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WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 19, 1928.’
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LETTER
GOLF
The modern psychologist agrees.
“No man is master of his fate," he says,
leaden are more puppets of destiny."
This attitude is quite the thing nowadays.
it into court in
iw. The judge
every city in every country in the
world.
It reached the effice of The Tela*
gram. The printer telegraph machine
clicked and paused and then suddenly
jerked up its endless roll of paper.
FLASH
BANKING AMERICAN GIRL SEN-
TENCED TO BE BEHEADED.
The telegraph editor bristled with
sudden interest.
"Got a big story coming in here,"
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a day, works in her own flower garden in her spare
moments, but who seems to have no envy of them and
their ways.
The West knows the glory of their own home end
their own job, that's all!
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The operator was catching more of I had within twenty minutes by the
it no*. magic of modern news transmission.
PITTSBURGH GIRL — TO BE I now reached newspaper offices in
BEHEADED--
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It takes a wise man to be a judge these days.
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To the Lubbock Avalanche's Plainsman it seems
that it is the dangerous age for girls, but that the
dangerous age for a man is any time some woman
decides she wants him for her own.
Don't wireless he put together a com-
plete cable story tthat fairly smoked
with aetion.
NEW YORK, Sept. IS.—Their shoes msy be ran
over at the heels. Their vests mayhide a badly soil*
ed shirt and a clean section of necktie msy have
Maaanse.
seats of their pants may not bear inspection end
their trousers may show sigua of many pressings
in bac bedrooms
But they will put their lost dims into a snappy
trick hat.
Thsy toll ms that there's sn old tradition concern-
ing snappy hats. Thsir watches msy go to the pawn
shops and their tie pins msy have rested long on ths
shelves at Uncle Ue’s but they always manage to
buy trick hsts. Whsn tkelr purpls. gresn or yellow
hat fails them, they are indeed "sunk."
The reason for this. I am told. is tho habit of
sticking a bead through the managerial doors when
on the search for work. The head and hat go in
first and, with luck, the rest of the body may fol-
low. But the jobless actor wants his first sppearancs
to suggest swank. o
And so ko adorns his hssd. even whsn his stomach
may be empty. He wants ths managers to believe
that he’s “on top" even though he must know la his
heart that they all have him "tabbed.”
OH CURL, WHM
DO VUH BRIHGr
UP GeCMAAINGS
WHEN WERE
batin’ ?. HUrt
KMOW IvE GOT
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"Old Battleaxe" of the Floyd County Hesperian
tittered a little ha-ha up his sleeves, which weat .
out a hole la hla elbow, the other day. whoa a fel-
lew who had just bought a bill of goods from a mail
order house said that people would go out of town
to trade when hard surtaced reads are constructed in
Floyd county. I
According to Harry Hershfeld, the Broadway gag-
ster, he saw a couple of tipplers going int o a speak-
sasy. One was a blind man.
“Ah," murmured a wag. “It’s a case of the blind
leading the about-to-go-blind."
And the wise-erackers a-e referring to the "good
old days" as “the days before Dewar.”
—GILBERT SWAN.
(Copyright, 1928, NEA Service, Inc.)
a call for help.
CHAPTER XXIX
A WORLD AROUSED
In ths wireless room of an Ameri-
H. S Hilburn of the Plainview Herald is not wor-
ried because low corn prices are predieted for this
winter. Prices of sorghum grains, he says, are
MEMBEnS or THE ASSOCIATED rara.
Tbs AssssiaM Press t eneluetve» entitled to the see Ms
reubilention of aU sera dlapatehe srsdHs4 to or •* ginerwime
ite to this paras sad «>so toraiovo. eosUsSed berztn.
AB nabss st vubilcatios sf "ecia “tpetebe” herete era ales
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TILLING THE WORLD
by Dale Van Every
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The other day a man was brekh
New York for violating n trafr"
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unhappy. Ho went into
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Naw York and tho mana-
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dishonest
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AMARIUO DAILY NEWS
CAKE ON TODAY’S MENU %
We have cake on today’s lette
gulf menu— LOAF CAKE—and the obl
jset is to dispose of it in six bites.
