Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 59, Decatur, Adams County, 10 March 1927 — Page 8

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The Understanding Heart By PETER B. KYNE "Silly! Why everybody knows Solomon was using poetic license when he said that. lie wanted the Lord to endow him with an understanding mind and a kind, democratic nature. He wasn't thinking of a perfect wife at all, because in those days a man didn't require a perfect wife. The man was the head of the house then am! whenever one of his wives spoke out of her turn she was banished until she learned her lesson.” "I think you're wrong.” he persisted gaily. "Solomon got so tired banishing them that he prayed for one lie wouldn't have to banish. What he craved was a wife who would study his moods and respect them. Whenever he set himself to do some ground and lofty thinking he hated to be disturbed, but it was a heap of comfort to him. having concluded his knotty celebration, to have somebody say, ‘Solomon, dear, I think your decision is the acme of wisdom’.” “And of course,” Monica added, "Solomon, being an egotistic male, would swallow that compliment hook, line and sinker, never realizing that his favorite wife hadn't the slightest idea of the nature of the decision he had come to, but that she was just making a shrewd guess to the effect that he had arrived at a decision.” “My dear, the number of wives who I are smart enough to do even that is limited. Those are the wives who make their husbands go far and have the blessed gift of humor to the extent that they never quarrel with folks who declare their husbands are self-1 made men! Down in that world to which you aspire women are in re-1 volt against even the passive domination of the masculine sex. The big idea now is to control the idiot by dominating him and creating in him an inferiority complex.” “My man,’ 'Monica answered, following a pause, "must have a superiority complex if I am to love him and coddle him and obey him and be happy with him. I'll be very happy to take orders from the man I marry, because I will have made up my mind, after careful analysis, that he is fitted for command. I can imagine nothing more distressing than a clash of ideas and a continuous substitution of plans in the domestic campaign. "When prehistoric man faced a saber-toothed tiger with spare and club, prehistoric woman knew her place. It was up in a tree! She cheered him from there. By the way. Monica, 1 was over to Dogwood Flats yesterday and met Thurlow again. I told you over the phone all about my conversation with him the night I left Bogus. “He asked me yesterday when 1 was going to file Untie Charley's wiil for probate. He said he’d heard I was pretty busy and offered to drive me over to Montague in his car when I was ready to go. . . . Well, let's go in and look old Bob Mason over. I suppose, when his hide heals, he'll be a pinto, won't he?” CHAPTER 47. In his office in San Francisco, "■ ■■ry J, , ;.r . of the 11. •- cules Hydraulic Mining company, sat studying a blue-print map of Monica Dale's section of au 'ferous land and Bob M* son's Honey Valley ranch, when Jj’ Thurlow was announced as being in the general office and desirous of seeing him. "Os course. See him immediately,” Jethroe told his secretary. His tones were freighted with heartiness —an expansive quality that is born of the assurance of a fixed position of comfort and success, the possibilities of removal from which are so nebulous as to be unworthy of consideration. Thurlow entered. “Hello, John," the president greeted him cordially. Free to Sunlite Users There are many reasons why Sunlite-Jell is finding its way into nearly every home. It's the final creation of an expert who has spent 25 years in perfecting jelly desserts with true fruit flavors. A comparison with any other kind quickly , convinces. Write Sunlite Dessert Company, Waukesha, Wis., for their Mold Offer. It tolls you how attractive dessert molds in several styles—pints and individuals —are furnished Free to Sunlite users. Every lover of jelly desserts should send for the Mold Offer. Stomach Misery Quickly Ended. Read Today’s Offer No More Distress When You Put Your Faith in Dare’s Mentha Pepsin. Ask Drug Co., About Generous Money Back Offer. Don't worry any longer about distress after eating, heaviness, gas or sour stomach for just one tablespoonful of Dare’s Mentha Pepsin, a delightful elixir, will stop the distress and make your stomach feel fine and fit. Thousands will vouch for the truth of this statement and thousands more will tell you that the most stubborn cases rapidly yield to this wonderful medicine and that stomachs habitually weak and upset from ovework or abuse, or a dyspeptic con- I dition, are quickly benefited. Try one bottle. If it doesn’t help I you The Holthouse Drug Co., or any I druggist will gladly return the pur- I chase price. i

I “What brings you down here off the Job?" Ho shook hands wit htlio superintendent and waved him into a large easy chair, | "I'm not down hero off the job, Mr Jethroe," Thurlow corrected him. i "On the contrary. I'm very much on It. I don't like to turn our deal for that Canfield section is taking, I wrote you, of course, that the old man had died suddenly, just after , we'd traded but before I could secure . a ded from him. > "Well, at the time of his eatli up . at the lookout station on Bogus Peak a young forest-ranger named Anthony . Garland happened to be present. It , appears there was considerable of a , fire in the San Dimas that day and > he'd gone up there to look after the s Dale girl, who keeps the lookout. .1 "Old Canfield took a sudden queer shine to this ranger, who wrote out .'a will. Canfield is purported to have I signed this will in the presence of . two witnesses, and it leaves every- . thing he has to Monica Dale, his old - partner’s daughter. The ranger. Gar- . land, told me about the will the night > following Canfield's burial.” i "A delay, of course, but not neces- ’ sariiy a fatal delay, John,” Jethroe ! replied cheerfully, “While I am ■ aware that the Dale girl, being . smarter than old Canfield, may hold us up for a greater price, 1 do not anticipate that she will resist us indefinitely. She dislikes the company, of course —" John Thurlow' permitted himself a sly little smile and Jethroe, observing , it, smiled too. "Perhaps it would be better to say that she dislikes the president of the company,” he corI rected. | “You're practically the company," Thurlow reminded him. "No sensible person bites off his nose to spite his face,” Henry Jethroe resumed. “When old Canfield's estate has been probated, and the girl comes | into possession of that land we want, I'm certain she'll listen to reason.” | “I doubt that, Mr. Jethroe. She . wouldn't listen to reason when you approached her on the subject last year, thinging she owned the property. . She told you she'd rather starve on Bogus than sell that land to the man she held responsible for Bob Mason’s conviction and sentence to life im- ! prisonment. She didn't even give you an opportunity to make her an offer then.” "Quite so. John, quite so. But time cures vindictiveness, even in women. I concluded to wait a year. I felt that another year on Bogus would work a change in the girl's outlook on life. Solitude and loneliness are productive of thought—rather straight thought, usually. 1 believed she would, eventually, come to the conclusion that

