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A BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TODAY
The righteousness of the righteous shall
not deliver him in the day of his trans
gression; as for the wickedness of the
wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day
that he turneth from his wickedness;
neither shall the righteous be able to live
for his Righteousness in the day that he |
sinneth. When the righteous turneth from
his righteousness and committeth iniquity,
he shall even die thereby. But if the
wicked turn from his wickedness and do
that which is lawful and right, he shall
live thereby'. Yet, ye say the way of the
Lord is not equal.—Ezekiel 33:12, 18-20.
The Battle of Teapot Dome
THERE are two phases of the sudden
flurry over the Teapot Dome leases,
one of them having for its basis the’
weakness of a trusted high official whose
reputation has been destroyed beyond
chance of redemption; the other po
litical. This is the part which in-
volves Secretary of the Navy Denby. The
attack on Denby comes chiefly from Hiram
Johnson headquarters, and doubtless the
was eagerly welcomed, for
Hiram's campaign had suffered greatly for
want of an issue. Denby was a shining
mark and already he has been tried, con
demned and executed —in the Johnson camp.
But Denby is not dead, nor has he re
signed. He is not built that way. If he
were he would not be fit to serve as the
head of the navy, on general principles.
Denby is a fighter, and the people like him.
The worst that has been charged against
him is that he did not properly safeguard
the interests of the people. Did he? That
la going to be the issue.
The fact that Fall took money from the
people who leased the Teapot Dome reser
vation from the government through the
agency of the navy, has no bearing on the
action of the Secretary of the navy in sign
ing over the leases; no one as yet pretends
that it has. Denby’s defense will be to
show that there were good reasons for sell
ing the reservation and that he secured a
fair price for it. Its effect is a matter of
surmise only, at this time.
Teapot Dome gets its name from the
shape of the oil reservoir deep down below
the surface of the earth, and has nothing
to do with the exposed contour of the earth
outside. The oil is in porus rock and held
there by an impervious formation, or one
that was supposed to be so when the gov
ernment withdrew this tract from the mar
ket. Geologists say that the enormous pres
sure on such a deposit of oil will eventually
drive it through any “fault” in its environ
ment, however small, and if an opening
occurs anywhere in its neighborhood, the
movement to that opening is immediate.
Ihus it is that a whole oil district may be
robbed of its oil by wells just outside it,
and in a perfectly legal \way, for, in the
nature of the case there cannot be set up
.ny contra proof that would be admitted in
court.
But while a judge and jury may not be
convinced in a possible damage suit, experts
may convince the government officials, even
those honestly seeking to’ discharge their
duty to the people, that, where the govern
ment owns an oil tract and wells are being
i multiplied just outside of it, the sane thing
\ to do is to realize on it as quickly as pos
sible. The rest is a question of getting
'the best terms.
Three tracts of oil lands were withdrawn
from public use by Presidents Taft and
Wilson in 1912 and 1915. The Teapot
Dome district of about 9.000 acres was the
last. At that time the Bureau of Mines esti
mated that in this tract were available from
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL
125,000,000 to 200,000,000 barrels of crude
oil. Later, when the Senate Public Lands
committee undertook the examination of
this tract, “two expert geologists” declared
that the oil was already flowing away from
it to other holdings, and that the amount
remaining might be conservatively estimated
at from 24,000,000 to 26,000,000 barrels.
Previous to this, Secretary Franklin D.
Lane had gone on record in the case of
the other two naval reserve oil tracts (in
California) in a public statement, that
within twenty years no oil would be found
in them, and that it would have passed out.
to the market through privately owned
wells. In all three cases there seems to
have been ample “expert” testimony to
justify the ,sale of the reserves. Such
was the situation when, in 1922, all three
of the naval reserve tracts were leased to
Sinclair and the Pan-American Petroleum
and Transport company by Secretary Fall,
of the Interior Department, and Secretary
Denby, of the Navy.
If there has been fraud in this transac
tion, and the public will always incline to
the opinion that there has, it may have
been accomplished through an extensive
campaign with procured expert testimony.
