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THE BEE: OMAHA. MONDAY. APRIL 4. 1921. 1 A ISLt t P Y I i,m k. m i- . . h a "ONWARD OAH A" 'THE TALE OF TOMMY FOX ARTHUR SCOTT BAILEY x r CHAPTER XIII. Johnnie Green and His New Pet Tommy Fox was in a terrible fix. lie was caught fast by the foot in a trap; and if that isn't being in a fix. I should like to know what is. AH night long he whimpered and cried. All night long he tugged and pulled, trying to get free. Hut the more he tugged the more the trap hurt his foot. And the harder lie cried. Mrs. Fox couldn't help Tommy at all. She stayed with him throughout the night, and tried .to comfort him. And she only left when morning came and she smclled men coming Hz could hear her often, at night, calling to Mm from the fields across the fields. Then, with one sorrowful look at Tommy, she crept sadly away. Jn a few minutes more Farmer Green and his boy Johnnie reached Mrs. Fox's door. And they were both greatly pleased when they saw that the trap had done its work so well. "It's a young cub," Farmer Green said, as soon as he spied Tommy 1 'May I have him, Father?" John nie asked quickly. "I'd like him for 3 Tommy Fox vai terribly fright ened when he heard that. You see, he didn't know what a "pet" was. HOLDING A Adele Garrison's Revelations The Plan Lillian Suggested to Dicky. If I might venture to suggest," I illian said with suspicious meekness in answer to Dicky's demand as to where ve were going to live. n "You may speak, Patient Gnsejda, Dicky replied with an impish grin at h"rm going to." she retorted a little grimly, "and if you have any usurer s blood in you my remarks will doubt less grieve you deeply. You made a pretty good thing on the sale ot the house, didn't you?" "You've said something, Dicky re .,i;,i Knminr "I feel hke a profiteer, but it's the first time m a tong and misspent life that I ever succeeded in getting the better end of a deal in a business transaction. And when t contemplate the party ot the second part, that unspeakable woman who was. snooping around , here the. other day. I'm ready to gloat over every dollar of it. 1 know- she's a skinflint, and that she sheds a tear on every cent as it is transferred. Are those tears sweet to rnuli? Almost as sweet as the. dollars." What Is This?" "I hope vou're not too attached to the dollars,'" Lillian went on demure ly, "for I'd like to separate you from about a thousand of them, for which you will get no return except a little increased comfort and sense of , se curity." Dicky whistled. "What is this, a rag?" he demanded. 'Nothing of the sort," Lillian re plied. "1 never-was more serious in my life." "Stop the car, Madge!' he com manded whimsically, but there was a note in his voice which told me that he reallv meant this unexpected request. "I've got to look into this. A thousand iron men! Police! Am I permitted to inquire what you in tend to do with it?" ' I drew the car to the side of the road, turned off the engine, and, turning around watched Lillians face with interest. I had no more idea than had Dicky Of the scheme which was evidently concocting . in her brain. ,. , "There really isn't the slightest reason why I sliould inform you of the money's destination," Lillian drawled. "You've been clever enough to extort it from a poor, helpless, brow-beaten woman that ought to content you. But, 'secin' as it's you.' I'll elucidate, hut I warn you it'll take some time." She settled herself more comfort ably in her seat, evidently gave the points of her disclosure a quick mental review, and then began to speak in the slow drawl which she affects sometimes: "Let's proced from-the known to the unknown," she began. In the first place, we've satsifieil ourselves fhat there's no house to rent, and none that we wish to buy within commuting distance of New York, x Even if we older people wished to live in New York this summer an unthinkable proposition for Marion and Junior we couldn't find an apartment. Things are worse, there than in the suburbs. And by dint of difrgent inquiry I have found that every furniture warehouse is filled to the brim. Also the moving men within a radius of forty miles won't promise a thing till after May IS." Arranging to Work. "Whew!" Dicky's face showed - ,i,rm -,nt i-liao-rin "And we're due to get out of here long before that! If it were anybody but that dame in the offing but it would be useless to expect anything from her. , We've simply got to get out. I'll grant von the thousand. Lil. I'll give it to you as a commission, ii you'll get us out of this mess." "I never rob a cradle," she retorted impudently. "All I ask is that you rx'riin f mm an v remarks about fool J&X1- it 5omen, tyinecesjary. expense and, He thought that probably it was something like a stew, for he had been told that people ate things like that; and he could see himself, in his mind's eye, being cut up and tossed into a pot. "A fet, eh?" said Farmer Green. "Well, I suppose so. He's hardly worth skinning. Yon may have him, I guc'ss. But look out that he does, not bite you." Johnnie Green was delighted. He i,.torl tii father nut Tommv into an old sack, and taking the trap, too, they started toward tne larmnouse. wi..n iir reachert Farmer Green's .Villi. , - , r. Tnhnni and his father fitted , cff rntlar a limit Tommy's neck. And they fastened one end of a chain 1 j .v. ..1... 