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CHARMING SEMI
COLONIAL HOME
Contains Seven Cozy Rooms and
Sun Parlor.
EXTERIOR VERY ATTRACTIVE
Home I* Admirably Adapted to the
Family of Fair Size —Designed
With Idea of Comfort Upper
most in Mind.
By WILLIAM A. RADFORD.
Mr. William A. Radford will answer
questions and give advice FREE OF
COST on all subjects pertaining to the
subject of building, for the readers of this
paper. On account of his wide experience
as Editor, Author and Manufacturer, he
is, without doubt, the highest authority
on all these subjects. Address all inquiries
to William A. Radford, No. 1827 Prairie
avenue. Chicago, 111., and only inclose
two-cent stamp for reply.
A year ago people were interested
in automobiles, silk shirts, theaters,
and luxuries. “Easy coine, easy go”
•was the spirit that guided their ac
tions. They did not think of the more
substantial things of life and paid the
price of their fly-by-night pleasures
willingly.' High-priced apartments
were in demand because even un
skilled workers were making enough
money to pay the rent that was de
manded. Every one seemed anxious
to get a good taste of the high life.
But a change lias come to pass in
the last few months, war salaries
are only a memory and unemployment
stalks throughout the land. Reduc
tions in wages have forced economy
on the same people who were spending
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their money like drunken sailors a
short time ago. But with the re
trenchment in income has come an in
crease in rentals. They continue to
mount much to the distress of ten
ants. Each successive lease dute
brings a new boost.
As a result these same people who
a year ago did not have a thought
about owning their own home, who
could not be bothered tending to fur
naces or mowing a lawn, and must
have their janitor service, are now
seriously considering a little bungalow
or home of their own. They have
awakened to the stern realization that
they have wasted their years and
money paying rent. Tills money could
have been invested in a home. Only
when the stern reality is forced home
upon them are they seeing the light.
This fall will see an active interest
In home building on the part of many
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renters who are simply forced to it
by the excessive demands of landlords.
Are they going to be prepared to build
a home of their own? Do they know
what they need?
The home shown here may prove a
real inspiration to families who are
anxious to own a home they can call
their own. It is a charming home of
seven rooms and sun parlor. The ex
terior design is very attractive and
distinctive and suggestive of a pleas
ing quaintness and hospitality that
will appeal to ail homelovers.
It has many characteristics of the
Colonial type of home —suggested In
the white pillars supporting the over
hanging roof, the ground level front
porch, the small-paned 'windows with
shutters, and the roof dormer with
shingle sides. The lower portion of
this delightful home is stucco while
above the first floor shingle siding is
used. The roof is odd-shaped, being
part blp and part gable.
On the first floor there are three
room* and sun parlor, the latter open
ing out onto the front porch by means
of two sets of French doors. The liv
ing room is real Colonial in arrange
ment, being large and comfortable
and equipped with an old-fashioned
fireplace that bums. This room Is 15
by 16 feet 6 inches, an ideal gather
ing place for the family. On the other
side of the reception hall is the din
ing room directly in back of the sun
parlor. The dining room is 12 by 14
feet, well lighted by double and triple
windows and conveniently located
with reference to the kitchen. This
room is small and compact and
equipped with modern labor-saving de
vices.
'The porch, which extends along the
front of the house, is 7 feet wide.
It has a solid concrete platform.
Upstairs are the sleeping rooms and
bathroom. There are four bedrooms
grouped about a central hall, each
bedroom having a closet. In addition
there are two small alcoves which
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can be used for cozy corners, sewing
rooms or storage spaces. The bed
rooms are bright and airy.
For the family of fair size with
three or four children, this home is
admirably adapted. It calls for breath
ing space for the children and is built
with comfort uppermost in mind.
Then again there is the element of
substantial construction. It is built
to endure and not a flimsy shell. At
the rear a small attractive stucco
garage has been built.
More homes like this will add much
to the stability of tlie nation and help
to alleviate some of the unrest which
is so prevalent at the present time.
