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me?
Groom—Nothing but you, my dear,
nothing but you.
Bride—And what at th is very mo
ment?
Groom—Why, I was thinking th at
r»u might be thinking that I was think
ing It must be near dinner time, my
love.—Chicago Dally News.
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cant.
"In a doll factory, sir.”
“And what were your duties there?"
"Making eyes."
"Very well. You are engaged; but
please don't dem onstrate your capa
bilities when my wife Is around.”
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The young wife was In tears when
her husband came home from work.
"W hat Is wrong, darling?”
“Oh, that m aid ! She sm ashes every
thing she touches."
"Good! Send her over next disir at
once. Mrs. Spuggs w ants some one to
help her move her victrola."
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Mrs. Muddle—Well, John, I have
heard both sides of the story of the
trouble between Mrs. Nagg nnd her
husband.
Air. Muddle— And from whom did
you hear both sides of the story?
Mrs. Muddle—Why, from Mrs. Nagg,
of course.
TO K E E P A W A Y F R O M H IM
7
By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN
lEN ER 'S LOOKOUT Is not
really Its nam e a t all. It
is merely a flic lo o k o u t
station on the top of Twin
Sisters Mountain in Kocky
Mountain N ational Park,
and W alter Klener Is the
man on w atch for forest
tires. Nevertheless W alter
K iener's outlook Is unique.
F or right across Tahosa
Valley looms the dark,
sheer East Face of Longs Peak, "King
of the Rockies.” Anti It Is there that
was enacted last w inter the gritn stru g
gle betw een man und m ountain that
thrilled the m ountaineers of the
world. T h at dread E ast Face did not
stop Agnes Vaille und W alter Klener.
But altitu d e and storm killed Agnes
Vaille a fte r the sum mit was won.
crippled W alter K lener for life and
did to death H erbert Sortlnnd in an
attem pt a t rescue. And from his lofty
eyrie on th e Twin Sisters K lener looks
out day a fte r day and night after
night on these very places. (Picture
K
Mat, * . )
Rocky M ountain Is the most popu
lar of all the national parks. Tahosa
Valley, nt th e foot of Longs’ Peak. Is
Its south entrance. The Twin Sisters
rim T nhosa's cup on th e e a st; the
crest of th e vast granite heap is the
park boundary. H undreds each sea
son climb the Sisters for the magnifi
cent view, the alpine flowers, I lie fan
tastic tiinherllne. This seuson thou
sands Instead of hundreds have worn
deep th e steep and narrow trail. It
Is th e Twin S isters plus W nlter
Klener. Men and women of prosaic
lives are fascinated by th e tragic and
thrilled by th e heroic.
T ahosa—Land of th e Dwellers In
the M ountain Tops —Is 9,9110 feet up
In the Colorado Rockies. The south
Sister rises to 11.3H4 fe e t; Its Twin to
11,430 (No. 2). If your eyes are good
'"H can Just see from Tahosa Kiener's
Lookout on the bare grnnlte summit of
the north Twin. Ills sheltered cabin
is hidden from sight.
Longs Peak rises to 14,255 feet. Its
slopes a re deeply scarred by ancient
glaciers. It was not ascended until
's»W—and then with great difficulty
from the w est nnd by way of The
Notch. Finally w as found a com para
tively ens.v trail from T ahosa Valley,
which able-bodied men, women and
youngsters can safely travel with
com petent guides. About a thousand
visitors a year m ake the ascent. Rut
not more than six w inter ascents have
l>een made.
The fam ous E ast Face of Long Peak
rises 2,455 feet from Chasm Lake in
East Gorge. It is mostly sheer. It
was believed by all m ountaineers to
he Impossible of ascent. In 1922 a
Princeton professor made the ascent.
Since then it has been climbed sev
eral times by experts. The dotted line
shows the only way up (No. 1). All
of these ascents were in summer.
It was this w inter ascent of the
E ast Face th at challenged Agnes
Vaille. The daughter of a wealthy
Denver man, she had chosen a busi
ness career and was secretary to the
chamber of commerce. M ountaineer
ing was her avocation nnd she could
Justly boast th at no man in the Colo
rado Mountain d u b could outdo her.
W alter Kiener Is a Swiss who hail
established a reputation In the Alps
before coming to Denver about two
years ago. He has done much climb
ing In the Colorado Rockies and had
frequently been the companion of
Miss Vaille.
Agnes Vaille, Elinor Epplch and
Klener left Denver Saturday, January
10. Sunday at 3 a. III. they reached
Tiinherllne Cabin (11.300 feet up on
the regular trail). At 9 a. m. the two
climbers left for Chasm Lake and Miss
Epplch returned to Tahosa Valley.
