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By DAISY M. TWORT. I IS), lysil. t>> McCluru N«WBpi.|ier Syndicate.) ‘•Conrad is coming tonight!" Louise Pearson cried as she paused beside the counter behind which Prances Keith stood measuring off a yard of ribbon for a waiting customer. “Wo can’t toll Just what time, but ns soon as ins motlier knows that be Is in town, she is to phone everyone on the street, niid we all are going to turn our lights on, and so have a grand 11hinilnntion by way of a welcome hotne. As you have no phone, you'll have to keep walch. and when the lights go on, you enn set a lump in your window. It will look awfully old-fashioned, hut I suppose it Is the best you can do. If i your folks didn't belong among the old families, your poor little house would have been hustled off the street years ago," and with an irritating laugh, Louise turned away. Conrad Itnhcrts was the most popular boy In the small town of Flrsex, ami the girls had vied with one another in showering attentions upon him w hile he had been In France. During high school days, he had shown a decided preference for the society of Frances Keith, hut now he was coming home as a hero. It was rumored that Louise Pearson would he the favored one. Not only was site unusually attractive, hut she was also a favored child of fortune, and her pretty clothes and her runabout were the envy of all the other girls. Louise herself took it for granted that Conrad would seek her out first. She was sure he had written to her more often than to any of the other gilds: an opinion which Frances did not share. Extracts from Louise's letters found their way into Hie local papers, and w ere read at the afternoon eluhs. Frances felt that hers were too sacred to show to anyone excepting her mol her. II seemed to her quite too good to he true, that Conrad was on his way home at last; and It was with difficulty that she calmed herself sufficiently to pay attention to the wants of tin* people who found their way Into the store that afternoon. It was not until she was on her way home, that the remembrance of Louise's Irritating laugh came to trouble
her.
"I don't believe I will light our lamp at all." slip said to her mother. "It will only emphasize our poverty, and seem such a stingy welcome to Conrad w hen all the other houses on the street are brilliantly lighted." "Don’t be foolish." Mrs. Keith ndvNed, “If Conrad Is the hoy I think he ls. he will realize that old-fashioned things are sometimes the most dependable, Set the light in the front window, and run up the shade, so as to give the house a cheerful look, then Inmv yourself about something that will take up your mind. It is more than likely that Conrad will not come tonight. hut walk In upon us sometime In hroml daylight, when we least expect him.” With a sigh of Impatience. Frances ! arose to follow out iter mother's suggestion. Colng Into the kitchen she took from the shelf a large lamp, carefully trimmed the wick and polished the chimney until It shone. As she lit lt. she fervently wished thqt she had a fairy wand, by a wave of which she could change the feeble glow of the ' kerosene lamp Into n bright light that ' would send a welcoming ray far down , the street. “Conrad never will notice It," she ' reflected dismally as she placed the j lamp In one of tlje front windows. Having done this she returned to the i living room, where she settled herself I to work upon the sweater that was to j mnke her little sister happy on Christinns morning. So busy was she that the minutes slipped hv unnoticed, and it was with i surprise that she heard the clock strike eleven. "< >h ' do yea suppose that Conrad has i rotne?” she cried, springing up and running to the door to see If the other houses were lit up. As she looked out. she was astonished to find that the street was In darkness, not a light to he seen. “Why, mother!" she called out. “It Is perfectly black out-of-doors. Even the street lights are out." As she spoke she caught the sound of a footstep and the next moment a familiar voice said: "Is thnt you, Frances?” It was Conrad. “Of all dark places j this town l» the blackest !” he cried, as he made Ms way tip the steps and Into the hall. "There must he some trouble at the power station." Frances salt), trying to steadv her voice. “Mother told me Ilia' ntd-fashloncd things were sometime- the most dependable. I low glad I am that I lit our lamp after all.” “I am not sure, but I should have lost my way, If you hadn't." t'oiirad said. “1 missed the last train from Itoschllls atei had to foot It. When I -culled Flrse<- I found li in darkness; not a light In t. wn excepting yours. It was my beneon -tar, Just ns you have been dear heart “Iti' Louise thinks It Is she fur whou' 'nit care," Fnirees returned In a troubled voice. "Louise |s well enough In her way." Fonrud made answer, "but she Is apt to be uncertain as her light was. and for a Welcome home a fellow wants a I'gbi and a love that never falls." Ancient Cities Built Near Water. Every ancient city of note wns located on or near the sea or a river.
