That
Interview
By Donald Allen
IfCopyriiht, b> Associated I.itetaiy Treat.)
Miss .losle Morris was on a visit to
tier college chum and best friend,
Florence Gray. Miss Josle had ar
rived at the dignified age of twenty,
hut was still referred to by her ac
quaintances as "that mischievous
jninx " On the contrary. Miss Flor
ence, who was a year younger, hod
dignity enough for a woman of forty,
and was not t<> be compared to a
minx, a fox, a wolf or any other ani
mal.
Mr. and Mrs. Morris bad been
called away from their home for a
stay of four or five days. They did
not doubt that Florence could man
age things during llielr absence, but
they did not take that little "minx"
into consideration.
Something was wrong with the |
auto, and It wax not to be taken out i
of the garage until the father re
turned. Me hndn't left the home an
hour before Miss .hade was planning
to have it out. She pestered and pro
tested and coaxed, and when the
gardnor had finally looked tho ma
chine over and said lie guessed II was
all right If not speeded up, Miss
Florence reluctantly permitted herself
to be coerced.
Off they started one afternoon, with
the gardener al the wheel, and at
the end of a mile they left the high
way, dodged a telegraph pole, tore
through a stone wall and brought up
In a blackberry patch. No one was
killed no one badly injured. They
were Just shaken up; and the auto
was just smashed.
The accident was heard of, and tho
city editor of the Kugle assigned a
reporter to secure the details In an
•Interview. The gardener, who had
Just had his scnlp wound dressed,
said that the thingumbob had sud
denly got away from the thlngumjig,
I AM P(AF; AWP
' PUKB, YOU MUST
WE1T6 OUT YOUR.
QumsrtoNS’
and that the first hing he Knew ho
didn't know anything, except that the
boss would surety give him the
bounce when he returned.
This was not enough for the
Eagle. It wanted thrills and sensa
tions, and the gardener was sent into
the house to see if they could he had.
A personal Interview was requested
witli Miss Florence Gray. She prompt
ly replied in the negative, but just as ]
promptly ‘ that little minx" came to !
the front with:
"Oh. it will he delightful! All my
life 1 have longed to he interviewed
for a newspaper, but it has never
come about."
* ’“But father w ill he angry."
“Then, you needn't interview. I'll ;
attend to it.”
“But you'll make a great long story 1
of it."
“Of course l will; and, oh, Flor
ence. we can have some fun out of it
at the same time. We can make it
the greatest Interview of the twen
tieth century!"
"What do you mean?" her friend
asked.
"You needn't come in the room at
all. I'll tie a bandage around my head
and another around one of my ankles,
and I'll pretend to lie deaf and dumb.
Oet in© a pencil and some pap«r. It
will be barrels of fun."
Hut- but—’’
Hut she had her way about It. The
reporter was shown into the parlor
to find one of the victims of the ac
cldent nesting in a big easy chair, ami
he proceeded to say:
'•I am from the Eagle, and 1 shall
be much obliged fqr your story of
the accident. Were yon speeding?"
Miss Josie fetched n groan and
wrote on a slip of paper:
"I am deaf and dumb. You must
write out your questions.”
“Hy George, but this is rather in
teresting!" exclaimed the reporter.
“Deaf and dumb, and a staving look
ing girl at that! Too blamed bad.
First and only interview with a deaf
and dumb girl."
And he wrote out the question he
■had asked before, and she wrote in
answer:
“No, we were not speeding. We
were just passing a swamp, and 1
think a bullfrog came out and at
tacked one of the front wheels. I
felt the machine give an awful shud
der, just as a strong man does when
he Is shot and death comes to him.”
. “She can’t mean that they were at
tacked by a bullfrog, and yet she says
so,” murmured the reporter. "It'll
male- good ropy, though. That will
entne under the head of A New Dan
ger to Autuists Beware the Bull
frog.' "
Then I •• wrote and asked her what
she (hot ght ns the auto left the high
way tirt.l site realized that a smash-up
wan Imminent, and she replied:
"I thought of some popcorn I onco
bought at Coney Island. It was the
heat ever. I wish 1 could find some
more like it.”
"Here's Ingenuousness for you,”
said the reporter. "Bhe must be all
Of nineteen or twenty, and yet she
has the mind of a girl of ten. That
will go under the sub head of: 'Death
Staring Her in the Kura, and Yet She
Thinks of Coney Island Popcorn!"’
Then he wrote and asked her If she
could remember her sensations ns the
machine was plowing its way through
the stone wall, and she answered:
"Most vividly. I thought I was in
my room arid turning handsprings
over the bed and cartwheels around
it I had just turned a hack somer
sault and kicked a globe off the chan
delier when the auto stopped."
