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Burgess Bedtime Stories By THORNTON W. BURGESS. The Greafest Surprise of All. l ove Is faithful, come what may, Nor counts the cost it has to pay —Mrs. Hooty. Farmer Brown's Boy got out of bed very early. He usually does get out of bed early, but this morning he wag earlier than usual. In fact, the last of the twinkling stars had not yet vanished in the sky. What was he getting up so early for? I Guess. Just guess. He wag getting up so early for just one thing, and that was to sec if there would be anything on the top of the pen he had made for the young Horned Owl he had taken trom a nest in the Green forest. You remem ber that every morning he had gone out to feed that, young Owl he had found the body of a Wood Hat or a Moqse or some other of the little pen pie of fur and feathers lying on the top of that pen. Never wljen he went to bed had there been anything there. He had always looked each night the last thing before going to bed. So be knew that whoever came there must come in the night or just after daylight in the morning. Ilo meant to make sure which it was. An soon as he was dressed he wer.t downstairs and opened the back door. Daylight was beginning to drive out the Black Shadows everywhere. Farmer Brown's Boy hurried over to the wire pen beside the henhouse, t >f course he had his eyes lixfd on the1 top of it. Sure enough, there lay something dark. just, as had been the j case for several mornings past, lb wondered if it would be a Rat or .a Rabbit or a Squirrel or some other of the little people. He was so intent on this that he forgof to look around. As he drew near the pen he happened to glance up at the top of the henhouse. There on the peak sat a big bird. At first he didn't recognize it as a bird. You see it sat. perfectly still. But as he drew near it suddenly spread great wings and, as silently as the Bla< k Shadows which were slipping away before the Jolly I.lltle Sunbeams of I the early morning, flew.' away and disappeared toward the Green Forest. "An Owl!" exclaimed Farmer Brown's Boy. "That was a Great Horned Owl! It must have been either Hooty or Mrs. Hooty! By the! size 1 suspect it mis Mrs. Hooty. Now what was she doing over here? It is a wonder that she didn’t see that thing, whatever it is, down there on the top of the pen and fly away with it.” And right then a great light flooded the mind of Farmer Brown's Boy. It was the light of understanding. "She brought that!” he cried egeited ly. "It is a Grouse and she brought it! She brought it for that little Owl I have shut up in the henhouse. Of course! Why didn't 1 think of that "An Owl!" exclaimed Farmer Brown's Boy. "That was a (treat Horned Owl” before? .She brought nil those other things. Somehow’ she found out that thul baby of hers is kept in this pen, though how she did it 1 don't know. She hay simply been bringing food to him and leaving it there for hint every night, or else x-cry early every morning. Yes. sir, that is just what has been going on. She has been looking after Iter baby or trying to, even if he is a prisoner. 1 wouldn't have believed it if anybody had told mo. But having seen her here I know it Is true. She gax-e me a lot of surprise, hut this is the biggest surprise of all.” (Copyright, ) Parents’ Problems How can children best bo taught to understand and endure amiably good natured laughter at their ex pense! Teach them to join heartily in laughter at their own expense till the general hilarity makes them en tirely forget the original cause of it. Adcle Garrison Mv Marriage Problems The Way Madge’s Captors Were Nearly Captured. As the put put-put of the approach ing motorcycle sounded closer the big man looked out of tlie rear window of i ha car. •It's a cop. all riglii." he said, "and coming like tiiu devil." The yashmak veiled woman spoke for the first time in a husky contralto, patently feigned, but which removed the last doubt I had that she was in reality Grace Draper. "Quick! that robe!’’ she said. "We may be aide to get by with saying she's ill. If not. you know what to do.” There was a significance in her manner which made my blood con geal, although I did not know whether the approaching motor policeman or I was tlie subject of her sinister ref erence. Rut even through my fright, with the odd irritation which trivia] things sometimes bring. I resented her continued incognito. And even as the big man unfolded the motor robe she had indicated, T spoke sneeringly. "Do spare me the melodramatic, voice." I said. "The rest of it is probably necessary from your stand point. but 1 recognized you in the tea room the other day, so you may as well—" I never finished the sentence, for as I he big man sprang toward me with tlie blanket, pinioning my arms. Grace Draper forced a gag between my teeth, and fastened it with a swift ness and deftness which spoke vol umes for her practice in such work. "Wrap the robe around tier close