1,. tuxl to It; ana me umci mu . , staVi which thev drove into the ground in Farmer Green's dooryard. Then Johnnie Green set a big wooden box close beside the stake. He tipped the box over on its side, and tnrcw some straw niiu u. And that was Tommy Fox's home. v.. .nitrti thintc that it was a much nicer home than he had before, Vint Tnmmir rtirl not like it at all. All the people on the farm came and looked at him insiae tne nox; auu inimnlf Crrpn never left him for more than 10 minutes all the rest of that day. Tommy made tip ms mum mat ne would make a house of his own. And ti.it v.nr niorhi- fliicr a hole in Farmer "Green's dooryard. where lie could crawl our ot signt or everyone. Tommy liked that much better. No matter how hard Johnnie Green nulled on the chain, he couldn't drag Tommy out unless he wanted to come. . But after a few days Tommy be gan to get used to being a pet. He found that it was not such a terri ble thing, after all. He did miss tha fine runs he used to have; and the hunts: and he missed his motn er, too. He could hear her often at night, calling to him from the fields. And tlicn Tommy would answer, and tug at his chain. But he couldn t get away. And after a while he would go to sleep and dream pleasant dreams, about catching crickets in the long grass. (Copyright, Grassett and Dunlap.) HUSBAND New Phase of of a Wife any of the rest of the list which you wie masculines trot out on any sort of an excuse. For I warn you, you won't approve. My plan is simply to lease for you some comfortable p&ce at the east end of the island for two years, move the furniture out there in that section the vans are not so busy, and we can get them if we act at once then sit tight tor awhile. We'll then have plenty ot time to keep our eyes open for some thing we really want. I'll get some little furnished place near you i...i-a.f annrtmpnt lease is a long- term one, and I can sublet or leave it empty as I like. It isn't as if any of .,c UiA tr nnnrh a time-clock or commute to the city every day. We can arrange to do a lot 01 our wur. at home, Dicky-bird." "That doesn't work oat so very well," Dicky said doubtfully. n "Al ways unexpected interruptions." 1 flushed painfully at the injustice of the remark, for I always am most rarpful tr nee that Dick is absolutely undisturbed at his work. . Lilian came to my rescue, saying the thing which was in my liimd, but which I never woud have uttered. "You mean,' she drawled coolly, "iiiof ..nnVff atwavs interruDtinz yourself, flying off at a tangent when you should DC drawing, xou may uc able to deceive yourself,- Dicky-bird, but don't hand any of the vanilla icing to me. I've worked by your side too long. "But apart from that objection, ...Kr, An vnn think nf mv' scheme? Oh, yes, the thousand dollars is for moving out, deposit on house, and So forth, the little trifles which make moving such a pleasure." Do You Know the Bible? (Cover up the answers, read the ques tions and see If you can answer them. Then look at the answers to see it you are right.) Follow These Questions and An- . swers Arranged by J. WILLSON ROY. 1. Whatis the meaning of the word "Hosannah?" 2. Why is . the Last or Lord's Supper so called? 3. Why did Jesus, before insti tuting the Lord's Supper, take the cup and give thanks, saying, "Take this, and divide it among your selves?" 4. What is the meaning of "he that dippeth his hand with me in the dish," as applied by our Lord to Judas Iscariot? 5. Why did our Saviour, in re ply to the question of the high priest whether He was the Son of God (Matt. xxvi. 64), reply "Thou hast said 'instead of "Yes" or "No?" 6. Who was Pontius Pilate? Answers. 1. It is a form of acclamatory blessing or wishing well, which sig nifies "Save now," Succor now," "Be propitious." 2. Because it was instituted by Christ, as the last act of His minis try, in company with His disciples, and immediately before He went out to be delivered into the hands of His enemies. 3. 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Mr. Hogan was one of the commissioners sent to Europe by the United States gov ernment to study farm credit systems there, and from the time of establishment of the land banks in this coun try has been instrumental in pushing them to success. Omaha also has a branch of the Federal Reserve bank, which is designed to take care of the require ments of general business, -without specializing on any one division of industry. It is to the Land bank that the agricultural interests come to borrow money on their land that they may carry on the work and meet obli gations. Farm development is the special interest of the Land bank, and as the farming communities bene fit from this, so will all who have things to sell to them. 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Before the pendency of the suit to determine the right of congress to establish the system, and to accord exemption from taxation to the obligations of the vari us regional banks, congress signified its interest in the system and appreciation of the work it was doing by authorizing the Treasury department to purchase a large amount of the bonds, which the treasury now holds, to the amount of $183,000,000. The establishment of the Federal Land Bank sys tem by act of congress, and its development under the Federal Farm Loan board, a bureau ot the 'treasury de partment, has been regarded by many as an experi ment, and few realize that the establishment of the system was undertaken after most exhaustive study and search of the various systems of long standing in Europe, which have a long record of successful opera tion, and whose securities have been highly regarded in the various European markets. While the degree of control and governmental help may vary widely, conditions have made it neces sary that loans in, European countries be made at a much higher ratio of salable value of property than is permitted under our own system. The periods of re payment are also longer extended. The successful beginning of the system in the United States under rather adverse conditions speaks well for its broadening usefulness. The Federal Land Bank bonds will no doubt be an increasingly popular investment as the purposes and work of the system are better understood, and the prime security afforded to investors is more fully appreciated. One of the in teresting things was that during the wrar the Land Bank bonds of foreign governments held their prices very 'much better than the government bonds, and sold at higher prices, the reason for this being obvious, that one had land security back of it, and the other was simply the direct obligation of the foreign government. 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