The Gate city journal., July 13, 1923, Image 4

Farm Pointer
% A »ource o f supply o f clovei
■ Ifo r spring planting on the fall
I ^ fra in should be looked up n o »
%alue o f the seed may be deter
■ ' > by having purity and germ ii
tests made on the seed selected.
■ 1 ' testing o f seed is done free of c
E » ,hy the State seed Laboratory.
A successful fan n er is the on.
ta4*s advantage o f the experiem
j others. Bearing this in mind, tl
l _ . f mer who can make the best u
E j his time at this season o f the
i j b y catching up on the reading
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he has neglected during the sui
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— I L yk new spray calendar fo r or
L'»^ts will be published ) f j tht
1 tiop on about February 1. Fo
1 fd^st time in Oregon a bullet
- t thth kind, a special program fo
1 "t"W n g in semi-arid fru it se<
!ed.
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can be successful
- e hens where a
¡.a be set.
Chicken
efficient than turkey 1
ces in crop production fro i
o f wheat, barley oats,
. pies, and peaches fo r 19
„o il amounted to *2,184,6
mers should bear this in mil
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u m g it this winter
in the radiators o f
d in g to the Januat
J report o f the de
agriculture.
: ican Bee Journal hai
made o f this non-i
and it is asserted
■i w ill only get mus)
<id weather and th
..a,,oratin g e ffect upoi
umes in contact with.
rtunity is here pres-
-pers in Malheur c«
o had trouble selling
tion.
1 ming Raw Oregon
niation o f Oregon land b
on is apparently the most c
' !o a larger population and 1
- state wealth. This inc
<-®te wealth leads to a lowei
i e. By similar processes in
irious counties have cut
.n half. Such little sa’
cost o f the administratit
ernment as our legisl
m y be able to make
c-He paring economies
?./ l‘
od by our total tax. More
m f
.c wealth; more people to c
y n* •
t he raw resources o
H H s t a t e - — this is the solution o f th<
j f problem.
f
Therefore w ater so applied a
i ^gmake a ton o f a lfa lfa grow wh<
J pound o f bunch grass and a
yTOrush grew is the problem to be
K i J ; ) d before we shall see taxatio
/ fin is state lower.
[ f l In a series o f articles on irrig:
K f l Jh Oregon gathered by a Tele|
j / p t a f f w riter a fte r an exhaustive
H , y ey o f the irrigation district of
I
Ytate and a study o f their condit
.
(t was shown that legislation is I
l . - j i d to correct the follow ing evils:
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(1 ) Too little care taken in s<
r ’ .^ in g irrigation districts; (2 ) dev-
■ '^ n e n t le ft in the hands o f inter«
■ ' contractors, thus making impi
¡ , 1 ments cost too much; (3 ) bond:
H/^sued and sold by irrigation be
» f ibwho have autocratic power and
ft '.«I -hecks by higher power. A ll t
I t ^ j v i l s overload the land with taxei
& ’ land cannot bear. In some insts
I t ' tuch unwise management has put
‘
i f commission many farms that
E( previously profitable under dry 1
i
ng, while lands prepared fo r set
» „ lave been prepared at so grea
> 'n ixpense that they cannot be sol
i price that will attract settlers.
fr s
These are m ajor evils that hav
>ut halted further irrigation dev«
Dent.
The remedies suggested
hese: Provide for the recall of
rrigation boards o f directors if
prove to be unfit fo r their work.
nore teeth in the present irrig]
« f aws to eliminate g ra ft and in
l e 'ree and open competition not
n construction o f irrigation w<
«, >ut in the bidding on bonds, A p j
K V >r elect an irrigation commie
is hat shall be so constituted at
five more careful attention to in
| | U i on a ffairs. So direct the secur
I f ommission that they shall app
, ,T f no irrigation project that does
i airly promise to succeed.
L «H F inally let there be a definite
t i l f i n i i a l i o n plan which will select
i,'1 lers, locate them on farms reaso
,/ (iy well prepared fo r them, supei
l/‘ *hem and aid them to act co-op
•'i* . ively in their producing, their
$•' ng and selling, until such tinu
,Y hey are fa irly established on t
•wn feet.
