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The Alamance gleaner 1 VOU LIII. GRAHAM, IS, C., THURSDAY JANUARY 26, 1928. HO. 52. | HAPPENMNC& OF 77/E WE?/f | NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENTJEVENTS Schemes Against U. S. Lead ership Are Likely to Fail in Havana. By EDWARD W. PICKARD LATIN-AMERICAN statesmen who planned to nndernHne the lender ship of the United States on the Western hemisphere during the Pan American conference in Havana are not likely to accomplish much In thnt way, and may even abandon the at tempt for the present Their cause was greatly weakened by President Coolldgq^ visit to Hanava and bis diplomatic* though firm address, and by the strength of the United States delegation headed by Charles Evans Hughes. During their two days In Cuba Mr. and-Mrs. Coolidge quite won the hearts of the people of that repub lic and the President's speech at the formal opening of the conference was admittedly effective In bringing closer together the United States and the smaller republics of the New world. The address was broadcast through out this country, by radio. ' j", . Mr. fjughjeq and the other American delegates were discreet and tactful when the conference was organized for work on Wednesday, but It was evident. they were watching every move and that they were ready to head Oft any action condemnatory of the policies of the United States and to Justify our government's course In Nicaragua and elsewhere If the neces sity arose. Mr. Hughes made one move which seemed significant At his suggestion Dr. Antonio de Busta monte of Cuba, president of the con ference, was made an ex-offlclo mem ber of all committees. He Is In full sympathy with American policies In the Caribbean and agrees with Mr. Hughes on questions of International law that will come under discussion. In' Italy the Coolidge address and the firm attitude of the American delegates aroused much bitter com ment in the newspapers, for Musso lini has been planning a union of all Latin countries to be headed by Italy, and the failure of this scheme Is seen If the United States maintains and ex tends . Us hegemony on the Western continent President Coolidge and bis party re turned to Washington Thursday after a swift rail trip from Key West that was broken only by a stop of an hour in Jacksonville, Flo.. ; * I A ? .. ii A r r\OWN In Nicaragua the marines under direct command of Gen eral Lejeune seemed to be making marked progress In the dispersal of the. .Sandlno band of rebels. On Wednesday there were reports In Managua, unconfirmed but credible, that Sandlno himself bad been killed or seriously wounded during the bombing operations of the marine avi ators under MaJ. R. F. Rowel!, who attacked El ChlpBte, the mountain stronghold of the rebels. Aviators who flew over San Rafael Tuesday saw what was evidently a large fu neral procession. Next day the mn-> rine air patrols reported that El Chl pote bad been abandoned. TTWO* days of speechmaklng was needed before the senate got arounfl fo declaring vacant the seat of Senator-elect Frank L. Smith of Illinois. The outcome was never In doubt, but various senators wanted to be heard, some In favor of the Reed committee's resolution and others In opposition. The language of the res olution as reported was changed so that the measure read that Smith's credentials were tainted with fraud and corruption and that as a conse quence he was not entitled to mem bership In the senate and that a va cancy exists In the Illinois representa tion. The statement eliminated by the alteration was that Smith was not en titled to the oath of office because of the nature of the contributions to his campaign fund. C ENATOR HEFI.IN of Alabama Is ^ convinced that the Roman Catho lic church Is determined to destroy him because of attacks on the Abyssinia Will Have United State? Envoy Abyssinia, African empire, where American bed sbeetthgjk, are oied as * medfcm of tedde in -place oir money, httln la to hoTe ,0 diplomatic repre sents tire accredited to her from the United State* appointment' of Addlaon B. ???thart u minteter resident of the United States In Abyssinia Is taken to mark