roun THE ALLIANCE HERALD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1921 TAXI An Adventure Rcmanco Dy George Agnew Chamberlain Ooprrigbw TM Huii M.rrill Cuoiaf Al two iiiimiii . ...i. r Gve flu- lunr bell rnnj iirulii. in plte of the fuel thnt II win iiIiimw: cxndly tli Iimii which Mr. Milyiiin- I ml set for tin- Mr Hval of III wife M' it ililiitfhlrr, I'nuicUl couldn't help Impli Imt In vnln.' Il was wlili n ftlilitly resigned air Unit the r'i-4'lv'd Mr, nml Miss Milyntu tnstcitri of Mr. Hubert Hnnrinlph. lr. Mllyuns Hew to her, set hniiri n Imt shoulders, searched her face with cubit shrewd eyes, nml said: "Itonlt'ii Indeed told me the. truth about you. my dear. May I kiss you?" 1'aiiu'la extended one cheek to the lute while her eyes wandered off to 1e up the tall, Monde, cool young person thnt she surmised muHt answer lo the nnrne of Eileen Mllyuns. Being the product of two shorts, how on earth hud she miiiiiiKcri to grow so long? Her face wh usulurly heuutl ful, as though It luid been carefully aide to order like her clothes. She ai peared as passive as a rainier snow ies pe. After a little skirmishing for posi tion, the three ladles seated them selves In a triangle, Into the center of Which the well-trained TonilliiKon run tea-wagon. "Now," snld Mrs. Mllyuns, having emptied and put down her cup, "let's forget the sheer romance of the situa tion, my dear, and get down to prac tice.) problems. The first of all things, M you must realize. Is the necessity of Setting you a companion. Would you lre to be our guest In Madison avenue ntll you can pick one out?" "I would put clothes ahead of a usees t," murmured Eileen. tier mother Ignored the remark and 'kept her eyea fixed on Miss Thornton's rplexed face. That young lady seemed bo lack of something to say but rather In search of words and the Blunging courage necessary to the say Inf. She drew a Ions breath and dellv red herself of the following: "Really, It's most awfully kind of Eti, but, as I told Mr. Mllyuns. Tom son la auch a dear that I am going to continue him as my companion." Touillnson !' " exclaimed Mr. Mil arms, and then smiled Indulgently for tbe first time riurlnir the Interview, bo- tag under the Impression that at last he had run Into something appropri ately naive In the hearing of her new char ge. "Of course you can keep him n. but you must reullze that you can't live here' without a woman In the fcouse." " "Oh, yes. 1 can." said Miss Thornton, little brent hlessly. "I have a feel ing I can't explain It exactly thnt this apnrtnient Is a one-woman settlnu. As I hhIiI to Mr. Mllyuns. 1 don't want to clutter It with females." A client ijiuub crept Into the eyes of the ninrliles(tie Kileen: something 1n lile of Iht snt up and took notice. She fin need round the room and mur mured : "Mother, she's absolutely right. I'm for her." " 'flight !" K'leen!" exclaimed Mrs. TMllyuns. Hushing In her Indignation at JBndlng a traitor In the home camp. "1 4on't know what your generation Is coming to. The Impossible Is never Ight." Having taken up her suave cudgel. Eileen was In no ha te to Iny If down, nd may It be potneri out right here that Miss ImK.'en I'ninela Thornton Jad the rare faculty of enlisting the nearest bystander to nssutiu her tint th?8 for her, thetuvforth becoming a charmingly Interested onlooker, ruidy to watch the tide of her own fortune from the vantage-point of anentlrely Impersonal detachment. "That's where you slipped mother," continued the quite unruffled Kileen. "There's nothing Impossible to our feneration. Impossibilities are our food, drink and raiment. We're like those surprising orchid things that de fy the usuul laws and live on air." "Yes," remarked Mrs. Mllyuns; "any new air. But I didn't bring you here. Eileen, to be a stumbling-block to to ramela, who Is suddenly faced with problems In the solution of which she deserves our sympathetic assistance." "You've hit the rail on the head gain, mother," parried Kileen. "You're not In sympathy v Itb her, and I am; o you'd better bund over her check, fend tomorrow morning at tea 111 be "here to help her cash and spend It It accessary." She turned to Pamela with twinkle of anticipation In her eyes, -How about ltr Pamela smiled back her bubbling mile, and then suddenly grew grave. "Do you think I could order by measure?" the asked, and, remarking the hurt astonishment on Eileen's face, continued In rapid but neverthe less halting explunaUon : "You see, tfe Mr. Randolph, This la really bis apart , ment, and he may be back almost any ' ny day. I I don't want to miss him. I I wouldn't be out when be comes, for anything." ITm," Interjected Mrs. Mllyuns, but before she could make any further progress along that line, Eileen was on her feet and saying good by among , these other things ; . "That's all nonsense. If Bobby found you here Jirt ss he left yon, the first tlnie Tie V TJ To"luTLup, Tie might never nppnr again. Hut if he flnds you efir two or three unsucces ful calls and J l "tie day's shopplna be will never ' e. Tomllnson will have to throw b'tti iit." "Tomliimon con' !n't," said Pamela with culm cmp'ne '.v. liradunlly the sure shot made ht Ml Mllyuns began to take effect. The t bought of new clothes new smart suits, airy evening nothings, filmy tin dergartnenta. and solid-silk hosiery sto'e I'titneln from her Intention of etiTcnl vigilance i nd led her to say: "After nil. I -vlll go with you. If It really Isn't nl 'tg too much of you." Thus wn Mrs. MMyuns slde-trnckei for kei ps. and on ;he following morn lug the two yo'in hullo were waftee di (Mi-lo.'ii In Mr. Mily-ms' best llnmu sir" mil proceeded to open a chain of ere Ml -i f count , on tl.e bnre say-SO of ll'een at:d In the name of Miss I. P Thornton, that stoke volumes for tin former's exclusive taste In fashion nl'le purveyors and financial ability to humor It. Possibly the two would have shopped up to the moment of tin present writing had It not been fot the fnct that Pamela knew all aboui money from the short end. "1 have finished." nhe suddenly an nounced. "finished whntr asked Kileen. "I'lnlsbed shopping," said Pamela "I've been keeping nccount. and I've spent almost the whole check." "'The whole check V" exclaimed Eileen. "Why, you haven't touched It. That's the beauty of charge accounts You can keep your checks to look at. I've got some that father gave me three years ago." Pamela smiled a smile of much wis dom and made for the nearest exit. As a matter of polite formality, when they reached Fifty-ninth street, she asked Eileen to come up for lunch from the bnchelor's buffet In Hie basement, and she could not help a slight feeling of relief at the news that Miss Mllyuns had promised herself elsewhere. "Hut I'll break away and come for tea at five, If you'll let me," said Ei leen. "I simply must help you try them all on." "All right; do," said Pamela, Inward ly pleased that she would have some one beside Tomllnson upon whom to flash the first dazzling vision of her metamorphosis. The first thing she did when she reached the apartment was to ask If Mr. Ilandolph bad called ; the next was to summon the office of Mllyuns. Branch & Mllyuns on the telephone to know what steps ha! been taken In the new search. She was somewhat sur prised to learn that the entire firm had gone out to lunch In a body, and stll more startled at the Information, ob tained three hours later from the ssme supercilious voice at the other end of the wire, to the effect that none of them had come back. She was young; she believed It. - There Is no doubt that In five min utes more Mr. Oloom would have as sumed full sway In the late apartment ' iktl And Ware Soon Involved In an Orgy of Trying On. of Mr. Robert II. Randolph had not a long procession of parcels begun to ar rive In the nick of time. Tomllnson brought them Into the bedroom, one, two, three at a haul, and Pamela her sey cut the knots with Mr. Randolph's best nail-scissors and laid out the goods, filmy fold upon fllmy fold. By fue time Eileen turned up the apartment looked like the stateroom de lux of a millionaire young lady re turning front Paris with nothing to wesr -tnd preparing to swear to It be fore all the customs officials In Qotn am. Toinlinsou was ordered to fill the cellar with wrapping-paper, tissue-paper, cardboard boxes and string, burn ing what was left over In the back yard. As soon as sufficient space had been cleared for action; the two girls set to work, and were soon Involved In such an orgy of "trying on" as only the healthiest atamlna of youth could have endured wltSout falling over In a dead faint from exhaustion. Even Eileen divested her person of every thing but, and experimented with such dear garments as It seemed Impossible Miss Thornton could get round to In the allotted time. Having tried to show the public bow charming was Pamela la and without her cheap clothes, no puerile and gasp ing effort will be made In these pages to measure the effect upon her of the latest creations of the raiment