The Alamance Gleaner 1
VOL. LIV. GRAHAM, IS, C., THURSDAY JUNE 14, 1928. ' ? NO. 19. J
WHAT'S GOING ON |
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NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENTEVENTS
Four)Aviators Make Flight
Across Pacific Ocean in
Three Big Hops.
By EDWARD W. PACKARD
^ ALIFORN1A to Australia by al%
^ plane In three hops I For the first
time the Pacific ocean has been
traversed by the air route, the great
feat being accomplished by two Aus
tralians, Capt Charles Kingsford
Smlth, war ace, and Charles T. P. Ulm,
and two Americans, Harry W. Lyon
and James Warner. Their machine
was the monoplane Southern Cross,
once used unsuccessfully In the Arctic
regions by Captain Wllklns.
In constant communication with the
mainland and with vessels by radio,
the airmen made the flight to Hawaii
without much trouble. The worst part
of the trip was the next bop, nearly
3,200 miles to the Fiji Islands, and
during this they ran Into repeated
storma that were most skillfully
dodged by Klngsford-Smlth, the chief
pilot. This was the longest overseas
flight ever made, and If they had been
forced down before reaching Suva the
.only possible places to light without
disaster were two coral atolls In the
Phoenix group 1,866 miles from the
starting point In HawalL As Is was
they landed safely at Albert park,
Suva, with only 30 gallons of gas left
In the tanks, having made the hop In
M hours and 38 minutes. Whites and
natives of FIJI joined In giving the
flyers a rousing welcome. After a
brief rest the plane was flown 10
Naselal beach for the take-off for Bris
bane, Australia, 1,762 miles away, the
route taking the airmen through a re
gion of frequent storms, south of the
Loyalty Islands and New Caledonia.
From Brisbane they were to fly to Syd
ney, 500 miles to the south.
Sydney newspapers printed the re
port that Captain Klngsford-Smlth was
on the brink of Insolvency and started
a campaign to raise a fund for him.
When the trans-Paclflc flight orig
inally was planned Klngsford-Smlth
sought the aid of the Australian gov
ernment and It was promised. Ad
vance payments purchased the plane
and the flyer came to the United
States. There followed the disastrous
Dole flight from Oakland to Honolulu
In which seven lives were lost The
Australian government withdrew Its
support and urged Klngsford-Smlth to
return home. He refused and con
tinued plans for the Callfornla-to-Aue
tralla flight on limited resources and
Anally obtained backing from Allen
Hancock, millionaire oil man of Los
Angeles. But even with this backing
the flyer faces financial ruin.
During the week there were reports,
based on alleged radio messages, that
Noblle and the dirigible Italia were on
Franz Josef land east of Spitsbergen.
Search for the missing explorers was
continued by the steamship Hobby, by
Lieutenant Holm, Norwegian aviator,
and by parties of Alpine chasseurs.
The Italian department of aeronautics
was In communication with Captain
Wllklns, hoping to Induce him to join
In the hunt by air.
SO FAR as the Republican national
committee waa concerned, Herbert
Hoover waa given nearly all the con
tented Southern delegates In the hear
ings conducted at Kansas City. The
contests, however, it was stated would
ba carried before the committee on
credentials and possibly before the
convention. In the committee hear
ings the secretary of commerce won
(0 out of 73 contested delegates, his
Boat Impressive victory being In the
cans of Texas In which he gained the
entire delegation. By conservative
aotls?(?a this brought the total num
ber of Hoover votes to 472, the ma
jority necessary to nomination being
540. The experts then figured that
Mellon with his 7b Pennsylvania dele
gates could put Hoover across the
Una If he chose to do so. The con
tent lor the South Carolina delegation.
Which was for Lowden, was withdrawn
by the Hooverltes.
Among the politicians gathered In
Kad^as City many expressed the opln
John D. Rockefeller
Highest on Tax List
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., hae be
rome-the heaviest Individual taxpayer
Id the Bnlted States, the tax assess
ment maps of Green burgh and Monnt
Pleasant township* show.