t$e beginning of s definite PtobaMjr ' pertnaoent represents Knights of Columbus, and on Wednes day he broke out in one of his cus tomary tirades against the Catholics. He attributed the publication of tbe discredited Hearst Mexican docu ments to a Catholic conspiracy against him, bringing In tbe name of Mrs. Hearst as a member of that church. When Senator Robinson of Arkansas, a member of the committee that In vestigated the documents, denied that the Catholic church had anything to do with them, Hefiln in a rage de 'manded that Robinson be deposed as minority leader. The debate between these two Democrats then became ex tremely bitter and personal and was listened to by the Republicans with deep interest. Heflln took occasion to wahi' fils fellow Democrats against nominating Gov. Al Smith for tbe Presidency, asserting they should "hang their heads in shame" at the Stplth candidacy. "If the Democrats should-norfrtantc Smith tor the Presi dency," he shouted, "the Republicans can defeat him with anybody by from 15,000,000 to 20,000,000 votes. The American people, knowing what the Roman Catholic political machine Is doing, are not going to put htm in the White House Just now. Any leader in the South who supports Al Smith will never come back to this cnpitol." Robinson said he had heard Heflin's anti-Catholic speech a dozen times during the last year and was sick and tired of it. He went on: "It is illus trative how a good man can go wrong and how far wrong he can go and what '? fool he can make of himself when he does go wrong. The senator from Alabama takes himself so seri ously that he thinks he can dictate to the whole Democratic party." The Democratic senators ln-,caucus later gave Robinson a vote of confi dence and support A PPEAR1NG Before the house na val committee. Admiral Hughes, chief of navel:operations, said that If the United States la to have a really adequate fleet It will have to spend a billion dollars, rather than the $740. 000,000 called tor by the present con struction program. He held It would be necessary to add at least 25 per cent more ships to the present pro* grhm, which calls for the completion within the next eight years of 25 cruisers, 35 submarines, 9 destroyer leaders and 5 aircraft carriers. Our battleships, the Bdmlral assert ed, are "woefully behind" those of Great Britain In . gun power, range, speed and effectiveness, and In . reply to questions be disputed the theory of Admiral Sims that the battleship would be displaced by the aircraft carrier as the backbone of the fleet In (be next war and that aircraft and submarines would be dominant fac tors.' ' ' Word comes from London that the British government- has farther re duced , Us naval building program, , abandoning another cruiser, which makes a total of three dropped since i the Geneva naval conference. Tbe | saving will be about $27,500,000. Great Britain is extremely i cautious In the matter' of se- i curity agreements. In a -note to the 1 subcommittee on security of the pre- I pnratory committee on disarmament I which meets In Genera In February, < the government emphatically reasserts Its belief In localized agreements as i opposed to generalized schemes. " The note points out that the < strength of an arbitration treaty de- I pends entirely on the willingness of 1 the people to support decisions unfa- ! vorable to themselves, which creates i limits "beyond which a state cannot i go In accepting binding obligations to < arbitrate." ' It observes that the time Is not ripe for any general system of sanctions for the enforcement of arbitration treaties, and doubts that any nation t which Is strong enough to use force < effectively would at present under- I take any such general obligations to I use force against a party to a dispute t which refused to submit to arbitra- I tlon. ' I For several weeks a Japanese dele- I gatlon beaded by Viscount Goto > has been In Moscow trying to negotl- 1 ate with the soviet government for < large colonization concessions In the t Amur valley of Siberia. Also, Baron i Tanaka, the Japanese premier, has I been moving for a Russo-Japanese al- ? llance Both these plans may Call t (Ion of the United State* In that pie- < luresque comer of the world. The i new appointee waa conaal general at t Singapore- ' i. ' I Thirlng Theodore ftooeerelt'a Preal- t dencr the United Statea had a Bin-- ? later for a short time, and at other i timer the United State* baa been rep resented a ToSraV general. I t The chief commercial Interest* at I the United State* In V* eSvaltj tat [ slat of'the aale of cottaa sheeting*. I which the Abjraatolana 0ke altnoat en- ? tlrely for the1 maanfactara of their r ;'i ' ? . ? ? "? > ? . At. ? ????. I ? through, the former because the Rus sian government Is determined the Japanese shall not get a strong foot hold In Siberia, and the latter because of the marked disapproval of Great Britain. As a sign of this disapproval the British government suddenly de cided to send Ave 10,000-ton cruisers to China. Conditions throughout China are becoming more chaotic dally. If that Is possible, and brigandage and piracy are Increasing. The Peking and Hunan factions are' Aghtlng near Tungtlag ? lake, three army corps being involved, and the forces of Gen. Feng Yu-bslung and Uarshal Chang Tso-lln are at It again In southern Cbthll and northern Honun. TROTZKY, former Russian war commissar, has been exiled to a village on the border between Turk* gtan and China, and bis fallow leaders . of the opposition have been sent to remote posts to repent.' In published letters Trotsky explains that bis quar rel with Dictator Stalin la doe to Sta lin's determination that the Commu nist party shall dictate the policies of communism and the communist Inter national, while the former war com missar soys the International, the more Important body of the two, should control the Russian Com munist party. The split in the Russian Communist party has had an echo In Franca, where many communists who adhered to Trotxky have been removed from the party pay roll and forbidden to enter the meetings. THAT lovely peace dove that hov ered over Pllsudskl and Waldo moras at Geneva hasn't found a place to light yet. Poland opened negotia tions for a settlement but Lithuania In her reply outlined conditions so un acceptable to the Poles that a stern protest was sent from Warsaw to Kovno. The Lithuanians are further annoying the Poles by tearing up tho Lithuanian portion of the railroad which formerly connected Kovno with Vllna. TWELVE radical Republicans ( joined wltb I he Democrats In ths | senate early. In the week and brought , abobt the adoption of a resolution , recommending a downward revision ( of the tariff on Industrial products. The vote was M to 34. The resolo tlon read: . "Resolved, that many of the rates . In the existing tariff schedules are ex- . cesslre, that the senate favors Imme diate revision downward of such ex- , cesslve rates, establishing a closer parity between agriculture and Indus try. believing It will result to the gen- ! eral benefit of aft); "Resolved, further, that such tariff . revision should be considered and en acted during the present session of congress; ' "Resolved, further, thst a copy of 1 this resolution be transmitted to the ' house of representatives." 1 That was fine as far as It went but ' next day the house, by a vote of 188 ' to 104 tabled the resolution, after an ' attempt to have U referred to the ' ways and means committee. As In 1 the senate, the radical Republicans of the house voted with the Democrats, 1 ignlnst shelving the mensure. 1 COMPLYING with the wishes of the ' administration, the senate finance 1 :ommlttee postponed consideration of 1 the tax bill passed by the house until 1 Harch 15, when, according to Senator ' 5moot, It will be possible to deter- ' nine more accurately the amount of I avenues and expenditures during the mmlng year. Democratic members ,-alnly Insisted on Immediate action. MERELY to dear up the question of flerbert Hoover's regularity is a Republican, former Senator Cal ler, president of the National Repub Ican dub. Issued a statement that 11 r. Hoover has been a member of hat dub since 1900 and that a condl ion of membership Is membership In he Republican party. Members of the ressury staff In Washington already ire