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CHAPTER XIV.
Y-TIME KALEISI
THETALElOF
GRUMPY
WEASEL
"It hadn't been used in my
Grumpy Vanishes.
Grumpy Weasel was quick to see
that fat Mrs. Hen swallowed every
word he said as greedily as if it had
been an angleworm. "Yes! You
have a fine house here," he said.
"Bui of course you're crowded," he
added gloomily, to show Mrs. Hen
that he knew she had no place for
him.
"Oh! Not at all!" Mrs. Hen as
sured It iiil.
"And the door's always shut tight
at night," he added, "on account of
that prowling Tommy Fox."
"Yesf We have to be careful," said
Mrs. Hen.
"And there's Peter Mink, too,"
mm iff m
Walk ritfht In-l" she said to
Grumpy.
Grumpy went on. "Don't leave an
pei'ng big enough for him I He
can get through a small hole, too
my that's big enough for his head."
At that Mrs. Hen looked startled,
is if she had just remembered some
thing that made her feel uneasy.
'"He couldn't get through a rat
hole, could he?" she , inquired
nervously.
"Why there isn't one here, is
there?" Grumpy asked.
"There is an old one," she ad-
! nutted.
time. .
"If I could see it I'd know at once
wehther Pete could crawl, through
it," Grumpy Weasel said, talking to
himself or so it seemed to Mrs.
Hen.
"I'll show it to you gladly 1" she
cried. "Do come right in and look
at our rat hole, Mr. Weasell"
As she spoke, Mrs. Hen started
for tht henhouse. And after her
crept Grumpy Weasel, hoping that
nobody else would see him. So far
as he could tell, the hensvere all
out of doors, scratching in the. dirt.
But suddenly Mrs. Hen's jealous
neighbor began o set up a great
squawking, calling upon Mrs. Hen
to be careful, for she was in great
danger.
Fat Mrs. Hen turned about with a
vexed look upon htr handsome but
somewhat stupid face.
"Walk right in!" she said to
Grumpy. "I must stop and settle
with her. She has gone too far."
And leaving Grunip to find the rat
hole without her help. Mrs. Hen
fluttered across the henyard with her
head thrust forward, to give her
meddlesome neighbor a number of
hard pecks and so teach her to mind
her own affairs.
With a low chuckle Grumpy
Weasel slipped inside the henhouse,
where he found hims.elf quite alone.
It took him but a few-moments to
discover in one corner of the building
the old rat hole of which Mrs. Hen
had spoken.
And then he went to the door and
looked out, for Mrs. Hen and her
neighbor were making a terrific
racket. He saw the end of the
squabble. And soon Mrs. Hen came
running back, with her feathers sad
ly rumpled, and her comb awry.
"I settled with her," she gasped.
"And now toll me about the rat
hole. Could Peter Mink get through
it?"
"Xo, he couldn't 1" Grumpy Weasel
said. Then he - dodged strangely
back into the henhouse. And though
Mrs. lien hopped in after him she
couldn't find him anywhere.
She couldn't understand it.
(Continued Monday.)
HOLDING A HUSBAND
Adele Garrison's New Phase of
Revelations of a Wife
What Lillian Did and Seemed
Thoroughly to Enjoy.
The young motorcycle officer to
whom Lillian had just revealed her
identity had a touch of the theatri
cal about him. There was no doubt
about that, or the fact that he was
revelling in the unexpected dramatic
situation into which he had been
4hrnst. As the arrosant owner of
'the big car finished spluttering his
denial that he had any contraband
liquor concealed in his automobile.
me young omctai pui up ins nana
authoritatively, only waiting for
Lillian's icy little comment before
speaking.
"No doubt everything is as you
assert it," he said airily, evidently
trying. to be extra legal in. his choice
of words, "but it will do no hurt to
take a look into the car, as this lady
directs. So please come along, sir."
He walked toward his motorcycle
while the face of the owner of the
car lost its high color. He stood
irresolute for a moment, then turned
to his son. ,
"This Is an Awful Mess."
"Ted!" he called, and there was
. in his voice a note of appeal which
I fancied the youth never had heard
before from his arrogant ' father.
- That the young college student had
always been treated as a petted but
tyrannized small boy I had guessed,
and I wondered if this sudden "put
ting in a corner" of which Lillian
v had spoken presaged a different
paternal attitude.
Ted came, forward eagerly, in his
face all the ardent welcome which
youth generally gives to, its first re
sponsibility. "Yes. dad," he said quietly, put
ting his hand upon his father's
shoulder. :
The older man hesitated for i
minute, and I fancied that in his
face there was a recognition of the
fact that for , the rest' of his life he
was to lean more and more upon
his stalwart, clean cut son. At any
rate, his voice was so subdued when
he spoke that ! hardly, recognized it
. "Teddy," he said, going back in
voluntarily to the name he "must
have called the boy when he was a
child, "this is an awful mess, I don't
, know what your mother and your
grandmother will say. I suppose I
have made a terrible mistake, and I
. I wish you'd see what you can do.
If the lady wishes an apology "
A Grateful "Ted."
