The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965, May 16, 1935, Image 3
BY RICHARD HOFFMANN COPYRIGHT BY RICHARD HOfWANN r W.N.U. SERVICE CHAPTER I « ISTEN,” his father said to Hal Ireland downtown — In the large office of the bank that was all soft carpets, soft lights, soft paneling, and enough floor space rental to keep five families in comfort for a year; “listen.” “I’ve been listening, sir,” said Hal, "for twenty minutes.” The Old Man seemed to wait a little for the slow draining of hu mor from Hal’s alert, gray eyes. Then he said in quiet irony: "I dare say you’ve been told about your charm—” “Never by you, sir,” said Hal with a faint bow, checked gently for fear of starting the slow, heavy throb in his head again. “I dare say you’ve been told that when you bow that way, and let your eyes twinkle, you’re apt to get your way. But I venture to point out what I can’t convince my self you've learned for yourself: that the business world la not made np of pretty girls or susceptible ma trons—social or theatrical; that the business of the country, about which you know nothing, is car ried on by men who think more of persistence and application than they do of capacity to hold whisky, or acquaintance with speakeasy pro prietors or handicaps at golf or the fit of white flannels. “The San Francisco Job is open till the first of the month—because they need somebody, not because I’ve asked them to let you coast in on my name. You’ve got your last penny from me—for transportation or anything else—till next quar ter's allowance. If you want the Job, get yourself out there. If you don’t, don’t.” Hal’s quick, mobile face was set, and he met his father’s steady look with bright, impersonal steadiness, rather as if he had a peevish, dis appointed child before him. Then he got up and'straightened his good shoulders with a deep breath. “That all?” he said. “That’s all,” said the Old Man, briskly casual. “Right,” Baid Hal, with a prac ticed clipping of the word. “Well— ’bye.” tie swung nts DaeK i a ms rather and walked over the thick carpet to the door. In the silence, he could feel his father expecting him to turn there for another word—or hope, or of opening. So he pulled the door, caught the other knob be hind him, and stepped out, leaving only the soft, efficient click of the latch for comment. Dalr.vmple—known downtown as Frederick Ireland’s knife and fork —was waiting unoptlmistically out side, where he couldn’t be seen from the banking floor. “Bad?” he asked apprehensively. “Bad,” said Hal, letting his gray eyes light again with their welcom ing humor. "Rage-making. D’you know anything about bromo-seltzer? Does it really work?” “They say so, but I’ve never need ed—" u “And I’m never going to again— never, never—probably. How do you get to California on six dollars?” “Lord, Mister Hal,” said Dalrym ple, “Is six dollars all you’ve got— out of that check?" “ ’Fraid so.” “If I could—if you’ll let me—’’ Hal smiled, and his eyes wrinkled in che corners. "You’re a h—1 of a nice guy, Dimples,” he said, “but I’m so mad—so mad, for the first time in my life that I wouldn’t bor row a Confederate nickel from any body who paid taxes in the same state with that—that—with my fa ther. He told me—if you'll believe it. Dimples: lie told me 1 knew nothing about money, or life or this country or him or myself or mod ern plumbing or brokers' loans or God-knows-whatnot that’s of t he most quivering importance to a young man’s career. He even made ine the simple astounding revela tion that I was an only child. Had you heard that, Dimples? He sat there and told me—but what the h—1: you’re busy. And I’ve got to get to the Coast. Bromo-seltzer couldn’t make it any worse, could it?" Dalrymple looked worried, con fused, pathetic, and he murmured: “No, no,” helplessly. So Hal pat ted his arm. promised to let him know what happened, and started uptown again. It was in the subway that he remembered the sign they had laughed at last night. In the West Forties, it was, and if he could re member from which place they had been going to which other place, he would remember the street, “California . . . $33” was the line he recalled. "There," Tony had said, grabbing at him; “go out to the Coast that way, boy. Hub el bows with the people; see life; know your native land.” Just west of Broadway—in the Forties. He’d find it: by <i—d, he’d find it. He wouldn’t borrow a nickel from any one of fifty people who’d lend him money in the next half hour if he went to them. He'd get to the Coast on fifty dollars and tell his father what to do with any insufferable future fight-talks