dream- fods of Fifth avenue. Suffice it to say H-.ut, !n obe bouf s tliT5iTTnf oT f!7e eye, he lxcsme such a radiant vision as chokes mere words down Into the pit of a ninn's stomncb. makes bis 1n work like that of a fish on a hot side walk, fills his eyes with the pleading . light of calf-love and Inspires his hnnds with an overmastering desire to reach for It. For two. four, tlv dnys, a week, two weeks. Pamela lived In breathless an ticipation of the moment when sh could burst upon the eyesight of one Robert Ilervey Randolph, ami when all these days and weeks passed with out tiny news of hlin, her lips that were made to smile, to kiss, and to bless the n!r with words softly spoken and carried on the fragrance of cleafi young breath began to droop pitifully. Mr. MMynns' efforts In several direc tions hud so far proved In vnln. He had ndvor'led In every patter In (Joth atn. from the New York Epoch to the pink Po'lee tJnetie; bp ,n,j offered rewards; he bad set traps and was now supporting n large corps of rap Idly fattening Individuals who called themselves "pla'n clothes" men n name thnt wou'd have fitted them nd nilrably had the last syllable been omit ted. Ills net results were the Infor mation thnt Mr. Randolph, In a repre hensible state of Intoxication and at seven o'clock of I lie morning of w hich be b"d disappeared, had exchanged his swell evening garments at a second hand emporium on Sixth avenue for a suit of thicks nnd eighteen dollars In cash, stating, as he left the place, thnt he was thinking of going South for the rest of the winter. After a minute and leisurely study of all the exits from Manhattan, the plain-clothes men hnd given it as their united opinion that Mr. Randolph hnd been speaking facetiously In his last known remark and had probably not voyaged farther south than Canal street. They said If he would only try to leave New York they could find him at once, and settled down on a policy of watchful waiting for that event The efforts made by Mr. Mllyuns In the direction of springing Miss Thorn ton on society went equally awry, but were not quite so fruitless. His na tural love of a smooth-running estab lishment on the slippery crust of Goth am's social plane would have been saved a severe bump If American pa rents were as careful to look up their guests' moral records as they are to study their ratings In Bradstreetum's. Unfortunately for Mr. Mllyuns, It happened that a certain young scion of g once gentlemanly house wgs In cluded fn the first large dinner-box-party given to meet Miss Imogene rami's .Th?rni.n- n tne natural course of sucli events, the pasty youth stepped up for presentation, register ing In Ms protuberant eyes a gleam of dubious surprise. What If h,e should sayj "Hello, Vlvlenne I" Would It cre ate a sensation T Something else did; namely, Miss Thornton's modulated but terribly clear voice. "I met Mr. Beamer," said Pamela, drawing back quickly her half-extended hand, "when I was a chorus-girl." She turned with a winning atnile to her recently beaming hostess. "I don't care to know him In pleasanter sur roundings." For one breathless second there threatened one of those silences that spell social disaster. Eileen took It upon herself to mash It In Its extreme youth with a soft tap of her efficient hammer. "Oh, must you really go?" she re marked to Mr. Reamer. Did this spectacular debut strike the name of Imogene Pamela from the lists of the matronly elite of Manhattan? It did not. Invitations rained on her and found her unresponsive. Her would-be hostesses would have gone the length of submitting rostrums of proposed guests as though to royalty, except for the fnct that each and every one of them wished to put her own nearest nnd dearest to the test of a sudden meeting with the most ex clusive of New York's latest crop of buds. Pamela refused and accepted these bids for the Infest thing In sensations In the most erratic manner. No one could fathom Just why she said, "No," and much less why she occasionally said. "Yes." The mystery only added to the demands for her company and the Nays soon began to show an over whelming preponderance over the Ayes, Why? Simply because It was not In the power of any of the host esses to cnll up the moody girl and say: "My dear, we are going to have JuRt pork and beans for dinner tonight. Won't you Join us? Mr. Robert Iler vey Randolph said he would drop In for pot-luck." Yes ; every time Pamela had accept ed an invitation. It was In the rapidly waning hope