Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 190, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 December 1920 — Page 4

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3nMana Hate &\nm INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. Daily Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Street. Telephones—Main 3500, New 28-351 MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. Advertising offices t Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, G. Logan Payne Cos. * < New York, Boston, Payne, Burns A Smith, Inc. WEST BY SOUTHWEST o.°L ", If you were to travel from Indianapolis due west 180 degrees, or half way around the world, you would be directly north of the west line of Australia. Then If you were to travel directly south nearly 100 degrees you would be at the south end of New- Zealand, which means you would have traveled morj than two-thirds of the distance around the world. If you were to repeat this to return home you then would have traveled one and one-half times the distance around the world. "West by Southwest,” the title which has been selected for this expedition, possibly my last, indicates the direction we proceed from home. This corner of the world, which contains one-fifth of the globe’s surface, water and land, is occupied by six million white people in New Zealand and Australia, and by millions of people who are yellow, or black, <3r all kinds of mixtures of colors, in the thousands of islands embraced in what are known as the South Sea Islands. I expect first to give the readers of the Times the substantial courses of a full meal, the so-called roast beef and potatoes. That-will be New Zealand and Australia. Then from a personally chartered steam or oilburning yacht, equipped with wireless, I shall do many of the thousands of South Sea Islands. By this means I can get off the beaten track and away from the few- well-known islands where novelists have spent their time and regained their health, writing interesting fiction into which they have injected the lives of the people and things as they have seen them. It is said that truth is stranger than fiction. Far thirty-odd years I have been trying to find and publish true stories that were stranger than fiction. The South Sea Islands have been the basis of many romantic stories in fiction. lam going to do my very best to investigate and explore enough of these islands to beat, if possible, the stories of fiction. This portion of our expedition will be the dessert of our full meal, and, if I am not mistaken, a great variety of dessert is appreciated on every bill of fare. We sailed from Vancouver, B. C., Canada, on the steamship Makura of the Union Steamship Company line. When you read this I will be on the Pacific Ocean, and for the fourth time in the last ten years I will spend my Christmas at sea, in the interest of our readers. We should land at Auckland, New Zealand, within three weeks after leaving Vancouver. Wishing you all the compliments of the season (and hoping to see you again), I will say goodby. WHAT we cannot understand about that usury among city employes is where the inspectors get the money to lend to the laborers! THE TELEPHONE COMPANY seems to have resolved to unify the two telephone plants in Here’s hoping the resolution survives better than some others. V WONDER what will eventually become of that 224 quarts of whisky abandoned in the streets? Perhaps it will reach consumers via the underground in the holidays of 1922! AND WHILE POP LEPPERT is being tried on that blind tiger case. Prosecutor Adams might ask him if he is still grateful for the compromising cf the judgments against him. BUT IT OUGHT NOT be necessary, by speech and newspaper publicity, to remind the public of a law that has done as much for It as Jesse Eschbach et al. says has been done by the Goodrich Coal Commission act.

