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A BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TODAY
It is better to hear the rebuke of the
wise than for a man to hear the song of
fools. For as the crackling of thorns under
a pot, so is the laughter of a fool; this
also is vanity. Better is the end of a thing
than the beginning thereof, and the patient
in spirit is better than the proud' in spirit.
Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry, for
anger resteth in the bosom of fools. Say
not thou, what is the cause that the former
days were better than these? For thou
dost not inquire wisely concerning this.
—From the seventh chapter of Ecclesiastes.
» Fortunate for Farms
AVIERICAN farming, as viewed through
the annual report of the federal de
partment of agriculture, has had an
uncommonly well-fortuned year. Harvests,
though not of a record volume, are the “best
balanced” since 1920 and represent the best
income. Their gross value bids fair to reach
twelve billion dollars, which is some five
hundred on n. than in 1923, and
nearly two and a half billion above 1922.
These are auspicious figures, not only for
those whose living is drawn directly from
the soil, but also for the vast range of busi
ness interc , dependent' on them. Particu
larly cheering is the report of better balanced
crops, for this indicates an improvement in
methods that is fundamental and that may
be expected to yield results increasingly
good.
A Business Plea for Peace
BUSINESS wisdom and business character
never spoke to better advantage than in
the resolution adopted by the Associ
ated Advertising Clubs of the World at their
London convention appealing to men of judg
ment and of conscience everywhere to exert
their influence against that which engenders
hatred and for that which fosters good will
" among the nations of the earth. Referring
to the “unspeakable tragedy” of the late
world conflict, the resolution runs:
“We declare it our firm conviction that
war as a method of adjusting international
misunderstandingJs a supreme peril of hu
manity, and we affirm that the leaders of
the nations ought now to be called upon to
take such steps as will guarantee the security
of the people against the return of the use of
aggressive force. We condemn war as the
enemy of human progress and futile as a
means of adjusting disputes among the na
tions. . . . We pledge our utmost endeavor to
awaken a more intense public sentiment
against all those insidious movements which
have a tendency to arouse war passions and
to favor all proper efforts which are work
ing to accomplish enduring brotherhood and
peace. We call upon the Advertising Clubs
of the World to make this message of inter
national good will part of their permanent
program until war shall have a place only
m history, and until world service, comrade
ship and internationalal co-operation shall
become universal.”
Cogent in themselves, these words wax a
thousand times mors meaningful when we
note that they came ringing from a company
of tne keenest and clearest minds of our day.
Back or them are business leaders, not from
one or two countries only, but from the fore
most of the entire world—from Canada, from
the United States, from England, France,
Holland, Germany, Spain, the Irish Free
State, Ulster, Scotland, Denmark, Switzer
land, Sweden, Belgium, India, New Zealand.
Australia, and Hawaii. With so wide a cir
cle of substantial influences at work for the
prevention of war and the promotion of
peace, good results are predestined.
Because of their numbers and their
strength, much will be expected of the Ad
vertising Clubs of America on the march for
IDE ATI AN I Y TBI-WKEKLV JUUIIXAIi
these noble ends; and much, we doubt not,
will he forthcoming. An immediate oppor
tunity waits in the question of our country's
joining the World Court. A resolution pro-|
viding that she shall has been locked for
long months in the Senate committee on for
eign relation. President Coolidge has urged '
favorable action, and tho majority of the I
Senators appear so disposed. Every influ-|
once mustered in that direction, will be a|
service to the high cause for which the Asso- i
call'd Advertising Clubs and all men of good '
sense and good will are allied.
7/ie Stuff of Prosperity
IT is a striking tribute to tho resourceful-:
ness of Coffee county farms that from
three to five cars of corn a week are!
being exported through the agency of a sin
gle firm at Douglas. Cither shipments of !
grain, along with large sales of sweet po-!
tutors, go to swell tho county’s cash income!
from food cro]#s x A potato curing plant and
facilities for shelling and grading corn ap
pear to have had much to do with develop
ing these new channels of prosperity.
