The Tribune from Hicksville, Ohio • Page 3

1 lie K1WF, GERTY HARDIN'S DINNER PROVES AN ORDEAL FOR ALL WHO ARE PRESENT. Synopsis. K. C. Rloknrd, nn engineer of the Overland raclnc.

called to the office of President Marshall in Tucson. While waiting Wk-ard reads a rointrt on the ravages of the Colorado river, which occurred despite the efforts of Thomas Ilnrdln. head of the IVsert Reclamation company. Ilnrdln had been a student tinder Klckard In nn eastern college and had married tierty Holmes, with whom Klckard had fancied ho was In love. Marshall tells Klckard the Overland Pacific must step In to save the Imperial valley and wishes to send Kicknrd to take charge.

Kicknrd declines because he foresees embarrassment In supplanting Hardin, but is won' over, lileknrd goes to Cnlcklco and. on the way, learns much about Ilnrdln and his work. Klckard Mr. mid Mrs. Unnlln and Innes Ilnrilin, the former's half sister.

At the company office be finds the engineers loyal to Unnlln and hostile to Mm. Klckard attends a meeting of the directors and asserts bis authority. Hardin rages. Kstrutlii, Mexican, son of the 'Tattler of the Imperial Valley," tells Klckard the general situation and expresses forebodings that the work will fall. Innes Hardin Is bitter against Itickard for supplanting her brother, she tries.to cheer tip the latter.

Ilnrdln discovers that Klckard Is planning a levee to protect Cnloxleo and puts him down as incompetent. Cioriy thinks her husband Is Jenloiw. CHAPfER Continued. She didn't need to pierce those cnu-Yas walls to know that these had been feverish activity for this dinner. A new gown would appear tonight, made An exquisite tnenl, and no one must comment on Its club-oration.

Twice Tom and she bad been asked to take their lunch nt the hotel. "Uecause of i headache!" A headache 1 7 openly 1 Handle had always the of mystery, never opened before T'm or herself. She must have yap'. of stuff laid away, kept for sudden emergencies. "She can't help It, It's Vrr disposition.

She can't hclj secretive. Look at your fae, Ii-jcs Ilnrdln!" What Was to Ver "fto pct.iiess of a woman whom wVldont of life bad swept upon the beach beside her? flerty was not her kind, net the sort she vould idek out for a friend. She wUta nn oriental, one of the harem women, whose business it is In life to plotso one man, to keep his home soft, Ms comforts ready, keep hint convinced, moreover, that It Is the desire of his lf'V to support her. Herself dissatisfied, often rebellions, staying hy hiiu for Mf Interest, tor love ah, that was her Impeai'n'iicitt. "Not loving Soberly she oovrr-d her plain brassiere with a wl.lte waist of cotton twiiWiXll' ViU Certy Frowned at the Duck.

ducking. A reil lenther belt and crimson tie she added self-consciously. "Where Is my bloodstone pin?" Hadn't she spent an hour nt least matches that particular leather belt? nut lie was a man, in battle. The headline hcl up; It was too bail, IlodoftiMt, Wooster. tJrant, all of tlifnii fighting mail teen use of the dendnck at ttte I lending.

All up In arms nt Insi. againit Marshall, because of this cruel ca.it to their hero, llnrfftn. Her eyes glowed like yellow Inirfci as she recalled thfir fervid partisanship. ose man wbo can sav flie trill-, tVtf Tom Hardin." -Mid thnt but they all bc- tcr't tt. The loi'Jtj' of the force mart her ashamed of her soft woman (ear.

For there worm limes when he questioned her brother' ability. He ba1 targe, loose way of handling ens too optimistic. Hut .1 those engineers must know. Il ns prohahly the mnn's of sweeping i.hend. Ignoring detail.

The of those Held tried men told nV that the other, iliT careful, plan-1ug way, was the otliee method. Kick-M, a dinner neiglnior, she had flftml Interest inn; but for great tin-Makings a man wlro would let a (fcrty Holme jilt him, ruin hi life tir hlin! The whole story sprang nt kW clear from the drnpp, ,1 Innuendo. Ohe adjusted a bnrrette in her monthly hmsred hnlr. Slowly she Vtlkcl over to the neighborluii tent. tierty frowned nt the while duck.

l'ou might at least have worn your 'ou're elegant enough for the two f. Isn't that something new?" Gerry hhZ carelessly that she had Hd It for a Inns time, for she bad iii the material a long time! It n't necessary to explain to her busbnnd's sister tkat It bnd been dado tip thnt week. She hoped that didn't look "fussed tip." Would Mr. lileknrd think she was attaching ay lntfortiince to the simple little visit? For it wa antk'ng to him. of soorse.

