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• The House of the
Three Ganders By BACHELLER IRVING
Copyright by Irrin* B.cheller (WNU Service)
SYNOPSIS
Ragged and starving, a boy of about
sixteen is befriended by a camping
party. He has fled from his brutal fa
,r at Morryson. The boy, Shad
(Sheridan), x is sent to Canton, with a
letter to Colonel Blake. The colonel,
his wife, and their daughter, Ruth, are
goes impressed to work by the boy^s manner. He
in the village of Amity
meets a youth of his age,
Bony, and Bumpy Brown, tinker,
considered a drunkard because of his
periodic lapses from strict sobriety.
Bat Morryson comes, determined to
take his son back to his own dissolute
the district *. s overawed attorney, by Colonel Blake,
and his father
passes out of Shad’s life. A girl, young
and pretty, comes to Brown's shack,
inquiring self for him. Shad applies him¬
tion. diligently Love to his neglected educa¬
for Ruth Blake takes a
strong hold on his heart. In an attack
made on the Perry family, Oscar Perry,
the father, and his daughter, Mrs. Doo¬
little, wife of Cyrus Doolittle, promi¬
nent citizen, are shot and seriously
wounded. Circumstantial evidence
points to Bumpy Brown as the assail¬
ant, He is arrested.
CHAPTER V—Continued
—8—
“When Cyrus Doolittle came to my
itiop about five o’clock on November
tenth, I was chatting with a man who
had been telling about the scandalous
talk of the old tinker. After Mr. Doo¬
little lay down I locked the shop and
went upstairs to my room and got me
a bite to eat. Then I lit a lamp an’
lay down on a bed an’ read some
story papers. I didn’t have a tele¬
phone. So when Mr. Doolittle woke
np and asked me to let him out of the
shop about half past eight I didn’t
know of the shooting. I told him then
that he’d better look out for the
tinker or he’d be done up. I was at
Doolittle’s the day that Cyrus put
him off his place. The old man acted
dreadful vicious."
The doctors and other witnesses
were sworn. Motive was proved to
the satisfaction of the judge. The
tinker stood by the statements he had
Baade on the night of the murder.
The rubbers were put In evidence.
Shad and the sheriff testified as to
the finding of the cartridges and the
revolver. The district attorney pre¬
sented his theory. It was conclusive.
The only dissenters in the courtroom
were the boys, Bony and Shad. Old
Bumpy Brown was held for the grand
Jury, which promptly indicted him for
murder in the first degree.
The prisoner limped out of court
with the sheriff and his deputy. The
district attorney stood receiving the
congratulations of friends when Shad
and Bony approached. Colonel Blake
greeted them.
“I know it looks bad, but I don’t
think he’s guilty,” said Shad.
“What are your reasons?”
“He is not mean enough," was
Shad’s answer.
“It’s the same old reason that has
been pleaded since Cain killed Abel,”
the colonel laughed. “I don’t complain
because a boy’s heart is better than
his head. It ought to be. Come over
to the house and spend the night
with us.”
“I’d like to, but I must get back to¬
night. Could we go and see Bumpy
a few minutes?”
“Certainly, I’ll go with you.”
Bumpy was glad to see them. He
smiled, reaching through the bars and
shaking their hands cheerfully as he
had been wont to do in Brown’s cove.
“We wanted you to know that you’ve
got at least two friends," said Shad.
“Friends! I used to have more
friends than you could shake a stick
at. They’re all gone hut you an’ the
woman. I miss her dreadful.”
“I guess you ain’t scared,”—-this
from Bony.
“Scared! By Jeedix!” Bumpy ex¬
claimed. “A man who has shook
hands with death as often as I have
ain’t apt to be nervous.”
“Assuming that you are innocent,
have you any theory about the crime?”
Colonel Blake asked.
“Well, sir, I have an idee, but I
may be wrong. I can be purty mean,
but I ain’t a-goin’ to say that a man
done murder ’less I know what I’m
talkin’ about. It ain’t manners.”
Bumpy reached through the bars
and shook their hands.
“We’re going to find the guilty
man,” said Shad.
“Boys, I like you—by Jeedix, I do!”
Bumpy exclaimed. “But you stick to
your jobs. I’m nigh the end o’ the
road anyhow.”
That ended the Interview. It was
supper time. Colonel Blake went with
the boys to the railroad station.
The boys rode to Ashfield, got their
suppers at a restaurant and walked
home. They were talking of the
events of the day.
Bony said: “It looks awful bad for
Bumpy. Do ye suppose he could have
gone an’ done it in a kind of crazy
fit?” kind
“No, I don’t. He Is not that
of a man.”
