Friday, February 18, 1927
THE BKA VERTON REVIEW
Mexican Federal Troops Attacking Leon
H E W AS
A CONFIRMED
W O M A N-HA T E R
B y O K R IN B. S M A R T
( C o p y r ig h t . B f W
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I I I A T turiti. Misa Hanks," wild
U i l ) Sylvia, “ la our district
“ T 1 i * governor,
John Oaruer
It Is
| liefor* It was scheduled lo lea »a the
n o lh s insurrection broke out
T h e full account of this has uevet
.ret been written
It * »> a time ul
emt fusion, of alarms ami wild fear*
I Viri« was awakened Siam after mid
night by her father who came Into
her room fully dressed. She sat up
In lied, to hear the distant shouts of
the nonineer« ut the further end of
(he lowu. Th e re « a s « lurid giure
In the sky.
“ I*ve Just had a telephone message
to drive to the residency,” he sold
T h e r e la a riot lu progress some
where.
H u rry up and dress,
our
rickshaw Is w aiting for u t
Th e re
a reniai kahle achievement of
mine to have Induced him to come to
party, bees use he
a couth..ted w “ ‘ ÎT .
*!! ' * ' k
He did not tell her of the murder*,
«»U lu it hriter.“
the outrages, Ihe fury of Ihe fauull
Doris lltink« surveyed Mr. Canter
eal «oldteiy as ll had Ivvu recounted
thoughtfully. She hud never eucuuti
to him
And Doris wus only lolhlly
teied the »pedes lu her native sidle.
excited when, teu minute* later, w ild
She w as accompany lug her 111lher on
Ihe yells ef Ihe inoli ringing *tt her
hi* visit to Singapore, where he hud
• am mere loudly, she «trpi>ed lulu Ihe
aeeepied charge of a hig water work*
rickshaw with her futhor.
! plant.
All their native servant* hud de
She was fascinated hy the strange
serted them, except the faithful rick
j sight*, hy the tropic life, the •|«*elaele
«lisw
boy.
They
art off w ildly
Mexican federal soldier* tiling from a trench along the high road to Leon, which they later raptured from 1 of the handful of Kuglt»h men and
through the empty street* toward the
the Catholic rebeta. Acroas the held from this picture were the outskirts of some of the rebel m ilitary forces.
women living ever upou Ihe crater of
residency. Th e y were Ihe lu«( of Ihe
___ j native disaffection.
white
Inhabitants
to
have been
" H e was Jllled once." added Sylvia
aroused for Ih rlr villa u n t a coined
" It was year* ago, I think.
He I*
erahl# distance from the city lltnlta.
thirty-seven- now
We kuow all the
.Ml weld well until they were actu
men's age* In Singapore.
But they
ally In sight of the residency, (hough
don't kuow ours.'' «he added, smiling
the cries were now becoming alarm
IV r ta learned more about John C a r
ing. and whole block» of buildings
nor during the eusuiug days, lie was were biasing furiously. Then, a* they
the adm inistrator ihe most fenred by
nenred their destination, wlllt savage
the natives. On him devolved Ihe re cries a party of mutineers hurst
sponsibility of the administration of a
round the block. Th e y curried swords
province a lltllo larger than New J e r and torches, aud they seemed held on
sey, and teu time« as populous.
Husaian School
massnerlng everything In their path.
T h e spied the rickshaw ami rushed
< r> * t* r* 4 k r 'k s N s llo * » l 1 1 *—*»*|*hl«-
*
\s*»M i»«it> n 1»
l
forward, «creaming, thirls had a con
ftUMsl memory afterward of seeing w
ITT I. K ha* been noticed of the
their rickshaw
hoy
fall, stubbed
I
real lest which I* going on In-
through the throal
She looked up In
] ^ aide Soviet Russia lu recent
horror Into Ihe black faces with Ihe j
years because the clamor of
wickedly gleaming eyes. She saw llte theory anti proclamation* has flllrd
uaked swords.
