A Rebounding Knock ?t Opportunity's Door! It might be a good thing if those people who wuit so patiently tor opportunity to knock at their door would give a good hard knock at opportunity's door. This Micaw berlike attitude of always wait ing for smething to turn up has its drawbacks. While these wait ers are biding their time at home, others are out carving their des tiny by virtue of their own hands and talents. Like many other proverbs, the saying that "op portunity knocks once at every man's door" has been abused. Op portunity is more often found by those who go looking for it. ? Voice Writing. v To Alkalize Add Indigestion Away Fast People Everywhere Are Adopting This Remarkable " Phillips" Way The way to gain almost incredibly quick relief, from itx>mach condition arising from overaciditv, is to alka lize the stomach quickly with Phil lips' Milk of Magnesia. You take either two teaspoons of the liquid Phillips' after meals; or two Phillips' Milk of Magnesia Tab lets. 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For A TAR. Idmlfor children, too. Got E bottle today. Nobleness Refines Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any mean ness or sensuality to imbrute them. ? Thoreau. \ Health-Wracking Functional PAINS Severe functional pains of men struation, cramping spells and jan gled nerves soon rob a woman of her natural, youthful freshness. PAIN lines In a woman's face too often grow Into AGE lines! Thousands of women have found It helpful to take Cardul. They say It seemed to ease their pains, and they noticed an Increase In their appetite? and finally a strengthened resistance to the discomfort of monthly periods. Try Cardul. Of course If it doesn't help you, see your doctor. WNU ? 4 3 ? 37 Rid Yourself of Kidney Poisons P\0 you suffer burning, scanty of L/ too frequent urination; backache, headache, diuine*, loo oi energy, leg pains, swellings and puffineis under the eyes? Are you tired, nerv om ? (eel all ambling and don't know what is wrong? Then give loae thought to your kidneys. Be wre they (unction proper ly (or functional kidney dhotder per mit! excess waste to stay in the blood, and to poison and upset the whole system. Use Dean's Pills. Doan's are (or the kidneys only. They are recommended the world over. Yoe can get 4ie gen uine, tin lailaJ Doan's at any areg store. ? Doans Pills MURDER MASQUERADE! By INEZ HAYNES IRWIN Copyri?kt Inu Hlrnu Inrfe WNU Serric*. WEDNESDAY ? 14 ? My sleep Tuesday night was so soft and sweet? it was the rock garden I am sure which produced this result ? that when Sarah Darbe brought my tray into my room, I was conscious first of self-reproach. I thought at once of Bessie. "Oh Sarah," I exclaimed, "I feel more like myself today than I have since Saturday. How did Bessie sleep?" "Not at all well, Mrs. Avery," Sarah declared. "Whatever it was that Doctor Geary gave her, it wasn't strong enough. She sort of dozed off the first part of the night, but she waked up before midnight and I think she walked the floor the whole rest of tl yt soght. Inside someth^fg seemed to break off from my psychology and disappear in the depths of my mind. As though that mind-slide revealed a writing on a wall, con viction took hold of me, held me close. "Something will be done, Sarah. Call up Doctor Geary at once and tell him that Bessie slept no better last night than the night before. Tell him to come again." After Hopestill had departed for tennis with Caro and after Sylvia and Nancy Burton had withdrawn to their favorite playground, I found myself sitting idly in a chair, waiting. It was no use to start working in my old garden. It was no use to start working in my new garden. For I knew that the instant I got started, Patrick O'Brien would arrive. I did not mind his coming day after day like this. I welcomed it. And so, all I said when Patrick came into the room, was, "Good morning, comrade! I've been waiting for you." For the first time, Patrick showed signs of inward stress. His face was as fresh as ever, but his eyes looked a little hollow, "Is there anything new today?" I asked. "I'm giving my whole thought now to finding out who it was, if any one, hiding in the bushes when Margaret Fairweather left the Spinney. If I can lay my hands on that guy, I think I've got the thing sewed up. You see it's getting pret ty close to