actively at work In the Interests if the Hoover boom, though Secretary dellon remains noncommittal on his iwn preference. In the senate Sens or Shortrldge predicted that Hoover rould tie the next President, and be ng questioned by Democrats. Ip add >d: "He VIII continue the policies of his administration." Miunm. rur ? uumuci OK fnn f 'try little real mm; has bcco In ae ( nal circulation here, and the retail inslDcas of the conntry has been used on batter, the rain* of a bores v an 01 being expressed In terms el 1 imerlcan sheetings. ' The Abyxeinlans believe themselves 1 o be the pnsocssors of the original c iosalc tables of the lav. whleb ' ossed IBtO the possession of the Orel c imperor Mendik. said to be the ssn ' if the queen of Sbeba and Boiomoa. eared at Moam's coert NAPLE5 I Macaroni Factory In Naplca. imparn t?r IU Nitloul UatraMH Sodrtjr. WuklMtos. t>. C.) NAPLES, Italy's largest south ern city, cannot boast the architectural beaut; of the northern cities, bat tta peo ple, whether rich or poor, are strik ingly beautiful physically. Prom the storied heights that sareep In a mag nificent amphitheater around the bril liant bay the old city struggles down ward In a picturesque huddle of dense ly-packed bouses and other buildings, tortuous streets full of color and bub bling with the nervous activity of the Sduth. black canyons of rtone stairs, often slippery with damp and dirt, icross which the teeming houses gos sip and quarrel In neighborly wise. Nowhere are Bsherfolk more pictur esque In habit and costume; nowhere Is there so salty a dialect, spiced with such quaint and startling phrases and exclamations. Bare and brawn of,]eg. dressed In ragged, partl-colored mot ley, a stout canvas band about each sinewy body for hauling In the net without cutting the hands to pieces, they bring ashore tbelr shimmering silver quarry right along the widest, finest promenade tat the city?the Handsome Via Caracclolo. Across that broad street the charming Villa Na slonale, not a house, but a public park, wholly conventional In design, con tains an aquarium which may fairly be considered the most remarkable In the world for both the variety and In terest of Its finny and monstrous ex hibits and the thoroughness of Its scientific work. To it many of the treat universities of the world con tribute annually tor f||e privilege of tending special Investigators tn-soo-. ogy. The commercial activity of this sec >0(1 seaport of Italy clings close iboat tbe skirts of the enormous royal jalace?800 feet long on the bay side rod S3 feet high?and tba naval basin ind dockyard. Every smell and soand >f a thriving seaport may be smelleo ind heard, malt (piled generously; ev ?ry flag seen on tbe ships that ride it anchor near tbe stone wharves. On the streets men of every race nlngle tongues and costumes and man ierr; Babel Itself was only mlldl) tonfosed compared wltb this Jumble ol N'aples; and throughout all tbe throng >lay the street musician, the maca -on I eater?that Is a'trade, hold a^sat sfylng one. apparently?the piratic -abman, the guide, and the baggage imasber?all seeking whom they may dander with a gruclous twinkle of inmid blsck eyes. Street Singers Are Numerous. Street singing la an especially Nen lolltsn Institution, and when for the lrst time one bears beneath bis win low the more often than not olf-key rerslona of tbe snappy, lilting. In ex iresslbly Infectious Neapolitan songs. >e Is enchanted, and throws pennies 'reely. After a week or so of It as i steady diet, day and night, he In line* much more toward heavy ?rockery I Tbe entire Neapolitan littoral la vol -aolc, from Vesuvius on tbe east to be rtorled tufa heights of Cumae on lie west. Between Comae's ruins and Naples lie those famed and mystic 'hlegraean fields of our school days rhlcb nobody remembers anything iboat. They have always been a the nar of tremendous volcanic activity >ot the disturbances bete have no con lection, curiously enough, wltb Veto due; also, the two areas are wholly UlTerent In geological character and ormatlon. Dominated by Vesuvius. Tbe spongy nature of the rock of he Phlegraean fields allowed tbe in ernal steam and gasea to