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A BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TODAY
/s not the life more than meat, and the
body more than raiment? Behold the
fowls of the air; for they sow not, neither
do they reap nor gather into barns; yet
your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are
ye not much better than they? And why
take ye thought for raiment? Consider
the lilies of the field, how they grow,
they toil not, neither do they spin; and yet
1 say unto you that even Solomon in all
his glory was not arrayed like one of
these. Wherefore if God so clothe the
grass of the field, which today is and to
morrow is cast into the oven, shall He not.
much more clothe you, 0 ye of little
faith? —Matthew 6:25-30.
A Third Party?
TALK of a Third party is as much to
be expected at this turn of the political
zodiac as the whipping of gusty winds
at the threshold of March. Presidential
years always reveal a measure of popular
dissatisfaction with both the Republican and
the Democratic powers that be—more or less
of which is warranted. There is in human
nature enough Ingrained peevishness to carp
at Utopia Itself, and America today is far
from Utopian. Any government would fall
at any moment if grumblers had their way;
and few would long survive if Dame Justice
were not more easy-going than her sword
and balance imply. We are prone to think
of the “state” as an, abstraction, or as an
ideal. Yet, what is the state but the people?
No marvel that government goes awry!
There is no gainsaying, however, that
present conditions give the Third party talft
er an uncommonly fertile theme. What
more could he wish than the oil school for
scandal, with its pupils in both major po
litical groups? The Democrats, be it thank
fully said, have no Albert B. Fall amongst
them; nor is there one jot of evidence that
th« Wilson administration did not scrupu
lously safeguard the public’s interest in the
oil reserves. But there are Republicans a
plenty who, though unwilling in any circum
stances to vote a Democratic ticket, would
welcome other means of smiting the G. O.
P. organization. To these a Third party
would appeal. It would appeal also to cer
tain radical elements, notably in zones like
La Follette's Wisconsin and Magnus John
son’s Minnesota.
But there is scant likelihood that the new
party spectre, ever astir at this season, will
acquire flesh and blood beyond a tongde.
Given a leader, the dissenters might go far;
but who is available for that hazardous role?
Henry Ford, as a keen political observer
points out in the New York Evening Post,
left the Third party orphaned when he bade
it farewell —not only orphaned, but without
financial hope. As for Senator Borah,
“There was a time when he n ight have been
the fair-haired boy. Not any more. He is
too regular. The brave who did not jump
the reservation and go singing ghost songs
in 1912 will hardly leave it now.” Hiram
Johnson? “Never any more. He is lost
somewhere between Dan and Beersheba, be
tween the political Gaths and Gehennas.” If
there be a genius whom come-outers could
fedow with more than forelonest hopes, he
is thus inarticulate and invisible. Fortunate
ly enough, however, there remains for real
independents and progressives the party of
Jefferson and Jackson and Wilson—if it
will but stand true to its best tradition and'
its manifest duty.
Biennial Sessions
GEORGIANS who think that their*Leg
islature might profitably meet every
other year instead of annually as now.
will be Interested in the revival of that issue
in Massachusetts. Governor Cox has repeat
ed the recommendation made in first mes
aage, that a constitutional amendment pro-
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riding for biennial sessions be submitted to
the electorate. The Ray State General As
sembly, however, doefe not appear to be over
ly well impressed with the proposal. If tra
dition is to give way to economy, business
wisdom evidently must bestire itself. The
Governor is supported by wjhat one observer
calls “the growing sentiment for fewer
laws,” and also by the fact that under the'
existing system the Legislature may take its
own time about adjourning—a liberty that
makes for loitering.
From Washington State, where Legislative
sessions are biennial and are confined to six
ty days, comes this comment by the Seattle
Times: “It has often been proposed to limit
the session to forty days. Theoretically, the
longer the consideration ‘given to legislative
enactments, the better they are; but in
practice it does not work out that way. The
most marked tendency is to pa,ss more laws
than are needed. Legislators feel that they
should employ themselves at making laws,
so that they take up every conceivable sub
ject ; and rake over the records for laws to
amend. The net result is unwarranted ex
pense to taxpayers and a batch of laws of
doubtful wisdom.”