midnight now. I've been over Mattie Stow's list backwards, forwards, sidewards and every which way. I've been over the list of people who live on the Head, similarly. I've talked with every member of the force until they've begged me to lay off them. They saw Tony's car come over the Head and saw it go back. They saw Walter Treadway and Molly leave in her car. They did not see them come back. And there you are. Nobody has mentioned see ing Margaret ? except Tony. But that was easy enough. The force didn't extend down to her house and she, all in black and the moon behind a cloud, could easily enough slip along the road into the path which led into your Spinney. I'm going around in circles, Mary. Nothing I think of makes sense." "No," I agreed, "nothing has seemed to make sense so far and yet every day something occurs that makes the whole situation a little clearer." "Yes. I think of that a lot. And it helps to think of it." At this precise moment, Sarah entered the room. There was a strange look on her face. For the first time in my life I saw Sarah Darbe frightened. "Mrs. Avery," Sarah said, "Bes sie has just asked me to ask you if she could come in and talk with you and Mr. O'Brien." I looked for what seemed a long interval straight into Sarah's eyes. By this time, Sarah had got her self under control. Never has that affectionate gaze met mine with so neutral an expression. "Tell her to come in!" Patrick and I said together. In a moment the two girls ap peared in the doorway. I had been shocked by Bessie's appearance the day before, but I was doubly shocked now. Her face had gone dead. "Sit down, Bessie," I said. Sarah Darbe started to leave the room. "Don't go, Sarah!" Bessie screamed and then immediately re verting to her normal soft-voiced accents, "Can Sarah stay with me, Mrs. Avery? It will make it so much easier for me." "Of course Sarah can stay, I agreed. "Sarah, you sit on the couch beside Bessie. I don't have to warn you, I am sure, that you must not speak unless Mr. O'Brien addresses you." "Oh I understand perfectly, Sar ah Darbe assured me. "You have something to tell me, Bessie," Patrick said in his kind est tone. He smiled. Never is Patrick so Celtic as when he smiles. I have never known a man to be so beguilingly winsome. I could see Bessie relax a little. "Yes Mr. O'Brien, she faltered. "Well now," Patrick said in a wheedling tone, "tell me your story in your own way. Tal ke the time you want. Don t be fright ened. I 'eel quite certain nothing ? going to happen to you, Bewe. I lee you think you can tell me something that will help me in thia matter. 1 for Bessie, I need ^ " r Z strange?" he went on. Patrick was rambling, but deliberately rambling. I saw that he was try ing to put Bessie at her ease. "?how important little things are sometimes in matters of this kind and how unimportant big things. Your story as a whole may not mean anything. And yet there may be one tiny fact that will point to oth ers and they will point to still oth ers, and before we know it ? bingo ? the whole mystery is solved. So Bessie, as I said, tell your story in your own way, but don't leave out anything. Don't leave out things that you think are unimportant." By the time Patrick had finished this address, Bessie was, I could see, a little reassured. She was ready to talk. "Yes, Mr. O'Brien," she agreed in a faint voice. "You see, Mr. Q',Brien, what I have to tell you and Mrs. Avery happened a long time ago? oh in the spring. It was Decoration day. I didn't say any thing about it because, happen ing so far back, it didn't seem to me that it had anything to do with ?what happened to Doctor Blaikie. But I got to thinking about it nights and it worried me and worried me and worried me. I couldn't sleep. Doctor Geary gave me some medi cine, but it didn't help any. I've got to tell somebody! I've got to! I've got to!" her voice ended on a wail, but it had grown shriller. Sarah reached out and took her hand; she held it the rest of this session. Patrick spoke at once, "There! There! There!" He soothed Bes sie exactly as though she were a teething baby. "That's all right. They Saw Tony's Car Come Over the Head and Saw It Go Back. It's all gone now. You're going to tell us what's on your mind and to night you'll sleep like a top. Doc tor Joe won't have to give you anything