These maps, opened for public In
spection for the first time, show that
Mr. Rockefeller Is assessed for 13.588,
000 worth of property on the basis of
an average rata of 129 per thousand
According to est! ma tea, ha will pay
Ion that Senator James Watson of In
diana or Senator Charlea Cortia of
Kansas would make a good vice presi
dential nominee. Some Hoorerltcs es
pecially favored Wateon for. second
place, figuring hla nomination Would
"pull the stinger of the corn belt."
Farmer cruraders of the regions sur
. roudlng Kansas City were preparing
to move on the convention city In con
siderable numbers, by automobile and
train, and many of them wore badges
on which was printed this amended
version of the Hoover slogan: "Who
but Hoover? Anybody."
ACCORDING to the partial report
of the senate campaign Qrad com
mittee, total expenditures In behalf
' of the various Presidential candidates
to date have been only $731,067. Of
this sum the Hoover expenditures
have been $380,822. Frank O. T.owden
Is credited with having spent $&),
622.00. The committee found $-17R90
has been collected and expended by
the supporters of Vice Preside*
Dawes. The expenses of Governor
Smith of New York, leading Demo
cratic aspirant, were $121,471.04. Col
lections to the Smith fund amounted
to $120,911.40. ? The Reed preconven
tion campaign fund amounted to $41,
430.64. His expenditures are listed at
$38,752.79.
GEN. JOHN J. PERSHING made I
rnsh trip from Paria to Cherbourg
and lamped aboard tbe Leviathan for
the United Statea, and both in New
York and In France the report was
circulated that he was called home
hnrrledl; by friends who were starting
a boom for htm as a dark horse can
didate for the Republican nomination
for President
Marshal Chang tso-lin,
Northern war lord, gave up hit
dictatorship and abandoned Peking to
the Nationalists. With his household
be fled to Manchuria and just as his
train reached Mukden It was bombed
presumably by Nationalist agents.
Some soldiers were killed and Chang
himself was so badly Injured that his
recovery was considered doubtful.
The Nationalist troops gradually oc
cupied Peking while forces left by
Chsng and those of the foreign lega
tions strove to prevent disorder. Gen
eral Hsl-shan, for years known as the
model governor of Shnnsl province,
was appointed garrison command*!*""Of
the Peking-Tientsin area and at once
began the work of reconstruction and
development The-Nationalist govern
ment asked the Immediate evacuation
of American troops from Tientsin,
where the United States has main
tained'part of a regiment since the
Boxfr rebellion. In Washington It
was ftated that our government could
not comply with the request st once.
DASSING upon two cases arising In
' the state of Washington, the Su
preme Court of the United States har
roled that evidence of prohibition vio
lations obtained by wire tapping Is
admissible In a criminal proceeding
and that a conviction resulting from
such evidence Is not a violation of the
constitutional guarantee against "un
reasonable search and seizure." The
question was decided by a Ave to four
ruling. Chief Justice Taft wrote the
majority opinion. Justices Holmes and
Brandeis. In dissenting opinions, scath
ingly denounced the placing of judicial
sanction upon the commission of a(
crime to detect crime. Justice Bntler
also filed a dissenting opinion and
Justice Stone announced he concurred
with the views of Justices Holmee.
Brandeis find Bntler.
In holding wire tapping did not
amount to a search and seizure with
in the meaning of the fourth amend
ment to the Constitution. Chief Jus
tice Taft said that while, this amend
ment might have a proper application
to a sealed letter because of the con
stitutional provision for the Poet Of
fice department and because each a
letter is In the possession of the' gov
ernment It could not apply to com
munication by wire.
UNCLE SAM proposes to frtt a lot
of money from Henry M. Block
mer, the wealthy Denver oil operator
?M fled to France to avoid the Tea
pdt Dome Inquiry. Income taiee; In
tereet and penalties aggregating 18,
4fl8.93."> have been asaeased against
him and tax llena Died In Denver and
these two township# and the village#
of Tarrytown and North Tarrytown
ebont *137.000.
For this money Hr. Rockefeller will
demand little In retnra, for he sop
pllea pollc# and fire-protection, make#
all road Improvement# and anpplle#
bin own water on the raal estate lo
cated In tbeae communities.
