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.?.' iV3tiA5rJMS3" PW. ?ftWffi.aiWM. 1ft! . 1 ri .,.:...;.- I I !! U x i . it fe lt li: i r."' . i 1 !: h 3. yiiiiniiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii' S The Native, 1 I Ayrith S By CALVIN HENDRICKS TillttUIHIIUIIIItlllllllllllllllinillllltllUlH I'upyrlulH, 1922. V-!tfl( NpalH V HI'"'- "I do tint think much of your ehnho, JHnncho." ''lo yoji mean of home or nf libs bond, MtlfcleV" "Both. Walter I certnlnly ns iiiuyli Jn low wljli yon ns when lit! married you, liul I would resent htfobnnd bringing ino to thin uuctidurnbly )' olalo spot no society, no comfort, no future, nothing liut wallowing imtluvs nnil n liot, lllterlriT .un." "Vol wo hope rr n future, ltr denr," suhl Blanche In her cheery, op timistic way. Ttfrv" Immfolc, Indeed, wu the pie rnfpwrnffm of young Walter liurton. Ho hail been on under clerk In the em jiloy of tlio government. A emigre iniin took n lilting to hltu nnd hnd se fiiriMl for him his prewnt position r. consul ill Belron, mi obnetrc city In India. Just married, ho nntl hi vlfi hud boon there noir for about "half fi your, Mrs. Mnrclii Burnlmni, lire wld owed sinter of Blanche, whs Nltlng them. "I pity you, Blanche," she now said, glnncbig Hourly nt the llht. iinlnf erost ing expanse of low habitations nnil treeless plains before her. "I have cer tainly outdistanced you, older though I nm. Next month, ns you know, I Am Jo murry Count 'J'ollferl. They Miy he In very rich," Tor mercy's sake here!" Minuted' Murehi. sharply, staring down the rend. "Then Is Mint, philanthropic IiitHlinnil of yours with n new pension er in low. I fa 111" "Walter, how can you Interest your i.elf In these iKtiornnt, worthless pc ploV" chlded Morcln. "Your clothing Jn covered with dust from contact with that fellow." "A poor fellow, Indeed." replied Wnllnr, pityingly. "Vou will not wmii iter nt his condition when T tell you that I found liltu lying by the. way lJe. creepln: on linndii and lcne;" hound for Cnleutta." "Why did he do It?" Inquired the widow, with Indllterent curio dty. "An a penalty, lie whh dnnln: nnil stole a measure of meal. The law put him at a year of hnrd lahor. The priest of his sect lined lilm twiuitv tuelH, or the horrlhlo ordeal ho wan undergoing." "And you paid his line. I infer?" fjmkc Marcla, contemptuously. "f could not resist doing It," replied "yViiller. The widow left tlieni 11 few days later (o meet her afllaiired litishaud at Naples. The native, Ayrith, whom Walter had taken under his protecting whig, hecanie domesticated as a grate fill, loyal servant. Walter was a good deal surprised t Jlrid how u,scful Ayrith hecanie to him m the weeks passed on. Most of the 'annular fiincllous consisted In pas. Ing upon export duties and the slniyl hi,' of hinhiop (ujtwc.s In the dlstrlet. It wa? leiaijiIidlhlV how well Ayrith was 'ported on these dei.ilN. One tluv ho came fo WulUjr. evidently full of s6fnl'KjW-,''iliiif li-er"t(iil him greatly, for a half Mipprt-Mieil evelte iniinl wa vHIHle In hN nunuiei'. "ftohlh." he Kiild. "I h-arn " "hearn what, Ayrith?" hundred Wal ter In his kindly way. ".The kMUIk tho'-e who i-Nport l lie wli'kor, the Iminhno, the hend. the tliisols. They laughed at your cuuutry --the Kiwi luihl I love hecaiiHt you I re of there. They hoast to pay hut Mtlo dulie. heeause they ny 'inrite. rial raw' and 'Rnodn fancy' when It Is irtilly 'fahrlcs.'" That tilsht thu consul went over his tarllf files. He made an Important dis covery. AViillef fully teported his discovery rmd opinions to the authorities at Vashlnpton. .lust two months later ho came Into Hie house' with a llutter Iiir strip of patter In his hand. "Look. I'.lanehle," he said huoyantly. 'Our ship has como In!" "Vour discoveries will lead to a rhmiKe of clasdlieatlon," the nlllcliil ttor read, "that will Increase Import titles over ?'J.t)0().