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I :: TH O U GH T|
I X—FOR TODAY— I
t llj Bible Thonj?:.ts memorized. will prove e|il
I - SAFETY OF THE RIGHTEOUS:
ij,' 1 —The righteous shall inherit the land.
» '’ and dwell therein for ever. The law
f ... of his God is in his heart: none of his
K’ - steps shall slide.—Psalm 37 :29, 31.
AS A SOUTH CAROLINA JUDGE
SEES IT.
F k; In his charge to the grand jury at
' a recent session of court in Greenville.
U C, Judge John H. Johnson deplor
ed condititons existing in the United
States in general and in South Caro
lina in particular.
The carrying of concealed weapons,
disregard of the prohibition law. il-
K literacy and ignorance, the tendency of
the people to confuse liberty with li
" cense, failure of petty jurors to do
g; theier duty, slowness of the movement
of the wheels of justice, operation of
F. the course under ancient criminal law
D and failure of the people to carry their
Sj. t religion into everyday life were the
r' jj causes Judge Johnson gave for the
pi w volume of criminal cases which today
5? " .clutter the dockets of the courts all
| over the country.
K People will always carry concealed
EJ[‘ weapons until the federal government
Be, - makes it unlawful to send them
through the mail. Many States have
£ laws governing the sale of firearms
. but the laws are useless so long as
| 2 people living in the States with these
la’ws can get what they want from
jj, s ra ail order houses.
Disregard for the prohibition of law
Bfc'*' is a national problem. The law can
not be enforced until the public wants
» it enforced. It is not difficult to get
I people to testify against an alleged
B- ' thief, but it is seldom that a man will
>v * go into court and give the name of five
Bp man from whom he purchased liquor.
11*’ i* Illiteracy and ignorance go hand
in hand with crime as they have nl
ways done. Better schools are eco
nomically sound for this reason if no
frl - other.
y. “ w Persons who confuse liberty with
Sri, license do so deliberately. They are
pi**, seeking some excuse and they know
|s||gfall well when they talk about liber-
E&> ties being taken away from them they
,‘will get the ear of ignorant people
!> 1 who know no better.
* Petit jurors too many times are too
jj. * lenient, and in many rustatu.es they
;make the fatal mistake of convicting
a man and tlien signing his pardon,
is' They better had turned him loose in
|. the first place.
■fey Speedy trials will do much to deter
crime. So will the certainty of pun-
Mr#/' Isbinent. The average law violator
seeks every isissible means of post
age*- ]»oniug his trial. He knows the long
er er he waits flic better chance of fs
ayiv*. cape he has. When our courts begin
Kg.-ve to function m that punishment comes
E- in a majority of the cases we will
Bgi# have fewer cases. The punishment
Iff; need not be so severe; it should, be
certain.
$45 Many judges are opposed to the
BfisK.iWS! system of trying cases. Or at
g* ’least they think the matter should be
■Mb, by%. judge. - The li£tteg system speeds
■U up the work of the court. although I
W : -Maiiy persons think it is vesting too I
touch authority in the court.
2» Too much Sunday religion has al
‘ways been a curse to the world. We
py > • '
\ 1 should have clean dockets if we could
1 get the people to practice seven days
[in the week the tenents of the Golden
Rule. *
But can we change conditions?
That’s the vital question. We see
the faults.. To find a remedy should
, be a source of much thought by the
, American people.
NO AGREEMENT* REACHED.
The public regrets the fact that rep
resentatives of the miners and opera
tors could not reach an agreement
whereby the hard coal miners could
return to work. Conferences were
held in New York City for several
weeks but after each conference the
representatives announced their in
ability to reach a settlement.
Os course each side blames the
other and no doubt each is to blame.
Suffering is reported in the mining
centers but there conditions must not
be as bad as pictured in some stor
ies, for if there were real hunger and
need the miners would be more in
clined to accept the compromise offer
ed.
The operators are determined not to
raise the wages of the miners and
the miners are just as determined to
remain idle until they get the increase
demanded. That is the real bone of
contention although other differences
are reported. It is the same old ques
tion of wages. If tlje miners are giv
en what they want in money the oth
er matters will be easily adjusted.
Governor Pfnchot sought to find a
solution to the problem but his efforts
availed nothing. He offered compro
mises enough, with each side making
some concesions, but the wage differ
ences were in the way as they have
been at tile New York conferences.
A Real Chance For the Democrats
New York World.