that occurred to him. CHAPTER II Tuesday. HAI.'S headache was gone next morning, but so—nearly—was the warming sense of triumph in his inspiration. And that went entirely at nine o'clock when he walked into the bare, dingy, and crowded ga rage office from which decrepit carsful of share-expense travelers were dispatched about the country. He hadn’t stopped to think what the mechanics of the thing might be; but here the possibilities of dreariness seemed promptly infinite. Eight July days of four hundred miles’ driving each, through coun try reputed to be hotter than, out side, Forty-eighth street already vt\ f DALLAS “How Far You Going?" Larsen Asked Her. promised to be; crowded into an unwashed derelict of a fine car among a selection from this assem bly of desolate, if not actively ob jectionable looking people. . . . The first rough cartoon of these vistas nearly had him back on the street again—to telephone Dalrym ple for the easy loan that would put him on this afternoon’s Cen tury. A decent looking man in a clean shirt looked at him across the shab by desk firmly. The telephone rang. "Yes. This Is Larsen,” said the mau, frowning "Call me later. I’m very busy.” Hal upended his old suitcase agulnst the wall near the door and sat on it. Larsen started pawing over the pjles of little slips be fore him. “Now—” he said twice, almost looking up, but each time thinking better of it Then sud denly, "You can’t take that dog." Hal looked around for the dog, then up quickly to examine who it should be in this place with so smartly bred a fox-terrier. “I’ve got to take the dog,” said the girl In soft, almost-husky grav ity. "He’ll sit in my lap; he’ll he no trouble." Pretty, quite pretty, Hal saw; perhaps a little tough, surely self-conscious — the even solemnity in her large eyes aware thut unauthorized people were look ing at her, might any minute spenk to her and have to be rebuffed. But pretty, really quite pretty. "How far you going?" Larsen asked her. "Los Angeles,” said the girl steadily. "Oh," said Larsen, as if Los An geles were just this side of New Rochelle. "If you keep him In your lap, all right.” He turned to the roan whose crossed legs Hal could see beyond her. “Does he bite?” “I don’t know," said a lazy, care less voice. Larsen was startled. "You two’re together,” he said. “No,” said the man. Larsen looked at her; she made a slight negative motion with her head and dropped her eyes to the dog. Larsen fumbled through the slips of paper, stopping to frown at one. “You’re going to L. A.,” he said to the girl. "Yes.” she said, barely looking up to him for an In stant. “And so are you,” Larsen said to the man. “Yes, but I’m not with her.” “Then who Is?” said Lar sen. Ilal let half a smile come through his moodiness as he shook his head. And Larsen was saved from further astonishment by his telephone, into which he said again he was very busy, Hal’s eyes kept coming bnck to the girl. She seemed not to hear what was going on In the room— stayed quietly, solemnly sure that some one would speak to her. Peri odically that annoyed Hal and lie looked away. Then he would find himself looking at her again, see ing how the smooth, slight dip of her cheeks under high cheek-bones seenuyl to be pursing her lips a lit tle, adding solemnity to her wide, possessed mouth. “Hello, hello,” said Larsen Impa tiently Into the telephone: "I’m very busy. I'm loading seven three-passenger cars for Chi and the West,” Larsen was sweating. He called suddenly over his shoul der. as If taking a desperate rem edy, "De Soto!” A small, cheerful, soft-eyed man, without a hat and looking ns If he hud just crawled from under the car, came in expect antly. "Take her bags,” said Lar sen, pointing his pencil at a wom an, “and take her to Dallas." The lady’s shocked disapproval of little De Soto lost some of its imperious ness when he grinned at her eager ly and said: “Like a fast ride, lady?" She glared down, her pince nez quivering. “Hope y’do, ’cause nnybody rides with me gets a fasi one.” “Now,” said Larsen more hap plly, as if their disappearance made it a family party again. Hut the telephone rang, and Larsen began his weary piece about Chi and the West almost before he had lifted the receiver. "Now, that dog—” he started again, and Hal saw a sort of quick pride take the girl’s face as she raised her head. “No, that’s right,” Larsen added. “We settled that We settled about the dog. Now Los Angeles—everybody go ing to Los Angeles goes with Jake Miller. Miller!” he shouted at the garage door. “Where’s Miller?” After an hour Hal went across the baking street for