i the ears of the world Theories have
Th e n suddenly s horseman hurst | been meeting Individualism which I* so
through their uildst. waving a d rip anlvcroal In humsnlty, nuwrllteii rule*
ping sword. Ihirts. half faluitng. saw ! of life and trade which have developed
the stern face of Johu Garner Alone, | through the age«, and world laws
upon his i l m t . be set himself against which centuries have formulated for
I Kiris was alternately Interested
When the senate took up the election contest W illiam B. WUsoa. form er member of Woodrow W ilson s cabinet,
the score of m utineers And It was a ! nations
and piqued b.v hi* Uidlfferetto* to her.
made against Senator-elect W illiam 8. Vare o f Pennsylvania, these four men played the leading rules. Left to t ig h t : Sen
heroic picture to see the regular play
She had met him several limes, and
Kussls I* the world's largest rottn
ator-elect W illiam S. V a re ; Senator Jam es A . Keed of Missouri, chairm an of the Investigating com m ittee; W il
of his sword ss he tbrasl and cut try. stretching across two rsuiilnrnls.
once he had ridden a U tils way with
liam B. Wilson, and M ayor W . Freeland Kendrick of Philadelphia.
and parried.
her, but he hardly spoke to her and
and when theory amt practice reach a
If was evldeut hat she was, to blui, Ha
a
clova hla way to Itorla* side. balance, Ihe test of a new system of
child.
T h e mutineers had fallen back, hut government w ill hsve world « Id* ef
GETS AIR TROPHY
now they rallied.
A score of shots feet
“ 1 congratulate you on your con
rang out.
T h o hors# fell, shot to
quest. dear," said Lady Sylvia to Hurts
Politically, It I* divided Into six con
and John Carner w rnt lum bllug stllin-nl republics; they In turn com
one day.
“ I bear that the m death,
is
under
IL
anthropic Johu earner has boou rid
prise .13 autonom ous units, each d lf
ing w ith you.”
He picked himself up, limping, feeing ethnologlcally and culturally
~\Ve happened lo meet.
1 don't seised Ihe rickshaw In hi* arms, and Most of them have Ih rlr own Ian
like him ,“ said IVirts, shrugging her set It up as s barricade In Ihe door
guuge. their own customs and cos
shoulders.
way of a deserted house. He placed tutnes. and the hahe| of longues he
“ H e la a comfortable sort of man, IVirls beneath It. swinging her In Ids comes even greater from the Irthea
• nit* as lightly as If she was a feath
though. Isn't h e ”' said Lady Sylvia.
who are a* yet (no backward for self
er. Then, sword in hand, he look his government.
“ In what w ay?"
post before her, while Iter father,
“1 mean the sort of man a woman
Cities and villages string along the
seizing a »w ord from a fallen m u ti railroads and rivers over all that vast
likes to have about her In time of
neer, stood at Ills side.
danger. And you know time* are very
territory. As on* rides over Ihe S i
T h e natives had exhausted their berian steppes the plains seem un
critical here.
Although we pretend
not to be afraid, w r are really frig ht ammunition In the first outbreak. Hut ending. Then M peasant'! rart Is seen
ened out of our wits with all this talk they ram s forw ard with a rush, a In Ihe distance, the Invarinhl* dog
o f a native uprising. But now for black, streaming laxly, shrieking male trotting behind.
Soon appear other
And e a rn e r and Henry carts, nil going In the same direction
John e a rn e r:
I believe you have dictions.
made more Impressloo on him than Banks plsyed their purt nobly
Th e n a village of log house«, with
you Imagine. What a Joke It would
In (his Imminent danger Doris fell perhaps a public building and a de
be to w in the woman hater's heart.“
herself grow suddenly calm, as If site parted aristocrat's brick house, al
“ A Job for a time, till It was won. were a mere »|iec(ator at a play. She ways p:tlntr.| white ami the ever pres
saw one of the men fall, pierced by ent rhurv-h. with Its five Tu rk ish
p e rh a i«,“ said IVirls.