High Moral Example Set by Robert Louie Stevenson Well Worth Living Up To. Robert Louis Stevenson, refusing to take all that was offered him for a poem he did not think his best, wrote: "I do not live much to God and honor, but I will not willfully turn my back on both.” In the modest words lies deep the only standard hy which a man cun hope to satisfy himself with his life. It is a standard the world today sorely needs. We hear of unrest and shall hear of It. Why not. with so many men and wromen trying to live up to a standard set hy someone else? If they succeed, there Is no happiness in it. for it has no sanction from their own hearts. The man we count successful In material affairs and expect to find happy Is never one who lias reached a certalu place. But when a man has set a mark for himself In possessions and has kept that mark In view until he reached it, we call him successful. It may have been a $10,000 home; It may have been one million dollars. But It was his own goal. It is not less true of his Inner life. We do not expect much of a man who has no standard for himself of right and wrong. And he cannot claim any right to contentment. If his only moral standard Is the law, he earns only the minimum of satisfaction. Stevenson. refusing money which he neetied because he thought he had not earned it. Is a thousand times more to be envied than the man who takes a him dred nr a million dollars he has not earned, because no law will punish him.—Milwaukee Journal.
TO EXTERMINATE CROP PESTS
Scientist Plans to Use Flame Throwers and Other Methods to Destroy Enemies. In 1!)18 and 1fll9 the territory near the delta of the Rhone suffered greatly from swarms of the Morocco cricket, which multiplied so excessively ns to he of great injury to the crops. At a recent meeting of the French Academy of Sciences a report was made Ky M Vayssiere on the use of the "tlnme throwers,” employed In the war for throwing liquid fire, to extermimite these pests. With an apparatus holding about twelve liters of petroleum an extent of 200 square meters enn be so thoroughly swept with flames as to kill all the insects. Asphyxiating gases had hut little effect but applications of powered cliloroplerln were much more satisfactory. While vegetation suffered somewhat the effects were only temporary. Lastly. M. Vnysslcre made use of poisoned halt with n basis of arsenic like that employed in Italy and in the United States and obtained good results, lie proposes to utilize all three methods—first the flame throwers to exterminate the hordes of young larvae In nil cases where their use does not Involve danger of fire: secondly, cliloroplerln powder where the flame throwers would be dangerous: and thirdly poisoned halt in irrigated meadows where no cattle are
pastured.
Kept Gowns of a Lifetime. Looking round the prodigious dlsplay of the late Princess Lebanon's clothing at 'be Hotel Pmuot made you wonder If she ever gave or threw any thing away In her lifetime. Three hundred or more ten gowns and evening frocks, disposed of It. the recent sale of her effects, were of every date since her wedding trossean. Her body linen also was of every style from the primitive simplicity of early Victorian Ideals to the luxurious garments adopted hy the Parisian coquette to day. I'.nt the embroidered and Incod liou-e linen, the fine sheets In bundles of "fi, found more eager buyers than the clothing. Her furs were of great beau ty and variety. There were coats and cloaks of sealskin, of dark astrakhan, all la bewildering quantities.—From the Continental Edition of the London Mall.
His Way. “I felt klnda lost for a spell after 1 sold the old place and came down to live with my niece," admitted the retired farmer. "I missed the familial tasks, and there weren't enough new ones to keep me busy. The familiar sounds, too, were absent, and at first I couldn't get used to the new ones; the young lady on the left tinkling the piano, the folks on the right running their talking ninrhine. the feller across the street practicing his elnrinet. and so forth. They bothered me. But hlme-hy I took to going out on the hack porch ami filing a saw to quiet my nerves. And If alwa ys done so; nf'er a good spell of tiling the noises of t lie neighborhood didn't pester me at all.”—Kan-as City Star.
He Looked Musical. An officer of the reserve was tired after a bard day's work, and thought he would like n cocktail, which he or dp rod. Then be bethought himself of the breach of discipline Involved In serving a drink to a man in uniform. Pretty soon the darky returned with the cocktail neatly “dolled up” In a nip surrounded hy cracked lee, ns orange Juice Is served. The officer looked sternly at the waiter and asked him If hi* did not know bettor than to serve n tlrlnk to an officer In uniform. "Is you an officer. Hah?" said the darky. Innocence oozing from every pore of Ids face. "F *. de Lnwd, 1 thought you was one of detn Sousa's band."
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LURE THAT ItMFlEJ MANY
Adventurer* as Well as Dreamers J Sought Vainly lor the Fabled Fountain of Youth.