tonight." As though this inspirited her, Bessie started her narrative, fair ly composed too. "On Decoration day I went with Big Hattie in her car to the cemetery in Marsh bank. She had some flowers to put on her mother's grave. About four, we stopped at the Cutter house. Big Hattie wanted to see Jennie Snow for a moment ? that's Mrs. Cutter's maid. When she got there she found that her cousin was call ing on Jennie. She stopped to talk with her. I couldr't stay, be cause Sarah and I were going to the early movies, so I started to walk home. Instead of going by the road I cut acrosj lots because it saved time. Well, as I came through Mr. Day's woods towards Locust Lane I heard voices ? loud voices. I listened and I recognized the voices right off. They were Doctor Blaikie and Walter Tread way. Well, I didn't know what to do. I didn't want to listen to white folks fighting and I didn't want to step out onto the road so's they'd know I was there and I didn't want to go back. So I stopped jess where I was and waited for them to go by." "They were walking then," Pat rick' put in. "Had they stopped?" "Yes, walking and talking at first," Bessie answered. "Then they stopped where they was. But they kept right on talking. Their voices was pretty loud. I couldn't help hearing every word they said." "One moment Bessie," Patrick interrupted again, "you say it waa Doctor Blaikie and Walter Tread way. Are you sure?" "I saw them," Bessie said with finality. "They passed right by me. They didn't see me. They was looking at each other. But I saw them plain as could be." "You're sure?" Patrick said qui etly. "I'm sure," Bessie replied. "Go on!" Patrick ordered. "Well, I think they was talking about Miss Molly," Bessie went on. "They didn't mention Miss Mol ly's name but it couldn't have been anybody else ? from what they said. As I stopped, Mr. Treadway was speaking. He said, "You'll never marry her. By God, you'll never marry her!" Doctor Blaikie says, says he, 'And how are you going to prevent it? You know what I can do.' And Mr. Treadway says, says ha, 1 don't know bow Fm going to prevent it. All I know is that I am going to prevent it? -if I have to kill you. Ace B talkie!' Doctor Blaikie ?ays, says he, 'You haven't the guts to kill anything, Walter, and you know ttl'" My mind snapped back to Wal- I ter's well-known tenderness so far as animals were concerned. He was the only boy in his group who would not hunt. "Mr. Treadway said, said he, 'You'd be surprised what I could kill to save her from you. And I'll do it if it's necessary!' Then they went past me down the road and I couldn't hear a single word more, but those words seemed to burn into me. Yes, they burned in. I've never been able to forget them. When Doctor Blaikie was found murdered, of course I thought of them at once. I didn't want to tell anybody. I was afraid it would get Mr. Treadway into trouble. But I had to tell. I couldn't go through what I was going through any long er." Patrick's first comment was an oblique one. "Now you feel bet ter, Bessie," he said, "don't you?" "I sure do, Mr. O'Brien," Bessie agreed; and indeed her whole tense figure had begim to relax; the tight ness was flowing out of her look. Patrick asked Bessie many ques tions, but he approached them by circuitous routes. He threw in com ments by the way. He even told stories. By the time he had fin ished, one of Bessie's dimples had actually reappeared. But he man aged to make Bessie tell her story three times and he had not man aged to shake her in any detail. That brief conversation between Ace and Walter had indeed "burned" into her. "Well, now I guess you can go back to the kitchen," Patrick con cluded. "If you think of anything further, please tell it to me. Other wise, put it out of your mind. I think you'll sleep all right tonight." "And now, Mary," Patrick turned to me, "I've got to get Wal ter and Molly over here." Patrick and I sat in complete si lence the few minutes that, after Patrick's telephone call, it took Walter and Molly to get to my house. Brief as the distance was, they came in their car. Automat ically I wondered, as I had so often wondered before, if the younger generation would ultimately lose the use of its legs. But that wonder merely filled the surface of my mind. Underneath I was thinking so many things that virtually I