Expert testimony is just as much a com
modity in the market as oil. That the, cam
paign was made with the active co-operation
of Secretary Fall seems almost proved. Men
are not paid enormous suras of money with
no expectation of service in return, espe
cially where they are fn responsible posi
tions, and the service desired relates to
matters in their control. Secretary Denby
stands on other footing. His defense, if
he should be called on to make one, will
relate to tl\e various reports preceding the
leases, and to the attitude of the Harding
cabinet, which, it appears, favored the
leases, but he would, of course, invoke the
terms of the leases as evidence that honest
efforts were made to protect the govern
ment and serve the needs of the navy. With
choice of payment in cash or in kind, he
chose to take a royalty in refined oil, to
be stored in reservoirs that were to become
the property of the government. In brief,
the plan chosen was one that carried out,
as far as possible, the intention of the gov
ernment when the lands went into the re
serve; it provided a reserve of oil for the
American fighting ships, and provided
against a repetition of errors during the
■war which forced us into Mexico for fuel.
If this is a fair view of the oil scandal
it will be seen that the case of the prosecu
tion would have been stronger had the at
tack been limited to Secretary Fall. Denby
is a very different type of man, but, driven
to defend himself, he must in a measure
justify Fall, and certainly must he defend
the reasonableness of the lease itself. If
the government is to be paid a fair price
for its oil in royalties, estimates as to the
quantity left in the reserve tracts will have
no bearing on the case. The greater the
underestimate, the better for the govern
ment. And then, too, there is still a lot of
expert testimony to be invoked.
A HINT TO STUDENTS
By H. Addington Bruce
A SHORT time ago there was graduated
AX from the Municipal University, of Ak
ion, Ohio, a student named Naugle.
His instructors are not likely soon to' forget
young Mr. Naugle, it may pretty safely
be predicted that he will accomplish much in
years to come.
Naugle, like many another before him,
had to earn a livelihood while he studied for
his university degree. The usual procedure
in this circumstance is to find some work
thiat will make a comparatively lig. ht '’ rt mand
oA one’s time.
’But Naugle elected to do full-time work,
obtained an eight-hour-day job in a rubber
factory. And he proved himself so efficient
a worker as t-o win a place in t\e factory’s
“flying squadron,” composed of emnloyes
showing all-around ability for the various
factory tasks.
Nor did his university work suffer while
he thus forged ahead in the rubber plant.
Graduation day found Naugle one of four
honor students among the sixty-four mem
bers of the graduation
Which can only mean, it may be thought,
that he possessed in exceptional measure
both mental capacity and physical robust
ness. Naugle himself proffers a. somewhat
different explanation. He is quoted as say
ing:
“Any success I have attained In combin
ing labor with study I attributed to regular
habits of living.
“To begin with, I saw. to it that my sleep
came in regular amounts and in-
tervals. During the first three years I slept'
six hours each night. In my senior year I
was able to get seven hours of sleep.
“I won the extra hour by learning to cut
down, through greater concentration, the
amount of time required for studying. I re
served Saturday afternoons and Sundnvs for
my recreation. Nothing was allowed to in
terfere with these periods of relaxation.
“Successful study I have found to be a
matter of intensive cnocentration and rigid
schedule. Too many students dawdle away
the greater part of their time.”
Too many, for that matter, dawdle away
time even when they think they are study- 1
ing more zealously than the average of their
classmates. To pore over one's books a cer
tain length of time daily is not necessarily
to study effectively.
Everything depends on the dearoa con
centration. If concentration is weak, extra
neous ideas of all sorts will come flitting into
the mind, to constitute dawdling as truly as
though one sat,idly dreaming without a book
before one.
And how to increase concentration power?
By cultivating greater interest in whatever
one has to do.
Young Mr. Naugle could never have
achieved his dual success as student and rub
her worker, had he not been intenselv inter
ested in both his studies and his work. No
matter how able and robust he may have
been by nature, boredom and weariness
would have overwhelmed him had interest
been lacking.