Æ
k i » \ " ^ h e **a y *ias gone whpn we cal
• tie rural Oregon with colored b
iYl 0 eta only. Such farm im migrant
"*V e shall hereafter get into this s
.“ t i l l come from other farm ing
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iflpions o f the United States; an.
/ ofrill come only to homes that i
■^¿lernand fo r their building a l if
I, j.ntion and a broken back. A x
i. ,»^| ,ble colonization scheme is indisp
' g,bh> to the reclamation o f Or*gi\
Yjdeveloped land.-Portland Telegrai
V
p
rll % . L ive Stock Assessments.
is considerable comment in
ounty today nbout the wide
betw een the total number
» “ *« recorded in mort-
o f absurdity about some o f the refine­
ments she Insisted upon, and about the
Matrimonial Adventures
seriousness with which the took her
committees and her classes and her
clubs It did not behoove her husband
to rail, no matter how often they
caned her from the dinner table to the
telephone.
He had had time to think as fa r aa
BY
this, hla mind slipping rapidly pest the
fam iliar landmarks Just aa hla eye slid
down the columns o f the newspapers,
before he perceived that Emily was
not, this time, talking to any member
A ftth o r
of
*IU «o r
U r «* * ."
o f her drama committee, nor to any
" (H iiu ü n o f lin lu r fr y .
‘\ ™
TrZiUM msM
*TUo
cltisen o f Avonla. nor to anyone she'd
W h l.ü fr ln «
"A
had the slightest expectation o f hear­
•juir Moda««« ' "Tn* ^
ing from. It was a man— George could
A d vo n la r«." “ Tho I k o n » « « fi­
b r e d * "A n A m rrlc»»» K w »-
tell that from the quality o f her voice
i l s - " M u r i V% uilmrtmu.*’
LAio," •*«.
— and he seemed to be throwing her
Into a good deal o f a flutter.
“ Why— why, yes," she waa saying.
“ Oh, hut w e’d love to have you I . . .
C topyiinht b r U nitoti F e a tu re ffy n d lr a t«
Yes. T hat'll be fine . . . W e cer-
I talnly will. Only I'm afraid you won't
» « • y find us very exciting. . . . Four
#• • • • «
I o'clock Saturday then.“
H E N R Y K IT C H E U .
George, as she returned to the tahla,
W EBSTER
fastened his gase upon the paper,
j When she was rattled ahe liked to he
Like no many o f Am erica’ « big
allowed to take her time.
She aut
nuthorn, Henry Kltchell Weboter
! down a bit h eavily In her chair, drew
began writing at an early age Hia
flr«t work brought forth stories of
a couple o f long breaths, resumed her
m ystery—thrillers, he spe.-lallced In
knife and fork, and then asked, “ I»Id
plot.
! you hear any o f that?”
Then he turned from that form
I
“ Not much," he told her. “ I thought
of fiction to material with more
substance. For on* o f the leading
you sounded s«irt o f surprised."
magasines he traveled In the trop-
“ I should say I was," site admitted,
los and wrote articles, not purely
“ when I hadn't heard from him for
for local color, but studies of the
life with a sociological background.
nineteen years.
Calling up on the
L a ter came his novels with their
long-distance to ask If he can come
portrayals o f real people and real
and spend Sunday with ns!
Sur­
problem«, showing the power of
p rised !”
klr. Wobater’s mental equipment,
for he Is a widely cultivated person
“ W h o?" G eorge wanted to know.
with a knowledge o f the drama,
“ I don’t know why he ahould want
music and literature. He speaks
to. H e certainly won't find any ma­
with authority on all o f these sub­
terial fo r a play In ns. Still, It'll he
jects.
Mr. W ebster la one o f the au­
nice to see him again. I don’t sup-
thors who takes a long time at hts
I pose I'll know him.”
writing, and the story that follows,
“ Look
here,"
George
demanded,
written expressly fo r the Star Au­
“ whom are you talking about?"
thor Series o f Matrimonial A dven ­
tures, was In procss« o f develop­
“ Oh,” she said, as If she had Just
ment during a trip through Eu­
heard his questions; but It was another
rope. "H is W lfe ’e V isitor" shows
moment
before
she
answered
It,
how very clever husbands some­
times are!
