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The Vanishing Men By RICHARD WASHBURN CHILD (Copyright by E P Dutton it C®.) IW. N. U. **rv!c<>) rSnilll|M'''!l|!lt1l!Illtllllili!'iniM1tlll!!i;tlllllllltmiI!lllll'm:'l!!llll!ll„l|i|l,:M,ll:mm,i,ii,.mi.... SYNOPSIS Out of uniform, nt the rn«l of the World war. with the rank of major. I i «• r I if Wolfe, young American of wealth and family. !•« urged 11 v an Kngllsh comrade In arms, Kverhy Ih-nham, to visit the Hinhiim home and meet the Knglishmnn's mother and sister, and. Incidentally. Ilrcna Scdcoss, young woman about whom there lean air of mystery Muriel Uen ham, Kvershy s sister, becomes Infatuated with I'eter, hut ho is Interested only In the mysterious lirena Metros*. of whom he has had only a glimpse. Muriel urges him to forget her, warning him that If she (Kreiia > should like him he Is In danger of vanish ing like the others" I’eter gets a phone message from l’runa to meet her. CHAPTER III—Continued —3— He found her sitting at a table be Bide a window overlooking Bond street, where the fog was like a gray stew and passersby hurrying home were like solids stirred up to the surface from the bottom of some kettle. She greeted him with a quiet smile and pointed to the empty chair. Peter, conscious of his shrewdness, said exactly what she had said—noth ing. He sat down across from her, and for the benefit of the watlress whom he could see out of the corner of his eye as a black dress and white apron, he pointed to Hrehn’s steaming choc late and nodded, lie did not take his gaze from his companion’s large dark eyes which had In them the same look he had seen once before and which had made him think of eyes which knew no death but had been looking out upon the world for centuries and centuries. A friend of his had once ad\anced the Idea, at a dinner party In New York, that men and women's souls were new or old. that some of those present had been aged through countless residence In human form back through eras of history, that others had been created only a few hundred years ago and that still others were new souls Just out of the wrapping. Peter recognized as he looked Into this young woman’s eyes that If he, In worldly terms, were a half a dozen years older than she, In fact, she had outlived him In rounds and rounds of ages. Her eyes were so compelling that It was difficult to give attention to the fact that her countenance had In It a baffling riddle. Her face was long with a straight and perfect nose below u forehead which might he considered by n classicist lacking a good fraction of an Inch In height. She had a full rounded chin below lips so flexible nud of so warm und rich a moist color that their thinness was scarcely noticeuble. Hut there was combined In her fea tures, which tuken together were by no means perfect, a still beauty which represented the Greek In her, with some undercurrent of shimmering chameleon elusiveness. "You are shocked at my behavior," 1 she said at last, arranging the white ruffling at her throat as If she pre ferred to treat Peter’s state of mind casually. "Perhaps you are pleased?" I "The two go together," he said quickly. "You did not nsk me who I was. Yet. you had never heard my voice before." j "That struck you forcibly after you , left the telephone," Peter told her with } authority. "It was not surprising. 1 had never heard your voice. Hut 1 had seen you. It was only necessury to look at each other—’’ "Yes. that was memorable,” she said ! solemnly, and looked far away. "Hut unfortunately the tempo of this meet- ! Ing does not warraunt that little laugh of yours," she went on In reproval. "1 came to London to see you, hut 1 , came because of Muriel Ilenham.” Peter looked up In dlsmny. He said, "You don’t mean that she told you—?" "No one told me,” said Hrcna Sel coss. "You were there. I heard sernps of conversation. Once I heard my own name. It was no fault of mine. Nor Is It a fault of mine that with Mrs. Benham’s word or two about Muriel’s desire to go away, after your sudden departure for London, that 1 can see what has happened. I have come down from the country to beg you to go Peter 6hook his head from side to “In some way—some mysterious way —Just such a thing as this Involves me always. 