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T H E G A T E C ITY JO U R N A L MY FAVORITE STORIES "SIM PLY ROTTEN” S Y N O PSIS. — In L on d on the te lle r of th e s to r y o f the a d v e n tu res o f “ K in g T o m m y ,” and k n o w n h e r e a ft e r a s “ U n cle B ill,” Is In fo rm e d by L ord N orh ey s. son o f an o ld frie n d , that L ord T ro y te . h e a d o f the B ritis h f o r e ig n office, N o rh e y s ' un cle, has a sch em e to m a k e him (N o r h e y s ) k in g o f L y s t r ia , in ce n tr a l E u rop e, t h r o u g h m a r ria g e to C a ly p so, d a u g h te r o f K in g W Ja d is- la w s, d e p o se d m on a rch o f that co u n try . A fin a n cier, P ro c o p iu s C able, k n o w s th e re is o il in p r o fu s io n in L y s tr ia , and w ith an E n g lis h k in g on the th ro n e the o u tp u t c o u ld be secu red fo r E n g land. N o rh e y s, in lo v e w ith a s ta g e d a n ce r, V io la T em p le, is n ot e n th u s ia s tic o v e r the p r o p o sition . T h e p a tr ia rc h , M enelaus, h ig h e st e c c le s ia s t ic a l d ig n it a r y in L y s tria , is h e a rtily in fa v o r o f the re s t o r a tio n o f the m on a rch y , an d C a b le ha s g e n e r o u s ly financed th e s en tim en t. C a ly p so is m a k in g a liv in g d a n c in g in th e “ M as- c o t t e ,” B e rlin c a b a r e t. N orh ey s re fu s e s to e n te rta in the id ea o f g iv in g up V io la T em p le, to w h om he Is s e c r e t ly e n g a g e d . “ U ncle B ill’s” s is t e r E m ily u r g e s him to L ord s e cu re a p a s s p o rt fro m T r o y te fo r a ce r ta in Jan et C h u rch , s tr o n g m in d e d fe m a le w h o w a n ts to vis it L y s tr ia in th e in te re s ts o f a s o c ie t y fo r w o r ld peace. CHAPTER IV 1 found a letter from my sister Em ily waiting for me when I got home. "I want you," she wrote "to use your influence with Edmund Troyte to get a passport to Megalia for Janet Church. You remember Janet, I'm sure.” I remembered Janet Church per fectly well. She is a bony lowland Scot, and when I met her at Emily's house she was touring Ireland on be half o f a temperance society. I re member her saying at dinner that she would rather put a red-hot poker in to her mouth than a glass o f wine That, I am sure, was not true. How ever much she might dislike wine sh« could always spit it out again. Site could not spit out a red-hot poker. "Janet Church,” Emily went on, "is going to Megalia as the representa tive of the Society for the Establish ment o f World Peace through the in fluence of the Union Christian churches. There seems to be a won derful opening In Lystria, which is now part of the Itepublic o f Megalia. The present patriarch— ’’ According to Emily, the present patriarch is a man o f singularly plas tic mind, willing to unite his church with any other In the interests of world peace. I put Emily's letter into a nice, flat varnished basket which stands on my writing table and is meant to contain unanswered letters. Emily gave me that basket last year as a Christmas present. I was glad to be able to use It for a letter o f hers. I had of course no intention whatever o f ask ing Troyte to get a passport for Janet Church. But I did not get rid of the busi ness so easily as that. Next day Janet Church called on me. In ap pearance she was Just as I remem bered her, in determination rather worse. The passport to Megalia had been refused. She attributed that to the hatred which the Foreign office felt to the idea of a world peace and to Lord Edmund Troyte's dread of the Influence o f a union of the Chrlstlun churches. I dare say she was right in blam ing Troyte. Knowing what he did about the condition of Lystria, he can not possibly have wanted to add to the confusion o f the coming revolu tion by letting loose an earnest Scotchwoman in the country. Also he probably thought that the Patri arch Menelaus would be too much oc cupied preparing for a royal marriage and coronation to have any time to spare for planning a world union of Christian churches. “ With the peace o f Europe hang ing in the balance," Janet said, “ and the prospect o f another war within ten years. It is o f vital importance that the influence o f the Christian churches, o f all o f them— ” "A ll.” I murmured sympathetically, “ all. all." “ Should be brought to bear on our statesmen. And how Is that to be done?" "Only,” I said, "by means of a union o f Christian churches." “ Especially the Church of Lystria,” said Janet. I could not see why the I.ystrlan church, which must be quite a small body, should be so very Important. But Janet Church evidently thought 1» was. So, dare eay, did Emily. “Couldn't yon." I cald. “write to tbe patriarch Instead o f going to tee Sis name la Menelans. A him?