There is talk in Washington that
Senator Simmons, ranking Democrat
ic member of tile finance committee,
plans to go the Republicans one bet
ter and propose that the forthcoming
cut in taxes by increased from $330.-
000,000 to $450,000.00. Senator Jones,
another Democrat, would like to go
the Republicans one better still. He
favors tax cut of $525,000,000. Why
not $750,000,000? Meantime, in the
Ways and Means committee of the
House, Representative Rainey, anoth
er Democrat, lias announced his oppo
sition to tile American debt settle
ment with Italy; Representative Old
field. still another Democrat, has de
nounced the Italian interest rates as
“ridiculously low:” and there are per
sistent reports that out of the Ital
ian settlement the Democratic party
in Congress will seek to make capital
for the next election.
The Democratic party, we belive,
could not do worse for itself than to
pursue the aeties outlined in these
Washington despatches. There are
two major fiscal issues before Con
gress : our own debt to our own citi
zens (with which is tied up the ques
tion of tax reduction) and the obliga
tions of our European debtors. On
both issues, if these despatches fore
cast Democratic policy, the Democrat
ic party is jumping to conclusions.
It seems to think that simply by
swinging the ax on taxes more reck
lessly than the Republicans it can
outmanoeuvre the Republicans for
popularity. It seems to think that
by demanding of Italy something near
er to "the last red cent” it can appeal'
as the protector of the American in
vestor. In both cases, we believe,
the policy thus indicated is short
sighted. That party which insists
upon prompt payment of the nation
al debt instead of squandering the
whole of a surplus on a tax cut will
eventually reap most prestige in the
tax issue. That party which insists
upon generous and farsighted terms
for our foreign debtors, recognizing
that a really prosperous Europe is of
more value to us than a theoretical
last red cent, will reap most prestige
in the matter of the debts.
The present attitude of these Demo
crats f)i Washington is especially
short-sighted because a real oppor
tunity for leadership is open to tk(
Democratic party on both issues. (I)
lii taxation, the Democratic party ran
agree with Mr. Mellon that a cut
should be held at $330,000,000 lor
the sake of applying the balance of
t lie surplus to debt reduct roll, anc! di
rect its efforts to a more democratic
division of the benefits of the cut,
with emphasis on reducing eonaamp
tion taxes rather than high surtaxes.
(2 1 In the matter of the debited the
Democratic party can argue that MY.
Mellon's logic applies to aH onr Eu
ropean debtors, nndaemaml a prompt
and generous settlement with France.
The opportunity for leadership is
there, ami it is a splendid oppor
tunity. Have the Democrats in Con
gress will enough and brains enough
to. take it? . V
Name Your s^an.
The Union Republican, of Winston-
Salem. last week had the following to
say qf a minister of that city, but why
didn't the paper name the preacher?
j “A, minister in one of the Local
churches Sunday night sjwdled a real
ly brilliant sermon by an iincaUsd for
slur on (he women, during the course
of his sernum. There was absolutely
no excuse for him to go out of the
way and sa.v Hint 'when you a man
anything it goes into one ear and out
4t the other, while if you tell a woman
anything it goes into both ears aud
out at her mouth.’ This had nothing
whatever to do with the sermon being
delivered and was a gratuitous fling
at the womeiy who numbered fully
two-thirds of his congregation, tb*t
was whoHy uncalled for. The women
are' getting tired of being shirred at
by public speukeßh both from the pul
pit and the platform and some of
these days one of the more forward,
hope she d*e«. Lord hasten the day
for we are with the Wouiea. God
bless them, in resenting these uncall
ed for thrusts against their sex made
■ in n place where they are not in posi
j tion to defend themselves."
To Compel Reinstatement in Ministry
1 Bishop Brown to Sue Episcopal Church
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■ New York Times.
1 The Rev._ William Montgomery
> Brown, former Episcopal Bishop of
Arkansas, who was from
his ministry in the \ Episcopal
Church by the House of Biafaopa at
New Orleans last October, plans to
stort suit to force the Episcopal
- Church to reinstate him, it was
. learned last night.
t Bishpp Brown came here a week
1 ago froth Cation, Ohio, and pnnee
s that time has been engaged in pre
j paring the action- He would not
’ say last night just ,what the basis
of his complaint would be, but t
was learned that suit would prob
ably he brought in the courts here ,
‘ within a month.
In the meantime Bishop Brown t
ABOUT GROWING COTTON
1
It Behooves Fanners to Look to Oth
er Sources of -Revenue.—About
Kudsu.
Monroe Enquirer.