to rover the gag,” Grace Draper directed. "Just her ryes showing, Unit's right. Now lean on me. darling." she mim icked, while, her hateful arms went round me, pressing me so close to her that I could not move my arms. "It's just awful i hat you have had this trr rible attack on the road, but we ll get you to tlie hospital just as quickly as we can. Don't worry, sweetheart!" "You Know Wliat to Do?” "Careful," the big man warned in a low voice. "He just shot by. giving George the signal to stop. He's slow ing up now and coming back." Are you ready for him?" There was something coldly menacing In both words and voice. t “Yes. Give me tlie dope iignin.” “If lie makes it simple speeding with either George or you, give the j names agreed on. accept your sum mons if you size him up ns not to he squared—I'll give you the rue on that —and let him go. But if he tries bo poke his nose inLO this other business ' —she gave me a vicious little poke with her elbow—“you know what to do." "Nobody better, my dear," he re plied with a flourish, and then tlie motorcycle had drawn up beside- the - ar and we could hear the poiicetnan i interrogating George. "Where's your operator's license?” George fumbled in his coat and pro duced it. "Humph!" He made a note of the number and began to write a sum mons. There was no motion or sound I | could make to attract his attention, land with the sinister utterances of i Grace I Ira per and the big man in my | oars, I doubt whether I Would have j given a signal if I could 1 had no desire to he responsible even indirect ly for 11 io death or maiming of the policeman, and my eyes, tlie only part of my head or person left un swathed in the pinioning folds of the blanket, showed me an ugly looking automatic in the big man's hand, con cealed by his overcoat. A Swift Blow. I iiad begn hoping against hope that ] a policeman would come to my aid j With the menace of that weapon haunting me. I found myself hoping that the officer would go away with out looking into the rear of the car. Hut he was evidently incensed at the speed of the car. and be said sternly when he had finished writing the summons: “A clear 60. and if I'm not mistaken you're an old offender. I 11 take pleasure of seeing that you get tlie limit. And 1 want to see the owner of this car. I'd hke to look him over." He stepped hack to the tqnneau ! door, and the big man gruwied: "Well! you see rue. What do you 1 , want of me? You haven't any legal - right to me. you know. You've got the chauffeur all right, nobody's kicking on that, so on your way." ! The officer's eyes, unusually keen. ] ' had swept the interior of the car. I | suppose my eyes must have showed] tlie effect of my terror ami the gag in ■■ toy mouth, for he suddenly reached i forward, and with a swift movement Beatrice Fairfax Problems That Perplex Plenty o’ Hsli in Sea. Ileal' Miss Fairfax: 1 have often lead your advice to others ami uni now coming for some myself. 1 am a girl of 17. about th" medium type of giil. 1 wish to ask your advice in the following: When 1 was a, girl of J5 T met a boy three years my senior. He began to be too friendly, mid 1 did not gi\e him any encouragement, but lie kept on until 1 got provoked at him, for I thought myself st-ill too young fm such nonsense and treated him cold. Hr did not art so friendly, but al ways had u smile when i met him. IfoW'Ver, of late, (after i was lit, lie began to treat me, out if the Way, or cold, as soin* jay. A ft w days ag< ] heard that lie was keeping company with a girl who is not of the best kind I like this young man How eyn t regain ins friendship? Do you think Lis friendship is worth while or not? I am a junior in high sellout and have ilie si huoi and athletics to take my time there, hut when I am doing nothing or something that dot.sn i O' ciipy my mind this young man al ways come* to my mind. How can I forget itirn. Thanking you in ad vance. Mlt'KHy, Surely at your age you realize tin truth Ilf the old adage iliere an more fish in the sea than have ever been caught.'* Two years of devo tion at 15 and 17 are out of the ordi* nary in friendships, and I dare - ty vuur keeping him on your nnnd is tbe result of his keeping you oft of hi*. lb tty Your Jetter was very . teresting and I believe 1 understand the ease, f think tin hoy lias really been fair to you, and I think he prob ably rare* inure dei ply for you than you realize. Now is your chance to show him how tine and strong and fair you are. Advise him to go to see this other girl. You see he has a sort of • hang-over'' affection for her. lie idealized h< r when he was young. The preliabilities are that if he sees her again tile spell will lie broken and he will come to a teallza dragged the blanket away from my mouth, exposing the gag Hut it was his last conscious motion, for with the quickness of a cobra thrust, the leg man lifted the automatic, revtrsed ir and delivered a blow upon Ins head that dropped him like a log. tion that, after all, you are the one. I Jt will lake some self-control and courage for you to go through with this, but I believe you will win in i the end if you do. of course. I do not know, nor pre ] tend to know*, everything. H** might see the girl again and decide that it is she he loves*. In that cage you wouldn’t want him, nor could y ou win him, anyway. \. ^ / wlmt you need. You will just have to go with the girl long enough to 1* t her nst urc her*.