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Friday, December 24, 1026 THF RKAVKRTON RKV1EW Sydney Sends Fine Painting to the President TH E W OULD-BE CRIMINAL By H M EGBERT n '-i-m ts t i-z w il Chseissa i H E man who gets his salary from a distant city lives under the Daiinwtcaii sword. Jrnkln« was no exception to this rule The leal her rontpany employed agents In several towns, and Jenkins, newly IMinti-d at Requnh. drew his forty dot lafw weekly out of the mailed letter with fear and tremhllng What If the coui|>any should suddenly ill alienin' with him ? Once the teller failed to arrive, and Jenkln«. who always wait ed for the check to pay Ills weekly bills, was In despair. T ii complicate matters there was Mrs. Jenkins, a frail, weakly woman without the least ability to guru a living If anything hapiiened to her husband. Jenkins had this |>oaalhlllty upon Ills mind all the time T o emwu hla troubles, he was a "one Job" man. He had been with the leather com pany, which was a soulless concern, since he entered their service as an office boy thirty years before. Shy and retiring, he did not see the ghost o f a chance to earn anything If ever he lost hla position No. that did not crown his troubles, but he had another trouble mixed with i Joy. Ihe two so Interwoven that he did not know where one began and the other emied l aura. In the local , hospital, had presented him with a hoy. their first child. Jenkins had ' looked In awe. and partly In fear, at the extremely n i l atom of humanity, then at his wlfe>, weak figure. 11c saw the radiant happiness o f mother hood npou her face At such a moment most men would have thought o f anything but material things. But Into Jenkins' brain there flashed an appalling thought lie re member»! that, having paid Ihe law- pltal hill for only one week ahead, lie had exactly twelve tlollara In the world. Suppose the check failed In arrive next d a y ! He passed a sleepless night. In the morning he waited for the |s>stman with growing panic. T h e usual letter from the leather company was In Ills mall. But It was typed Instead o f written hy the cash ier. Jenkins tore o|>en Ihe envelope des|ieralely hoping to see the fam iliar pink check flutter out. Instead there ranie a formal notification: “Aa you are hy this time doubtless aware, we have decided to discontinue our agency In Sequah. You will there fore rinse the office la-ndlng the sr rival o f our representative, who will take charge of the stock and fixtures." Jenkins let the letter flutter to the floor. H e put the rest o f the mall. unn|>eiied. In his pocket, and went au tom atlcnlly up to the hospital. It was alw ays his hahit to notify La ura when any unexpected event occurred. But when he looked at her he could not tell her. H e thrust the letters upon the table, hardly knowing what he was doing, kissed her with trembling lips, and Went away. T Tlii» large oil psim lug. allowing the I'n ltn i Rlau-s navy a( anchor in Sydney harbor. Australia. July August. l l O , "•'8 presented to ITeaident t'ooUdg* Jy s ir Hugh I Vinson. K. It. K.. the i-ooimlsetoiivr for A u stralia In the lu lle d Slates Tlie pres, ntatlon Is made hy the citizens o f Sydney to roiniueniorate the event. T h e artist la Charles Hry- nit, H f t I . ( native of New South Wales. Australia. The painting w ill he placed In the national art gallery at W ash ington. At the left of the picture (left to tight) : J. J House, representing the Sydney citizens' committee; President 1'oolldge and S ir Hugh IVniaon Secretary of the Navy W ilb u r and Secretary o f State Kellogg are shown at the right of the picture. Virginia’s Czechoslovaks in Celebration The first minister of the Czechoslovakian republic wa* honored at Petersburg. Va.. when M inister Zdenek Fer- linger of Czechoslovakia bestowed on behalf o f hla government the order of the White Lion. T he Czechnelovaklan colony of Virginia. In native costumes, turned out to dance In honor o f the occasion, while (Just to the right o f the man In uniform) Governor Byrd, R ich ard Crane and M r. Fertinger looked on. Seventeen Killed in Explosion PRETTY D EBUTANTE H e was discharged ! F ire ,)! With twelve dollars 111 the world. And next day he must pay a aemnd twenty five for his wife's second week. He must get thirteen dollars, then, hy night fall. H e staggered Into the street and groaned. He walked the streets all day. not even troubling to think nhoiit rinsing the office. T h e re was money— two hundred dollara In the safe. But that did not tempt Jenkins. He could never have robbed his employers. T h a t was not In him. Bui