It lias been said that the United
States is graifcially becoming a nation
of cliff dwellers without any civic re
sponsibility. Only a nation of home
■ owners can expect to survive. The
man who owns a home has something
at stake, he has some reason to take
active interest in city problems, taxa
tion, health, etc. He will be found at
the polls when vital issues are at
stake. He will also be found available
should the safety of the country be
threatened, for he has a home to de
fend.
Herbert Hoover in a speech recent
ly expressed alarm over the tendency
to shirk the home-owner’s responsibil
ity. There are less than 50 per cent
of the population of this country liv
ing In their own homes.
Tales of the Golf Links.
In his book, “Fifty Years of Golf,”
"Andra” Kirkald.v makes one remark
that is beyond rubies. It runs: “The
grip does not make a golfer, hut
changing about with It has made
many a man uncivil to his bairns
when he came home from tlie links."
There must be many wives and moth
ers who would testify to the truth
of this. One caddie, when his player
lost a ball, would drop one down his
trouser leg and say, “Hpre it Is; and
no such a bad lie after all.” (That
would he when there was betting on
the match and the caddie had been
promised a good tip if his man won.)
“Come along!” shouted an impatient
golfer to his heavily loaded caddie.
“I’m cornin’,” retorted the caddie;
“but ye dinna expect a sheet o’ forked
lightnln’ for eighteen pence, d’ye?’’—
London Tit-Bits.
Evening Spoilt.
4 They were discussing at the Century
club the plays of Strindberg, Schnitz
ler, Drinkwater and Brieux.
“Why the deuce,” said the novelist
Robert W. Chambers, with a yawn—
“why the deuce are highbrow plays so
insufferably dull?
“At a Strindberg play in Greenwich
village the other night a woman in
front of me poked her husband in the
ribs and whispered fiercely:
“ ‘I do wish you would pay more at
tention to the play, George. This play
Is as good as a sermon.’
“ ‘lt sure is,’ George muttered drows
ily, ‘only the orchestra wakes me up
between act*.’ ”
A Costume of the Past.
“Farmers no longer wear their
pants tucked In their boot tops.”
"I should say not,” rejoined Farmer
Comtossel. "Leather costa too much."
THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR- M T. VERNON, GEORGIA.
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Stories of
Great Scouts
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
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JIM BECKWORTH, MULATTO
WHO BECAME CROW CHIEF
Jim Beckwourth, without doubt, was
(lie most-married man in history. Just
how many wives lie had is unknown.
In his autobiography Jim mentions at
least seven spouses, hut his reputation
for truth was not the best. Beck
wourth was the son of a Maryland
Irishman and a negress, and he was
horn in 1795. When he left St. Louis
with General Ashley’s fur-tnfding ex
pedition in 1823 lie had a sweetheart
named Eliza, to whom he pledged
eternal devotion.
Among tlie Blackfeet Indians he won
his first wife, marrying her because
it would help his trade among her
tribesmen! Soon afterwards lie mar
ried her sister, too. Later he left the
Blackfeet, to trade with the Crows,
and he acquired several more wives.
Jim was a man of great strength
and a remarkable runner. One day
he was attacked by a war party who
pursued him for 05 miles before lie
finally outran them. At another time
when a force of 2,500 Arlkaras and
Sioux attacked the Crqws, the mu
latto led the Absarokes (Crows) so
bravely that 253 of the enemy were
killed. Beckwourth had three horses
idiot under him in this fight and killed
14 of the Sioux. He was adopted by
the Crows, and because of his deeds in
war, lie rose to the position of first
counselor, the highest honor in the
tribe.
At tlie outbreak of the Mexican war
he enlisted as a scout and dispatch
nearer for Gen. Phil Kearney. He
also carried dispatches to California
and lie was there in 1848, when gold
was discovered. He mined for a while
until tlie discovery of gold in Colo
rado in 1850 hired him to that state.
He settled in Denver and married
again—this time a negro girl.
The Crows heard of his return from
California and sent messengers to him,
begging him to return to them. Mis
fortune had come to tlie tribe, and
they needed his “strong medicine.”