That may unhesitatingly be affirmed in
the light of present-day psychological knowl
edge of the part interest plays as a developer
of power and a preventive of fatigue.
(Copyright, 192 4.)
THE LOVE TRAP
HAZEL DEYO BACHELOR
What has gone before. — After a two
years’ engagement, Gail Martin is jilted
by her fiance, George Hartley. Shortly
afterward, when the small-town gossip
about her has become unbearable, Gail’s
I Aunt Debbie dies and leaves her niece
$5,000. Gail decides to take the money
and leave town. She goes to New York,
determined to broaden her life by
meeting city people. But at her first
I dinner party she is disillusioned be
cause she does not come, up to the
standards of the younger set. — NP" go
on with the story.
CHAPTER XXXIII
Conquest.'
GAIL, standing alone, had seen Mrs.
Van Alstyne beckon to Gracia, and,
as the two stood talking, they both
looked across at her. If she had overheard
the conversation word for word she couldn't
have been more certain of what was being
said. She saw Gracia’s frown and she knew
what caused it. Gracia was bored with her
mother's she did not want the re
sponsibility of entertaining a wallflower. /
A lump rose in Gail’s throat, and she
had a. sudden wild impulse to escape. She.
looked around, wondering how she could !
best slip out, but before she could take a
step Gracia was coming toward her • with
two men.
It was then that a certain recklessness
seized Gail, a determination to make her
self popular no matter what it cost her.
She found herself smiling up into the eyes
of her erstwhile dinner partner, with all the
allure she could summon to her aid. The
sudden change in his expression from bored
politeness to quick interest went to Gail’s
head like wine and gave her mbre confi
dence. K
A moment later he had asked her to
dance, and she had assented. They were
walking across the room together, and then
his arm was around her and she was out
on the floor, her steps matching his as per
fectly as though they had always danced
together.
He danced well, but he held her too
tightly against him. Gaii resented this fact,
but she gave no sign, although the color
was hot in her cheeks as she felt his lips
brush her hair. Over his shoulder she
could see other couples dancing. One girl
held her head thrown back and danced with
her eyes shut. She gave herself up to the
dance with an abandon that was evidently
highly appreciated by her partner, and it
was with a sensation of shame that Gail
resolutely turned her eyes away.
The dance over, Arch Kennerley’s fingers
closed over Gail’s cool, bare arm. “Say,
you can dance!”
Gail longed to turn on him with a frigid
remark, but instead she smiled up at him
through her lashes. This was what he
wanted; this was what made for popularity;
this was the method Fay Morrison had used
with George, a'iid Gail swallowed her re
sentment and played the game.
“Yes, I can dance,” she flung at him
lightly. “Os course, I can't help knowing
my good points and it’s always gratifying
when some one else notices them.”
He glanced at her sideways. Had he
made a mistake about this girl? At dinner
he had thought her impossible, stiff, a regu
lar “dud,” but there a charm about
her, a freshness of appeal, and her way of
looking up at him through those long, dark
lashes of hei’s Was provocative, to say the
least.
His hot fingers tightened around her arm.
“Just a minute,” he said, drawing her to
the side of the room. “A crowd of us are
going down to the Arcady after a while. I
know the head waiter and we can get any
thing we want to drink. They never serve
much at these debutante dinners, and the
gang s getting restless. You're game to go,
aren’t you?”
“I'd love it,” .Gail said eagerly, reckless
ness urging her on.
He nodded appreciatively. “All right,'
that s settled then. 1 have my car here, so
I’ll look out for you.”
Again Gail flashed a smile at him, and
as they strolled into the other room she had
a sensation of t iumph that more than com
pensated for the fact that she was shamed
of the way she had acted. She didn’t want
to go to the Arcady, and least of all did she
want to go alone with Arch Kennerley. But
from the way Grace and the other girls
were staring at her it seemed that Arch
Kennerley was the lion of the evening, and
any one of them wquld willingly" have
changed places with Gail.
