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Trapper M ade Sudden
Change in Fight VietM
Tradition hat It that moat of ths
tarty trappers operating through tbs
Kooky mountains were serious char
acters. Such la far from the re s «
though.
Uuny of them took great
pride In exaggerating accounts of
what they had encountered on their
trips A few even had a slant on Ufa
that would make a Murk Twain en
vloue, says a contributor to the Fron
tier.
Joseph L. Meek was one of the best
known of these frontier humorists
One of bis experiences which Is gen
erally credited concerns an attack
made on his party by a band of hoe-
tUe Indians While stopping for a
rest the Indians were sighted as they
were la the act of charging the trap
pers. The redskins were but a few
hundred yards away and mounted. Ths
whites lost no time In mounting their
animals and beating a hasty retreat
Meek, however, encountered soma
trouble with his mule which refused
to budge.
•'Boys stand your ground, boys 1”
he screamed. "Stand your ground I
W e can whip 'em. Stand your ground 1"
But the trappers failed to heed
Meek and put all the territory poe-
alble between themselves and the on-
rushlng Indians.
About that time
Meek’s mule, seeming to realise Its
own danger, set Its pedal extremities
In motion. Within a Bhort time Meek,
astride the mule, had caught up with
the rest of the party. Another min
ute he passed them. Then he turned
In his saddle and shouted back over
his shoulder, "Come on, boys! Ws
can't fight 'em. Come on, boys I Coma
on I”
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trtans, alone among central, southern
and eaatern Europeans, havs a good
Idea of what breakfast ought to be.
Except that there was no marmalade.
Tommy could not have done better la
a first rate London hotel.
At half past ten, before he had fin
ished eating, Janet Church waa shown
in. Tommy greeted her with an eagef
flood of questions.
“ What’s happened?"
he
asked
“ Why am I shut up? Why did that
sss. Albert Caslmlr, wake me op this
morning by scowling at me. Why did
he shove the great dictionary wttk
S id es t m , f . *• *. L asting, M ich.
the word “ Impostor" In It—an enor
mous dictionary In two volumes? Why
did he threaten to hang me or shoot
me or guillotine me? 1 don't know
which he meant; but he certainly In
tends to execute me In some way. And
what's the Lystrian for marmalade?
I ’d like some Just to finish off a really
good breakfast.”
“ Who are you?” said Janet.
“ I'm the Reverend Thomas A. Nor-
reys, M. A„ said Tommy. “ You saw
my passport In Berlin, so you ought
to know.”
“ Not Lord Norheys?"
"I've told you, I ’ve told the other
Caslmlr, I've told the klag, I would
have told the princess If she’d have
listened to me— I’ve told every one
I’ve met that I am not Lord Norheys.
It would he Just ns sensible. In fact
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“ Two telegrams arrived this morn
ing early,” said Janet, "one from
D ta ltn s s i S ervice S tation throughout tho United Statt!
Count Istvan Casimir. sent from Ber
Canada and M exico
lin, and one from Lord Edmund Troy-
te, from London. A motorcycle brought
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them. They said that you're an Im
postor, and that the real Lord Nor
heys Is In London. Lord Edmund
Troyte Is Lord Norheys' uncle, so he's
M a r c h o f P ro g re s s
certain to know.”
"What In the world are you doing
“ I expect he'll be Miss Temple’s
aunt soon. I mean to say, she'll be with the music room?”
“ Making It over for radio."
his niece, If half I’ve heard about her
Is true. I never was so plagued about
A
Rabatnntlnl R E W A R D
anything in my life as I have been
Thousands o f people In A m e ric a have
about that woman. How did the been lib e r a lly re w a rd ed fo r in s is tin g on
h a vin g U 9 K ID E Soles on th e ir shoes.
princess take the news?"
U S K ID E w ea rs and w ea rs and w ears. It
“The patriarch wakened her about is made o n ly by the U n ited States
C om pany, the w o r ld 's la rg e s t
seven o’clock to tell her. She came Rubber
m an u factu rer o f ru b ber products. T h e
Into my room about two minutes later m oney It saves on shoe b ills is re m a rk
able. H a ve y o u r old shoes re-b o tto m ed
ami I never saw a girl so pleased.”
w ith U S K ID E .
B u y n ew shoes w ith
"I cull that heartless of her,” said genuine U S K ID E Soles. U S K ID E is
fortable,
h ealth fu l,
w a te rp ro o f,
Tommy. “ Worse than heartless, ma I com
g o o d -lo o k in g.