a glass of gin ger ale. When he came back the slight, tidy man smoking beside the doorway gave him a lazy smile and In a voice that was oddly unsure of pitch said. ‘‘Coin’ to L. A.?” “Guess so," said Ilal, trying to be neither discourteous nor encourag ing. The trip was going to be bad enough without entering Into rela tions with anybody. “So’m I,” sad the man. "My name’s Crack—Mart’n Crack." His eyes seemed dreamily looking for the effect of this on Hal. Hal leaned against the wall, fac ing the street, and lighted a ciga rette. I’m d—d if I’ll offer him my name, Hal said to himself! if he’s Interested, he heard It in there. “You any relation to Frederick Ireland—the big shot downtown?” Hal looked at him with cool amusement in his gray eyes. "Sure,” he said. "Couldn’t be closer.” Crack gave a slight, polite laugh. From his side pocket he drew a bright, new golf ball, dropped it to the pavement where It clicked smartly and leaped up to his waiting hand again. " ’Sfunny," he said, “how that Larsen thought I was with the chip py, wasn't it?” "How do you know she’s a chip py?” said Hal In spontaneous irri tation. “She looks it, doesn’t she?" said Crack, his lazy amiability undis mayed. “No,” said Hal, promptly hoping to confirm that she didn’t. Crack stepped confidentially to Hal’s side of the door and said in a low tone: “See that big bird standln' at the bnrk there? He's a dick. A detective." Hal raised his eyebrows perfunc torily before he said, “How d’you know that?" "I thought he was," Crack said, "and then I saw his badge.” “H’m," said nal. Crack smiled and, except for a vague, drowsy speculation in his eyes, his smile was youthful, half way candid, not unengaging. "He's not looking for you, is he?” he said, cocking his head a very little. . "If he were, he shouldn’t have much trouble finding me; and I’d be an nss to tell you anyway, wouldn’t I?" Crack’s smile sobered Just a shad ow, After a while he said, “Think she’s going to Hollywood?” It hap pened to be precisely what Hal was moodily wondering, and he was startled into a shrewder look at Crack. "Wouldn’t be surprised," he said, and wished he hadn’t been trapped even into that much interest. “She’s got a good figure,’’ said Crack speculatively. “I like sorta broad shoulders and nice clean-cut ankles on a babe, don’t you?" "Hadn’t thought,” Hal murmured strnight ahead of him, angry nnd a little ashamed that this shy-man nered stranger should mention the very tilings he looked for first in any girl. Hal snapped his cigarette into the gutter and went Inside to sit on his suitcase again. The girl hadn’t altered her position of solemn, en garde waiting. But the terrier stretched luxuriously—leaning ’way forward with his hind legs straight out and his chin stretched up. The stretch broke Into a friendly grin and a wagging of the docked tall when he met Hal’s eyes. Hal smiled, winked and held out his hand. The dog came stepping forward to the end of his lead and put a cold noae against Hal's fingers. The girl’s head turned quickly; Hal saw that her solemn eyes were large and of a deep, yellow-flecked blue— also that they were alive with the beginnings of defensive hostility; at once she pulled the dog bnck and looked away. You can go to the devil, Hal said to himself—you and your broad shoulders and your slim ankles; I hope Martin Crack mnkes you and makes you like it. A little after eleven, some lug gage—two veteran suitcases, a card board hat-box already losing the rim of its lid and a dress-box tied up with two kinds of string—ar rived from the Grand Central. It was the work of but fifteen min utes more for Larsen to find Jake Miller in the garage behind the of fice and start him loading. Miller’s car was a large I’ackard sedan of another decade with paint stained and lusterless as the garage floor, a diagonal adhesive tape across the dull windshield, and all the nickel-work the color of old and unloved pewter. Miller’s futile hand unfolded an Immense trunk rack on the back, took out a tarpaulin and began spreading it with care over two oil puddles on the garage floor. On | this he stacked the luggage with 1 wliat seemed accidental neatness and lashed the tarpaulin around It with clothesline. , "How many passengers have you got?” Hal asked when the luggage was up. “Seven,” said Miller. “Six besides yourself, ’ey?” said Hal, thinking, “Oh, Good G—d! “Seven,” Miller repeated. “Got a invention. Got a seat stands on a box between the Jump-seats." He chuckled as if he bad outwitted some one. “I’ll show It to you.” “I guess I’ll see It soon enough,” said Hal. “What are we waiting for now?” (TO