The assessment, however. Is *100.
000 tn excess of the assessment last
year, although Mr. Rockefeller recent
ly donated 100 acree of gronad to the
New Tgrk federal courts. Also write
of attachment against an; property
held by or for Blackmer were filed
with 22 companies or Individuals. In
cluding all financial Institutions In
which Blackmer Is believed to have
nccounte> In New Tork city they were
also served upon hanks with which he
did business.
Only a part of the tax, Interest and
penalties assessed against the oil man
was understood to he for his alleged
profits In the Continental Trading com-*
pany, an adjunct of the Teapot Dome
case. I
LITHUANIA'S assertion, In her re
cently adopted new constitution,
that Vllna Is the capital of the conn
try was denounced before the League
of Nations'council by Poland when the
council opened Its fiftieth session in
Genera. Foreign Minister Zaleskl sub
mitted a copy of his note of protest to
Korno In which he asserted this could
only enrenom the Polish-Lithuanian
relations. Lithuania's claim, be said,
bad no Juridical foundation as Po
land's'rights orer Vllna were definite
ly established by the Vllna and Polish
diets and by the ambassadors' confer
ence In 1924. It was not believed this
session of the council would do much
business as both Brland of France and
Stresemann of Germany were absent
on account of Illness.
VIENNA received reports, reemlngl;
authentic, that Ahmed Be; Zogu,
President of Albania, was getting
read; to proclaim a monarch; with
himself as the king. He has had a
storm; career, lighting with the Dem
ocrats and Liberals and once being
wounded b; an assassin, in Decem
ber, 1924, he led a successful revolt
against Bishop Noll's rule and next
month was appointed President b; the
national assembl;. He Is onl; thirty
four ;ears old and besides being Pres
ident has held the odices of premier
and commander In chief of the na
tional forces.
PREMIER MUS80LIN1 took a good
? deal of wind oat of Ufa sails of
his detractors by the restraint of his
annual address before the Italian sen
ate. His bearers were especially In
terested In what he .might gay about
the threatening situation In the Bal
kans. hut the Duce cut nut all violent
talk and made ? plain offer of friend
ship to Tugo-Slavla. Then dismiss
lag the Idas of enmity, he declared
Italy could not wait forever for Tugo
Slavla to settle Its domestic problems,
and warned that treaties would be 09
good anyway If a friendly, moral at
mosphere between the two peoples was
net developed. He ridiculed the pre
diction made by a former Yugo-Slav
minister that war soon would break
out between the two countries, end
ing with a peace signed at Venice. He
had nothing to say concerning the dis
putes with Austria about Upper Adlge.
but announced that a treaty would
soon be signed with France that would
settle all outstanding differences be
tween the French and Italians.
Mussolini spoke at some length
about the astonishing growth of the
United States In wealth and world
power. He said be had no complaint
to make against American Immigra
tion restrictions and the Italian quota,
though deploring the reasons which
prompted that legislation. "As for the
naturalised Americana of Italian orl
, gin," he continued, "they are Ameri
can cltlsens and therefore foreigners
so far as we are concerned. We
limit ourselves to hoping they will
continue to be proud of their Italian
origin."
ATLANTIC CITT having abandoned
Ita annual beauty content, the
"'Internationalpageant of pulchritude"
held In Galveaton attracted the atten
tion of thoee who enjoy auch affaire.
' Selected beantlee from many atatea
and a number of foreign countrlea
gathered In the Texaa city, and paraded
along the aea wall. Mir* Ella Van
Hueaon, the entrant from Chicago, waa
flrat chosen as "Mlas America," and
then, being adjudged the most polrhrl
tudinoua of the whole lot was crowned
"Miss Universe." She la twenty-two
years old. tall and slender, with long,
darf brown hair. The other prlite win
ners In their order were the glrla from
France. Italy. Colorado. tVest Vir
ginia. Canada. Luxembourg. Ohio. San
Antonio and Tulsa.