“ I'd love to t e e him feeding out of her father* sword, though Henry shaped tower*, the large one In Ihe
Banks had never handled a sword In renter for Chris! and the smaller one*
yo u r hand, m.v dear,“ said toady Sjrl-
; via. " I t would repay some of us worn- H a life before. Th e n he was down, on Ihe corners for llte four Iio«i»el«.
and Carner was bestride his body, T h e train vanishes again over the tin
I en for w hst we have suffered from
fighting like a man p«s*e«*e»l. T h e ending plain*, vnrlrd only hy slretrhes
Shirley J . Short, ace of the air hla indifference to our affectloua“
natives drew off and looked at him In of foreet or hills, which seem to nun*
**L*o you mean that?*
mall pilot* of the Post Office depart
awe. It seemed Impossible that one and go as suddenly as Ihe villages.
“ I certainly do. But It Isn't poe-
ment. has been awarded the llsrm oo
man runlet achieve so much.
Moscow a Hug* Village
trophy for N M by the Am erican sec aible."
“ It la possible,“ said I (oris, remem
Bui from their outskirts a little trsn
tion of the International League of
Moscow, metropolis and capital of
bering
Johu
earner's
face
of
patroniz
run forward and Arcd a revolver Rtisala, Is the largest village lu the
Aviators. Short flew 2.1'B hours w ith
point blank Ihto earner's fai-e
Car
out serious mishap, night and day. ing (approval. “And I'll do It.“
world. Moscow ha* Its Irolley ear*,
ner. still rlu trh ln g his sword, stag
She did It- How , la a woman's se
and always on schedule.
electric light*, tall buildings, theaters,
gored and fell prostrate, and with wild
cret. but In three weeks' time John
■tore*, motor hussea. and other out
Carner was "eating out of her hand.“
yells llte rebel* rushed forward over
WOULD FIGHT DUEL
ward metropolitan man I festal Ion*. Iml
I ills Infatuation was the talk of Singa his Iwxly.
at heart It la a village
Leningrad.
pore.
Th e y
rode
together, they
Th e n, s* Pori* closed her eyes and Ode ass. and even some of the rltles
| danced— for John C arner hud come awaited death, a bugle rang m il. and
of the Interior have an appearance
j out of his shell, and It was pathetic Into the thick of the crowd galloped and an atmosphere of western F.unqie;
, to see the man trying to regain hi* a party of loysl horsemen, cu'tlng.
Moscow Is the In-art of Husain and II
| lost youth s( I Haris' feet. And at last stabbing. T h e rebels broke and fled. changes slowly.
came ihe looked for evening when be Im rl* felt herself raised In sotneliody's
Its brick and stone are a tnosnlr of
asked Doris to be his wife.
arms and knew no more.
the Rtisslnn spirit- stolid, unsmiling,
She opened her eyea In bed In a unpolished, and slow to change. Even
It was at the governor's ball. D oris
listened, while her heart w h s alter strange rmmt. She looked shout her the nnpnlnted tog house* of ihe peas
nately elated at her conquest and III bewilderment T h e n .s h e saw her ant village* seem to reflect age and
»•Tgl John Van Duzcn. seventy-four years old. was m arried for the fourth
bowed down under the sense of guilt. father's fam iliar faee beside tier, durability.
time the other day In Cincinnati. He is the oldest Am erican soldier in active
Wheu he had finished she raised her swathed In bandages. And she begun
Moscow || sprinkled with what Is
service, having been enlisted for life by General Pershing. H e 1* shown above
head, looked Into bis eyes, and to remember.
new. but everywhere It spenk* of age,
with his hrlde and wearing h!s wedding costume, which Is that of chief
| laughed.
“ Daddy, you are h u rt? ” she cried. from the weathen beaten walls of the
snake of the M ilitary Order of the Serpent, which he helped organize after
"O n ly a cut across the cheek, my Inner C ity lo bntflrmented monas
“ But I don't love yon, Mr. C a rner."
the campaign in the Philippines.
she answered, and It was lex* the re dear.” said her father rheerftdly. teries on the outskirts. Broad thor
fusal than the Jeering tone that stung "E ve ryth in g I* ended now. and Singa oughfare* radiate from Its renter, hut
pore Is as quiet— as— Philadelphia.”