"W h y, It’s Charley Haw kins— H aw ­
MART S TE W A R T CUTTINO, JR.
thorn Hawkins— George, you know
who he I s !"
“ I know who Hawthorn Hawkins
The telephone rang for the third Is, but why do yon call him Charley?
time »Ince they had eat down to din­ And why does he call us on the long
ner. T h e maid, In her flurried haste distance and propose to spend Sunday
to placate the tyrant, set down the with uaY'
dish o f fried eggplant from which
“ W hy, he’s givin g the Sheldon lee-
George had been about to help himself tures down at the University this year,
on the sideboard out o f his reach. and he looked up Avonla on the map
George and his w ife sat listening In and saw how near It was— so he
silence. The msld returned and said, phoned to ask If be could come."
“ I think It's fo r you, Mrs. T a lt.”
“ But why Avonla, and why us? I f
George sighed and produced the e v e ­ you know him as w ell as that, why
ning paper, which had been tucked haven’ t you ever told me anything
under his leg against this precise con­ about him?”
tingency.
"G eorge,” she cried, scandalized, “ I
He didn't particularly care about the told you all about Charley Hawkins
news, o f which he had already read when w e w ere first engaged— and you
the unexciting headlines, hut be did didn't even listen. H e wasn’t famous
want to register a not unnmlabte pro­ then, o f course. And I haven’t heard
test against these continual Interrup­ from him since the note he w rote with
tions o f th eir dinner. Em ily Insisted the wedding present he sent us Now,
ou making a more or l«ws form al meal fo r goodness’ sake, don’t ask any more
o f I t She'd have been mildly annoyed questions, hut let me eut."
with him I f he'd gone to the sideboard
It was from preoccupation rather
and helped himself to the eggplant than obedience that he let her alone
while the maid was at the phone. until she rang fo r the maid. Then,
Then why couldn't she Instruct AuDa "Y on haven’t heen w riting to him,
to say to these Importunate tele­ have you— telling him he was great
p h o n e » that her mlatrese was at dln- and so on?"
ner and ask them to call her In an
H er eyes flashed at him, hut the en­
hour? It wasn't as If they ever had trance o f Anna procured him a polite
anything to say.
answer.
“ I couldn’t very well w rite
There was no use saying this to to him when I'd never seed one o f his
Emily.
H e knew her argument as plays.”
well aa his own. Anna’s morale would
“ E ve r read 'em 7 ' he asked. "T h e y
be ruined i f they short-circuited her are published, I suppose."
services by helping themselves, and
She shook her head and waited until
then where would they be when they Anna went out; then she swooped
had people In to dinner? But If he upon him. “ I never thought you’ d be
didn't want the meal Interrupted by so silly," she declared, “ as to be Jeal­
telephone calls, why did he Insist on ous.
And about a man I haven't
their dining at the byeollc hour at six thought o f fo r tw enty years."
Instead o f seven when most o f their
"J e a lo u s !” he retorted furiously.
friends did?
“ I ’m not.”
O f course Emily knew his answer to
“ W hat are you then?” ahe asked
tliat, too. By dining at six they could, with an alkaline sort o f smile, and he
whenever they felt like It, go to the found
the
question
unanswerable.
first show at the Alcazar and see the
“ W ell, I hope you w ill be decent to
phffure right end tn. Instead o f from
him anyhow."
the middle o f the fou-th reel. Also they
" I don’t know whether I w ill or not.”
could find a convenient place to park he told her.
“ That depen ds”
She
the car. And they were home again didn't speak to him again that night.
by nine, so that If George had any eve­
T w o days 1nt«*r, com ing home from j
ning work to do there were a couple o f
a rather strennoua bont o f shopping.
solid hours lo ft fo r It. And as fo r set­
E m ily found her hushand— home from
ting an exam ple o f propriety to Anna,
O eerge fe lt It was rather hard. Ever the office a good hour earlier th a n ,
usual— reading a amali green paper- !
since fhelr first child, George, Junior,
covered volume, which he put down ¡
had been tw o years old, George, Senior,
hastily ns she came In, and then took
had hsen submitting to Innumerable
up again and held out to her.
email Infringements npoo hi* personal
" T h r e e P lays by Haw thorn H a w ­
liberty ander the plea of setting s
kins,’ " she read.