A mnn of kit standing whom tbe great Tod Marshall ranked an Wgh, probably dlne4 out several tln.ea Nich week, with whlte-ranped maids kad enndelabrat If Tom had only aide the most of kls npjiormnltle. What a cambla. life to woman! (she mti trip Into her bedroom Md tA a reassnrlng survey in her Dim. The lingerie frock would look ilmjle to a nian who would never rpect It of handmade duplicity, er gtssn declare the hand -whipped medallions casual and elegant And kmc time ago, a lifetime ago, Kick-ird had told her that she always Ihotthl wear bine, becaaae tit ber eye Inne fmm the nett room could heer teaslhf Toai to wear bia Toxin. "VY one it.U enmigh for yoT' WmM Mr' hi I growled her surly lord.

Innes recognized the mood and shrank from the ordeal ahead. It was the mood of the Unnlln In the rough, the son of frontier mother, the fruit of old Jasper whose smithy had been the rcndcrvntis for Ihe Ini, roughs, the fiercest cnttloiuen In Missouri. "I'd let him see you knew what's what, even If we ilo live like gipsies." The answer to that wns another crow I. Innes could him dragging the process, grumbling over each detail. Tlwit confouinhsl laundry bud torn bis shirt.

He hadn't a deivnt collar to his name. Where was hi black string tie? If tiort would keep his thing In the lowest drawer! Hang that button! tierty emerged from the niKiinter, her face very red. Innes could see her biting her lips to keep the tears bnck as she tint the last touches to the table. "She's tired out," thought the sister of Tom Ilnrdln, "She's probably fussed herself to death over this dinner." A few minutes later Klckard arrived in nck suit of tweeds, (ierty'a greeting was little abstracted. How-could she make Innes understand to tell Tom to chnnge his coat? The duty of host, she suddenly remembered, was to dress down rather than up to the chances of his guest.

She regretted bitterly her Insistence. Was ever anyone so obtuse as Innes? Klckard would see that they thought It big event. She was watching the curtain where Tom would emerge. And his coat was style of several seasons ago and nhsunlly tight! She made nn unintelligible excuse and darted behind the portiere. Tom's face was apoplectic, lie was wrestling with a mussed tie; the collar showed a desperate struggle.

Ceny made wild signals for him to change his clothes. She waved a hand Indicating Klckard; she pointed to Tom's sin suit lying on the floor where he bad walked out of It. "What Is It nil about?" "Ssh," whispered his wife. Again the wild gestures. "Well, aren't you satisfied? Hon't look like a guy?" He could be heard distinctly In the next room.

gave It up in despair. She dabbed some more powder on her nose and went out looking like r. martyr a very pretty martyr! Klckard praised the miracles of the tent, tierty's soft flush reminded Innes of their old relation. "F.xlt limes," she was thinking, when Tom, red and perspiring, brought another element of discomfort Into the room. tierty ushered them Immediately to the Initio.

She covered the first minutes which might be awkward with her small chatter. Somewhere she had read that It was not well to make apologies for lack of maid or fare. Hesldes Mr. Klckard remembered Lawrence! Thnt dreadful dining room, ihe ever set tablet How she bad hated It, though she had not known how fearful It was until she had escaped. We an simple folk here, Mr.

lilek nrd," she announced, as they took their places around the pretty table. That wns her only allusion to deficiencies, but It covered her noiseless move ments around the bonrd between courses, filled up tr when she made necessary dive Into kitchen or primitive Ice chest, and set the key for the homeliuess of the meal Itself. The dinner was a triumph of apparent simplicity. Only Inne could guess Ihe time consumed In the perfection of detail, details dear to the hostess' Vart. The almonds she bail blanched, of course, herself; hnd dipped and salted them.

The cheese straws were her own. She did not make the mistake of stringing out endless courses. An improvised buffet miir at hand made the serving a triumph. Klckard praised each dish openly he was admiring her achievement. Innes, remembering the story tierty had told her In dots nnd dashes, the story of the old rivalry, glnhced covertly nt Tom sulking nt the head of his own table.

'Toor sulky Achilles." she thought. "IVnr, honest old bear!" "Innes!" cried Mrs. Hardin. She turned to find thnt the guest was staring at her. She had not heard his effort to Include her In the conversation.