he must rob somebody. H e stood still with clenched fists, heedless o f the passer* M iss A lice Cutts, daughter o f Col. and Mrs. R ichard Cutts, who Is one | of the prettiest o f the Washington Seventeen men were killed and many Injured by an explosion on the Norwegian oil tanker M antilla In dry dock near Baltimore. T h is picture was made a few minutes after the explosion, while the vessel was burning. R E A D Y FO R D EB U T Minister to Hungary on Vacation by “I'll get It!” he swore. Then he thought o f the doctor who was going to charge him seventy five dollars. In addition to the hospital fee T he sleek, smug doctor, rolling In his car. while La ura would be turned Into the streets with a week old b ab y! Jenkins' rage flamed In a huge deluge against the doctor. It was a fiery del uge o f stark wrath that blotted out all the normal iieraonallty of the man. Jenkins found him self a criminal. H e discovered. latent within hla heart, a fund o f cunning that he hail never suspected could exist In hltn. H e re called that the doctor was a bach elor; he knew that he was at the hos pital In the evening. He had seen through the open door o f the consult ing room silver acattered about the top o f the buffet. W ith one of those piece* La u ra ’s bill could he paid, Jenkins resolved to act upon the thought. At nightfall he went softly toward the doctor's house, lie. knew that there v » i a back door, always ojien. except for the flimsy screen that covered It. He had seen that during 111* visits, and remembered that, once over the fence, he could not lie seen from Ihe windows. He found the fence, scaled It. and crouched cower ing on the other side. The house won dark, except for a single light In the, dining room. Jen kill* could see Ihe allver even now It gleamed derisively upon the buffet III* gorge ro»e. He walked steadily toward the hack door. Il stood wide open. It wa* not even clasped. Thieve* were unknown, almost. In prosperous Rei)unii. IVrhrtp« »omi'ltml.v was eu Ilie p m a Ine«, though. Tltore lutisi he servatila. He knew the doctor hud a house keeper. B u i II waa not likely timi *he would I n * on the tirai floor. Jen kill* walked In very softly and took a »liver enndleslli-k from the buffet lie knew hy the toueli tlial It was o f pura metal. That abate would more than pnv Laura's hill. No doubt he could pawn II somewhere In town. lie stmill Irresolute, holding It In Ills hand» Then, all nt once, lie heard the (Tout ih«'r click opeu. Doc- tor K intia ivas coming In There wn* »till time to r»ea|ie with hla plumin' through Ihe hack. B u i fear para li ted Je n kin s, ilie Irresolute man had round himself again and Ihe enter prising crim inal who had arisen In him, like some M r Hyde, had be taken Idmself to the nether gloom from which he sprang Jeuklus put down the candlestick and sprang behind the cartalus. He heard Evans enter his office. Through the open door he saw him alt down at hla desk. T h e doctor pulled out a pocket hook and heaped up an Ini mense pile o f hills liefere him Jen kin* could not see their denomination, hut he knew that each wa* for five dollars, the spoil* of his few hour* of office work that day. There must have been three hun dred dollar* there. Jenkins felt hla fury rising again T he sleek, smug d e v ili Counting Ida money, while Laura would he pat out o f the hospi tal the following day. It did not oi-ci^ to, him that she would he merely transferred In the free wanl. T h e man wa* mad at the moment. T he toss o f hla lifelong po sition had bereft hliu o f Ida sense* He crept forward and watched the doctor with parted lipa Hla hatoL » I retched out, closed U|mn Ihe candle stick. T h a i ael a new thought running through his head W ith that canille stick he could halter out Ihe man's brain*. He could take the money from the dead hand and go. None had «een him enter, and none would see hint leave In the darkness. Money, gisnl money, waa fletter than candle- sticks, , Three hundred d o lla rs’ He had never had so much money In hla life before. He clutched the candlestick In Ills hand: and Just then Iswtor Kvans looked up with a start. •'Who la there?" he called. Jenkins pul down the weapon. H r was the old man once more, the w e a k man. Incapable o f anything hut "" trained gnsvve-movlng thought*. IVnrtor Evan* approached» the d in ing room and suddenly switched on an electric light heahle the door. It revealed Jenkln*. standing h r the huf fet, shaking and white. The doctor stn rn l nt him. and suddenly Jenkins saw recognition In his ryea. “Why. Mr. Jenkln*. how long have yon been waiting for m r ? ' he