“ Mtter addreased te HJa Beatitude AFTER HER BABY CAME passport? Look here. Troyte, let*« S# S e e e e e W e e e e e e compromise. I'll say no more about Miss Temple and the morgauatlc mar riage if you'll let Janet Church go to Lystria. She’ll worry the Ufe out of me if you don’t.” "I'll tell you what I'll do,” said By IRVIN S. COBB Troyte. “ I’ll let her have a passport to Germany, but not an inch further. • © * - • >* 1 She can go to Berlin if she likes and (C o p y righ t.) Tell« How Lydia E. Pinkham’a Vegetable Compound stay there.” A Lover o f Statiatica “That's something," I replied. Restored Her Health There was a seance on— a regular “ She'll be out of London anyhow." seance, with a trance medium and a “ I'm sorry for the Germans,” said black cheesecloth cabinet and a mys got relief. A fter I was well again I Troyte. went to the doctor and he asked me terious table rapper and a ghostly j "Oh, they deserve It A fter all, how I was getting along. 1 told him guitar picker and a smell o f frying j what's the use o f our having won the I was taking Lydia E. Pinkham’s cabbage floating in from the back o f ^ war if we can't do anything afterward Vegetable Compound, and he said it to make them feel uncomfortable?" I the house and everything orthodox, j did not hurt any one to take it. I am I called on Janet Church in her ho like that. The medium was a stout always recommending the Vegetable lady In black, who was raising a Compound to others and 1 always tel and told her my news. I was have a bottle o f it on hand.’ ’ —Mrs. afraid she would be furious with brown mustache and whose controls ] H enry H ollister , R. F. D. N o . 1. Troyte for limiting her wanderings. took those liberties with the English Box 7, Wyandotte, Michigan. WNU Barrie«. To my surprise she toon It very well. language which seemingly is permit A nother Woman’s Cate “ If I get as far as Germany," she ted In a realm where there Is neither j I the Patriarch Meneiaue, Lystria, St. Paul, Minnesota. — " I have • said, "I’ll manage to go on somehow.” space nor lime—nor grammar. She | would be sure to find him.” little girl three years old and ever came from Brooklyn, where so many j "W ell,” I said, "good-by and good "A personal interview Is ltslispens- since her birth I nave suffered with luck. If you find yourself languish of those who take in spiritualism for able.” my back as if it were breaking in a living do come from, but at the tlma two, and bearing-down pains all If the patriarch is the least like ing in a Siberian dungeon, send a line of which I speak she was playing the the time. I also bad dizzy spells. 1 Troyte in character, or like me, Janet to the nearest British consul.” had read several letters o f women “ I’m not going anywhere near Si provinces, as the troupers say. Tha Church may have one personal Inter audience was of fairish size. Amid in the newspapers, and the druggist view with him but will certainly not beria," said Janet. recommended Lycfta E. Pinkham’s the throng sat a half-grown youth "You may not mean to,” I said, have another. I suppose she realized Vegetable Compound to my husband 1 from about three miles out on R. F. ; that she was not likely to get Into “ but you never know where you’ll for me. As a result o f taking it M R S . H E N R Y H O L L IS T E R D. No. 3. He was attending his flrat j W Y A N D O T T E , M IC H IG A N my back has stopped aching and the my flat again, for she refused to leave fetch up when you sturt traveling in j spiritualistic seanca. And ha was be the Near East.” awful bearing-down feeling is gone. Wyandotte, Michigan. —"A ft e r my until I had promised to do what I ing suitably Impressed. As manlfee- | bahv was born I did not do my own I feel stronger and do all o f my house could with Troyte about the passport. tatlon succeeded manifestation, hla work for six months and could hardly work and tend to my little girl I I kept the promise and made an ap CHAPTER V take care o f my own baby. I always have also taken Lydia E. Pinkham’s eyes popped and his ear» twitched. peal to Troyte. had a pain in my right side and it was Liver Pills for constipation. I have If he had had gills, beyond doubt they "I know all about that woman,” he Janet Church