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’ CHICAGO.— Heeding the popula- |
t;or> of the great cities of the court-1
try is becoming a transportation I
problem, it was declared-by C. 3.1
patchings, secretary of the Na- I
■Sic a! Transportation Institute, in i
-ae address to a traffic conference i
►’d New York City’s five mil- I
in. ■& of people have been on the I
j®Ac e of a famine of fresh vegeta- i
Wos -vjd other farm products this I
fK&tnar because of 1
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"Our great centers of congested
copulation have grown far faster
Un;r. the means of transportation,”
said Mr. Hutchings. “It is obvi
ously out of the Question to run in
new railroad tracks and build
J freight ‘.rations in a city like New
! York, which is already crowded to
| the limit. An engineers commis
sion recently investigated the!
; freight problem of St. Louis and j
| reported that the cost of on track I
| freight houses in the city would be |
i >o huge as to be impossible to con- i
j si dor.
| “St. Louis solved the problem by ’
J a motor truck system privately de- i
jvelopad to co-operate with the rail- J
i roads. Eight off track freight j
Ihou-sus are operated in the city. I
i London, England, is using motv
I trucks in co-operation with tee
; English railroads and many cit es
jin this country are developing
.motor truck auxiliary freight
j handling systems. The New York
Port Authority is trying to work
out a plan of economical delivery
jby motor ti tick to central food
j depots.
“Enormous centers -vs ponulat: or
(are a new problem of this er ?.
J They have not been planned for.
| People packed in them in thousands
jto a city block are entirely do
j pendent on a daily supply of food
from the country. Cities like Now
j York or Chicago would be starving
jin a week’s time if farm prodne 1 »
were not poured into them daily in
1 train loads.”
THE CONCORD DAILY TRIBUNE
MICH BUILDING
IN GREENSBORO
Total Cost of Construct km So Far This
Year is fa. 506.610.70.
Greensboro. Sept. 17.—The two-mil
lion dollar mark having; been passed in
the matter of building operations for
Greater Greensboro, this city is now
steadily forging towards the fit.ooo,ooo
mark, for during the first two weeks of
the current month of September the
total cost of buildings authorised for
construction by T. .1. HcAdoo. city
building inspej-tior, nmounbhd to nn
proximntely $2Ol
The records of Inspector McAdoo
presage that this will be a banner month
iin building operations, as the total cost
jof construction authorized thus far this
1 month is $15(1 more than ii was for the
; entire month of April, of this year,
I When it amounted to $201.0X2.
I The record this month brings tile
j total cost of construction for the vear
Ito $2.:50d.(!10.70. lacking only $1.517.-
j r.tiX.Xn of e.inailing the total cost of!
'construction for the War, 1!)22. when it
■amounted’ to $4,123.170. However, dur
j ing last year the permit for the Jeffer
son Standard 17-ntory building, which
was estimated to cost $2,000,000. was
included, so it will be plainly seen that
the normal building activities for
1021! are considerably in excess ofAvhat
they were for the same period last year.
Despite the numerous dwellings that
are in course of construction, there is
an acute shortage of dwellings in
Greensboro, and it has been estimated
that as many as seventeen person a „
week are diverted from Greensboro, be
cause of the housing problem.
Why Change?
An exchange says that “every cynical
bachelor ought to have his nose pulled
by a dimpled baby,” hut the chances
are that his mg is living pulled by a
dimpled, painted doll of about nine
teen. —Allentown Record.
Can Make Flower Scents.
Nearly rill flower scents can be suc
cessfully imitated by judicious blend
ing of artificial odors. That of the
Jasmine is tire most notable excep
tion.
One Lie Breeds Another.
He who tells a lie is not sensible
how great a task he undertakes; for
he must invent 20 more to maintain
that one. —I’ope.
IFthe isle of
RETRIBUTION
EDISON MARSHALL
* illustrated
R.W.SATTfRTICtO © LITTLE, BROWN ecOMPANy, |<!t3 •
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--j BEGIN HERE TODAY
Ned Cornet Is engaged to marry
t Lenore Hardenworth. They are
! shipwrecked and with Bess Gilbert
: they take refuse on an island occu
rs pied by a brute named Doomsdorf
and his Indian wife. Ned and the
= girls are made prisoners by the
g master of the island and he tells
15 them they are to be his slaves.
3 Lenore is too weak to work, so
r= Bess and Ned take up the burden.
eh Doomsdorf announces that he means
•H to make Ifcs prisoners do his winter
= trapping. They are permitted to
= build themselves a cabin and
e Doomsdorf gives them an old stove.
=3 After the cabin is finished Lenore
I— Is permitted to remain and help the
squaw with the housework, but Bess
_ and Ned are started on different
~ routes to trap for their master.
1 NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
H The beaver was of course not
g frozen: and the skin stripped off
l| easily under the little, sawing strokes
,|f of his skinning knife. He was rather
H surprised at its s:ze. It came ofT
8 nearly round, and It would stretch
g fully thirty-two inches in diameter.
U Washing it carefully, he put it over
j§ his back and started on.
jj Other traps yielded pelts in his
= long day's march.