"Mr. Klckard asked yon If yoo like it here?" "Thank yon why, of course!" Her answer sounded MTt to herself. Her slsier-ln-law hastened to add that Miss Ilnrdln was very lonely, was really all alone In the world; that they Insisted on her making her home with them. Inne had with difficulty restrained a denial. After all.

what other home 14 she? Still the truth Mid been deflected. She recalled the sacrifice It had been to cut her college course In order to make a home In the desert for the brother who had always so giilly fathered her, whj had helped her invest her small capital that' It might spell a small Income. She re called his resistance when she had called in a mortgage; who could watch that msl scapegoat of river playing prank with desert borne and not yearn to helo? Not Ilnrdln. She till gloried In remembering thnt she had at least driven one pile Into that rebe'lious stream, even If when ahe left th valley It would be bread' winner. She waa prepared.

She was a good draftsman; ahe wonld go as an apprentice In an architect office. She had already settled on the architect! "Are yon going to Los Angeles soon?" She heard the new manuger address his host. "I'm taking orders'." There was another awkward moment when Hardin pushed back hi plate declaring he had reached nis limit; it was tio Idg a spread for him It was the stupid rudeness of the sti'inll bad boy; even Inncn flushed for ber sister-ln-law. With resolution f.etty nssumed con-tnl of the conversation. Her role sounded casual no one could have suspected it of frequent rehearsal.

They must not talk of the liver; that was taboo. Knllroad matter were also excluded. Idinally difficult would be reminiscences of Lawrence days. So she began brightly with current book. The theater proved a safe topic, and by thnt natural twite they reached New York.

Innes. who had never boon farther enst than Chicago, wns grateful to play audience, lbirdln. who knew his New York perhaps better than either, refused to be drawn Into the gentle stream. Things must be kept sprightly. Had Mr.

Klckard met many of the valley people? And It was then tin' she threw her bomb toward the llsteaini'. silent Ilnrdln. She would like Mr. Klckard to mei I some of their fiiet.ds. lie said that be would be delighted, but that lie was planning to leave shortly for ihe Heading.

"Of course." She did not give her husband time to speak. She meant nl'tcrw nrd She as planning to give something bit novel In his honor. She refused to see the glare from the angry mrn in bis outgrown dinner coat. She did not glance toward the sister. What did Mr.

Klckard think nhoul progressive ride? "It sounds very entertaining, but what do yon do?" There was a loud guffaw from Tom. With deepened color tierty tolfl her Idea. A drive, changing partners, so he could meet nil the guests. "I think It will surprise yon to find so many nliH people in here; it Ver- talnly did me. One doesn't expect to find congenial people in a new country like this." Klckard remembered that he bad to get buck to his hotel.

He had let ters to write. It had been a splendid dinner! And what wonderful home she had made ont of a sand-haked lot, out of a tent! lie spoke of ihe roses and the morning glories. His eyes fell on the open piano, the reading table with the current magazines. Now he couldn't understand why they ever went to that hotel tierty's eyes were shining ns deep pools of water on which the sun plays. She looked almost Infantile ns she stood by, the two tall men, her head perched birdlike.

and I hope you'll conic again!" of course he'd come ngnin! "And yon will let me know when yon return, so that I may set the date for my party?" Innes did not get bis answer. She had been observing thnt he was not taller than her brother lie looked taller. He was lean, nnd Tom was growing stocky. She wished he would not slouch so. his hands In his pockets! In Tucson, before she knew that she must dislike Klckard, she had had an Impression of virile distinction, of grace, suggestion of mastered nuts- les.

He had known that it was her brother he was supplanting did he get any satisfaction from fact that It was the husband of 'tie woman who bail Jilted blui? Anyway, she did not like It 1 in She could never forgive a hurt that was done to her own. She was a Hardin. "Innes I Mr. Kicknrd said good night She gnve him the tips of her cool, browned fingers. Her eyes did not meet hi; she would not meet that laiicbing scrutiny.

"ti.Ktd night, Mr. Klckard." CHAPTER XI. The Fighting Chance. "Casey's back, spying!" announced Wooster nt mess one evening. Hy that time the feeling against "Marshall's mnn" was actively hostile.

There bnd b.t-n a smudge of slumbering fires be fore Kicknrd bad left tile towns. Fanned by much talk during his absence, It hnd burst into active blaze. They were ready to show their resentment against the man who had supplanted Hardin, their Napoleon. If It ittst them their places. this time the cause of the ib'-s-rt was ns com pelling to those hardy soldiers as were the lily banners of France to the fol lowers of the Little Corporal.