BE CONTINUED) ‘These Ads . . . What Do They Lead To? LOS ANGELES OH FRISCO—ALMOST I now cars leaving dally. Share exp. Good drivers. Refs, exchanged. Cheap, comfortable. rj CALL AT OUR OFFICE A Share-Expense Travel. Inc., Brooks Bldg. «i MAu 7-54.1*. ___» 9 Utter strangers thrown together in the most intimate company, trusting lives and j property to a driver they have never met. * Where does it lead ? ADVENTURE? ROMANCE? INTRIGUE? Read Watch the Curves By RICHARD HOFFMANN A laugh a line—a thrill a mile! This is the first in stallment. Follow it every week in this newspaper Dental Hygiene 8B The Road to Health By DR. R. ALLEN GRIFFITH DIET, TEETH, EXERCISE MOST people feel that the condi tion of their own mouths and the condition of their children's mouths is their own affair. We should get away from this selfish, erroneous and dangerous attitude. With every breath from an unclean mouth millions of pathogenic micro organisms easily capable of Inocu lating another person with a dlsease produeing gertn are expelled from one to ten feet. To the healthy Individual It real ly matters little how many patho genic varieties of micro-organisms there may be, or how prevalent they are, because mnn possesses a natu ral Immunity to Infections and Is normally Immune. If this were not true, mnn would have been exterminated from the earth long ago by the myrlnds of microscopic foes always surround ing him. But Just let the Indi vidual reduce his natural bodily resistance below a certain point, through fatigue, overheating, loss of sleep, worry, etc., and “some little bug will get you" soon. The chief concern, therefore, of both the Individual and society at large should be to maintain this natural Immunity Instead of trying to discover cnres or remedies for natural conditions that are sure to follow a lowering of the natural resistance to disease. Every dis ease germ that enters the human system must enter through the mouth, nose or a break In the skin (with the exception of venereal dis eases), and It Is estimated that HO per cent of all disease enters through the mouth and Incubates In the mouth. Should not a clean, healthy mouth then be the first consideration In the prevention of disease? During the present generation the physician has proved that there Is a direct connection between un clean mouths and the rapid In crease In kidney, heart and circu latory diseases, formerly attributed to deranged metabolism, but now known to be due to a constitutional poisoning of the system from bac teria and their toxins. A clean mouth will prevent dis ease. A suitable diet will Insure a well nourished organism. Exercise will insure proper elimination. These throe things will Insure health, happiness and longevity. • • * MALNUTRITION M ANY articles have recently ap peared In the newspapers In regard to malnutrition In school children. Insufficient foOu Is gen erally supposed to he the only cause. Just at present the depression Is blamed. But this condition has existed for many years. Too little food or Improper food Is of the ut most Importance, not only to the children, as children, but for their adult life as well. Several years ago the American Open Air School Journal said that of MS,000 school children examined In fifteen cities In the United States, about 4,000 were undernourished. How can a child possibly be well nourished, no matter what quantity or quality of the food. If It Is mixed with a fetid, decaying mass of food from cavities In the teeth with Its millions of germs of putrefaction and pus germs from abscessed teeth? This constant drain of poi sons Into the Intestinal tract causes stomach nnd Intestinal troubles. Bacterial products are absorbed Into the system and produce fevers, eye strain, headaches, anemia, malaise and constipation. The poisons from the mouth are Insidious and slow In their action. Many can, and do withstand them for years. If the powers of resist ance are high, but In time these poisons are sure to destVoy a good digestion and undermine the sys tem. A child cannot be expected to de velop into a henlthy adult with a strong mind If It Is deprived of effi cient means of chewing Its food properly, or if the food must pass through an Infected, uncared-for mouth. Is It any wonder that such children are sickly and lacking In strength? Is It any wonder that they are not bright and intelligent? Where, but In the unclean mouth are found the germs of spinal men ingltls, measles, diphtheria, and scar let fever, ready to set up their spe cific diseases as soon as the resist ance is lowered? These unfortu nates are also a menace to the