Town officials poluted odi thai Mr
Rockefeller bad added dnrlng the laa*
year more than 400 acres opposite thr
Rockwood Belt ,cotintrj rlnh to hli
Pocantlco Hills estate.
Tbej also pointed out tbai th?
Rockefeller boldlnfs were aasessed al
about one-third their market value I'
thej were cut Into plots for develop
oral
The manalon built and occupied hj
John D. Rockefeller. 8r.. Ip assessed
fee W7S.OOO and the smallest pa real o?
land la mnii) far RA
^JEHUS'
Wend Children on Way to School by Boat.
(Prepared br the National Oeotraphle
Society, Waahinnton. D. C-l
LONG ago, when the Goths laid
waste to western Europe, a
small band of halt-wild fugitives
bid for safety In the great
swamps near the Oder?that low, flat,
wooded region known now as the
Spreewald. The Wends, this odd frag
ment of a lost tribe call themselves;
and to this day they are hiding there,
In this Spreewald swamp. Clannish,
Isolated, and happiest when left alone,
tbey are concerned not at all with the
rise and fall of nations around them.
Though In Germany, the Wends are
not of It. Even the Germans them
selves look on this lost tribe more as
curious specimens of an ancient race
than as a part of their citizen body.
They are Slavs.
Probably 1,500 years have passed
since the Wends first colonized In this
great swamp, and sallied forth, led by
their pagan kings, to kidnap children
and to plunder food in what Is now
Poland and Germany. Today only a
few thousand of the tribe remain; but
through all these centuries they have
clung tenaciously to their own edd
speech, their social forms and super
stitions; and, except for a few of their
qoeerly clad girls, who sometimes go
to Berlin as nursemaids, the Wends
seldom quit their Spreewald haunts.
let, content as he Is wltb his eel
traps and cucumber patch, his hay
field and cherry trees, the wary Wend
will drive a sharp bargain wltb out
siders who come trading for bis
carved novelties, his wooden shoes
and dishes, bis smoked eels, and the
cucumbers of bis Island gardens.
Stranger than his diet of eels and
cucumbers, however, and stranger
even than his hermitlike seclusion. Is
the unique plan of the Spreewalder's
village and his method of getting
about The Spree river, rising down
near the old Bohemian frontier, flows
up through Saxony Into Brandenburg
and splits here Into hundreds of
brooks and canals whose watery net
work Ilea all over the Spreewald re
gion aod forms thousands of tiny
Islnnds. The ancient village of Let.de,
built 1,44X1 years ago, literally covers
a whole group of these Islands, each
Individual house standing on a tiny
tale all Its own.
Thsir Streets Art Streams.
So, Instead ot having streets and
sidewalks like any normal town, a
Spreewald village Is served entirely
by tbese crooked water streets. Kvery
family has at least one boat, and In
summer the boat Is the street car, so
to speak; and there are Hoes of public
bouts, poled by stalwart "motormen,"
that run on schedule time over regu
lar routes and loops called "Grobla."
All along tbese water streets there
are signboards that greet you and
point the way to various settlements.
But Instead of saying "two miles."
for example, to such or such a place,
the sign says "two hours," as all dis
tance Is measured by the time It takes
to pole to a place.
Some phases of this novel amphibi
ous Ufa seem almost absurd to a visit
ing American. The American boy,
whether be Is fourteen or forty, gets
a thrill from a brass band ant a street
parade?and so does the youth of the
Hpreewald. But we have distinctly
American Ideas about the correct uni
form a brass band sboold wear, and
we Insist that a street parade shall
march In the street - But the Spree
wald form of celebration la wholly
different Here the members of tbe
band dress In long black, funeral-look
ing coats and two-quart bowler hats:
and. Instead of marching, they squat
In a flat boat tbe baas drummer In
the stem pounding away an tbe boat
Is poled along the canal I
The country here Is too low and wet
for grain, but wild bay is cut In abun
dance. A platform of piles Is raised
high above tbe swampy ground ao?t
| an this tbe haystack Is built Boat
? toads e< bag. moving through the'
man; canals, look from a distance as
If they were sliding curiously about
the country driven by some unseeo
torce.
