Dayton tribune., February 12, 1925, Image 2

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now and then They have to be for
given and allowed a chant'« to repen
and Improve their conduct. Your fa
tber Is a good man. Try to win him
to your cause.”
"And die a maiden.“ said the girt
with a sigh.
decorum In the high court» of Britain.
“Impossible!** Franklin exclaimed.
laughed at the clevemra» of the
“I shall marry Jack or never marry,
assault That was the siu-oh of I would rather bo his wife tian the
which Charles James Fox declared queen of England."
that It was the most expensive bit of
"This Is surely the age nt romence,“
oratory which had been heard In Eng­ said the smiling philosopher a» ths
land. since It had cost the kingdom Its ladles alighted at their door. "I wish
colonies
I were young again.”
It was alleged that In some manner
Franklin had stolen the letters and
CHAPTER XIII
violated their sacred privacy It Is
known now that an English nobleman
Ths Ferment.
had put them In hla hands to read
On his voyage to New York. Jock
and that he was tn no way responsible wrote long letters to Margaret and to
for their publication. The truth. If It Doctor Franklin, which were deposited
could have been told, would have tn ths post office,on his arrival, the
bent the proud heads of Wedderburn tenth of March. He observed a great
and the judges to whom he appealed, change In the spirit of the t"’“!'1*
tn confusion. But Franklin held his , They were no longer content wth
peace, as a man of honor was hound words. The ferment was »bowing Itself
to do. He stood erect and dignified In act» of open and violent disorder.
with a face like one carved In wood.
The statue of George HI. near the
The counsel for the colonies made battery, was treated to a volley of -Ie-
a weak defense. The triumph was eayed eggs. In the evening of his ar­
complete. The venerable man was rival. This hot blood was due to the
convicted of conduct Inconsistent with i effort to prevent free speech in the
the character of a geutlemnn and oe- colonies and the proposal to send
prlveu of hla office as |H>stina«ter political prisoners to England for trt.-iL
general of the colonies.
Jack took the first boat to Albany
But tie had two friends In court
and found Solomon working on the
They were the Lady Hare and her Iron* farm. In his diary he tells of
daughter. They followed him out of
the delightful days of rest he enjoyed
the chamber. In the great hallway.
with his family. Solomon had told
Margaret, her eyes wet with tears em­
them of the great adventure but Jack
braced and kissed the philosopher
would have little to say of It. having
"I want you to know that I am your
no pride In that achievement.
friend and that I love America." she
Soon the scout left on a mission for
said.
the committee of safety to distant set­
“My daughter. It has been a hard
tlements In the great north bush.
hour, but I am sfxty-elght years old
"I’ll be spendin' the hull moon In the
and have learned many things." he
answered. “Time Is the only avenger wilderness,” he said to Jack. “Goin’
to Vlrginny when I get back, an' I’ll
I need. It will lay the dust."
look fer ye on the way down."
The girl embraced and kissed him
Jack set out for Philadelphia the
again and said In a voice shaking day after Solomon left. He stopped at
with emotion:
Kinderhook on his way down the river
"1 wish my father and all English­
and addressed Its people on condition*
men to know that I am your friend
In England. A young Tory Interrupted
and that I have a love that cannot be his remarks. At the barbecue, which
turned aside or destroyed and that I
followed, this young man win seized
will have my right as a human being.”
and punished by s number of stslwart
“Come let us go and talk together—
girls who removed his collsr and jack­
we three,” he proposed.
et by force and covered his bend and
They took a cab and drove away.
neck with molasses and the fuzz of
“You will think all this a singular
cat tails. Jack interceded fur the
proceeding," Lady Hare remarked. “I
Tory end stopped the proceeding.
must tell you that rebellion has
"My friends, we must control our
snger." he said. "Let us not try to
subdue tyranny by using It ouraelveA"
Everywhere he found the people In
such a temper that Tories had to hold
their peace or suffer punishment. At
the office he learned that hts moat
Important letters had failed to pa»» the
hidden censorship of mull In England.