(X)0 a year. Vou tiro transferred s consul general to Slug. r.porc ut four thousand dollars per an- I" It wiik undur widely chani'd resl lontlal eoildltlons that Mrs. I'.iirnhnm -Dropped In upon thetu unexpectedly a cw weeks later. The Rurinns oecu-"f-ioil a heaiitlful huiiKalow, st In the jnl'dsf of n lovely anrden, "Flow siiporh !" pronounced the en Wlclous Mnrcla. "I would ho content to IIvo la thl earthly ranidlse for ever." "Vou will Imj surely welcuinoil an a permanent xw-it." doclnred Walter, ihlvalrously. "I'.ut how about the count?" "A count of no account," reported Marcla with a wry face. "Luckily I found It out in time. And your serv antshow different to Mi-m nt that ) alf-clvlllzed " settlement. Tho man who carried In my trap was qulto dignified." "Vou do not reeognUe him?" In quired Illanclie with a qijlsalcal smile. "Why, no," replied her wjster with n puzzled nlr. "Ho Is Ayrith." ' "Vou mean tile man whom yoi res cued from that horrible penatioo nt tho old post?" "Tho same. Through him, my dear Mnfcln.'V declared the young consul, "ull our good fortune seems to have started with n hound. ,. Utile seed of kindness."- , "And lo! the beautiful full-blown flower!" cried tho happy IUancho, her outspread arms oppressing tho luxury, the Joy, tho "comfort, Urn rare loyfc with which heaven hud blessed her. LOOKING AFTER THE CATTLE Not Alone In Poorer Districts of Ire land Are AnlmnU Sheltered With the Family. If N well ki'nwn that (he pigs ho loiifc'm; lo the poor.-r peasant's In the a Wages of Ireland are practically "member of the family." Tlw house N lo all Intents and furposos their rightful lodging and eating quarters. Ireland, however. Is not the only country In which one may find live stock Indoor, as In tho outlying vil lages In the northern part of ItiiShlu the family cow (nearly every house hold owiw one) Is under shelter for eight months out of every twelve, says London Answer., 'The whole countrywide Is u muss of snow for month on end, and 40 to fiO dvreM below zero Is not uncommon; no the poor boast hnvo to bo cooped up. They are foil- or, rather, nearly Htnrvcd, on nenn.i grass, collected nnd slored by the Itumdnns during the short summer, and il"v emerge when the snow has disappeared very thin In deed. Although living In the same habita tion as their owner?, they are iillotled a uepnrale apart mom. The c'hlckens are also sheltered in tho living and sleeping rooms and are "hutched" In tho llroplrieo. The lire actually Is about two and a half feet above the level of the lloor, and with a few thin pieces of wood Hie aperture underneath Is easily con verted Into a cozy place for the fowls In the winter. In tho village In Mm Nile district, where the bouses have Hat tops, the natives make use of the roofs to "house" their smaller IIvo stock, such us itheep, goats and poultry. STILL LIVE IN "STONE AGE" Film Party In New Guinea Discover People Who Are Interesting Rel ics of tho Past. Adventures In the wilds of New (iiilneii wero experienced by u film party In a small motor launch, the Wattle. The expedition cruised along the coast of New (jtiltu'.'f, three times grounding on uncharted reefs, and each llie the hydrographlo Mult carefully corrected the charts cuiu-icd. A week or so later a storm picked up the Wat tle and Impaled It on a coral spur. Af ter unwelcome labor In a shade tem perature of 101 degrees the launch was relloaled. In ono place tho visi tors found that the people were still In the Neolithic age, stone axes and adzes being In general use. The cam era expert was Interested In the weav ing of cloth by the natives. A special tree was selected and cut down with a stone adze. The bark was beaten and loosened, turned Inside out and placed In the miu to dry. Then It was soaked In water and agnlu dried. Finally It was cut Into lengths with a sharpened Hat stone like a chisel. The Journey ill the liauiii river, In New Ciilnea, was rendered dllllcult by the hidden logs and sometimes only four uml one half miles were covered In the day. Sixty days were xpent In that river, the Wattle pushing up about 170 miles. Albania Defied Sultan. In tho 12."i years that Ainiiretb II was .Sultan of Turkey, he conquered two empires, It! kingdoms and Win cities; but there was one little kingdom, Jy Ing at his very door, which for a quar ter