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Show V THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH face all after with his fuddled with daze. A young shipping clerk in the factory where Annabelle was employed had fallen heir to ten thousand dollars. To Annabelles astonishment, it seemed that he had looked upon her with yearning for years and now it had all come about and was possible. The young shipping clerk wanted to marry at once, and suddenly, after years of the procrastination, the delay and the disappointments and the deferred hopes that went with Coxie; here was a concrete opportunity to salvage happiness. A home of her own. Freedom from the work that she hated. Freedom from the worrisome cough that racked her health. It was a tempting chance. For years Annabelle had confused her love of Coxie with a love of home of comfort, of safety. To her, marriage meant freedom from the misery of daily grind in a factory. Freedom to make a home that would bring happiness not only to herself, but to the man who provided it for her. And now here was her chance. At once, without further delay, she could have her home, freedom from work she hated, a chance to regain the health she was afraid of losing. It was too good a chance. Annabelles longing hopes were dazed with this chance of fruition. Coxie was terrified by this blow more than by anything that had ever happened to him, feeling the entire meaning of life slipping between his heart and his fingers, but he dared ont intercede. Annabelle was right. Annabelles aunt, who had long since lost patience with Coxie, was right. The young shipping clerks name was Macy. A nice enough boy with a 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 moon-roun- SERVICE THAT WAS COXIE By FANNIE HURST ( by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) (WNU Service.) THE eyes of the world, Coxie somewhat of an enigma. He one of the most successful life insurance agents in his district, a large metropolitan one, and yet he never seemed to get anywhere. That is, he never seemed to get anywhere s in the sense that his less did. People in a position to judge estimated that Coxies earning capacity, what with the policies he was writfig from year to year, should inhave carried him to a IN successful-colleague- high-figur- 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 profession. Most of his policies were confined to the people of the play world. He had a way with them. He loved their emotional, volatile, friendly qualities and they in turn, because of those qualities, reacted with enthusiasm 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 were those in the profession who knew, almost reverently, that Coxie 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 impossible for the little Insurance agent to sit by and see a policy lapse for want of funds. His 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 his own pockets to meet payments that for one reason or another could not be paid and all these reasons were passionately poured into Coxies sympathetic ears. Men and women died blessing Coxie in sentimental and unashamed gratitude. Coxie had saved many a gay Thespian from a paupers grave; and many a Thespians 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, was as big as a frog in the puddle. There were ragged hurting edges to Coxies 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 Annabelle, who 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 a 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 Annabelle dislike her work, but she had developed a curious racking cough from her surroundings. Time and time again, Coxie, who bore with her beratings because he felt he deserved them, promised to conserve his income which in its entirety was more than sufficient for them to start life together in comfort and even a small degree of luxury. But year after year showed a deficit in Coxies finances. He could not let a policy lapse and since his writings were in the name of the most improvident people in the world, constant and multiple were the demands upon him. And then the Inevitable happened. It had not ever occurred to Coxie that is could happen, but it did and that was probably the reason that this little man of indomitable good faith, good will and good heart, found himself crushed. A rival for the hand of Annabelle Evans stepped in. It had all happened so quickly that Coxie walked around Broadway for two days there good-humore- d d empty-hande- empty-hearte- d. And then, as if Fate had not been sufficiently content with handing him this wallop in the abstract, there developed, in the course of the brief conversation Coxie had 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 mans 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 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 simultaneously that Annabelle was not going through with the engagement to Macy. That is precisely what happened. Annabelle and 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 to be a surplus. They plan to be married on New Years eve. Depression Flats, For about a mile along the Mississippi at St. Louis may be seen many small make-shiboards and tar paper. This is the new subdivision built and occupied by those families and without jobs and funds and named Depression Flats. These people have taken the liberty, stances, to squat on the edge of the Mississippi where living is cheaper and children can romp tograph shows one of the shacks where a family of six, including three children, make their ft Plan to Take Gold From Sea Fails tribution. Berlin. The fantastic scheme of German scientists to pay Germanys reparation debt with gold from the ocean has been abandoned. For more than eight years Professor Wilhelm Schlenk of the chemical Institute of the Berlin university revealed, German scientists carried on extensive research in all the oceans of the world in an attempt to extract gold from seawater. so- Serv- Lipstick Once Classed ice. With Witchcraft Art The idea of extracting gold from the ocean sprang up during the inflation period when the gold question A number of ships was so burning. equipped with the latest scientific instruments and modern laboratories carried Germanys most prominent scientists to all corners of the world. According to Arrenius, the percentage of gold in the ocean would have been adequate to warrant extracting it. But our expeditions found that Arrenius was wrong and that only a small fraction of the amount of gold he claimed to have found in ocean water actually existed. Hard to Extract. But