He began, at once, to write a series
of articles which hastened the crisis.
; The first of them was a talk with
Franklin, which told how his mall had
I been tampered with; that no letter had
| come to his hand through the post
office which had not been opened with
apparent Indifference as to the evl
1 dence of Its violation. The Doctor’s
J words regarding free speech In Amer­
ica and the proposal to try the bolder
critics for treason were read and dis­
cussed In every household from the sen
to the mountains and from Maine to
Florida.
The young man's work had set the
bells ringing and they were the bells
of revolt. The arrival of General Gaga
at Boston In May. to be civil governor
and commander-In-chlef for the conti­
nent. and the blockade of the port
twenty days later, compelling Its pop­
ulation who had been fed by the sea
started In our home. Its peace Is to starve or subsist on the bounty of
quite destroyed. Margaret has de­ others, drove the most conservative
clared her right to the use of her own citizens into the open. Parties went
out Tory hunting. Every suspected
mind."
“Well, If she Is to use any mind It man was compelled to declare himself
will hare to be that one." Franklin and If Incorrigible, was sent away.
answered. “I do not see why women Town meetings were held even under
should not be entitled to use their the eyes of the king's soldiers and no
minds as well as their hands and tribunal was allowed to sit In any
court house. At Salem, a meeting was
feet."
“I was kept at home yesterday by held behind locked doors with the gov­
force,” said Margaret “Every door ernor and his secretary shouting a
locked and guarded! It was brutal proclamation through Its keyhole, de­
claring It to be dissolved. The meet­
tyrann;-."
“The poor child has my sympathy, ing proceeded to its end, and when the
but what can I do?” Lady Hare In­ citizens filed out, they had Invited the
thirteen colonies to a general congress
quired.
“Being an American, you can expect In Philadelphia.
It was Solomon Blnkus who con­
but one answer from me.” said the
phlloso;d>er. “To us tyranny In home veyed the Invitation to Pennsylvania
or state Is Intolerable. They tried It and Virginia. He had gone on a sec­
on me when I was a boy and I ran ond mission to Springfield and Boston
and had been In the meeting at Salem
away "
“That is what I shall do If neces­ with General Ward. Another man car­
ried that historic call to the colonies
sary,” raid Margaret.
"Oh. my child 1 How would you farther south. In five weeks, delegates
were chosen, and early In August, they
live?” her mother asked
“I will answer that question for her. were traveling on many different roads
If you will let me," said Franklin. toward the Quaker city. Crowds gath­
“If she needs It, she shall have an ered In every town and village they
passed. Solomon, who rode with the
allowance out of my purse."
“Thank you. but that would raise a Virginia delegation, told Jack that he
hadn't beard so much noise since the
scandr I." said the woman.
“Oh, your ladyship, I am old enough Injun war.
“They was poundin’ the bells, un*
to be her grandfather.”
"I wl*h to go with Jack, If you know shootin' cannons everywhere." he d*.
where he Is,” Margaret declared, look­ clared. “Men, women nnd children
ing tip Into the face of the philosopher. crowded round us an' split their lungs
"I think he Is pushing toward Amer­ yellin'. They's a streak o’ sore throats
ica," Franklin answered.
“Being all the way from Alexandry to here."
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
alarmed at the condition of his ad­
versary. I advised him to slip away.
Poppy Tea Had a Kick
A ship went yesterday. Probably he’s
The government won the first case of
on IL He had no chance to see me or
the kind and ruined the prospects for a
pick up his baggage."
“I shall follow him soon.” the girl thriving opium business when Soba
Singh, a Hindu, was convicted In Fed­
declared.
"If you will only contain yourself, eral Judge Bean's court In Portland,
you will get along with your father Ore., after the jury had deliberated
very well,” said Lady Hare. "I know only 20 minutes, says the Los Angeles
him better than you. He has prom­ Times.
