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RAILROAD SCHEDULE
In Effect Nov. 2!), 1925.
Northbound
No. 40 To New York 9:2S P. M.
No. 136 To IVaslrngton 5:05 A. M.
No. 36 To New York 10:25 A. M.
No. 34 To New York 4 :43 P. M.
No. 46 To Danville 3:15 P. M.
No. 12 To Richmond 7:10 P.M.
No. 32 To New York 9 :03 P. M.
No. 30 To New York 1:55 A. M.
Southbound
No. 45 To Charlotte 3:55 P. M.
• No. 85 To New Orleans 9:56 P. M.
J No. 29 To Birmingham 2 :35 A. M.
No. 31 To Augusta 5:51 A. M.
No. 33 To New Orleans 8 :25 A. M.
No. ll,To Charlotte S:OS A. M.
No. 185 To Atlanta 8:35 P. M.
No. 39 To Atlanta 9:50 A. M.
No. 37 To New Orleans 10:45 A. M.
Train No. 34 will stop in Concord
to take on passengers going to Wash
ington and beyond.
Train No. 37 will stop here to dis
charge passengers coming from be
yond Washington.
; All trains stop in Concord except
No. 3S northbound.
EPthoughtl
JR TODAY—|
imorized, will prove a §
age in after years jp|
PRIDE A PITFALL:— Pride goeth
before destruction, and a lxaugbty
- spirity before a fall— Proverbs Hi:!*.
AMERICA. DEADER OF TIIE
WORLD.
The amazing development- of Amer
ica within the past two decades reads
more like fiction than fact. In world
affairs we are the leaders and the
rest of the world looks to the United
, States.
While we have advanced along all
lines, we have made astounding prog-j
ress insofar as material resources and !
material achievements are concerned. |
Some of the facts in regard to this*
progress are contained in a recent ;
issue of The Manufacturers Record
„ which has furnished statistics to set
•■* tlie matter clearly before us. It has
‘ foil ml that America has between 6!
and 7 per cent, of the world's popu- j
'f. lation. but has 85 per cent, of fin* J
world’s automobiles, or more than i
' ; /17 f Qfifi r OOO. These autos give vividly !
a comparison of this country's wealth
- with the wealth of other nations, for
annually we spent $19,000,000,000 up
on their purchase and mainten°nee.
In 1904 the estimated wealth « f
this country was $107,000,000,000. In
> 1922 it was nearly $321,000,000,000.
" The stock of money in rhe United
T States rose from $2,898,000,000 in
1004 to $8,746,000,000 in 1924.
.. In 1904 the total value of our man
p- ufaetured products was $14,793,000, •
\ 0000. In 1923 it was $60,555,000,000.
or more than four times as great us it
had been 20 years before.
The value of food and kindred
♦’' products rose from $2,845,000,000 to
sQjn£&,ooo.ooo. while the output of
v- textile goods was considerably more
A- than four times as great in 1924 as
in 1904. having risen in that period
from |2.144.000,000 to 89.187.000.0*in.
'* products of the country was $1,362.-
* 000.000. In 1924 it was $6.0000.000.-
[ 000.
! Our production of coal rose in the
20-year period from 314.00*9,0(H) tons
to 573.000.000 tons, and the increase
wouW have been still greater but for
the fact that oil came in to play an
important part in many lines of fuel •
supply, the production of petroleum 1
rising from 4,917,000.000 gallons p>
v 22.850,000,000 gallons.
rig iron nearly doubted in output. |
having been 31.000.000 tons in 1924.
as against 16.000.000 tons in 1904.
The gross value of agricultural
products, including crops and live
stock. advanced from $6,131,000,000 in
liKM to $17,355,000,000 ; n 1924.
Tho corn crop made but little in
<-reuse us measured by comparison of
” these two years, for the production et
corn fluctuates from year to year
from about 2.500.000.000 bushels t>
about 3,000.000,000 bushels.
Wheat, however, increased in pro
duction from 552.000.000 bushels in
S' 1904 to 872.060,000 bushels in 1924.