of a century successfully delied and routed Turkish Mohaniiuedlsin and gave Auiureth 11 more trou ble, than all hlh oilier enemies com bined. The kingdom was Albania. John (.iratiot, leader of the Al banians, repelled 'JO separate inva sions of the sultan's army. All In all, nearly 1.000,000 Turkish soldiers were dispatched to conquer the little coun try which was protected ut no time by more than I'.O.OOO Albanians. The Turks suffciod frightful losses. At last after 25 years of the most Mubborn resistance recorded by his tory, Albania yielded, hut not till (Jra tlol himself liad been harvested by the Inevitable grim reaper. Master of Style. The truth of the matter Is, that neither he who Is a fop In the world is a tit man to be alone, nor he who has set his heart much upon the world, though he has never so much under standing; so that solitude can be well lilted and sit right hut upon a very few perxoni. They must have enough knowledge of the world to seetlie vanity of It, and enough virtue to despise all vanity; If the mi ml bo pos sossed with any lust or passions, a man had better be in a fair than In a wood alone. They may, like petty thieves, cheat us perhaps and pick our pockets In the midst of company, but Hlfo robber they ue to atrip and bind, or murder u, when they catch us alone. This Is but to retreat from men tq fall Into the hands of devils. Abraham Cowley. Gusrnsey's Oldeet Charter. Just recently u search In tne archive of K.eter cathedral has brought to Ucht the oldest charter re lating to the rojal court of, (Juernsey, and conlinuliig a grant of land by I'eler Mvcr lo the ubbey of Mont St. .Michel. This In Itself would bo in teresting, but tho document reveals one or two other Important historical facts, lz., that the president of tho court of (iuernsey in 1179 was called vlscomte, and therefore administered as a tiich w.ii, and that tho court was a royal court (Curlu Jtogla). It wis only la later years that a measure of a"lf -government wan conferred on the Islanders. 'ii(iiiiliilliiliiiiiiil!!iiifimill!iiiiiiliii! The Pledge of. E I "4444" I ' i . m.mm.. k k m m By WINIFRED DUNBAR S Villlllllimllllllllllimilllllllllllllllllllllhi I'oiijrrlplu, wn, WiM-rn wct'iiix" l iiimi The fcorluiis-fneoil superintendent ol the grim poliltontlur.V sat at bis desk, pen In hand, u written list of number before lilm. I.'nch number indicated a human beliig under the bap of tho law and In his olllclat charge. "Thlrly-iilne," be observed to (he deputy warden seated oppixillo lo htm, "Who shall be the fortieth?" Gravely the other passed ovor u strip of cardhonrd upon which ho had l.tirrledly penciled the numerals: "-J.M4." "I'll take It on yotir. my so," oh. served the Niiperlntcudent. "Sympalhy doesn't pay In our line, but I think you itnow your mnn." "I do, Indeed, know him," leplled the deputy with warmth uml feeling. "Jle Is a pntlcnt hero, a martyr, and tlio modest, pretty girl, his llatic'ee, who has visit i'il iilm regularly each month since lie came here Is u Jewel of loyalty and love." "Sentiment In the case, too, chV" questioned the superintendent. "I don't know how far a prisoner can be trust ed with his freedom with love In the question." "Let me tell you brieily about Mils Robert Moody," urged the deputy. "I have become Imuienely Interested In li'in." "All right," nodded tho superintend ent, resignedly. "Ills story us I know It Is this: Ills employer, a man named I lodge., a stock broker, sold a widow woman, a Mrs. I'orclval, some worthless mining stock, taking her last Ave hundred dol lars. .She became seriously Ut later and was told that an oxpohslvo surgi cal operation only could save her life. Moody, Indignant at the fraud his em ployer had perpetrated, bought back the securities, paying out the money of Hodges to do It. Then he handed his resignation to the knave. The life of Mrs. I'erclval was saved and Moody became acquainted with her daughter, Nina. Hodges manipulated, tho old ac counts of his business and laid Moody arrested for embezzlement, lie man aged to convict him. Then I lodge tool; a fancy to the