naked And Jenkins perceived that his <|c sign was unsuspected. Doctor Evans mu»t huve t ho tight that the servant had admitted him through the front entrance. “ Were you anxious about vour wife?" he usked. "There I* nothing to worry about. Slie Is doing very well. And. hy the way. she asked tile to give you this. She expected you tonight and was sure thhl f would meet you on the way out o f the ho* , jilt s l. She said It was Important, and wanted you to know ns soon a* pos slide. And he hander) Jenkins another le t ter from the leather company. • Jenkins took It nnd looked at the envelope. T h is one wn* typewritfl*n. too. It rotlld not he Ihe cheek. Still, a check was due. Jenkln* had for gotten that. T he envelope was o|>en ; Laura had read the contents. Jenkins took out— the ehn-k and a letter. He re a d : "H ear Mr. Jen kin s: We have de rided to clone our agenry In Seqnah. Poor business conditions, and other affairs, o f whirl. T«*u w l l l j e a r n on yonr arrival here, have rnused a re organization o f onr branch system. T h is requires the aervlcea iff a su perintendent with a thorough knowl edge of the business. W ill you ac cept the po«t at a salary of five thou sand?” Jenkins put the letter In his pocket and shook hands with the doctor. .................... Than k you I— I m glad my wife |s out of danger, he ««rmnered. and rushed for Ihe door. "W hat a genuine man he |*i" m ur mured the doctor as hla hand swept up his money. Paper From W ood Pulp Charles Fenerty experimented for many y«-nrs and In 1R41 made public his Invention o f the proctois for mak ing paper from wood pulp. IV A o l Barnum M in ed Liberal rewanl for return of female pft hull.— fit. I'aul Pioneer Presa. Indian Singer« Had to Produce Results Theodore Breutsno, American minister to Hungary, and Mr«. Brenlano, photographed on their arrival In Chicago, where the min ister Is spending a vacatb-n visit ing his daughter, Mr*. H. McMeyer. Mr. Brehtano Intends to take a rest or two months. FROM HERE A N D TH ER E A full sized violin has recently tsea | There are no chairs In Japanese made out of ln.tggl matches. rural restaurant*. About KOU language* and dialect* The restoration o f Reims cathe are spoken hy African nntives. dral will require 30 years. The squirrel's bushy tail makes a Alaska has one person for every blanket for him on cold nights. ten square miles of territory. D evil's Lake, N. I >.. has zero weath The largest trout egg-taking station er one fifth o f the days In the year. In the world Is at Diam ond Lake, Ore. A practical way of frosting the In I'hlladelplila la to have a Kodln mu side surface o f Incandescent light seum. to house a fine collection of the bulbs haa been developed. famous sculptor’s work. M iss Elizabeth Mem , daughter of MaJ. Gen. John L. Clem, retired, will make her debut Into W asli’iigton so ciety this winter. General Clem, prominent In Grand Arm y o f the R e public circles, la famous a* “th# drummer by of Chlekamauga.” The W orld’§ Beat One r«-a*on why people do not Ilk» Indian mu-dr Is that they do not un- deratand the words. Another reason I* that they do not know why Indians sing. T he net result Is that very few stay to the end of a concert of Indian music, sung hy Indian*, unless It con sists entirely o f love songs. We have a nalural sympathy with love songs In any language and It I» easy for it* to Imagine thst the Indian, brave and strong. I* a magnificent lover. Hot the words o f these songs, as they are presented hy Am erican composers, are purely "white man.” Courting songs, In fact, were considered bud form, to say the least, among the old Indiana. T he American honey he«- la the world's rhamplon heavyweight honey maker. M any honey producers remove the sweet stuff from the combs by centrifugal or gravity extractor*, a ! The Indiana n«*ver sang for exhibi procesa which yields a clearer product tion. although there were standards of than that which comes through the excellence for Ihe alnger* who sat crude method* employed shroad. around Ihe drum and provided music for the dancing. In the old day* a really great singer could produce great Delicioua Draught» effects by his singing. T he question "Love Is like a well," sings a poet. wa* not the quality o f his voice, but Can he mean It Is a dangerous thing whether he could bring rain hy his to fall Into?— Boston Transcript. singing, make the crops grow, or cur* the sick. The acid t«*st of a song w as: W ill It work? A man might have re ceived ihe song In a dream or bought It from some «ither medicine man, but he must have within himself the Imwer to make It do what It wa* In tended to do. Otherwise he became ridiculous In the eye* of Ills little world and sang no more.