Wherever such conditions obtain in Geor
gia, times are good. Fortunately, too, more
and more towns and cities are making it to
the advantage of the farms round about to
produce such commodities, instead of de- j
pending on a single crop. Communities that I
go in for dairying seem to fare particularly i
well. Let these policies continue spreading,
and Georgia’s economic interests will be
upon an incomparably sounder basis than
ever in the past.
We Do Move
tF the hero of the Book of Exodus is
I still interested in such matters, he must
have smiled the other day when the ce
lestial wireless brought news from earth
that the expanse of wilderness which he and
the children of Israel were forty years in
getting through had been crossed by an ■
American motorist in just four hours.
We do move in these times, whether* or
I
no we are bound for a promised land. Napo-
his Russian disaster,xwas thirteen
days in traveling from Vilna to Faris, a
stretch of some fourteen hundred miles, and
if his facilities had been no more than those !
of a private citizen, he probably would have |
taken twice as long. Anybody now can
make the trip by rail in less than eight and
forty hours. Ben Franklin relates that as :
a lad he was’a fortnight in journeying from
Boston to rhiladelph/a; now he could go it;
between a not too early breakfast and I
luncheon. Weigh this from the West: “Men I
now only middle-aged recall that when they
were small boys they gasped with astonish
ment when told that pony express riders
had carried mail from the Missouri river to
the Pacific coast at the rate of two hun-|
dred miles a day. Now it is carried almost .
that fast an hour.” Atlanta, in this year of j
speed, is nearer the Golden Gate than she i
was to Tybee Light when Hardy Ivy built his
cabin. The end? of the earth are rushing ■
together.
Move we do, but whither?
In mechanical devices, scientific knowl
edge and material power, ours is far and
away the richest of the ages. But how about
creative ideas and the treasures that shine
within? Is it possible that our speed is
that of a squirrel cage? And what if we i
should be longer in getting out of our wil- !
derness than was Moses?
QUIZ
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ATLANTA OFFICE.
Q. How does the number of churches in :
the United States compare with the number
of theaters? R. L.
A. There are about 204.000 churches while
the total number of theaters, museums and
concert halls is about 24.000.
Q. Are there any Hies as far north as
Alaska? B. B.
A. Dr. John Aldrich, of the National Mu
seum, says that there are no houseflies in
Alaska. He found plenty of horseflies every
where, but no houseflies. The common fly
is by origin a tropical insect and cannot en
dure cold weather. Even in our northern
states only a few houseflies survive the win
ter. Mosquitoes, however, are a common
pest in Alaska. Dr. Aldrich found two spe
cies there previously unknown to entomolo
gists.
Q. How old is Theodore Roosevelt, who
ran for governor of New York? I’. B.
A. He was born September 13, ISB 7, so is
just about thirty-seven.
Q. When was Hog Island Ship Yard es
tablished? H. S. Y.
A. The contract for Hog Island Ship
Yard was signed on September 13. 1917.
Q. What is the average cost per acre of
calcium arsenate dusting method of "801 l
weevil control? M. R. W.
A. The Department of Agriculture says
that it cost $4 per acre on 1,000 experi
mental plats last year.
Q. What is the origin of the name Calva
dos, a department of France? N. D.
A. The department derives its name from
a ledge or rock which stretches along the
coast between the mouths of two rivers.
Orne and Vice. The ledge is called Calvados
from the circumstance that the Salvador of
the Span4<a Armada was wrecked on it.
Salvador was corrupted into Calvados.
Q. When was the principle of the uas en
gine discovered? F. E. C.
A. tn 167 S the Abbe d'Hautefenille in
vented an engine for employing the explosive
power of gunpowder to drive a piston work
ing in a cylinder. This was the prototype
of the modern gas engine.
Q. What was the chemical used in bombs
which were made fast to torpedoes and
which caught tire when they came in con
tact with water? H. M. L.
\. The chemical used in the smoke bombs
which causes them to catch tire imraediatel'
upon contact, with water is calcium carbide. ,
THE SEA HAWK
BY RAFAEL SABATINI
(I'liblisliiYl by Arrnnifcment. With first National Pictures,
Jn j. Copyrighted by lloughton-Mi I I lin Company.)
< H AI’TEK \ I—Cont iiuh'd
r*r\HEltE was a long silence between them.