1 have been, unwittingly, the cause of—” “Oh, no, you haven’t,” said he, with vigor. Apparently she did not hear; she leaned forward und said, with great earnestness. "It touched me deeply— not hecuuse Muriel wus once a great friend to me—but because I cannot He Interrupted her ngnln by saying, “The whole thing Is nonsense. Miss Sel eoss. I am sorry that the only way I can put an end to It Is to he ungallant. The plain truth Is that I do not have the slightest emotion of any kind about Miss Bonham. No doubt she is a very admlruhle English girl—she is healthy, lovely and correct. No doubt there was an unfortunate misunderstanding, but It was not because of any Inclination of mine, anil nothing need ho said about It. I left Beconshlre Heath be cause of It." Hrcna sat back In her chair with a sigh which appeared to Peter to state, sincerely, relief from a great anxiety. She folded her expressive hands, Inter locking her fingers, free of all rings, and allowed her eyelids to almost close. “I would have liked to stay longer," he said. “Why?" “To see you." "You did not know me." "I hud seen you.” "Hut I would not care much for that kind of Judgment," she said. "It Is a man’s great delusion to base Inclina tions on a glance." “Women do It, too,” said Peter. "I admit—we both admit—that It Is a mistake, don't we?” "Yes—perhaps. I am not sure.” "Then you too hoped that I would j stay?" She neglected his question complete-1 ly, but she did not rebuke him for that smile of pleasure that had arisen with the idea that she. too, had a belief that upon a rare occasion the excep tional first exchange of the eyes is a true and a wise guide to the Impor* liiiimiiiiiiiiiiiuHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii tnnce of the future. Peter felt a glow ing sense of understanding nnd of coin panlonshlp Suddenly. with n cjul<*k tensity that startled Peter, she looked swiftly about from face to face of the persons, men and women, who sat at the other ta bles. He saw In her eyes at that mo ment tlie look which Henham had de scribed so vividly -that expression of fear of some unknown peril. °u have been In the country a ,onK time." he said as promptly as be could. “You do not like London, evi dent ly.” She smiled rather sadly. “1 love London. Hut I choose to stay nt my little retreat among the old beech trees. I have not come to London since last summer." "And you huve no Inclination to play In I.ondop to forget Heconshlre for a day?" he asked. “Of course, now you are here.” "I do not know anyone In London now," she said. "I have an apartment here—one which I hud when 1 first came to England.” "Came to England?" He Inquired when, without using the words. “Yes. three years ago. I think It must have been three centuries.” She sat for a long time thinking, nnd the coming and going of the waitress with check and change did not Interrupt her thought. Peter be lieved that she was debating some thing; therefore he said, “Life—even little life—the pleasures—the decent pleasures—well, they ought to be "You have a sentient mind," she said, awakened. “Then do It, whatever It Is,” he said. "There are two kinds of persons In the world—the minus persons and the plus persons, negative folks and positive folks. You notice I say folks; I am from America." "So am I," she said. “Well, do It I" said Peter, referring to the undisclosed problem. "Perhaps I have shut myself up too much," she said reflectively. "I did not know how much I loved to see hu man beings—Just see them sitting here and there, walking In the street, Jos tling each other, so various, so like—” “Unsolved riddles." She looked Into Ids face long and as If conducting a search. “1 want to stay lu London for a few days," she said at last, shaking her gloves as If to express the thrill It would give her. “Why not?” asked Peter. “Even If staying In London Is the hazardous business which you seem to think It la, no one will know." He waited. "Except me,” he said. Iler eyelids narrowed almost Imper ceptibly as she answered. “Hut doubt less dozens of persons claim your time here. It Is, to use your expression, known that you are In London.” "No, no, no," protested DeWolfe, Impulsively. "Not a soul." She drew on her gloves. "I think I will stay In London," she said, nnd Peter thought he heard her murmur under her breath, "God for give me.” CHAPTER IV He was reckoned a shrewd player of life. Men who knew Peter DeWolfe best say that If he left his traveling bag on the sidewalk on Fifth avenue while he did some shopping within some store, It was only because he had estimated carefully the psychology of any thief and concluded that one could depend upon human nature to believe that luggage sitting alone on the pave ment was placed there us a trap. Peter always found his bug where ho hud left It. This is said because, unless some complex reasoning and calculation of the same kind can be applied to his conduct, It Is necessary to