Thst’s par and ons solution is on
the back page.
Upon his retirement from tho presidency in 1877,
after two terms, .General Grant sailed for Europa.
Everywhere ha was received with waving flags and
shouting crowds. Lord Beaconsfield said to Queen Vic-
toria, "We will be doing honor to a wonderful general
and pay a high tribute to a great nation if we receive
General Grant as a sovereign.’’ - t,
BY ALLENE SUMNER
An old gray farmhouse with a built on lean-to, sag-
ging into an old-fashioned garden of poppies and phlox,
cosmos and zenias, huddles in the midst of a smart
summer colony I know.
One wanders how old Farmer West has managed to
hold on, for golf greens and tennis courts and club
__— Vaughn knew Chang and Ying and
Chrystal with the crime. Chrystal is | the political-military situation at
sentenced to be beheaded at dawn. Banking. He knew about the show
’ troupe and Its Journey up the river,
tloa, route the men who guard it and He knew the background as Don
before he is overwhelmed, broadcasts could not. With the facts supplied in
r Alice Goui,
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THE RULES
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change one word to another Md de
it in par, a given number of stroke*,
Thus to change COW TO HEN, IB
three strokes, COW, HOW, HEW,
HEN.
2— You can change only one lette
at a time.
3—You must have a complete word
of common usage, for each jump
Slang words and abbreviations don't
count.
4—The order of letters cannot b
changed.
One solution is printed on tM|
sditorial psge.
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with ather feeds w will only, brins
some dinorder becauie of thi over-feedine.
If roo want to try to sain weieht throuzh
tkin the milk dle itis n^serp to
uive p oil other foods Then take ’ *
of milk every half boor during U ' IMP
whieh will give you shout sis qur
daily. If yea raw drink this much
are bound io sain weluht, but H midhe
no be good weieht, and may leeve ym
after you have aSevrad tekinu the milk
# fam as you rat k on durinu ths milk
diet.
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"My God,” said the Minns corporal
solemnly. "We gotta do something
shout that."
Finally the jumble of words seem-
ed complete. The operator got the
American flagship at Shanghai and
the flagship delivered the message
to the United Press to whom it was
addressed.
With nearly all his
worldly wealth gons.
President Grant wrote
magazine articles for a
livelihood. He began
work on his "Memoirs."
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1 Year a , a e e o ooe a ee we .8800
United Press office in Shanghai It TENCED AN AMERICAN GIRL TO
flashed across seas and continents I BE PUBLICLY BEHEADED AT
With the speed of light. Like streaks DAWN TOMORROW.
of fire wreathing the globe It shot1 MISS CHRYSTAL MALONE, MEM-
M me vostottiee M AmarMe,
of Barto M. 1870,
ram Leased Wise Bserie*
’ MAIL. IN ADVANCE,
aad New Meals*
SYNOPSIS
Don Davis end Chrystal Malone,
a reporter and a dancer, meet and
fall in love. Don wanta Chrystal to
come and live at his apartment, but
she, fearing that he does nut really
love her, goes to China with a danc-
lag troupe. Don. as a United Press
correspondent, follows her. They meet
in Banking, where Don proposes, sod
then hurries for a missionary before
Chrystal ean change her mind. In his
absence, General Ying shoots his
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out to Peking, Tokio, Manila, Can-
ton, Sydney. One main current girdled
Australia, New Zealand, leaped to
Hawaii and on to North America.
Another main current shot to Sing-
apore, Calcutta, Aden, Port Said,
London.
From London it sped in one diffus-
ed flash to every city of Europe while
at the same time it spanned the At-
lantic to New York and Buenos Aires
it leaped aeross the Andes and the
tropical jungles of the Amason to
every elty of South America. In New
York it was picked up by the vast
American network of United Press
wires so tkat instantly It was In news-
paper offices In every city end town
in the United States and Canada.
The trickle of information which
Don Davis had forced the Chinese op-
erator In Banking laboriously to send
letter by letter out into the night
ean destroyer lying in the roadstead
at Nanking, the operator and a
marine corporal were playing check-
era
"What's (hat funny buss?'' asked
the corporal.