thought of no one thing. My thoughts cut and slashed and jagged each other in their maniacal way of the last few days. Over them all too, like the poison gas over a modern battlefield, hung a cloud of sick foreboding. The effect of my sweet night's sleep seemed to dis appear. Again I felt myself trem bling on a huge abyss. What Patrick thought, I don't know. He sat with his head back, gazing at the ceiling of the room, his face blanked with his grimmest expression. Presently Molly s roadster curved up to the door. "There they are!" Patrick exclaimed. Sarah ushered the Treadways in. It seemed to me that day that, every time I saw Llolly Eames ? Molly Treadway I mean ? she was more beautiful than the last time I saw her. Something splendid had flowed into her psychology. Of course 1 know now that it was the certainty that she and Walter be longed to each other forever. Al most as definitely but not quite so obviously, Walter too had be come another person. Happiness seemed to have cleared all kinds of mists from his mind. He walked with a different step. He met one's eye with a different look. Authority? that was it. Authority as definite as a golden aura exuded from him. "Sit down, children," I said. "Patrick wants to talk with you." I myself did not sit down. "I think perhaps I'd better leave you alone." Involuntarily, Patrick made a re straining gesture. He started to speak and then apparently thought better of it. He looked inquiringly at the Treadways. "Oh no, Aunt Mary,*' Molly re monstrated. "Oh no!" There was unfeigned emphasis in that second no. And Walter reinforced her with, "Please stand by, Aunt Mary! We need you." . "Of course I'll stay then." I sat down making myself and that huge uproar in my psychology as quiet as possible. Patrick began, "Walter, when was the last time you came to Satuit, previous to your coming this time?**"? ? ? Walter answered without hesita tion, "Not quite three months ago, I should say. Oh, I can tall you exactly. It was Memorial day." "How long did you stay that time?" "Just a day!" "Did you spend the night?" "No. I came in my car b y night and I returned to New York by night." "Did your people know you were here?" "No." ~ "You didn't see them at all?" "I saw them, but they didn't see me." "Where?" "I came up to the house at night and peeked in the windows. I want ed to see if mother looked all right." (TO Bt CONTINUED) I The Wedding By RUTH O. TUTHILL ? McClure Newspaper Syndicate. WNU Service. r) had driven her into town. It was the first time they had been out together since Dick had told her. That was six months ago. Six months of suspense and tension trying to decide what to do. Putting on a brave face before people ? pretending nothing was the matter. "Funny that we should be going to ? wedding together, Dick!" "Ghastly!" said Dick. And then: "Joan, do you mind if I don't go with you? I don't believe I can stick It." "You've got to. Kate mustn't know anything 's happened between us." "Why?" "Because Kate believes that no matter how unsatisfactory her own marriage was, ours was perfect." "Well, wasn't it?" "It was until you spoiled it." "My God!" flamed Dick. "Can't you understand?" "Perfectly. But that doesn't change anything. Oh, what's the use of going over and over what's happened? We're here for Kate's daughter's wedding. Kate's best hope for Adeline is that her mar riage will turn out like ours. I be lieve she'd almost forbid the bans if she guessed what a mess we've made of it." The church was sweet with the smell of lilies. Joan took the arm of an usher and went up the aisle to the white-ribboned enclosure. Dick followed. They sat together in the high-backed pew. Gossip all around them. "Do you know, I've always thought Kate is still in love with Charles Marshall in spite of divorcing him. I think a woman's a fool to divorce a man she still loves no matter what he's done." It was after this last remark that Joan's eyes encountered Dick's. She turned away from their pleading. "There's Adeline's mother." Kate was walking down the aisle. Little, determined Kate with lips that were close and hard with repression and denial of what she wanted most in life. Charles Marshall had taken his place among the guests. Immacu lately dressed with a gardenia in his lapel. "Glad he had the decency not to bring that woman with him!" someone