say he went blind Into love of woman. “A few—a very few—men—and fewer women." Peter said once In n letter, “know Just how near the top of the world can be reached by the ad venture of free days together where there nre no hours, and time springs n magic jumps from noon to next duy ight perhaps, and the world Is a pluy tjround and a city Is your toy and man itnd is the ultimate friend of both of foil, rnfortunately," he added, ‘‘the nen who have the quality of greatness 0 see that such u companionship over 1 span of hours is a greater accom plishment than a life In a law office >r the presidency of some blooming lank, are few. Those who ever And the girl are fewer. And those who can prove some essential quality of a gen tleman and a whole man needed to valk that delicious tightrope up above he moon, without taking n vulgar step nto space with a nasty crash on land ng. are fewest of all." He may have been demonstrating bese words. But apparently he had abandoned his Inquiry Into the mystery >f past and future. He had abandoned msplolon of her or curiosity about her Ife. though over and again lie found »or glancing around with the unex plained fear In her dark eyes, as If she 'xpected to meet the eyes <»f recogni tion or And some fiend walking softly tlong behind Outwardly he had given >ver nil but one Inquiry, and that was he exploration of the heart and mind ind soul of Brenu Selcoss. Just when he had shelved his first purpose, awakened by Ilenhnm’s chal enge, and when he wiped from his nlnd the memory of his one moment >f dread of this girl, which, of course, night be^ traceable to Muriel's ex raordlnary and tragic warning, per haps Peter himself could not have told. It might have been at the moment 'hen, after their first evening of itrolllng aimlessly through the mys ery of the symbolic fog with their selves reaching toward one another, hey had perched like two ravens on he pediment of Trafalgar monument, supper I ess, content and watching the plurred lights of one motor omnibus ifter another move like luminous fish n cloudy water. “What time Is It?** Peter had asked istenlng In vain for the great bell of $t. Paul's. llrenn Selroas, sitting on her own !«at. drew hack ihe loose sleeve of ter white silk waist from her rounded •ream-colored wrist and. after a glance it her watch, had said, "It Is after two. I am hungry nnd I am cold." Peter had suld quickly, “Perhaua It lllllllllll!lllllllllllllllllllll!!llllllillll!llllll!l||||||||!IIIIIIIH Ml my faulv,. Hut you wouldn’t go to • be th on ter or the cnfes. How could I deni with any one who stubbornly In sists upon exploring alleys and arcades and the banking district and Hyde park until an old campaigner’s legs ure almost worn out?” “You couldn't.” ”1 shall tlnd a place now and I shall like to see you eat,” he hud said, Jumping up. “There are some persons, after all, who give us delight when they eat. I>ld you ever see an old rrem h peasant woman who was really fond of animals feeding them? Why, her brown wrinkled face has a smile like a lighthouse! And 1 can Imagine wearing that smile when one's own children are over their bowls of gruel. Yes, I shall like to see you eat. I am sure. I would like It still better If I had planted and harvested or caught everything which was put before you. Hut that cannot very well be, because I'm not a farmer or a trapper or Izaak Walton—only a New York Idler. Ile sldes, Trafalgar square has no soil for turnips, no brook trout, no pheasants.” She hod looked up with n wistful smile. “Who la pleased when you eat?” “Nobody,” he said. “You see I am an orphan. There Is an old waiter at the club. I forgot him. He rubs his hands when I am hungry, but for all I know It Is because the palms .tell. He waited on my father—the banker— and he looks like a shnven Mephls topheles. That’s all I can remember.’’ “You may come with me, then, to my chambers,” she had said. "We can stop on the way—goodness knows wdiere—but somewhere and get eggs and butter and cheese and milk. We’ll go there.” “Can you cook?" he had exclaimed. “Ob, no. Not at all. Does that make any difference?” “Why should It?” Peter had Inquired with sincerity. He had come to the She Greeted Him With a Quiet Smile and Pointed to the Empty Chair. point of departure from Ida first Ideas of his destined relationship with Bre na Selcoss. In the days which had flowed on, Peter's coming and going at the new hotel to which he had moved so that no one might attach themselves to him, attracted the attention of the doorman with the worn livery, brass buttons and chronic apoplexy. "A wery pe culiar young ’un," ho had said to the porter. "A wery odd 'alrpin! ’E’s In an’ hout at hall hours. I think ’e’s . gaming.” Perhaps he was. That might have been how he began. But the delight of a concentrated notliing-to-do settled over the two and Peter’s steamer at last left the dock at Liverpool with American soldiers blaspheming be tween decks like a swarm of hornets returning to their hive and a purser scratching his head over the name of one DeWolfe, who was printed on the ; passenger list but did not claim his telegram. Peter had lost himself and, like a runaway child, he was glad of It. There was only this difference— for Peter no one but his lawyers would make a search. If one desires to know how far the breaking down of conventions had gone. It is only necessary to point out that upon one occasion where a laugh ing Sunday crowd had gathered about a hectic man preaching revolution from a stepladder In Hyde park, Peter had sat down with the girl to listen. The sunlight was comfortable, the voice of the orator rose and broke with the regularity of waves upon a long warm beach, and Peter, dropping back with his head on the grass, watched a silvery airplane up from Hendon wheel about like a gray beetle who couldn't decide where to light, until he fell asleep. When he awoke he was generating apologies. He Intended to say that HrenA and he, like fairy folk, had ac quired the magic exemption from sleep hut that, of course, occasion ally— None of his embarrassment was ne gotiable; she, too, was asleep; her hair, with Its red-brown variations of autumn leaves, was alive with the sheen of the sunlight, her arm was under iter forehead. The orator had spun his web to the end and all the crowd hud buzzed away like escaping flies; but a little stray dog, with a face badly needing soap and water, j bad gone to sleep at her feet with Its face on Its paws, whining over a dream ! of a piece of meat with legs which could run faster than he. To them life had become abundant with those unnoticed values, neglected by the commiserable blind beings who run along the ruts of unimaginative existence with their hands put Into the coarse fist of some conventional, vulgar purpose. Together they went ! to the docks at night nnd listened to Chinese coolies In the galley of a tramp steamer from Hongkong, where up from the yellow smoking Interior, as from a yellow smoking volcanic crater, arose the strange crooning, bubbling, walling songs of the Far East. They went to Hampstead and laughed at the smug lltUe houses with their unshed, respectable faces. They strolled through the National gallery where they found a room of portraits of men of the time of Iitt, all of whom, ns If by a manner of the time, had their hands thrust palm down Into their buttoned coats; they called It the Stomuch ache gallery. They sat on strange doorsteps while i'eter wrote verses to the unknown Inmates behind the harrier. They Invited a match woman to dine with them and were well repaid by hearing from her lips a discourse upon the conceit of each age which always Hatters Itself into belief that It Is the world’s crisis. They said good-night at all hours, they ate when hungry, and were us skillfully silent when the mood came us they were spontaneously chattering when their minds darned together. I’eter might have guessed, but he could not have known to whut crisis this would lead. "We have not forgotten how to play,” he said to her. A look of puln had come into her face, und into her eyes the old look of "1 don’t like it when you look like that," he hud suid. "How r "Afraid." ‘Tin afraid of nothing, Peter—noth ing which makes ordinary fear in ordinary hearts, I’eter. You will see some time that I am not afraid." She had laughed at Ids perplexed expression, hut without Joy. "Don’t you bother about me," she told him. "You've promised that you wouldn’t, you know." lie nodded. "I’ve kept my word." "Perhaps—" "Whntr "Perhaps I’d better go back tomor row—back to Beconshlre." It wns the first word suggesting the end of their holiday. Both knew’ that this word must finally be spoken, but Peter bad not expected to see quite the quick pallor which came Into Brena's face as she forced out the sen “We agreed, Peter, didn’t we? And the time lias come, I think." DeWolfe felt as one who had been touched suddenly and unexpectedly upon the elbow by the dank, bony lin gers of a corpse. "There Is one evil passion which . think does more harm than all the others,” he said, clasping his strong hands over one knee. "It’s fear. It ought to be made a crime." "YTou know nothing of fear,” she re plied