Soba Singh had discovered the cheap­
ised to take you to America In Decem­
ber. You must wait and be patient. est method of extracting opium, that of
After all, your father has a large claim boiling the poppy down to a thick tea,
which was a favorite beverage with the
upon you."
"I think you will do well to wait, Hindus of the city. Negroes In the
my child,” said the philosopher. “Jack north end were selling the tea as moon­
will keep and you are both young. shine, government agents discovered,
Fathers are like other children. They and patrons of these bootleggers were
make mistakes—they even do wrong becoming addicts without knowing IL
In the Days of Poor Richard
«7 IRVING BACHELLER
C.-pm(h< hr tma(
CHAPTER XI—Continued.
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Do »aw the plan now—an admirable
plan. Thee were to meet near the
port of »ailing and be married and go
aboard the ship and away It was the
plan of Margaret and much better than
any he could have made, for he knew
little of London and It» porta.
"Should 1 not take my baggage with
me?“
“There Is not time for that." the
veiled lady answered. “We must make
haste. I have some clothes for you
tn a bag.“
She pointed to a leathern case un­
der the front seat.
From that time forward they rode
In a silence broken only by the creak­
ing of the coach and the sound of the
horses' hoofs. Darkness had fallen
when they reached the little city of
Gravesend. The Ship and Anchor stood
by the water's edge.
"You will please watt here,“ »aid
the stern lady tn a milder voice than
she had used before, as the coach
drew up at the Inn door. “I shall see
If she has come."
His strange companion entered the
Inn and returned presently, saying:
"She has not yet arrived. Delayed
by the fog. We will have our dinner,
if you please."
From this point the scene at the
Inn Is described In the diary of the
American
"She drew off her hat and veil and a
young woman about twenty-eight years
of age and of astonishing beauty stood
before me."
“ 'There, now. I am out of business.’
she remarked in a pleasant voice as
she sat down at the table which had
been spread before the fireplace. 1
will do my best to be a companion to
you until Margaret arrives.'
“She looked Into my eyes and
amlled. Her sheath of Ice bad fallen
from her.
“The waiter eame with a tray con-
taining soup, glasses and a bottle of
sherry. We sat down at the table and
our waiter filled two glasses with the
sherry.
“’Thank you. but self-denial is an­
other duty of mine,’ she remarked
when I offered her a glass of the wine.
1 live in a tipsy world and drink—
water. I live In a merry world and
keep a stern face. It Is a vile world
and yet I am unpolluted.’
“I drank my glass of wine and had
begun to eat my soup when a strange
feeling came over me.
My plate
seemed to be sinking through the table.
The wall and fireplace were receding
Into dim distance. I knew then that
I had tasted the cup of Circe. My
hands fell through my lap and sud­
denly the day ended. It was like
sawing off a board. The end had fallen.
There Is nothing more to be said of
It because my brain had ceased to re­
ceive and record Impressions. I was
as totally out of business as a man
tn his grave. When I came to, I was
in a berth on the ship King William
bound for New York. As soon as I
knew anything. I knew that I had been
tricked. My clothes had been removed
and were lying on a chair near me.
My watch and money were undisturbed.
I had a severe pain in my head. I
dressed and went up on deck. The
en ptaln was there.
“You must have had a night of It in
Gravesend,” he said. “You were like a
dead man when they brought you
abroad.”
“'Where am I going?’ I asked.
“ *To New York,’ he answered with
a laugh. ’You must have had a time!'
“How much Is the fare?"
"’Y’oung man, that need not concern
you,' said the captain. ’Your fare has
been paid in full. I saw them put a
letter tn your pocket. Have you read
itr ”
Jack found the letter nnd read:
“Dear Sir—When y> i see this you
will be well out of d nger and, it Is
hoped, none the wors> for your dis­
sipation. This from ore who admires
your skill and courage and who ad­
vises you to keep oui of England for
at least a year.
"A WELL WISHER."
He looked back ov -r the stem of
the ship. The shore 1 d fallen out of
sight. The sky was clear, The sun
shining. The wind was blowing from
the east.