health of other children because of their susceptibility to Infectious dis ease. Taking, then, this specific knowl edge as to the deleterious effect of a diseased mouth and malnutrition upon the child, school, state and na tion Into consideration. It becomes a great sociological problem that should appeal to all of those In terested In child welfare. The prob lem of nutrition will he solved with in the first three Inches of the ali mentary caual. ©. Western Newspaper Untuu. Farmers to Plant More Than in 1934 Crop Acres Expected to Be Within 5 Per Cent of 1932 Harvest. Prepared by Ohio State Unlveretty Agrl* cultural Extension Service WNU Service. lteporti from 46,000 farmers In all parts of the country, reflecting the plans of all, Indicate that they Intend to plant 17 per cent more crop acres, exclusive of cotton acre age, than the greatly reduced acre age that was harvested last year. Although Indications, when the poll was taken, pointed to a larger harvest than last year's, the 1935 acreage Is expected to he about 5 per cent less than the harvested acreage In 1932. The reduction below the 1932 acreage level, according to (5uy W. Miller of the department of rural economics, Ohio Stnte university, Is due to crop control programs, un favorable seeding conditions In the drouth area, shortage and high cost of seed, and reduced requirement* for feed following recent liquida tion of live stock. Corn producers Intend to plant about 96,000,000 acres, slightly more than were planted last year but nearly 8,000,000 acres more than were harvested. Spring wheat Intentions point to au 18,000,000 acre crop. I.ast year not more than 9,000,000 acres of spring wheat were worth harvest ing. Farmers expect to plant 29 per cent more land to oats this year than were harvested a year ago. Should present plans materialise, hurley tobacco acreage will remain nearly the same as It was Inst year. Little changes were reported In potato planting Intentions. Planted acreage Is expected to be less than 1 per cent under the harvested acreage of lust year. Ohio growers plan an acreage cut of 3 i>er cent. Increases arc expected also In acreage of soy beans and barley. But hay plantings, owing to seed shortages, are expected to decline. Ventilated Silo Is Used in New Hay-Making Plan This Is a changing world and It would not he surprising to see a change In the process of hay-mak ing. In fact, It has already arrived, declares a writer in the Wisconsin Agriculturist. The putting up of hay, both by the sugar process and the add process. Is practical and can be applied to almost any kind of forage. Huy cunning Is also being used. This Is simply a ventilated silo where the hay is put either cured or partially cured and by ventila tion the curing process goes on without combustion. Large hay barns are not only expensive but there Is always considerable dan ger of lire. By ensiling the hay directly from the Held there Is no loss caused by woody libers, moldy or spoiled hay that has been put up Improperly cured. Simply a few si los will furnish storage for all the roughage and It will he In the finest condition for feeding. Less barn space will he required and the nnl mals will always receive fresh suc culent balanced rations. Bees by the round There are approximately 5,000 bees In a pound and they may be obtatned In packages holding one or more pounds, hut the two-pound size appears *o be the most popular for all purposes. There are, how ever, many beekeepers who prefer a three-pound package, thinking that the extra pound of bees will enable the new colony to build up more rapidly. Hut, says a promi nent apiarist, experiments with the two sizes of packages do not seem to warrant this assumption, for the two-pound packages will usually build up ns rapidly and store Just as much honey ns do the three pound packages. If the bees are young and the loss during trans portation not excessive, there are enough of them In a two-pound package to care for nil the brood that can he produced by the queen, and the colony will build up Just as well without the excess workers. Dry Up Milch Cows Tests have shown that for the good of ttie cow and the quantity and quality of the milk It is best to dry up ail cows at least six weeks before freshening time, says an authority in Pathfinder Maga zine. Unless the cow gives more than two and a half gallons of milk a day or stringiness or off-color of the milk Indicate the presence of mastltus the animal can he dried up by simply reducing the grain feed by about three-fourths nnd ceasing to milk. 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