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her rosonlmont wasn't worth the price she was paying for It." I don't think money had anything to do with It. Until Bob Mason should decide to sell you Honey Valley, to he used to impound the debris when we commenced sluicing down that hill section, the girl felt she had to stick by her guns—to decline to desert a friend, particularly when that friend was, as she believed, wrongfully imprisoned. "Os course,” he added, “she's a mountain gill and born with an undue capacity for cherishing resentment. I gathered from Unde Charley that the teal reason she wouldn't se’l was because she feared, if she did, the company would proceed to impound its debris In Honey Valley without bothering to acquire title to it fi urn Mason." Jethroe chuckled comfortably. “Not so far off the target at that," he admitted. “Once we succeeded in partially spoiling Honey Valley, wed have the Debris Commission after us, of course. When Mason heard what we were doing he would have his attorney complain to the Commission, and we'd be spotted. But Honey Valley would have been ruined, and all Mason could do then would be to sue us for damages—a pretty difficult battle for a man in state s prison. He'd surrender and sell us Honey Valley at a fair price, rather than fight us. He couldn't afford the expense of litigation! "Remember also the man has an infant son and he must provide for the child's future. That consideration alone would break down Mason's resolution not to sell in order to defeat my plans. Men do some pretty

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straight thinking In the solitude and loneliness of prison cells.” Jethroe winked comically. Evidently he was well pleased with his strategy. He pushed a box of cigars across his I desk toward Thurlow. “Would yon have done that to Mason?" Thurlow queried. ''Certainly. Why not? The Hercules Company has too much money invested in equipment to consider pulling out of that country merely because the lands we at present own or lease will .shortly be cleaned up. Mason can get more money for his property from us than from anybody else, and if he will not listen to reason —well, I think we're justified in' using a little pressure." "You used some before, did yon' not? At his trial?” “He had murdered your predecessor > in cold blood, and I made the Issue a personal one. Should anyone murderi you. John, I would exert every effort . to convict the murderer.” Thurlow shrugged. "Os course. Mr ’ Jethroe, it all happened before I entered your employ, but frankly I have yet to meet anybody in that country! who doesn't sympathize with Mason —who doesn't believe my predecessor on the job got exactly what was coming to him.” "A difference of opinion is responsible for horse trades,” Jethroe. quoted. “How did you happen to dis-1 cover the girl didn't own the land,! after all?” “Wei’, when you despaired of pur-

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chasiiiß that land yonrßtjjf, aelf-in-tereat indicated that I should get on the job. The Hercules Hydraulic Mining Company paya me twenty-five I thousand dollars n year, and I disliked \ery much the thought of losing that position when the company should discontinue operations, due to its failure to secure more desirable ground on which to operatq. You will recall that the Dogwood Flats post-office is in the general store of the Her cules Company, and that our assistant store manager is the postmaster. "Recently this assistant was ill for a few days so 1 acted us postmaster, and in that capacity 1 observed that I Uncle Charley Canfield had secured la postal money-order in favor of the I county tax collector for the sum of six dollar’s and forty cents. Inasmuch as t<l_UN DERSTANDINO HEART land in the vicinity is assessed at ten i cents per acre I Jumped to the conillusion that Uncle Charley must own I six hundred and forty acres or one ! section. "I had a curiosity to ascertain its 'location because it occurred to me that, if the old man paid taxes on a section of land he was nok using, it was because he believed it to be i mineralized, for land without gold in it was just rocks and dirt to Uncle Charley. I “So I drove over to the conntyI seat and loked up Uncle Charley's ' holdings on the assessment books. When I checked the description —

section, township and range—with the map, I saw he owned the hill section yon hoped Io buy from Monica Dale, because you thought she had inherited it from her father. I discovered that Ashfortli Dale never had owned the property, so 1 concluded that the story that Uncle Charley had sold the land to him was a smoke screen put out by Uncle Charley for some secret reason. He was a curious old chap and nobody ever knew why he did anything. He loved to appear rough ami tough and mysterious.” Copyright 1926 Peter 13. Kyne by arrangement with King Foatu r f*s Syndicate Inc (TO 1»E CONTINUED) - -p '■ 1 Curtisville. — Records for late har- > vesting were shattered bv John Stottle, residing near here. He has ; just finished threshing his 1926 oats crop. __________

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