He stood for a long time looking
toward the land he I: <1 left
"Oh, ye wings of 'he wind! take
my love to her and give her news of
me and bld her to I e steadfast In
her faith and hope,” lie whispered.
CHAPTER
XII
The Qlrl He Left Behind Him.
After Jack had been whirled n,r of '
Ixmdon, Franklin cal l at bis lodg­
ings and learned that he had not been
seen for a day. The v *e philosopher
entertained no doubt that the young
man had taken ship agreeably with
the advice given him. A report had
bden running through the clubs of
London that Lionel Clarke had suc­
cumbed. In fa' t he bad had a bad
turn, but had rallied. Jack must have
heard the false " port and taken ship
suddenly.
Doctor Frank! n went that day to
the meeting o! the privy council,
whither he hud been sternly sum
moned for exar nation In the matter
of the letters of Hutchinson et al.
For an hour b>- had stood unmoved
while Alexander Wedderburn, the wit­
tiest barrister tn the kingdom, poured
upon him a torn-nt of abuse. Even
the judges, against sll traditions of
! «••***(•*(«*•««*•*•*••*«*
HIS AWKWARD WAY
t
By DOUGLAS MALLOCH
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rather awkward, he
H E WAS Wasn't
so polite;
lie was wrong In company
•
Oftener than right.
His intentions, though, were good,
1'eople used to MJ,
And lie did the best he could.
In his awkward way.
Many thing* he didn't know,
Things you learn in school!
People »uld lie wasn't, though.
Anybody's fool.
He Just used lil» common sense—
He could even pray
For the help of Providence,
lu his awkward way.
Though he wasn’t very smart.
Everybody said.
Still he had an honest heart.
Hud a level head.
Never reckless, never rush.
Saving day by day,
That Is how he got his cash.
In hla awkward way.
Certain people used to smile.
Thought him rather rough;
But the children all the while
Liked him well enough.
Babies always went to him —
He knew how to .play,
Understood each little whim.
In his awkward way.
When the station agent died.
Leaving not a thing.
To the widow people tried
Sympathy to bring.
He could think of nothing then.
Not a thing to any.
But he made her take a ten.
In his awkward way.
CHINA CAT GROWS WISE
In a farm house there lived
O NCE
In the parlor on a high tuaulel a
china dog mid a china cat.
The cat was white with yellow
S|Hits on Its sides and she »nt looking
over the big parlor for iiimiy years
until one night when the house wus
quite still the black dog with white
»(Hits said "Bow.”
China Cat Jumped up and humped
her back mid glared nt little Chinn
Dog. but lie wns Just ss scared ns
China Cut. for until that night lie hud
never discovered he could bark nt the
magic hour when all toys and such
folk» talk
“What do you mean by harking like
that?’’ sold China Cut. “one would
think you were like the muster's dog
that comes In here sometimes nil cov ,
ered with hnlr You ure nothing but i
u smooth t outed toy dog not real ut
all."
"I am real, or I could not bark, nnd
I want you to get right off of my
shelf." snapped Chinn Dog.
“Your shelf?" said China Cat. “I
want you to know If anyone own» this
place It Is I Get down on the floor
yourself If you think you are so real.
That la where dogs belong "
"Not handsonio dogs like me,’* said
China I H>g. ''but common cut* belong
I don’t know just what was hl» creed. I
But I often heard
’Twas religion of the deed
Rather than the wont
Heaven Isn't for the sharp—
I expect today
He Is playing on a harp.
In bls awkward way.
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Have You This Habit?
By Margaret Morison
FOOLISH QUESTIONS
and Molly at thirty decided
P OLLY
that farming would satisfy their
“Coms
Her»," China Boy
China Dog.
Called to
on the floor, and If you do not Jump
down where you belong I »hull drive
you down."
"You just try It; that 1» nil," an­
swered china Cat. showing her claws
“If I had »ueh a shiny, smooth coat a»
you have I should know I wasn’t a real
cat at all, but Just a toy like you.”