In the production of cotton there
L WRfLyery-little difference between 1904
' and ,1924. for cotton, like corn, lias
flufetiated ip production: and while
. IJJ?4 showed increase over 1904,
this yehr’s crop will probably be 2.-
000,600 hull's in excess of the pmdue
£ tlon of either of these years.
111 1904 our total foreign commerce
> imports and exports combined, was!
.$2,452,000,000; in 1924 our exports'
j alone were almost double the combin- j
Jed value of exports and imports of
: 1904, and the total of our foreign ;
S trade for 1924 was $8,200,000,000. ]
j Our bank clearings quadrupled, ris-'
, ing from $102,000,000,000 to over
i $438,000,000,000, while deposits in
the banks of the country grew from
$10,000,000,000 to a fraction less than
$43,000,000,000.
While the increase in savings banks
deposits indicate the spread of wealth
in the country, one of the most inter
esting signs of progress in this direc- j
tion is the growth of building and j
loan associations, which mean the j
building of homes. These associations ;
in 1904 had 1,600,000 members, with ■
assets of $618,000,000. In 1923 there j
were 7.200.000 members and the as-1
sets of these associations had risen to :
$3,942,000,000.
Perhaps next to the growth of the j
building and loan associations as an*
indication of advancement is the
growtji of the life Insurance business, j
In 4tSO4 the life insurance companies!
had in force $12,547,000,000, which by
1924 had risen to $59.732,000.000; j
and in addition to this life insurance. '
fraternal orders had advanced their,
assets from $52,500,000 to $490,000.-
000.
In 1904 casualty insurance com pan-'
ies were comparatively unknown, or
at least were of comparatively small |
development. Their assets then 1
amounted to $110,800,000. In 1923 f
their assets stood at $1,492,000,000.
We advanced the expenditures for
public schools from $273.0000,000 in
1904 to $1,814,000,000 in 1024—a stu
pendous increase.
TO VIEW SOLAR ECLIPSE
Total Eclipse of the Sun Due to Take
Place January 14th.
Washington. l>. <\. Jan. I.—Ob
servers of the celestial sphere are I
eagerly awaiting the total eclipse of
the sun which is duet to take place'
on the 14th of this month, and which ;
will be the first and most important ;
of such astronomical phenomena to,
be viewed during the year which be
gins today. Months ago scientific ex
peditions were sent out by the United
States and by. a number of the lead
ing nations of Europe and by thisj
time the -astronomers have set up
their telescopes in remote spots ofi
the southern hemisphere and have |
their cameras primed in readiness to
make records of any new discoveries j
that may be made when the solar body
is in eclipse. v |
The belt of totality of the coming i
.eclipse will extend across Africa and!
the Indian Ocean. The conditions'
for viewing it will be more favorable)
than in the case of the eclipse that
occurred last January in New Eng
land because the sun is higher in J
the sky. It lasts several minutes
longer. The chances for clear weather
are not much better, however, for they j
are calculated to be about sixty to j
forty in favor of clouds at the cm- j
cial moment.
The most of the expeditions have
pitched their camps on the island of |
Sumatra. Three expeditions from
the United States alone have gone to I
j that island to take their views. These |
1 expeditions have been sent out by the j
j United States Naval Observatory, j
j Harvard University and Swartlnuore
[College. England, France. Spain
! and Holland also will have their |
parties of scientists in Sumatra.
The expedition of the United States j
Naval Observatory is in charge of
Captain F. B. Littell. The party i
J includes Professor George 11. Peter*. |
associate astronomer, and (l. M.
; Raynsword. assistant astromoner. both j
of the observatory staff, and I>r. John j
M. Anderson, of the Mount Wilson |
Observatory of California. The chief |
instrument to be used by this party j
is a giant camera sixty-five feet long.,
which has been built in Sumatra from
materials transported from the United j
States.
Nearly two tons of equipment, In-,
eluding a 20-im h reflecting telescope,
have been taken to Sumatra by the j
Harvard expedition, which is in charge ,
of Prof. 11. T. Stetson, assistant pro
fessor of astronomy at the university. |
The Harvard expedition intends to|
make a special study i.f the* heat ra
diations of the Solar Corona.