In that far-off, never-to-he-tllseov-ered country in that region which lias shifted and changed just as men's minds alter and expand. In that mystic Rimini was thought to he the spring which. If tasted hy mortals, would nsvun* them Immortal youth. On that isliind htihhled a fountain whose waters healed all manner of sickness. The lure of the Fountain of Youth seized upon not only tin* dreamer, hut eatlglil the fancy of the bold adventurer. Ponce ilc* Leon, and the redoubtaide De Soto sought to taste of its lifegiving fluid, and It Is perhaps the mystery and wonder, coupled with desire. that brought about the discovery, not of the foutilain. hut of that part of our country known as Florida. It wns on the 27*h day of March, iniff, that Ponce de Leon sighted land which he thought was an Island. On April 8. which was Easter Sunday, he took possession of the country In the mime of the king of Spain and called It Pascun Floildn In honor of the day. He explored the country and was obliged to battle with the Indians, and after many adventures, which included another voyage In 1521 to found a colony, this Intrepid navigator suoeumhetl to a wound Inflicted hy a savage. and died while his vessel was making for the island of Porto Rico.
DANGER IN ELECTRIC CURRENT
Neither Fixtures Nor Appliances Should Ever Be Touched by Anything That Is Wet. No electric appliances should ever he placed where a person lu a bathtub can reach them. Such Is the assertion of Dr. A. Zinimeru In the Pressp Medienle (Paris) in commenting on the death of a colleague. Electrocution has taken place with a current of only 111) volts under such circumstances. The reason Is that the water on the hands and body provides exceptionally favorable conditions for conduction of the current. It is not safe to touch even an electric light, beater or bell when in the hath. Doctor Zimmern cites recent cases as follows: A woman killed by holding nn electric pgld m one wet hand while turning n water faucet with the other; a woman killed hy wiping with a wet cloth the current distributing apparatus for an electric beater; a man receiving a severe shock hy taking hold of a chandelier while holding no electric light suspended by a wire. It Is very dangerous to change an electric hull, when tin* hands are wet or the floor Is wet; a slight defect In the Instilntloi may cause u severe ahock or even death.
Measuring Sludge. An Ingenious method of measuring the depth of sludge In deep sedimentation tanks Is on plo. ed at the sewage disposal works of Fitchburg. Muss., says n Canadian writer The measurements are made by means <>t n pitcher pimqi and 28 feet of l-ineh rubber hose, marked n 1 foot lengths. The pump Is screwed to a 8-foot plank and ntlnchod to the hose by a union coupling. In making measurements the plank is placed across the top of a gas vent and the hose pushed Into the tank until It Is near the supposed sludge level. The hose is then lowered nn Im h at a time. Between eiich shift sufficient pumping is done to Insure n complete change of water In hose. When the sludge level Is reach ed. the pump will raise sludge The length of the hose below the chimney top Is then noted, and as the dl tunCf front top of chimney to bottom of tank Is known It Is nn easy mat'er »o estimate (lie depth of the sludge.
Mexicans Wary of Snow It Is possible on almost my day In the year to see snowbanks from Mexico City, yet few of the natlvo there had ever touched snow uniil one day last winter, when there was qulP a perceptible fall, the first In i.iiiDy years In the Valley of Mexico. The mountain peaks of Popocatepetl and Iztaccllnintl. clearly visible front the capital, are always snowclnd. hut they are some sixty miles away. Rarefooted or lightly shod natives stepped gingerly Into the strange element, and afterward spent most of the day huddled In their homes or in sheltering nooks and corners. The snow flurry wns due to a sudden drop In temperature during n light rain.
His Predicament. •'Wont Is the matter with old Riley I Rezzldew V" asked the traveling sales-! man. "He does t.ot seem to like him- : self.'' “I'll tell yon." rcttirneii thp landlord of the Petunia tavern. "Uncle Rile', has killed the peach crop for tic coming season, got the l.cagac of Nations out nf the way fnt the pre ent. anil nobody euros n hyper whether,the climate of Mars Is healthy nf not so he's kinda out of talking points for i the present, and liasn'r anything to, argue about until be gets noma new ones."—Kansas City Star.
Packing Cases for Rubber. Refnre the war Japan used to sup ply most of the packing eases used I for rubber sent out of Btirmn. Owing to the Increased cost and the scarcity ' of shipping the P.urmn forest depart I meat took up •be business and now I supplies tbe boxes required, which j yield a fair profit, besides beretHmg an |iii|Mirtnnt local Industry.