“Bow wow," laughed Chinn Dog.
"You had better l<mk In the mirror
behind you. You haven’t any fur coat
like the real puss that comes In here
sometimes nnd Is always driven out,
souls; so they .took agricultural
courses and started In on milk. Their
experiment was a year old when Faith
Green went to visit the model plant.
Above all things Polly and Molly were
scientific, and running their farm on a
business basis; and they were very
serious In their attitude. For a day
after Faith's arrival, things went
The Appleton Family
smoothly. Finally she was taken to
see the cow stable. She was specially
Interested In a few-weeks-old calf, and
on coming out she asked admiringly If
Martsr Cksaxsy Dtiei AjplHos
a big pall of milk standing near the
separator were all from the calf.
-That question seemed to start the
AYSEY MAYME APPLETON nt
flow going. Next she wanted to know
one time had n stroke of rare
what Polly and Molly did when their good luck. When she was entertaining
spring froze over. A coldness had be­ her steady in the parlor health officers
gun to settle on the party when Faith, called und put the house under quar­
who had discovered an old hornet's antine for the smallpox for four
nest In her attic room, -asked If hor­
nets stung In the winter. That was
too much for Polly nnd Molly, and
they told her to try nnd see.
Faith left a day or so before her
visit was up. and her two friends
heard nothing further than her bread
and-butter letter from her until the
winter was nearly over. Then they
learned that Faith Green w as en- tged I
They were glad for her, but co Idn't |
help wondering what her hu.- and
would do with her habit of foolish
questions. Then Polly was ask"d to
spend a week In town.
Faith Immediately arranged a party
for Polly to meet her fiance, I'nlth
was obviously happy, nnd her h ince
obviously In love. Polly had begun to
decide that Faith's pose of the human
Interrogation point had been shed,
when the conversation turned to poli­
tics. Immediately Faith began plung­
ing. nnd Polly naw a look of controlled
disgust come over the face of the weeks. There seemed no possibility
young mnn beside her friend. Evi­ thut he would get away from a pro­
dently this wan nn old experience. posal. Daysey Mayme believes she
“How enn you tell you're-voting for would have landed him If her mother
the right num," Faith wanted to know, hadn't said so much to him about hlu
“when, If your ballot In cast for the soul.
...
defeated candidate. It's wasted?”
Mrs.
Lysander
John Appleton Is so
That crisis, however, was nafely
passed, nnd the group began to dis­ crazy to have a surgical operation
cuss marriage. Thon Faith turned to performed on someone In the family,
the only divorced lady among them that recently when her young son was
and said: "I don't see how one known taken down with the measles, she sug­
a man w ill make n good husband with­ gested to the doctor that lie send for
to cut out the spots.
out being married to him for a while. a noted surgeon ...
How did you find out, Mrs. Black?"
When Dayaey Mayme Appleton hns
When Polly wont Uu P to the form
and told Molly about Faith's party, her picture taken, she always wears
Molly said: “Oh, didn’t you know— a dress cut low enough to show her
the engagement has been broken? I riba nnd collar bone. "I hnve to pay
heard In a letter Just yesterday.” the photographer just ns much when
Faith’s fiance hud decided that the I don't," she argues.
• • •
habit of foolish questions was one
Mrs.
Lysander
John Appleton has a
that would grow, not decrease, with
silver spoon, which, she says, one of
age.
her ancestor* saved by smuggling In
HAVE YOU TUTS HABIT?
the front of her shirtwaist when she
(® by Mstropnlltsn N«.p»p.r Bsrvlos )
took passage on the ark.
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QUALIFIED.
Mrs. Lysander John Appleton has
always entertained the opinion thnt
Mr. Knagg:
I
her husband Isn't much, but recently
suppose you think
when he received a pneknge of gar­
I'm
a
perfect
den seeds from the congressman from
brute.
Mrs. Knsgg
his district, she began looking at him
Not quite. You’re
with renewed Interest. He must, she
far from perfect
argued, be a mnn of Some Influence.