"I want nothing," Lillian inter
rupted crisply, "except the assurance
your own behavior has just given me
that you will probably stop, look and
listen at the next crossroads between
common decency and your own arro
gance. The world has been your
oyster for so long that you have al
most1 forgotten any one except yott
has any rights in it. Frankly, I
would follow this thing to its logical
conclusion, except for the fact that
your son does not deserve the pain
which would follow any humiliation
to you. How you have managed to
turn out a chap like that is a mystery
to me. Take my advice, and let him
run things a bit., And the incident is
closed as far as I am concerned. Of
ficer! A word if you please."
The young motorcycle officer, who
had stood with one hand upon his
machine during the colloquy, left it
abruptly and hurried to Lillian's side.
She hesitated for an instant before
she addressed him, and I thought
whimsically that she was not abso
lutely immune from feminine weak
nesses, for I suspected that she was
making as effective as possible her
domination of the situation.
"You will let these people proceed
without hindrance," she said meas
uredly. "Very well, madam," he replied,
and I repressed a giggle with dif
ficulty, for he made the response in
so stagey a manner that it smacked
strongly of the "Aye, aye, sir" of the
old naval melodramas.
Lillian turned indifferently away;
and in an instant the air was filled
with the noise of the popping motor
cycle and the quieter hum of the pow
erful engine which Jones started at
a signal from Ted. The elder man
with a last half-apologetic, half
malevolent glance at Lillian, climbed
heavily into the tonneau and looked
expectantly at Ted.
"Go on, Jones," the younger man
said with a resolute air that I
guessed was as new to him as it
was becoming. "Wait for me at the
main road. I'll be along in a jiffy."
The. big car followed the sputter
ing motorcycle down the winding
road, and Ted strode over to Lillian,
his face a curious mixture of smiling
gratitude and wonderment
"I'll never stop being grateful to
you for what you've done for me to
day," he said, "nor quit wondering
just how you did it."
(Continued Monday.)
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FOREVER AND FOREVER.
Though Europe is weary of war,
And certain that Sherman was right,
Though barking Big Berthas no more
Wake citizens up in the night;
Though mute are the rifles and sheathed are the dirks
All the way from Fiume to Dover,
There's just one exception the Greeks and the Turks
Still think that the war isn't over.
These ancient implacable foes
Have battled since history's dawn;
"They've stopped over night for repose
And then, in the morning, fought on.
They look at the clock when they get out of bed,
Eat breakfast and tend .to the cattle.
Then load up their muskets with powder and lead
And hasten away to a battle.
Though treaties they sign now and then,
When starved till they're feeble and, thin, '
They're both of 'em at it again
' As soon as the harvest is in.
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It docs not give up its vocation, ,
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From the kids of a new generation.
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Bid discord and tumult to cease
And banners of war to be furled;
But we know that inside of a couple of weeks
The' center of public attention
Will be held all at once by the Turks and the Greeks
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The Omaha & Council Bluffs Street Rail
way Company, operating the, present toll
bridge across 'the Missouri River between
Omaha and Council Bluffs, addresses,
through this medium, a few statements of
fact to the voters of Omaha on the propo
sition of voting bonds for a so-called "free"
bridge between the two cities.
Talk No. 7 A Summary of the Reasons
Why You Should Vote Against the
Free" Bridge Bonds.
The "free'' bridge will not be free. The
payment of interest on investment, depreci-.
ation, upkeep, etc., will merely be trans
ferred from the users of the bridge onto the
Taxpayers. It will be free only to the non
resident automobile tourist, who can well
afford to pay his own toll (and who should
not expect you to pay it for him) and to the
resident of Omaha who owns no other prop
erty than an automobile and who wishes to
joy-ride between the two cities. As taxpay
ersare you willing to pay their bridge toll?
A "free" bridge will mean a consider
able increase in taxes.. There is no getting
away from that. Unless you want to pay
increased taxes you should vote "No" on the
"free" bridge proposition.
A "free" bridge will necessarily mean
higher street car fares. As explained in
Talk No. 5, the revenue from the Douglas
Street Bridge now goes towards meeting the
expense of operating the street car systems
of Omaha and Council Bluffs. Even with
this revenue the present street car fare does
not yield a sufficient amount of money 'to
provide for operating expenses, taxes and a
reasonable return upon investment, such, as
we are entitled to by law. It is easy, there
fore, to see what must of necessity happen if
. we should be deprived of the bridge tolls.
There is no need of a second bridge at
Omaha for many years to come. The pres
ent bridge can take care of a great deal
more traffic than there is between the two
cities at the present time. Besides it can be
strengthened and widened to adequately
care for several times the traffic which
moves over it now. Omaha, however, docs
need many things for which bonds must be
voted in the near future.
The construction of a bridge would not
furnish employment for local labor. Bridge
construction work can only be performed
by specially trained workers. The contract
would go to some large out-of-town bridge
company having a complete working organ
ization of its own which does all the work
and therefore the money paid; by Omaha
taxpayers would go elsewhere to pay for
both material and labor.
A" "free" bridge would strike not alone
the pocketbook of the investors in the pres
ent bridge. It would also strike and strike
heavily the pocketbook of every taxpayer
in Omaha.
It would mean that the taxpayers of
Omaha would have to go down into, their
pockets every year for the tidy sum of about
$150,000.00 in consideration of their "free"
bridge.
Think it over! .
- The proposition is to be voted on at the
city election May 3rd.