escape with elatlvely Uttle resistance at numer ma points; so. Instead of one tre Den do us peak being formed, as In the ase of Vesuvine, many Uttle craters rart the ground On tbe east Vina ill dominates the wnoie splendid region. lie Is the Cyclops stsndlnt. blind mid massive nnd treacherous. In llie midst of bis rich vineyards, olive groves, and vege table gardens; for, though he rpreads destruction In bis blind rages, the (act Is that this entire plans la the mar veloualy fertile soil that dialutegrated lava and volcanic ashea make. It bears hnge crops, far greater and Oner than ordinary good soil can pro duce. Among other things. It yields the grapes whose spicy Juices are so precious their wins la termed Lacrima Crist!?Tears of Christ. After the great eruption of A. D. TO there were occasional eruptions which varied In Intensity, until 1900, when the volcano became quiescent. The crater walls grew up thick with trees and scrub, while cattle and wild hoars roamed the grassy pluln Inside??U but an ominous lower level of arbe? and pools of hot, gaseous water. Then, In December of 1081, the whole In terior was blown violently out. and 18.000 people are said to have per I shed. Since then Vesuvius has never been entirely quiet. It was horrible hot mud thut over whelmed fashionable Herculaneum in 70. belched from the crater as tbrrenls of steam, boiling water, aud scoriae. Uerculaneum Is a rich and tempting bait to the archeologlsls, for from a single one of the ruins came most ol those exquisite bronzes In the Naples museum, and 8.0U0 rolls of papyrus, part of the owner's private library. What a contrast Is rompell, de stroyed at the same time, but by ashes 1 Though these gradually hard ened Into something like cement, they are mocli tuore easily removed than the atone at Herculnneum. and most of what we know of the details of ancient 1-atln life we litre learned from the stark, scarred, roofless lower stories spread out before ua -in deathly pan omnia within the old city walls. Stsbiss and Capri. Where the pretty Utile modern >vn terlng place of Castellnitiinure dl Sta bis. with Its cooling seu baths un<l strong mineral waters, lies snugly in a little bight on the neck of the 8or rentlne peulnrula, Sluhiue once stood It Is one of ilie very loveliest pans of Italy, a region of tumbled hill* clothed with luxuriant groves of orungo and lemon, whose golden fruit adds luster to the gleaming foliage. Kink ing roads of milky while wind and wind, now between high nulled grove and vineyard: now along o|ien. skyey heights, with I lie blue sea as a back ground hundreds of feel below, and the beetling cllfT rising straight be hind; now beside villn gardens, where every brilliant color on nature's pnlette seems to have been poured out with prodigal fullness. The nlr Is perfumed, the skies nre soft ami baliny. the roads su|ierb. Capri, a great, twin humped cainel of an latand, kneels In tl-e blue just off the tip of the peninsula Kroin the sway-backed huddle of while, pink, blue, cream, and drab bouses along the large harbor, up the breakneck road to the fascinating town uestlifig among the bills, while-roofed and Moorish, and on, still higher, by the winding road or up the nearly perpendicular flighta of rock stnlra. which furrow the frowning crag with their sharp zigzag outline*, to Anacnprt. flUU feel or so above, every step of the way breathes the pride and splendor and degradation of the Island's greater days. Mere a cyclopean mass of aliattered masonry to the warm emerald water tells of a Itoruao emperor's bath; yon drr oo a chltoneyllke cliff the sinister < ruins of a stout rmatle keep whisper* of ancient garrisons and pirates, not armed with automatic rifles or high powered artillery; and here, overtook Ing the tea, the vast ruins of a villa recall "thai hairy eld goat" Tiberius and bta wastrel voluptuousness thai I turned fair Capri laid swiyrdwa, i j ' ? <???>.>?>.> -o?.>??.>???? \. STUFFVS I ft WISH TO BE ft | ADOPTED } ? .Q'S ?> ?>?>?>?? <?