left London next day so bad I was getting round shoulders. recommended these medicines to would have opened and closed. said. “ She makes trouble wherever and I congratulated myself that I 1 would feel well one day and then some o f my friends and you may use Presently the medium's husband, feel so bad for three or four days that this letter as a testimonial ir you she goes. I can’t have letters com had escaped one worry. I actually who acted, so to speak, as ringmaster, I would be in bed. One Sunday my wish. I will be pleased to answer ing to me by every courier from all enjoyed several peaceful days. Then desired to know whether there was mother came to see how I was, and letters o f other women if I can help the legations in Europe asking me to Norheys came to me again. she said a friend told her to tell me to them by telling them what this medi “ Did you tell Uncle Ned," he said, yet another present desirous o f hav keep that woman at home." try Lydia E. Pinkham’ s Vegetable cine has done f o r m e ." — Mrs. P rice , " I f you set any value on your own “ that I'm going to marry Viola and ing speech with some dear departed Compound. So the next day I got a 147 West Summit Avenue, St. Paul, one. If to madame would undertake peace and mine,” I said, “ you’ll give no one else?” bottle and before it was h all taken 1 Minnesota. to establish liaison. "No, I didn't," I said. "I told him her a passport to Lystria and then This was the cue for the yokel. He A vast majority can’t understand keep her there.” exactly what you said I was to tell “ I wish,” said Troyte, “ that ail re him ; that you were determined to mustered courage to stutter ao em how money Is innde in speculation; p o h n s barrassed plea. He wished to have else they’d speculate. marry Miss Temple, but were quite ligious women were in Heaven." “ If you let her go to Lystria,” I ready to marry anybody else as well.” speech with the shade o f bis late fa DISTEMPER ther. Norheys grinned. said, “ she probably will be in Heav 8have With Cuticura 8oap COMPOUND After a proper wait there were And double your razor efficiency as “ How did he take that?” he asked. en soon. I don’t know the patriarch I or male« “ He said Just what I expected him sounds in the cabinet and through the well as promote skin purity, skin com personally, but he’ll execute her be being* laid up with Distemper, Influenss, fore she’s been a week there if he's to say, that he’d never agree to your darkness there spoke the tones of one fort and skin health. No mug, no Pink Eye, Laryugltlft, Heaves, Coughs or of seeming hoary age. Hive ••HPOHN'8" to both the sick committing bigamy.” half as savage as Norheys says." slimy soap, no germs, no waste, no irri Colds. and the well ones. The standard remedy " I f that's so,” said Norheys, “ It Troyte asked what Norheys had “ Is that you, my son?” asked the tation even when shaved tw ice dally. for 80 years. Clive "SPOHN’B” for Dog Dis 60 cento and $1.20 at drug stores. been saying about the patriarch. I puts the lid on the whole black prin voice. One soap for all uses— shaving, bath temper. HPOHN MKDICAL CO. OOSHEN, LND. could only reply that I was mistaken cess scheme. What I always say is "Yes. paw, this here is me,” an ing and shampooing.— Advertisement. th is: a fellow ought to knuckle un swered the youth. Somehow the sun never fthlnes half der his family— uncles and aunts and A misplaced switch used to wreck a no hot on the baseball grounds as on “ Was there any questions yon all that lot—so long as they’re ask the harvest field. wished to ast me concernin’ my pres woman's train o f thought. ing him to do the things which don’t ent state?" continued the accommo annoy him m uch; but as soon as they dating voice. begin chipping in in really offensive The boy thought a moment. T h en : ways then he oughtn't to. That’s my "W here air you, paw ?" he Inquired idea o f a fellow ’s duty, anyhow. I with simple directness. don't know If it's yours.” “ Heaven, my son.” I said that a great deal depended "A ir you an angel, paw?” on his definition o f the word offen "Oh, yes, my son.” sive, and that so far as I could see. “ An angel with wings and a harp ; Calypso was anything but that. “ Anyhow," said Norheys, "whether and everything?” you agree with me or not, you can | The answer was somewhat muf- j fled but seemingly in the affirmative, i tell Uncle Ned what I say.” I d id ; and Troyte told Procopius The son considered a moment. Then j ^ Cable. Norheys was back with me he