* if that sin < Lr» s for you. VN c can’t hurry our feelings, you know, i am glad to know there is such ;t sine* r* , fine girl, and that you have found her. Try to ap pi * ciate her and give her time to make up her own mind. \ Friend: The only suggestion 1 can make is that you go to some older friend In your town and lay your troubles before him or Jicr <J*t that person to go 10 your parents and r* X yon the matter over. You an* rather young to he going with boys. Per haps your parents will promise you that in another year or two you may. Posy < he; hs: From you letter 1 g.itliar chiefly that you have rosy cheeks. Well, that is splendid. 1 hop- they arc natural. Hiss: There art many bonks on goo*! nunmo! > Writ* th< Mot’lurg c’n., Chicago, and they will tell the names of some them - ■ — - ■- ■ --- Uncle Sam Says Tuberc Miosis Prevention. Tuberculosis- is u < mtagious di.-* u***. Kvcry existing cas- contracted it by hreathing in or swallowing the germs which cause Jt. It is probably never Inherited, Uhildicn of consumptive patients often becom* tuberculous be cause they have Jived in an infected house and have inhaled ami swallowed the germs repeatedly It is not in tensely contagious like measles and scarlet f \er; it is not contra* t <1 by merely coming in contact with a con sumptive, nor even by living in the house with him. if he ia care ful and clean. It require# an intimate ex posure to the disease, such as occur* when one sleeps with a consumptive, ustB the same drinking cup. dishes, or towel, or shares a living room day after day with a *-a redes* patient, who spits on the floor or coughs with an uncovered mouth. The United States Public Health Service iqis issued a booklet which BARNEY GOOGLE— BARNEY STRIKES A SOUR NOTE Drawn for The Omaha Bee by Billy De Beck (Cop/ritftiL 1 ) MR <Soo6Ife , 1 M SO i [ 'roo • r voAwr you Tfe MEET <^VR GOOBER */uitu,. ^ VEOV C*A« PY?\e MD Of Gco^VE. a Twe Fw^«-Y * ME s f J nAW>e*J T«» VER'Y MWW AM \ (M RAC«*J<s- » ^_At Tt»«r _( I OJOOtO LIKE \ \ T* NV1«* A^A*1? -V ' V^'SMRK WoGry /SHAktX -! (Mn.^oof - / MSh V^m is r*v» SXSTBtt. <aoo<it£ 3MC UJHL '**j - r-M <, o.aj <v Ti Twv /-> B «j<tv MO Goo^Sft - V < WH* IW. ILwt {'oteto I nr ^ 'VWhA f~U»Kl£r AA'V Thon^ l^VOU UKty 3-ll BRINGING UP FATHER— SEE JIGGS AND MAGGIE IN FULL PAGE OF COLORS IN THE SUNDAY BEE Drawn for The Omaha Bee by McManus .Copyright 1923) HELLO - HELLO HELLO JIC.C’b* HELLO JIC(Cit>!! AH' OOI • I >—j UNDERSTAND PER-FECT-LV! ©IMS *V IMT L FtATWW SlftVICt. InC. lolls about those dangers. suggests caution for the wet!, and tells about symptom* of tuber- uke-us. and ad vise** those .affected to help prevent its spread. Headers of The Omaha He® may nijtii n a copy of Oil* bOokkt frae «* Jong as Uh I n>- edition lasts by writing to thr* 1 n.tad tilaUti lJubiiC Health Servin'. V\ astiliigton. V. C , asking for "M,. H ,na is I'ublb aitlon i No. 27." Pyorrhea Comes to Four Out of Every Five Bleeding gums? Trouble ahead Pyorrhea follows tender, breeding gums. Take no chances. It strikes four persons out of every five past forty, and thousand* younger, too. Brush your teeth with Forhan's For the Gums. If used consistently and ua_d iu time, it will prevent Pyorrhea or check its progress, and keep the teeth white and clean and the gums firm and healthy. It is pleasant to the taste as well. The formula cf P«. J. Forhan, L). D. S. At ail druggists, 35c and 60c in tubes. Formula ofR. J For has. D D 5. Ferhan Company. New York | forbao'i, Limited. Montreal AIM LRTIMSMt-NT. MOTHER! MOVE "California Fig Syrup" is Child's Best Laxative Even f ti ^ fevci'.sh bil cor stipated «>r full of cold, children love lhe fiipty* txete «f ‘Valifort...* K g Syrup A teasjtoonful never fails to • lean the liver and l*owe** In a few hours you can see f* r yourself how thoroughly it works ail the souring f«x»d and nasty bile out of the stom ach and bowels, and you have a well, playful rhild again. Millions of mother# keep "Califor nia Fig Syrup** bandy. They kiu.vv a teaspCHinful today saves a s.< k child tomorrow. Ask your druggist for gi i uine "California Fig Syrup which has direction# for halves and children of all ages printed on bot tle. Mother! V#u must say "Califor nia * or you may get an imitation hg syrup. *"**• How to Start the Day Wrong Hrigga ThRC£ CHEER6 For The UKtl\i£R'3e HOO RftV Hoo- RaY( ■.— - NOW AlTOOE? TlHEP ThFiCC CHSERsS for Cleam lnino AhO OOoO.HtALTH* » hoo KAi. H’RAY * M RAY ! 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