Beckwourth paid no heed to tJieir
pleadings until 1869, when he finally
visited them. But lie refused to live
with them permanently. When lie
announced his intention of returning
to Colorado, they prepared a great
farewell feast in his honor. Beck
wourth ate their food and dropped
dead. Tlie Crows had given him poi
son. Tlie Crows believed his “medi
cine” would pass into his spirit, and
that wherever his bones rested the
spirit would remain. They resolved
to have both, and took that means ol
getting them !
HOW KIT CARSON FOUGHT A
DUEL AND WON A WIFE
The Green River country in Wyom
ing was a famous rendezvous for trap
pers in tlie old days, and in 1835 muny
of them were gathered there. One was
Captain Similar, a French bully, who
hud nroused the anger of several of the
American trappers by his offensive
manner toward a young Arapaho girl
In a camp nearby. The girl feared
the Frenchman and appealed for pro
tection to a young trapper named Kit
Carson.
Learning of this Similar, in an effort
to bring about a quarrel with Carson,
lode about tlie camp one day carrying
» loaded ritle and declaring that all
Americans were cowards, deserving
only a whipping with a hickory switen.
At last Carson faced the Frenchman.
“I am an American, and if you are
determined to die, I am your man,”
lie said. The Frenchman hesitated
at this defiance.
Leaping to his horse, his pistol in
hand, Carson demanded of Similar:
“Am I the man you are looking for?”
“No," replied Similar, hut lie raised
his arm to shoot.
The two men fired at tlie same time.
The Frenchman’s bullet grazed Car
son’s scalp and the powder burned his
face. The American’s shot shattered
Shunar’s forearm and he died from
the effects of the wound soon after
wards.
Carson came to love the Indian
girl lie had befriended, and later they
were married by the Indian ceremony.
In 1838 she became his wife In a
Christian marriage.
Kit Carson was one of the most ro
mantic figures in frontier history.
Born In Kentucky In 1809, he ran
away from home and joined a cara
van on the Santa Fe trail. From 1829
to 1843 he was a trapper and trader
in the Rockies. Then he guided Gen
eral Fremont to the Great Salt Lake
arid California, and was a scout for
“The Pathfinder” In the Mexican war.
Carson was an Indian fighter, too.
He defeated the Navajoes so disas
trously that they never again seri
ously threatened the white man. He
whipped the Kiowns and Cornanches
at the first great buttle fought at
the Adobe Walls. Then in his later
years he became an Indian agent, and
the red men who had once fought hirn
learned to love him and to call him
“Father Kit.”
Finally the old scout settled down
In his home In Taos, N. M. In 1868
he went to Fort Lyon, Colo., to visit
his son. There he fell 111 and died
May 23
NO HOPE FOR DISARMAMENT
Armament Load Will Be Lighter
President Says—World Must
Always Arm
"Washington. Hope, of entirely
Abolishing war is “perfectly futile,’’
President Harding told officers at the
army war college here recently.
Armies and navies probably will al
ways be necessary, he said no mat
ter how far aspirations toward world
peace lead.
The president blamed a lack of un
derstanding for the warfare in West
Virginia, and declared that a policy
of understanding at home and abroad
would solve many ills.
Practically every high officer of the
army was present in the small lec
ture room of the war college when
the president spoke. Secretary of
War Weeks and General Pershing also
spoke briefly.
“No matter where the best aspira
tion of tlie world may lead up there
may never be a time without the ne
cessity for armed forces,” President
Harding said.
“I believe with all my heart that
we are going to diminish the bur
dens of armament. 1 believe with all
my heart that we will have lesser
armies and navies, but there may
never be a time when there won’t be
the requisite defense agencies.
“It is perfectly futile to think
there will never lie conflict when we
stop to think that in the 2,000 years
of Christian civilization and the 4,-
00ft years of pagan civilization we
have only lately come to a civilized
state of warfare and even that does
not apply to all nations.
“But America, I can say without
unseeming boasting, has come nearer
to it than any nation.
“And I pledge you now that you
will never lie called to service un
der this administration for any work
that you cannot enter with ajl your
hearts and souls as American citi
zens.’'
President Harding told the army
officers that the principle of under
standing should govern the nation
both in its domestic and in it? world
affairs.