-. ky O. J. W.l.bl STUFFY RAYMOND liunvlied him self closer against his news stand In an effort to secure all the shelter Its scant width af forded. itiiln heat down with cold persistence upon his thinly clad shoul ders, seeping through his worn slicker and sending cold rivulets trickling down bis spine. Study's duty con sisted In keeping dry his supply of eve ning newspapers and magaxlnes and la conrequence bis own frail body Buf fered unduly. Yet 8tuffy did not complain. Great er misfortune thun a cool drenching were frequent happenings during bis Ofteen years on this earth and he ac cepted this nilld rebuff of Mother Na ture's with stoical fortitude. Perhaps had Study's mind been un occupied the misery of the present moment might have caused him to wince, but as It was a weighty reflec tion and an enticing flight of Imagina tion rendered him. oblivious to bis dis comforts A headline In one of Ids newspapers had act him to thinking. 'MILLIONAIRE ADOPTS POOR ORPHAN GIRL." "A millionaire I" he soliloquised. "A million dollars 1?and I haven't a cent! Not a single dollar that I don't have to buy newspaiiers ci food or soma thin' with." He sighed philosophi cally. "Suppoee'n f was that kid be adopt ed," be fancied, "i'rn an orphan. Gee I All the automobiles and base balls I'd have!" He paused, sighing deeply. "Suppose'n," be tnought, "suppoee'n I was to meet a guy like that, who'd adopt me 'an' everything." He turned so that he could watcb the hurrying pedesttluns and autoibo blllsts who were' rushing homeward through the fall rala. Tliey were well dressed people, ni'an of them, who lived In the Immediate vicinity of 8tuffy'g stand, wlilcb stcod on a busy corner In a well-to-do neighborhood. A great car swirled np the misty street splashing high geysers of dirty watts, 8tuffy eyed the car longingly. "Suppose'n," he went on. "the guy In that hlg car wanted a boy like me? and would give me?" His reflection was broken off short by a sudden swerving of the auto mobile. He glanced up quickly and saw a little girl In tho middle of the street. As the driver attempted to stop tbe car skidded. Despite bis ef forta the heavy machine swayed straight toward the girl and toward Stuffy's stand. In another Instant she would have been crushed between tbe car and the newsstand. Stuffy acted quickly. Flinging bla little body Into the street, wltb one urtn be swept up .he girl and swung her upon tbe sidewalk. As he did so the cur skidded cl.wer; the fender struck his retreating form and bent him sprawling In s heap upon tbe sidewalk. With a laugh KtulTy arose. Except for a painful bruise across the small of Ills back be was unhurt The gtrl was on lier feel also, crying hysteri cally, but unharmed. The sedan paused for an Instant and the driver, seeing the two oo their feel, sped away. Two onlookers rushed lowurd tbe pair, but already KtulTy was consoiiuit the child. "Don't cry," be told. "It's all over now. You didn't get hurt" He placed Ids arm -around her and patted ber head. "Here. I've got the number of the cur." tuild one of the onlookers, hand ing Stuffy a slip of paper. "Huh?" he grunted. "Oh, I don't want It But wait, maybe tbe tyke wants It. I don't think she was hurt, hut she might be." He thutiked the men and led the child Into a nearby store. Her tears had ceased to flow by this time, and In a plaintive Ultle voice she told ber story. "My name's Annie llusliovle an' my mother's name's I'ovlona 'cause she got married to my stepfather. He don't bring her no money, stad we can't eat and she had to go to work and got sick und couldn't go." The girl spoke In a dreary mono tone. pausing now am! then to sniffle. **! live down oo Al'port street, but 1 come op here," she went on. "A girl la our block was nppted by a mill, yun aire so I came up, here where tiiey'a a-lots a;' tuitfV&tf'alres so I could be 'dopted. too. and give my soother lots o' money." . As tbe girl spoke SjlhfTy's face red dened She wanted .o be adopted so rite could help'her nattier; be wanted adoption so he conlrt buy aatoambiles and baseballs He saw la aa Instant ilia- futility (#nd eelbshnesa of < his dreamsi->ny. e 9,- - He tfahpea rte^Hltie red baad la bis called to the proprietor of the store td watch JM stand add started to Annie's horns ' , ' ' ' ? or ? J J'" <?