I Then at long length Eenzileh rose and
crossed to the mesh ra biy a h the lat
ticed window-box. She opened it and took
from one of its shelves an carthenwaie jar,
placed there so as Io rc'ceivc' the slightest,
breeze. From it. she poured water into a
little cup and drank gi'eedily.
She slammed the inner lattice and turned
to Marzak.
“And now?” quoth she.
“Now?” said the lad.
“Aye, what now? What, are xve to do?
Are wo to lie crushed under his rage until
we are ruined indeed, lie is bewitched. That
jackal has enchanted him, so that, ho must
(loom well done all that is done by him. Al
lah guide us here, Marzak, or then’ll he
trampled into dust by Sakr-el-Bahy.”
Marzak head; slowly ho moved
to the divan and flung himself upon its
pillows; there ho lay prone, his hands cup
ping his chin, his heels in the air.
“What can I do?” he asked at last.
“That is what I most desire to know*.
Something must be done, and soon. May
his bones rot! If he lives thou art de
stroyed.”
“Aye,” said Marzak, with sudden vigor
and significance. “If he lives!” And he
sat up.
“Whilst we plan and plot, and our plans
and plots come to naught, save to provoke
the anger of my father, we might be better
employed in taking the shorter way.”
She stood in the middle of the chamber,
pondering him with gloomy eyes.
“I, too, have thought of that.,” said she.
“I could hire me men to do the thing for a
handful of gold. But the risk of it ”
“Where would be the risk once he is
dead?”
“He might pull us down with him, and
then what would our profit be in his death?
Thy father would avenge him terribly.”
“If it were craftily done we should not be
discovered.”
“Not be discovered?” she echoed, and
laughed xvithout mirth. “How young and
blind thou art, O Marzak! We should be
the first to be suspected. I have made no
secret of my hate of him, and the people do
not love me. They would urge thy father
to do justice even were he himself averse
to it, which I will not credit would b£ the
case. This Sakr-el-Bahr—may Allah wither
him!—is a god in their eyes. Bethink thee
of the welcome given him! Wh.at Basha re
turning in triumph was ever greeted by the
like? These victories that fortune has vouch
safed him have made them account him di
vinely favored and protected.
“I tell thee, Marzak, that did thy father
die tomorrow Sakr-el-Bahr would be pro
claimed Basha of Algiers in his stead, and
woe betide us then.”
“Alay his grave be defiled!” growled
Marzak.
“His grave?” said she. “The difficulty is
to dig it for him without hurt to ourselves.
Shaitan protects the dog.”
“May he make his bed in hell!” said
Marzak.
“To curse him will not help us. Up, Mar
zak, and consider how the thing is to be
done.”
Marzak came to his feet, nimble and
supple as a greyhound.
“Listen, now,” he. said. “Since I must go
this voyage with him, perchance upon the
seas on some dark night opportunity may
serve me.”
“Wait! Let me consider it. Allah guide
me to find some way!*
She beat her hands together and hade the
slave girl who answer'd her to summon her
wazeer, Ayoub, and bid a litter be prepared
for her.
“We’ll to the sok, O Marzak. and see these
slaves of his. Who knows but. that some
thing may be done by means of them! Guile
will serve us better than mere strength
against that misbegotten son of shame.”
“May his house be destroyed!” said Mar
zak.
CHAPTER XVII
('oiDpet itors
ATA HE open space before the gates of the
Sok-el-Abeed was thronged with a mot
ley, jostling, noisy crowd that at every
moment was being swelled by the human
streams pouring to mingle in it from the de
bouching labyrinth of narrow, unpaved
streets.
There were brown-skinned Berbers in
black goat-hair cloaks that were made in
one piece with a cowl and decurated by a
lozenge of red or orange color on the back,
their shaven heads encased in skull-caps or
simply bound in a cord of plaited camel-hair;
there were black Saharowi. who went almost
naked, and stately Arabs, who seemed over
muffled in their flowing robes of white with
the cowls of overshadowing their swarthy,
finely featured faces; there were dignified
and prosperous looking Moors in brightly
colored rtelhams astride of sleek mules, that
were richly caparisoned, and there were
Tagareenes, the banished Moors of Anda
lusia, most of whom followed the trade of
slave dealers; there were native Jews in
somber black djellabas, and Christian-Jews
—-so-called because bred in Christian coun
tries, whose garments they still wore; there
were Levantine Turks, splendid of dress and
arrogant of demeanor, and there were hum
ble Coloiles, Kahyles and Biscaries.