even if Arrenius had been right, it would be practically Impossible to isolate the precious' metal, owing to its extremely irregular dis- - Use of lipstick was once a punishable offense in England, according to Dr. Margaret Fishenden, scientific Investigator in the department of scientfic and industrial reLondon. search. y Cosmetics were introduced into England by the knight crusaders, she declared in a radio broadcast on Chemistry and the Housewife. In 17S0, she said, it was decreed that any woman who should seduce, or betray into matrimony any of his majestys subjects by scents, paints or cosmetic washes should incur the penalty of the law in force against witchcraft and that the marriage, upon conviction, should stand null and void. More German Food Served in Paris Cafes Immigration Tide to United States at Ebb The ever increasing number Montmartre and Montparnasse, the two gayest night haunts of Paris, has caused restaurateurs and cafe proprietors to substitute German dishes for American ones served as specialties. In former years the restaurant men catered to Americans with breakfast hot dogs and baked beans. foods, The decrease in Americans has resulted in the appearance of German dainties. Paris. Washington. Fewer Immigrants are now being admitted than at any time during the last 100 years, and Immigration has ceased to be an economic William N. Doak, secretary menace, of labor, has announced. Only one immigrant is entering the United States where five were admitted a year ago and thirty in 1914, Mr. Doak declared. Swelling the outward time of migration, there were more than IS, 000 aliens deported in the fiscal year just ended on June 30, he of Germans frequenting shacks built of old individuals who are under their circumand play. The phohome. Petrified Rattlesnake Found on Mountain .. Westfield, Mass. Evidence of what may have been a prehls-- . toric rattlesnake has been found on Mount Teko. The apparently petrified rep- tile appears on the face of a cliff a score of feet from the !! nearest footpath. Scientists who I) have viewed it estimate that it was about seven feet long and four inches In diameter. j !! .. ! I Gen. Washington Knew Pinch of Hard Times Washington Washington. George arrived at his home from the Revolutionary war practically broke, recent letters reveal. He sent his mother 15 guineas with the explanation tflat those were all te had and that they were due some one else. I now have demands upon me for of which is more than 500, due for the tax of 1786, and I know not where or when I shall receive one shilling with which to pay it 340-od- d Motorist Arrested When He Offers Chief a Hip Quincy, Mass. Frank Farrell was motoring through Cohasset when he stopped his car to ask a pedestrian for a match. A girl companion of Farrell offered the stranger a drink. The stranger, who proved to be Police Chief H. J. Pelletier, arrested Farrell. In court Farrell was fined $100 for drunken driving. Eagle Believed to Have Attacked Child Killed Tazewell, Va. John Murray, a farmer, killed an eagle at Horsepen that had a spread of 78 inches from tip to tip. It is believed that it was the same eagle that attacked a child recently. The bird was found drinking from a creek when shot. Champion Barrel - Birlers of Paris Claws Out One of Eyes Steels Life concop- per has a greater resistance to corrosion and cuts down the maintenance cost In very exposed places such as on shipboard the corrosion after a long and severe test was shown to be 4 per cent, while copper-fre- e metal the percentage was from 70 to 90 per cent. The amount of copper entering into of this combination is about 1 per cent. one-fift- h Grand Canyon a Marvel The Grand canyon of the Colorado river in Grand Canyon National park, Ariz., offers what has been described by many as natures greatest sight It is a marvel of natural processes, a deep abyss cut, through the ages, by the river, and its tremendous sides sculptured in a panorama of color and fantasy by centuries of wind and rain. awe-inspiri- be- lution, but a continually changing mixture. Water from the polar regions contains an entirely different percentage of salt, chemicals and minerals than water from the tropics. And golds peculiar molecular formations in ocean water offer an added difficulty in extracting it We found veritable gold streams, specific currents which contain a higher percentage of gold. Hope Is Abandoned. Our last hope of winning gold from has sources mines other than been definitely abandoned, Professor Schlenk declared to Universal Contrary to general lief, ocean water is not a specific Famous Painting Restored In the baptistry of the cathedral of Seville Is a famous painting of St. Anthony and the Christ Child by Murilsaid. lo. In 1874 the kneeling figure of St. Mr. Doak recommended that conAnthony of Padua was cut from the gress raise the educational requirecanvas. Soon it was offered for sale ments for admission to citizenship. in New York by a Spaniard, who Too many persons are citigaining sought out a well known collector, Mr. zenship who do not comprehend Its reThe latter, who knew of the sponsibilities, he said, also Schaus. significant theft of the figure from the Murillo in its declaration that there are now painting, paid $250 for the work. He signs of improvement in employment then notified the Spanish consul. The conditions. figure was returned and amid public festivities it was restored to the bapOwl Hypnotizes Man; tistry. Is Doubled Structural steel made of metal taining a very small percentage of New St. Louis Subdivision Edmonton, Alta. Hypnotized by a vicious mother owl, which clawed his face and body, Albert Hughes of Wainwright, Alta., was at a hospital here after an operation for removal of his right eye. I was walking underneath a tree, said Hughes, when the owl suddenly fluttered from her nest. I didnt fight back or run. I couldnt. All I could see was those two big eyes. I was hypnotized. Asked If He Wants to Go to Jail, Mute Says No Seattle. William Leonard, twenty-threwas taken to Police court, charged with begging. He professed to be deaf and dumb. Court attaches e, tried various ruses, attempting to make him talk, but all failed until Judge John B. Gordon suddenly caught his eye and asked, Do you want to Leonard quickly replied go to jail? He was escorted to a cell "No. annual rolling championship Jean Farges, No. 2, winner of the race in Paris Is accepting the congratulations of Paul Eustache, No. 1, the champion of last year, who finished second In this race, only 20 yards b- f bind the winner. one-mil- e |