quietly. "Y'ou have not lived with fear day In and duy out—year after year." "No, I have not lived with fenr at all," ho went on, looking straight Into her eyes. "I have not lived with It because It Is a parasite. I have been wounded, but I learned that five eighths of the pain was fear. I have been apprehensive of gome terrible calamity and the fear was the major part of the calamity. There are men In the world In myriads who fear that they may lose their money. Fear is worse than poverty, Brena. For God’s sake, let’s not fear 1" "I did not say that I had fear," she said. "I only said I had lived with fear." "The world Is a fool about fear," Peter drove on. "It makes cowards, but it Is also the mother—" "Of what?" "Of murderers," he said. Brena was silent. To Peter, as the day came to an end. It became more and more plain that she had Indeed decided to go from London. She spoke of It as If It were a flight from some kind of danger. Once she said, “You are much too nice to take any risks. Peter." He bad asked her about these risks, but she said, "Among other risks, that of wasting your energies on something which leads nowhere." When they had dined at u little cafe In Jermyn street, she said, "Come home with me. No one sees us go In and out. It is like a nest hidden In an old stump. We can talk and then—" "What?" "Good-by. Good-night. Good-by." . All the way up Regent street she kept her arm through his as If she feared tliut suddenly the mortal part of him would melt away, as If this contact might be made so real that It would live on In memory, und some times the Illusion of this strong fore arm, warm through its sleeve, might return to her. The apartment, which she had re tained without occupancy for some un explained cause, was on a street of colorless brick houses where three street lamps, spaced with irritating precision, spread their radiance on the front walls In a fan-shaped Insolence. It wns In a house at the far end of this street—modest quarters for one who appeared to have plenty of money at her command; tw’o flights of carpet ed stairs led up to a little landing and her door. She lit the lamp In the comer while Peter took the key from the hole, and the expanding light showed again the gray and gold room with its chintz curtains and its old English mahogany and the carved desk with Its burly maple panels and the hangings woven In Java at the windows. But Peter closed the door gently with his foot because he saw none of the room where the light was dim. Once more, as when he had seen her first, she stood beneath a light which poured down upon her Its flood, emphasizing her ns If she, of all the universe, had the quality of radiance and life. She had thrown aside her cloak; she stood with an aura of eternal youth about her, a girl who had come out of the ages and would live on without end, the center of all things. She gazed back at Peter from her dork eyes, wondering, waiting for him to move. He walked toward her slowly, but without hesitation. In his fnce there was a square look—the look of a fixed will that has come Into Its own at last. “Brena. I’in going to break my prom ise." (TO BE CONTINUED > Animal Life on Evereat Animal life, It appears, Is to be found on high mountains far beyond plant growth. The highest growing plant that the Mount Everest expe dition of 1924 observed was the blue vetch, at 18,000 feet, but anlmuls live at as great a height as 22,000 feet. “A minute and Inconspicuous black spider." says a member of the expedi tion. ‘‘hops about on rocky cliffs and hides beneath Rtoues In those bare places that happen to be swept clear of snow by the wind. I cannot think on what It lives at such a height. In these altitudes there Is no other liv ing thing—nothing but rock and Ice.” This little spider Is worthy of note as being the highest permanent ln liubltunt of the earth. When doctors can make every man live to be eighty, that will be work enough to keep them all bu«y. IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL SundaySehool ' LessonT (By BKV l> B KITZWATKR. D.D.. Penn of th« Kvonlnn School. Moody UlbU In •tIt ut» of Chicago ) ((c). 1925. W«Hlern N>wnp«i>«r Union.) Lesson for April 19 LIFE IN THE EARLY CHURCH LESSON TEXT—Acts 4 31-5:11 GOLDEN TEXT—"The multitude of them that believed were <<t one heart and of one soul ' Acte 4.32 PRIMARY TOPIC A Story About Giving Jt'MOR TOPIC—How the First ! Chrlntlnna Loved One Another IN TER M EDIA T1. AND SENIOR TOP IC- How the Early Christians Lived Together. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOP IC—Ix?sson From the Early Church. I Characteristics of the Primitive Church (vv. 31-35). 