Here a water seller, laden with his goat
skin vessel, tinkled his little bell; there an
orange hawker, balancing a basket of the
golden limit upon his ragged turban, bawled
liis wares. 1 here were men on foot and men
on mules, men on donkeys and men on slim
Arab horses, an ever shifting medley of col
ors, all jostling, laughing, cursing in the
ardent African sunshine under the blue sky
where pigeons circled. In the shadow of
tne x ellow ta;>ia wall squatted a line of
whining beggars and cripples, soliciting
alms; near the gates a little space had been
cleared, and an audience had gathered in
a ring about a Meddah—a beggar-troubadour
—who, to the accompaniment of ginibri and
gaitah from two acolytes, chanted a doleful
ballad in a thin, nasal voice.
Those of the crowd who were patrons of
the market held steadily amain, and leaving
their mounts outside, passed through the
gates through which there was no admit
tance for mere idlers and mean folk. Within
the xast quadrangular space of bare, dry
ground, enclosed by dust-colored walls, there
was more space. The sale of slaves had not
yet begun and was not due to begin for an
other hour, and meanwhile a little trading
was being done by those merchants who
had obtained the coveted right to set up
their booths again-t the walls; they were
vendors of wool, of fruit, of spices, and on?
op two traded in jewels and trinkets for the
adornment of the Faithful.
A well was sunk in the middle of the
‘ground, a considerable octagon with a L,w
parapet in three steps. Upon the nether
mo£t of these sat an a?ed. bearded Jew in
a black djellaba. his head swathed in a col
ored kerchief. Upon his knees reposed a
rare stones, which he was offering for sale.
About him stood a little group of young
The whole of the northern wall was oc
cupied bv a lone* i*s cor’onfq <'nm
pletely masked by curtains of camel-hair;
Orion Returns to the Eveni:
ORION, the Warrior, the most popular and ;
widely-known constellation in tho heav-I
ens, visible from all corners of the;
world because of its position on the celestial!
equator, has returned once more to the eve-:
nryg sky and may be seen towering majestic-i
ally above the eastern horizon by 9 o’clock in
the evening.
'The quaint star maps of the ancient as
tronomers pictured Orion with uplisted club
in his right hand, its tip close to the horns
of Taurus the Bull which he faces, and with ;
a lion's skin thrown over his uplifted left
arm. Four brilliant stars outline the hero’s
huge form. Two ruddy Betelgeuse in the!
right, shoulder, and blue-white Rigel diagon
ally opposite in the left, foot, are of the first
magnitude. The remaining two, Bellatrix in
the left shoulder, and Saiph in the right
knee, are of the second magnitude. 'The
left foot of Orion rests upon Lepus, the Hare
the small constellation directly belovv Orion,;
and his head is marked by a group of three
faint, stars. At his heels follow the two dogs,
Canis Major, which contains Sirius, the!
brightest star in the heavens, and Canis
Minor, farther north, with its first magni
tude star, Procyon. Depended from the Belt
o£ Orlon, which is marked by three stars of!
the second magnitude in a straight line
slanting toward the southeast, is the famous
Sword of Orion, containing a line of faint |
stars, the central one rather fuzzy in ap-!
pearance, Y’iewed through the telescope this!
fuzzy, starlike object is transformed into !
what is generally considered to be the most!
magnificent object, in the heavens, the Great 1
Orion Nebula, a glowing mass of luminous '
gases of enormous size and extent, which in-1
eludes in its ramifications the entire constel
lation.
The Orion Nebula is most brilliant in the !
neighborhood of the multiple star, Theta, ’
which is embedded in its heart. This star
and its surrounding nebulosity is the fuzzy
stellar object that is visible to the naked
eye. Small telescopes break this star up
into a system of four stars but more power
ful telescopes show that it is really a sex-!
tuple star, that is, six gigantic suns forming
one enormous system.