had an inspiration. “ I say. paw,” he demanded sagely, j two days later and this time he was “ whut do you measure frum tip to j in a really bad temper. “ Look here, Uncle Bill," he said, tip?" “ I'm getting a bit fed up with this sort of thing. I don’t say it’s your He Didn’t Believe in Signs fault, but there it is, and I'm d— d If A fireman on duty behind the scenes I stand any more o f it.” of one o f the big New York theaters “ What's happened to you n o w ? ' "This way o f going on is simply and charged with the responaibillty of seeing to it that the regulations were M O T H E R : - Fletcher’sC as- rotten,” said Norheys. “ As long as strictly obeyed hack-stage, suffered a it was merely a matter o f Uncle Ned toria is a pleasant, harmless profound shock as he came around persecuting me day and night and from behind s stack o f scenery. Just Substitute for Castor Oil, Pare pelting me with oil paintings o f Indian before the evening performance. Stand goric, Teething Drops and Soothing Syrups, especially prepared "If I Get as Far as Qarmany,” She squaws, I didn't mind. But It’s a ing in the opposite wings was a sales Said, "I'll Manage to Go on Some bit too thick when he sets on a slimy man for an East side cloak and suit for Infants in arms and Children all ages. Jewish money-lender to try bribing how.” Viola to give me up. I didn't think concern, who had procured entrance T o avoid imitations, always look for the signature o f In saying that he thought about the Uncle Ned would have played It as via the stage door for the purpose of soliciting orders for his wares among Proven directions on each package. Physicians everywhere recommend it patriarch at all. The person he called low as that." the young ladle« of the chorus. This savage was the princess. "I’m perfectly certain,” I said, “ that person was vehemently puffing on a M ea su rin g C orpuaclea “ He seems quite sure,” I said, "that he never did any such thing.” large, long, black, malignant-looking A new Instrument based on the In she's black." Lord Edmund was extremely anx terference o f light waves has been de "H e knows perfectly well that she's ious to rescue the head of his fam cigar. In three Jumps the scandalized flra- signed at the United States bureau of nothing of the sort." said Troyte. ily from an undesirable entangle standards to accurately measure the That's merely an excuse to get out ment and he wanted to see Norheys man had the violator by the arm. of marrying her.” "Say,” be demanded, “ what the h— I chambers used for counting blood cor established as a European sovereign. 5 o o fh in q &nd He&linq puscles.— Science Service. “ I suppose you know,” I said, “ that But he would not hire a Jew to offer do you mean, cornin’ in here with that he's formally engaged to Miss Tem bribes to Miss Temple. torch burnin’ in your face? Don't you for Skin and ScalpTroubles ple and means to marry her." On the Street Car "Anyhow," snid Norheys, “the brute see that sign right up over your head?" “ W e must get him out o f the en came, a fat flabby animal, and tried The trespasser's eyes turned w h en “ I can’t bear to see a woman stand tanglement," said Troyte. “ And the to persuade Viola to take a check for the fireman's finger pointed. ing. So I close my eyes and prelend best way o f doing it is to push on the ten thousand pounds. If Uncle Ned I am asleep.”—Quotidian, Paris. “ Sure, mister," he said, "I see It.” marriage with the Princess Calypso." didn't send him, who did?" "W ell, can't you read?" demanded "Until you've convinced him that “ Did you hear his name?" Why ask your dealer to supply you the fireman. she isn't black—” “ Yes, I did. He sent In his card “ Sure I can read," admitted the with butter of the first rank? "D on't talk nonsense,” said Troy to Viola and she kept it. Here it is.” other calmly. te. "She's an extremely good look He handed me a visiting card. 1 “Then read what It aaya there. Don't ing and attractive girl, far too good half expected the name I saw on It Godsend to the Bilious! you see what It sa.va In big letters? It for him. I've given him her photo — Procopius Cable. “ 1 take great pleasure in telling you what SAVE YOUR EYES! says— 'No Smoking.' " • Oodsend are Beecham’s Pill«. 