=.,' He found her MM, a tlred-kw* log. middle-aged Foljtt woman. Ik a tiny Hat over the learned a gtmaMk store. She waa over Joyed at meaty lug her daughter and tbaahed Stnd> profusely. Annie told, la her Childish treble, the story of the iwtha. Stuffy carefully ? eerutlalaed Ytha; small, poorly furnished raaaa that served as parlor and bedroom. SRa own room was aa large as the tent which comprised this dingy Hat It "? waa light and airy, compared wrMf; - the Povlona home, and ha shuddered at the Idea of Annie's sick mother ? dwelling Id so mean n place. "1 ask yoo stay for sapper." said Mrs. Povlooa. "but do got dotWaga i good to eat." ' . , ; "Nothing to eat," commented 8td? jj to hlmielt He never went haagiir, for all the pinching and denying ha did. "Just a minute.1' be said, and nz cuslng himself, he'dashed out of the door. He returned a few minutes later with a great armful of gi ocartaa, "Now," he said, "we can have a swell supper r The grateful woman wept luadij and thanked Mm over add over again. She apologized for not having food. "You see Pete Povllua ha not csasa back. He bom all time. Last weak ha shot man and now ha la JaH. I work bat get eeeek. Now bo ?aa da." Next morning Stuffy .tana hack at his stand early. A tender ante at well-being poured through Mm put mingled with It was a poignant flatt ing of hopelessness. The plight ad Mrs. Povkma and Annie had Mocked lilm deeply 'and he mode n wow' aa aid them.' Hla own amassr cittern stances, however, deprecated Ma chances, bat a silent determination In devise some means of helping tbaas came to him. As the rich, morning parade of mo tor cart Bled past Him. Stuffy fait a sudden return of the desire that had come to him the preceding day. f "Suppose'n one ?" these guys really would adopt roe." be enthused, "Ona, What 1 couldn't do for Annie!" "But. shocks," he added a moment later, "that's Just punk dreamln'. I gotta gel busy and do aomethlnV He cast a spiteful glance at the flow Of automobiles. "flub!" he grunted, "If you guys knew what a swetl kid Annie Is aa* how much they need your dough." But the great river of motor car* sped on heedlessly. Some grim Reali zation of the irony of existence came lo Stuffy as be watched. "All these guys with loads o' money, an' I bad to be the one to Hod Annie an' her mother. Why couldn't I 'ha rlcht" There waa a trace of bitterness la hla thoughts?a bitterness unusual In Stuffy, fn aptte of himself he fell to dreaming again. "Gosh I What If I was rich I What If one of those guys (lid adopt aaat Or Just give me a little money so f could lielp Annie P* A large sedan drew op at (be com and ,81 offj seized.a paper and throat It Into the outstretched band. The exchange waa quietly made, paper for money/ and the car rolled on Its way. But Inatead of the nana I pen nies, a roll of crlop bills lay In the newsboy's band and Instead of the usual "flood morning." the hearty voice cried: "Well dune last night, any boy. I'll meet yon here at four this afternoon." Stuffy stared In unbelieving sur prise for an Instant, then glanced ay at tlie mqfjng car. The license ban tne same number the onlooker had gfTen' him the previous evening. A smile slowly spread over Stuffy'a fan until It became a broad grin. The passing motor cars aremed ta parr la l>encvolent unison aa he pictured An nie's small face wrapped la happy . smiles. Finny Combata In the Far East, combats between fighting tub are held before hugeaodt er.ee*. fort ones being woo and loat over the Issue. Bach damage Is In dicted by the combatants that It Is seldom a Bah fights more than sacs Bat the victor cannot he aaM ta ban won "on points" tar. unlike our awn little "light-weight champion"?the stickleback?the Siamese fighting Mh has no spines to use as weapons.? London Tlt-Blta. ? EMfl Of ton Enomgh Little James waa kneeOng baaMa bis bed. saying his prayers. Whan.' ubout half way tbrehgh the Lanin I'rayer he Mopped. "James, what's the matterf ffh don't you any the reef of the ?rwyeMr>: said hit mother. "Oh. mother. I am no tired 'd||U Weepy, and I ban MM the Lard Mfc) prayer often annngk Be knean} BHpL, well aa I da. PI earn 1st aw BfrcB|
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