1. It Was a Praying Church (v. 31). These oarly Christians fur every want ami every need betook them selves to God In prayer. They had faith that caused them to go to the Lord believing that their needs would he supplied. 2. It Was a .Spirit filled Church (v. ai). When they prayed, the place was shaken wherein they were gathered together, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit. 3. It Was a Church Which Had Great IInkiness In Preaching the Word of God (v. 31). The ministers of a Spirit-filled church will not offer any apology for the Bible, but will expend all their energy In fearlessly preaching It. 4. It Was a United Church (v. 32). They were all of one heart and one soul. This shows that they had u unity of feeling and purpose. , 5. It Was a Charitable and Gener ous Church (v. 32). They held nothing back from those who had need. As needs arose, sup plies were given from a common fund. 0. Its Ministers Ilnd a Powerful Testimony (v. 33). This shows that there must bo a personal experience before there can be a powerful testimony. 7. It Was a Church Whose Mem bership Exhibited Unblemished Char acter (v. 83). Great grace was upon them all. II. Barnabas’ Generous Act (vv. 30-37). He sold a piece of land and turned over all the proceeds thereof to bo used for the help of those In need. It should be borne In mind, however, that It Is not said that Burnubas sold all the land he had. III. The Sanctity of the Church Vin dicated (5:1-11). i This new community Is now for the first time called the church. The men tion of the church In Acts 2:47 is spu rious. They now have broken with Judaism so that their success depends upon their being recognized. Since this new community superseded the old, God was to make Ills dwelling place among them—the very sacred ness of the tabernacle and temple was transferred to them This lesson, the church itself must learn, as well .• s the Jewish mass surrounding it. TL sacredness of God's dwelling place men are slow to learn. Moses did not take off his shoes until bidden by the Lord. Xadab and Ablhu must be stricken down In the beginning of tbe Mosaic economy for their presump tuous offering of strange fire before the Lord. Achan Vvns put to death for secreting a part of the booty soon after entering the promised land. So at the beginning of the church, this warning was needed on the part of the church to prevent the hypocrisy of double service. 1. The occasion Which Brought This Dreadful Judgment on Ananias and Sapphire (vv. 1-4). It was their hypocritical Imitation of the generous act of Barnabas. He and Ids wife conspired together In this defiance of God. They wanted the honor without paying the price. The same love of praise Is causing many In the church today to imitate their dreadful mistake. Peter told them they had nut lied to men, but to God. So far as we know Ananias did not speak a word, but his actions spoke louder than Ills words. Such actions could only bo accounted for by the fact that Satan filled their hearts. But that did not excuse them. They were responsible for allowing Satan a place In their hearts. We should learn from this that God and mammon cannot be served at the same time. People to day are walking In the way of Ana nias when they sit down ut the Lord’s table with unregenerate hearts. For i this cause God Is passing Judgment upon many (I Cor. 31:27-30). Preach ers who are preaching other men’s sermons without giving due credit are guilty of this sin. 2. The Judgment Which Fell (vv. 5 30). Both Ananias and Sapphira fell down dead and the young men carried them away for burial. I 3. Great Fear Came Upon the ! Church (v. 31). ! This vindication caused the people to know that God was with them, and It also kept the hypocrites from Join ing with them (v. 13). Let us be The Only Faith In the early days of Christianity, men divided over the person of Christ. Later they differed on speculative the ology and church government. At the first the question was: “What think ye of the Christ; whose Soli Is He?” Afterward the teat was: To what sys tematic theology do you subscribe, and to what church do you belong? The only issue the gospel makes concerns the person of Christ. The only faith that saves Is faith In the Saviour.— Christian Standard. Effort to Earn I believe that the r<x>t of almost ev ery schism and heresy from which the church has ever suffered has been the effort of men to earn, rather than J to receive, their salvation.