— American Mercury. ' h Tran* Siberian ||*r#parw«1 W hy Railw ay S Along 0*»«rh|ilU4 U *ihlii|lon. I» C I Ik s N t t la iill T IE N the T ra ns Siberian ra il way and It* feeiler lines fa r ther west are functioning for Iravelera few more lutrraat Ing Journeys may he inaile than aensu Husain and Into (lie heart o f Siberia. A hundred tulles beyond the Volga, blue heights appear on tlrv eastern horizon ami ihe train qulfkly enters the foothill» of ihe C ra i range, thrtr gently rounded alopea descending Into charm ing valleys, pusture alternating with o | h - u woods which distantly aug gest tlioso of the "parka" of Colora do— woods not thick, because the clim ate la dry, but scattered In pie- turi-equo clumps over hill and itale. Aa Ihe tine pierces deeper Into the mountains, the glens are narrower and are filin i with a denser forest, out of w lih h hare summits rise to heights of three or four thousand feet. It Is s lonely land, with few and amali 'vil läge*, but It la rtrh In gold and allver. 1 •od p latin u m - from here rame In prv war day* nearly all o f the werld supply o f that metal— with an extraordinary variety o f rare and val Un hie stones. The train lakes about seven hours lo Iraverse this picturesque region, stopping here and there at a busy mining town, and passing an obelisk which, at the summit level, mark* Ihe frontier o f Europe and Aala. T h e re after It emergea suddenly (for the Asiatic slope U shorter and *tec|wr than the European) on the boundless plain* of Hltierln. here hare and *1 most waterless as are those of A r i zona. hut drearier But presently one comes, at the thriving town of (husk, which wa* In IIMS Ilie headquarter« of Admiral K o l chak In hla rampalgn against the B o l shevik*. to lha first o f the four great Siberian rivera, the Irtlsk. which, h a r ing risen far nway to the south In the hills of western Mongolia, Is here ou Ils northern path to Join the tlhl and send Ita wuters Into Ihe A r n ie tea. Scenery East of th* Obi. T o the Ohi Itaclf, an even fuller stream, one romes In eight hour* more, and sec* a flotilla of strainer* m on m l to Its hank. From thla point onward the country la rougher ami thinly Inhabited, for much o f the laud la the sort of forest swamp which the j people ra il taiga. • j On each aide of the railway track 1 the woods have been cut hack to leave an open apnee of SO to 100 yards wide, so that spuri* or coala from Ihe Inro- motive brill not start a conflagration j T M , op, n grassy belt la In sum mer covered with a luxuriant growth of tall flowers on each side of tlie I line, giving the eff«*ct o f what garden ers rs ll s "herbaceous border," with Ihe railroad trsrk for the gravel walk j between the two flower beds. Behind stand Ihe pines, with their tall, straight, reddish trunks, contort- 1 ed houghs, and dark-green foliage. Seuntlful as are those o f the Scottish Highlands. A fle r many honra' Journey through this delightful parterre. Ihe traveler u -e s beneath him In a valley, ,K«» feet teep. the grandest of all Ihe Siberian dvers. Ihe Y«-nl«el, with tlie city of Krasnoyarsk lying on Ihe slope be tween Ihe station nnd the stream. T h irty hours more bring the trav eler to the fourth river st Irkutsk, that capital of eastern Siberia for which Ihe contending Bolshevik and anti Bolshevik nrniles fought no long In f i l l 7 and ltltfi. Il Is Ihe Angnrii, hearing down a tremendous torrent of clear green water from l,ake Baikal, which the (rain reaches before long. Around Lake Baikal. Lake Baikal la one of (he great In land sens of the world, nearly ns long ns Lake Superior, though not so wide, for In clear weather the eye enn reach from the one «Imre to the other. It fills s how-aliais-d depression too miles long, between high mountains dipping steeply Into Its w aters; nnd on Its roasts there are only wood rntters nnd fishermen, with a few hunters. T ill long past the middle of last century, some while before Ihe Traua- i b e r i a Cliffs of Laka Baikal. continental railroad wa* bttllt, there was no way front ihe west Into the land* u4 Ihe Am ur river aud M an churia ezeept hy a ferry across the lake of »ome twenty or more t a llo s In Ihe BUiiilner, or by »lodging over Ita Icy floor In winter, and Ihe Its«- olera of Home days loved to d e s c r ib o the midnight drlv* under a brilliant moon. Now th* line runa for many miles along II* aouthern shore on a ahelf rut out o f the steep mountain ski*, high abov* Hie waves, with frequent tunnels through