"By George, but she may be a cir
cus or a vaudeville girl!" exclaltnt'd
the reporter. "No, she can’t be. Her
father Is a church deacon and In the
lumber business. Never heard of a
girl turning cartwheels In her own
room before. I'll make a daisy thing
ol Ibis Interview."
Then he asked her If at any time
during the awful danger she felt the
sensation of fear.
“Not a( all," was the reply. “On
the contrary, there was such a feel
ing of contentment that I cannot de
scribe It. I seemed to be floating in
the air on angels' wings. I could look
down on earth and see an old woman
frying eggs and bacon, and oh. how I
longed for them; I tried to fly down
for dinner, but I kept flying higher
Instead."
"By George! Ity George!" softly
exclaimed the newspaper man. "I’ll
run that In under the subhead of:
Bacon and Kggs and Grim Death.'”
Then he asked If she thrilled when
the auto at length brought up In the
blackberry bushes.
"I lelt seven successive Ihrills pass
over me," she replied, “and then I
found myself picking blackberries to
carry home for a pie. I was cut and
bruised and shaken, but I did not feel
II. I was languid. I was placid. I
was content. If death had come it
would have been painless. I think
they ought to kill our murderers thut
way instead of hy electricity. That's
all."
The Eagle man went away with the
■‘scoop" of his life, and "that little
minx” tumbled down on the floor and
laughed until she had to be threat
ened with life imprisonment. The
Eagle was watched for next morning,
but not a line of that interview could
be discovered. It was so the next
day, and then the young man called,
lie was met by the conscious-stricken
Josie, who blushingly began to stam
mer excuses, hut was Interrupted
with:
"Will you please tell the deaf and
dumb young lady that I would like
to speak to her tor a moment?"
"Hut I am she.”
'Yea, I think you are, come to look
at you closely."
"And -and you wanted to say?"
"1 wanted to say that there were
no thrills in that interview the other
day until the last. 1 am going to
put them Into this at the very start.
Where can 1 find your father?"
"In the city, but hut
"No, you don't understand, but I'll
explain. 1 am going to him to ask
for the hand of his deaf and dumb
daughter, and tell him that I'll pro
vide au asylum for her for the resf j
of her life."
"Sll !"
"And then I'm going to woo you
until you consent to he my wife. No
use talking, lust be deaf and dumb
about it. l lost the scoop, but 1 am
going to gain you."
Bringing Out India's Wealth.
India's secreted wealth is venturing
into the open. A short time ago a
financial adviser in northern India
made the suggestion that all existing
railway Hues be converted into com
panies for the purpose of “unearthing
India’s hoarded millions," the reason
for the unwillingness of the natives j
to invest their money being, in his
opinion, their lack of a r°ady means
of selling out In time of need. But it
is the Co-operative Credit Societies
that have enticed the savings from
their hiding places. The lieutenant- j
governor of the Punjab, In his re
view of the working of these socie
ties in his province during the last
year, states that bags of rupees crust
ed with mould have been deposited in
ihe banks which have been establish
ed in connection with these societies.
Another observer believes that the
restoration of these mould-crusted
rupees Into circulation shows that
the co-operative movement is begin
ning to tap the hoarded wealth of the
province, and he looks upon it already
as “one means of securing the erec
tion of elevators in the great wheat
exporting tract." Thus begins the
snapping of anoth r of the few re
maining outward ties betwee.. this age
and those that now live chiefly in
hooks.
Maine Out-of-Doors Sleepers.
Sleeping out of doors is a prevailing
habit among Skowbegun people. About
00 people, winter and summer, sleep
' in the open, some having only a piazza
to sleep under and others are building
sleeping ]>orches. This habit is not
among sick people entirely, but people
1 who are apparently well.—Portland
1 Press.
THE AIRY GIRAFFE.
Said a port little dug to a tall giraffe,
“It Isn’t that any one cares.
Hut you look so stuck up that the neigh
bors laugh
And aay you are putting on airs,**
The glmPfe was annoyed, as you could
plainly see,
Vnd sniffed as he made reply:
“If you had a nice long neck like me.
You would do the same ns I.”
FRINCESS MARY NOW TYPIST
King George's Only Daughter Learns
How to Operate Typewriter—To
Learn Stenography.
Princess Mary, King George's only
daughter, lias recently learned to use
a typewriter.
There are two women typists at*
Inched to (he secretarial staff of Marl
borough House, which is the king's
residence, one of whom, at the prin
cess' request, taught her how to op
erate the machine. The princess
proved an apt pupil and devoted her
self so assiduously to the work that,
after a few weeks of Inst ruction and
practise she was able to work a type
writer at a fair rate of speed.
During the reigning family’s recre
ation at Balmoral. Scotland, her royal
highness will assist in typing some of
her fathers more private correspond
ence.