* I see by the papers where the an
nual January discussion of cotton!
acreage reduction has begun. Such j
talk gets the South nowhere, for in j
the event reduction in acreage is made !
each individual farmer will determine j
in his heart to produce more per acre. \
And Texas, as always, will produce |
every bale she possibly can.
Another fifteen million-bale crop!
would depress the price of cotton be
low 15 cents a pound. Such eventual-;
ity is not beyond a possibility. I I
With such outlook it behooves Un-I
ion county farmers to look to other I
sources of revenue than cotton. With
cows producing milk, it is an easy
matter to feed chickens and pigs. But
cows must be fed. and how, to pro
duce milk for the market, and for the
chickens and pigs?
Kudzu is tlie answer. And any Un-1
ion county farmer who has plenty of j
good pasturage and quantities of tine
hay will be alfnost independent of I
cotton's fitful fluctuations. The En-1
quirer has gone to the trouble of find- j
out about this wonder plant, and with ■
whieh G. A. Marsh, of Charlotte, has
met with such amazingly flue results. |
Kudzu is a true legume, s milar to i
velvet beans, having all the soil-build-!
ing qualities possessed by any other!
legume. It is a native of Japan and
does not seek anywhere in the United
States. The only method of propagat- j
ing in this country is by setting out
the rooten plants. This should be done
as early as possible while tile plants ;
are in a dormant stage.
The plant propagates itself by send-;
ing out runners which throw out roots
at the joint, and take hold of the:
ground, each joint becoming a new |
plant. This makes cultivation neces-;
sary the first year to keep the ground j
clear of weeds and grass just ahead !
of the runners.
Kudzu is the most vigorous growing,
plant known, forming a thick mass 1
whieh grows from 3 to 5 feet high.
One great advantage about Kudzu
is that it does not have to be cut at
any certain time like other hay crops.
It can be cut whenever the growth
and time suits you. In-keeps on grow
ing until it is killed in the fall by
frost, and it comes up from the roots
in the spring with the first warm days. !
Furthermore it does not fall flat on
the ground when cut with a mower.'
but remains standing, due to its vin- j
ing habit of growth, thus permitting |
a circulation of air through the cut j
hay which cures it very rapidly.
Kudzu is said io grow well in all:
: parts of the Unjjed States, on any
kind of well-drained soil without being
fertilized, also grows on acid soil with
out lime. It does very well on land
that is too poor for any other hay
1 crop and'rapidly improves the soil by
; drawing nitrogen' from the a : r. It j
: will grow well on rough, hilly ground j
! that has been considered worthless and j
makes it a j>rofitahle portion of the
1 farm. The roots penetrate so deeply
as to make proof against dry weather.
Kudzu does not resemblq Johnson
grass or Bermuda, it can he destroyed
. by cutting off the crown with a disc
j plow in hot dry weather and exposing
, them to the sun or by heavy pasturing
i with lmgs that are not rung, they will
: root up the plants ami eat them.
■ Kudzu analyzes higher than any
: other hay grown, and stock like it
- better. Kudzu lias never hern trou
-1 bled with any disease or insects and
, when roots are planted, there are no
■ inoculation problems to contend with.
The planting time is from January
s until the 10th of May. But it should
: be planted as soon as the ground will
- do to work in. Plants should be set
: about five feet apart.
Kudzu wiK pasture from two to
s four dairy rows per acre from frost i
- to frost. The sooner you get started
• in Kudzn th* quicker you will solve;
i the food problem. Kudzu will not
bloat stock a<i clover does.
Two eujtti»gs can be made each year!
in the North and four in the South, i
. Instances been known when- j
, four cuttings of hay averagedl two ami
r one half tons each cutting.
To plant Kudzu prepare ground '•
1 same as for corn, and set plants 4 to j
- 5 feet apart eneh way. with the crown i
t end aj< Cover top lightly with dirt. I
) and cultivate enough to keep weeds |
; out.
■ A number of Union county farmers!
i h*ve loft orders with The Enquirer j
! for plants. Hid tbesi* will be ordered I
k and ready for delivery about Febru-
L ary Scat. No one will plant a large
; plat x but enough will be planted in or-
I der to secure plenty of roots for en-
I larging acreage another year.
’ Jlr. Marsh thinks so much of Kud
- xu. that he will set about twenty acres
> that spring. He already has ten or
t twelve acres growing.
E Rogers Hornsby, the sensational
I, batsman of the IH. Lonis Nationals.
| .grailct'iavmge of .363 f»e
»• flrxtwn .venial in. ’ the ■ Nationul
J league.