“Sounds like nothing to me,” said
the bored operator. Then on aecond
thought he moved to his instrument
beard. For no reason at all the cor-
poral began to feel a tang of excite-
ment in the air.
“Some chink that doesn't know
English sending letter by letter—-
cant make bead nor tail to it."
Nevertheless he eat at his type-
writer and began to set down such
letters as he could catch. The cor-
poral watched over his shoulder. Af-
ter several scattered letters the oper-
ator began to catch a word or two.
The corporal saw:
CITY PEORIA IN BELOIT FURY
. . . MOB . . . ASSASSIN . . .
“Guess that's the end of it," said
the operator. “No, here’s more.”
UNITED PRESS SHANGHAI—
I refer to the army ef jobless actors you’ll see
from time to time leaning against the walls along
Breadway from 48th to 50th atreets.
They're the wise-cracking, garrulous, big talking
brigede who' speak ef Belasco as “Dave" and
Cohan as "George.” They’re the boys who "knocked
the house dead with last year's act," and who prom-
ise you that the "big time is going to get me within
another month. Had a 40- week chanee just the oth-
er day, but turned it down. Wasn’t big enough
class."
HEAITHDIFTADVICE
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In mid-Central Park, perched upon a hill, there
ic a huge sculptured Ilea which is, perhaps, the
most photographed object in all Manhattan. Not even
Liberty and the Woolwoorth building enjoy such
anapahot popularity.
Sixty per cent of park tourists, picnickers sooner
or later perch upon the lion's brow while the eye
of the camera catches them in their pose. At times
there are lines of 50 or more persons waiting for
a chance thus to be snapped. The poor old lion has
long since all but lost his mane. The millions of
people who have mounted to it have worn it to
the bald and shining state of the bald headed men of
the hair tonic advertisements.
Also the youngsters Have added to its shabby ap-
pearance by sliding off it. Park officials have ar-
ranged a hay pjle just below so that the boys and
girls may slide or jump without hurting themselves.
ne Dally News Ie M tndependent Demerawtis
newspaper, pubiishing the mewa Impartially, and
eupportimg what it belleves to be right regardless
ef party pelitic*
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS_
QUESTION: Mrs. W. R writes: "Three
year, ngo my little giri had infantile para-
lysis which left her right arm cults une:
less. She can, with a strugule. move some
of the fingers. A specialist wants to
operate and craft muscle, into the arm. I
woula like your advice about this.
ANSWER: Your child's arm ran ba de:
veloped through proper treatmente with
eleetro-therapy. Certain currant* ean 21
applied to the arm muscles which will
bring about a normal development. She
has all of Iha muscle cella which are nec-
rasary to move the arm if they are only
develoved. This treatment ia far superior
to any sureical attempt to graft un am
other biumW.
QUMTlONi Miss D. N. writen: "I have
been drinking milk to gain weight, a pint
for breakfast, a pint at tan e elock, at
three o’eloek and before reUrine. Have
been drinking it thin way foe two month;
but do not neem to gain much. Do I
drink enough? Do I drink it at the right
"NswER: If you take your milk along
event and of the background of af-
faire at Banking. But already the
staff of the Telegram was in motion
getting out the first extra. Chrystal
Malone was not well known in the
city but she was a resident and as
such, of peculiar interest. But more
than that she was an apparently
friendless American girl condemned
to a terrible death. It was a Big
Story. Such a story as comes at the
rarest intervals and stirs the pulses
of newspapermen who handle It far
more even that it stirs the millions
of readers who merely read.
In a few minutes the first extra
waa in the street* A dozen were read-
ing it. Then a hundred. Then a hun-
dred thousand.
At the same moment similar extras
were pouring out into the streets of
every city in America. It was on the
bulletin boards on newspaper offices
in every city of the world. A hundred
million people were reading it.
WHITE WOMAN TO BE BEHEAD.
ED IN CHINA.