“We ought to have no conflict like
that which is now distressing us in
West Virginia,’’ he said. “That condi
tion is due, I believe, to a lack of un
derstanding.
“There ought never be conflict be
tween nations if those in authority
have understanding, and I want you
to be the defenders of an administra
tion that believes in a fullness of un
derstanding at home and a fullness
of understanding among tlie peoples
of the world.
Opening his brief address, ,Presi
dent. Harding explained that he must
rely upon the technical skill such as
is being acquired by officers studying
at the war college.
“The president after all is just
the agency employed in focusing a
judgment and knowledge of those
who must necessarily actually con
duct the affairs of this government,”
President Harding said. “No man
even a superman, could direct the
United States if it were otherwise.
“I can from my own experience,
remind you that if the war college
is an institution which brings the
knowledge and experience to bear on
the theory it is making a contribu
tion to this government.
“One trouble with the world is that
too many theorists know nothing of
actuality.’
Additional Credit Urged For Farmer
Washington.—ln advance of the fil
ing of a report by the joint commission
on agricultural inquiry, Chairman Syd
ney Anderson issued a statement re
cently asserting that additional credit
facilities for farmers are imperative.
He indicates the commission in its re
port to congress will recommend a con
crete plan for bridging the gap be
tween short-timo and long-time credits.
At the outset, the government would
render financial assistance.
Effort To Blast Dipping Vats Ended
Biloxi, Miss. —An attempt to dyna
mite dipping vats in Jackson county
recently was frustrated when watch
men fired upon the intruders and cap
tured the dynamite and other material
with which they had made an effort
to destroy the vat. This work is said
to be done by cattle owners, many of
whom oppose dipping cattle for the
riddance of ticks, believing it unnec
essary in this section of tlie state.
Five Die In Day In Irish Rioting
I^ondon. —At least thirteen are killed
and more than a hundred have been
wounded in the bitter factional rioting
which has raged through Belfast for
three days, and which now appears
to have burned itself out through ex
haustion of the spirit of the fighters
and the vigorous action of troops and
police to drive the belligerents out of
theb attle zone. Four of the wounded
in the recent strife died later in the
hospital, binging the casualty list for
the single day up to five killed and
thirty injured.
Plea For Troops In Textile Strike
Asheville, N. C. —Request that state
troops again be sent to Concord be
cause of conditions arising out of the
textile strike were received by Gov
ernor Cameron Morrison, from C. L.
Spears, sheriff of Cabarrus county;
J. W. Womble, mayor of Concord, and
C. A. Robinson, chief of police at Con
cord, recently. Governor Morrison
also received telephone communica
tions and telegrams from several citi
zens of Cabarrus county requesting
that the troops be returned to the
strike zone.
KNEW HIS TIME HAD COME
Wounded Airman's Remarkable Pre
monition Concerning the Fate of
Enemy Who Had Killed Chum.
An Incident In real life which outdis
tances any flight of Edgar Allan Poe’s
imagination, was toid recently when a
group of American and British officers
were chatting together about their
war experiences.
The conversation turned to one of
the most dreaded of all war wounds —
shell shock, which sometimes changes
a strong, sane man into a helpless
lunatic.
One of the party, turning to a
young British air force otlicer, said:
“I think I’ve heard you tell a strange
yarn about your pilot who died from
shell shock. Would you care to re
peat it, old man?”
The young officer smiled slightly:
“It is not often I fell this story, but I
think you will agree with me it is
rather weird,” he said.
“My pilot was sent to a hospital near
London, dying from shell shock. His
father came to see him the evening
after he reached the hospital. The fa
ther knew his son was dying, as did
the boy—he was only 22 years old.
‘lt’s all right, dad,’ the young pilot
tried to smile; ‘1 know I’m going to
die. I’m not nfraid. But I want to
die within the next half hour, for In
an hour’s time there will be an air
raid on London. They’ll pass right by
here and drop a bomb very close.
“‘I must die soon —tlieir squadron
commnnder is the man who killed my
chum, and I’m going to get him.’