D arkness found the two climbers only
p art way up the East Face. A fter a
favorable day th e therm om eter had
dropped to 14 below and the wind had
risen.
They decided to climb up
rath er than down. They reached the
summit at 4 a. in. Monday.
T here Is no shelter th ere; they had
to keep moving. The regular trail
down is on the west slope. They
chose a shorter route down the north
slope. Few have been over It, even
In summer. They had both used It.
T here is no trail. By 9:3(1 they had
descended about 750 feet.
At this point, the most difficult of
this dangerous route. Miss Vaille lost
her footing nnd slid down over rocks
and snow for 150 feet. She assured
Klener she was not hurt. But It wus
found th at her feet nnd hands wpre
partly frozen. With Kiener's help she
went on a hundred feet or more. Then
she was exhausted, though unbroken
in courage.
Kiener left her for help a t 10:90
n. in. He reached Tim berline Cabin
nt 1 p. m. There he found a relief
party of four m en: H erbert Sortlnnd.
Jacob C hristian. Hugh Brown and his
son, O scar Brown.
Leaving Oscar
Brown to keep the Are going. Klener
led the others back tip the mountain.
Ju st above tlmlierllne (11,500) Hugh
Brown had to drop out. At ll.HUf
feet H erbert Sortlnnd, twenty-three
years of Rge, could not keep up and
was sent back Kiener and Christian
—he had glvpn up hope of returning
alive—reached Agnes VHllle at 4:30.
She was dead—and bad been for
thereupon left everything he had
planned to take, and added this note;
"I would not for anything In the world
E ither th e burglars In F ran ce have give you pain. But you must perm it
exquisite sensibilities o r th e preas me to carry off some photographs.
agents a re adepts at th e profeaslon. Your radiant beauty and your equal
’ 'onalder the case of a b u rg lar who goodneas of heart will forgive this
broke Into a house, packed up all the petty larceny.”
valuables ready to tak e away, and
then found th a t the ten an t was no
H e a v y In h e rita n c e T a x
other than th e fam ous Mme. Duflous.
Perhaps the oldest and certainly the
a lady whom he had seen many times
gyrating behind th e foollghts a t the most drastic of Inheritance tax laws In
th eater. S tricken with rem orse, be tlie world Is th at of tb s Igorot tribes
Master Craftsman
hours. The two men got back alive
to Tiinherllne Cabin at 7:30 p. m.
Then nt Intervals struggled In men
whom the d rifts and gale ami flying
snow and bitter cold of the w inter
1 night could not keep back. Each had
started as the news reached him th at
Agnes Vaille was In danger on Longs
Peak. By 10 o'clock had arrived Tom
Allen, assistant superintendent of the
park, nnd .luck Mootnaw and W aites
Finn, park rangers. At 4:30 Tuesday
morning Suiierlnlendent Roger W.
Toll (cousin of Agnes Vaille) arrived
from Denver, with Edmund Rogers.
Gorge C. B arnard, William F. E r
vln and Carl Blaurock, veteran in o u ta -
taln eers of the Colorado Mountain
club. Daylight found them all try.
Ing to keep from freezing about a
tire kept burning on top of the cabin
stove. To recover Agnes Vaille's body
was Impossible. At 9:30 all descent),
ed to the valley.
Then It was discovered th at H erbert
Sortlnnd was missing. Volunteers—
Casey Rockwell, John Sherman, E l
Andrews, Jack Dillon, W arren R ut
ledge and others—risked th eir lives in
tlie vain search tliut wus made below
timberline.
Not until T hursday could Agnes
Vaille's body lie reached. It lay at
hu elevation of about 13,300 feet on
the north slope, 200 feet back of the
edge of the East Face, anti about
50 feet above th e perpetual suow drlft
on the edge of Bouldertleld -w hich Is
in plain sight from the valley, sug
gests a flying bird, and is sometimes
called "The Dove." Two skis were
placed end to end and a third lashed
Heroes the Joint.
The body was
strapped to these skis and carried
with the aid of ski poles. Eight men
carried the body across Bouldertleld,
relays taking p art at frequent Inter
vals. F u rth er down a toboggan could
be used.
At Tiinherllne Cabin fluttered the
American Flag, worn nnd frayed from
the w inter storms. Agnes Vaille had
done patriotic service overseas dur
ing the World War. They took down
Old Glory and laid It across tier
hotly. And so came back Agnes Vaille
from Longs Peak to Tahosa Valley.
W alter Klener, badly frost bitten
and partly snow-blind, was driven to
Denver for medical treatm en t; sev
eral operations were found necessary.
Agnes Vaille's fath er paid the tv*-
pltal bills. The national park service
gave him the lookout station.