Americans, Englishmen, Frenchmen,
Italians, Argentines, it made no dif-
ference what nationality, were read-
ing it with rising tempers.
Not only the newspapers were re-
lating the story. From a score of
radio stations the United Press bul-
letin was broadcast. People on ships
at sea, ranchers and farmers far from
tewne, trappers in snow bound cabins
in the Arctic, explorers in tropical
jungles, heard:
GIRL TO BE BEHEADED.
Within an hour from the moment
Don beat it into the frantic head of a
native In Banking the whole world
know about it.
The news not only reached the
public by telegraph and telephone
’ 1"
(Muaswrore SIMILARITH BREEDS COMMENT.
Dr. McCoy will gladly anawer
personal questions mi heaith and
diet, addressed to him, care of The
New* Enelose stampeg, aaaressed
large envelope for reply.
A BLACK EYE. -
A blaek eye, to a person who
has net a sense of humor, is an un-
fortunate affliction, and is apt to be
• subject of jest at the hands of hie
friends. The best thing to do under
those circumstances is to grin and
admit the worst.
Doctors have termed this condition
"eechymosis palpebrae" which means
a discoloration of the skin of the eye-
lids by a bruise, which allows the es-
cape of blood from the small blood
vessels into the tissues of the eye-
lids.
The tissues about the eye are par-
ticularly susceptible to bruising,
since they are very soft and have
hard bones of the check and the
ridge bone of the eyo socket just
beneath. Anything that strikes this
area erushes the flesh and causes a
severe bruise. Individuals having
high check bones are more apt to re-
ceive a black eye from a blow than
those without the prominent bony
ridge formation.
A black eye usually requires from
one to two weeks for the absorption
of most of the blood, and usually
some discoloration remains from
three weeks to a month longer, but
there is much difference between in-
dividuals. Those having a good cir-
culation do not suffer much from
puffiness and the discoloration does
not last long. Others, with poorer
circulation may have badly swollen
eyelids that remain discolored for a
much longer time.
When you are first struck in the
eye by a "doorknob” or “golf bail," If
is advisable to apply cold compresses
immediately and continue to do so for
at least an hour. Ice water is the
most satisfactory, since it will great-
ly retard the flow of blood into the
tissues. The good old fashioned rem-
edy of applying raw stesk to tho
eye had its virtue largely in the
fact that it was cool and moist.
After two or three days, when all
danger of increasing the , hemor-
rhage of the blood under the skin
is over, you may begin a gentle mes-
sage about the eye to assist in the
absorption the blood. Warm applica-
tions and gently rubbing in cold
cream are also helpful. I do not ad-
vise puncturing the skin to drain
away the blood unless the case is
very severe, and then it should be
performed by a doctor, as otherwise a
serious infection might result.
If you are a lady, and do not wish
your husband to be accused of beat-
ing you up, you can apply a flesh-
colored theatrical make-up stick to
the bruised area. When this is pow-
dered, it will also completely hide
the discoloration. You can buy this
theatrical preparation at almost any
drugstore. If you are a man, the
best thing to do is to broadly grin
and say, “You should have seen the
other fellow."
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$ HOw X WORRY,/
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FatoMri to Tto Amarillo GMwNewo PwMsbtoa 0iU|iw
szt and vilmor Blruli
Gene A. Now* Eritoe ana Pobtisher.
REALLY NO GREAT MIEN:
“There are no great men," says the modern biog-
ranker- "The men that we call great were simply
products of cireumstances. Forces beyond their
control lifted them up."
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he announced laconically to warn
the city editor.
The machine continued:
BULLETIN By Don Davis
United Press Special Correspondent
BANKING, CHINA, SEPT. 11.
(UNITED PRESS).- A CHINESE
MILITARY’ COURT TONIGHT SEN-
(402) Our Presidents
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Persey Weever had to go to the
docter today to have the back of hit
neck cut en acoeunt of him having
a big bell there, and thia afternoon
me end Puds Simians was sitting on
my frunt steps, and Persey started to
come up with a big wite bandage on
his neck ware tke doctor had put it.