John Carner to the quick.
aronnd each corner the stn-et* are
“ A n d — and—
Th e look that he turned on her then
narrow, with sidewalk* no wider than
“Th a n k * lo M r. C a rn e r." he ndded. footpaths.
was not patronizing, hut It made Doris
“ H e Is not k lllp d ? ' the girl cried
feel more humiliated than ahe had
Fires huve wiped It sway. Invaders,
ever felt I d her life before. It atung out fearfully.
from Ta ta r* to Napoleon, have de
"
H
e
’s
getting
on
very
nicely,"
an
her as her words had stung him.
stroyed It. governments have come and
Without a single word he turned and swered her father. “ And, Doris, we gone, but Moscow, stuhlxirn mid dull,
owe him everything."
left her.
has persisted. It symbolizes Itii«*ts.
“ I know." she answered. “ I hsve
Doris never forgot. Singapore had
Il I* only s step from Moscow,
become unbearable to her. She felt been very unkind, daddy. I ahull tell overcrowded and teeming with Its
Dustian Sekulitcb, chief clerk of the outraged, «he felt as If she wanted 1» you— when I have seen him.”
people* of mnny races, with rule* for
legation of the Serbs. Croats and sink under the kindly earth and be
Perhaps H e n ry Banks had heard every movement and police to en
Slovenes In Washington, who offered hidden there forever.
Ihe runiora. for It I* fnther's task to force them. Into the wild, wide-open
“satisfaction” to M O. Kldrldge, traf-
Wolves and hears still roam
“ Daddy, take me home,“ she plead hear more than he apeak*. At any spaces
fle director of Washington, either with ed a few day* later. “ 1 am tired of rale, he showed no great surprise In the Moscow district, and when the
pistols or flat*. Kldrldge and Seku- Singapore."
when, a week later, they csine to him dull winter dusk come* at 2 o'clock In
lltrh had a dlsputa over parking
with the new*. C arn e r In bandages, the afternoon nntl the rountry I* under
Henry Banks looked at his erratic
space.
daughter whimsically. “ W hy. m y dear, too. and leaning on D oris’ arm. But Us white mantle of anow, hunger
what Doris said to him was their own drive* them lo prey on mankind.
I thought you were devoted to the
happy secret.
K new Her Stuff
In daylight hours ■ constant human
place.” he aald. "S till, nty work Is
Professor Mathers was speaking at utmost tin ished, and the hot sensoo
stream Jostles through the towered
San Francisco. Ills topic was busi will be here In a week or two. Sup
Iberian gate In Moscow In the wall
ness training. T h e difficulty In get pose we sail In ten days' tim e ? ’
between the Bed Square and the ITsc#
ting good help Ilea not so much with
of the Revolution outside the K ltsl Go-
“ I don't want to wait ten days,”
art
question
Is:
“
W
hen
Greeks
Joined
T h e phrase.
"W he ran
n Greek
the help Itself it* with the employer,” sobbed
rod (Fortified C lfy ). Men In sheep
Doris, and
out of meet*
the
Greeks,
then
was
the
tug
of
w
ar.”
It
which her
has father
gained looking
and retained
he Insisted.
“ As a rule, efficiency Greek."
skin coafa, the greasy leather outside
room, leaving
after
till It I* almost a proverb. I* was un allusion to the contest be and the fur Inside; clerks In glossy
In any kind of endeavor 1* gauged by curreney
her with that expression a man weara
the expectation* of the employer.
practically equivalent to asking the tween the Greek state* and Philip and leather Jackets; officials with beaver
when he discover* that he has pro
”To>i many employer* are like Jones. oft repeated question. What would Alexander of Macedon. If Ihe phrase collars, brief cases under their a rm s;
duced something tola lly unexpected.
“ H o w la y « n r new secretary? a happen If an Irresistible foree came In s* now used really rests on 1-ee's women In felt hixits ; girl* In slltqu-rs.
