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Salvaging Grain From Elevator That Blew Up (© by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) said she*, was going to retire. So it happened the next tifne— and again. Now the cooler Anne grew toward Philip the more desirable she became to him, but try as he would he could make no progress toward finding the cause of her new indifference. De nied even the satisfaction of his in stinctive social qualities, Utard turned more often to Susan Belden for com panionship and the oftener he did the more persistently his thoughts were occupied with Anne. It was a cold, sullen February Sun day afternoon when it came to Philip that he could stand this state of af fairs no longer, and he set out for the Tyson home, determined to corner Anne and get the truth from her if possible. From her window Anne caught sight of Philip as he toiled up the hill against the bitter north wind. In an instant she was into her fur coat and tam and running down the back stairs, In tlie kitchen she successfully dodged the vast bulk of Lucinda, who couldn’t see “no sense nohow” in going out on such a day— and was on her way down the back road, which led straight out into the open country, at the mo ment when Philip rang the bell. Lucinda, with a wave of her pudgy black hand, pointed out the direction of Anne’s flight, disclaiming with a shake of her wooly head any respon sibility for “ seeh foolishness.” There was a grim,,do-or-die look about Phil ip as he snugged his coat collar about his neck and set out in pursuit. Anne'looked back from the first rise in the road and saw Philip striding across the back yard. As she recon- noitered again from the summit of the second rise he was just topping the first. The wind whipped her short walking skirt tight against her legs. It was hard going. It began to snow,, fine light flakes, forerunner of a real storm. ‘ But to Anne the pursuit had become a symbol. She had not the slightest thought of turning back. I f Philip really wanted to see her—to be with her—badly enough not to give up In spite of anything—well, she would test him to the utmost of her strength. And Philip— it seemed to him that his very life depended on overtaking that light figure flying before him into the teeth of the storm, even as his happiness must'depend on what was to transpire at the end of the chase. He was gaining fast. The snow blinded Anne’s eyes, and the bite of the wind sent tears coursing down her cheeks; but still she managed, somehow, to keep putting one foot ahead of the- other. H e was almost up to her. Her-strength was gone. But surely she could take one more step. And then—she vanished from the sight of the man behind her aS though the earth had swallowed her. There was an excavation— some road work going on. and the light timber barrier had been blown aw ay'by the wind. Unhurt; but exhausted, AnneJay where she fell. But a strong arm lifted her and held her tight, and Phil’s voice said : “ I was prepared to follow you to the ends of the earth, but not to the center of it. But we’re here. And before we get out you’ve got to tell me why you have frozen m e; why you have avoided me; why you ran away from me just now.” Anne was too tired to lift her head from that broad shoulder. “ It was be cause,” ' she said— ‘because I didn’t have an absolute hump.” Phil let it go at that, then. But a hundred times since, over coffee or crib, he has tried to find out what she meant. But Anne only laughs. That “ A woman with fair opportun ity ¿-and without an absolute hump may marry whom she likes.” And “ Vanity Fair” being the book chosen as ihe week’s English lesson for the senior class at the Pitman high, it came naturally about that this frag ment of the philosophy of a wise man should be the subject of discussion by a group of girl students gathered in a corner of the big assembly room. “ Why, it’s no more to be doubted that Professor Bank’s toupe!” This calm statement by Susan Belden ought to have settled the question forever— for hadn’t Susan littered the steps of Pitman’s school system with heart breaks? Nor was she the prettiest girl in the class, by several. Some budding iconoclast in the The work of salvaging the grain that was blown up in the world’s largest grain elevator, In Chicago, owned by group murmured, sotto. voce, “Her the Armour company, has just been finished. The work of cleaning out the elevator, which it had been estimated mother feeds ’em !” This drew smoth would take at least a year, was finished in four months. Blowers were run out from two sides of the elevator; one ered giggles. But it was Anne Tyson, to the railroad tracks and one to the canal where the barges