Excess of new statutes comes,largely from
the popular notion that every ill, economic
and social as w r ell as political, can be reme
died by law. While such a fallacy is given
rein, therls will be little relief on this score,
even in biennial sessionslimited to forty
days. But the temptation to wordiness and
to adventures in time-killing is less, no
doubt, in biennial sessions of a prescribed
term. Such is the trend of public opinion
in States where annual sessions still obtain.
In Mississippi
THE Mississippi law limiting the land
holdings of corporations to one mil
lion dollars, stands, notwithstanding
the attitude of the governor and the action
of the state senate in voting for its repeal.
The house of representatives, the other day,
defeated the senate repeal bill by a vote
of 73 to 42, despite a favorable report from
the house committee to which it had been
referred.
The enactment of the law in the first
place was the result of rural feelings which
were aroused in a political campaign, some
few years ago, against ig industrial enter
prises. The farmers supported candidates
favoring a limitation on the land holdings
of corporations, and the legislature subse
quently obeyed the mandate of the people.
“It is common report from Mississippi,”
says the New Orleans Times-Picayune, in
commenting on the legislative action, “that
the law prevented the location in that state
of a group pf enterprises that established
and developed one of Louisiana’s thriv
ing industrial cities. If that be true, Louis
iana profited considerably by her neighbor's
draconian statute, and by tne same token
other southern states with more liberal laws
may have benefited also.”
Mississippi is the only southern state of
which we know that .has such a drastic
Ihw against corporations, and it is- impossi
ble to escape the conclusion that other
states have done well not to follow Missis
sippi's lead in this matter.
The fact that the senate of Mississippi
voted to repeal the law and the intimation
that’ the new governor of the state looks
with disfavor on it may be taken as an in
dication that the attitude of the people of
Mississippi toward corporations is less hos
tile than a few years ago.
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Q. Who wfts the author of “Let me write
the songs of a people: I care not who makes
the laws?” C. F.
A. Andrew Fletcher, of Faltoun (1653-
1*16), in a letter to the Marquis of Mon
trose, said: “I know a very wise man that
believed that if a man were permitted to
make all the ballads he need not care who
should make the laws of a nation.”
Q. Are there special brain foods? F. V.
A. It used to be believed that certain
foods, especially fish and other foods con
taining phosphorous, were especially valua
ble for the gray matter of the brain. This is
not believed any more. Brain cells appa
rently use the same kinds of food materials
as all other living cells do. The best wav to
feed the braisti well is to keep the body in
good health.
Q., What cities have eleVated street rail
ways? N. K.
A. Boston, Chicago, New York, and Phila
delphia. have elevated street railways. Os
the large foreign cities, Pa-is and Berlin
have tracks that are elevated.
Q. What did the earlv Romans eat?
O. P. S.
A. Johnson, in his “Private Life of the
Romans.” says that breakfast usually con
sisted merely of bread, eaten dry or dipped
in wine or sprinkled over with salt, though
raisins, olives, and cheese were sometimes
added. Luncheon usually consisted of cold
food: bread, salads, olives, cheese, fruits,
nuts, and cold meats from the dinner of the
day before. A simple dinner menu is given
by Juvenal. The gustus consisted of aspara
gus and eggs; the cena, of young kid and
chicken; for the secusda mensa, fruits. Ma
crobius gives the following: Mallows, on
ions. mint, elecampane, anchovies with sliced
eggs, and sow’s udder with tunny sauce; the
cena was served in a single course—kid.
chicken, cold ham, haricot beans and young
cabbage sprouts, fresh fruits, and wine.
Q. Where did the Oxford shoe originate?
N. E. W.
A. It is said to have originated in the citv
I of Oxford. England, where this type of shoe
■ was first worn over 300 years ago.
Q. What does the design on the ten-cent
j piece mean? E. R. C.
A. The design is taken from ‘he Roman
1 THE LOVE TRAP
BY HAZEL DEYO BACHELOR
What has gone before. —After a two
year engagement in Dalesburg, a small
middle western town, Gail Martin is
‘ jilted by her fiance. George Hartley.
George has become infatuated with Fay
Morrison, a visitor from the city, but he
discovers afterward tha,t she is only
!- playing with him. Gail is determined to
get away, and when her Aunt Debbie
dies and leaves’ the girl $5,000, Gail
takes the money and goes to New York.