Th e y had booked their passage ole
contact with an Immovable bo d y! In lines It Is misinterpreted for It Is gen w-lth bundles, battles, and enrts. were
friend asked of Jones.
the vessel, but they were not destined
“ ‘G reat,’ answered Jones. ‘Already Ihe "tug of w ar” which would result erally held to refer to the Internal tramping through Ihe aluali, for this
to sail on it. F o r on Ihe second night
rio- engagement of Prince Almone of Savoy, son of the duke of Aosta, she ha* thing* so tangled up In the Hier* Is no way of telling what the re strife between the different Greek was a winter evening
end Princes* Irene of Greece, sister of Crow n Princess Helen of Rumania, 's office that 1 can't get along without sult -if the impact might be. nor which states.— Chicago Journal.
Between the gnte* In the center of
reported.
her.' *
far-Ion of the Greeks might win.
the road Is ■ shrine and Inside (he
Th e line Is taken from Nathaniel
trail ■ church. Th e fnlthful pause nnd
In/urioue Drug»
l> e s “Alexander Ihe Great," written
Cord le Royal Decoration
Hashish Is the name of a drug pre
! in the .Seventeenth rentnry. T h e ex-
T h e “ O rder of Solomon's Seal." cre
pared from gum obtained from a
ated In 1874. I* the only honorary dec
plant known as Indim i hemp. It Is
oration
conferred
hy
the
rnler
of
Abys
a powerful narcotic and Is smoked ex
A kite over 14 feet tall won a recent
T h e black swan Is one of A u stra
Brought Down to D ate
Napoleon's Inst disposition was
sinia, aays the Here and There Maga
tensively hy the Arabs. Its effects
klte-flylng contest.
lia's native birds.
Charles
Dickens
sa
id:
“
Have
■
characteristic of hi* hatred for Eng
zine. It Is sim plicity Itself, consisting
are very sim ilar to those produced
It has been predicted that home*
T h e early Greeks used poisoned a r
heart
that
never
hardens,
■
temper
" I die prematurely, assassi
merely of a strand of native cord.
by the use of opium. Ill India a high land
will be heated by radle In a few rows In fighting.
that never tires and ■ tourh that
ly Intoxicating drink rille d bhang. Is nated hy the English oligarchy.*' lie
years.
Crude rubber was the leading A m e r
never hurts.” “ Dear, de a r!" exclaim*
bequeathed lO.tztn franc* lu Cantll
made from hashish. Its use Is very
Th e town of Bath, England, had ican Import In 1928.
E n g lith H a r b o r i
a rynleal reader of the above, "w hnt
Ion, who attempted to kill the duke
injurious to mind and body.
public baths established by the Ro
H o lly Is In danger of being exterm i
T h e principal harbors of England a different advice he would give to
of Wellington.
Th e great Russian
man*. In 54 A. D.
nated by reckless cutting.
■re Newcastle on Thames, Grimsby. d a y : 'Have a liver that never hard
novelist. Tolstoi, wrote hi* will on
A report says that the entire coun
Scratchless moving picture Aims London. Folkestone, Dover, Porta- ens, ■ tire that never punrtnre* and
France will teach German to
the stump of ■ tree. "R u ry me where
try of Tib et has only one motor ve- have been discovered, according to month,
Southampton,
Bristol
and ■ touch that never fall* to Isnd some
dents In Alsace and Ix trra lM , IT # -
I die,” he wrote. Rftheliils, the French
h lrio — a motor cycle.
the claim of a German chem ist
Liverpool.
tutor Polocara announced.
thing."— Boston Tra n scrip t.
satirical w rite r,#left ■ last memento
Big Four in the Vare Election Contest
I
I
Oldest Soldier Takes Fourth Wife
Another Royal Match Reported
Expression That Has Changed in Meaning
SH O R T ITEMS T O REMEMBER
Wills of Great Men
Girts ef le o sy.
make Ihe sign of lha cross aa they
pass.
tubers
euler.
I'atrlnrcbal
bearded beggars, hands outstretched,
•(«m l at the doors
B sg g sra and R obber G angs
Begging la a lucrative profession In
Moscow except dir the few days of
sporadic police round ups.