The body of W alter Hortland wns
not found until February 2 5 - In the
Valley, within a stone's throw of the
main road and of shelter. Kiener's
official gaze must puss over the spot
several times a day. And he cannot i
look at Longs I’eak without seeing
••’T'k.ei I knvp.”
of the Philippines. When sn Ijfom«
tribesm an dies, half his property Is
sold off ami the proceeds used to de
fray the cost of a canao or wake The
cadaver being smoked Into a mummy
In a burial chair, sits by snd views
the orgy, one of wine snd feasting and
u tter abandonment to the carnal plea»-
1|res—save alone abuse of virtue, w hich
Is not known to the Ignrots and If per
petrated would entail the death pen
alty. American government 1» the
sole uplifting Influence amongst these
tribes.
"How did you come to decide to bu,
a six-cylinder car?"
"Well, I heard the collector for this
automobile concern drove a four-
cylinder.”
S h in g le F a c ts
Canada and Alexiet
P l a w t ii
Elizabeth, N. J.
Lunsing,
Oxkbind, Cai.
Toronto, Ont.
O v e rh e a d
Johnnie—W hat’s overheud expense^
Evidently H ad Not
Absorbed "Business”
Pn?
A story Is being told of the engage
ment of an additional chorus man for
the musical production, "Rose M arie,”
at Drury Lane theater.
The male chorus in the show are
mainly mounted police and frontiers
men, for the action of "Rose Marie"
lakes place In northwest Canada.
Gut of the two hundred applicants
for the position one was selected be
cause of bis excellent voice. He wns
I tlly brought before the "pow ers that
be,” and promptly turned down as
looking ''nothing like the part."
The producer was keen to have hltn
ami made Inquiries ns to Ills previous
stage ex|>erience. Imagine bis surprise
when the man replied, “ I haven't done
much acting lately—I've spent my lust
live years In the C anadian Northwest
Mounted police!”— Vancouver l'rov-
nce.
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by making Cutlcuru your everyday
:ollet preparations. T he Soap to cleanse
and purify, the O intm ent to soothe and
heal, the Talcum to pow der and per
fume. No toilet table Is complete
without them.—A dvertisement.
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liam Coddington built the original
She—If I ever m arry It will he a bouse, which consisted of a large
man whose Income hug at least four kitchen, a living room and two chlm
neys. Coddington died shortly after
ciphers In it.
He—T h at's good, dear. My Income the erection of the house. Ills suc
Is all ciphers—as many as you like.— cessor, the first Quincy, to occupy
it, was the first of three Edmund
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1099 PIN E S T , SAD FRANCISCO
added the present dining room, parlor
W o rd M e a n in g T ro u b le
and the cham bers over these rooms
“Dad," said Clarence, "w hat's s
L ater a study and bedroom were add
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three-letter word meaning trouble?"
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ed. Among the many noted guests en
“Yes," growled his father, who was
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lertalned there were L afayette and
K «attiras C a la r « a d
wishing be had been struck dumb the Benjamin Franklin. The latter, after
B a a o ty to G r a y e n d F « d a d lla ftr
« i r « n tl l i W a l iK a a r l w t x
dny he proposed.
o ' ? ! H i« » .. , hem WM ' . I . u k w . N . T .
a v'alt, sent a "F ranklin stove” as s
return for hospitality offered him.
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loeaee. etc ., »Uip« a ll p a in , «nauraa o a n fta rt to U «
M IL K IN G E N E R G Y
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F ru its F ro m A b ro a d
Argentina and A ustralia In the
southern hem isphere are making ef W. N. U , 8sn Francisco, No S7-1925.
forts to establish a regular trade In
E lm s fo r D r y C lim a te
fruit with the United S tates snd other
The Chinese elm, native to northern
countries In the northern hemisphere
Chinn and M anchuria, succeeds well
when fresh fru its are out of aeuaon.
ns a simile tree In the American Ho title.
To get rich a man has to th in k ; west, which Is too dry for our natlvn
elms.
and be has to think In time.
MORTON
H O S P IT A L
C hildren C ry for
"It's said the hand shaking done by
a noted politician In W ashington be
fore election would milk every cow in
the country twice.”
"You don't say ! And Just to think
he has to use all that energy In order
to milk the government."
S tru c k O u t
>1« s t r u c k a m a t c h t o g a s a
U p o n h la « a a o l l n a —-
N o m o r a h a 11 t r a v e l
O n th e v illa t « < r««n.
A N on eco no m ist
"Blowltt b a t a rath er novel pbllo«»
Ph 7 ”
“W het Is It?"
"H e says when s men works hard j
to get money, why Impose upon him
s e l f the further hardship of trying to
save It?”
—
O f Course
“Why were the Middle Ages know»
as the dark ages?"
"Because
there
w ere
k n ig h ts”—W ashington Star.
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