exclaimed. "Do you mean his wife?" "Oh, well of course he married her!" came the grudging response. Suppose she divorced Dick. Would he marry "that woman?" Joan won dered. That woman, he'd assured her over and over again even with tears, he'd never cared a darn for, in spite of what had happened. "I haven't seen her since. It was just one of those things!" The exultant strains of the wed ding march. Adeline's handsome young man waiting for her at the chancel. The bridesmaids advancing with their big bouquets of white roses. And Adeline coming down the aisle on her young brother's arm. Past her father. Past her mother. On and on to where her young man stood waiting. The light in Adeline's eyes as she came to him! it was over. Aaeime too* ner Hus band's first kiss. Took and returned it with young, unabashed passion. The possibility of everything Joan had known was in that kiss. Suddenly the tears came into her eyes. They rolled down her cheeks. She couldn't find her handkerchief. "Here's mine, honey." Dick was offering her his; fresh, unfolded. She tried to smile. "Thanks. I'm such a fool!" The look in Dick's eyes. Tears, too. "Oh, honey," he begged, "say you love me!" A woman is a fool to divorce a man she still loves no matter what he's done. Whoever had said that was wise. That look in Dick's eyes! Only one way to reply to a look like that. The chattering, milling crowd laughed to see them kiss. "Renewing your wedding vows?" someone asked. "Yes," said Joan. "Not that they need renewing. You see, they've never been broken." Near Enongh "What we want," said the an- I anchist, "is a state of society in which anybody can help himself to anything he wants." "We are already near enough to that atate of society," said Miss Cayenne. "Our cook, our butler and all the rest of the help have been doing so for years." Wen That's That Old Miss Wrinkles (whispering to a friend) ? Don't mention it, but did you know there is a secret connect ed with my birth? Friend ? Sure, and I know what It is; it is the date. ? Florida Time* Union. First Umbrellas to U. 8. Umbrellas were first shipped to the U. S. in 1772, to Baltimore, where they were regarded aa an item of feminine apparel. These umbrellas were made of oiled linen stretched over rattan sticks. He's No Know Maa First Clerk? Have you and your boss ever had any differences of opinion? Second Ditto? Yes, but he doesn't know itl UNCOMMON AMERICANS ? ? ? By Elmo C Western Scott Watson N*J?1 T' Sam Hawken, Riflemaker WHAT a Stradivanus is to vio linists, a Hawken rifle is to those who love fine firearms. For a genuine example of the work manship of "Old Sam" Hawken of St. Louis is one of the rarest weap ons in existence. So far as is known, there are only five. But it is not alone the rarity of these rifles which makes them in teresting. It's a case of "the man behind the gun" as well. He was Samuel Hawken, born of Pennsyl vania Dutch stock in Maryland in 1792. He was a soldier in the War of 1812 and after his return from it he began practicing the trade of gunsmith. In 1822 he moved to St. Louis where his brother, Jacob Hawken, was already engaged in making guns. That was the golde i era of the fur trade and the fame of the rifles which Samuel and Jacob Hawken were making soon spread all along the frontier because they w?re the most accurate and finest pieces of workmanship available, not even excepting the famous Ken tucky "long ifles." The demand for Hawken's prod uct was limited only by the supply, which was small. For Hawken made every rifle by hand, welding the barrels out of strips of iron which he got from an iron furnace on the Meramec river in Missouri. These strips were hammered into five-inch lengths and welded around a steel mandrel, thus making the tube which was bored out with a rifling tool afterwards. It was a tedious and thoroughgoing job of work, unusual even in those days of careful and honest craftsmanship. But what was even more unusual was the fact that Hawken had one price for his rifles. That was $25 ? no more, no less. He could have had twice or three times that price, so great was the demand, but he refused to charge more because he believed that one price brought him trade. Jacob Hawken died during the cholera epidemic of 1649 in St. Louis and Samuel Hawken contin ued in the business until 1859 when he