A GREATER PRIZE
By MARY T. NOLAN. <©, lH-t), by McClure Newspaper HyndlcsLe.) The pupils of the fourth grade wen* very sure there wasn’t another teacher in tin* world quite ns nice and interesting as their .Miss I lull. She had a pleasing way about her which made each member of Iter class anxious to do willingly and promptly w hatever she asked them to do. And how the little boys and girls did love to listen to Miss Hall telling them, Hoinetinn* during the afternoon session, about strange and interesting people who lived in other countries. Or sin* would speak to them of their own native flowers and trees, and the different kinds of birds and the furry creatures tlial inhabited the woods. One afternoon in the late fall Miss Hall gave a talk on a thought-up journey to southern Europe. Wlieii she laid finished she smiled upon tier bright-eyed charges and then brought the happy tourists back home to their everyday duties. She began to hear their spelling lesson. Toward the close of the session Miss Hall stepped down from the platform and went to the blackboard, followed by a hundred questioning eyes. She took a piece of chalk from the groove and began writing in the center of the blackboard. The first; word looked odd to (lie pupils. A very, very strange word, indeed, thought each child there. This was the first word on the board : "Quercus.” The word following "(titercus" was “alba.” Miss Hall bad resumed her chair. Then a little hanil was raised anil a sweet voice said, rather timidly: “I'lease. teacher.” .Miss llall looked up and toward thp signaling hand. "Well, Lottie?” she inquired comradely. “I'lease, teacher, what do those words you Just wrote mean?" asked the brightest and most inquisitive pupil in llie whole class. "Thunk you. Lottie, for mentioning them. I had intended a little surprise for you, children—a so.-t of test, if you please, for observation.” .Miss Hall showed a small, greencovered book to the class. It was a thin volume, about three inelies square, with an attractive leather binding. “I will present this little book—a very neat mid useful book It Is. children—lo the boy or girl who first gives «" rrect meaning of the words that I Just put on the blackboard. Now, I know I won't have to wait long, because, children”—she smiled encouragingly—"Quercus alba Is well known to you, I think,” One somewhat Indifferent pupil—a boy named Judd—informed bis chums that he'd all the books he wanted already. "A little smnrtle, like Lottie Blinn, will get that book; you wait and see!" proclaimed young Judd. “Well, s'long, you kids! I'm off to tli' pa k l"r some barberries.” "Tie sour little berries tasted almost as good to Tommy Judd as his favorite delicacy, pickles; and the hushes wert red with them. The toucher liappi ned to la* passing and heard Tommy's purling remarks to his scliii.iiiiiiitc.s. “He would rather roam the woods tin.u .stuily 11is nooks," she told herself us she watched ti.v running figure of her unpromising pupT heading toward the park. “1 do wish lie were more attentive—like Lottie Blinn," slit* mused. The air was crisp and invigorating and she walked briskly toward Hit* great l ily park, li short distaneit away. It contained many tall, rugged trees. Along the gravel footpath of ibis beautiful park Miss Hall walked dally and found lieultli mill quietude. llit* rosy cheeked teacher hecniiii* aware of another's presence beside tier. The sonorous greeting of one she used to know caused tier heart to beat with ecstasy, “I haven't so* n you for a long time, KUn," said Ray Rliiui. after Hit* first greetings had been exchanged; "not since I went away, nearly two jeurs
ago."
The velvety brown eyes of the pretty schoolteacher looked into those of the stalwart young soldier. "I in so glad you are back home again, Lieutenant Rlinii.” she said. "Roy, please—like you used to call me. R sounds more chumlike. Don't you think so, Etta?” "Why—er-yes." she answered, reminiscent; "I think so." They were walking along the path, when a small boy, wildly waving a cap about his hca 1, us ,f hornet-chiixvd, and .shouting glee,Tilly "The book's mine! The book's U'Iih* came rushing toward them. The panting youngster stopped In front of the toneher ami gasped out Houielhing about a sign he had seen "while I was lookin' at a squirrel run ulii’ up a tree.” “< ouie, ttutheivl I'll show you where the sign Is.” Soon they eauie to n tall tree with a grayish bark, "Look, teacher! Then* it 1*. There's the sign. See th' words—th’ words on th’ bltii'kboard today." Art! sure enough, on the tree was fastened a stniill placard, with this printeil blentIth'iition ; Quercus ulbu (thu White Onk). Tommy Judd received the prize next day ; but Tommy's prize is a mere trifle when compared with the lovely prise that Lieutenant Boy Itlinu hopes to win some day.