“Seems as if he didn’t care much
whether they hang him or not,” Bony
added.
“Maybe he’ll fool ’em yet. That ol’
man is smart.”
Shad spent the night with Bony.
The people were almost unanimous
in the conviction that Bumpy Brown
was guilty of the murder, even those
who had little knowledge of the damn¬
ing evidence. In spite of their fa¬
miliarity with every detail of it, the
toys stood firmly for their friend.
Their voices were the only ones that
had a word to say in favor of the sus¬
pected man. They were openly criti¬
cized for being the friends of a mur¬
derer.
It was nearing nine o'clock of a
chilly November night. The usual
band of murder gossipers had left the
store of Ephraim Smithers. He and
his young clerk were getting ready to
close. Suddenly Bony Squares en¬
tered. He had been running and was
breathing hard. Shad was In the
front end of the store stacking some
tools. Bony was excited. He whis¬
pered to his young friend.
"By Jeedix!" he exclaimed, quoting
the favorite oath of old Bumpy Brown,
"I’ve run a mile. 'Fraid I'd be too
late. I’ve learnt a lot o’ things, an*
I’ve got to have a talk with you. Ask
ol’ fur-face if you can come and stay
all night with me.”
Always Bony had been wont to
speak of the bearded Smithers as “old
fur-face.”
Shad knew that the request was
full of danger, but he felt that he
must hear what Bony had to say, even
if it involved his dismissal.
He asked for permission to spend
the night with his friend. Mr. Smith¬
ers turned upon him with a vexed
look. He never got angry.
“Do you want to lose your job?”
he queried, in a tender tone.
“No, sir,” Shad answered. “I am
not so happy here as I was. But I—
“A Man Who Has Shook Hands With
Death as Often as l Have Ain't
Apt to Be Nervous.”
I'd hate to lose the job and your—
your friendship, sir. You and Mrs.
Smithers have been good to me.”
“I guess we’d better settle up to¬
morrow,” said the man. “There’s a
lot of talk about you an’ Bony, but I
haven’t anything against you. I wish
you well.”
Shad went with Bony to his little
garret room.
“I’m glad you’ve quit rasslin’ with
spittoons an’ molasses jugs and kero¬
sene cans,” said Bony. “I’ve got six
dollars saved up. How much have you
got?”
“Twenty-two dollars!” Shad an¬
swered proudly.
“We’ll just hang on to it an’ make
It go as fur as we can. We’ve got a
job to do for ol’ Bumpy Brown. Some
one is tryin’ to saddle this murder on
him, an’ he ain’t no more guilty than
you an’ I be—not a bit! I’ve been
down to Ashfield an’ I’ve got some
news. First read that.”
He took from his pocket a poster
which he had torn from a telegraph
pole in Ashfield. It said:
“REWARD!
“I will pay $1,000 for the convic¬
tion of the criminal who wounded my
wife and killed her father.
“CYRUS DOOLITTLE.”
“Maybe we can make a lot o’
money,” Bony went on. “If we do,
we’ll go snucks. I'll tell ye why it
ain’t Bumpy Brown. You remember
that man you see down the road that
got over the fence an’ went behind
Doty’s barn. That must ’a’ been
about five minutes after seven. You
thought, but couldn't be sure, that he
wore a broad-brimmed hat. Forty
minutes later Jack Labarge met a
man two miles down the road in the
Food Value of Tapioca Discovered in Odd Way
“Tapioca,” which is of native Bra¬
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a vegetable food obtained from the
starch in the roots of the plant known
as bitter cassava, which is indigenous
to tropical America. According to a
Latin-American tradition, the food
value of the cassava root was acci¬
dentally discovered by a Spanish ex¬
plorer lost in the jungles of Brazil.
He had heard from the Indians that
the sap of the cassava plant was high¬
ly poisonous, and, preferring a quick
death by poison to a slow one by star¬
vation, he ate a bowl of soup prepared
by boiling cassava roots In water. In¬
stead of dying he lived to tell the
world how this pleasant and digesti¬
ble food saved him from starvation.
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dark. He had a broad-brimmed hat
on. He was walkin’ like Sam Hill
towards Ashfield. He limped like
Bumpy Brown. It was so dark Jack
couldn’t see his facd. Away down just
above the road that goes into the
village Henry Lockwood cornin’ home
in a hay wagon met a man wearin’
a broad-brimmed hat. He was walk¬
in’ fast. He had his hat tilted side¬
ways so Henry couldn’t see his face.