According to the latest investigations the
luminous gaseous nebulas of which the Great
Orion Nebula is the most illustrious example
owe their luminosity either to the reflected
light of stars associated with them or to elec
trical excitation produced in some way by
these stars or to both causes. It is prob
able, then, that the multiple star, Theta, in
heart of the Great Orion Nebula, is
largely responsible for the brilliancy of its
surrounding nebulosity.
The most reliable estimates place the typ
ical Orion stars, such as the brilliant Rigel,
the three stars in the Belt of Orion, and the <
stars in the Sword of Orion, at a distance
approximately six hundred and fifty light
years from the earth, oi* nearly four thou-!
sand trillion miles. All of these Orion trypeJ
stars are intensely hot with temperatures of
ten or twelve thousand degrees Centigrade *
or over, and with the element helium con-!
spicuously present in their spectra.
The red variable star Betelgeuse, which ;
has been in the past few years one of the .
most talked of. stars in the heavens because!
of its huge size, is not a member of the !
Orion group of stars. Its distance from the
earth is less than two hundred light years, !
or about one-third that of the true Orion !
stars. It is merely seen projected against )
the background formed bj* the more distant ;
stars in a convenient position to complete!
the outlines of this celestial figure which j
man has fashioned out of the stars and
from behind it proceeded a subdued murmur
of human voices. These were the pens in
which were confined the slaves to be offered
for sale that day. Before the curtains, on
guard, stood some dozen corsairs with at
tendant negro slaves.
Beyond and above the wall glistened the
: white dome of a zowia, flanked by a epear
like minaret and the tall heads of a few
i date palms, whose long leaves hung motion
less in the hot air.
Suddenly in the crowd beyond the gates
there was a commotion. From one of the
streets six colossal Nubians advanced with
shouts of:
“Oak! Oak! Warda!” (Way! Make
| way!)
They were armed with great staves,
! grasped in their two hands, and with these
they, broke a path through that motley
pres?, hurling men to right and left and
earning a shower of curses in return.
“Balak! Make way! Way for the Lord
Asad-ed-Din, the exalted of Allah! Way!’’
The crowd, pressing back, went down upon
its knees and groveled as Asad-ed-Din on a
milk-white mule rode forward, Escorted by
Tsamanni his wazeer and a clon'd of black
robed janissaries with flashing scimitars.
The curses that had greeted the violence
; of his negroes, were suddenly silenced. In
stead. blessings as fervent filled the air.
“May Allah increase thy might! May
Allah lengthen thy days! The. blessings of
our Lord Mahomet upon thee.! Allah send
thee more victories!” were the benedictions
that showered upon him on every hand.
He returned them as became a man who
was supremely pious and devout.
“The peace of Allah upon the Faithful of
the Prophet’s House,” he would murmur in
response from time to time, until at last he
had reached the. gates.
There he made Tsamanni fling a purse to
the crouching beggars, for is it not written
in the Most Perspicuous Book that of alms
ye shall bestow what ye can spare, for such
as are saved from their own greed shall
i prosper, and whatever ye give in alms, as
seeking the face of Allah, shall be doubled
unto you?
Submissive to the laws as the meanest of
his subjects, Asad dismounted and passed
on foot into the sok. He came to a halt by
the well, and, facing the curtained pent
house, he blessed the kneeling crowd and
ii commanded all to rise.
He beckoned Sakr-el-Bahr’s officer, Ali,
who was in charge of the slaves of the cor
sair's latest raid, and announced his will
to inspect the captive.?. At a sign from Ali
the negroes flung aside the camel-hair cur
tains and let the fierce sunlight beat in
upon those pent-up wretches. They were
not only the captives taken by Sakr-el-Bahr,
but some others who were the result of one
or two lesser raids by Biskaine.
Asad beheld a huddle of men and women
—though the proportion of women was very
small—of all ages, races and conditions;
there were pale, fair-haired men fjpm
France or from the North, olive-skinned
Italians and swarthy Spaniards, negroes and
half castes; there were old men. young
men and mere children, some handsomely
dressed, some almost naked, others hung
with rags. In the hopeless dejection of
their countenances alone was there any uni
formity. But it was not a dejection that
could awaken pity in the pious heart of
Asad. They were unbelievers who would
never look upon the face of God s Prophet,
accursed and unworthy of any tenderness
from man.