GREAT RECORD AT HOG ISLAND Ninety-eight Vessels Are Launched at Shipyard in 20 Months.
611,575 TONS FOR THE YE1R More Than 750.000 Ton. Added to th* Nation's Merchant Marine by Phi| a delphia Plant—Vessel. Have Steam ed One and a Half Million Mile, Without Developing Any Structural or Workmanship Weakness. Adding more than three-quarters of n million deadweight tons of steel ships to the new merchant marine of the United States In twenty months is the world's shipbuilding record established at the Hog Island sli iiyard at Philadelphia, when the ninetyeighth ship constructed hy the American International Shipbuilding eoriioration recently was launched upon the waters of the Delaware. The world’s largest shipyard, nccnnlIng to figures compiled by the ship, building company, during the year ended March 31. 1020, launched a total of 611,57.1 deadweight tons of steel ships, or one vessel launched every twenty-nine working hours, uml delivered 580,875 deadweight tons of steel ships, or one every thirty working hours. Record at Hog Island. The tonnage launched at the ling Island yard from August 5, I'JIS, to date Is 21* per cent of the total tonnage of stee! ships launched from nil the shipyards of the United Slates (hiring thnt period, and is one-twelfth nf the totnl deadweight tonnage of sir, I ships launched from all the shipyards of the United States for the Etiiergeney Fleet corporation. The eighty-three enrgo carriers delivered to the shipping hoard by tin* Hog Island yard have received th highest rating of the American liurenn of shipping and the shipping honnl inspectors, while fifty of the vc-si'h also received the highest classit, itioti from Lloyd's bureau. Hog Island vessels have steamed 1500,231 miles anil have ennird l.otrj.. N00 tons of cargo. Eleven losenes have been effected at sen by tin' II g Island ships. Gives Good Service. The Qulsteonek. the first of the fabricated ships turned out. which was christened hy Mrs. Woodrow Wilson In the presence of the nation's chief executive and n crowd of lonoMi persons. has a record of 00 000 miles steamed. After completing "7.50O miles the vessel was drytloeked mid carefully examined hy shipbuilding experts. who found her Intact. The hottom of the hull was scraped clean nf humnrles and then repainted, and front the day of delivery, with this one exception. the vessel has been In constant service without showing any structural or workmanship wenkto— The figures issued by the shipbuilding company further show tin: do average dally working for luring 191!) was 80,000. and the number of men employed 20.000, as of si e J -d 1920. Rivets driven Humbert I ' "Y'" 781. and TIC,002 tons of ste were imvoUmI. The Hog Island shipyard no , s an urea of 927 acres mid bits a froir ' of two and one-quarter miles. There are thirty-six warehouses in the shipyard and elghty-two miles of railroo track. The floor space of the bmiiiIngs cover 10"> acres.
U. S. SELLS 3,000 PLANES Army Air Service Disposes of chines Below Cost. The army air service between November li. 1918. and February 1920. sold 3,000 airplanes and 5 030 eaThe receipts from planes were *1343.963. or 9 per cent of the apl' r ' ' ^ mate cost: from engines, $2.o'.' ' i' 19.5 per cent. The bulk of the sal« were to the Curtiss companyThese figures were made piil>n<' > tin* war department. Ihey d" ' 11 1 elude 214 engines transferred m ' '' navy or post office deportment nut foreign motors sold to schools. Uncle Stun almost broke cm n ' sale Of 20 L. W. F. planes with englues, the approximate cost of w |U wns $327,000 and for which d"' " service received $321,000. lb'' serviceable planes In good cot T' 1 SMALL BOY NURSE AND C?CX Seven-Year-Old Boy Administers Iclnes and Prepares Meals. When Mrs. William Rissell of r ' l ' n ‘ ter. Kan., was suddenly taken r ' Influenza no one could be obto i" 1 ^ care for her. The husband was " ^ away helping care for another d" ^ Her seven-year-old son. Asti. " 1 only other person In the hou-r three days the little boy propare.1 _ meals, washed the dishes, nm< fires, swept floors and mlm'" 1 ' the medicine thnt a physician lu'u
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Msn Found Desd In Gra y eH '^ M When John Olson, slxtyd grave digger, of Ln Crosse, - to return to his lianie for . P . nl *i hers of the family ,,<>cfln ' , ‘ „ ltP1 |rt and after a search fo ' ,u ^ h for ,nbody In n grove he was dlggins 1 other inuo.