There she succeeds in turning the tables
. by becoming engaged to Arch Kenner
‘ ley, whom Fay Morrison considers her
property. Gail is disillusioned and tries
to make herself believe that she can
' marry Arch for his money. Shortly
after their engagement, however, she
meets Jeffry Arnold, an artist, and falls
’in love with him. He is also in love
with her, but hears of her engagement
and realizes that she has deceived him.
—Now go on with the story.
CHAPTER XLIX
A Kiss in the Dark
AT the theater they all filed into a stage
box fifteen minutes after the curtain
had risen. There was a buzz of whis
pering punctuated ly staccato laughs from
the girls, and immediately eyes were leveled
at the box and an indignant murmur arose
from those in the audience who wanted to
i hear what was going on on the stage.
Since Gail’s arrival in New York she had
never once arrived at the theater on time.
Her protests against this had been met with
light laughter from the others. “What dif
ference does it make? You’re sure to get
the hang of the thing before the first act is
over, and who wants to eat early enough to
get to the theater before the first curtain?”
These and other remarks from sundry
members of the crowd had always silenced
Gail, but each time she readied the theater
late she dreaded the noise and confusion of
their arrival. It was unfair to spoil the pleas
ure of others, and yet these gay and thought
less young people apparently never thought
of that.
Finally, they were all settled, Gail toward
.tlie front of the box, Arch slightly behind
her, and Fay next to him. The confusion
had died down, but Gracia was still whisper
ing to her escort and Arch w<as murmuring
something in an undertone to Fay.
Gail tried to forget the rest by giving her
attention to the play. By concentrating it
wasn’t hard to gather what had happened
before their arrival, but somehow she could
not lose herself; the memory of Marjorie
MacDonald’s contemptuous little smile kept
recurring to her, and Jeffry, what of him?
Had Marjorie told him the truth, and had it
disgusted him so that he never wanted to
see her again?
Absorbed in her thoughts, Gail watched
the stage with unseeing eyes, and then sud
denly she became conscious of the fact that
Arch was moving his chair hack from hers
and nearer to Fay. Gail tried to keep her
eyes turned in another direction, but in spite
of herself she kept turning back. She was
fascinated at Arch’s slyness, the caution with
which he was accomplishing his purpose.
And then out of the corner of her eyes she
saw him reach out his hand and close his
fingers over Fay’s bare arm. Fay did not
repulse him; instead, she moved in her chair
so as to bring herself nearer. When the
curtain finally descended on the first act ana
a storm of applause broke from the audience,
Gail, turning her head, saw Fay and Arch
start back from each other, but not soon
enough. In that moment Gail had seen their
lips meet, and Fay sat now with a triumph
ant look in her narrowed green eyes, while
Arch looked slightly uncomfortable.
Gail’s lips curved in a sneer, and Arch,
fearful that she had seen, leaned forward
and began to talk to her. She answered in
monosyllables, making no effort to respond
to him, and it was with a feeling of relief
that she turned to the stage as the curtain
rose on the second act.
The play dragged along interminably, Gail
thought it would never end, and at last it
was over, Arch, ignoring Fay, grasped Gail’s
arm and led her out of the box and along the
corridor to the lobby. In the car on the way
to one of the supper clubs he slipped his
arm around Gail and drew her roughly up
to him.
“See here, what’s the matter with'you to
night, anyway?” he growled. “Jealous be
cause I paid a little attention to Fay Morri
son? Well, you deserved it. A fellow likes
to be amused, and you’ve been anything but
a cheerful companion, you’ll admit that now,
won't you?”
“Did you enjoy kissing her?” The -words
were out before Gail was aware that she was
speaking them, and she was suddenly furi
ous at her lack of self-control. Arch would
think she was jealous when the feeling up
permost in her heart was contempt.
Thursday—“ Escape.” If your subscrip
tion expires this month renew now so as not
to miss a chapter. The story is nearing the
end.
fasces. Fasces are a bundle of rods having
among them an ax with the blade projecting,
aud were borne before the Roman magis
trates as a badge of authority.
Q. Give a comparison of bhe number of
veterans in Congress after World war and
Civil war. J. F. L.