A group of scientists from several ;
I of the countries of Europe fiave or-!
ganized an expedition to Sumatra to
. study the eclipse, with the chief pur-j
pose of trying to check the Einstein !
theory. The expedition also will j
: study the spectrum and Saha’s the
l ory.
Especially elaborate are the prepa
rations made b> the Italian govern
ment for taking observations of the
eclipse. The ellipse will be total and
perfectly visible in the new Italian
colony Transjtiba. or Jubaland. re
cently ceded to Italy by Great Bri
tain. The government has sent an
expedition comprising many of the,
foremost scientists of Italy. well
equipped with modern instruments. ;
• The party will camp for observation,
( purposes in a place called Point Sher
wood where it is calculated the eclipse
can be observed. An observatory has
been temporarily erected on this un
inhabited spot, and the astronomers
are confident that the weather condi
tions will be favorable during the two
minutes and eleven second's in which
the eclipse will be total. The mis- j
*ion is under the personal direction I
of Prof. Guido Horn, director of the'j
Bologna observatory and an astrono
mical scientist of international repu
tation.
Death Toll in Turpentine Plant Ex
plosion Now 14.-
Pensacola, Fla-. Jan. 3.—With the
death today of two more persons in
jured in the explosion and subse
quent fire at the plant of the New
port Tar and Turpentine company
yesterday the death toll stood nt l-i.,
are in hospitaV and the condition
of' five of these are critical. ObarleV
IHammiek died as did jJharle* Alji
json, negro.
j The South Atlantic baseball League
will! reach its silver jubilee or twenty
fifth anniversary in 1927.
RABBI WISE’S VIEW |
i Asheville Citizen. *
! One who deals with any article of
j fundamental faith must choose his
i words with great care and consider i
| all possible implications which may j
ibe drawn from them, if he is not to
risk misunderstanding.
Doubtless Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, j
of New York, thought he was so do
ing when in his now celebrated ser-;
mon he declared that the time has
now come when “Jews should accept
Jesus/’’' and so we thought also in
! noting the limitation that he then
placed on this sentence. It was-Jesus,
an illustrious Jewish teacher who
should be accepted by the Jews, not
| the Divinity.
But some rabbis, perhaps those who
I correspond in other religious to fun
j damentalists, incline to take the do-
I tached phrase and overlook the limi
i tation. They have sharply criticised
I Rabbi Wise, one of them terming him
| the “Sensationalist of the Jewish pul
t pit." in fact to such an extent that
I lie has presented his resignation as
head of the United Palestine Appeal,
j Prompt remonstrance against such
j criticism has come from Nathan
Strauss and others whose orthodoxy
!is undoubted.
And likewise some Christians have
leaped to an erroneous conclusion from
the detached quotation. They fore
see an abandonment of the ancient
Jewish belief and the acceptance by
Jews of Jesus as that Messiah whose
coming they expect. And this in
turn misconceives Rabbi Wise**
thought. He did not say anything
to justify the Christian hope that he
favored deifying Jesus, i
To understand the situation it nitwit
be recalled that some of the Jewish
faith hold that Jesus is a myth whose
existence is not probable even by secu
lar history, while others whose view
Rabbi Wise voices. consider that
there was a great Jewish teacher
whom Christians accept as the Son
of God. Rabbi Wise insists that -
this view is amply proven, and elo
quently urged that the Jews should 1
not merely accept but ‘‘claim Jesus,”
the wonderful Jew.
We see a- better understanding be
tween Jew and Gentile come from an *
acceptance of this view, but not the
“common understanding” in a relig
ious way hoped for by The Christian i
Science Monitor. A fundamental prin
ciple is involved in this latter. Such
a comnion religious understanding
would mean either the acceptance of
Christianity by the Jews, or the re
nunciation by Christians of the claim
that Jesus was a Divinity who came
on earth.
Is it not possible that unity of be
lief is not so essential as some think;
j that it is necessary for all men to
; have the same view? Must we have
a standardized belief which makes an
i end of liberty of religious thought?
Surely it may be better for people to '
hold to doctrines they sincerely believe (
than surrender them for some com- ,
I promise for unity which is not the
: whole-hearted belief of any one.
IIOW DUMB IS A DUMBBELL?