were loaded. the acknowledged brains of the senior M iss W ilson, a well-known screen class, who had the temerity to open star, entered the m oving picture field ly qualify the dictum of the class after w inning a beauty contest con belle. ducted by an A labam a newspaper. She Big Feet No Help in “ You can win a man, girls, by trick has steadily climbed until today she ery. But you can’t keep him by the Killing Rattlesnake is playing leading roles In some of the same method—-not if he’s worth it.” most popular pictures. She is the Came a day when this shaft, sped at James Kieman, Tusten, N. Y „ typical sweet, home-loving type. Be a fair mark, was to turn, boomerang nearly lost a battle with a four- fore going into pictures she w as a like, and fly back at the archer. foot rattlesnake because his feet school teacher. Fate seems to have her own im were too big. Kiernan got both scrutible reasons for requiring certain feet on the rattler, but was un pairs o f individuals to “ fall in” side Internationalization of Famous Americans to the newly freed land of able to club it to death as he by side and march in step.'even when their fathers. could not hit the snake without River Completed by Action of there is no particular sympathy, or “Bratislava, now Czecho-Slovakla’s bruising his own toes. He was By MILDRED MARSHALL even liking. It was that way at school river port, was once the city in whose nearly tired out before he man- *1 Interested Allied Powers. —and afterward— with Sue Belden, dignified cathedral the Hungarian Facts about your name; its history; mean aged to get in a blow which Jl ing; whence it was derived; significance; kings were' crowned. Thg boat sta stunned the snake so that he H daughter of the proprietor of the your lucky day and lucky jewel. town’s one Tittle “department store, tion there reveals the Changes which could get off and finish the job. ( and Anne Tyson, whose fattier was history has wrought. (ftrer the cen HR v the town’s leading physician. ter of the landing the present name is N A TA LIE. They lived on the same street, given, but to the left one can «e e most Danube H a s Long Been Chain Upon of the letters of the German* name played in the same group as children, which here enters the Danube ftomj A T A L IE is another holy’ name, W hich Rom ance and H isto ry Have were members of the same class in ‘Pressburg’ and to the right there is the south. originally coming from the Latin “ high,” both graduated from the com Vied W ith Each Other to H an g the Hungarian name ‘Poszony.’ “About four hours sail below '»el* title of “Dies Natalis,” the birth mercial course— and then obtained po Interesting Traditions. Budapest Not W ar-Torn. grade the wide plains give way tq day of our Lord. The word Natalie “ Vienna, brooding in its lovely hilly country where the Transylvanian sitions in the same office— that of a has furnished the title of the feast Washington.— The completion of the parks, which lack the care that was Alps curve down toward the j|m- big chair factory, which was Pitman’s to all the Romance portion of Eu Internationalization of the Danube by once lavished on them, and contem Ble of mountains which extend to leading Industry. And to top it off rope. the recent formal action of the inter plating with cynicism the motto ‘SI Montenegro and Greece. It isgin i.ttiis fate carried her fantasy so far as to France made the word Noel from it, ested allied powers, announced in Vis Pacem, Para Bdllum,’ whose gold region that the main obstructions of plunge them both in love with the meaning Christmas, and soon Noel same man at the same time, Paris dispatches, is the occasion for en letters decorate the walls o f the the river occur. But the mos||p’a| became a Christian name there. In the Issuance from the Washington ministry of war, is a sad sight. But mous obstructions and the fijiest r- Philip Utard, son of the senior Italy it appeared as Natale. Spain headquarters of the National Geo Budapest, still militant, still haughty scenery dome at the Kazan D u flli and member of the firm, had been trans and Portugal used the name Natal. ferred from the Boston headquarters graphic society o f the following bulle In the consciousness of its beauty, the ‘Iron Gates,’ where the river] has There Is a feast celebrated oh the to the Pitman plant to learn the de tin, descriptive of the famous river. seems to have been less troubled by collected a gruesome toll. 8th of September by the Greek church, tails of production. And gossip spec “ From the Black forest to the Black the passage of war. “A t Rustchuk, the railway traveler as the festival day of St. Natalia, the sea, over a course 1,800 miles in length, “ Food is the