that Mr. Randolph, be loved and once at the beck and call of these very people, would appear and cotue into his osn. Could she have surmised that on two separate occasions the knight errant of her thoughts had actually seen ber In her most ravishing bibless evening tucker, had driven her to two familiar doors, taken her nioney with averted face and without Inspecting the "clock," and had passed on to some quiet stand to dream over ber new glory and read the latest batch of ads crying for news of the whereubouts and welfare of self could she have known these appar ently Insignificant items In the dally Hie of the great city, she would have wept Jier lovelj- eyes put twice over. (Continued In Next Issue) Mrs. J. J. Dixon has been confined to her home for the past week on ac count of illness. TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY rV ANTED Woman for general house work. Phone Black 363. ALLIANCE BRIEFS Beginning; May 1, 1921, Alliance printers as well as all union printers in the entire country, will receive a reluctron in the working; hours, mak ing the standard week 44 hours in place of 4K. The agreement for the decrease was made originally in 1919, at a time when the industry was in a most prosperous condition, and inas much as the employing prin'ers r.re just as rrcu l of their record of keep- i ing agreements as the typographical union, the decrease in hours will be put into effect despite the slump in business conditions. As yet, no cut in wages has been made in the industry, although this will undoubtedly be done if conditions are such as to warrant it. If all un;ons were as sensible as ,the typographical, the union labor j bugbear wouldn't be half as terrifying , as it is. The A. H. Jones company has filed an appeal in district court from the decision of the Box Butte county com missioners, w! :. : :- -! their claim for $300. Th e Jones company asked to be reimbursed for expense money 'advanced to Sheriff Miller in Novem ber, 1920, to po to Portland, Ore., to arrest A. II. Hutchinson, a former .salesman, who was charge" 1 with the theft of a Roo car. The sheriff failed to brine back his man after a more or less exciting; extradition hearinpr, the Orepon governor refusvnrr to honor 'he extradition papers sent by Governor McKelvie of Nebraska, and the com missioners decided, at their January session, not lo allow the claim. The commissioners had refused to allow the shcrilT money to make the trip. i No explanation was given for reject ing the claim, but the county board apparently is standing pat on its the o.'; thnt the Jones company advanced the money at its own risk and the i failure to secure the return of the ! prisoner :s tr.'cen as an evidence that : the county should not have spent the money. Tabulation of the results of the movie nuestionnaire in the high school was made by a dozen senior girls, who themselves classified the answers un der headings of their own makeup, The questionnaire was given hurriedly, only forty minutes being given the students to make their replies. From some of the gossip that has been heard among high school students, it is ap parent that some of the two hundred students who handed in replies rather "fudged" a little in regard to movie attendance and the amount they spent on motion pictures, but there were only a few of them. Several of the students have expressed themselves as opposed to movie censorship, and those evidently feared that the figures were to be used in the campaign for state supervision. There were not enough of these, however, to invalidate the value of the figures. J. W. Guthrie last Saturday received from the Equitable Life Assurance so ciety checks aggregating $17,000, rep resenting life insurance carried by the late Oscar O'Bannon. Proofs of death were forwarded just one week prior to the day the checks were received. Three policies were carried in this company by Mr. O'Bannon, his wife receiving $10,022.90; his brother Rich- nl i; QQ7 fiA and a third check, rettre- ' senting partnership insurance, amount ing to $l,UUU.18. George Breckner this week superin tended the removal of the two old smokestacks from the city's light and power plant. These stacks have not been in use and at a recent council meeting, the matter of taking them down was discussed at some length. One or two council men doubted wheth er the material would be of sufficient value to pay the salvage bill, and their judgment was vindicated. The pipes were rusted to such an extent that