The princess intends to learn ste
nography also and iB keenly looking
forward to helping her mother, Queen
Mary, regularly with her correspond
ence when tile royal family is settled
in Buckingham palace.
This princess was the first royal
.personage to open an account in the
postoffice savings hank, which she did
three years ago on her tenth birth
day.
VISITING.
"My little girt, I hopo you tried
Your very bent to be,
Quito ladylike and w«»ll behaved.
When you were out to tea?
"And that you Haiti: Y- h. If you please ’
When tilings wore offered you;
Or. 'No, I thank you,' quietly,
Jimt as I told you to?"
"Yes, mamma, dear, I smiled ami said:
‘Yes, thank you,’ no polite;
And 'If you pb as< ancl sat up straight
Amt always acted right.
"I didn’t say, ‘No, thank you,’ though,
IVeause, mamma, you see.
1 wanted all they helped me to
When 1 went out to tea."
TELLING AGES OF ANIMALS
Not Yet Possible to D'-termine Age
at Which Many Sea and Land
Creatures Die.
Some sea creatures and a few land
creatures live so long that It has not
yet l>#en possible for man to deter
mine the age at which it is natural
lor them to die. It is stated, for in
stance, that in 141»7. in a European
lake, a pike was caught which could
not have been less than 270 years old.
There was a brass ring in the fish’s
lower jaw, and on the ring an inscrip
tion showing that the ring was placed
there in the year 1230—207 years pre
v iniislv Again, if the bone plates in
a whale’s mouth, which are said to
Increase regularly each year, arc an
indication of the creature’s age, as is
believed, tin# 400 years is not an un
usual lifetime for a whale. Even the
common ring trout lives from 30 to 50
years.
The natives of India believe that
elephants live to be 300 years old.
One was kept in captivity 150 years,
and the age of the animal at the time
of his capture was not known. Camels
normally die between the ages of 40
and 50, horses from 20 to 30, oxen at
20, sheep at 8 or 0 and dogs at 12 or
14. Swans 100 years old and ravens
older have been known, while pheas
ants and ordinary chickens live 12 or
16 years—provided they do not find
their way to the frying pan many sea
I sons earlier.
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Pillow Climbing.
In tlie middle of the floor, some lit
tle distance apart, place sofa cushions,
stools, umbrella stands, large vases,
etc. From among the company choose
some one who has never been
•’hoaxed" and ask him to first walk
over the course around and between
these articles, so as to fix in his mind
their situation and distance apart. He
is then blindfolded and told to find
liis way carefully among them again
j so as not to touch anything.
Very gingerly he will do so. and
when triumphant over his success the
bandage is taken from bis eyes, to his
surprise, not an article remains on the
floor. All were quickly and quietly
removed while he was being blind
folded.
His cautious movements and tack
ing here and there to avoid the ob
stacles that are not there, make fun
| ior the onlookers.
WHISKY NO GOOD FOR COLDS
Persons Partakirg of Alcohol Are
More Likely to Suffer From Ex
posure Than Others.
At this season of the year the advice
is freely given, "take a little brandy or
whisky to keep out the cold or drive
away a chill.” To all such we com
mend the teachings of Dr. Norman
Kerr, than whom on tills subject there
Is no higher authority.
When he was asked If brandy or
whisky was good to ward off a threat
ening cold or drive away a chill?
"No,” replied Doctor Kerr. "On the
contrary, it is an entire fallacy to sup
pose that brandy or alcohol, In any
shape or form, either warms the sys
tem or keeps off cold. As a matter of
fact, alcohol, after a very temporary
rise of temperature, extending over a
few minutes only, lowers Die vital tem
perature, In consequence of which the
drinker Is actualy lobbed of heat In
stead of acquiring an additional sup
ply. Persons partaking alcohol are
more likely to suffer from cold or ex
posure to it than those who abstain
from It. It Is for this reason that in
climates such as Lower Canada the
soldiers on guard are Instructed never
to take alcohol when about to go on
duty. 1 have known several deaths
arising from disobedience to this
rule."
“Brandy, then," said his friend, "Is
practically useless."
“Certainly,’’ replied the doctor.
“Brandy does not warm the system, as
■so many suppose; it merely warms the
skin, and has a paralyzing action on the
nerves which control the blood supply.
This accounts for the (lush which one
sees on the face of a person who has
just taken a glass of spirits. Brandy,
in short, causes a relaxation of the
blood vessels, and is responsible for
the flush on (he skin. Intelligent voy
agers never now take alcohol with
them, unless It. be in minute quantities
in their medicine chests. 1 have been
in the arctic regions myself, and I
know very well that brandy cannot
only be dispensed with, but that one
is decidedly better without it. An im
mense number of people, whenever
they fee! a chill, resort to alcohol, on
the mistaken assumption that It warms
the body; it is a pity they do not know
tlint it has an absolutely contrary ef
fect.”
