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EED CLOUD, NEBRASKA. CHIEF niiiiiiiiimiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiittitiiiiiiitiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiititiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHituiiiiiu Ramsey Milholland By BOOTH TARKINGTON Siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiliiitiiiiiiiiiiitiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiittiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiini iiiiifiiiifiiifiiiiiiiiiifiiiiiiiiiiuifiifiitiiifiiiiiiiiiiiiliiitiiiiiiiiiir; P OUT VALKINQ. Dynoptls. With bin grandfather, mall Ramsey Milholland In watch lng tho "Decoration Day Parade" In the home town. The old gentle man, a veteran of tho Civil war, endeavors to Impress the young ter with tho significance of tho great conflict, and many yearn aft erward the boy wan to remember hie wordi with startling vividness. In the schoolroom, a few years afterward, Kamsey Is not distin guished for remarkable ability, though his pronounced dislikes aro arithmetic, "Recitations" and Ger man, In sharp contrast to Itam sey'a backwardness Is tho precocity of little Dora Yocum, a young lady whom In his bitterness he denomi nates "Teacher's Pet." In high school, where he and Dora are classmates, Ramsey continues to feel that tho girl delights to mani fest her superiority, and the vln dlcttveness he generates becomes alarming, culminating In the reso lution that noma day ho will "show" her. At n class picnic Ram sey Is captured bag and baggage by Mllta Rust, tho class beauty, and endures the agonies of his first love. O CHAPTER V. 5 The next morning Ramsey come Into his father's room while Mr. Milholland was shaving, an hour before church time, and" It became- apparent that the on had something on his mind, though for a while he mild nothing. "Did you want anything, Itamsey?" "Well" "Didn't want to borrow my razors?" "No, sir." Mr. Milholland chuckled. "I hnrdly supposed so seriously I Shaving Is n great miUnnne nnd the longer you keep away from It the better. And when you do, you let my razors alone, young feJIerl" "Yes, sir." (Mr. Mllholland's rnzors were safe. Itamsey had already nchlcved one of his own, but he prac ticed the nrt In Becret.) "What Is It you really want, Ram sey?" "I guess I don't wnnt anything." "Money?" "No, sir. You gay' mo some Fri day." Mr. Milholland turned from his mir ror nnd looked over tho edge of a towel nt his son. In the boy's eyes there was such n dumb agony of Inter rogation that the father was a little startled. "Why, what is It, Itamsey? Have you" He paused, frowning nnd won dering. "You haven't been getting in to some mess you wmit to tell mo about, hnvo you?" "No, sir." His tone was meek, bdt n mute dis tress lurked within It, bringing to tho father's mind disturbing suspicions, and foreshadowlngs of Indignation nnd of pity. "See here, Itamsey," he said, "if there's anything you wnnt to ask me, or to tell me, you'd better out with It and get It over. Now, what Is It?" "Well It Isn't anything." "Are you sure?" Rnmsey's eyes fell before the severe nnd piercing gaze of his father. "Yes, sir." Mr. Milholland shook his head doubt fully; then, as his son wnlked slowly out of the room, he turned to complete "And When You Do, You Lot My Razors Alone, Young Fellerl" bis toilet In a somewhat uneasy frame of mind. Ramsey had undoubtedly wanted to say something to him and the boy's expression had shown thnt the matter In question was serious, distressing, and, it might be, critical. In fact it was to Ramsey. Having begun within only the last few hours to regard haberdashery as of vital im portance, and believing his fathsr to be possessed of the experience and au thority lacking in himself, Ramsey had coma to get him to settle a question which had been upsetting him badly, In hi own room, since breakfast What bt wanted to kaow was : Whsthsr It 'xa riant to wur an sxtta hsndkar- chief showing out of tho coat breast pocket or not, und, if it was right ought the handkerchief to have a col ored border or to be plain white? Hut he had never before brought any such perplexities to his father, and found himself too diffident to set them forth. However, when he left the hou.se n few minutes later, he boldly showed nn Inch of purple border above the pocket; then, as he saw himself about to encounter several old lady pedes trians, he blushed and thrust the bund kerchief down Into deep concealment. Iluvlng gono a block farther, ho pulled It up again ; and so continued to oper ate this badge of fashion, or unfnshlon, throughout the morning; nnd suffered a great deul thereby. Meantime, his father, rather relieved thnt Rumsey had not told hla secret, whatever It was, dismissed the episode from his mind and Joined Mrs. Mil holland nt the front door, rendy for church. "Where's Ramsey?" he asked. "He's gono ahead' she answered, buttoning her gloves as they went nJong. "I henrd tho door quite u little while ago. Perhaps he wont over to walk down with Charlotte and Vance. Did you notice how neat he looks this morning?" "Why, no, I didn't; not partlculnriy. Does ho?" "I never saw