In winter the whole waterway net
of the Spreewald la frozen over and
becomes avert table spider web of lev
lanes and avenues. Then the Wend
werfrs special lceshoes, with his skates
bnllt fast to them. Aided by a light
ten-foot pole with a sharp spike In
one end, the Spreewalder glides
easily about bis tce-Bound colony, not
for pleasure, bjit for speed and con
venience. Then, too. all burdens that
are carried by boat In summer are
loaded on sleds.
Eels and Cucumbers.
Eels, cucumbers snd cherry pies as
big as prayer-rugs figure In all feasts
In these Spreewald Swamps.
The Spreewald eel, slim and slip
pery, smoked or stewed, Is enshrined
in the songs and traditions of this
singular community. A Spreewald
swamp home without Its eel traps
would be like a chicken farm without
chicken coops. Whether you Ilka
stewed eel or not, you can't sit down
In a tiny Spreewald restaurant with
out buying one; It simply Isn't done!
And the eels, gastronomtcally, are
muted for life with the cucumbers!
These giant cucumbers, deadly
green In shade and wickedly curved
like scimitars, threaten you at every
turn. Cucumbers In heaps on the
river banks; punts plied high with cu
cumbers being poled to market at
Burg pr Cottbus; men. women and
children plucking, peeling, packing or
eating cucupibers, or asleep on piles
of them, are always In the summer
picture. Ton wonder the whole world
could consume such uncounted tons
and not succumb to International In
digestion.
Even the huge cherry pies, delicious
as they are, fairly overwhelm you by
their stupendous size. Throughout the
region big, broad-mouthed clay ovens,
built apart from the bosses, are busy
baking these pies, and as you glide
along the canals on a still day the
forest air Is laden with their appe
tizing odor.
Iluxom Wendlsh muldens, swamp
angels In knee skirts and bare legs,
push and pull the pies about In the
ovens with ten-root folea, pausing
now and then to recrack some old
bucolic joke with a near-by Spreewald
aw.-tln busy slicing cucumbers or skin
ning an eel.
Tourists by thousands from near-by
cities flock to this quaint nook of Eu
rope In summer; and then the Wend
cashes In bis cucumbers, bis eels and
cherry pies, reaps a rich hartest from
bis oddly carved wooden geese and
dolls, and takes toll for poling lovers
and sightseers up and down the laby
rinth of water lands dividing the
Spreewald Into a thousand charming
green Isles. Here, too, all kinds of so
cieties and bunds come for their out
ings, many walking clubs of school
boys and girls coming from as far
away as Berlin and Leipzig.
Superstition Still Rife.
Slaves still to some ancient super
stltlons, the Wends carve crude wood
en figures of beasts, birds and flsbes
and mount tbem on the gables of their
bumble hots. These Images, they say.
keep off evil spirits and disease ant*
bring good luck.
80me of these old Wendlsb super
"stltiona, dating back maybe 1,300
years, And their counterparts today in
many rural American communities
For example, the Wends say that a
crowing ben must be killed or she will
bring bad lock. Another Wendlsb be
lief common among other races Is tkat
wbbn a man dies a window sbould be
opened, so that his soul may take Its
flight
If It thunders during a Spreewald
wedding every odo la very unhappy,
for this Is a bad omen.
Moke a wish when you see a shoot
ing star and the wish will cone (ran
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I SILAS I
I APPRECIATED f
| HIS PAL |
* <? by D. J. W.Uh.l
Silas adolpbds peterkin,
followed by hie faithful, hungry
eyed wife, climbed elowly to the
rocky slope leading to the most
picturesque stream in their rldnlly.
His band grasped the Ashing rod Arm
ly as though In preparation of a good
day's catch. "i hate to bother the
frisky little fellers, Bellndy," he said
pleasantly. "i wouldn't ketch 'em it
we didn't get hungry way up here in
these high mountains. <
Belinda received his usual outburst
in silence; somehow she didn't feel
like talking today; it seemed so good
to have Silas home again, 'although
she felt (fraud when the big pros
pectors of the country employed blm
as their guide.