Klckard v.ns not expected. He had en gone less than a week. The ef fect of his return was that of a per son who returns suddenly Into a room, hushing nn nctlve babel of tongue. He knew what he would And. ample reasons why! He wns not given the satisfaction of locating any particular act of disobedience.

The men presented a blark wnll of poiitenes. rea sonable nnd Ineffectunl. Silent ex-plained briefly thnt he hnd not been nhle to collect enough men. Most of the force was bny In the No. 6 dis trict, trying to push the shattered WIs- tnrtn through hy a new route before thnt year' crops were entirely ruined.

A gang was at Grant' Heading; the floor needed bracing. Another squad, Irish', wns In the Vol en no Lake region, where they were excavating for the new headgnte. "No hurry for that." Rlrkard was glad to pick a flaw In such a perfect pattern. "Too might have withdrawn those men and put them to work on the "I wa given no. authority to do that." The chief pretended to accept tht THF, mCKXVn.LT.

TRTBtJNTV. HICKSVILLR OHIO reason; else It were a )se of chang- inn not equipped for a sudden infln-ing horse In mills' m. What helfion of men. The Inefficiency of the had seen at the Ifeeling, his peep at the erpned valMy, hi gleaning of the river hist fv hd convinced him that In hnsto 'nd concentration lay the valley' oi chance. He must refuse to see Insubordination of the engineers, tlits aoncd desert soldiers, Hp nt (jpj them, must win their confident If he could.

If not, they tnnt )ye the valley anyway! The lmertnr(ble front of Silent, his bland, big st're, eyjisperated him; easier ta contJ'. th mapping terrier When the Colorado Burst Its Banks and Flooded the. Imperial Valley sf California By EDNAH AIKEN of a Wooster. He had told Silent dis tinctly to gather his men and rush the levee. A good soldier had made a bet ter ptesa than Ma.

and had stopped the casual work at HIack Hutte, or hnd found Indians! Thoughtfully Klckard followed thnt last suggestion across the ditch Into Mexican. He gathered nil the recruits be needed that morn lug. The Indians, buy Oooopahs, onpt out of their huts to earn a few of the silver dollars held ont to them by the new white boss. A few Mexican laborers were brllM-d to toss up earth to the west of the town. Kstrada, nt his request, put a squad of his road force nt the service of the manager.

He could not spare ninny men. The railroad had already started the line projected by Hardin to Marshall the year before, a spur neross the desert, dipping Into Mexico between the lean, restless sandhills, from Oilcxieo to Yuma. The Mexican government had agreed to pay five thousand dollar a mile were the road nmploted at a certain period. Kstrada was koplng bis men on the Jump to (111 the contract, to make bis nation pay the price. The completion of the road meant help to the nlley; supplies, men, eotlld be rushed through to the break.

In spite of his haunting sense of ultimate fallnro the growing belief In the omnipotence of the tirent Yellow Hragon as the t'ocopnhs vlsnnll.ed It. Kst radii's work was as Intense as though he were hastening a sure victory. The dnuulk'ss spirit of the elder Kstrada pushed the track over the hot sands where he must dance nt times to keep bis feet from burning. Many of the rails they laid at night. "Kickanl's gone bog-wild," Hardin told bis family the next morning, "lbiihling a levee between the towns! The man's off bis head." "There Isn't any danger?" tierty's anxiety made the deep blue eyes look black.

Innes looked up for Tom's answer. Ills face wns ugly with passion. "Panger! It's a bluff, a big show of activity here because he's buffaloed he doesn't know how to tackle the Job out there." It had begun to look thnt way to more than one. It wns talked over at Coulter' store; in the outer otliee of the 1. U.

company where the engi neers foregathered; among the chair tillers who idled In front of the les-ert hotel. "The mnn does not know bow to tackle his Job!" A levee, nnd the gate held up! W'hnt protection to the towns would be thnt toy levee If the river should return on oae of Its spectacular sprees? A levee, and the Intake itself not gnanled? He was whispered of ns incompetent; one of Marshall's clerks. He wns given a short time to blow himself out. A bookman, a theorist, "As well put sentinels fow miles from prison and leave the Jail doors open!" This wns Wooster's gibe. All saw the Colorado as a marauder at large.

"And a little heap of sand stacked up to scare It off! It's a scream Mrs. Hardin found It difficult to meet with diplomacy the confidences which incviinldy came her way. As Hardin's ife she was expected to enjoy the universal censure the new man was acquiring, tierty's light touches, too slight for championship, passed as a sweet charity. Her own position those days was trying. She did not yet know her diplomatic lesson.