main reason. Hungary, from Roumania ferries across ^broljd ulated ns to whether be- would not fol devoted w ife who attended her hus- the Danube ha! long been a chain reduced as it is, still contains some and sluggish stream to continue his low the example of his father and of and, St. Adrian, in his martyrdom. upon which romance and history have of the best land in Europe. Vienna, journey to Sofia and Constantinople; ah elder brother—and acquire also a He Is the same Adrian whose relics vied with each other to hang interest its industry 'stopped, can do little to and here the banks o f the Danube are life partner from among the estab filled the Netherlands and whose name That ing traditions and occurrences. Geog- earn the food it heeds. During the lined with huge barges, many of lishment’s female personnel. became celebrated in the West where ■ raphy, too, has done its share, and summer of 1920 all traffic between the which are still idle. Below Sttlstrla, was getting to be quite the Utard his w ife Natalia was long .neglected. although the Volga exceeds its rival two capitals was stopped by mutual the river curves to "the* north and way. The East, however, reversed the ar I f Philip did meditate any such In length, and although ithe Rhine in boycotts and although steamers plied passes through Roumanian territory rangement and Natalia is popular Thackeray and Hood has had better the Danube from Linz to Budapest, throughout the rest o f its length. At step It was soon apparent enough— to there, while her husband is forgotten. ihe watchful gossips— that his choice press agents, the Danube is large no through passengers or freight were Cerna Voda, it Is crossed by one of lay between Anne Tyson and Susan Natalia was one of the favored enough and beautiful enough to rank received. the longest railway bridges in the Greek Christian names. Russia adopt in Interest with the great rivers of “ To the casual observer, Budapest world, the last o f the many bridges Belden, for Philip divided his leisure ed her and, adding the usual con the ' world. is the same proud city as of old. The which cross the stream, some of very evenly between the Tyson and sonants of its language, calls her Le ss a H ig h w ay and More a Barrier. fine parliament building and the im which are now destroyed as a result Belden homes, or escorting the girls Natalija, Nataschenka, and Natascha. “ There was a time when the Dan posing palace, on the heights across o f the war and post-armistice fight alternately to such entertainments as The first of the three names is ex the town afforded. Perhaps he en ube was symbolized by an old-fash the river, where Admiral Horthy now ing. tremely popular there today, or until joyed the company of Anne’s father, ioned waltz. But since thd* World rules, seem as attractive as before “ Braila, 125 miles from the three the Bolshevik! came into power and war began, nothing but a hesitation the war. The upper river., is still main mouths of the Danube, Is a port for Doctor Tyson was a man of broad withdrew the attention of etymologists and genial culture. And it was still typifies the place the river has held crowded with bathers and with canoes for the grain and produce o f a g'ch from the study of feminine names. in the economic life of the countries and rowboats in which charming agricultural region. In prewar days said of Sue’s mother that she “ fed France is said to have secured through which it runs. It has been women and stalwart men do their best its wharves teemed with life and its -’em.” Natalie from Russia, though there is Anyway, on a certain day in Janu less a highway and more the barrier to attain a spacious coat of tan. Along huge grain elevators bulged with the record of a Natalie at Cambral in fhan In prewar days. Not yet does it Franz Josef qual, the promenade adds rich products of Wallachia and Do- ary it would have been necessary for 1212. England preferred Natalie to Phil Utard himself to toss up a penny Irish H ad “M ayflow er" Adventure. serve to bind the various nations a lively touch o f color to the drab brudja, which has seen great develop Students of Anglo-American his any of the other forms, rejecting through which it passes into a friend scenes to which the beautiful blue ment since the Russians gave it to had he been pinned down to a deci sion there and then. tory have just directed attention to Natalia as too Latin in its influence. ly and co-operating group. It has Danube has become accustomed. Roumania instead of the more valu Whether American Natalies are rep It was on this day that Susan took been officially open to ships of all na able and fertile tracts o f Bessarabia. close note of Anna’s heightened