He's so dumb be thinks Fort Lee is j
a Chinaman.
| He’s so dumb lie thinks a cocktail ;
i is a breed of dog. ,
He's so dumb be thinks the law of
I gravity was made iu Washington. •
! He's so dumb be thinks pop corn is
I an old man.
1 He's so dumb lie thinks Babe Ruth
is a chorus girl.
! He’s so dumb he thinks a ticket :
scalper ; s an Indian.
) He’s so dumb he thinks a baseball
I diamond comes from a jeweler.
He's so dumb he thinks a hot house
is a Turkish bath.
| He’s so dumb he thinks Chinese
| laundry tickets gtre written in short -
! hand.
j He’s so dumb he thinks a burri
| cane is a walking stick.
| He's so dumb be thinks charlotte
russe is the name of a movie star.
He's so dumb he thinks a shooting
star is a new kind of ur. artillery.
He’s so dumb be thinks the “Long
i Long Trail” is a subway railroad.
Wilson Leads in Tobacco Sales.
Raleigh. Jan. 2.— (JP) —A total of
I 86.139.078 pounds of producers’ to
j bacco were sold on the auction mar
! kets of North Carolina during No-
I vember. last, for an average price of
$26.17 per hundred pounds, accord
j ing to the Monthly Review of the
: Fifth Federal Reserve Bank.
Tlie Review compares this year’s
: crop wit’ll last: During November.
! 1924. practically the same markets
j sold 45.180.070. at an average price
lof $28.44 per hundred pounds. Sales
on the auction markets in Novembed
this year were practically double those
of November. 1924, ami the price was
more than $2 per hundred pounds
less than that of last year.
“Total sales on the auction mar
kets in North Carolina to December
Ist.” says the Review, “totalled 254.-
300.77 pounds, representing about 78
per cent, of the total crop gdown
this year. The average price for
the season was $23.37 per hundred
I pounds. *
| “November sales consisted mostly
of average grades and prices were
somewhat lower than in October.
“Wilson led in volume of sales in
November with 16,011.793 pounds,
Winston-Salem being second with 11.
175.547 pounds. Windsor led in av
erage price, selling 153.00 s pounds
j for $35.72 per hundred, while Fartn
' vi!le. Fuquay Springs. Greenville,
: Robersonville. Williamston and Wil
son averaged over S3OO per hundred
pounds.”
Entertains Club Members.
Charlotte, Jan. 2.— (A*) —Prize win
ning club members of Mecklenburg
county together with the farm and
. hoipe agents were entertained at a
“found up” last week by the Kiwanis
Club of Jlharlotte.
All clm> members who had won a
prize during the year were .invited,
and af&r dinner cash prize** amount- j
, ting to SSO were, distributed. This 1
. is an annual event with the club boys
and girls oU- Mecklenburg, and is
sponsored by the local Kiwanis Club,
, says County Agent Kojie Elias.
USE FENNY COUVfttfc-IT PAYS
/ r
THfe CONCORb DAILY TRIfcUNE
VETERANS’ BUREAU
NREVELATIONS SURPRISE
Hines Thought Everything Was Run
ning Snmth»Y.—Late Inspection
Made.
Washington, Jan. 2.—There were
no signs of excitement today at the
civil service commission offices, or at
the veterans’ bureau, over the report j
that formal charges were to be made
against the management of the veter
ans’ office at Charlotte. There is,
an accumulation of official mail at
all the departments and bureaus. It
is considered likely that the Char
lotte communication is somewhere
about, but thus far it has not been
brought to the attention of officiate
whose duty it is to look after such *
allegations.
If it is charged that there has
been drinking of whiskey at the Char-,
lotte office, or that ladies have been
treated discourteously, the communi
cation will be referred at once to the ,
veterans’ bureau, as the civil’service j
commission is only concerned when
it is enlarged that the veterans busi
ness has been f*un into politics or re
ligion, or that persons have been em
ployed contrary to civil service rftu
tions. \
A copy of the Daily News contain
ing the Charlotte dispatch was re-,
quested for perusal by General Hines,
and surprise was expressed that there,
should be trouble, or talk of trouble,
at Charlotte. Co-ordinating officers
or inspectors will go to Charlotte at,
once, if a letter is received alleging j
that all is not well there, but officials
are impressed with the assurance from
the 'll cad of the North Carolina branch j
of the bureau that there has been no,
wrong-doing in connection with bis 1
office.