For a moment his glance was held by a
lovely black-haired Spanish girl, who sat
with her locked hands held fast between
her knees, in an attitude of intense despair
and suffering—the glory of her eyes in
creased and magnified by the dark brown
t
Leaning on Tsamanni's arm, he etood con
sidering her for a little while; then his
glance traveled on. Suddenly’ he tightened
his grasp of Tsamanni's arm. and a quick
interest leaped into his sallow face.
I On the uppermost tier of the pen that he
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 11)21.
ng Sky—By Isabel M. Lewis
which will some day lose its distinctive form
as surely, if not as fleetingly, ns the forms
we picture in summer clouds.
Betelgeuse owes its groat, brightness-to its
enormous size and the extemt of its light-giv
ing surface for its temperature is low for a|
star, as is to be expected from its reddish I
color, scarcely 3,000 degrees Centigrade. If
it were much less the star would scarcely I
shine by its own light. Unit for unit of I
area, Betelgeuse is far inferior in light-giv- I
; ing power to the magnificent Rigel which
outshines it though a much smaller body and !
three times more distant. The brilliant dia-‘
mondlike intensity of its light proclaims!
Rigel to be an intensely hot sun at tho peak
of its evolution, with tremendous light-giv
ing power.—Science Service.
SCIENTISTS TO MEET
WASHINGTON.—Sixty-four scientific or-’
! ga nizat ions, attracting some throe thousand
scientists, will meet in Washington during
New Year’s week, from December 29 to Jan
uary 2.
Over a thousand scientific papers will be
presented on subjects ranging from astrono- I
I my to zoology. It will be the largest gath
: ering of its kind ever held, according to of
; ficials of the American Association for the
l Advancement of Science, which forms a nu
' clous around which the other scientific or
! ganizations gather.
Added Interest in the meetings has been
| created by the renewal of a SI,OOO prize of-
I sered hj r an anonymous member as a re
! ward for the most important scientific paper
’ to be read at the meetings. The prize was
I awarded last year for the first, time to Prof.
L. E. Dickson, of the University of Chicago.
This meeting, the seventy-ninth of the as
• sociation, will be the fifth one held in Wash
' ington. Earlier Washington meetings were
held in April, 1854; August, 1891; Decem
ber, 1 902, and December, 19'11. Records of
I the 1854 meeting state that “the members
of the association were elegantly entertained
on different evenings by Franklin Pierce,
! president of the United States, and Jefferson
Davis, secretary of war.” Os the 1,004 mem
bers of the association, 168 were in attend
ance, and 110 papers were read.
The sections of the American association
noxv number fifteen, ranging from mathe
matics in section A to educational science
in section Q. Attendance at the general
meetings and the meetings of the various
sections, however, is not limited to members
of the association. The meetings are all open
to' the public, and the American association
Is unique among American scientific societies
in that laymen, interested but not technical
ly qualified in science, can become full
members. *
President Coolidge will probably address
one of the general meetings, which the en
tire association attends. On Monday evening,
December 29, Dr. Charles D. Walcott, siec
! retary of the Smithsonian Institution, and re
tiring president of the American associatlo/h,
j will speak on “Science and Service.” On
Tuesday evening there will be a meeting of
! the Society of Sigma Xi, the science honor
; fraternity, which xyill be addressed by Dr. F.
F. Russell, general director of the Interna
[ tional Health Boards on “War on Diseases,”
with special reference to malaria and yellow
: fever. On Thursday evening the American
; scientists will have an opportunity to see
: how their British co-workers conduct their
) meetings, for motion pictures will be shown
. of this summer’s meeting of the British as
sociation at Toronto, with a talk by Dr. Ed
! win E. Slosson, of Science Service. —Science
Service.
' QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES
Mr. and Mrs. Green had just had another
of their frequent quarrels, and in these
wordy contests, somehow or other, it always
seemed to be Mrs. Green who came out on
■ top. If she did happen to got beaten she
■ did her very’ worst in the cooking line and
upset Mr. Green's delicate stomach for a
fortnight.