A. World war veterans of 68th Congress:
House of Representatives, 40 of the 437
members; Senate, 5 of 96. Civil war veter
ans of 40th Congress: House of Representa
tives, 58 of 228; Senate, 11 of 74.
Q. What Bible was revised to make the
“Authorized Version?” E. H. V.
A. The English Bible, which is now recog
nized as the “Authorized Version,” is a re
vision of the Bishop's Bible. It was under
taken as a result of a conference between the
High Church and The Low Church parties,
convened by James I.
Q. What is the basis between sweet and
sour? E. B.
A. The chemical difference between sweet
and sour is probably based upon the differ
ence in intramolecular arrangement. The
psychological difference is due to the fact
that the tongue contains end organs, some
of which are stimulated by sweet things and
others by sour. These are known as taste
buds and because of the functioning of these
buds, we are able to differentiate between
sweet and sour.
j Q. How many children are there in the
'■average farmer’s family? B. N. G.
I A. According to census reports the farm
, ers of the United States have an average of
* 3.8 children.
i Q. How fast do quail fl?? S. G.
I A. Field and Stream says that a hunter
* timed a covey of quail that he flushed for
■ the purpose. The birds flew at a rate of
; about 48 miles an hour.
) Q. Who was Billy the Kid? A. Y”.
A. Billy the Kid was the name used by
William H. Bonney, 1859-1881. He was
killed by a bnllet fired by Sheriff Pat Gar
rett, which pierced his breast. He was 21
years of age at the time of his daath. and had
killed 21 men. not counting Indians, during
' his six years of outlawry.
I Q. Has any country modeled a banking
system upon our Federal Reserve bank? E.
1 N. G.
A. Peru has the Banco de Reserva del
Peru, an institution which was modeled upon
|-the Federal Reserve Bank of the United
i States.
THE COUNTRY HOME .
BY MRS. W. H. FELTON
MARRYING FOR MONEY’
THE Sunday papers have been running
various biographies, with plenty of pic
tures, entitled, “How I Captured an
American Heiress.” They did not run her
dewn with track dogs—nor did they waylay
Niny of them on the highway, fling a shawl
over their heads and bring them in bound
hand and foot, as real captives.
The money-chasers showed a title; the
heiresses displayed a bank book. The very
minute some American families become im
mensely wealthy, the titled roue foreigner,
the broken-down lounge lizard, gets on his
feet arid proceeds to chase her money down.
And they are not averse to the chasing,
these newly rich, with more money than
common sense. In France these titles are
largely visionary. France claims to be a re
public. It is not an American republic (I
mean a copy of our government), and Paris
is known to be utterly abandoned to fast liv
ing and loose morals with its population of
both sexes. . These titled men could not hold
place or position in American social life, and
it would be a wise law to deport the wives
of these marquises and counts, to the soil of
France and to send their money on the same
ship which cohveys the newly-wed.
Marrying for money is an everyday occur
rence sometimes in even poor old Georgia.
Vamp women are eager to catch a rich old
fellow and hold him until he makes a mar
riage settlement, or provides alimony in a
divorce settlement. It is the money they are
seeking, and when the money is in their
hands they have got all they went after, and
then they are anxious to let the rich fool go
his own way thereafter, to bear his ultimate
burden.
The lull details are printed in the every
day newspapers. These newspapers are
taken into -very house, or borrowed to read
in other houses. Young men and young
women read things while they are in high
schools, and the co-eds gossip over these
details on the school grounds together. What
sort of education would you call it? Per
haps this is the degeneracy that follows in
the wake of war, and the real result of the
war with Germany, to our people.
It is one of the remarkable things that I
American soldiers retained on the Rhine to ;
keep order in Germany for three years after
the armistice, brought home German wives
and half-German babies when they were
shipped back to their native country, the
United States. There is nothing to the dis
credit o£ either the plain soldier or the Ger
man wives that came back with them. “Bet
ter marry than burn” is a proverb of long
standing.
YOUR OPPORTUNITY
By H. Addington Bruce
SO, young man, you feel that you had
better look for another job, as the one
you have is without opportunity for
you? '
Are you sure of that? Are you absolute
ly sure of that?