Apparently unaware of the talk, Kickard spent the greater part of his tune superintending the levee, lie could trust no one else to do It, no one unless it were Kslradn, who was rushing his stool rails through to the front and was needed there. Tilings were moving under his constant goading. The extra pay was showing resulis. He should be nt the Heading now, he kept telling himself, but he was convinced that the Instant he turned hist bm-k, the work on the levee would stop; and all tho reasons excellent Some emergency would be cooked up to warrant the withdrawal of the hands. Chafe ns he might nt the situation.

It was to be guerrilla warfare. Not a fight In the open, he knew bow to meet Hint, but thnt baffling resistance, the imllte silence of the office whin he entered "Well, they'll be doing my way pretty soon. or my name Isn't Klckard. That' flat." He wns fretting to be nt work, to start the wheels of the O. Its vast machinery toward his problem.

He knew that that organization, like well-drilled militia, was ready for Ms call. The call lagged, not that he did not need men, but there wns no place ready for them. The cimip, that was another rub. There wns no camp! It Her Eye Did Not Meet Hi. roj-ctor of this dewrt scheme had oevcr seemed so crimlnnl as when he had surveyed the equipment at the Intake.

"Uet ready first; your tool, your stoves, your Iteds." That wm the training of the good executive ef men like Marshall and M.xLean. Nothing to be left to chance; to foresee euier-fencle, not to be tnken by them unaware." The reson of Hardin's downfall was bis slipshod habits. How could he he a good officer who had novet drilled a a soldier? There waa tb mum i it gup at the Intake, Hardin' grotesque folly, widened front one hundred feet to ten times tht, original cut widening every day, with neither equipment nor camp adequate to push through a work of halt the original magnitude. Cutting away, moreover, wa the Islnnd, Disaster Islnnd; it had received apt christening by the engineers, It baptismal water the Colorado, The last floods hnd played with as though It were a bar of sngnr. There was no rock nt hand no rock on the way, no rovk ordered.

Could nnyone piece together such recklessness? Klckard knew where he would get his rock. Already he had requisitioned the entire output of the Tacnn and rntagoniti quarries. He had ordered steam shovels to be Installed nt the quarry nek of old Hamlin's. That rock pit would be hi first crutch, and the gravel bed that was a find! As he paced the levee west of the towns, ho was planning bis campaign. Hurler ns sitiuring Ziientoen for men he himself had offered, a bait, froe transportation; the O.

H. he knew would back hlin. He was going to throw out it spur-trni-k from the Heading, touching nt the quarry nnd gravel pit. on to the main road at Ynmn. Houble track most of the way; sidings ivery three miles.

Hock must lie rushed: the train must be pushed through, lie Itched to begin. It never occurred to him that, like Hardin, he might fall. "Though It's no pink tea." he told himself, "It's no picnic." At Tucson he knew that the situation was a grave one, but bis talk with Hmndon, who knew his river as does a goo'd Indian, made the year 'a significant, eventful one. Matt Hamlin, too, whose shrowd eyes bad grown river-wise, he, too, had had tales to tell of the tricky river. Malonado, the half-breed, had confirmed their portents while they sat together under his oleander, famous throughout that section of ihe country.

And powerfully bail Cor'nel, the Indian ho bad piloted Kstrada's party" neross the desert, whom Klckard had met at the Crossing, deeply had he lm-prosscd him. The river grew Into a malevolent, mocking personality; he could see It a drngon of yellow waters, drugging Its slow, sluggish length across the baked desert sands; deceiving men by Its Inertness; luring the "xploror by a mild mood to rise suddenly with Its wild fellow, the tiila, sending boat nnd boatmen to their swift doom. lileknrd was thinking of the half-breed, Maldonado, ns be Inspected the new stret'-h of levee between the towns. Ho had heard from sttliers besides Kstrada of the river knowledge of this descendant of trapper ami squnw, nnd bad thought It worth while to ride the twenty miles from down the river to talk with hlin. The man's suavity, bis narrow slits of eyes, the lips thin nnd facile, deep lines of cruelty falling from them, had repelled his visitor.