The moon was out then. This man
didn’t limp. 'There's a funny thing
about it. He didn’t limp. Henry Is
sure o’ that. It was within half a
mile of Ashfield an’ ’most two mile
below Bumpy’s on the other side o’
the river. Henry says it was a little
after eight o’clock.
“They say that the Bensons’ hired
girl passed the same man almost In
the edge o’ the village a little later,
but I didn’t have time to look her up
today. Do ye see how it all Jibes—
the time an’ the broad-brimmed hat
an’ the fast walkin’? Who was this
man with the broad-brimmed hat who
left here right after the murder an’
dodged you because you had a lantern
an’ went off the road? Why did he
hide his head behind his hat brim
when Henry Lockwood passed him?
I say that was the murderer."
Shad was thrilled by the news that
Bony gave.
In a moment they heard some one
coming up the stairs. Then a rap at
the door. Bony opened it. Doctor
Gorse—a tall, thin, smooth-shaved,
gray-haired, kindly man, stood before
them.
These two boys had interested the
doctor. Because they needed friend¬
ship and good counsel the doctor had
sought them out. He had been like
a wise father to Shad. He had told
his friends that these boys had good
stuff in them.
He came now and put his hand on
Shad's head and gave it a friendly
shake. “My young friend, I heard
you were here,” he said. “I came over
to tell you not to worry. You’ll come
out all right.”
He had called to see Mrs. Smither#,
ill with sick headache and had learned
of Shad’s dismissal.
“We’re going to see if we can get
Bumpy Brown out of his trouble,” said
Shad. “Some one is trying to put this
murder on him.”
Bony repeated to the doctor his sus¬
picion of the man with the broad
brimmed hat and the circumstances
on which it was founded.
“I'm inclined to think you are
right,” the doctor began. “It Is a curi¬
ous case. I think that the officials
have been misled by strong proba¬
bilities. Now in the case of an ama¬
teur, crude, bungling criminal, proba¬
bilities may lead to the truth. But
when you are dealing with an able
offender it is an axiom of the best
procedure that you must distrust what¬
ever is probable. It will lead you
astray. I think that I know the case
of the district attorney. It would
seem to be strong enough to hang
Bumpy Brown unless—”
The doctor paused. They waited
but he sat looking downward gravely
and said no more.
“What are we to do?” Shad asked.
“I’ll tell you what I would do. I
would follow that broad-brimmed hat
down the road tomorrow morning. If
it was worn by the criminal, he prob¬
ably hid the colored handkerchief and
perhaps the hat somewhere on or near
the road. Look in every hole and un¬
der every culvert. Examine the fence
corners and the crevices in the stone
walls. Go and find that hived girl at
the Bensons’. What kind of a man
was it who passed her in the road
that night? Did he limp? How was
he dressed? Did lie wear a broad
brimmed hat?"
"Supposing we found the hand¬
kerchief?” Shad asked.
“Take It to the district attorney
with all the information you have been
able to gather. You know Colonel
Blake. I have heard that he has the
revolver and the bullets discharged in
committing the crime. If this is true,
tell him that you would like to know
where the revolver came from. No
doubt it came from some store in this
part of the country. Who bought it
and when?”
The good man left them.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
As a matter of fact the milky Juice of
the bitter cassava is highly poisonous
and therefore cannot be eaten in its
natural condition without danger, but
the application of heat, as the explor¬
er discovered, destroys the poisonous
property.
Big Mouth Ha* No Valua
Although the mouth of the baleen
whale, the largest creature in the
world, is so large that a man could
stand upright In it, its throat is scarce¬
ly large enough to admit a man’s fist
and the tube by means of which its
food reaches its stomach is about the
size of a walking stick. Since thi*
huge animal is toothless, it can there¬
fore eat only very tiny creatures.
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Lesson for June 5
JOSEPH THE WORKER
BESSON TEXT—Genesis 41:46-57.
GOLDEN TEXT—Seest thou a man
diligent in his business? he shall stand
before kings; he shall not stand before
mean men.
PRIMARY TOPIC—Making Dreams
Come True.
JUNIOR TOPIC—Joseph tne Worker.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP¬
IC—The Rewards of Faithfulness.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOP¬
IC—The Religious Value of Work.
Joseph was not a sell-made man,
but a God-made man. Ilis masters
always attributed the quality of his
character and the success of his
work to the fact that the Lord was
with him.
I. Joseph Serving Potiphar (39:1-
20 ).
1. Sold to the Ishmaelites (37:28).
Joseph was sent by his father to his
brethren on an errand of mercy. At
the sight of Joseph the murderous
envy of his brethren was stirred up.