It must be a poor job indeed if it does
not give you opportunity to demorfstrate ;
that you are a willing worker and a thor
ough worker, an honest worker and a loyal
worker.
It must be a miserable job if it denies
you all opportunity to be energetic and re
sourceful, patient and persistent, thought
fully intent on accomplishing in the best
possible way whatever tasks are assigned to
yt)u.
But, you shy, you don’t mean exactly that
—you mean opportunity to get on in the '
world, opportunity to improve your financial
status and make a name for yourself.
Still, doesn’t the kind of opportunity you
mean depend, after all, on your possession
of the traits and qualities fostered by the
kind of opportunity I mean?
Getting on in the world, improving one’s
financial status, and winning a name for
oneself, it is most important for you td recog
nize, are by no means self-determined con
sequences of being placed in this or that job.
Suppose you do make a change, will you
advance any more rapidly if you neglect op
portunity for self-development and growth
in efficiency, surely the most important of
all kinds of opportunity are present in every
worthwhile job?
Here are a few words from a clear-seeing
observer, words well meriting your consider
ation:
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TUESDAY'. MARCH 4. 1924.
What sort of recollections will he trans
mitted to these half-German babies when
they are all to be told of what happened in
Europe during the World war? Will it be 4
hozanna or anathema?
The rich ones, who have bartered off
American dollars to the greedy foreigners,
in European lands, in exchange for a bauble
that has no value in either coin or bank
checks, should be allowed to fill up the ranks
“over there.” Who in America can retain
worthy interest in an Amerircan girl who at
eighteen years has agreed to marry some
foreigner make-believe of a man sixty-five
years old, because he owns some kind of a
worthless title? Some of our chief tnilitants
were willing to have a title conferred on
themselves by the King of England. Titles
are like measles, catching when they g£t in
the atmosphere of dukes and lords and
knights of the bath over in Great Britain.
Can you wonder that silly little heiresses like
to be < * lied lady, countess, duchess, and such
like? When they want to go so badly, why
not urge them to depart? If they continue
to make their riches over here, then tax it
until they must carry it over to the land’of
titles and distribute it, as we are told it is
distributed, by the so-called dukes, marquises,
counts and knights of the bath, who only tol
erate us with me ney donations and give us
the cold shoulder when the money ceases to
flow like the Gulf stream on the shores of
the Atlantic.
The rich heiresses going over and the
plain little German wives coming back—
without money. Which will be the best
mothers to raise soldiers for another World
war?
THE THINGS THAT FEBRUARY’ BROUGHT
US.
JANUARY, nineteen twenty-four, was a
tough old customer, but February,
nineteen twenty-four, is a record break
er. I could remain within the bounds of
reason when I say more coal was burned
in the twenty-nine days of passing February
than January, and that is saying a mouthful.
,We have had mild winters for five years
!up to the new year nineteen twenty-four,
i but we have to give the medal to February,
i now hurrying away into oblivion. *
Maybe the cold weather will cripple old
man 801 l Weevil.
If our farmers will take the pains to kill
the old things on planting seed, before they
put the seed in the ground, it will help.
. God has been merciful to spare so many
of us to live through so far, but many, many
have gone to their long home because of
the severe weather.
FINDING ONE’S SELF
By Pr. Frank Crane
WHEN, in “The Phaedo,” Crito asks Soc.
rates,* “How shall we bury you?” the
sage answered, “In any way you like,
but you must first get hold me of, and take
care that I do not run away from you." ‘
And what is this precious ME I think and
; talk so much aboqt?
It is what you burn in the crematory, or
what slips away from the body in death?
There seems to be some confusion about it
just now, too, when I am alive and kicking.
For sometimes one says, “That was your bet
ter self that prompted that.”
It is also spoken, “He is his own worst
enemy.” Are there two of me then, opposed to
each other?
Then you speak of “restraining yoitrself,"
and “letting yourself go.” What is it tliat is
, doing the restraining and the letting go?
Also an angry man is beside himself,” and
a successful man has “found himself.”
Y’ou remark, “I said to myself,” or “I
thought to myself.” To whom were you talk
ing, or who talked?
Am I a duet, or a company?