The mystery of the place followed him. Why the 'dobe wall which completely surrounded the small, low dwellings? Why the cau tious ndmlttnnce, the ntniospbere of suspicion? Kicknrd had seen the wife, a frightened shadow of a woman; had seen her flinch when the brute called for ber. He had questioned Cornel about the half-breed, lie was remembering the wrinkles of contempt on the ild Indlnn's face as he delivered him self of nn oracular grunt. White man? No. Indian? No! Coyote Though bo suspected Mnldonndo would lie on principle, though It might be that two-thirds of his glib tissue were false, yet a thread of truth co incident with Ihe others, Hrandon nnd JEWS NOT EASILY CONVERTED Sermon to Which They Were Annually Forced to Listen Failed of It Purpose.

In John Evelyn' dlnry of January 7, lflio, there is a nntntlon of a peculiar ceremony which seems to have been of annual occurrence nt Home. It wns sermon preached to a compulsory congregation of Jews, with a view to their conversion. Mr. Evelyn says "they nre constrained to sit till the hour is done, but It Is with so much mnllee In their countenances, spitting, humming, coughing nnd motion, thnt It is almost Impossible thoy should hear a word from the preacher. A conversion Is very rare." The Zionu-t movement, which has gone on for years and received a "new-Impetus by the changes made in middle Europe a a result of the world war.

was outlined In a poem written by Robert Hrownlng during his residence in Italy, probably about the middle of the nineteenth century. He calls It "Holy Cross Hay." Three French Republic. The French wore not iible to permanently establish a republic until they had iriod threi" time to do so. The nnnrchy of the French revolution produced Nnlcon Honnparte, a first consul, nnd then ns emperor. The revolution of ists resulted In Napoleon III as benilitary emperor of the French by nn almost unanimous vote In Novemiter.

The third republic wa a result of the Frnnco-Pnisslnn war and the king of Prnsla was pro-clalmi-d etnperoof the tSormans, Sep-tembcr 4, 170. and his coronation took place at Versatile January IS, 1S71. The third French republic was saved from destitution by the ability and ac tivity of Loul Adolphe Their. Like Cnvonr he carried hi country safely through a great crisis. Holly Uea a Symbol.

It was usual at Rnmnn wedding to present the bride with a wreath of holly, significant of the warmest congratulation. In India and Persia the follower of fcoroester. the fonnder of fire worship, soak piece of holly bark In water and throw the Infusion iri the faces of newly born habio, be lieving this will tnsnre them prosper Hy and safety In thl world. Unci Eben. "Some men," said I'ncle Ebon, "Is willin' to work or fight, but want to set around too long tblnkln' over which dey'll choose." A whale" skin, which In places I two feet thick.

Is the thickest hide on any living creator. Hamlin and Cor'nel, might puii i out of hi romantic fabric. "When the wuter of the Gila run red look ont for trouble!" He douM ed that they ever ran red. If would ask Cor'nel. He had also ipoken of a cycK known to Indians, of a hundredth yenr, when the Hnigon grows restless; thla he bad declared was a hundredth year.

Following his talk with Maldonado and the accidental happy chnnee meeting with Coronet at tlia Crossing Klckard had written his first report to Tod Marshall. IWfore he had come to the Heading he had expected to advise agnlnst the completion of the wooden headgate at the Hamlin hnd given him a new viewpoint. There wa a fighting ohnhee. And he wanted to be fair. Next to being successful be wanted to be fnlr.

"If time to he hearing from Marshall," llickard wws thinking, ns he walked back to the hotel. "I wonder what he will any." He felt It had been fair to put It up to Marshall; personally, he would like to begin with a cban slate begin right. Clumsy work had been done, it was true, yet there were urgent reasons now for baste; nnd the gate was nearly half done! lie hnd gone carefully over K'i Maldonado Had Confirmed Their Per. tents, the sltunllon. The heavy sMOwfall, nn privedontod for years, a hundred, according to the Indians or.

the Wind Hover mounlalns the lakes swollen with Ice, Ihe tiila restless, the summer Ibiods yet to be met perhaps, he now? thought, he had been ovonVr In emphasizing the arguments for the head gale. For the hundred feet were now a thousand feet yet he had spoken of that to Marshall: "Calculate for yourself the difference In expense since the flood widened the break. It Is a vastly different prol.lein now Disaster Islnnd, which they figured on for anchor, is a mere pit of corroding sugar in the channel. An infant Col orndo could wash It away. However, a lot of work has already been 1one, nnd a lot of money spent.

There Is a fighting chance. Perhaps the bad year is all Indian talk." A guess, at best, whatever they did It was pure gamble whni the tricky Colorado would do. Anywav, he had given the whole situation to Marshall. In his box nt the hotel wns a telegram which had been sent over from the office from Tod Marshall. "Take the fighting chance.

