. With everything flattened, the sergeant mounted his horse and gave his last order. . . bustle abaht a bit Orlright On the move . . . shove orf abaht your blurry business, wotever it is, all of which was his cockney way of saying Git goin. Meanwhile, and Long Lodge were so angry they were stumped for words. Never had they seen such audacity. One lone man, wearing a red coat, had wrecked their village. It isliterally highly probable, moreover, that and Long Lodge realized that if the other men of the Mounted were anything like this sergeant, perhaps the and Long Lodges had better not get into any more arguments with them. These red coats were bad medicine. At any rate, as the chieftains saw the hopelessness of further resistance, they muttered a few words to nearby tribesmen, and within two hours the and Long Lodges were heading for their reservation. En route chanced to remember that if he didn't behave himself the Great White Mother would stop sending supplies of food and flour and clothing and that little bit of treaty money row and then. Oh well, what a day its been, anyway," he might have said, es he arrived at the red-coate- 6 if he Pie-a-Po- ts 1726. Pie-a-P- ot Mr. Toad Learns His Lesson; Wont Be High Hat Anymore By THORNTON W. BURGESS had bright blue stars appliqued over them. 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