—John Itus Presistence of Life Strange, isn’t It, that marvelous per- | slstence of life! Hut that Is a way! that life has. We speak of It some times ns very fleeting and transitory, and yet there are so many things about us, after all, that are very hard to kill. Tears Shall Come No More God washes the eyes by tears until they can behold the Invisible land, where tears shall come no more.—H. W. Beeche Crack Rifle Team Composed of Coeds MU itrh m in <. ........ . ' — Photograph of flit* University of Wisconsin coed ride team. The girls are all crack shots uud ure trained by reg ular army oflicers. Like Mammoth Projectile on Eight Huge Drive Wheels The most powerful locomotive now In use on the Paris, I.vons & Mediterranean railroad, Just built In France, to hauls heavy express trains. The monster weighs 118 tons and Is more than fifty feet long. WARNS OF NEW QUAKE ] Bfl”±==nd I'rof. Klrtley F. Mather uf ilie de partment of geology, Harvard uni versity, who says that another earth quake, comparable to the recent one In Intensity, Is due In a few months In North -America, though there Is n ■ real danger to be looked for. WILLING TO LOSE DAN Jum* Cast lot mi of Huston, Mass., wife of Dan Caswell, lielr to mil lions. who has agreed that their "per feet marriage" Is not so per feet, and they are to have a "nice friendly divorce." June Is a former Follies Klrl. Alarm Clock Hint If your alarm clock wakes tho whole household as well as yourself, put an elastic hand around the hell. This will reduce the sound. The wider the hand, the more the sound will he reduced, and . ou can regulate the noise so that It Is loud enough to wal e you, hut soft enough not to wake others. When Wild Geese Molt Wild geese cast their feathers In summer, losing almost all the feathers from their wings simultaneously. Federal Capitol Building Tiie southeast cornerstone of the original Caj itol building at Washing ton was laid on the 18th of September, 1793. by President Washington with Masonic 'Mremonies. The north wing was dnlsl.ed in 1800, and the govern ment. which came from Philadelphia, took possession in October of that All He Really Needs A good wife and health are a man’s best wealth.—Benjamin Franklin. Peoria Woman Now a Duchess Lara Margaret Clarke, daughter of the late Charles Corning Clarke of Peoria, ill., former mayor of that eity, has just become the bride of Filippo Carrac oiolo. duke of Melito. The wedding took place in Florence and the young couple are spending the honeymoon on the shores of the Mediterranean. Holstein Sets New Butter Record Illinois Iloiiics!t',i(l I'lrlii* Bonhcur, pure-bred Holstein, bred and developed by the colleu'o of agriculture, I’nlverHlty of Illinois, bus net a new Illinois record In milk and butter tut production for Junior two-year-olds of ull breeds, by producing 20,ot»P i pounds of milk and 712.32 pounds of fut In a year. This I Is equivalent to spo.MO pounds of butter. BRIEF INFORMATION The total urea of Finland Is >4, 868.053 acres. Chop suey was only recently Intro duced in Chinn. Lobsters walk on tip toe when trav eling in the ocean. Japan Is the world's third largest machinery market. Argentina Is importing great quan tities of eggs In the shell from the United States. The present day emblem of medi cine, the snake-entwined staff of Aesculapius, refers to the use of the snake as a destroyer of rats, known in early Roman days, as in Bible times, to he connected with the spread of plague. On a bet that he could not add flve pounds to his weight over night, Earl lmdley, of Winthrop, Maine, weighing 100 pounds at 0 o’clock at night, con sumed a breakfast of five sandwiches, six slices cr[ cake, four quarts of milk and a quart of coffee, after which he tipped the scales at 172% pounds. Jolly contains more sugar than the solution from which It Is made. The present territory of Sweden Is about half the size of California. Iceland was freed from Dunlsh rule in 1874. A scarab beetle 15,000,000 years old has been found In north China. Antares has the greatest diameter of any star ever measured, dwarfing Mars to a mere speck. At Thomasvllle, N. C., a bag of money which had dropped from a mail sack lay. alongside the tracks within a few feet of the main street for four days before anyone noticed It. Tiie bag contained $18,000 in gold and $5,000 In currency. Ah day long, day after day, for thir ty-six years, Tom Tuthili worked in a | London (England) match factory, striking matches to test their qualitj. lie scratched all his matches by hand and passed Judgment upon the qual ity of each consignment from the work rooms.
Roanoke News (Weldon, N.C.)
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