When they resched the brow of the
slope Silas baited for a silent ap
proval of the valley below. He loved
these mountains and be wasn't
ashamed of the sentiment lie felL He
knew tbem from ridge to ridgq, every
snow-capped peak, each precipitous
chasm. He was the Inspiration of the
tourists. Many an excursion lie had
conducted In safety to some perilous
place of wonder in the range, mauy
more had declined because of Belinda;
it wasn't fair that she should take all
her pleasures second-banded. He spent
hours telling her stories of the great
world outside. She bad never been
away from these mountains, they bad
shut her in until she had almost
ceased to think of anyone but Silas.
"Some day," Silas constantly told
himself, "I'm going to take Bellndy
some place; 1 don't know where." As
they climbed up and again hurried on
be glanced toward her contentedly.
"Belinda," be told ber, "1 get more out
of llvin' than i guess most folks do."
Belinda held up one foot as tbougb
loath to take another forward step.
"Life is like this rocky road." she
contributed.
"xoa ain't aeen life," he hastened
to console her.' "1 can't somehow
ever get enough money to take you
Into It?the cities where there's music
and (oiks smile because they know
things."
"You better rest a while now, hadn't
you, Stlss? .We ess set right here on
this rock."
Silas drew himself up In the strength
of his spirit, his long, lithe body, the
picture of the freedom be felt. "Me
take an old-age tonic? Jerushy's king
dom I No-slr-ee," be cried as be
caught her up In bis arms and hur
ried on down the bill. /
"There, now, 1 knew when you put
on that red necktie this mornln' you'd
keep on goto'," she managed to ex
claim. "Set me down this minute
Silas Peterkln. You're too old to cut
up like that, besides wearin' red ties
like a boy." Instantly ber thought
recurred to a string of blue beads
which lay In tempting display In the
window of Andrew's store. Mebbe
she'd dress up and feel flighty If they
ever had the money to spend. She
had to pass the store with ber eyes
closed now; the beads were the keen
est temptation she had ever known.
Silas' arms were flung out to the
highest peak of the range. "Old
Glory," he called that one. Ue had
his own name for tbem all. Presently
his arms crept down to Belinda's
shoulders. Ue clasped her close for a
moment, her bead drooping dumbly
on bis breast. Grandeur and beauty
surrounded them. Ue felt the strength
of It She was accustomed to scen
ery. - All she wanted was Silas and
the string of blue heads.
"You're a regular pal," be said,
kindly, as they continued their walk
down the bill. "I've 'teen wantln' to
ask why under the canopy of heaven
did they call you Belindy, a mite of
a woman like you?"
Belinda caught ber breath. Silas
was flndlng her amiss. He didn't Ilka
ber name. She was a woman who
loved peace and she wouldn't strike
back at him. Ho wouldn't knowingly
hurt a fly. The name Silas was a poor
substitute for Arthur or Reginald;
how she wished she could call him
ber Reginald. She aibllod up Into his
face. "Mebbe they thought the name
Belindy was pretty." she finally said,
"or mebbe tbey didn't care; i beln'
still another girl, when they wanted
a boy so bad. Yon might call me
Bee or Undy; there alnt bo sting In
Llndy."
"Ain't many wives know what It
means to be a good pal," be praised
ber, as be made his way to the bank
of the stream, whleb sparkled and
danced along to a most Inviting fash
loo. "Never mind names. Llndy, never
mind names."
"I suppose 111 have to sit on that
big bowlder* while you wade up and
down," she answered. "Just lookln' at
you"fceeps me contented."
"Not many wives would be so aa
tertaiain' and asdaMs. Undy. Than
you never yell when I eltp Ud tell
In."
"No, I don't yelL I don't suppoaa
I'd make a ten If the world tboold
come to au end (wblcb it ain't never
join' to do, in the way tbey nay It
will). I'd Just eit and wait. Some
good la bound to come to everybody U
they'll Just be sure to wait."
She wae pathetic figure an aba
eat in the center of the huge bowlder,
her hands crossed'placidly in ber lap.