Beggar*
are of all ty|wa ami both seiew. from
Infants who lotldle underfoot while an
oliler head directs them frum the side
lines, lo husky rascals faithful to a
vow of “ | won't work.“
Differing from the w hining beggars
• re Ihe ‘J Ui.iski to .Nal.iasi honieleas
children, parlaha of the social order
ragged sooty fared from sleeping In
the n o tiers of street repair gangs' fUt
nares, dirty, diseased, dope poisoned,
and de*|M>rule Th e y run In parka
A gang straggles through the gale,
hugging the rurtv, eyea alert. Ihe world
a potential enemy. It* plan of action
derided T h e leader grabs a woman's
handbag, a man's fur rap, and over
turns an unw ary peddler's basket of
apples
Th e basket Is picked rleau.
and with w ild screams live gang la
gone, scattering through Ihe streets
txillcetum aud pedestrians In vain pur
suit.
In several cities homes are main
(slued by the government for these
young vsgahotuls- heritage of w sr and
revolution.
hut
augmented
every
month hy w anderlust- w ith hath*,
clean cuts, clothes, food, and ■ rare
laker to give them Instruction and sd
vie*. I'ersonsl liberty goes amiss with
this social group, ton young lo ap
predate civic responsibility even If
they had been taught It. Police and
sodsl workers periodically round up
the wild, untamed children and put
them In the homes
T h e erowd* elbow through Ihe
w hile palntrd h rlrk galea. In and mil
of the Bed Square, between a gaunt
let of venders. Baskets and clumsy
little wagons are on (he c u r b ; also
(tubby, brown, frozen apples for a cent
ami frit ones, rsreftllly sheltered under
blankets, for 40 cents; stands of d g
arrttes. each w ith on* and a quarter
Indie* of tobacco and three Im-hks of
paper m outhpiece; orange* for 71)
re n ts; cheeses, ru l and weighed while
you w a it; candles nvlle dlng d u st:
dried sunflower seeds, I wo rents ■
glassful.
Phasa* ef the Social Movement.
T h e goal which Soviet Russia ha*
art la to Industrialize the country un
til It can supply Its domestic needs
Il w ill (lien lie im h’|>endrnt of the nut
side world T h e I'nlted States Is taken
a* a model, not the countries of Ku
rope, which have developed Industry
hy colonies and foreign trade
I’ nlll
that goal Is reached, or abandoned, no
wars of Russia’s tusking need be an
tldpated.
T h e social movement In Russia may
he divided Into three phases: First,
to arouse the workers to s revolution;
second, to Instill the hie* In their
minds that they were the rulers of the
co u n try ; third, to Impress (hem that
they must produce.
T h e third atuge ha* now been
reached. More and more emphasis Is
laid on Ihe fact that the w orker moat
produce results and devote lea* Huve
In theorizing and talking. Stalin re
cently In one o f hi* rare speeches de
clared loo much time was given to
celebrations, meeting*, and anniversa
ries. A* practical Illustration he cited
that Hie m arketing of the grain was
costing LI kopecks a pood when If
should coal 8.
When summer comes, the face of na
ture changes Ilk* the spirits of the
volatile people, D aylight, which faded
Into (he w inter gloom at 2 o’clock,
tints the cloudless skies until 10 at
night. Dusty road* which were lost
under Ihe d riftin g snows are stirred
by travelers, nature smiles, snd Ih*
lonesome stretches where the wolf
parks howled are green and flourish
ing.
T h e queue* which shivered In front
of the bathhouse*— “the nentness of
Moscow citizens I* characterised bv
eight or nine washing parties a year.”
say* the economics departm ent— are
gone and every watercourse I* lined
with bathers In Ih* garb of Adam snd
Eve.
of his ryn lrlsm In Hie follow ing: " I
have ijo m il Ibi hie p ro p e rty; I owe a
grenl di al ; the rest I give to the
poor.”
II She W e re a W idow
Clyde Gerard knows * wife who
ronflded to her rhnm that alia w o u ll
like to be a w idow for a few months
Just to see how she would look to
other men, W # have no Idea how aho
would look lo other m e n : hut w
fancy we know what Ihe zither women
would say.— Capper's Weekly.