sold out to an apprentice, John P. Gemmer who was running the Hawken shop when Samuel Hawken returned to St. Louis in 1861 to spend his declining years. "Old Sam" became a regular habitue of the shop so long as he lived and could scarcely keep his hands off the tools, so greatly did he love the work. Once Gemmer allowed him to don an apron and make a rifle complete as he had done in years gone by and this rifle, prob ably the last which "Old Sam," honest workman, ever made, is one of the two Hawken rifles now owned by the Missouri Historical society. $50,000 Signature THERE'S no doubt that John O. Rockefeller's signature, or that of J. P. Morgan, would be worth $50,000 ? if it were on a check! But the only American whose written name (not on a check) has ever been worth that amount was Button Gwinnett. Gwinnett was born in England in 1732. Despite that fact, he can be listed as an American because he came to America in 1770, was chosen as a delegate from Georgia to the Continental congress and was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. The next year he was an un successful candidate for governor and he was also defeated as candi date for brigadier-general of the Georgia militia by Gen. Lachlin Mc intosh. As a result of a quarrel, Gwinnett challenged Mcintosh to a duel which was fought with pistols at 12 feet. He was mortally wound ed tnd died on May 27, 1777. Most of the 56 signers of the Dec laration of Independence lived for many years after that historic event, wrote many letters or signed many documents. But with Gwin nett's career cut off in less than a year after he joined that company of immortals, he left few examples of his handwriting. So his auto graph is the rarest of all the signers and it is that rarity which gives it such great value. In 1926 Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach, the noted collector, paid $22,500 for a will which was signed by Gwin nett as a witness. That was an unheard-of price for an autograph. But it was only the beginning of a "boom in Button Gwinnetts." Later in the year this same col lector bought another ? this time a signature on a promisory note and it cost him $28,500. In 1927 an all-time record for autograph prices was reached when Dr. Rosenbach paid $51,000 for a letter signed by Button Gwin nett and four other signers of the Declaration who were serving on the marine committee of the Conti nental congress. Aside from the Declaration it is the only known document dealing with national af fairs which this Georgian signed. The Game of Life "TPH O S E who consciously ^ brood on their sorrows were committed by Dante to the deepest pit of hell. They are in love with trouble. They like to gaze on shadows. When all comes to all, what we call the game of life is just what make* life worth living. Life's ene mies are not cares and wor ries, deprivations and misfor tunes. They are its greatest al lies. Its enemies are thi damp fogs of the spirit, where there are neither shadows nor light. ?Dr. Nanssn. With great wealth comes great want. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pelliti are an effective laxative. Sugar coated. Children like them. Buy now! ? Adv. Deals and Ideals In politics, it takes a smart boss not to let the deals crush the ideals. FEEL A COLD COMING? Do tins* 3 things q Keep your head dear q Protect your throat 0 Build np four alkaline LUDEN'S ccJTSU HELP YOU DO ALL 3 Giving Pleasure There is a difference between trying to please and giving pleas ure. Give pleasure Lose no chance of giving pleasure, for that is the ceaseless and anonymous triumph of ? truly loving spirit.? Henry Drummond. 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At the first sign of constipation, take Blade Draught ? the purely vegetable laxative. It brings such refreshing relief, and tends to leave the bowels acting regularly until some future disturbance Interferes. BLACK-DRAUGHT A GOOD LAXATIVE Though Hope Fades O HEART, be brave! And, though thy dearest, fairest hopes decay Hopes all fulfilled shall crown another day; Thou shalt not always grieve beside a grave. O heart, be strong! Be valiant to do battle for the right; Hold high truth's stainless flag; walk in the light. And bow not weakly to the rule of wrong. -J. G. Whittier. A perfectly just and sound mind is ? rare and valuable gift.