color the fact that Ireland also had her resentative of the English, or taken Celtic Fortress S till Stands. “Mayflower.” This was the Eagle tions since the forming o f the Danube “ From Zemun, once the last Hun From Galatz to the sea the Danube as Utard passed close to their desks. wing, which, no later than 1636, set direct from France, is a matter of commission in 1856 and the various garian port on the Danube, a short has already been under the control of She~ leaned slightly' toward Anne, and sail with a full passenger list of personal preference. . states interested long co-operated to trip between low banks brings one to an international commission whose with a laugh that was just a little Ulstermen for the American colonies. The pearl o f purity is Natalie’s improve the navigation facilities, es Belgrade, the capital o f the new king duty has been to tame the river and machine made, inquired whether she There were 40 passengers, among talismanic gem. It promises good pecially In the lower reaches of the dom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes the many nationalities to whom the remembered the schoolroom discus whom were four ministers. Ill-luck fortune for its wearer and makes her river; but political conditions have where the steamer rounds the base river Is highway or barrier, according sion on the Thackerayism. “ What began at once, for unconquerable gentle, kind, and lovable. Thursday done much to weaken the economic of the ancient fortress which dates to the tides o f human passion and na cocksure little idiots we were !” she winds drove the vessel to the Scottish is her lucky day and 4 her lucky link which once bound Linz and Vi back to the time o f the Celts, the Ro tional life.” exclaimed. “ Wise men change their coast. A leak then held the ship in number. enna to the great grain shipping cen (C o p y r ig h t.) mans and the Franks, and comes to minds, don’t they*, Anne— and wise the “ Kyles of Bute.” Starting again, ter of Braila, to which ocean-going -------- o -------- its dock a little way up the Save. TO SAVE $1,000,000 ON AUTOS women?” she achieved mid-Atlantic, but there vessels can steam, and to the Black There was a challenge In the girl’s a hurricane did such damage and sea ports themselves. Mexican Government to Refuse to voice. But from the well-poised Anne caused such general discouragement A LIN E O’ CHEER “ Charming villages, beautiful mead RANKS WITH DEMPSEY it got no response beyond a non-com that finally the Irish pilgrims made up Furnish O il and T ire s to ows, picturesque hills crowned with Employees. mittal “ sometimes.” B y John Kendrick Bangs. their minds* that Providence was ruined castles, princely palaces, ec Yet thé thoughts of Anne were “long, frowning on their emigration, and clesiastical piles and two of the Mexico City.— The Mexican govern long thoughts” in the hour intervening turned their vessel back to Ireland. world’s most fascinating capitals are A T H I R D C H O IC E . ment, by refusing free gasoline, tires, between her arrival home and the strung along the lengthy and winding repairs and garage service to its em serving of dinner by the rotund Lu A Close Race. river. Thriving industries raise their ’ H E N by two evils I am ployees who use government automo cinda, boss of the Tyson menage. This In Texas they tell how, years ago, smokestacks beside the Stream whose faced biles, hopes to effect a saving of hour Anne habitually spent before* the an Englishman there imported a fa I shall not choose the less. legendary color is blue but whose true But sit me down and with more than $1,000,000 annually. Sev fire in. the living room awaiting the mous wolfhound from Europe, in or tint varies from a dirty green to a out haste, eral more hundreds of thousands will doctor’s return from his afternoon der that he might attain wealth catch Or any undue press, muddy yellow. More tragic than the Just sit there tight until the light be saved to the government when round o f calls. ing wolves, by reason of the scalp encroachment o f factory smoke has Shall lead me to the Road to Right, army officers are forced to purchase It was here that Anne confessed to money offered by one of the state au Assured that though the wait be been in late years the sad sight of . long their own gala uniforms, and there herself *what she had never confessed thorities— $10 each. .countless chimneys from which the That light will come to rout the will be a still greater saving when before— that for weeks she had been Some dyed-in-the-wool Texans were wrong. life-breath of industry seemed to have all federal employees drawing mere trying with all her might an,d main— invited to witness the first