At 62 years of age. Mis. Ca’efi
t Fbi, the Philndntpbin golfer, defeat-1
- ed Miss Glenim Collett, the national
champion, twice in one aeason.
me coNcottb daily tribunb
will be busy on matters pertaining to
the Old Catholic Church of whieh he
was made Bishop while still in the
Episcopal Church.
Next week he will speak ot the
Star Casino on the same platform
with Benjamin Gitlow. under the
auspices of an organization called
the International Labor Defense.
His subject will be "The Worker
and the Public/’ *
Last October, at New Orleans.
Bishop Brown asked the United '
States District Court for un injunc
tion restraining the House es
Bishops from carrying out the sen
tence of expulsion and deinisition im
posed upon him by the Episcopal
court in Cleveland in January. Judge
Burns denied the injunction and the
was imposed as ordered.
“We Are Forever For Radio 1W
Farm Families!”
The Progressive Farmer,
i A very fide “human interest” story
illustrating the value of a radio on
the farm is found in this extract
from an official report by County
; Agent G. E. Thomas of Love County,
j Oklahoma :
j ‘’Friday we vkdted club boys in
‘the neighborhood of Burneyville and
I Jim Town. We took dinner with J.
iM. of Burneyvil'e. During
'the noon hour one of the little girls,
who had been picking cotton during
j the morning, tuned the radio receiver
lin on the Dallas broadcasting «ta
| tiofi and got an explanation or the
J next Sunday school lesson. Then we
I listened to a very excellent talk on
the heef cattle industry and then re
ceived the day’s market report. This
1 was the first time we ever realized
jwst what the radio meata* to the
j farmer and his family. The entire
; family was interested in what was
j going on and what k means to them
to be in touch with the world around
| them. We were informed by the
, children of the family that they
; could get Denver and other cities
; with all ease. We are forever for the
radio for farm families.”
j Mr. is right. The radio, is
fa marvel and a boon to folk.s, but it
is, almost, a godsend to our farm
| folks. Formerly, for example, only a
j relatively few people could hear the
! world’s best music—'the great sin
! gers. violinists, organist*,
land the best band* and orchestras of
the nation. In those days, to get the
| privilege of hearing such music, one
’ had to take several days time and a
pile of money for a railroad trip to
Xew York or Chicago, array himself
in a dress suit and a collar more un
‘comfortable than a mule ought to
! wear and buy high-priced seats in
| fashionable theater*. Now, on the
other hand; the farmer, after a hs£d
j day’s work, can take off his shoes.
; light his pij>e and summon a dozen
■ great musicians or a dozen bands
! and orchestras performing in a dozen
| different cities to entertain him—
I and if oj>c set of entertainers doesn’t
j suit Mr. Farmer's fancy, he simply
turn tkbm down and calls another.
Aiaddiiii with his wonderful lamp
was no more truly maser of his ser
vants, nor had a power more magical
or mysterious.
Great indeed is radio \ Not only
doe* it summon all the daughtens of
music for our entertainment, but, it
I also brings instant news of ,*a. tlu> [
j world's market- places, the views of
j great thinkers and orators, the wit
j and humor of famous comedians, :
and eveu (he bedtime, fireside story
to add happiuews to the littleet ones
! before they again find fellowship
j with angels in slumberland. And
since radio, fortunately, may be had
informs suited to almost anybody’s
pocketbook, The Progressive Farmer
is glad to echo the sentiment of G.
E. Thomas :
"We are forever for the radio for
, farm families.”
“Your hair wants cutting badly,
! sir." s-anl a barber, insinuatingly, to a
customer.
"No, it dopant',” replied the man
in the chair: "it wants cutting nice
ly. You cut it badly last dime.”
He’s so dumb he thinks a safe!
cracker :s a social tea biscuit.
CHARLES PICKLE.