A few weeks ago inspectors, on i
their usual rounds, reported that all
was well with the Charlotte office,
and few complaints arc coming in
now from any part of the country. I
It was remarked that it has been •
rare of late months to hear a dis- {
content note, such as is coming up j
from Charlotte.
A total of 51,397 North Carolina
veterans of the World War and the
dependents of 1,496 others have ap- :
plied for compensation under the [
World War adjusted compensations
net of May 19, 1924. it is shown by
a report just submitted to Congress
by Major General Robert (\ Davis,
adjutant general of the army. *
The total number of applications
received have been in excess of 2,-
769.0(10 which* is estimated to be ap
proximattly 80 per cent, of tin* total.
Approximately 700.000 veterans or
their dependents have failed so far
to apply for adjusted compensation.
They have, however, until January
1. 1928, to make application.
Under t’ae adjusted compensation
act. veterans of the war given
compensation at the rate of $1.25 per
day fur each day of oversea service I
and $1 per day for each day of home
service, in excess of 60 days, rendered
between April 5, 1917. and July 1.
1919. The 60-day' period is deducted |
under the law because, upon dis- I
charge, each veteran was given a cash j
bonus o| S6O.
If the amount due the veteran is
SSO or les«. he paid in cash : if it ex- I
ceeds SSO he receives from the United 1
States veterans bureau an adjusted j
service certificate of a face value equal
to the amount of 20-year endowment
insurance that may be purchased at
his age with the amount of his ad
justed service increased by
25 per cent. The amount of adjusted
service credit due. however, te limited
to $625 in the case of a veteran with
oversea service and SSOO in the case
of a veteran with home service only.
Farm Co-operatives to Meet.
Washington, D. C., Jan. 2.—Pro
posed federal legislation affecting j
farmers’ business organizations will j
have first place on the program for j
The meeting *>f “business farmers” t>;
be held in Washington next month, j
Advices received by {Secretary Walton
Detect indicate that the cqming meet-j
ing will te* the largest as well as the !
most important of its kind that has
been hel<l in this country.
The organization of co-operatives
already has made its influence f»*lt
in the national legislative halls. Last I
winter it successfully opposed pro
posals ranging from federal incorpo
ration fa co-operatives to regulating
by a federal marketing board.
Second in importance only to leg
islation will bo the subject of agri
cultural credit, with emphasis on
credit for production as distinguish* d
from marketing purposes. The es
tablishment of the federal intermedi-*
ate credit banks and the attitude of
large commercial banks have gone far. J
say the co-operatives, toward supply- [
ing the credit need** of farmers in
financing orderly marketing programs,!
but there is now a shift of interest'
to credit for crop production.
What Dickens Said.
Winston Salem Sentinel.
Uharles Dickens Wrote to Lis s ti
on going to college as follows:
“You know that you have ne\cr
been hampered' with religious
of n-Mraint and that with mere un
meaning forms I have no sympathy. 1
“But I most strongly and affec
tionately impress upon you the price
1' - value of the Bible, and t*ae study
< f that book as the one unfailing
guide in life. f
“Deeply respecting it. and bowing
down before the character of our Sa
vior. as separated from the vain yon- *
f structioni and conventions of meu,J
you cannot go very wrong and will nl
ways preserve at heart a true spirit
of veneration and humility.” f
The great novelist thus voices tlie
opinion of many parents and those
older people whose interest in some
younger friend has caused a desire
to make that friend a gift of lasting
good and of everlasting pleasure.