Just Be Patient , Please Comes now the marshal of Greentown, a rather obscure minion of the law, who seems to be of the type that regards his oath of office as more than a mere joke, and captures two bootleggers whom the zealous Charles Orfcison has overlooked. With more or less difficulty the marshal succeeds in getting his accusations into proper hands and. in spite of the interference of the high sheriff cf Howard County, in getting the liquor where it will neither be sampled to extinction nor sold by the truck load to bootlegging negroes. It is now in order for Mr. Orbison to write one of his famous letters of congratulation to this humble marshal, extolling alike his actions and the virtues of the Prohibition Enforcement Agent. Then E. S. Shumaker, the titular head of the Anti-Saloon League in Indiana, may make an investigation, and in event the marshal be found to belong to the party of the “aristocracy of intellect and kulture,” which Mr. Shumaker serves so well, he may even be initiated into full membership in the League. In fact, in the course of a few weeks we may have the pleasure of reading from the ready pen of Mr. Shumaker, a fulsome eulogy, not or the Greentown marshal, but of the wonder influence of the Anti-Saloon League, which in some occult way provided the motive that prompted the marshal to seize the bootleggers that evaded the clutches of the net that Orbison did not spread. * / A New Political Element An Indiana woman, who cast her first vote at the last election, recently refused to renew her subscription for a Democratic newspaper for this reason: “You was sure that Governor Cox would be elected It caused me to vote the Democratic ticket and I lost every vote. And after the election 1 knew you did not know nothing about what was going on, so please don't try to get me to take your paper any longer.” Although the Times was never so foolish as to predict the election of Governor Cox, it extends its deepest sympathy to this woman. She was deprived, by false representations, of,the priceless privilege of political victory. / Some low-down editor who never gave a moment's thought to the pain she would suffer from having cast her first vote fruitlessly, deceived her. He may have thought that the question of the late election was one of principle, nothing more. But he failed to reckon with the feminine mind. He did not give due attention to the fact that there is nothing that pleases a woman better than success. He cared not how serious a blow to feminine prtde Is involved in the awakening to the fact that the feminine stands with the minority. ✓ TVhat a fearful burden has been imposed on the mere editor by woman’s suffrage! Hereafter he must not only digest the issues of a campaign, but must look into the future or turn to the ouija board and duly ascertain who is going to win before each election. For if, perchance, he does not advocate a winner, then indeed i3 he guilty of heinous offense! To fail is to admit that he "don’t know nothing about what is going on,” and in addition to being conscience stricken he must also suffer the appalling calamity of losing a subscriber! Boston 9 s Blind Clerks An effort is being made in the city of Boston to place blind clerks in a number of stores of that city. Particular attention is being paid to those who became blind during the last war, and it is believed that with the proper training, these unfortunate persons will be able \o fill the positions allotted them as well as those who possess their sight. This move is intensely gratifying to those who feel sympathy so acutely when they watch the endeavors of a blind person. It is a fact that persons who have lost their sight have made a success in life, in spite of the handicap. N>w York once boasted of a very successful merchant who conducted a large wholesale business on Broadway. Indeed if the blind person has sufficient character to banish self pity from his mentality and determine to succeed, he can do so. It is a matter of congratulation in this State that the number of blind is constantly on the decrease in proportion to the population and while possibly there will always be persons who are so unfortunately situated, it is gratifying to know that the education afforded them despite the nature of their handicap is such that they can be very useful citizens and fill Uvm of service. Contrasting this with tie old time lot of a blind person whf devoted himself to begging, there has been a great advancement The experiment in Boston will be watched with a treat deal of interest.

Fas£ Field of Commercial Possibilities for America in Pacific to Be Sounded by Expedition Under Direction of W, D. Boyce

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There was a time when the Stars an<l btripes, flying above the ships of a merchant marine that covered the seven seas, was a formidable factor in the Pacific Ocean. In th© early ’3os It was well within the power of America to dominate the Pacific. Still in the Bush of national growth following the taking into the fo4d of Texas and California, the eyes of the United States turned upon the Pacific and its immeuse possibilities for trade and commerce. Many of the hundreds of islands which dot that huge body of water were unclaimed by any nation and Congress authorized American ships to take possession of any which seemed desirable. There his not at that time any power, with tile exception of Great Britain, in a position to offer determined rivalry to this course. Spain, Germany, Russia, Portugal and France had other things claiming their attention. The star of Japan had not yet arisen. America virtually had things her own way. Then came the Civil War and th* long period of reconstruction which followed It. The American merchant marine disappeared from the Pacific and later from almost all waters. Other nations stepped in and took over Pacific possessions and almost nil of the islands over which the American flag had been planted Were permitted to pass over to countries which had the time and the desire to develop them. The Spnnish-American War brought about a change. Acquisition of Hawn It and the Philippines and the purchase of Alaska served to stimulate our Interest iu the Pacific. Today, with a dozen small possession* there, we are again reaching out for trade that rightfully Is ours be-