ISL ... —mi 1.1
JHi
Knoxville. Tenn.—“My graudsou j
! (picture above) who vis now abotn 8
years old, has always been rathe:- del
icate, due to the fact that lie bos al
ways suffered from const ip .tion and
liver trouble, hut Dr. Pierce's. I'l-as
:uit Pellets have relieved him of !
tio.se conditions and he is no longing
a delicate bo..’, Lut is filling cut and
getting stronger d-l' ty day. He \v„s '
always unnder weight but now conic*
tip to all the sequin-nJyits at school, ,
I do not think there Is ulv medicine i
Ishi' is so hartnlt <s. :uul yet so I ,-mi- ji
fieial. so give cirlJun (auu grdv i, u:is
ii- well).-, ;Tslo .'Vllets'
11» iSMfi'aftdi Iww-i* j
itiel keep, tbp I'm * bwfHf
t.iti."—-Km. E. M. Madron of r.il
At any drug st ire. Put un ii: tmy
glass vuila. E-) -y ia carry
Send Me for trial pkg. to lira j
l'ierc<# Iwaßda' Hotel, Buffalo, .V V.*
' P F ftNK * Oft ftftt a p hMM ftw
! “BOBBED BAIK” with Marie Provost Is a ptrtariMtloß of thU story by
Warner Bros. Pictures, lac.
STROPS IS
From David Lacy’s farm home on
Long Island, Aunt Celimena, Conne
mara Moore and Bing Carrington set
ant in Lacy’s car to return to auntie’s
Connecticut home. On the voay to the
shore they overtake Saltonstall Adams,
still voearing the fancy costume he ful
on for last night's hall. Connemara
ocas to have announced her engage
ment to either Bing or Salt but has
become greatly interested in David.
Aunt Celimena has a premonition that
more adventures are ahead for the
entire forty.
&CCh 3s/ nnj
By George Agnew Chamberlain
CHAPTER XVIII
It can be -imagined that Moore
lands, under its long virginal re
gency, had not been much given to
Indiscriminate hospitality. In spite
of the outcrop of sporting blood in
Aunt Celimena, she was still a vic
tim of that high voltage New Eng
land reticence which senses a sort
of violation in having unattached
gentlemen sleeping on the place. As
for the presence of Sweetie, that
was simply more and worse of the
same thing. Never would Aunt
Celimena forget or forgive the
shock of finding one of her own sex
Svearing male attire, not in the sim
pering spirit of a fancy dress ball,
but as if she gloried in its oppor
tunities for unmaidenly display.
Could the unwilling hostess have
had her way, she would have lock
ed Sweetie in the cellar.
Nevertheless, in spite of all the
rarietics of tension which troubled
its inmates, the house finally settled
lown to an exaggerated calm. A
palpitating stillness which was
harder on the nerves than any
imount of noise teased Connemara
with the illusion of peace. Her
The next instant she was again
sitting rigidly erect, staring into the
shadows of the room.
wmmon sense told her there wins
no reason whatever why sleep
should not come swiftly to her ex
hausted body, and yet, for what
seemed hours on end, sleep played
tround like a tormenting demon, al
ways just out of yeach of her snap
ping eyelids. She tried to calm her
self by thinking how good it was to
be safely back in her own rooqj,
and instantly her mind was more
awake than ever. In all seriousness,
she asked herseff this double-bar-,
reled question: Was she back in
her own room, or had she never
been away?
Her thoughts began to race and
presently became a jumble, a kalei
doscope with a thousand points of
light blazing against the immova
ble seer background of Aunt Celi
mena. Never had that background
changed. Pattering against it like
the toy torpedoes of childhood on
a wall, rained and burst alt the
events of her life. Ping! her first
and only spanking. Pong! Auteuil,
and David Lacy’s handsome face,
glowing for an instant in the blaze.
, Boom! and the strange marriage
contract. Bang! and she an imma
culate nun, stepping into a high
} powered motor car of foreign make
' at the mercy of a strangely fascinat
ing young man.
' And yet there was one sweet in
terlude which lived in memory as
■a indubitable fact. Never would
■be forget the blessed relief of
plunging into the black waters of
the Sound, of squirming out of her
new-made slip, and finding herself
swimming freely in her 6ilk undies,
unafraid and unashamed. Before
her had shone a pilot light, a bead
of, hair as red as her own.
At the thought of hair, she sat
Boys Pay the Penalty.
'.Eleven-year-old William Duveacy cf
.Philadelphia, persisted „in running
away. His father took him before
Judge Mae Neille in juvenile eourt.