Presently she pushed ber straw bon
net back from ber face, then took It
off and laid It on the bowlder at ber
side. Even a wreatb of pink roads
would never make that bonnet stylish.
She had made op her mind to that.
Some day she had hoped to dren up
and look like other folks. Silas was
used to folks who dressed In pretty
clothes. He rode with them In tbelr
cars. Their names suited him, too,
she supposed.
I h? was a great man, tnej tnougnt.
| Mebbe he was. She loved him, bat
she didn't knqw what a great man
was like. He knew all about scenery,
bnt she was plum tired ot scenery
She liked the cities and the big bulld
1 logs he brought home to her on poet
curds. She couldn't expect to know
mucb In this little mountain town. She
oogbt to be able to talk to Silas as^
the folks he took slgbtaeeln' talked.
Bhck In town ibey heard the big
clock on the postotllce strike four.
Silns put the last trout in the basket
and wound up bis reel. He was think
ing of the borne which be enjoyed to
the fullest extent of his nature; the
screened-ln porch with pots of red
geraniums scattered about; the kitch
en floor all covered In blue and white
oilcloth; a pretty loom where Belinda
loved to cook. All the townsfolk said
she was the best cook In Trentville.
Well, he'd second thai motion.
Belinda put on her boonet as she
saw him coming. She would lean oo
j Silas' arm going home. Then tomor
row or the next day or mebbe the
next some one would come for htm
and he would be gooe again; not long
trips, bub he'd be gone. Sbe'd pot oo
extra fixings tonight?the sliced beets
round the edge of the blue platter
that had belonged to her mother, the
tablecloth with crocheting on the edge.
It was two days later that an oil
magnate came. Did Silas know of a
good cook, a woman of good appear
ance and worth. They were to start
that very night for Callfor-la. Belin
da claaped her hands. California 1
Silas had never been In California I
A good cook? That request sent her
Into the house to her own quiet room.
"Would 1 be a woman of good appear
ance If I had on them beads?" she
thought. "Would Silas let her go?"
Seating herself In her rocker, she
rocked back and forth. The men bad
gone for more gasoline. She was
safe; no othdr cook In town could
please Mr. Gower, Sbe'd cooked trout
for him time and again. "Mebbe be
wts hlntin" to Silas that be wants me
to go," she mused as she rose and
took down her boonet from the shelf.
"Mebbe he didn't like to ask right out
loud. Now. Lindy Peterkln, you go
this minute, and buy one of them blue
floatln' veils to cover this bonnet and
to match your blue beads They're
yours, now, cause you've got the
money you earned yourself to 'pay
for 'em, and don't you come back
empty-handed again."
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.t was the tfilrd day out that Be
linda reall, dared to talk when Silas _
came to the back sea: again to keep
her company. Mr. Gower had been
kinder In bis praise of ber cooking
than usual when she had fried the
potatoes and trout along the way;
be had sent bis man back to make
her more comfortable with cushions.
He bad given her the first box of
"New York candy" she had ever
owned, and when tbey stopped at the
cities and towns she was to eat in
the big hotels; but the cause of the
silence which had possessed her.
which filled her heart with unspeak
able Joy, brought forth such an .out
burst of gratitude that 811 aa wan
amaxed. "If you wasn't a great man,
Silas Peterkln, Mr. Gower wouldn't
ever have asked yob to manage!his
big pi. ce In California, and we Uve
right there."
"And If 1 didn't have a good pal
to help me keep np the apoearancee,
Llndy," be answered, Td never have
accepted the honor my employer be
stowed."
Hit Only Hop*
Barber?Hair getting pretty thin en
top, air. Can 1 interest you In a re
storer t
Customer?No; let It tell out and
be banged) I'm too old to be hand
some, and my only hope of looking
Intellectual Is to become baldbeaded.
?Boston Transcript
She Knew It
A little mlaa or ftmr years man adt
tlng od her snot's lap, when sudden
ly the aont leaned jtown and gave
her a big hog, saying: "My. bat you're
sweet!" The little miss complacently
raised bar big bine eyee to bar aaetie'b
face and lepUad: That's wkat
all think."