“ W hy, whore did
proper example. But now that Junior
that come from ? I tried to g«*t It at
waa In college, and Ms yonnger sister
S treet’s, but they’d never even heard
In a boarding school, It seemed to
o f It.”
George at forty-three that he might tie
"Gam e In the m all." he said.
“T
allowed to tilt back In his chair If he
found it when I got here.”
Uk(>d and empty hla pipe scrapings
“ Addressed to m e?" she h ski'd
Into the dessert plate. There was no
“
W h y— yes.
I b elieve It waa.
I
good saying any o f that, either, for
opened the package without thinking.”
E m ily knew It as well ns he did
“ Charley sent them on, o f course."
Well, he knew her answer, too,
though this last w«»rd was on«- she had she rem arked; “ ao that I ’d have some­
never aatd. A fte r all. they didn't live thing to talk to him about.”
“ I don’t b elieve he did," George said
In New York nor In I'hllndelphln nor
“ Not unless he’s an—
even In Chicago. They lived in Avo- decidedly.
nla, Illinois. George hail a good law unusual ass.”
She flushed angrily at that, but he
practice In Harrison county, hut the
great cities and the great corporations went on b efore »he could speak. " I
had never summoned Idm, and It was said I thought be wasn’t an ass. not
becoming d e a r to G«s>rge- nt forty- that I thought he was. There'd have
three— that they never would Avonln heen a card or an Inscription I f It
Anyhow, I
and the m ovlo* and the hriilge club had come from him.
and a month's vacation at Mncklnac wouldn’t thank him fo r It unless he
elves you a lead. Read 'em and say
Island was shunt his speed.
He donhted very nnn-h if Kmily as nothing. And don’t leave ’em out on
the sitting room table where they'll
regarded her own potential speed
he the first thing he sees, either."
granted a eon Jugal partner o f sain
His Wife’s Visitor
Henry KitcheU Webster
i
d e n t horsejsiw er— a«-g\ileseeil
Emily
Her smile conceded that this advice
might well believe she was horn for was both friendly and Intelligent
better things
She'd been a good dm )
"But where did they come from 7' she
o f a belle In her day. She whs too l.ual demanded.
to lament lost opportunities In Ills
“ Search me I" he told her. "The>
presence, let alone to fling them nt him don't ix'stmarb this fourth class stuff
an missiles, hut a consciousness rhal 1 No. I didn't mean anything nnenmpll
they might he lying ready tn her hand mentary
As fa r aa I reed In the first
made him walk warily
She should one. It seemed pretty good. I thought
make the beet o f Avonla In her own yon might have sent to Chicago for
She pointed out that there
way. and If there waa s falnl flavor th e m "
woiilun t have been time “ <
well,"
he coni hide I. " I don’t belles - It’s, much
o f a m yaien
Some old frtentl, most
likely, that he told he waa coming,
sent ll along so «hal you could sur­
prise him
You'll reud ’em tonight, I
suppose."
She said she would, unless he want­
ed to' go mil - -i ewhere with her; bul
he said to- must go haek I*» the ottlee
and work.
“ I’m going to be pretty
busy between i*ow anil Monday," he
adileil.
She looked at him sharply. You’ re
going to b«‘ here tomorrow when he
comes, aren't von?"
"Oh. yes. I'll he here— you bet." It
was so evident, though, that the last
brace o f word* had esenped him In
voluntarily that she forbore to remon
at rate.
They kept rather carefully away
from Charles Hawthorn Hawkins ns «:
conversational topic that night. Next
morning. howev«>r. Just before he lefl
fo r the office. George uneasily broke
the lee bv saying. “ Don't count on
him too much, Emily,
lie may not
Colne, you know— send you a telegram
this morning."
She askeil hotly why he said that,
and ndded. a* the suspicion struck her
" I believe you've heen telegraphing
him. yourself, not to come." But this
lnjurhois charge she at once retracted
“ T h e y ’re suppostsl to he sort of
temperamental snd changeable, that's
a ll." lie explaine«!. “ and I thought he
might change his mind shout this."