The magistrate ordered;the, boy to read
»*« * “PilAhoV VlhttreKM” un
to lie could teU Tfie stir)- tof bja'fath->
ml' • •;'••• i
"Three years in a reform,school or
an old fashioned whipping," Judgo
Williams at Cliirkusha, Okla., said tp
tfo boys convicted of using the mails
to defraud. They took the flogging. It
erect and put up her hands to hei 1
• head. The face of the New York
t- barber leered before her, reminding
rs her (hat whether she was awake ot
’s dreaming she still had a secret to
lr keep. She tried to remember if she
», had locked her door. She arose,
it went to it, found that she had turn
a ed the key, and started to return to
•- bed; but so dilated were the pupils
u of her wakeful eyes that she was ar
i. rested by the sight of the familiar
it objects in the room, coming toward
e her as if out of a mist. Impulsively
she walked to the triple mirror and
stood" before it. How slim and vir
ginal appeared the straight shaft oJ
2 her body, shining through the filmy
drapery of her sheerest chiffon
n nighty 1 It seemed so young, so un
sullied, surely only in the tortured
twistings of a disordered mind had
:- it been exposed to the post-Vol
- steadian night life of Long Island
o Sound! '^
e Gradually she perceived her un
n covered head. What if she should,
. in the morning, open the door to
. her aunt or a tattling maid without
t remembering to guard her secret?
1 There was a long linen runner on
s the bureau. She snatched it, bound
t around her head, and tied a great
e butterfly bow above her brows. The
t confection, whjch looked like one
e °f those wet-me-not bathing caps
c you see at Deauville, was almost as
- fetching as had been the turban be
, fore its ruin.
Her mind at rest, she slipped
. back into bed; drew the sheet up to
: her chin, and snuggled her face into
. the pillow. Now, cradled in the
memories of her girlhood, soothed
: by contact with the homely objects
1 she had known all her life—the pon
| derous mahogany furniture, the an
. cicnt hocked rug. her little four
s posted bed with its fluted pillars, the
r patched quilt folded over its foot—
l she coul-J believe she had never been
• through the torment of tfie forego
ing night. In fact, its events seem
ed more than ever improbable. She
closed her eyes sleepily, her lips
curved in an adorable childlike
smile, and she drew a contented
sigh. The next instant she was
again sitting rigidly erect, staripg
into the shadows of the room.
A sound only half heard can be
more terrifying than a near-by ex
plosion, and it was such a sound,
faint and ominous as the ticking of
a death watch in the wall, that had
galvanized Connemara into a sit
ting posture. She held her breath
and listened until her back ached,
then she let her head down to the
pillow, and listened some more. YesC"
-he heard it agaiiv—a stealthy foot
step in the hall or somewhere in
the house below. .. Someone was
striving so intently to walk noise
lessly that the faint whisper of a
footfall became surcharged with its
own threat of disaster until it ac
tually scemetHo reverberate in Con-i
nie’s cars.
, Hcr impulse was to scream, but
, she suppressed it. In the first place,
as the events of the last twenty
four hours had proved, she was not
i the kind to scream 'before she was
, hurt. In the second place, the
. thought name to ’her that perhaps
t only unnecessary scandal would
l arise from rousing the whole bouse.
. She was by nature innocent, and yet
. no fool. Her personally conducted
. tour of the Sound had brought in
, its train a certain amount ,of awak
. ening of one sort and another. She
: had seea modern man fight with'
, gats, butts, and iron bars; she had
. envisaged bis primeval prototypes,
i grappling as savagely as wild beasts
• and- battling with teeth, gouging
knuckles, and stamping heel. But
1 the one thing which had implant
. ed a first mental hazard of fear
E wjtbin her was the look she had
- trapped in Mr. Pooch’s glittering
. slift of eyes as they gorged then*
l selves on her bared loveliness even
- while his groping hands were reach
i ing for her throat.
: Her first thought was to put
t more than a filmy chiffon nighty
, between herself and the world be
, fore she ventured out to meet it.
. Characteristically enough, she took
■ it for granted that she would creep
• out, come what may, rather than lie
i shivering on a warm night with her
• head under the covers.
She arose, went to a closet, and
rummaged in its depth until her
■ fingers encountered a mackintosh.
; She put it on over her night dre6s,'
I buttoned it, stole softly to the door,
E unlocked it, and crept out along
E the wall. Instantly she felt some
- thing like a blown breath fly past
E her face. She just had time to flat-i
, ten her back and her outflung hands!
: against the wall when a tremendous,
1 Bangt resounded through the housei
, !
t (To be continued)
wus administered by their parents In
tin- presence of the judge.
. Clarence Wallace, 11, of Bloomfield,
' N. 4., sent in two false fire alarms. He
■ wanted to "get close to the engines.”
1 ‘ said. Judge R#.wson, "I’ll give
' S' oll • chance. The next two Saturday
" ““'ruirjg* you will polish up the brass
on them."
> -The fir* Wizard in !> 4-5 sec-
J oods was run by John Owen, who
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