P r o te c ts a g a in s t s lip
licious. I never did her any harm. ping:. L ook fo r the nam e U S K ID E on
Why on earth should she be pleased the sole.— A d v.
at my being hanged?"
P la y in g th e G a m e
“ She’s not pleased at thnt. She
doesn't think you w ill be hanged. Nor
"What do you do when a fellow
do I. What delighted her was the starts to pet?"
That’s aU B
thought that you really had nothing
“ I get real pettish.”
to do with Miss Temple.”
“ I f she would have listened to me," Watch Cuticura Improva Your 8kln.
said Tommy, “ she’d have known that On rising and retiring gently smear
long ago. However, I'm glad she th « face with Cuticura Ointment.
doesn’t want to hang me. Perhaps 1 Wash off Ointment In five minutes
she'll let me out of prison. Why have with Cuticura Soap and hot water. It
they shut me up?”
Is wonderful what Cuticura will do
“ I ’ve Just told you that.” said Janet. for poor complexions, dandruff, Itching
"They believed yoti were Lord Nor and red, rough hands.—Advertisement.
heys and when It turned out you
weren’t, they Imprisoned you, of
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course.”
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" I don't see any ‘of course’ about I In explosives, dyes, poisons and per that does not go woolgathering In a
If. They enn't mean to Imprison ev fumes.
crisis.
eryone who turned out not to he Lord
Norheys. I f they did that the prisons
would be horribly overcrowded. Don’t
you think that you could explain that
to the patriarch?”
Perm anent
Janet looked doubtful.
roads are a
“ It's a complex Idea,” said Tommy,
good investment
“ and probably quite new to him. Still,
— not an expense
with your knowledge of German— ”
Janet had no doubt at ali about her
ability to explain anything in Ger
man.
“ I’m afraid,” she said “ Hint the pa
triarch Isn’t as good at German as he
thinks he Is. He can understand sim
ple things all right, hut when anything
unexpected Is said to hhn lie doesn’t
take It in. After the princess and 1
were dressed this morning he came In
and had a long consultation with her.
5,000,000 of America’s 18,000,000 motor vehi
They were still at It when I left. They
cles are recognized ae an economic necessity on
began In German, but the princess had
the farm.
to give up and talk Lystrian after
half an hour or so.”
Is your car giving the full efficiency of which
"Were they talking about anything
it is capable— and at the lowest cost per mile
very abstruse? Metaphysics, for In
poeeible?
stance?”
"They were talking about yon,”
N o t if you are jolting over bumpe end ruts.
said Janet. "The princess said that
N o t if you get stuck in the mud.
she was extremely glad to hear that
In addition to the time you thus lose along the
you were not Lord Norheys, because
way, you also pay from one to four cente a mile
nothing on earth would have Induced
more in gasoline, tire and repair bills than you
her to marry him. She told the pa
•
would pay on permanendy paved highways.
triarch all about Miss Temple and
showed him some letter or other.”
Think, too, how many so-called improved
"I know all about that letter,” said
roads have gone to pieces within the past few
Tommy. “ How did Hie patriarch take
years, thereby piling up huge maintenance end
It?”
rebuilding costs.
“ He said Hie princess was perfect
ly right, and that no man who be
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haved as Lord Norheys did could pus j
Roads— the roads that have repair built out and
sibly be allowed to tie king of Lystria.
maintenance built in. Firm, rigid and unyielding,
I gathered that he thoiigl.t there’ll
free of bumps, ruts, holes, mud and dust, they
been enough o f that sort o f thing when
are, in every way, the most economical roads.
ilie late king was here.
I hadn't
dictionary said.
The two soldiers
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held their rifles at the present to show
Either Janet had translated faithful that they meant It all too.
Count Albert took up the second
ly, or the patrlurch understood this
volume of the dictionary and looked
Latin. H e smiled benlgnnntly.
“ But,” said Tommy, “ or rather sed up another wopd. This time the Eng
nolo— Oh, look here, Miss Church, tell lish translation was: "Arrested.” To
him thnt I won't have Calypso driven prevent any possibility of mistake, he
Into marrying me, If she doesn't want pointed first to Tommy, then the two
to. She said In Berlin that she wouldn't soldiers, and then once more, to the
marry me, and If she feels the same word. Tommy had no excuse for not
way still, she mustn't be bullied Into understanding what his position was.
Count Albert looked out a third
It."