projecting cliffs. Ko much for (lie western portion o f Ihe Transcontinental railway, the one great factor In th* aoctal and econom ic Ilf* of Siberia which those who wish in understand Ihe rutuitry must keep alwaya lu mind. Now let us turn to western filbert* In particular, and to the A ltai mnun- («in». _ . . . . *.w Altai la the name given to the south western part uX a -great mountain mass which divides the lowlands o f Siberia from Iho platean o t •»•ntrnl Asia, sending forth *an one M ile the great river* that flow north lo th* Arctic ocvnn, mid on ttir other, th* southern nnd drier able o f th* rauge. smaller streams that lose themselves In the lakes or marshes of Mongolia. .Moat of thla vnat mountain land I* unexplored, and only a amall part has been aurvryed for th* purpose of locating Ihe mineral wealth It I* be- llrvml to contain. From the very be ginning of history all II if z f region* north and east of the Black sen and the Caspian had remained unvlalte-t and unknown from the day* of llo n irr down to th o s e o f Marco Polo. In Ihe F ifth century A tllta led hla llunnlsh hordes across Germany Into Italy and Gaul, followed hy Avars and Bulgarian* and Magyars, and In the Thirteenth century there cam* the t remendón* Invasion of Ihe Mongol* under Genghis Khan. To th* Attal Mountain*. A logical point o f departure for th* mountain* la Ihe town of Novo Nlko- laevsk, a mushroom growth of Ihe yrsra since Ihe opening of the Transcon tinental line, fnr II atsnda at the meet ing point o f two (re al line* of trail©— thill of th* (ltd. which brought down the mineral* and the grain and th* holler from Ihe aouth, and that o f the railway which carried these prod ucts eastward to Irkutsk nnd beyond to the Pacific, westward to Itusala and Germany. It remitida on* o f Ihe new rlllea In Ihe newest parts of America, with It* hlg warehouse* rising faa*. along half finished roadways, while Ihe untnnrhml prairie, doited here and there with scrub birches, lay Juat out side the hnuara. From Novo Nlknlaevsk one Journeys southward 'JftO miles to Bllsk, former ly a place o f aomo Importance, ti> which all the hatter coming from Iho vast pastures which lie sll round wn* brought, and to which timber from Ihe vast mountain forest* beyond Was floated down the River Klya. which. Joined n few miles lower down hy the Itlver K slun . Issuing from the Altai, forms the Ohl. It lies si Ihe edge of Ihe steppe, here rising nearly 21)0 feet above the stream. From Bllsk one must travel to the mounlalna hy horse drawn conveyance over roads none too good. T he first day's Journey la over the rolling grassy step|ie; the eecond brings mi* Into aoft valleys betwi-on the lower hill*, valleys filled with (lowers of many brilliant hues, such a* one might find on the lower alopea o f the Alps In July, for here Ihe «now does not melt nwny till May. Th* way la not without Ita dlffictil- tie*. The««- are rocky track« along the crumbling edges of deep ravin«'*, and there are swamp* where atones hidden In the mud sometimes all hut capsize the luckless vehicle Into the water, , A ll these and many other draw backs to an Altaian Journey are out weighed by the rlew* one geta from the heights, as well a* hy the wild charm of Ihe woods nnd the sparkling torrents that foam dowtr the glen*. "S eein ’ Thing» at Night” T akln g m an* night Vision ns a Standard for pnrposes of comparlsnn, It has l.een found that a Hon la «light- ly heller ahle fo see at night, a benr atlll betler eqtilppeil for night Vision, wlille an owl Is Ihe best equlpped of all. H o se ly rlvnllng Ihe latler are two represenfallvee o f »he cat trfhe, the llger and the ordlnary domeetlc cat. Or G ive In ? Wreatllng makes a man hut elionid a man wreatle conscience? stronger, with his The Oldest Gam e? Invented In ancient Greece more than two thousand years ago, a game was exhibited recently In London con sisting of 14 stilali fint piece* of ebonite o f various shapes which, when properly arranged, form plctur«-s of an elephant, nn ostrich, charging soldier, e harking dog, and several other fig ures. T h la game was probably used edu cationally fur the training of th t pow- er* of observation or memory In ch il dren, and, although mentioned In an cient manuscript, all trace o f It had heeq lost for the last l.ftdft years. Peanut Growth T he p«-nnut plant develops Ita flow- era above ground, hut after flowering liaa oertirred the flower stalk* bend down nnd push the fruit (nuts) Into the earth, where, they develop. A fle r the nule have ’ reache«l their full growth they are dug up very much 1» the annie way us potatoes.