NJrs- A $. Elder Injured.
rharloffe, Jhu.’ 3.—str*. Louise
! Elder, wife of A. E. Elder, well
j known locfll business man, Sustained
painful and jjftsfcibly fatal injuries {
about midnight test* night when the I
automobile in which she was riding.,
was struck by a street car on Uontral
l avenue, near the Plaza. Hospital au-
Itlmrities thi» morning reported her
condition as serious. j
Bik'' Bobbed Hair*
A DAUUNI HWITtHV STOAT ST
■ TWENTY FAMOUS AUTHOBS^^
Copyright 1924-25, P. F. Collier & Son Co. and G. P. Putnam’* Sons
“BOBBED HAIR” with Marie Prerost is a pieturlzation of this story by
- lVarner Bros. Pictures, Ine. i
SYNOPSIS
David Lacy, meeting Connemara
Moore on the beach at dawn had led
her on a five-mile jaunt to his farm
house, where Lacy’s housekeeper sup
plied t\e girl with dry clothing. Con-
I nie needed it, for she had swam to
i land from a yacht far out in Long
Island Sound. And now at Lacy’s
house there suddenly appears Sweetie
whom Connemara had encountered
several times the night before. Con
nie was to have announced her en
| gagement last night but, instead, dis
appeared from Aunt Celimena’s Con
necticut home.
CHAPTER XV—Continued
But Sweetie was alone. “Don’t be
alarmed, dearie,” she reassured the
1 startled girl at the desk, “I’m as
' much alone as a smallpox patient.
You can't imagine how good it feels
i to get into a nice clean home where
the most exciting event of the week
; is ice cream on Sunday.”
j Connemara did not fall into the
mood of Sweetie’s opening speech,
however. “How did you get here?”
1 she asked, abruptly.
| "Now don’t get Ritzy, dearie” —
| here Sweetie put a hand on Conne
\ mara’s shoulder. “I could tell you
that I flew here on the wings of
Opportunity or paddled over in
Mark Antony’s gondola. But I
| won’t. You’re one girl in a million.
J and I want you to be my friend if
will.”
“Well?”
I “Well, there’s no mystery about
my being here at all. When your
classy gentleman friend escaped
; from the gang I simply did a slide
away myself and followed him. I
surprised you, but you didn’t sur
prise me. I saw him bring you
here.”
i if I
P w 1 , p*
• jL/ J i>y
■ rtvi; '-V : ;.. :?.i -»..i 1--
Sweetie realized she was still
(■earing Lacy’s much-abused suit.
“Is that all you saw?”
“Well. I may have seen a few
other things too. girlie. But don’t
get me wrong. I'm with you since
I spilled the history of my life last
j night while I was transforming your
j nun’s costume into a Fifth Avenue
j model with a few deft touches of
imy lily-white hands. Yes, I broad
| casted a chapter of my early life
J and tipped off the cruel fact that an
I honest heart beats beneath these
I tattered rags.” She made a mock
gesture typifying the wronged
I working girl, but the next instant
she was quite serious. “You’ve got
J something that I never had—a
j chance.”
| Connemara sat listening to this
1 half-humorous, half-emotional out
burst with a feeling of slowly*
. dawning guilt. Here she was,
though at present slightly worn and
dowq-at-the-hcels from her unusual
| experiences of the last few hours,
still a girl of culture with every op
! portunity to get the best that life
' had to give. Just a bath and a visit
1 to her elaborate wardrobe and she
, would be a lady again.
I But what about the girl before
her? Where would Sweetie go?
What friends would help her along
the right path?
Before Connemara had a chance
to assemble her thoughts into the
proper words Sweetie resumed, “I’m
coming clean with you, kid. I’m
a bad girl and I admit it. While
| the going is good you get a cer
' tain kick out of doing something
wrong and getting away with it.
You never think of the future. You
grab yourself off a little excitement
1 and let it go at that. But when it
starts to go against you, then you
i begin ”to think of papa and mama.
I That’s what I’m doing now. The
1 gang is about cooked and I want to
get away. _ They’ll all be in jail be
, fore they know it, and I don’t want
to go with them.” Her eyes were
glazed with a film of tears.
Facilities of Indiana Bank Taken to
Fanners in Field.
Bising Sun., Ind.. Jan. 2. — UP) —
When ike farmers of southeastern In
-1 (liana find themselves unable to keep
bankers' hours, tile Hisihg Kpu State
Bank taken its facilities to the farm
ers.
| Iteplcsentatives of the institution
cover the sutroUndng territory in
I automobiles, accepting hank deposits,
■ transacting small loans and cashing
■ checks.