they are worthless for anything but junk. It had been thought that they could not be taken down without con siderable expense, but Breckner solved the problem by cutting a section out of the bottom with his high-powered torch, after which they were dropped to the ground. The removal was ac complished without so much as knock ing a single brick loose. Carl Kockey and the superintendent of the water plant were on hand to render assist ance and give advice. PERSONALS Mrs. P. S. Young is suffering from pneumonia. Fred Vogel and Joe Robbins were in Minatare between trains Saturday. Grant Parmenter of Mitchell, is vis iting at the home of his niece, Mrs. S. J. Epler. Mrs. J. W. DeMoss who has been quite ill the past week is again able to be up. Mrs. Nellie Wilson and Mrs. Blan che Wilson will spend this weekend in Denver. Two DeLaval Separators at a discount if sold soon. W. E. Cutts. 22 Mrs. James Carmody returned yes terday from Bayard where she spent the week-end. Mr. Hagerman, a civil war veteran, is very ill at the home of his daughter, Mrs. C. H. Rockey. Miss Mable Gilbert has returned to Alliance after a weekend visit at her home in Lead, S. D. Mrs. John Nation who has been on the sick list for three weeks is re ported worse today. Mrs. A. J. Cole enjoyed a visit Sat urday from her cousin, Mr. Appelgate, from southwest of town. Mrs, Thos. Parsley and Mrs. Ernest Garnet, both of Scottsbluff, spent the week-end with Mrs. C. Bullock. Two DeLaval Separators at a discount if sold soon. V. E. Cutts. 22 Mrs." II. D. Hacker and daughter, Valetta returned Saturday from Roch ester, Minn., where the latter under went an operation in the Mayo Broth ers' hospital. Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Smart left Sun day on No. 42 for Chicago and Sioux Falls, S. D., where Mr. Smart was called on business. They will return next Sunday. PR. BOWMAN office In First National Bank Building. 8tl COMMENT & DISCOMMENT Will some kind friend please tell us what there is about petitions that is so fascinating. Why is it that the aver age man and every woman is so will ing to place his or her name on the dotted line? Usually a man is care ful about signing his name. If it were a contract, and a good one, at that, the average male would hesitate three or four davs. and iro over the matter from I every possible angle, but when it , comes to petitions he doesn't even take j the time to read them through. It doesn t make any difference whether he knows the one who asks him to do it. It's an act fully as thoughtless and automatic as raising the hand to the mouth to hide a yawn. The signing of petitions is a na tionil weakness, fastened upon the country when it was young and whor the only way to get anything done wns by pet'tion, and even then the plan worked but seldom. The English kinirs used to pay about as much at tention to a colonial petition as the city council has paid to the requests of the east f driers for water mains and other improvements. In thope days, that was believed to be the best w;y to reach the ear of the king, and per force that was the method that was used. Perhaps, were the truth known, there were a dozen means that would have been worked with greater ease, but the United States, despite its scoffing at President Wilson in the days just before the war, has always been fond of note writing. A petition is a variety of diplomatic note. Three or four years ago, a univer ' sity instructor in psychology, who had been worried over the alarming in j crease in petitions among the student : body, sought to discover just how many of the students who so readily appended their signatures to various and sundry of these documents really had any iriea of what they were doing at the time. His theory was that the average student signed for one of four reasons either to get rid of the per sistent devil who had the petition in tow j the fear of offending the P. D. or some of his influential friends; the fear of being considered a crab; or because the name of some friend or some important person was on the sheet. And so this professor devised a scheme to test his theory. The results were even more convinc ing than he had dared to hope. He prepared three petitions, something after this fashion: P E T I T I ON To the Honorable Chancellor and Faculty of the University of Wiscon sin: The undersigned most respectfully petition your honorable body to ap point and designate the afternoon of Wednesday, the nineteenth of May, A. D., 1917, as a HOLIDAY