girl. She says she will remain true to the lover who gae tip his good name ami liberty for her mother's sike, If she lias to wait a lifetime for his release." "Send In IMJ," was the only com ment the superintendent made, and within a few minutes a young man en tered the room. "Ill I," said the superintendent, "I have chie-cn you ns one of the forty hoimiv convicts." "I thank you," spoke Moody, quietly enough, but drawing In his breath as though the ilrst gleam of freedom had come. "The state has decided to send out an experimental squad to make a park at a town llfty miles away. Its mem bers will not wear the prison uniform, nor will an armed guard be put over them. Think what It means for thou sands of convicts pining for air ami suu,shim and a free lire. If yon forty men ni. true to your proml.-o." "I si;i dot attempt to escape," pledged t m fervently. "If .o'i return, every man In the squad will be given six months' credit." It was ill.e n transition to I'aradlso, the new life f.f the honor squad. Not n man an r them worked as did Mil. lie beci'oe. the director of the public work uiobT const ruction. Once Nina K'ied the camp. For the llr.-I time In thtve years the happy lovers were allowed to sit apart by themselves under a live and discuss their hope.-, their pinns for Mie future, their liiiporlsiiiiblo !e. And then, at the tod of two months, there came a terrible blow to the trustful Nino, a vivid shock to the deputy warden; -MM was missing, had disappeared from the convict camp. Not a word was heard fotn-ernlug the fugitive for over n mouth. One night u man appeared itt il.e great iron gate of the prison and iu.l .-d for the deputy wurden. As the latter ap peared, tho enveloping cloak ami hat were thrust aside. Tale, emaciated, there stood revealed Convict 1MI. "Vou you I" fairly shouted tho as tounded deputy, In amazement, and then the clenr ring of Joy and relief in his startled tones. "Ves, It Is I," responded Moody, weakly.. "1 have come back nt the first moment of my llbeity." "Why, you ran away " "Never. I was drugged whllo I slept In the convict camp, carried away and locked up In the hand's of enemies, beaten and halt starved until this very day." "Knemles you mean V" "The man who sent me to the peni tentiary Ariel Hodges and Ids accom plices. See, some papers 1 got hold of when I escaped. They are written In structions of Hodges to bin confed erates. They outline hi j.lnns." The documents did Just that. The prUon rang with cheers of delight when It was known that 11 1 1 hud not betrayed his trust and doomed the fu turu of the honor squad moenteiit. At onco tho energetic deputy war den placed (he case before the gov ernor of tho stato with all its details. One of tho necoiiipllces of Ariel Hodges was arrested and confined the entire plot to save hbii-eli'. Hodges, taking tho alarm, left tho country, a fugitive frotu 'Justice. A brr.ve, Joy-faced llttlo woman mot Moody a, rehabilitated In the eyes of all men! ho pased. out through the prison doorwfty, alid arm In arm they went down the ftitro Mep.i. : T N't t- itlllllllllllllllllKIIIUIItlllllllllllllllllltllU Sentiment and the Law tm m . , t By DOKOTIIV WHITCOMB jg iniiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiniiimiiiiiiiiiiniiimiiin Cu;ytlfllt, Sv'22, W'ltrn Ne"p,iiHr t uloli "liul law nnil sentiment iito the same thing," said Rogers, the old corporation lawyer. Homehridy had been hiiuonlliig thu nwra.jo Jurym.iu's liability to bring In a cnlict upon the evidence alone. "Sentiment Is law," Rogers repented. "It Is law In Its embryonic htate, iiuf,r.liilllcd, hut ofteii better law than written codes, "Ho any of you remember the I'.rlght murder trial ot the "late seventh's?" he conlliiued, looking round nt us. "No? Well, (here hnvo been many niurd'jri since then, nnil doubtless It was not of epoch-making lniporinnv. Vet 1 was led lo undertake the defense of Howard Rrlghl through sentiment. "It was pretty Lorna Hrlghr, the cousin of the young man, and secretly engaged In hint, who persuaded me. by her protestations of Howard's In nocence, to undertake so