Tuesday—“At the Arcady” and “A
Guilty Conscience.”
DEATH
< By Dr. Frank Crane
THERE is something fascinating, blind
ing in the thought of death.
We call the monks of old morbid
who were obsessed by it, wrote “Remember
Death! ’ upon their Cell walls, and had skulls
among their daily furniture; and. perhaps,
they were morbid, and, perhaps, the idea of
death is too strong a liquor for use in the
morning; but, for all that, there is something
in death that makes men great, unseals the
wells of poetry, and smells of eternal vouth.
How was it that Wagner could find no fit
climax for the mighty loves of Tristan and
Isolde except in death? Why do the mur
ders of Socrates, Joan of Arc, and Lincoln
place these personalities among the constel
lations of our esteem? Why is there nothing
so apotheosizing a man can do as to die?
And why does the death of Jeans lift His •
life and teachings into such thunderous I
power and authority?
Every least act of living we perform gets 1
its pathos and beauty from the sea of death !
that flo\vs around it. The kiss is sweetest
that may be the last. The parting is made
tender by the ever-lurking possibility that it
may be forever!
<( 1 nsuspected, ’ writes Alexander Smith,
this idea of death lurks in the sweetest
music; it has something to do with the pleas
ures with which we behold the vapors of
morning; it comes between the passionate
lips ot lovers; it lives in the thrill of kisses.”
A ray of death makes the most common
place thing shine. A photograph of the liv
ing is nothing, but of the dead how strangely
interesting. An old shoe, a glove, a hat. if
it belong to one of the silent forever, takes
on new significance.
An o dinary merry-making may be vulgar,
even' offensive, but becomes at once tragic!
and sublim _• when
As if beckoned by an unseen hand
The man whose laugh is loudest in his cups ;
Rises with a wild face, and goes away
From mirth into a shroud, without a word.
Ail about life play the electric beams of
death. All around the actual is the halo of
the infinite mystery.
It is follv to laugh at death or to defy it.
It is cowardly to evade it. 1: is sickly and
mistaken to be depressed by it. But to be
e\er subtly conscious of it. and to draw from
that consciousness a feeling of awe. of dig
nity, and of infinite beauty, that is wisdom.
(Copyright, 1924.) |
BY MRS. IF.
IN the Wilkes County Farm there is a
very illuminating statement, furnished by
the editor, who is also a member of the
Georgia Legislature, concerning the work of
lobbyists before the Georgia Legislature.
This editorial was printed on January 29, 1
1 924:
“These lobbyists not only throng the cor- I
ridors, but push into the halls of the Gen- I
eral Assembly.”
Lobbying is pronounced a crime by the
code of Georgia—a criminal statute of the I
State.
It was passed at a time when the legis
lature was, in a manner, overrun by these
lobbyists—hired with money to influence
legislation. Like the Eighteenth Amend
ment, it is apparently disregarded by the au
thorities who are expected to enforce these
statutes, and which are too ignorant, or
too inefficient, or too venal to execute the
provisions of the law.
Editor Ficklin is aware that candidates
for high office in the legislature must make
deals with other candidates who are confi
dent of election—before the primaries have
acted —and before the voters cast their bal- ’
lots in the November election. Early pri
maries are getting to be very distasteful to
people who are thus deprived of their choice
in representatives and senators. “Parlia
mentary courtesy” has the middle of the
road. The conduct of the legislature in the
two sessions of 1923 .will long be remem
bered as the limit —and it also should be
the limit for the patience and forbearance
of the taxpayers. Except the authorization
of two big, new offices—there was nothing
doing. It was so full of politics, to eventu
ate in the elections of 1 924, that the Senate
would not allow r a bill passed twice by the
House to be discussed in the Senate.
According to Editor Ficklin’s illumi
nating editorial, two men, one a senator, the
other a representative, both elected to fur
ther the repeal, were instrumental in keep
ing Senate from disposing of it, and it is
manifest that they were aiding the execu
tive to do the same thing, namely, keep
down the House bill, until th. session ad
journed.