But on this occasion he suddenly’ sur
prised her by saying:
“You remind me of an angel.”
Site was mollified at once by this flatter
j ing comparison.
“Do I, really?” she said.
“Yes —because you qre always harping,
never have any’ clothes to put on, and arc
■ always up in the air!’,’
Bang! (That is the noise made by’ the
clock striking- -against Mr. Green’s head.)
Uncle John watched his nephew and some
other little boys playing at soldiers attack
ing a fort. “Tommy,” he said, “if you and
your side can take that fort in half an hour,
. I’ll give you a quarter.”
About two minutes later there came an
eager cry: “Uncle, can I have that quarter
. now? We’ve taken the fort.”
“That was very smart,” said Uncle John,
as he handed over the coin. “How did you
manage it so quickly?”
“Oh, I just offered the other side a dime
to give in,” answered Tommy.
A young married woman was charged with
driving along the main street at more than
' forty miles an hour. Long and earnestly
1 her counsel had pleaded for her, but it
seemed to make no impression at all upon
, the judge.
“Have you anything to say before sen
' fence is passed on you?” said the judge, fix-
. wig his gaze upon the prisoner.
. | “Well, you see,” she said brightly, ‘‘it
happened like this —I had just bought a
hat at my milliner’s, and I was trying to
get home with it before the fashion
changed.”
“That will do,” said the judge, “the case
is dismissed for your husband’s sake.”
The conceited young man had talked about
himself till the girl felt she could not en
-1 i dure it much longer.
' 1 “It costs a. great deal more than one
would think to become a broadminded and
intelligent man of the world,” he remarked,
; . serenely.
The girl saw her chance and took it.
I “I suppose so,” she said, “and I don’t
blame you for saving your money!”
was facing sat a very glory of womanhood,
such a. woman as he had heard tell existed,
but the like of which he had never yet be
held. She was tall and graceful as a cy
press tree; her skin was white as milk, her
eyes two darkest sapphires, her head of a
coppery golden that seemed to glow like
metal as the sunlight caught it. She was
i U'cs"'ed in a close gown of white, the bodice
1 cut low and revealing the immaculate love
' ; liness of her neck.
Asad-ed-Din turned to Ali.
; “What pearl is this that hath been cast
i ' upon this dung-heap?” he asked.
“She is the woman our lord Sakr-el-Bahr
' carried off from England.”
j Slowly the Basha's eyes returned to con
i sider her. and insensible though she had
■ > deemed herself by now, he saw her cheeks
! slowly reddening under the cold insult of
[ his steady, insistent glance. The glow
heightened her beauty, effacing the weari-
; ness which the face had worn.
; “Bring her forth.” said the Basha shortly.
Continued Tuesday. Kene'.v xoiir «u!>«crip
jt;on now to avoid mis-ing a chapter of this
splendid stogy. j
NERVOUS HOMES
By H. Addington Bruce
TtOl' write madam, that you are great-
V ly concerned about the increasing
nervousness of your little boy. Y’ou
mention particularly his restlessness and ex
citability and irritability so extreme that ho
flares up if crossed in anything.
The fact that a physician lias failed ta
find any bodily state that would accoiKA for
this is at once a relief and a surprise to
you. Why, you ask, should your boy be so
nervous, so difficult to manage, if he is not .
afflicted with any of the ills known to b«»
causes of nervousness?
Well, madam, it may be that he is nerv
ous simply because he lives in a nervous
home.
Y’ou yourself, as I happen to know, are
restless rather than reposeful. You are al
ways looking for something to do, you keep
perpetually on the go. You have, let me say
it frankly and in the kindliest spirit, a veri
table a musenaent -craving.
Only this summer, as the society column
in the newspaper has informed me, you and
your husband toured Europe by automobile,
and you took your little boy with you. The
incessant change of scene and the great va
riety of incidents and sensations no doubt
delighted you.
But at the same time you must have found
them somewhat fatiguing, and I am confi
dent your boy found them more than some
what fatiguing.
Children, too many parents seem to forget,
do not adapt themselves readily to rapidly
changing surroundings. Travel may be an
easy means of providing them with enter
tainment, but it is entertainment that really
taxi's their nervous systems severely.