Hut remember to spenk more respectfully of Indians." "Marshall nil over," laughed Ms subordinate. "Now It's a case of bustle! Hut dollars to doughnuts ns Junior says, we don't do It Wa it Hardin's luck? Rick-ard scouted the Idea and charged It to pure Inefficiency. Whatever the cause, fate and Hardin' failure to carry out instruction seemed to have combined to wreck ckard' plan. Don't mis the next installment. (TO UK I-ONTIXVKIV) Familiar Quotation.

The quotation worthy of the high title of "fitinlllar" must have stood the test of time and passed unhurt through the shifting tns'es and fashion ef centuries. lofty or in Its bumble wny It must show that, like Shakespeare, It "was not fornn age, hut for nil time." I use the wonl "hum ble" because the rhymes of clilhlhiwul, of the nursery, fulfill the requirement of age In a quotation worthy to be called familiar. Their Intrinsic, their abstract merits may appear slight. tin may even seem to be Must nonsense, but they are passed on by moth ers and nurses and by the children themselves from generation to generation. We niny be nssured thnt they would not thus hnve lived nnd pros pered If they had not possessed some quality, however slender, of genuine worth, of real humor or Imagination, which gave them permanence.

Henry Cabot Lodge In Scrlhner's. Odd Bequests. When men begin to think about winding tip their worldly affairs nnd disposing of their earthly possession, then do they, ns nt no other time of Ihelr niorlnl career, revenl the odd workings of their minds by the strntjge bequests they make, of which this extraordinary Instance Is given: "I bequeath to tieorge Wlll'sm Stool nil my fancy stockings, nnd to Mary Hannah Wiggin my set of fnse teeth for waiting uisin me." Thus, on half-sheet of notepnper, William Oreen- wood, nn English retired cotton spinner, disposed of hi worldly "goods and chattels." Robert Predicted Foch't Victory. When I-ord Hobeiis was In Canada ten year ago at Hie dedication of the Plains of Abraham park and play ground he made this prediction: They refuse to believe me, and we are asleep under a false security, for I do not hesitate to affirm thnt we will have a frightful war In Etinpe, and that Gnnt Hrltnln and Frrne will have the hnnlost exterlence of tlielr existence. They will.

In fact, see de feat very near, but, the war w'll flnnlly be won by the genlu of a Preach gen ml named Ferdinand Foch, professor In the military school In Paris." Giving Herself Away. A spinster of uncertain age. when asked If she had rend Aesop's fnblca, set her frit nds n-wondcrlng by stilting that she hnd rend them when they flrst came ont. Alwaya Way. The Perfect Husband Is always mar rled to some other wonina and tn Perfect Wife I always married tfl aotue other n.a.

Cladaoatl boquirer DADDY5 EVENING ctvSa (iRAnATl BONNER THE STONE LIONS. "Well Comrade, how do things strike you these days? And how have yon been feeling of late?" "Why do yon call me comrade "You can't answer a question by asking another," said the first tcaker. "Hut I will tell you. I call you Comrade Just as I would call you Companion or Chum or Pal. You are nl-waya here'wlt me.

We are always together. So we are friends." "Well," said the second tenkcr, "we cant very well help that. We're great stone lions and were put In front of this big building to add to the beauty and dignity nnd statelines and grandeur of this building." "Fine wttnls you art? getting off," said the first stone lion. "Hut what do they all mean?" "They all mean," answered the second Hon, "thnt we add In beauty nnd In splendor to the building. They mean we'ro grent stone Hons and we're worthy of being put In front of such a building.

For, do yon know what the building Is?" "What Is it?" asked the first Hon. "I think I know, but I would like to have yon tell me." "It's a liltrnry. Many people, old nnd young, come to road hooks. They Tried to Look Wise and Important. come to take away books to rend nt home on snowy nights like this when It Is so cozy Indoors.

They bring books bnck which they have read nnd they also bring books nnd magazines which they own themselves so the library enn send them off to others who haven't nil the books nnd magazines they should have. "It hns nlways made me feel as I should act In very wise ninnner. I have tried to make my face look solemn nnd ns though I would tell no secrets, but that deep within mo I know so much, so much." "Yes, I hnve been right In wunt I have thought," said tho second lion. "And I too hnve tried to look wise and Important, for though folks rend books which give them pleasure and though- they rend funny books and laugh, still the great Idea of rending to my stone mind Is to make one wise. And It looks so Interesting to be wise.