“ ‘He Is only wandering,’ said a
nurse to the boy’s father, ‘and, besides,
If there was to be an nir raid the
warning would lyive been given before
now.’
“A few moments later the pilot
lapsed Into unconsciousness and al
most simultaneously the raid warning
was given—it had been delayed.
“A short time later a bomb fell
within 20 ynrds of the hospital.
“Fifteen minutes later the pilot died.
“He had not been dead two minutes
when tlie German commander’s air
plane was seen to crash to the ground,
the occupants unwounded, but stone
dead.”
Illicit Whisky in Ireland.
The Irish police have lately been
very active In capturing large quanti
ties of Illicit whisky such ns is brewed
by the Irish in the mountain solitudes,
the Manchester (England) Guardian
states. In County Roscommon 1,000
gallons of whisky were seized and six
stills In perfect order were also con
fiscated, while on the borders of Sligo
and Donegal ten stills were captured
with some thousands of gallons of
spirits.
This lllict whisky lins a peculiar
name, being known either as “moun
tain dew” or “potheen.” This latter
admits of various spellings, “poteen”
and “potsheen” and is an abbreviation
of “nisget potin,” "little pot whisky,”
“potln” being the diminutive of “pota,”
a pot. Marie Edgeworth In “The Ab
sentee” wrote “Potsheen, please, your
honor, because it’s the little whisky
that’s made in the private still or pot,
and sheen because it’s a fond word for
whatsoever we’d like and for what we
have little of.”
Potheen making dates back at least
three centuries, and there are extraor
dinary types to be found umong the
makers. So well are the whereabouts
of the stills kept secret that it Is safe
to say that for every gallon seized by
the police, one hundred gallons will go
down the Irishman’s throat.
Long-Distance Talks.
To be able to address a crowd of
tens of thousands of persons, extend
ing for more than n quarter of a mile
from the speaker’s platform and to bo
heard distinctly in spite of the noise
of a big city, was the feat accom
plished during recent Victory Loan
ceremonies. The seeming miracle of
sound travel is due to vacuum tube
amplifiers and the loud-speaking tele
phone.
Along several blocks of Park ave
nue, New York city, which has been re
christened Victory way, about 102 of
these loud-talking machines had been
installed. Each telephone was provided
with a phonograph horn and was sus
pended from a cable stretched across
the “way.” Several loud-speaking
telephones were suspended from each
lateral cable and ull the wiring led to
a central point where the necessary
connections were marue.
And so a speaker on one of the
stands on Victory way or in an air
plane several thousand feet above con
veniently addresed the assembled mul
titude on the avenue, assured that
none of his valuable address wus lost
In the air.
Nature Covers Up War's Crimes.
Dame Nature lias set tier veto on
the scheme by which certain portions
of the Yser battlefield were to he pre
served In all their gaunt vividness as
witnesses of the great war. Already
she has spread a green mantle on the
torn earth and, In the words of the
Belgian minister for war, “given the
most tragic spots an almost smiling
countenance.” Even the shell holes
are tilling up, and the entire aspect of
the ground Is changing. Such being
the case, the only thing that men can
do Is to submit and carry out their
part of the reconstruction work, by
rebuilding the roads and railway. This
does not mean that a few characteris
tic works will not be preserved. At
Nleuport, at Fumes, by the Yser canal,
for example, such works as can easily
be cared for will remain. Leugen
hoorn, toA, will preserve Its big carnou
iaged gun
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Evolution of a Name.
“I thought your wife’s name was
Elizabeth?"
"So It Is.”
"Then why do you call her Peggy?”
"Short for Pegasa.”
“VVliut has that got to do with it?”
“Wiiy, Pegasa is feminine for Pega
sus.”
“Well?”
“Well, Pegasus Is an immortal
steed.”
“What of that?"
“Sh! Not so loud. She's in the
pext room. You see, an immortal
Steed is nn everlasting nag, and there
you are!"
Delicacy Seemed to Please.
Tasting lee cream for the first time
In their lives. Joe .Table and his three
sons from tho mountains near Union
town, Md., disposed of 01 dishes of
It at tlieir first sitting. Fifteen each
for the boys and sixteen for dad.
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