desperate a disc. Old Charles I'.rlght hud driven Ids son from his honle, beciuse he preferred (he life of a musician. "Charles Ilright was one of those cantankerous old men who are cordial If haled by their neighbors, lie bail a big estate nf Lanark, Mil., to which he retired "after having disposed of the business which he hoped Howard would Inherit, at a price of two or throe hundred thousands. . Among those who hatcTl him most strongly was I'ete Jones, a small fanner whose lands he had taken when a mortgage fell due. "Now we come to the murder. On Thanksgiving eve, JS7o, the sen tints of the old mini were aroused by a cry and the sound of a shot. They ran out of tho house and saw' their mas ter lying (lead with it .bullet wound through his head. Some fifty yards away stood Howard, a rllle In his hands. He made no resistance and was arrested and duly committed for trial. "As I said, gentlemen, It was Lorna I'.rlght who Insisted that I undertake her cousin's defense. She had been In the house at the time of the mur der ami had known no more than the servants; yet she was confident that her cousin was guiltless. "Howard's story was that he had come home on Thanksgiving eve, to seek a reconciliation; that he had brought an old rllle he had taken away, with a view of Joining his father duck shooting on the Potomac, a sport to which the old mail was very purlin), ami In which he always used it rllle. When he was within llfty yards of the house, however, he heard it rllle dis charged In the distance and saw his father, who had been standing near the tloor, fall forward dead. 'T was convinced of the young man's Innocence by my llrst Interview with lilm. I nsstimctl that .Tones was the guilty man. Jones was at this time living In a cabin about fifteen liifndred yards from the site nf old I'.riglit's house. There seemed no way In which .Tones could be trapped. "All at once I had an Idea. The body had mu yet been burled, though the Inquest was over. It occurred to me th:taiii"li, fired at such a short range would hiivp had velocity enough to have drilled a clean Instead of a Jagged hole in the head. I examined tho wound and found, not only that the wound was hopelessly torn, so far as measuring Its .size went, but that. Instead of heing parallel with the earth, or horizontal. It had a down ward tingle of some H.i degrees, "That discovery senL me wild with eagerness. It was easy to deduce from this that (he bullet had been tired from a considerable distance. As you doubtless know, gentlemen, ut all but point blank ranges the sight on the rllle Is elevated, so that tho ball, In Its trajectory, takes first an upward am) then a downward course. In other words, I had here a triangle, one angle of which measured ,',"i degrees, and the base Hue. as I .surmised, about 1.500 yards that Is to say, the dis tance between the murdered man and .lone' cabin. The two other sides, of course, represented the ascending and the descending lines of the bullet's lllght. 'The rifle, 1 deduced from this, must have been sighted to 1,1. V) ynrds. "The district attorney consented, to take a walk of Inspection with me. I explained to hltu that I wanted to look over the ground; on the way I told him of my theory. He ridiculed the Idea, but together wo made our way Into the swampy bottom of 'tho dried up rivulet. Suddenly we come "upon foot tracks converging toward a single spot from either bank. I stooped and scraped up n few handfuls of earth. After a moment I cauio -upon the rllle barrel. "When we had disinterred It we found Mint It was sighted to 1,1 no yards. "That Is all, gentlemen, .lones, sur prised, made a complete nnd dramatic confession, nnd afterward paid the penalty of Ids crime. Rut, ns I was saying, sentiment has Its proper place In law, and If sentiment hadn't led me to undertake young Height's de fense he would have died a hhnuiefu) death and I.orim I'.rlght would not have been a happy wife for nearlv forty yenrs."' . ' i i 1 1 i i ... t.lf O.V Gl ,.!"