anything like It be fore," said Mrs. Milholland. "lie only has three neckties, but I saw him sev eral times In each of them. He must have kept changing and changing. I wonder " She paused. "I'm glad he's begun to take u little cure of his appearance nt last. I'll have to take a look at him and give him n word of praise. I suppose he'll he In the pew when we got there." Hut Itamsey wasn't In the pew; and Charlotte, his sister, nnd her husbnnd, who were there, said they hadn't seen anything of him. It was not until the members of his family were on their way home after the services that they caught n glimpse of him. They were passing a church a little distance from their own ; hero the con gregation was Just emerging to the open, and among the sedate throng descending the brond stone steps ap peared an accompanied Ramsey ami a red, red Ramsey he was when he beheld his father and mother nnd sis ter and brother-in-law staring up at him from tho pavement below. They were kind enough not to come to an absolute halt, hut passed slowly on, so that he was Just able to avoid pa rading up the street in front of them. In hoarse whispers, Mrs. Mllhollund chlded her husband for an exclama tion he hud uttered. "John 1 On Sun duy I You ought to be ashamed." "I couldn't help It," he exclaimed. "Who on earth Is his clinging vine? Why, she's got lavender tops on her shoes and " "Don't look round I" sho warned him sharply. "Don't " "Well, what's ho doing nt a Haptlst church? What's ho fidgeting at his handkerchief nbout? Why can't ho wnlk like people? Does he think It's obligatory to walk home from church anchored arm-in-arm like Swedes on a Sunday Out7 Who Is this cow-eyed fat girl that's got him, anyhow?" "Hush! Don't look round uguln, John." "Never fear 1" said her husband, hav ing disoboyed. "They've turned off; they're crossing over to Hullurd street. Who In It?" "I think her name's Rust," Mrs. Mil holland Informed him. "I don't know what her father dpes, She's one of ' tho girls In his class at school. It would be plcusanter If he'd taken a fancy to someone whose family be longs to our own circle." "Taken n fancy 1" he echoed, hooting. "Why, he's terrible 1 He looked like u red-gllled goldllsh that's flopped It self out of the bowl. Why, he " "I say I wish If he felt that he had to take girls anywhere," said Mrs. Mil holland, with the primmest air of speaking to the point "If this sort of thing must begin, I wish he might huvo selected some nice girl among the daughters of our own. friends, like Doru Yocum, for Instance." Upon the spot sho began to undergo the mortifications of a mother who has expected her son, Just out of In fancy, to look about him with tho eye of n critical matron of forty-live. Moreover, she was Indiscreet enough to express her views to Ramsey, a week later, producing thus n scene of useless greut fury aud no little sound. "I do think It's In very poor tasto to see so much of any one girl, Ram sey," she said, and, not heeding his protest thut he only walked home from school with Mllla, "about every other day," and that It didn't seem any crime to him Just to go to church with her a couple o' times, Mrs. Milhollnnd went on : "But If you think you really must be dangling around somebody quite this much though what In tho world you And to tnlk about with this funny little Mllla Rust your poor fa ther sas ho really cannot see nnd of course It seems very queer to us now whon your mind ought to be en tirely on your studies, and especially with such an absurd looking llttlo thing; "No, yon must listen, Ramsey, and list me weak now. What I meant wna Copyrifiht by Doubleday, Paf & Company I E that we shouldn't be qulto so much distressed by your being seen with a girl who dressed In better taste and seemed to hnvc some notion of refine ment, though of course It's only nat ural she wouldn't, with n father who Is Just a sort of ward politician, I un derstand, nnd a mother we don't know, and of course shouldn't care to. Hut, oh, Itamsey t If you had to make your self ho conspicuous why couldn't you he a little hit more fustldlous? Your father wouldn't hnvc minded nearly so much If It hnd been n self-respecting, Intellectual girl. We both say that If you must be so ridiculous at your age as to persist In seeing more of one girl than another, why, oh, why, don't you go nnd see some rcnlly nice girl like Darn Yocum?" Ramsey was already dangerously distended, as nn effect of the earlier part of her discourse, and the word "fastidious" nJmost exploded him; but upon this climax, "Doru Yocum," he blew up with n shattering report nnd, leaving fragments of Incoherence rlco cheltlug behind him, lied shuddering from the house. For the rest of the school term he walked homo with Mllla every after noon and on Sundays appeared to have Evening After Evening They Walked and Walked and Walked. become a resolute Baptist. It was supposed (by tho Interested members of the high-school class) that Ramsey and Mllln were "engaged." Ramsey sometimes rather supposed they were himself, and the dim Idea gave him a sensation partly pleasant, but mostly apprehensive; he was afraid. He was afraid that the day