Psychologists in later days have been de
claring that there are cases of dual personality,
real Instances of Hyde and Jekyll, as in the
interesting play, “The Case of Becky.”
As I do not understand the matter at all I
shall explain it to you.
The body’s eye looks only outward; the
soul’s eye looks both out and in. So the soul
can hear itself also with an inward-facing
ear, and taste itself with an inward tongue.
And what is going on within me is fully as
important as what is going on about me?
Real vision is to see one's self clearly.
Few do.
Real prudence is to listen to one’s self
Real education is to study and finally to
know one’s‘self,
Real prudence is to listen to one’s self.
Real peace is to be on good ternjs with
one’s self.
Real hell is to hate one’s self.
• “Selfish” is a misleading word. It means, as
commonly used, not caring for one’s self at all,
but trying to quiet it by feeding it cakes and
ale; it means assuring one’s self to be a con
cealed hog.
If we were truly- “selfish,” that is to say if
we knew and respected the self in us, we
should be good and great.
A gentle mother does a deal of self sacrifice
to please herself, quite'as much as the drunk
ard drinks to please htynself. The difference
is that the sot’s inward eye is more bleared
than his outward eye; yhe understands himself
not at all. He is insulting his real self, and
some day self will repay hint in scorn.
All fools who piirsue the sfhsualties are en
gaged in the fool’s business of running away
from self. All wise persons are those who
, seek themselves, until they “find themselves.”
For the most horrible person to be on bad
terms with is myself. I can never get away
from him.
I _
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
Couzens and Mellon don’t agree on tares.
That shouldn't worry them. Nobody agrees
on taxes.
They almost changed the American flag
by giving up the field of stars (or an oil field.
■ During the recent Mexican election several
men failed to vote because they had no am
munition.
Wouldn’t it be nice if summer came every
winter and winter came every summer?
His enemies would like to change “Mc-
Adoo’ll do” to “McAdoo did.”
I Every week 4eems to be investigation week
in Washington.
Nearly every year the groundhog is called
a liar, but he alw-ays stages a comeback.
Leading a double life may get you through
just twice as quick.
. /
Nine men out of ten overestimate their
importance in the world.
. Few men are capable of answering the
arguments of a pretty woman.
———— ,
. If a man takes too many eye-openers he, is
apt to be blind to his own interests.
It is wojl to investigate the oil well that
I won't be r looking into,
HER MONEY
BY CAROLYN BEECHER
CHAPTER LXV
a LTHEA was about to take down the r
ceiver to call Kenneth Moore but hes
tated. S4ie must know what she wi
to say to him. Not even to Moore cou
she tell the whole truth. And he would I
very curious.
Perhaps it would be better to call Nt
Blaakwell! But Rodney never would u
derstand how she could have so disregard
Peter’s wishes as to have anything to <
with Bundy after what had happened. Ro
ney was rather set in his ideas of what
wife owed her husband. Nq, Moore was h
only hope.
She called his apartment.
“Mr. Moore left five minutes ago,” I
man told her. While she had hesitated
had left his apartment. She would give hi
time to reach his office and call him there
The door bell rang.
“.A gentleman to see you, Mrs. Graham
Jane told her.
“To see me?” It was unusual for her
receive a caller so early in the mornin
“Show him up,” she said.
A young eager-faced man appeared.
“You are Mrs. Graham?” he asked. S
nodded. “Thank you for seeing me. I a
from ‘The Blade,’ ” mentioning an evenn
paper. “Now, Mrs. Graham,” he went o
“please give me your version of the frto
that appeared in the morning paper. W1
should this woman, Bundy, expect, you
bail her out?” His manner was brisk, bus
nesslike. His pad and pencil, ready to p
down, what she said, were terrifying.
“I have nothing to say,” finally Alth
said. “I was kind to the woman once ai
, she has presumed upon that kindness to/
this thing. That is all there is to
is no ‘story’ as you call it, none at alnJSr*
Althea’s knowledge of. reporters was n
She knew nothing of their insistence, thf
desire to procure a story such as this proi
ised to be, nor of the lengths to which th
would go to get it.
His brisk manner did not change as
threw question after question at her. SI
glanced nervously at the clock. Moo
would now be in his office but time w
passing and Peter might get to the court b
fore she could talk with Kenneth.