!, lll'lj, "Vou udoiI lq think the study of tho classics was unnecessary." "I am beginning to change my mind," replied iho solicitous parent. "1 believe I'd rather have my son keeping his at tout loo on tho classics than reading hojuq of Mm Jokv? hi tho college imperii." HARNESS and SADDLERY Back to Pre-War Prices Come in and sou for yourself our exceptional values. Harness and leather goods of all kinds oiled and 'repaired Rebuilding and repairing automobile tops a specially. FgeI 1 ft PilTJrilElJft Red CIoud Bltfg. . JB Wn IQ&lJSLsCiS Nebraska v tiuraragr-TPMtLicmiij.a.i wux'i- .a , ract mariri0nxetrc33C3xs GREAT MAW FIRST "DUNCE' Term Has Come Down to Us In thi Present Day in a Somewhat Roundabout fvjannor. e If you should ever be called "dunce," don't feel Insulted. Just fallow your stipfrlorlly by springing this Inteieslim; bit of Information. ll who miide the teim famous was u great man. He was considered one ot thu most learned doctors of the early church and of ino Kranclscan order. Ills name we. Duns Senilis, and though ho was dunce by iiitme he was not by nature, as he was renowned for his sharpness and keenness. -Tho present significance of the word "dunce," de rived from the name "Duns," is the result of ancient theological disputes. Away back In theMlddle nges the churchmen who hud been educated In the schools founded by Charlemagne were considered the navants of their age and were respected for their great' learning. Tho time noon came, how ever, when these theologians wore tin longer regarded as authorities and when their writings became unpopular because of the ponderous niTtl scholar ly style In which they were expressed, Among such theologians, called "schoolmen." Huns Scotus was n prom inent represent all v and leader. Con sequently when, a follower of his ex-' pounded theories or quoted from the works of the "schoolmen," he was told. "O. you are a Duns," which im- piled, "Old stulT. my boy, entirely too dull to be modern." Hence we hnvo he word "dunce," meaning dull, heavy, dense. I ARE ATTRACTED BY "MOVIES" Fierce Tribs of South America Brourjht J Into Subjection Throunh Magic of White Man. During the three centuries ufter the conquest of Peru, Spanish missionar ies penetrated all parts of youth Amer ica, but were never able to gain head way among the wild tribes of what Is known as the Gran Chaco, or north ern Argentina and western Paraguay, J an exchange explains. The.it' tribes; belonging to what Is known as the Chaeo-tJuaycurau fam ily of Indians, were described by the early .Spaniards ns ferocious nnd Ir reconcilable, with an Intense hatred of the white man. They were rctless nomads, who lived by huntlm; and llsh ing. Only within the last twenty years have they allowed the white man to advance his settlements and then only because of fear of the Argentine army. One sugar plantation and mill em ploys over '00O of these Indians. But they still keep to themselves and per sist In their own customs. They live apart in "tolddos." or reed huts; dye and tattoo their skins and adhere to their ancient ceremonies. They have formed a great liking for the Amer ican moving pictures, however. At one plantation a moving picture show Is provided at the Indian village ev ery Saturday night, and, although they understand neither P.nglMi nor Span Mi, the Indians squat on the ground and follow the actors wtjli many grunts In their guttural language. The American cowboy actors are their fav orites. Cleopatrn'c Fear.l. Everyone knows thu story which Is toltl of ClcopuU-n to Illustrate her luxurious habits of living namely, that she dissolved in her wine a preci ous pearl. No one seems to have ques tioned what must hnvo been the effect upon tho drink, but cue scientist, at least, questions pointedly the possi bility nf such a solution. Do wo not all believe that tho mag nificent Cleopatra, regardless of ex pense, dissolved In her wine cup a pearl of great price, as If It'hnd been a lump of sugav? Is not thu '.'fact" familiar to every one' i!et, If you test It, you will find the fact to be that pearls are not soluble In wine. The most powerful vinegar attacks but very slowly nnd never entirely dissolves them, for the organic matter