They first proposed to kill him in
order to prevent his dreams from
coming true. Finally the prudent
suggestion of Judah to sell him pre¬
vailed, and he was carried to Egypt
and sold as a slave to Potiphar.
2. His prosperity while a slave in
Potiphar’s house (39:2-G). This pros¬
perity consisted of:
a. Being accorded the privilege of
Potiphar’s house. By “house” is
meant his private residence instead
of fields or public buildings.
b. He became Potiphar’s personal
attendant (v. 4).
c. He was made overseer of Poti¬
phar’s house (v. 4).
d. lie brought prosperity to Potl
phar (v. 5). The Lord biassed Poti¬
phar for Joseph’s sake.
e. He possessed an attractive per¬
sonality (v. G.) His fine physique
and commanding personality were
gifts from God.
3. His temptation (vv. 7-20). Poti
phar's wife became infatuated with
this handsome slave. He resisted
her, unwilling to sin against his master
and his God.
II. Joseph Serving in Prison (39:21-
40:23).
1. Overseeing the prisoners (39:21-
40:4). Being defeated in her wicked
purpose, Potiphar’s wife accused Jo¬
seph falsely. Potiphar must not have
really believed his wife’s story, or
he would have put Joseph to death.
He Imprisoned him. the least that
was possible under the circumstances.
a. The Lord gave him favor in the
sight of the keeper of the prison (v.
21). This keeper was none other
than Potiphar himself (40:3, cf. 39:1).
b. He was given charge of the pris¬
oners (v. 22). Potiphar knew Jo¬
seph’s ability and faithfulness, there¬
fore gave him employment of the most
important kind.
c. The Lord made him to be pros¬
perous (v. 23). Joseph’s success was
due to the hand of God upon him.
2. Interpreting the dreams of the
butler and the baker (40:5-23). These
were two very important officers in
Pharaoh’s court, their business being
to provide the drink and food of the
ruler and his household. These offi¬
cers had disturbing dreams. lie in¬
terpreted their dreams. His inter¬
pretation was favorable to the butler,
who gave his pledge to Joseph that
he would intercede with Pharaoh for
him when he was set free.
III. Joseph Serving Pharaoh (41:1-
57).
1. Interpreting his dream (vv. 1-32).
For two full years Joseph remained
in prison, forgotten by the butler.
Pharaoh's dream brought to Joseph
a great opportunity. The failure of
the wise men of Egypt to interpret
the dream caused the chief butler to
remember what Joseph had done for
him. Joseph was brought out of
prison and made known to Pharaoh
that it meant seven years of plenty
followed by seven years of famine.
2. Advising Pharaoh (vv. 33-36).
He suggested to him that part of the
produce be stored during the years
of plenty. The plan appealed to
Pharaoh, and he invested Joseph with
authority to execute it.
3. Preparing for famine (vv. 37-52).
During the seven years the earth
brought forth plentifully. Clothed
with royal authority, Joseph went
over all the country and gathered and
stored the food in all the cities.
4. Selling food to the needy (vv.
53-57).
a. At last the years of fruitfulness
ended and then began famine in all
the lands (v. 53).
b. Bread was to be found in Egypt
only (v. 54). This was the result of
Joseph’s foresight and preparation.
c. Distribution in the hands of
Joseph (vv. 55-57). He opened the
storehouses and sold food unto the
Egyptians and foreigners.
Sure Remedy
There is no surer remedy for de¬
sponding weakness than, when we
have done our own parts, to commit
ail cheerfully, for the rest, to the good
pleasure of heaven. — Sir Roger
L’Estrange.
God’s Demands
God demands of us that though we
lose health and wealth we do not lose
faith in him, and though we have
abundantly of both that we do not \oat
sight of him.
Old-Fashioned Remedy
for Economic Illness
Some old-fashioned remedies for
depression are being brought out in¬
to tlie open by the long-suffering pub¬
lic. Here’s one wortli a place in the
Hall of Fame, contributed by Mrs.
Lydia O. Larson of Knoxville, Tenu.,
to Collier’s Weekly:
“I am sick and tired,” snaps she,
“of hearing all our troubles blamed
on congress, Wall Street, tariffs, dis¬
tribution system, etc. The germ of
our sickness is cultivated in our
homes by ourselves. A little more
cooking, scrubbing and sweeping, at
the sacrifice of a few hours of
bridge, won't hurt any woman. A
little less gambling and some addi¬
tional leg-work isn't going to make
any man poorer, either. More back¬
bone and less wishbone is what we
need. I will close now, as I have to
look for a washboard I discarded
about two years ago.”
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Political Boss—No, to jump on the
other fellow’s.—Boston Transcript.