Puds Simkins saying, G. he’ll be more
conceeted than ever now, well if he .
starts to brag about hie operation lets
tell him about some we had did on
us.
With Just then Persey came up,
saying, G wizz fellow* you awt to bla
through wat l bin through, the doc-
tor took a nife and G wizz it waa
sharper than a rasor, and he cut my
boil with it, zip, and me standing rite
there.
Well wat of it? I aed, and Persey
sed. Wat of itT If you ever had it did
to you, 'you wouldcnt aay wat of it,
thata wat of it, he sed.
Did he give you ether or anything?
Puda aed, and Persey sed, No, he
dident haff to, I was too brave, and
Puds sed, Brave my eye, wen I swal-
lowed a big door key and had to have
my stummick cut upon they gave me
ether because I hed to be unconahist
and thate all there waa, to it, they
dident even ask me if I was brave.
Unless you take other its not a real
operation, is it Benny?
I should say not, I aed. Wen my
appendicka and my liver started to
grow together they gave me ether
before they started to cut them apart
agen, bleeve me, and I was glad to
drink it, too, I dident wunt to see
wat was going on, bleeve me, I sed.
Wen waa that, I never herd any-
thing about that, or Pudses stum-
mick either, Persey sed.
Who ceres weather you herd about
it ur not, are you trying to toll mu
Im lying? I sed, and Puda sed, Hay,
are you standing there calling u
liars?
Certeny not, I dont haff to heax
about everything, do I? Peraey s •
I just sed I dident hear about it, he
aed.
And he dident say anything more
about hip boil so ml and Puds did-
ent say anything more about our
stummick and appendicka and liver.
imposed a fine of *3. at which the morist re-
marked that he would prefer, instead of paying it.
to surrender his car. Amazed, the judge asked
why: the man replied that he had only paid *4 for
the auto, a wheezy old thing made eight years ago.
Justice is justice, and the law must be upheld;
but paying a S3 fine on a 44 ear is too much. Even
the judge admitted it. So, after due thought, he
suspended the fine and told the motorist to depart
in peace—if he could make his auto go.
Rotting away treat th
WgeFeK n
He was afflicted with a serious throat malady. Early
and lata, however, he toiled at his “Memoirs"’ until ho
waa almost too weak to sit up in a chair. It waa his
wish that his family be not loft penniless. One day ho
laid down his pen with a sigh of satisfaction. The
story of hie life was complete, and a few days lator tho
great soldier died. _(To Be Continued)
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BER OF AN AMERICAN .SHOW
TROUPE TOURING THE ORIENT,
WAS ACCUSED OF ASSASSINATING
GOVERNOR CHANG SUNG OF BAN.
KING AND SENTENCED BY THE
COURT MARTIAL WITHIN AN
HOUR OF THE GOVERNOR'S
DEATH,
HER CHIEF ACCUSER WAS GEN-
ERAL YING MONG WHO BECAME
GOVERNOR OF THE CITY AFTER
THE DEATH OF CHANG. MISS
MALONE WAS DENIED COUNSEL
AT THE TRIAL AND ALL PRO-
CEEDINGS WERE CONDUCTED IN
CHINESE WITHOUT AN INTER-
PRETER. THERE ARE NO FOREIGN
CONSULS AT SANKING AND THE
ONLY FOREIGN OBSERVER AT
THE TRIAL WAS A CORRESPOND-
ENT OF THE UNITED PRESS.
The printer machine ground on
endlessly with more details of the
SYNOPSIS BY BRAUCHER
SKETCHES BY BESSEY
if it depresses you, bore ere two recently printed
books that will help you to get a different outlook.
One of them is William McFee’s “Sir Martin Frob-
isher”; the other is “The Splendid Renegade” (John
Paul Jones) by John Herries McCulloch.
One doubts if either Frobischer er Jones would
have assented to the proposition that he was made
great by circumstances beyond his control,
Frobisher, you remember, was one of the great
British seamen who broke the Spanish armed* And
McFee's book gives sn amazing picture of the feat.