D
la anything.
(Cpyri<bt by Q«orga Matthew Adama.)
nnd that Is why I cannot understand
how It Is you nre allowed to remain
“My coat Isn't soft and furry, but It
Is nice mid clean nnd not u Idt Ilk»
that puns who 1» driven out of here,"
replied China Cut, “and If you will
look In the mirror yourself you will
soon find out y<>u nre no more like
the dog thut .... ..
In here than thut
vnse In the middle of the shelf. '
“Your eyes nre nil wrong." said
China Dog. "I am a very big. tierce
dog with u linlry coat mid
In the middle of the mantel hold
Ing a vuae for flowers stood a china
boy, "Come here," he culled to t’lilnn
Dog, nt the same time giving a low
whistle which made Chinn Dog stop
quarreling nnd run to hla muater.
“Htund up on your hind lega nnd
beg." eommmnlid the china boy, and
up <>n Ida lega stood little China Dog
nnd whined.
"Good doggie," anld Chinn Boy, pat
ting China Dog’s head. ".Now roll
over nnd play dead"
Little Chinn Dog obeyed, mid when
chlnn Boy told him tn Jump up he
patted him again
“If we were real
folks I’d give you a bone." he said.
Again Chlnn Dog whined, mid this
time he wagged hla tall
"Now go
buck to your plnce on the end of the
shelf nnd stand there until tomorrow
night." said China Buy.
"Well. If I shunt give up," suid
China Cat. “I would Just like to see
myself minding that vase boy the way
you did."
"Look !
There la a mouse.” said
China Boy, "It ran buck of the aofa "
China Cat jumped to the floor nnd
there she lay next morning. with her
head broken off. nnd though ahe was
mended and put back on the shelf,
when the magic hour came around
next night she kept to her own end
of the shelf and said not a word.
But Chlnn Cat thought If she did
not speak, and what ahe thought was
that she did not like boys or dog* und
she would rather not speak at nil than
have to mind that vase boy as little
China !>■« did.
"Bow." anld China Dog as he start­
ed back to hlu corner after playing
with China Boy
"You aren’t real.
I told you you were not.**
“I nm wise If I nm not real."
thought Chlnn Cut
"I’ll alt here the
rest of my days nnd never let you or
that vase boy know I can apeak ut
the magic hour.
Tin n I shan't be
bothered by two such silly creatures
as you, who think they nre renl when
they are nothing hut chlnn like me.
But some day they will tumble off
the shelf and then they will find II
out Just m I did."
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I Superstitions |
I B v H
IRVING K I N G |
SEWING ON THE BUTTON
TF A GIRL sews n button on the
clothing of u single man of mar­
riageable age It 1» a sign that »lie will
marry him within the year. Almost
anybody In the rural districts of New
England can tell >ou that, und per
baps the superstition Is found In other
Sections. At least superstitions of a
kindred nature are found In many
purt» both of this country and Europe
The superstition Is bnsed U|M»n thnt
phase of sympathetic magic known as
the doctrine of knots. The tanking
of a physical knot of binding force
produces, on the theory of like enus-
Ing like, n spiritual effect of the smne
nature.
*
As has been said before, to the nn-
clents whnt was associated In thought
was associated In fact. Knitting nnd
sewing were placed In this philosophy
In the same category as knots. All
three conveyed the Idea of uniting.
When n maiden, therefore, sews a but­
ton on the coat of a bachelor the union
of the button and the coat by means
of the thread suggests the union of
herself and the young man upon whose
garment she Is operating. This sets
up the sympathetic magic of like pro­
ducing like nnd the two young per­
sons are by Its operation bound to­
gether. even ns the button Is bound to
the rout. The setting of the time
within which they will be married nt
"within a yenr," Is merely the sugges­
tion of a reasonable time for the magic
to take effect nnd Is frequently omit­
ted The point of the superstition Is
thnt they will be married before long.
(«9 by McClure Newspaper Hyn<llce*e )
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