The patriarch explained at some word, and once more handed the book
length that the princess’ feelings did to Tommy. This was a short word,
not matter in the least. He had brought consisting of three letters, one of
her up himself and taught her the du which was an X, and three accents.
ties of a princess. She would marry It meant: “ Place of execution," and,
the man she was told to marry. This according to Count Istvan's Shake
spearean tutor, might also he trans
did not satisfy Tommy.
"T ell the patriarch," he said to lated : "Gallows, scaffold or guillo
Janet, “ that unless the princess agrees tine." Count Albert nodded grimly
• f her own free will, I won’t stir a and pointed to the soldiers. Then he
said, "Please.”
foot in the matter.”
M any Put in Work
But Janet thought the conference
“ But not at this hour,” said Tom
on Bamboo Carving had lasted long enough and she was my firmly, " It ’s simply never done
When you guxe upon a beautiful getting chilly about the legs. A stone- ns late ns this. The regulnr time for
piece of bamboo carving, which Is to floored hall Is apt to be draughty at shooting a man Is dawn and that’s
be seen generally In the Oriental sec sight and she had no stockings on. passed for today. There won't be an
tions of the museums, you are behold She said good night to the patriarch other till tomorrow. Besides, you’re
ing the work not of one man but of and walked off to bed. Tommy was hound to give me some sort of a trial.”
He took the dictionary with the In
many. Each workman has his spe left to Ills own resources.
He got out bis notebook and pencil tention of looking
out
“ shoot,”
cialty and when he does his share of
work be passes the piece over to an again. He could not draw a picture "down," “ tomorrow” and “ trial," be
other, who does tbut part which he Is • f himself refusing the hand of an un lieving In thnt wav to make his mean
especially trained for. The man who willing princess In the Lvstrlun Chapel ing clear. Unfortunately, there was
does the Chinese characters does Itoyal; so he wrote down a Latin sen no Engllsh-Lystrlan part of the dic
nothing else. Another does mountain tence. The patriarch did not under tionary, so the hook was useless to
scenery and If there are any animals stand the language as Tommy spoke him. Count Albert, with the air of a
Introduced Into the landscape they are It. hut he must surely be able to read great nation which delivers an ultt-
cut by another, while portraits are It.
"Nisi reglna ne amat," he wrote,
taken care of by a workman who does
no other kind of work. Before the “nihil faclaru In re."
That, If not In Ciceronian style, was
work Is laid out, the surface of the
bamboo Is treated by a rubbing process a plain statement of his meaning. The
which proceeds with the aid of a patriarch understood It', smiled and
brick of fine clay and the operation j wgved Ids pudgy hand. Then he pat
1 1
takes place under water. After It is ted Tommy on the shoulder In a most
manner.
curelully dried It Is turned over to the I friendly and confidential
artist who marks out the design from Count Albert attempted an explana
one workman to another as Indicated tion In English.
“ That Is good,” he said. “ Sehr gut,
above.
; right. Not true? Please?”
The patrlurch ordered more wine,
H o w P a in t P re s e rv e *
i There was much drinking of healths.
Most people paint their homes for Tommy’s health, the patriarch's, Count
the sake of good looks.
But houses Albert's, the health of encli attendant
should primarily he painted for the priest. Calypso's (all standing), and
sake of preserving the wood, which Is 1 finally Janet's. The patriarch held up
very porous.
When the wood was Tommy's sketch of her while he drank.
still In the tree state the pores were
The party broke up. all sober, but
filled with sap, and when cut the sap as Tommy said afterward, "Another
died out, leaving the pores open.
If bottle would have finished us.”
the wood should be left In the unpro
The Patriarch Menelaus would not
tected state, minus Its mark, fungi be happy In America. Uls strict views
and moisture soon would begin to rot about marriage might get him Into
and destroy It. So when painted, the trouble with the people who appreci
paint penetrates the pores and forms, ate the advantages of divorce.
when dry, a tough, elastic coating,
which Is "anchored" to the surface by
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countless little "hooks" that extend
Into pores of the wood, and this
Tommy sleft soundly.
coating or film preserves the wood by
At six o'clock In the morning he was Count Albert ^.aid One of Hia Books
protecting It from those things which
otherwise would quickly and surely de half wakened by the sound of a motor
on Tommy’s Bed and Began Turn
cycle passing close under the window
stroy It.
ing Over the Pages of the Other.
of his room.
He fell slightly sur
prised
that
there
should
he
such
things
mntum
to a troublesome little tribe,
H o w to R e p la n t V in e s
as motor-hlc.vcles In Lystria. But the turned to leave the room. Tommy
The Department of Agriculture says
subject was not Interesting enough to Jumped out of bed and stopped him.
that grapevines which are ten years
rouse him thoroughly. He slept again. Me could not speak Lystrian and he
old may he replanted the same way
At half past eight he was wakened could not use the dictionary. But he
that a vine a year old can be replant
ed.