chase. (Copyright.) expired forever. than five pesos ($2.50)- daily suffer like the nursery rhyme man of the They followed many miles through the Hohenzoilern Castle on Banks. a wage reduction of 10 per cent. bramble bush— to win the love of Phil prairie grass, but without getting “ Near Its source at Donaueschingen, f These economies which, it is under ip Utard. And had she,* like the sight of either w olf or hound. Finally W ill Seize V acant Rooms. the river passes between the castle stood, will be made effective shortly, bramble bush man, scratched out both they came to a wooded spot, where a The many thousands of seekers for wliich gave its name to the late ruling are in line, with a program of rigid her eyes in the proceeding? homes in Vienna have organized to get native was chopping. family in Germjany and a war monu thrift inaugurated by presidential de “ Did you see a wolf and a hound them. Complaining that the govern Just because she considered herself ment to the Holienzollern men who cree. a more fit wife than Sue Belden for a • pass just now?” cried the Britisher. ment bureau formulated for this pur fell . In the Franco-Prussian war. “ Yes, sir; they ju s t, passed.” pose is impotent, members of the s®- man of Philip’s mentality, did it fol Farther down it passes through the Too M a n y W om en in Europe. “ How was the race?” low that she would be able to make ciety have appointed agents to find all once-proud capital o f Austria-Hun Berlin.— Unless recently advocated him happier? Suppose that, with de “ Pretty hot— nip an’ tuck. But the vacant' premises and all residential gary, where the fine government build plans of a Bulgarian solon and a Col liberate effort, she won him—wouldn’t dog was a little ahead.” property not containing the maximum ings stand to the despairing Inhabi orado farmer result in laws permit he be very likely to discover later number of -occupants and to threaten tants as a mocking reminder of better ting farmers and others to have more that A Suspicious Nature. to use force to secure lodgings. Tjiey he ‘ had been the man days, and beside the Prater, once a than one w ife are accepted in Ger of her choice, instead of her being “I don’t like Mr. Dubwaite’s new have published a list of such places deer park and later a pleasure garden many, from 30 to 40 per cent o f the the woman of his? And would that’ stenographer,” said Mrs. Dubwaite. and demand they be handed over. noted for its Viennese gayety. German women are doomed never to make for happiness for either? There “Why not, my dear?” asked Mrs. Among them is the home of a baron T he Danube. have husbands, according to statis was nothing for her to do but jump Gadspur.. ess having ten rooms in which she tics gathered by Albin Michel,'a Ger right back into that bush! “ She has a dreamy look in her lives alone. “ Still farther along its course just Many similar instances after entering Czechoslovakia, at its Here is “Bowie,” who ranks about man expert, who declares that Eu That evening Philip came to call— eyes.” are gited.— New York Sun. “ Oh, well, she may not be meditat junction with the March, there is a as high in the cock-fighting world as rope’s surplus women have increased and departed vainly trying to recall -------- O--------- towering cliff spired with a monu Dempsey does in the prize-ring or until they exceed men by 15,000,000. what he could possibly have done to ing mischief.” Trouble Enough. “ Perhaps n ot; but when a girl Is ment erected to celebrate 1,000 years Jock Hutchinson in golf. “ Bowie,” so change Anne toward him. Not “ Some of your friends think yon New Mode! Needed. of Hungarian nationality. This is now the property of Dan Baldwin of once had • she responded to word or young and pretty and Indulges in day ought to write your reminiscences.” Czecho-Slovakian territory now, and Walnut Springs, Tex., has won $3,400 The real objection to a butter-knife look of his in her usual bright, sym dreams, with a susceptible old fool like “ No,” replied Senator Sorghum, *T there last summer the Stars and in purses alone in nine battles in the is that it isn’t sharp enough in winter pathetically interested way. And Mr. Dubwaite around, some of those have trouble enough with the political Stripes were draped on the occasion fastest cockpits of the United States and isn’t enough like a spoon In when her father appeared after his dreams may start to* coming true.”— reporters without taking on the book of . the visit of alargegrouD of Czech o. and Mexico. summer.— Utica Morning Telegram. office hours she excused herself and Birmingham Age-Herald. reviewers.” Danube Is Open to All Nations BARRIER AND BATTLEGROUND “What’s in a Name?’9 N