( Tint bank representatives also re-
Connemara got up from her chair
and impulsively slid her arm around
the» other girl’s shoulders. There
was a silence-*-the silence of femi
nine understanding—as they stood
together.
“I’m just a selfish, good-for
nothing hobbed —” here Connemara
checked herself. With a slight in
take of breath she went on. “I’ll
take you to Moorelands and'we can
pretend you’re my personal maid
until the excitement dies down.
Then you'll be free to go wherever
you like.”
Sweetie planted a resounding
smack on the cheek of Connemara
leaving a red spot to take the place
of the rouge that had been o\ er
looked in the latter’s routine that
morning. But Connemara had bee i
brought back to stern reality with .»
jolt. One look at the ex-shop-girl's
get-up and their plans scented to
totter. "Sweetie,” she exclaimet
“do you realize I can't employ a
personal maid who wears dilapidat
ed flannel trousers —and ones tha’
fit terribly at that?”
Glancing down with a giggle.
Sweetie realized she was still wear
ing Lacy’s much-abused sui£ which
made her resemble her late gentle
men associates. “Sure, I must get
Fid of this hand-me-down. Here
I am trying to stage a comeback in
clothes that make me look like Cap
tain Kidd’s twin brother.”
Connemara broke in. “There
must be another collection of clothes
upstairs in Mrs. Parker’s room.
That's where I got these. You
know, she’s the housekeeper and
she’s a terrible prude. We mustn't
let her know you're in the house. If
she finds out there arc two of us
here, she will think the Sultan of
Turkey moved in with his whole
harem.”
Together the two tiptoed upstairs
and proceeded to overhaul the poor,
unsuspecting housekeeper's treasure
of mid-Victorian wearing apparel.
But just as Connemara was forcing
the receptive Sweetie into one of
those mutton-sleeved shirtwaists that
give the wearer the appearance 9!
an army scout balloon, footsteps
were heard on the stairway', Conne
mara gathered up the litter of lace
and calico on the floor, took a dive
into fhc old-fashioned wardrobe
and pulled the half-clad Sweetie in
after her, closing the door just as
Miss Liddy herself breezed into the
room.
The two girls had just gone
through a night of terrifying ad
venture. yet not one of those de
moniac reprobates who had taken
part in the nightmare of horror had
scared them half as much as the
prim little housekeeper who had
come into their lives so recently.
But Liddy' S visit was strangely
uneventful. It was One of those
little incidents that happen in the
lives of middle-aged ladies of no
particular worldly affiliations. For
want of something better to do they
go to their rooms, make sure the
rooms are still there, and then walk
out. Perhaps each room contains
the imaginary child of an imagin
ary love. Who knows?
Anyway, Liddy left in a moment
or two. and the girls ctherged from
the dark closet to complete
Sweetie’s transformation. Liddy
continued on her way downstairs,
where she engaged herself for the
next hour or so in sweeping and
dusting, ar.u occasionally taking a
sly' look at her image in the mirror,
giving herself the secret treat of
a slight flirtation with the emotion
of vanity. /
Connemara and Sweetie dared not
come down for fear of being put
bodily out of the house. So they
could do nothing but remain in Lid
dy’s room and await developments.
They did not have long to wait.
Soon the hum of a motor could
be heard, and a car drove up con
taining Mr. David Lacy, Mr. Brew
ster.—the ever-present family lawyer
—and a forlorn bundle of once-ele
-1 gant heaving humanity that the
bluebloods of Stamford were wont
to hail as Aunt Celimena.
Lacy and his rescue party had
had no trouble in locating the little
inlet in which he had left the Filo
mena and her captors the night be
fore, but though the motor bqat was
still visible, her sharp white nose
now poked up into a mud bank left
by the receding tide; she had ap
peared, from the bank above, to be
entirely deserted.
Investigation however, disclosed
the figures of Aunt Celimena and
Mr. Brewster trussed up neatly and
securely, and laid side by side in the
cockpit, for all the world like two
rather shapeless packages waiting
for thf expressmai).
(To be continued)
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Teacher—Johnny always give ami
you'll. always receive.
Johnny—That >feny he all right, but
I don't take any ehunces.
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