"Y ou wish he would. I suspwt,” she
observed.
"Y es ,” he answered, unhnpplly, “ I
suppose I do."
She gazed at him a moment In mute
exasperation.
Then her expression
softened and she gave a reluctant
laugh. “ I think you’re the most ridic­
ulous person In the world,” she said.
“ I suppose you think he’s coming out
here to break up our happy home and
get me tn run away with him."
H e looked so glum over this that she
gave him up fia hopeless.
"Oh. go
along," she cried. "B ut I'm going to
kiss von first
And you w ill be home
sharp at four, won’t you?”
It w h s nn hour earlier than this
that she found him In the dining room
unwrapping a package containing two
bottles, one o f gin and the other of
Scotch whisky,
“ Got 'em from W alter Harbury,” he
explained sheepishly. “ W a lter has a
regular bootlegger— comes around once
a month.
Been meaning to lay In
something like this for quite a while."
H er nstonishment over this bit of
unabashed mendacity made It possible
fo r him to get on to something else.
H e put the bottles away In the side I
boanl. turned his hack upon it, and !
gazed at her so Intently thst she !
frowned
Inquiringly and presently
asked. "W e ll, what Is it?"
"N othing.” he said, “ only I think
you're looking great— Just as you are."
Now this was the unadulterated
truth.
A t forty, after two children
and nineteen yenrs o f mnrrlage and
Avonla, she still looked Infinitely d e
•Irahle to George, and never more so
than In the sort of clothes she was
wearing now, a small felt hat crammed
down upon h«>r small round head
(ahe'd been out lining some last-min­
ute m arketing), a swr-ater, a sport
skirt, low-heeled shoes; her face
m olsfly flashed, Innocent o f powder.
It was true and Emily knew It was
true.
A ll the same, she saw through him
and amlled derisively. ” Sn you want
me to look like this when M r Hnw-
klns com es?" she asked.
“ Well. I
won't.
I'm going up to dress this
minute.”
“ I wish you wouldn’t, E m ily," he
pleaded. “ I don't want you to dress
up for this chump. I don't want you
to do anvthlng— special for him.
I
don't see why you Rhould. You don't
care anything nbout him, do you? Nor
about what he thinks?"
H er flush deepened as she met his
look. She reached nut suddenly and j
took hold o f him by the ears ''Id io t!"
she said, “ Id io t !" Blit In the Interval
hetwi-en the tw o words she kissed him
and she did not dress up for Mr.
('paries Hawthorn Hawkins,
T’ erhnps beca use her husband’s per­
formance occupied the first place In
h eru ttcm len , "she found It lia ¿d"to re-
nifJmbt,r ,v(lllt
eelebrlty Charley
H . , „ k|tlR hR„ become.
F o r Q u ic k
DISPUT OF BABIES SHOWS
FRANCE’S BIRTH SHORTAGE
It. and after an hour <*f this, ahe bade
them good night. This
Insincere,
so far us It was addressed to GeiUge,
for she fully Intended Haying awake
until he eatue to lied, and asking hlui
a few quest Ions, but her modest share
o f the uuwouted alcohol made her Window Exhibit in Paria Tells
sleepy, and »he never kuew how late
Story ot Deci easing Race.
the two men— end the bottle <»f
Scotch— sal up.
Paris.— A row ot three babies, o f
She got no chance next morning,
diminishing sixes, clothed In white and
either, for a private talk with George
resting on a black background, lias beeu
before they met their guest, and In
attracting attention in the wludo«vs o f
consequence George's calm announce­
the National Alliance for the increase
ment o f the day’s program and hla
o f French i ’ opulatiou.
total elimination of himself from It
II Is a show window way o f telling
fell upon her like a thunderclap. She
the story o f a decreasing race. T h e
caught him alone a few minutes after
largest baby has w ritten underneath,
breakfast and asked him what he
“ Year 1808— l.tXH.OOO"; the second
uietint by It.
baby, "Y e a r 191»- 740.000," and the
**I don’t mean anything by It,” b «
laet baby, "Y e a r 1 U 20 ? --600,000."
protested. “ I have gbt to work all
The trouble between France and
day. Just as I told you. Hawkins un-
Germany U one of babies, according to
derstanda all right. I told him about
the spokesman o f tills organization,
It lust night. He's got to leave this
and Germany la bound to win the next
afternoon and there » no good Sunday
war becuuae o f more babies.
train from here, eo It aeeiued decent
According to the latest figure*. Uer
to say that you'd drive him over to
many now has 600,000 extra new
Rock port."
babies, and France but 36,000 above
"Y o u ’re «Imply— throwing me » t hi»
ber death rate.
head I" »he protested.