remains behind, In the shape of n spongy mass larger than tho original pearl. A Damp Fool. Talking about "getting work out of a husbnnd," in a certain ramlly there Is n saying, "I wish you would do this while you arc wet." A woman whose husband was very good nbout helping about tho house had been Imposed up on until It came to the last straw, when be was driven In from a hard day's work In tho field In the rain. I When he reuchetl the house his wife mpt him with, "Whllo you aru wet" do this, nnd "whllo you nro wet" dt Mint. After she had kept him going ioi sonio time sho ordered hint to get a bucket of water "While ho was wet." lie did, nnd when ho came back with it ho throw It on her and oald: "Now yon do something whllo you are wet." Los Angeles Times. Tl- J i .lTTtyTPV.re.-t-gMTitl A Silly Song by A. Cnek.. o Bird I The Hoo.o hounds fiutn the county seat wont past Bill Mnssctl's farm and Bill Iih beat It for tho phono and scut. in the alarm Kute Donatio whs on tho ; board and quickly warned the town. ho called up every mothers son, from limns to Peleg ilrown. And when tho Uoozo Hounds got to town, tho stieefs of men, woi'o bare, and not a thing but wooilmi folK-sconlil thfy lintl uny where. They skl.,, ,lis wUl wlure F.ir;.(l, WM , They stuck . , , ., iwiiuiiii mi iimir m su iiuo i lien prepar ed to iro. They left, for Fun-ell with his wife, sciny papers sealed with wax. Permits for .elilng alcohol whou he hntl paid his tax Next day the women folks all sent their erring husbands word. My wire caught me in Saint Joe, nil's well, said Mrs. Bird. Now all of us are home again amid the quiet life, but Peleg Brown. He's hiding yet. Ho ain't got any wife. Kansas Pickups SMITH COUXTV Harvey Blairs spent Sunday at Ernie Ingrains. Ed Lull niudo a business trip to Man hattan Tuesday. Kenneth A bbott commenced working1 for Loytl Beaidilee this week. 10. K. Spurrier, County Comuiissict: or, is in Smith Center this week. Kenneth Abbott spent last week at the home of his sister, Mrs. IIoytLull, near Ksbon. Fred Brown's tine residence" burned to the ground last Sunday night. .Tho c.uise is still unknown. Miss Lois Launigan who is attond ing school in Smith Center spent tho weekend with homo folks. Kil Launigan who has been visiting relatives in dtnith Cjnter is now at tho home of his brother Robert Lunnigan. Mrs. K. 10. Spurrier, and Mrs. Mel In Abbott, and baby have been siclc with the flu. Dr Crulghton has been the attending physician. II B. Spurrier and Burl Abbott ie turned home frotu Kansas City last Wednesday whore they accompanied three cms of hogs and cattle. They visited Harry Spunier and family while down there. Australia's Water Supply. Australia's wonderful underground water supply, her artesian basin sys tem, might well rank among her greatest assets. But like other as sets, the artesian water supply can bo wasted, anil Australluns nro noting with concern Mint in New South Wales there luiR been a total diminu tion in the flow of water from 'J68 selected water bores of something like UI.-ICO.OOO gallons a day, or about U-'l.S per cent. It Is now being recog nized that Mie artesian water must bo conserved by the partial closing of the bores, so that only tho How ca pable of hohig used will be allowed to Issue. Th, irrigation commission Is taking steps to" pcnnli.o thu care less bore owner. Christian Science Monitor. Wol&elty and Gordon. There was nothing that Wolselcy loved better than lo recount tho ad venture of his ficelng Uordon off to tho Soudan on November IS, 1SS3, and his dramatic conversation at tho Lon don railway utution, says Edmund Gosse, In an appreciation of Lord Wol scie,. (jordon was settled In the train l.ui WoIjjlIij i.;.l: "By the wny, general, I suppose you have plenty of money?" "Not a penny.!" And Wol selcy, ntids Mr. Gosse, would recount how he- dashed In u hansom to his bank, and brought hack the banknotes Just In time frr the Indifferent Gordon to slip (hum Into his pocket ns tho tfiiRT went off. ,. '( V .) f ; ru ""wiit-ttfrtr.i ' il" .V, V '. i&' in.- ',, i isvr . WMnaOiUVyj-rMf mwttar-mnuate-im . ,w