These statements are plain, unvarnished,
and without any concealment.
It now appears that the Senate is the
body which controls the final action of all
members of the general assembly.
If such methods are to be submitted to,
why not have only a Senate to rule the
State? Or to be more emphatic, why not
abolish the Senate?
During the session of the Constitutional
convention in 1877, such a plea was urged
by some of the most prominent people in
Georgia. The bare-faced action of the Sen
ate in blocking the repeal of tne Tax Equal
lization bill was more than preposterous.
GREAT WEALTH—THE MANIFEST
CURSE TO ITS OWNERS
A FULLY reported court trial—before
the Federal ‘judge in the city of At
lanta—is giving the painful story of
a woman who desired to marry a rich man,
and who could only marry him in a legal
manner, by divorcing her husband (with a
residence in Reno and plenty of cash to pay
OBSERVATIONS FROM
THE new year opened up and we dla
not owe a single cent to no one, and 1
have ten or fifteen cents left.
The days are growing longer, but there
is no change in life. It gets shorter.
We know of one girl who plowed all last
summer and helped to make a crop.
We have worked in the office every holi
day, and found it both profitable and
healthy.
We see where the price of bird dogs has
advanced in places to $35. We do not hunt
and this won't affect us.
Before Christmas thirteen young men and
married men of Benton, Tenn., were arrest
ed gambling in a country church, yet we
are told that we must contribute money to
learn heathens the road to heaven.
A gentleman told us the other day that
he was a little superstitious and paid no
bills on the first day of the year. Some peo
ple are superstitious the whole year and
never pay.
A very good mule was sold here the other
day by the Sheriff for fifteen dollars. Mules ■
do not sell as cheap no where in this countj' [
except in front of the courthouse door.
When persons are losing time and spend
ing money very often the railroads are trie
only beneficiaries, and the parties die with
old age about like they come into the world, i
with nothing.
Mr. M. C. Chester, of this county, is a
large, fleshy man, and to look at him you
wouldn't think he could do much on a farm, |
but he is a hustler. This year he made five
hundred bushels of corn, sixty bushels each
of Irish and sweet potatoes and sold $137 ;
worth of cabbage.
Christmas before last some of the boys
worried an aged widow lady and her two .
daughters by shooting near their home after
MY FAVORITE STORIES )
By Irvin Cobb
A spry looking colored youth entered a
drug store at Forty-fourth street and Sixth
avenue the other day, and, dropping a coin
the slot of the pay telephone, asked
Central for a certain number. When con
nections had been made, persons near the
booth heard him saying this;
“Is dat Mizz Heuery Pearce speakin’?
Mell, Mizz Pearce, did you want to hire a
smart colored boy fur a handy man around
yore flat? Ma’m? You say you already is
got a boy wu’kkin’ fur you? Is dat so? I
Wellum, is you satisfied wid him? Den you
ain't thinkin’ ’bout mekkin’ a change? Dat’s
all, ma’am.”
He put the receiver on the hooks And
emerged from the booth. The head clerk, I
who had been one of the ear-witnesses to his
remarks, bailed him:
“If you're looking for a place you needn't
go any further. Don’t you see that sign
there in the window saying, ‘Colored Help
Wanted?’ ”
“I ain't lookin’ fur no place.” said the
youth. “I already is got a good job—been
wukkin’ at it goin’ on two weeks now.”
“I don't understand,” said the puzzled
clerk. “Why were you calling up that
lady?”
"Oh, dat’s de lady I wu’ks fur. I was jest I
checkin’ up on myse’f.”
•(Copyright, 1924.)
The man who was smoking a bad cigar |
ignored the protests of the other passengers.
At the next stop one of the fainting pas
sengers called the guard and informed him
that the cigar smoker was traveling first- I
class with a third-class ticket.
The guard having- turned out the offender,
the other passengers asked the strategist
how he knew that the cigar smoker was a
third-class ticket holder.