France's present population Is placed
She detected a touch o f bravado in at 39,200,01k), whereof 1,600,000 are for-
the way he said. "Nonsense! He came elgneis. Her netlve population for the
to see you, di«in't b e7 ’ But Charley first six months o f 1922 increased by
was already coming downstairs with 9,046, compared to 15,849 In 1913, a
hls bag, ao there wasn't time for any­ normal prewar year.
thing more.
With the number o f nflftTlagea In­
Well, the events o f that day were creasing (193,462 for the first »lx
In G eorge'» head, then, whatever they mouths o f 1922, as compared to IdO,-
turned out to be.
722 In the corresponding period o f
George bade their guest a cordial,
1913), the birth rate la slightly lower,
almost paternal farewell and, clapping as Is the death ra te.*
hls hat a little too much on one side
The
national
alliance,
however,
o f his head for a Sabbath morning points out that there is a 3 per cent
and an hour when he was certain to decrease In the German birth rate due
meet their neighbors going to church, to postwar poverty and «tther causes.
strolled down the street In the direc­
France Is endeavoring by h'glsla-
tion of hls office.
tlon to Increase the birth rate. F a ­
It was seven o’clock that evening thers o f four or m ore children are
w hen alie stopped their car at the curb given higher salaries, and other meas­
a fte r her return, alone, from the ures are being adopted, one o f which
fifteen mile drive to Rockport George Is to give u father an extra vote fo r
was reclining, very much at hls ease, every child.
upon the Gloucester swlug on the
veranda.
H a* S a v e 1 7 00 L iv e s ;
••Hello!" he called (o her. “ You hack
already? Had a good day?"
G e t» M e d a l o f H o n o r
She chose to regard hla second ques
tlon as o f a piece with the first, and
she came up the front steps before she
spoke at all.
“ 1 suppose you're famished for sup­
per," she remarked, " . . .
If you’ve
been working all day."
"Oh, I got home ««bout an hour ago
und scrambled myself some eggs. Uuw
about you 7'
“ I'm not specially hungry,” she said.
" I 'll get myself a glass of milk by
and by."
She sat down facing him. "George,"
she demanded, “ why did you send for
those three plays of Charley's?"
H e sat up. "W h y did I send . . . 7 ’
“ It was either you or Anna who sent
for them." she interrupted. "Charley
swears he didn’t send them and that
he didn’t say anything to a soul about
coining out here."
H e lay hack again. “ Oh, all right,"
he «»needed.
T telephoned to Chi­
cago for ’em the morning after I found
out he was coming."
"B ut why 7’
“ Oh, I don’t know.
How could I
know what he was going to he like?
I didn’t know what he was coming for
So— well, I wanted you to be— ready
for him."
She took a minute or so to digest
this reply. " I suppose you moan.” she
mused, "that you thought he nil.-ht
he coining out hei-e to see how much
o f a— hick the girl was thrt he wanted
.vlbet l Uese, weii KUow n Lou^, Leach,
to marry once, a fte r she’ d lived ('«Ilf., life saver, who has rescued no
twenty years In Avonla.
And von le »« than seven hundred persons from
wanted to— fix me up so he wou dn't drowning in his life-saving career and
laugh. I suppose that afternoon dre -s " h o has Just heen awarded the I'on-
Miss Maitland made for me doesnb giessional Medal of Honor In recogni­
look like much."
tion of his heroic work.
There are
“ Oh, d— n !” he said, and got to his only nbout five o f these medals that
feet. "Look here, Emily I You’re all have heen awarded for saving human
right In any dress. It wasn't you 1 lives In this country and It Is the
didn't feel sure about. But he might highest possible distinction one esn
tmve heen any sort o f ass. O f eourse. receive.