And now that you are back home, can you
honestly say that you have given your child
a quieting environment?
Do you make it a, point to keep aim away
from most of the numerous callers who como
to see you? Or do you give him reason to
feel that most of them are really calling on
him?
Have you made any real effort to insure
for him some rest every morning and every
afternoon? What is even more important,
have you really tried to set him an example
of control in speech and behavior?
There is a saying, “The fruit does not fall
far from the tree.” If your home, madam,
is what may justly be called a nervous home,
I would indeed urge it on you that you do
not have to look further to account for the
disquieting condition of your boy.
And the remedy in that case is not far to
seek. The observations I have made, tho
questions I have asked, surely suggest it to
you.
If you plead that you are now “too old”
to change your ways, and, changing them, to
change the home environment with them,
then you will either have to entrust your
boy to some one who will provide him with
a kind of environment better suited to his
needs, or reconcile yourself to seeing him
continually grow more nervous. There is no
alternative.
(Copyright, 192 L)
WHAT TO DO
By Dr. Frank Crane
A VERY great and wise man came to
America. His fame was such that all
the nation believed that to follow his
advice in anything would bring success.
So all the legislatures of all tho statc'ls
elected representatives to meet at Washing
ton and ask him what to do.
When they had gathered together he asked
them, ‘‘What do you want most?”
They answered, “To get rid of crime and
criminals, to slop the social evil, to abolish
our Slums, to clean our states and cities of
poverty.”
“Very well,” he replied. “It will take
thirty-three years, or one generation, but if
you will faithfully do as I say you will
certainly'succeed.” « *
Whereupon there was loud applause and
exulting; and they sc id: “Tell us what to do,
and upon our lives and honor we will most
surely do it.”
“I will tell you a week from today,” he
responded.
This he said in order that, the enthusiasts
who had ideas of reforming the people might
make their suggestions.
And they came to him post haste, all sorts.
Preachers and priests came, saying they
hoped he would so to give more money to
churches and have grand revivals and ,get
everybody converted. AH kinds of political
and economical apostles besieged him; single
taxers, socialists, anarchists, progressives,
and prohibitionists, and all had their say.
But upon the set day he arose before the
delegates and said:
“All the plans you have proposed to me
have their good points but all have a fatal
weak spot, which is that they deal with
ADULTS.
“I do not propose to bother with them.
They will all be dead anyhow in a few years.
Besides, what you do with one adult crop of
people must be done anew with the next. It
is a. fool way of trying to improve the race.
Hence, go on as you are now doing. It
is the best you know and will last your time.
Sixty years from now, when your children
and grandchildren are at the helm of things,
all your reform programs will fade away
useless. .
“This is what Io do: First, enlarge your
public school system until it provides for the
fren education and ECONOMIC SL'PPORT
of all the population under twenty.
Second, to raise money for this cause the
state to be an equal partner in every con
cern or with every individual who has a
hundred thousand dollars or more; one-half
the profits of income to go to the state to
support its children.
“Third, so reform your public schools that
the children therein sail be taught HOW
TO LIVE; that, is, first of all, moral char
acter, including honesty, cleanliness, the
value of truth, and of courage to tell and
live the truth.
“Train thrni in politics. Let the schools
Im as democratic as the nation. Do not gov
ern the children. Teach them how to gov
ern themselves. Let it be ground into every
girl and boy that it is disgraceful not to take
an active part in the organization of the
ward city, state, and nation.
“Just pay due attention to one generation
.of children and it will save you a hundred
years’ labor with adults.”
This plan being so simple the delegates
felt their intelligence insulted and said:
“What! Ami did we come here io be told
about children?” Also the reformers and
institution-job-holders cried out upon him.
Tho upshot of it all was that they seized
the man and threw him into a mad-house.
(Copyright, 1 924.)
When a thing plainly needs to be done,
te wor and does it,
but the efficiency expert wants to survey
first.—Columbus Dispatch.
The artist i< a worldly cuss. He may not
often squeal, but many an artist doesn’t call
his model his ideal. Louisville Times.
For tho good name of the world, we trust
Mars disco ernd nn more about the human
race than we found about the Martians. —
Columbia Record.