Dig out three our four of the again, this time thoroughly, and saw was not quite at the end of his re
larger stents with quite a bit of soli ad Count Albert' standing at his bedside. sources. lie tore out a blank sheet
hering. Cut back to the main stem, Tommy looked up nnd bude him a front the end of Hie dictionary and
The count wrote a letter.
practically leaving only a few buds on cheerful gooil morning.
He held two large,
“ Ad Reverendisslntum heatisslmnm.
the cane to develop new growth. Do bowed stiffly.
not allow the vine to produce fruit un leather-covered books, one under each exeellentlssimuin I’atrlarehum. L.vs-
arm. it would hnve been difficult for trlae. Archieplscopum, cum Janetta
til it Is thoroughly established.
him to how otherwise than stiffly. Be Eeelesla (Miss Church) con versa rl
hind the cBbnt, standing rigidly at at volo.”
H o w C a m p h o r Is M a d e
tention at the door of the room, were
Then he remembered thnt both
As a perfume, camphor has been two soldiers with long rifles on which
Count Istvan and Count Albert used
valued by the Chinese for centuries.
the bayonets were fixed. This sur the word "Please” with extraordinary
Originally obtained from gum depos prised Tommy a little, hut he hade the
frequency In the most unlikely con
its It Is now extracted from the wood soldiers a friendly good morning. He
itself, which, after being sawed supposed that It must be the custom nections. It was evidently a word to
through. Is reduced to chips and boat In Lystria to send part of the army to which the Lvstrians attached great Im
portance. The ancient Romans ap
ed In a still.
waken an honored guest In the morn
parently did not. for lie eonld not re
Ing.
member n Latin equivalent for It. He
C lo u d ’s S ilv e r L in in g
Count Albert laid one of fils hooks on added "SI vis" to the end of his let-
Get Into the habit of looking for the Tommy's bed and began turning over ter, and then, In order to make It
the pages of the other.
It was a quite plain Ihat he wanted to he po
sliver lining of the cloud, and. when
Lysfrlan-English dictionary. It’s com lite. wrote, "Bitte. S’ll volts plait,
you have found It. continue to look at
pilation had been the life work of the please." He handed the note to Count
It, rather than at the leaden gray la
the middle. It will help you over many tutor who had taught Count Istvan to Albert.
read Shakespeare. It had been print
hard places.— Wlllltts.
“ Patriarch," he said.
“ Beatitude.
ed at the expense of King Wlndlslaws, Archbishop, please."
and s a l that monarch's solitary con
Count Albert scowled, hut he took
F a ir ly M e t
tribution to the" cause of literature. the note. He walked over to the door,
“Better look out for me," warned the
Ten copies In all had been published. opened It. turned, said a farewell
fair flirt. "You know I am a grass
Six of them were lost. One lay on a ■please.” to Tommy, and then went
widow." "Oh, that’s all right,” replied
shelf In the palace of Count Istvan. out, leaving the two soldiers on guard heard It before, but frem what the pa
the sophisticated male. "I am known
One was In the cathedral library under
Tommy got up and dressed. Thai irlarch said I understand that King
aa the human lawn mower."
the charge of the patriarch, yne was took him nearly half an hour. Then Wludlslaws w aj a thoroughly immoral
kept by the head clerk of Hie Lystrian he smoked a pipe. Then he looked man."
T o assure prompt service and quick returns
house of lords. The remaining one, out' o f the window for u while. The
when answering these advertisements, mention
(T O a s c o n v i n c e d i
the name of this paper.
which Count Albert was using, was view was entirely uninteresting, for
In the royal scliloss.
P a st Ten se
his room looked out on a small court
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Count Albert found tlie word he yard.- but It cheered him to observe
The hill was Icy an I the big colored
8 1 4 3 to 8 2 2 5 M o n th ly
wanted, marked It by digging his that there were no signs of the erec woman eonld not control her footing.
Lm rn Teleirruphy. Great opportnnltiev Clean
ettsy work. Positions aecur«!. Earn w hile yon
thumbnail Into the paper, and then tion of a sea Told. In all the romances "H elp!
Help!
Ah’m •Ulipln !" she
l*arn. Hundreds o f erjuiuBtc*. Oldest and b*»st
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At ten o'clock the door of his room slop I” she r*laarked as she looked up
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