I saw he was all right before I’ d talked
with him ten minutes."
B ritish F ly e r B o rrow *
“ No,” she said, “ you needn’t have
worried ahout that."
an Id ea F rom the C ro w »
She let the voltage accumulate dur
London.— An improvement of at
ing a lnnglsh silence. Then she ndded
"H e kissed me this afternoon
H e’ d least 10 per cent tn the liftin g effi­
been rather— sentimental all day. and ciency o f airplane wings is expected
to be made by an invention which lias
when I said good-by to him he kissed
been patented by a young ex-officer o f
me.”
“ W ell,” said George, after a silence the flying corps. H e clulms to have
the
method
by which
o f hi» own. "he certainly 1» a darned discovered
crow » and other birds glide at tine
nice fellow ."
angle«, and experiments which have
She stared nt him, speechless.
“ Oh. I’ m not much surprised." he beeu made with gliding models sug­
went on. “ You see, he told me about gest that the wlug tip feathers are not
merely for balancing purposes hut con­
It last night.”
•Told you, last night I” she echoed. tribute largely to the liftin g capacity.
“ H e didn’t say he was going to kiss
-Honest men marry soon, wise h im
you," George exclaimed.
"Said he’ d
always been romantic ahout you. and never.’’— Scotch.
all the more after he'd got old enough
“ A man o f straw I » worth a won»-
to realize how kind you’d been to r
ridiculous, priggish kid. H e said you'd »n o f gold."— French.
He was curiously unchanged, through
all his changes. The twenty pounds
or so he had put on Imdn't made him
look o lder; had served only to accen­
tuate the plump, cherubic look o f boy-
lah Innocence there'd always heen
about him. H e talked about himself a
lot. Just as he'd always done.
E m ily shot an uneasy glance at
G eorge now and th en ; fo r Instance,
when Clinrley spoke offhand o f the
foremost American actress as Ethel
She wondered whether George was
saying to himself. “ A s s !” But ap­
parently George was not. lie seemed contributed more to hls education than
I f a man loses a woman and a far­
to he enjoying the gossip of the the­ anybody else he’d ever met. and he'd
ater as much as the tales o f Capri always fe lt grateful to you.
Been thing he w ill be sorry he lost the fa r­
and Tnhitl and other wondrous places wanting to come to see vou for years, thing.— English.
the playw right had Inhabited.
but was afraid to. Scared to death, '
^ h e r e are only tw o good women In
E lilily herself didn't talk mueh. ! he said be was, until he saw you were '
They drifted hack occasionally Into I Just as you had been; hadn’t changed the world— one is dead and the other
reminiscence, hut since Ill's. ,if course, a hair. Actually wrote a telegram to can’t be found."— German
excluded George, they didn't go far 1 say he wasn’t romlng and then tore ¡
It up.
with It.
DYING WORDS OF THE FAMOUS
George cad spoken o f being htisv I
"W e ll, then, why shouldn't he have
o f the amount o f time he'd have to : a . . . day In the country? I hope
It la » e l k — Washington.
spend upon a case that was coming up I you showed him a good time. I guess
Monday, but he showed no signs o f ' you did, or he wouldn't have kissed
Into T h y hand*. O Lord, I commeud
gotn-.- off and leaving them to fft e ir ' you.”
own devices She didn’t know whether -
He perceived now that she was cry­ my spirit.— Columbus
she wished he would or not
tnfrln * ing. T don't blame him for that, a
I would not change my Joy fo r the
el cully she wasn't especially anxious ! hit," he went on. •’ ! think he shewed
to he left alone with Charley, hut If \ darned good Judgment. Because yen empire of the world.— Philip Sidney
George was staying away from his are a peach, Emily, and that's rt..
Oentlemen o f the jury, you will now
work In order to watch them, she was truth ”
furious with him.
He patted her awkwardly on the consider your v e rd ic t— laird Teu ter
nea.
Only It didn't sw m like that. The shoulder T o m e on In. old lady." he
tw o men got around to the war. at
concluded. “ What do you say to so-■,*
Oh liberty, llherty. how many crim e«
last, snd the humhle hut absorbing
cramhled eggs? You're hungry, that's
parts they had respectively played in an the matter with you."
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