"His Ticket was the same color as my
own,” was the reply. I
THE COUNTRY HOME
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY t>,
H. FELTON
the lawyers). She deliberately writes it
down and is apparently not embarrassed by
the facts, that the husband, who married
her earlier in life was asking $1 2,000 be
fore he will help her to get a divorce in
Reno. Queer, if true!
The fame of the rich man’s money had
overcome her, when she arrived in Atlanta,
Ga., during the U. V. convention, held in
Atlanta, 1919. A reading of her letters to
the rich man. telling of her husband who
would ‘let her off’ with cash for himself
amounting to twelve thousand dollars —cash
in hand, would, or should convince any sen
sible juror that she was in hot chase for
the rich man's millions, and would care no
more for him, as his wedded spouse than she
cared for the fellow, who was willing to
sell such a piece of property—on the bar
gain counter.
Somebody talked too much, however.
Somebody had nerve to warn the old rich
man. Now the widow, who could afford to
sell for $12,000 cash, to buy off a so-called
husband —(and that cash to come out of
the rich man's pocketbook)—is now suing
for half million dollars as so-called dam
ages! Yes, damages!
She had priced herself at a valuation of
$12,000. She ought to relieve the poor old
rich man with the same amount of cash
herein mentioned, and thus settle on a fair
cash basis.
The whole expose must have been pain
fully fatiguing to the rich man’s family,
and should he live bo be a hundred they
will always feel that he “got off light” from
the ‘“sweet one” of this comedy, also this
tragedy. If he hadn’t been so rich she
would not have chased him down to marry
him. Failing to marry him she is still pur
suing the money—all she went after. This
sort of tiling is going on all over this coun
try. Sharp women are chasing down rich
men’s pocketbooks, and sharpers in breeches
are chasing down silly young women who
have inherited big fortunes. It is a lament
able fact, that rich women with American
money are greedy for a title and are willing
to cash in—to be called Lady or Countess
or Marquise ox - Duchess—and take along
with the title some fortune-hunter who likes
to spend money in all sorts of ways—many
of them disreputable—and then make the
fooled woman as uncomfortable as possible.
Money is a good thing in its place, but a
big pile of money is a temptation to both
sexes, who are willing to mate according to
the wiles of Mormonism. Before leaving
this subject—on the) lure of wealth —the
United States Congress has been in a riotous
tumult for two weeks finding out how I’. S.
cabinet members used their official position
to get money from oil millionaires, who
were willing to buy political grafters. This
morning’s papers tells the public how
four of President Wilson’s cabinet figured
im such contracts, and two of President
Harding’s cabinet fell by the same wayside,
on the same hot footrace for what the most
of people will call bribe money. Even Mr.
Creel, that marvellous portrayer of official
life in Europe, fingered a $5,000 annuity to
boom oil millionaires in his marvellous ca
bles from Paris and London—with expenses
paid.
■ A PEAK IN LUMPKIN
dark and doing mischief, being very annoy
ing to these lone people. Just before the
last Christmas this old lady came to town
and got her a gun and some shells. So n
there was any disturbance around theii’
home this time we have not heard of it.
Some parties were telling us the other
day about a man in this county who used
to carry his liquor in a big walking stick
made from a cane prepared for the purpose,
which held something like a pint or more,
which was filled and carried when he wen»
from home, even to church, and when they
got ready to sing he would go out in the
woods or some other private place and tune
up his voice by taking a few swallows. This
he did for years, until his trick was caught
on to. This could not be done now be
cause the liquor is so and mean that
it would soon have his stick full of holes,
causing the owner to be arrested and pun
ished foi‘ violating the so-called dry law.