She parried the questions as best s
■could but the reporter was clever and sens
that she was not at ease; that she was hoi
ing something back.
Althea had heard of the “third degre
and felt as if she •were experiencing it. S
really admitted nothing she had not said
first —that she had only shown kindness
Miss Bundy—but the reporter had worm<
out of her thrit Peter had discharged tl
woman and that she had asked to be tak<
back. When he finally left he had enou?
material to write an interesting account
the interview, although she did not thii
she had told him anything.
. “I’m not at home to anyone,” she to
> Jane. Others papers might send reporte
also.
Althea rushed to the telephone and call*
' Moore’s office.
“Yes, Mr. Moore has been here but is o
at present. He will be back about !
o’clock,” she was told.
“Do you know where I can get hfin’
she
“We haven’t the slightest idea.”
t “When he comes in will you tell him
, call Mrs. Graham at once?” She gave h
. telephone number.
She could do nothing more. The b«
rang and through the curtains she watchc
a young man reluctantly leave, gldncing i
’ at the w’indow as he did so. Three tim
Jane gave the message she had told her to
she was not at home,
Miss Howard came and carefully Alth<
gave her the doctor's instructions, adding:
“If anyone calls or telephones I am n*
at home.”
She thought she noticed a look of pii
in Miss Howard’s eyes. She noticed she ca
vied the morning paper in her hand. SI
had read the article and was sorry—not ft
. her, but for Peter. Her tone was brusqt
as she added:
[ ‘Be sure you make no mistake. lam i
home to no one (inless it should be M
Moore. If he should call or speak on tt
telephone let me know at opce.”
“Very well, Mrs. Graham.”
I Either the house or office telephone jai
gled constantly. Upstairs Althea answere
it, changing her voice, although certain r
I one who called would recognize it.
1 It was halt past twelve before she recoi
nized Moore’s voice.
“What is it, Althea?” he asked.
“Nothing now Kenneth. I wanted to s<
you but it is too late.”
i “You are in trouble, let me help you. PP
haps it isn’t too late. I will be right up.
He hung up without waiting fpr an answ§
Continued Thursday. If your suhscrlptio
expires in March, renew now so as not t
miss a chapter of this splendid story.
MY FAVORITE: STORIES
• i
By Irvin S. Cobb
The setting of the picture is supposed toj:
at the portals of Paradise —stop me if
heard this one!—and the principal actors ar
St. Peter, the keeper of the keys, and th
shades of two mortals who just have knocke
for admission to the Heavenly precincts.
One of the spirits is that of a Souther
colored man, lately deceased. Just behin
him is a NeW York East-Sider, also jus
translated from earthly scenes.
In response to the saint’s opening question
?ach of the pair gives his name and his mot
recent terrestrial address. St. Peter consult
the massy pages of the Judgment Book.
“That’s right,” he says, “it appears fror
the entries set forth here that both of yo
are qualiffied for eternal life among the elec
Also, there's a special blessing in store so
you. Because of your good deeds in the flesi
it is permitted that in addition to enterin
the Celestial City each of you may have you
dearest wish gratified.” He looks toward th
expectant colored man: “My son, what gif
would you desire most of all? Speak and i
is yours.”
The favored one knits his brow In thought!
“Please, sub, boss,” he says at length, “<
taint too much trouble, I’d lak to have a mi
lion dollars.”
Bang! Miraculously the money bags ar
materialized out of the sky, and, uttering
cries of thanksgiving, and staggering unde
the weight of bullion, the candidate passe
through the Golden Gate.
St. Peter turns to the East-Sicler.
“And now, my son,” he inquires. “What d
you desire?”
The answer comes instantly:
“Twenty dollars worth of phony jewelr;
and halluf an hour alone with that nigger’.'
(Copyright, 1924.)
ABE MARTIN SAYS
If most of. us wuzn' too. proud t’ borrow I
little judgment now an’ then, we’d git alonj
better*. A young girl with a natural flnfst
attracted attention on th’ streets here t’day
(Copyright, 1924.)
If you consider that politics and patriotisn
are synonymous, forget it.
The youn? man who thinks that his bos
can’t get along without him may have to ge
i along T?‘hou' his boss later in the game.