was com ing when he ought to kiss her. CHAPTER VI Vacation, In spite of Increased leis ure, may bring Inconvenience to people In Ramsey's strange but not uncom mon condition. At home his constant air was that of a badgered captive plaintively silent under Injustice; and he found It dlllicult to reply calmly when asked where ho was going an Inquiry addressed to him, he asserted, every time he touched his cap, even to hnng It up! The amount of evening walklug ho (llJ must a,so ,invo ucen n tril to his V nArt'no rtn ..jM1.i rf 1.il.n t.n....l. the ground covered was not vast. Mil la's mother and father were friendly people, but saw no renson to "move out of house nnd home," ns Mr. Rust said, when Mllla had "callers";' and on account of the lntlmnte plnn of their small dwelling a visitor's only alternative to spending the evening with Mr. nnd Mrs. Rust ns well as with Mllla, was to Invito her to "go out walking." Evening nftcr evening they wnlked and walked and walked, usually In company at pcrhups the distance of half a block with Albert Pnxton and Sndle Clews, though Rnmsey now and then felt disgraced by having fallen Into this class; for sometimes It was apparent thnt Albert cncually had his arm about Sadie's waist. This allured Ramsey somewhat, hut terrified him more, no didn't know how such mnt ters were managed. Usually tho quartet had no destina tion; they Just went "out walking" until ten o'clock, when both girls had to ho homo and tho hoys did, too, hut never admitted It. On Friday eve nings there was a "public open-air con cert" by n brass band In a sninll park, and tho four wero always there. Ramsey klitos Milla and fate steps in to separate them and "everything's all over." (TO BE CONTINUED.) On That Condition Only. Local Paper "Unusually large, handsomely furnished room, with bath accommodating three." We should want the faucet end of the tub. Boa- lion Transcript Hie . Amedican LDjIGN (Copy for This Department Supplied by tho Amorlcan L,ct;lon Nows Service.) OHLINGER A VALUABLE MAN Former Intelligence Officer Frustrated Many Antl-Amcrican Activities During War. The name of Gustavus Ohllngcr night have meant something to the kaiser during the war, anil It did. The German soci eties that were rampant during the period knew well Cnptnlii Gus tavus Ohllngcr of t h o Intelligence department of the United States. He broke up their meetings and many of these so defies and their activities ceased to operate by reason of his learning so much of their prop aganda nnd plotting. Ills home Is In Toledo, O., where the American Legion has as Its com mander this same Gustavus Ohllngcr. The Legion convention was In full blast in his home city when a wealthy Toledoan burst In and announced that he would pay the entire expense of the ex-service men's gathering If they would drop their bonus stand. What Ohllngcr told him was never learned from n live-foot shelf, but It was good enough to cause n hurried exit on the part of tho Toledo buslntv? man. That's why the Legionnaires like him. Kid gloves might be alright to use feonietlmes, but Ohllngcr doesn't draw them on when he tackles Legion prob lems. Horn of German parentage In China, a close friend of tho late Theodore Roosevelt, world traveler and famed as having ridden a bicycle across South Africa are a few of tho things thnt show why "Gus" stands ace high with tho Legion men and also why he must be reckoned with by any group whose Americanism Is questionable. LEGION PAPER'S BOSS SCRIBE Philip Stapp, Formerly Editor of Over. seas Publication, at Head of Hoosler Publication. It is said that every town nnd vil lage In Indiana boasts nt least one au thor whose writ ings hnvo won some degree of fame In the lit erary world. Reared in this atmosphere so fa vorable to scrib blers, it was In evitable that Hoosler mem bers of the Amer i c a n Legion should desire some medium of expression for their Legion Ideas. The result was the establishment of tho Hoosler Legionnaire, which recent ly started publication with a circula tion of 32,000. Philip B. Stapp of Greensburg, for merly editor of the Hour Glnss, over seas publication of the "Sauntering Seventh" division, Is editor of tho In dlana publication. A delegate to the Paris caucus of tho L'eglon, Stapp was appointed n member of tho first na tional publicity committee of tho Le gion. During his 20 months, of serv ice In the war, Stapp rose from "buck prlvnto" to a commissioned officer In tho field nrtlllery. The newspaper Is sent to nil Indi ana Legtonnnlres every week. MANY "OUT OF COMMISSION" Nearly Dozen Destroyers Which Wore Coveted Gold Star on Stacks, Are Doomed. A typewriter lias at last defeated nearly a dozen of the destroyers which for four years zigzagged through tho North sea and In tho submarine zone of the Atlantic and gained notable vic tories over German submarines. The coveted gold stnrs, worn on the stacks, where all might see and know that a German sub had met death, were awarded the Parker, O'Brien, Cum mlngs, Porter, Davis and many others which hnvo been ordered "out of com mission" by the Navy department. "Out of commission" means nothing more or less than that the fast