I
The people are growing worse instead of
better, notwithstanding large sums are spent
in scattering the gospel by the most learned
preachers that can be procured. The great
increased expense in law and gospel does
not check crime now. Think of the recent,
murder and burning ol the woman and her
seven-year-old child in Jackson county. You
didn’t used to hear of any such crimes be
ing committed in any civilized country. The
trouble is nowadays, when a crime is com
mitted and the perpetrator is caught and
jailed the preachers go and pray and tain
and try to make it appear that in case th6y
go the hemp route Abraham is ready with
open arms to receive them. While the law
yers employed sre spending time both day
and night in trying to find technical points
in law to prolong justice, at the expense of
taxpayers. And if they see that they are
about to fail in this way will make an effort
to get their client in the state asylum and
cared for at the expense of the state.’ It is
such as this that causes more crime and
higher taxes. While the negro who steals a
chicken gets no sympathy, prayers, pro
longed trials ox - pardons, he must suffer
the penalty in the gang by doing hard work.
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Q. Is the key to the Bastile really in the
United States? L. S.
A. The key to the Castie of Bastile In
Paris is at. Mount Vernon. It waj presented
to George Washington by Lafayette.
Q. How does the number of miles of rail
road compare with the number of people in
the United States? I). C.
A. In 1830 there were 40 miles of railroad
with a ratio to the population of 1 mile
railway to 321.317 people. The ratio for
1922 was 1 mile to 400 people. At present
there are approximately 265,000 miles of
railroad in the United States, or two-fifths
of the total of the railroads of the entire
world.
Q. Os all the American soldiers who went
overseas, how many were actually engaged in
battle? W. A. ( d/
A. Two out of every three American sol
diers who reached France went to the battle
sectors. Those who saw foreign service were
2,084,000, and of these 1,390,000 saw active
service at the front.
Q. When were nails first used? M. M. L.
A. There is no date in history fixing the
first use of nails. Up to a century ago they
were still exclusively hand-made, and even
as laie as 1850 it was a general custom in
this country for the nail maker with his forge
and anvil to come with the carpenter to make
the nails needed in the erection of a building.
The first nail-making machinery originated
in Massachusetts in 1810 to make cut nails
from steel or iron plates. The use of cut
nails is now greatly reduced bv the introduc
tion o' machinery and wire nails, which came •
into the United States from Germany in J
1 5 75. It was discovered shortly after their |
HER MONEY
BY CAROLYN BEECHER
. CHAPTER LV
ALTHEA tried to hide her pleasure at
Peter’s permission to assist him
had he been looking closely at her
he must have noticed. It was the first time
he had asked anything of her. Before he
had rebuffed her when she offered.
Left alone she felt quite important.
After she answered one or two calls her
housewifely instinct made her tidy up the
desk which Miss Bundy had left in con
fusion. She had run the gamut of many
emotions since she married Peter —love,
fear, agonies of shame and sometimes an
ger—but never before had she felt she was
helpful.
The day was glittering with sunshine, but
she no longer felt any desire to go out.
Kenneth Moore called up and she told him
she couldn’t see him—she was helping
Peter. After that she was too busy to
think of anything but making the office
neat and tidy.
It was nearly dinner time When Peter
came in. The office was tidy, had been
thoroughly dusted. Without a word Althea
laid the messages she had received before
him, neatly and legibly written.
“This is something like,” he said, “but
you must be tired.”
"Not a bit! I’ve enjoyed it —the feeling
I was of use.”
“It’s very annoying, but I haven’t got
on track of a nurse. There is a great.deal
of sickness and nurses never were in j
greater demand,” Peter remarked as
turned from the phone.
“If you’ll let me I’ll help you until
find one,” Althea said quietly.
"I hate to have you so confined, but
you will look after things a bit tomorrow
I will make some sort of an arrangement
after that.”
“I—don’t mind the confinement,” Althea
hesitatingly replied. Then the maid called
them to dinner after which Peter went out.
But Althea had no feeling of loneliness as
she usually did when alone. She was think
ing of Peter, of helping him even ever so
little.
Her face took on a sort of passionate
tenderness that would have been pjtiful to
an onlOokei' knowing the slight cause she
had for happiness.
The next morning she appeared at the
breakfast table in a simple dark blue cloth
gown and when she went down to the office
carried the vase of flowers from the sitting
room table and placed them on the desk.