1 Tired out, barely able to stand
if erect, yet wholly content with his
jg day's catch, Ned made the cabin in
H the twilight, built his fire, and cooked
H his meager supper. After supper he
jg skinned out such iittle animals as he
;J had not taken time to skin on the
H trail, fleshed and stretched his pelts.
H then hung them up to dry. He was
g almost too tired to remove his wet
fg garments when the work was done.
lh He hardly remembered drawing the
jg blankets over him.
g But in spite of the hardship, the
H wrack of cold, the fatigue that crtypt
§ = upon him like a dreadful sickness.
Ned had many moments of compara
g tive pleasure. One of these mo
ll ments, seemingly yielding him much
g more delight than the occasion war-
H ranted, occurred at the end of the
jj second day of actual trapping,
i This day’s march had taken him to
p the Forks cabin; and there, as twi
ll light drew about him. he was
jg amazed to hear the nearing sound
g of footsteps in the snow. Some one ’
§g was coming laboriously toward him, 1
g with the slow, dragging tread of '
§j deep fatigue.
s was Bess, of course. At this 1
g point their lines coincided. It was :
jg her third stop, and since she had 1
= left the, home cabin a day ahead of '
g him, she was perfectly on schedule. '
= He could hardly explain the delight |
H that flashed through him at the •
= sight of her. In this loneliness and 1
H silence mere human companionship
= was blessing enough. i
H His appearance in the doorway I
m was not surprise to Bess. She had '
3 counted the days carefully, and she I
g knew his schedule would bring him l
here. But now she was too near I
dead with fatigue to give him more
than a smile. ,
With scarcely a word he lifted her ]
to the icot, covered her with a blan- i
ket, and In spite of her protests,
went speedily about tlfe work of 1
cooking her supper. ,
They had a quiet hour of talk be- s
fqre he drew the blankets about her 1
shoulders and left her to drift away 1
tn sleep. He was unexpialnably ex
ultant; light-hearted for all this t
dread waste that surrounded him. 1
This little hut of logs was home, to- ]
night. The cold could not come In;
the wind would clamor at the roof In <
vain. ,
He did her work for her tonight. 1
He skinned the smaller animals she 1
had brought In, then fleshed and
stretched all the pelts she had taken, i
After preparing his own skins, he i
made a hard bed for himself on the i
floor of the hut
It was with real regret that they i
took different ways In the dawn. I
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Ned's last office was to prepare
’ kindling for her use on her next
j visit to the cabin four days hence—
; hardly realizing that he was learning
J a little trick of the woodsman’s trade
' that would stand him in good stead
| in many a dreadful twilight to come.
The trails of these two trappers
1 often crossed. In the weeks to come.
, They kept close track of each other’s
schedules, and they soon worked out
1 a system whereby they could meet
at the Forks cabin at almost every
circuit.
No longer did Ned go about his
work in the flimsy clothes of the
city. Out of the pelts he had dried
Bess helped to make him garments
and moccasins as warm and service
able as her own. supplied through
an unexpected burst of generosity
on Doomsdorf’s part soon after their
arrival on the island. They brought
their hardest problems to the Forks
cabin and solved them together.
Day after Jay the snow sifted
down, ever laying a deeper covering
over the Island, bending down the
limbs of the strong trees, obscuring
all things under this cotd infinity of
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TALK.*
white. The traps had to be labori
ously dug out and reset, again and
again.
When the skies cleared, an un- ‘
dreamed degree of cold took posses
sion of the land. The fingers froze !
in the instant that the fur gloves 1
were removed, and th e hottest fires 1
could hardly warm the cabins. And
on these clear, bitter nights th« ’
Northern Lights were an ineffable '
glory In the sky.
Their, bodies built up to endure ■
even such hardship as this. The
fact that the snow at last packed
was a factor, too: they were able
to skim over the white crust at a 1
pace even faster than the best time
they had made fb early fall. '
The result was that at last the (
companionship between Bess and ,
Ned, forgotten in the dread horror of ,
the early winter months, waa re
vived. Again they had pleasant
hours, about the stove at the Forks
cabin, sometimes working at pelts, j
sometimes even enjoying the un
heard-of luxury of a few minutes of I
idleness.
Very naturally, and scarcely J
aware of the tact themselves, they J
had come to be the best of com
panions. 1
Ned’s hours with Lenore, how- 1
ever, gave him less satisfaction than
they had at first. She somehow 1
felled to understand what he had 1
been through. <
Slowly, by the school of hardship, !
and conquest over hardship, Ned Cor- 1
net was winning a new self-mastery, ’
a new seif-confidence to >«*« the 1
place of the self-conceit that ♦*-* <
brought him to disaster. But the 1
first real moment oi was
MBHMUmHffyifIMMI IMIIUM—M
Tuesday, September 18, 1923
also onq °f peril—on the trapping
trail one clear afternoon toward the
bitter cloee of January.