"We tuny never say anything which Is bright, we may never say anything at all. Hut oh, to look wise, that Is the great thing." "You're rlulit," snld the flrst lion. "And It Is because we both nre together and because we both look wise that I cull you comrade and companion and pal and chum. I almost might call you twin brother." "I'm sure you might," said the see-ond Hon, "if you nre going to honor me with nil other titles. In fnct I think I hnve a twinly feeling for you.

I look and feel nnd I net the snme way nnd now the snow Is falling down on my nose and my eyes and my paw in Just the same wnyi" "Then Twin," said the first Hon, "(ell me how you lmve been feeling of late. Just the same as I have boon feeling? Well, and strong, and interested In everything about even though we must still wear our wise ex invasions?" "Just the same," said the second Hon. "And bow have things struck yon?" asked the first lion. "Well, at present the snow I striking me, very softly though, nnd 1 feel that In the morning I will look quite ahsiird, a dignified stone Hon covered with snow! Hut things have struck me as being mighty fine these days. "I've seen people working for great and mighty causes.

I've seen children doing the same. I've heard them make speeches and ask people to give to thing that were well worth giving to. Lion Twin. And I've thought It wa iiingniflcent. "It has been splendid to sit in front of this big building nnd to see the people of the grent city march by all day long In endless numbers.

They have looked so gay and so happy and yet these same people can be serious. They can work and give and sacrifice. They can read nnd study nnd they can work and piny nnd make others happy. "Oh, It's fine to sit here nnd see what splendid creatures men and women, bo and girl are!" ended the lion. The Difference.

Three-year-old Mary Ellen had Just retvived a new doll from her auntie. She tried to voice her thanks. "Auntie Is pretty," she cooed. six-year-old Joseph was not so Inclined a to opinion. "No, Mary El-ten," he corrected.

"Auntie Isn't pretty'. She' Just good." Explained. "How's your father, Jimmler asked Mrs. Nlbb. "My pa' awful homesick," re.

toinlcd James. "Why, I thought your father had been staying at home for a couple of weeks 7" "Yen. he has; that' what make Mm sick." On en Teacher. Teacher Now, children, name oni of the lower animal, starting witl Willie Jonc. Alnt It th Truth? Teacher "The sphinx ha eye but It cannot" "See," cried the children, "lln ear but It ennnot "Hear," they responded.

"Has a month, bnt ennnot "Knt!" said the chorus. "Has a nose, but cannot" "Wipe It!" thundered the das. A a "victory offering" the vestry of fnmou Trinity church. New York, has unanimously Toted to tnakt alt pewa free. rS U- Spanish Influenza can be prevented easier than it can be cured.

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FORT WAYNE, NO. 11-1919 The American National Anthem, An niniisiuK lit lie story Is told by Reginald T. Townsend In his description of Victory dny In Turls In the lied Cross ningnr.ine. Mr. Townsend snys "A group of Yanks passed sluRlng 'Whnt Is thnt they nre singing? nsked I'rcnchmnn standing bexld me of his neighbor.

you enme the scorn. fill reply of one who nlwny make i point of keeping up wlih world afTnlrs. Why, Hint Is the American nntionnl SAGE TEA BEAUTIFIES AND DARKENS HAIR Dont Stay Gray! It Darken to Naturally that Nobody can Tell. Ton can turn crny. faded hnlr bean- tifully dnrk and lustrous almost over nlcht If you'll get a bottle of "Wyeth Snpe and Sulphur Compound" at any drug store.

Millions of bottles of thl old famous Sage Tea Recipe, Improved by the addition of other Ingreillcnts. nre sold annually, snys a well-known druggist here, because It dnrkens the hnlr so naturally and evenly that no one can tell It hns been applied. Those whose hnlr Is turning gray or becoming faded hnve a surprise awaiting them, because after one or t'-o application the gray hair vnnlshe and your lock become luxuriantly dark and beautiful. Thl Is the age of youth. Cray-haired, tmattractlve folk aren't wanted around, so get busy with Wyeth Sage and Sulphur Compound to-night and iu1l be delighted with your dark, hMidsome hnlr and your youthful appearance within a few day.

Ad. The Peac Job. The Army Mule I suppose after Tnt demobilized some darned cricket will be holilhig my job as a kicker. An Ohio minister objects to skating on the gronnd thnt It has a tendency to promote backsliding. rtosa hwtfoa a mn attain ttknai font laiatUa al mat mo awt tkacu rtoora a Ck-Maat rviloti.

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