for the student body and the faculty of the University of Wisconsin, and to provide for a proper observance of same by decreeing that those whose names are appended to this petition shall be hung by the neck until dead in front of the stands at the athletic field. We and each of us signing this docu ment solemnly covenant and agree to submit to such punishment at the time and place mentioned. This, in substance, was the wording of the petition. Our memory is pos sibly at fault in one or two minor par ticulars. It has been some time since we recall our psychology prof, relat ing the incident. The interesting fact about the petition is that it was cir- culated among the student boriy just . one day, and over seven hundred stu- j dents signed the document without! reading it through. Not one of the j students to whom it was presented re-1 fused to sign. Every one of them ! looked at the paper, saw the words "petition" and "holiday" and couldn't get his name down fast enough. It doesn't require a test of this kind to convince the average man that jji the course of a year he signs a good many petitions that he wouldn't have, signed had he taken time to rio any thinking at all. The average organi zation endorses a lot of movements that the members wouldn't approve if , they stopped to reflect. The trouble is that the average gathering dreads a Air Cooled Spark Plugs ARE IN A CLASS BY THEMSELVES Has a heavy ventilated copper electrode tipped with silver" Two of the best conductors known to science. Carries a heavy ribbon spark. Does not feather off as it does on a small steel electrode. Produces a Hot Spark and a strong explosion which keeps plugs and cylinders free from soot and carbon, and more miles to the gallon of gas. I want a live agent in every tawn in Western Nebraska, or would consider county agents. For particulars address W. E. CUTTS Alliance, Nebraska. Distributor for Western Nebraska. MODERN SCHOOL OF DANCING AT THE WINTER, GARDEN, ALLIANCE If you can walk, we can teach you. We have no fail ures. One-step, Fox-trot and Waltz complete in one course. Open Daily Except Sunday, from 2 to 5 p. m. Children's Class Wednesday 4 to 5 and Saturday 2 to 3 p. m. Open evenings, Wednesday and Saturday. BYRON G. EVANS AND STAFF Phone 318 for Appointment. whole lot of speechuaking or argu ment, and it saves some personal dis comfort to vote in favor of the motion and get the thing over with. That's why an endorsement from the average organization on any subject doesn't carry much weight any more. That's) the reason that it's so easy to get en dorsements, by the way. Teople don't think any more about voting an en dorsement than they rio about signing a petition. ' There's a reason, of course, for all this. During the past week symptoms of another petition epidemic have been apparent. Sooner or later someone will call upon you, saying "I want your name " anil hand you a pencil to rio the deed with. When this person comes, man or woman, don't take the pencil until you have read the petition. Think the matter over carefully, and if you have any quest "on in your mind as to whether you should lend your in fluence to the pet scheme of the one who is carrying the petition around, give one of thoe fishy stares and say: "No, thanks." If you want to be particularly polite, say gently, but firmly, "I bel'eve I will think this mat ter over." Ten chances to one, they'll never see you again. Why should they? There are a hundred chumps who are willing to put down their I names without protest. Now, this isn't to be taken as a I blanket condemnation of all petitions. , Some of them are worth signing. But I if you readily lenri your support to everything that comes along, your support will soon be worth mighty little. Support, you know, is like credit the less it's used the stronger it gets. If everybody used the same judgment in signing notes that they do in sijniing mortgages, it wouldn't take very long before a petition would mean something. As matters now stand, it's simply a means of furnish ing an occupation for somebody who isn't rushed. MOVING, PACKING, STORING AND SHIPPING SNYDER TRANSFER AND FIREPROOF STORAGE When It's Your Move, : ' Let Us Know." Office Phone' 15; Res. 884 and Blk.730 WHEN DID , . a YOU HAVE YOUR WATCH CLEANED? Remember its poor economy to neglect your watch. A dollar or two spent now may save you the price of a new watch. Our repair depart ment is ready to give you prompt and efficient service Thiele 's Drugs and Jewelry