On being asked what he would rec
ommend in cases of cold, he said:
“There is nothing better than simple
hot water and getting under the blan
kets. The water can, of course, be
flavored with lemon or orange, accord
ing to taste. A good drink of hot wa
ter has all the beneficial effects of
t.randj and none of Its accompanying
risks. If the feet can be put into hot
water at the same time, so much the
better. Spirits generally are worse
(ban us1 '< s in ca^es of Illness. An
■.■arm ., number of people have taken
•itm nnd • the impression that it keeps
liic ntUuuza at a distance. As a fact,
however n ,n invites the influenza,
from the depressing effects of alcohol
on the nervous system. A nervous sys
tem depressed through the agency of
alcohol is much more likely to take on
my hum of epidemic than one not sim
ilarly affected, inasmuch as the vital
ity is lowered.’’
Intoxicants on Board Steamers.
The consumption of intoxicants on
hoard of the large ocean steamers ply
ing between New York and European
ports reaches a large aggregate. The
New York Sun gives from the stew
ard's department of the Cunard fleet
for a year the following figures of the
quantities ot wines and liquor used:
"Eight thousand and thirty quarts
and 17,613 pints of champagne, 13,941
quarts and 7,31d pints of elaret, 9,200
quarts of other wines, 4S9,;:i4 pints of
ale and porter, 174,921 quarts of min
eral waters, and 34,000 quarts of spir
ituous liquors." Of this enormous
liquor consumption on shipboard. It is
undoubtedly true that by far the larger
portion is by European voyagers, but
it Is also true that many Americans, a
great many too many, drink a full
share of these wines and liquors. A
total abstinence mission Is nowhere
more needed than among those who,
as well-to-do passengers, go down to
the sea in ships.
Pest Without Drink
The Medical Brief says: "Without
doubt men who drink no spirits hold
out better and do their work belter
than those who drink. Armies made
of men of the former class march bet
ter. hold up longer under fatigue, en
joy better health, can bear exposure
better, and consequently are free
from drunkenness, suffer little from
disease and crime. It lessens the pow
er of resistance In exposure to great
cold and becomes dangerous to use It.
It may excite for a time, but is always
followed by great depression. This
has been clearly demonstrated in arc
tic explorations. In exposure to great
heal the evidence is equally conclu
sive against its use. The array of
testimony is indisputable.”
The Reason.
God assumed that men will have
common sense. Why is there not a
I command against intemperance in the
| Decalogue? Because common sense
( would teach man that a sin which
breaks all the Ten Commandments
need not be specified. Progress.-,e
Age
No Flour Equals PURITAN
“Bigger4Yhiier-Lighier-Loavesv
Every Sack of Puritan Flour
Is Guaranteed
'"ite Use half a sack or more and if it does
h. mchouc not make the best bread, cake, bis- fU<y the
<n,ru inter citit or pie crust you have ever finest the
win.it the ph- made—if it is not absolutely purest f/eur
brcJ th t satisfactory m every es- you ran /wy—
/, e:rry tu purr- SCUtial-your deal- That’s PURITAN
*v*ry to n'oJ- er will refund
your money
makes lighter, -.obiter, J J
tastier loaves bv aetual bak
ing tests than any ether flour
yen tan buy No other mill
priu (Is the same high
grade* of milling mixture. Wo
separate oiir iloiir into twenty
different ‘stocks,” then blend i
to pet in every sack the scientifically
correct combination of nutritious _
bread-making qualities. Your
baking simply cannot Jail with /
Puritan flour. V
Wells-Abbott - Nieman
Company
The Puritan Miller a
Schuvler. Nebraska
C. A. Heck
Buy Watertown, Wisconsin Rye Flour, Gold
Coin Flour. Get some Tankage for your hogs.
I also have Oil Meal, Rock Salt, Barrel and
Sack Salt. Give me your order for
Coal and Wood j
I also handle Feed, Baled hay and Straw and
all kinds of Grain. Give me a trial.
C. A. Heck
Is the name that the
HARALN BROS.
have selected for their Drug
Store which they just pur
chased from Dr. Kerr.
As they contemplate many
changes in the store after the Holi
days are over to make it the most
up to date Drug store in the city,
they propose to offer to the public
from now until January First, a
Discount Sale on all Holiday
Goods that will make them move.
All goods were bought and
marked by the Kerr Pharmacy
but our prices will be deducted.
Try us and see what we can
do for you.
Red Cross
Pharmacy
FALLS CITY - - - NEBRASKA