grow ing navy Junk pile grows higher. Never again, probably, will these greyhounds of the deep circle around n fleet of transports, suddenly dive off to one iide, sweep back again, drop a depth iK'inli, and then wntch the oil come to Htirfnco that shows another Germnn submarine has gone down to visit Davy Jones., The thrills of the deeds of theso "star" destroyers are a bit overshad owed by the news thnt the Shaw Is slated for the scrap heap, too. She was escorting the hugo British transport Aqultnula when tho rudder Jammed and the giant ship ran her down. The Jacob Jones nlso brings back sad mem ories. Sho Is named for tho first III fntcd torpedo boat of that nnmo which was sunk while battling In tho subm'a- V-4b? y' WHY SOUSA JOINED LEGION The Noted Bandmaster Cays He Thinks It Is a Rattling Good Organization. "I Joined the Legion because I find n right to, being In the navy, and I did so because I think It is a rat tling good organ i 7. a 1 1 o n," says John Philip Snusa, bandmas ter extraordinary and lender of the mammoth naval band nt the Great Lakes n u v a 1 training station during the war. The Legion and Its activities are all parts of the being spread Into world by the band leader's men. Thirty-two of the master musicians who innko up the Sousn organization nro ex-service men, and nearly all are af filiated with the Legion. They come from every pnrt of the country nnd saw service In every branch of this country's military organization dur Jng tho war. When Kotisu took hold of the Great Lukes band It was a group of sailors, whose right to play under him could have come only with their enlisting with the crowd that "took Vm over." Whnt he did with this group of mu sical talent became known the country over. What they learned under Sousn i couldn't have been learned anywhere else, and the llr.cr points of the mu sician's nrt are being shown to tho hriidreds of Legion posts whoso per sonnel Is made up of one or more of the gobs who made up the largest service baud of thy many brought Into being during the war. NAME DESTROYER FOR PRUITT Highest Honors Paid One of Pershing's Men Who Went to Death In War. It Is seldom that one of Uncle Sam's ' sen lighters Is named for an enlisted man of the navy or marine corps. Tltla has been done In the case of Corp. John Prultt, one of Pershing's bun dreds of heroes, who died from wounds while fighting Ger mans. Honors hud been heaped on Corporal Prultt before he met death, but the naming of a de stroyer for him didn't tnkc place until long afterward. Mr. and Mrs. George Prultt of Phoenix, Ariz., have Just received from the Italian government a citation and the Italian war cross, Croce ill Guerre, in recognition of their son's valor nearly four years ago. The cita tion told of young Prultt's single handed battle against two machine gun crews, capturing both, killing two of tho enemy and taking -10 prisoners. Under nge nnd therefore Ineligible for the first draft. Prultt volunteered for service with the marines less thnn three weeks after war was declared. He was In Franco in January, 1018, and served as a "Devil Dog" until his death. Ills body was brought back to this country and burled with nil the honors that are a hero's. In the Nation al cemetery at Arlington. LEGION HAS CEMETERY PLOT Racine (Wis.) Organization Will. See That No Ex-Scrvlee Man Sleeps in Potter's Field. The American Legion nt Racine, Wis., lias taken over a part of one of the city's cemeteries and will hold It In order that no one of the ex-service men who did his share In the army or navy during tho World war need sleep In a potter's Held. When the Legion's work on Its acquired plot Is complete, Racine will hnve a miniature Arling ton. The plot Is circular and will be fittingly arranged in order tha.t it may look as much as possible like the na tional cemetery In Virginia. Tho Legion men have authorized tho expenditure of ?3,803..,0 for the land. A steel mast, from which will fly the Stars nnd Stripes Is one of the first things the organization will buy. Al ready Racine's C." ex-service men are hurled In two of its cemeteries. An effort Is to lie made to have as many of these ns possible transferred to the new plot. Room for the burial of more than 300 veterans Is being al lowed for. Tho next session of tho Wisconsin legislature will be asked to raise tho nmount which tho state allows for tho burial of a war veteran. At present thin amount is but ?r.O, but It Is hoped thnt tills will bo Increased to 575 or $100. It rained $.r00 for the Legion In Tor onto recently. Insurnnco was taken out agnlnst more than 10-100 of an Inch on a celebration day. The pre cipitation was 14-100. Bronze doors will lend Into tho $250, 000 memorial hall to be erected at Cen tralis Wash., hi honor of tho four American Legion men who were killed by I. W. W. members In that city. 1 Carrying On With the American Legion If You Need Strength and Reserve Power Tako TANLAC Tho World's Grcatett Tonic SQUEEZED TO DEATH ( When tho body begins to stiffen and movement becomes painful it is usually an indication that tho kidneys are out of order. 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