She had forgotten Kenneth Moore had sent
them to her—she was thinking, only o£
Peter, how to make it a-ttractive for him.
But Peter thought, “She wants something
to remind her of him.”
The incident made him speak sharply,
abruptly as he left her to look after the
office, merely expressing the hope she
would not be obliged to discommode herself
longer than the day.
Althea quivered at his tone, but was far
from suspecting its cause. She thought him
anxious over some patient, annoyed because
of Miss Bundy proving inefficient. So with
a little thrill of happiness, a sense of im
portance, she opened a book until her serv
ices were required. But she could not read.
She could think of nothing but Feter.
‘tl won’t be jealous!” she said. “I’ll
trust him.”
But still, because suspicion had so long
lodged in hex’ mind, she could not easily
dismiss it—even for the time. And after
a while she thought that the only way to
xid herself of it was to prove the suspicion
false. It was only fair to Peter—and to
herself—to do that. *
“I don’t believe he has done anything
wrong,” she went on. “That would be hor
rible! Um a little beast to even think of
such a thing!” Then: I’ve a right to lov®
him—a right to his love.”
The telephone jangled. She sprang to an
swer it.
“Is Dr. Graham in?” the voice was
faintly familiar.
“No, he’ll be in later, who Is calling,
please?” Althea replied.
"I am calling for Mrs. Williams. Please
tell pr. Graham to coxne over as soon as
he comes in.”
Now Althea recognized the voice; it was
Miss Howard’s. . (
“The doctor is very tired; you are sure
it is necessary that he see Mrs. Williams?”
unprofessional!/ Althea queried.
“Certainly, or I shouldn’t have called.
Mrs. Williams has had a fall, sprained her
ankle; please give the doctor the message. ,
I ani Miss Howard. Tell him I called.”
Miss Howard’s voice had been puzzled,
impatient. She naturally supposed an office
nurse was at the phone. Her tone angered
Althea.
’ idea of her speaking to me like ”
that!’’ she said, not thinking Miss Howard
did not know it was she. “Such impu
dence!”
She hung up the receiver, reached for
pad and pencil to write dowxx the message /
as she had others received that mornitfcL';
lhen she flung it from her) r v
"I won’t tell him! I don’t believe she’e
hurt, and if she is she can get another
doctor, she exclaimed, all her new softness
gone, her happiness at helping Peter spoiled.
I wont send him to her!”
When Peter came in she handed him the
pad but failed to mention Miss Howard’s *
call.
/
(’Millnued Tuesday. Renew now to avoid
missing a chapter.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
Many a man leads the simple life—behind ’
the bars.
One taste of success is better than a
mouthful of defeat. I
You will never find cause for gratitude If
you cause none. .*
A good crop of wild oats will grow where
weeds wouldn't even sprout.
It’s easy to look on the bright side es long
as it is turned your way.
A widow shou’d have enough Insurance
money to care for her after she finishes ex
perimenting with bogus stock.—New Haven
Register.
introduction that they did not have great
holding power. This defect was overcome
in 1882 by Ira Copekind, of Whitman, Mam.,
who conceived the idea of coatin? them with
vegetable gum, the result beinj; to give them
even greater holding power than cut nails.
Q. How many Americans gave their lives
to gain independence for America? M. A. S.
A. During the Revolutionary war 7,184
Americans were killed or died of woundfc in
action. The English lost 9,073 troops.
Q. How does the amount of water stored
In lakes compare with that held in the ocean?
J. L.
A. Sir John Murray estimate® the volume
of the lakes in the world at 2,000 cubic miles,
and the water of the ocean at 324,000,000
cubic miles. \
Q. \\ ho started counting time from the
birth of Christ? G. P.
A. Dating the years from the birth of
Ciirist originated wipi Dionysius Exianus, a
learned monk of Rome, who lived in the last*
part of the fifth century and the beginning
of the sixth century. An error in his calcu
lations was discovered in the fifteenth cen
tury, which resulted in placing the estimated
date of Christ's birth four years oarlier than
’he date set by Dionysius.