1 am a graph." "That's the same swine." said Nor Use Dr. Thompson’« llyewater woman twenty-five year« o f age. For year« 1 “ Yes.” agreed the East Sider with a Buy at your druggist « or suffered from bilious headaches. Ten year« "Photos are often faked,” I said. heys. "w ho’s doing the deal with Un 1187 Hirer. Troy. N.Y. Booklet. winning smile, "but it don't say ‘Posl- ago 1 tried Beecham’ a Pill«, 1 have never "Couldn’t you get a colored portrait cle Ned about the oil.” been without them since. tively.' ” so that he could see for himself that "Exactly. But I’ m sure your an " I hope all persona who suffer in this manner will not hesitate to try them.” she isn’t black. If you had her paint cle didn’t send him to bribe Miss Tem s c h o o l o r rrricifN C Y Mrs. Edna Dean, Providence. R. 1. ed in an evening dress it would go ple.” All commercial branches. Catalog free. Ladies First Always T ake Bmcham’t Pills for biliousness, constipation, some way to relieve his miad about 6 0 N. Main S t BALT LAKE CITY* UTAH Procopius Cable, eager to get at the sick headaches and other digestive ailments. The man who told me this one, as 1 the tattooing. He'd know that her Lystrian oil, had tired of Troyte’s we stood together on the rim of tha For FREE S A M P L E —write n O / \ ■ / Any book you want arms and neck were dear, anyhow.” cautious diplomacy and begun to act Grand Canyon, swore It was true. I j B. F. A llen Co., 4 1 7 Canal Street, N e w York c. o a “ I wish you wouldn’t be flippant,” for himself. He had made a mess of believed him, for he had the reputation B uy from your druggist in S f and f e e boxes _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ D eseret B ook C o , said Troyte. “This is rather a serious it, a far worse mess thaa I knew or nil over the Southwest o f never telling • 44 East So. Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah business. There's the question of guessed then. an unnecessary lie. oil— a matter o f Imperial interest, He said a typical "m over,” ahlftl*aa | W . N. U., S a lt L a k e City, No. 19 -1926. and Cable says he's pushed things on restless and sockless, was spending e so far that Lystria is on the verge of It docs look as if Procopius short time at an Arizona cow camp j a revolution. I really don't know what Cabls had made a mats of preparatory to moving on into the I would happen if the patriarch and tnings. And ths result? desert on a so called prospecting tour, j Count Casimir were to bring off their His chief earthly possessions consisted j coup d’etat and there was no king to of a pair o f slab-sided mules, a rickety ! (TO BB CONTINUED ) put on the throne." prairie schooner, a wife, four children | “ I wonder.” I said, “ if anything In and six hound dogs. Queen Lover of Cherriea the way o f a morganatic marriage The wife, who was a tired-out. faded- | could be arranged?" The rich and rnddy cherriea for "Certainly not.” which England la famous, were in out creature, complained to lo m i of “ It's sometimes done.” I said. “ I’m troduced into that country from Flan the ranch hands of the hardness o f her i sure I've heard of cases.” ders in the year 1540. The establish lo t; and the foreman took It upon him- j "Certainly n o t The last king. ment o f their popularity was due in self to remonstrate with ths husband VYladislawg. was far too fond of that Bo small measure to Queen Elizabeth for his indifference to his wife's wel- I sort o f thing. His life was a scan who had a great liking for cherries fare. "The old woman ain't got no kick dal, and the patriarch was on the ripe. Whereby hangs ths tala o f Sir verge o f excommunicating him sev Francis Osrew, who delayed the ripen cornin' I" said the husband when h« eral times. The patriarch holds very ing o f hla cherry tree until a month had heard the foreman'» remarks. “ Shs strong views on the sanctity of mar after the end o f the season In order ain't got no kick at ail. She's plum' riage and— and—all cognate sub that ths cherries might attain matur pampered— m ly «he don't appreciate ity when her majesty stayed with It none. Why, when we la Axin' ta jects." " I f the patriarch Is the sort o f a him. This ha accompllahed by eraet- camp of a night many a time I've drlv* man who wonld tackle a king.” I said, ing a tent ovar the tree, and o> the tha team half a mile out o f tha way , "h e ll probably be able to deal with queen'» arrival ths fruit was at par bo ' s wood and water would ha Land/ Janet Church. Why not give her • faction. fur the old woman ta fe tch T Mrs« Hollister Unable T o Do Her W ork for Six Months S ’ 4p' dren CRY fo r RESINOL A L. D. S. Business College DUUIV3 -** ">»«. Beecham'g Pills Regardless of the car you buy or the price you pay There is no greater V“" “ “ • B u i c k