Frobisher, with Drake, Hawkins and Howard,
fought the armada without support. They lacked
money, food, ammunition and men. Queen Eliza-
beth had vast stores of powder in London, and huge
caches of gold snd jewels; but she sent her fleet
out, almost destitute, to fight the world's greatest
navy. Reading the story, one feels that it was in-
evitable that the Spaniard should triumph.
But Frobisher and hie colleagues were victorious.
By sheer daring, bluff, seamanship and tenacity they
disregarded their own shorteomings and sent the
armada reeling, broken end eternally whipped, into
the stormy North Sea. Nothing on earth but
these men's greatness saved England from defeat.
McCulloch tells the same story about John Paul
Jones.
Politicians ruled the first American navy. In-
competent wire pullers were given command; Jones,
ex-pirate and magnificent teaman finally got to sea
in spite of his superiors, in a leaky, unseaworthy old
tub; and, in his famous fight with the Serepls, his
ship was actually s disabled, sinking wreck when
he compelled the British captain to surrender. Jones
not only bent a erack English frigate; he triumphed
over bureaucratic meddling, red tape, • mutinous
crew and jealous subordinstes. Never was thera a
clesrer example of what moral greatness can de.
Is man the helpless creature of circumstances?
Frobisher and Jones would bars disagreed. They
doubtless would have said that • truly strong man
can make destiny follow meekly in his footsteps.
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old gray house.
But in the heart of the sophisticates’ playground Old
Man West goes serenely on chis way. tilling his hun-
dred acres of rich black loam, driving kls plugs to town,
scorning to use an auto except for “gadding,” wearing
hie tattered straw hat and soiled overalls, carrying in
his buckets of mtik, all undaunted by men in the most
swagger golf clothes and blazers and women in exotic
bathing suits, scurrying about for lead drinks, swim-
ming and canoeing and aviating and using his world
of shore snd lake and flowered green meadows for
nothing but • playground for grotesquely “thrilling’’
game*
Reel estate men have offered Old Men West enough
money for his farm so thst hs would never again have
to touch a spade or hoe or plough to his black mucky
acres.
But they can't fool him. He knows tkat the old I
gray house with its 75-year-old New England doorway ■
would be torn down or “dolled up” late a modern club- l
house. He knows that his blsck rich land would no
longer grow corn and potatoes and wheat and oats,
but would be made late tennis courts and golf courses
snd "allotted” into 40-foot wide pieces of land, selling
at more a foot than Old Man West's milk check is for
a whole w t it r
“But wkst'd I do with myself?” ke asks. "Sure I
could livs on ths income. But where’d I live end
what'd my job be? I'm only 65 snd aim to kesp a-going
till I'm M.
And the realtors talk to him of "nce modern little
houses in town" where he can raise chickens and have
• garden, and Old Man West only saya, "But thio ia my
home and my father’s and grandfather’* before me.”
The real estate men just can’t "get it" at alL Here's
sn old man going on 65 years old, rising at dawn, feed-
ing stock, plowing and reaping and flgkting for every
dollar of profit, when by the more process of giving ap
his land he could live in leisure snd luxury snd ease
for the rest of his days.
Dealing ss they do with this modern day's rapid ex-
change of property, with houses as investments and
not homes, they hove no understanding of Old Man
West’s feeling of identity with hio awoet cherry trees
that shade the mossed eld roof, with the flowering
quince and currant that tap the living room window
pane„with the grass-hidden bed of valley lillles that
his daughter Kato planted one spring before ahe died. (
and with the richest field of all that wields the largest,
yellowest grain of any field in the country.
And the summer women cannot understand Mrs.
West whom thsy never have seen in anything but her |
crispy starched, blue and white housegowns, who ratset 1
gardens things for tbs summer people, loks after hun- i
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M/HISTORY
SEPTEMBER it
1862—Confederates evacuated Harp-
eris Ferry, W. Va.
1871- President Lncoln’s body ia.,
tarred at Springfield. IIL
1881—President Garfield died.
im—John D. Rockefeller gave Ur
000,000 to Chicago University.
INI—Last services held at Canton,
Ohio, ever the remains at
. President McKinley,
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