He bad been quietly following
portion of the trap line that followed
the timber belt between the Twelve*
Mile cabin and Forks cabin, and the
blazed trail had led him Into the
depths of a heavy thicket of young
spruce. He had never felt more se
cure.’ The only hint of danger **»*
the Red Gods afforded him did not
half penetrate his consciousness and
did not in the least call him from his
pleasimt fancies. It was only a
_ glimpse of green where the enow had '
" been shaken from a compact little
’ group of sapling spruce Just beside
I one of his sets. Likely the wind had
caught the little trees Just right:
• perhaps some unfortunate little fur
-1 bearer, a marten perhape. or a fisher,
■ had sprung back and forth among
the little trees In an effort to free
himself from the trap. H e walked
; up quietly, located the tree to which
the trap chain was attached, bent
and started to draw the trap from
the small, dense thicket whence
1 some creature had dragged it. He
was only casually, interested in what
manner of poor, frozen creature
would be revealed between the steel
jawa The beauty of the day had
wholly taken bis mind from hia
work.
One moment, and the forest waa
asleep about him; the little trees
looked sadly burdened with their
loads of snow. The next, and the
man was hurled to the ground by a
savage, snarling thing that leaped
from the covert like the snow demon
it was; and white, gleaming fangs
were flashing toward his throat.
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EXCEPT for the > impediment of
the trap on the creature’s foot,
there would have been but one
blow to that battle In the snow.
White fangs would have gone home,
where they were aimed, and all of
Ned Cornet’s problems would have' 1
been simply and promptly solved.
This was not some little fur-bearer,
helpless in the trap. It waa no less a
creature than that great terror of
the snow, a full-grown Arctic wolf,
almost as white as the drifts he
hunted through. Only the spruce
trees knew how this fierce and cun
ning hunter came to snare hia foot
in the Jaws of a marten trap. Nor
could any sensible explanation be
made why the great wolf did not
break the chain with one lunge of
his powerful body. Instead of slink
ing into the coverts and waiting de
velopmenta The ways of the wild
creatures quite often fall of any kind
of an explanation; and It is a bold
woodsman who will say what any t
particular creature will do under any j
particular condition. When he saw *
Ned’s body within leaping range, he
knew the desperate Impulse to fight.
The chain of the trap broke like •
spring as he leaped. The steel leash
that is often used to restrain a savage (
dog would have broken no less quick
ly. There waa no visible recoil?
what little resistance there waa ■
seemingly did not in the least retard
the blow. It dkl, however, affect its
accuracy. That fact alone saved Ned
from Instant death.
But os the wolf lunged toward
him to complete his work—after the
manner of some of the beasts of prey
when they fell to kill at the first leap
—an Inner man of might seemed to J
waken to Ned’s prone body. A great
force came to life within him. He
lunged upward and met the wolf in
the teeth.
A great surge of strength, seem
ingly without physical limitation,
poured through him. In one great
bound he overcame the deadly handi
cap of his own prone position, .«iringw
tog up with terrible, reaching,
snatching hands and clasping arms.
Some way, he did not know how. he
burled that hundred pounds of living ,
steel from his body before the white
fangs could go home. '
But there was not an Instant’s
pausa Desperate with fury, the
wolf sprang in again—a long, white
streak almost too test for the eye to
follow. Bat ho did not find Ned at a
disadvantage now. The man had
wrenched to one aide to hurl the
creature away, but he had already
caught hia balance and had
to meet the second nnJnufit
(Continued hi tar Mask Imm |
. ‘ TODAY'S EVENTS.
Tuesday, Sept. 18, 1923,
Chile today commemorates the anniver
sary of its declaration of independence.
Today is primary election day in Penn
sylvania for the selection of municipal
and connty officers.
Primaries will be held in New York to
day to choose several candidates for the
State judiciary and a new Assembly. -
The Supreme Council of the Thirty
third Degree far the Northern Jurisdic
tion Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite of
the United States meets in New York to
day for iti 111th annual session.
Gasoline prices will be considered ami
support probably given to investigations
of the oil industry at a national confer
ence on motor vehicle laws which has
been called for Boston today.
A uotable wedding in New York City
today will be that of Miss Gloria Gould.,
daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. George
J. Gould, and an” heiress to a large es
tate, and Henry Alfred Bishop. Jr.
. An "international middle class confer
ence,” has been called to meet in Berne.
Switzerland, today 'to organize u world
federation to defend the Bourgeoisie
against communistic or socialist attacks.
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pi!. )U3A3jd oi nes eqi ojui u.uojqi
li pa.inp.io pun ‘naijaiuy mnog uuuj
mauiinid jo jjodxa am apnqjoj atnji
auo in juamujaAoS qsiundy aqj, ,
-ueaao o*u| umojiij. aouo umuimid
•iiqaaAV uoiJnq uuajjauiv
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paSnanuj »A,i jnq *}ai sauo aq; ; 0
<uh pion I.TOABq j jjani j|nj gjiaid
pnq aAj pun ‘wns,,—unuisejns Avayj
MB ono 'o9* baib omx,
‘apjni.no u*|*\»qi dn jnd pan oof
ptO) I no op no.f pj(J„—nsog atu,
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