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

(Any reader can get the answer to any question by writing the Indiana Dally Times Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskln Director, Washington, D C. This offer applies strictly to information. The bureau cannot give advice on legal, medical and financial matters. It does not attempt to settle domestic troubles, nor to undertake exhaustive research ou any subject. Write your question plainly and briefly. Give full name and address am! enclose 2 cents In stamps for return postage. All replies are sent direct to the ItWjulrer.) ClrtVtSE OAMKH. (J Whaf games do Chines* children play ? C. I*. G. A. Tht Chinese have numerous games, many quite similar to those played by American children Kite-flying and battledore and shuttle-cock are popular. Ta Chan, or ‘ hitting the ball," is played by X - HOROSCOPE "The stars Incline, but do Dot cotroe ’* SUNDAY, DEC. 1?. Astrologers read this as an unusually fortunate day. Venus, Jupiter and Mercury are all In benetic aspect. All the signs give promise of peace and Joy. especially wherever women are concerned. It is a time peculiarly favorable to family reunions, for the stars are supposed to impart sympathy and understanding. Love affairs are marvelously well directed amU all who plight troth under this sway should enjoy long lives of har-_ mony. Jupiter promises not only happiness, but prosperity to lovers. Persons whose birthdnte It Is have the forecast of a successful year. Children boru on this day are likely to be quick, gifted and well poised. These ■objects of Caplcorn usually make a great deal of money. MONDAY, DEC. "0. Mars rules strongly for good today, according to astrologers. Uranus is mildly adverse. The forces of progress nr* powerful during this rule, which makes for advancement through determined effort. Engineers and all who are engaged in construction work have the forecast of a period of activity under much bettor conditions than have prevailed since the close of the war. The stars that guide building, whether of houses, health or character, are in an aspect promising much in the coming months. Persons whose birthdatc it is should guard against dispute-; which will be most unfortunate in the coming year. Children born on ibis day are likely to be vigorous of inind and body. These subjects of Caplcorn usually are talented and successful. —Copy right, 1920.

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INDIANA DAILY TIMES, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1920.

West by southwest from North America lie the Island* of the South *••, New Zealand mid Australia, which soon are to be vtaited by W. D. Boyce, owner of The Indiana Daily Tl|ne, at tbs head of a party which will obtain picture* and material for article* for Times renders. It i* there that lie* the romantic part of the i'lwific Uccun and the map rereals what a targe part of the globe'* surface 1* embraced by the Fuclflc.

cause of our size and pbwer and proximity to Pacific lands. It 1* no easy task to build up a merchant marine that will do honor to our size and Importance; competition Is exceedingly keen and the commercial rivalry between ail nation* will not permit us to make a walkaway of our trade ambition*. Three fourths of the world'* surface la water and one half of that water lies in the Pactflc Ocean. It* waves touch the abiding place*. If not the blrtbplneo, us the black, yellow, brown and red race*, and the lands which border It are the, home* of half of the world'* population. The native* of mmt of the rich i .icifle Is!** bav# not profited by tiieJr contact with the white man and civilisation and are dying off The white man will soon lw* competing with the yellow man for commercial control of the Pacific and in th!* warfare America mint Join. We hold some great advantage*

striking the h*u to th* ground with the hand a* often as possible. Various form* of Blindman'a Buff, Ta Teh-Lo, or whipping the top, and Ta Pan, a form of hop scotch, prove that childhood knows the •wine games In many countries. Punch and Judy shows are very popular with Chinese children. ME AXING OF •*l-K. M Q. When gold bears the mark "14 K.” dot* that guarantee that It Is 14-karet gold? ‘i. H. J. A. The mark "14-K” Is a guarantee that the article bearing It Is made of 14-knrct gold. SOLOMON'S TEMPLE. Q. What ha* become of Soiomon * Tempo-'• H. A C. A. Solomon'* Temple was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar In SNI B. C. TWO KINDS OF LIGHT BULBS. Q. Has an electric light bulb air lu It? If not, how I* It removed? G. A. A. The Bureau of Standards say* there are two kind* of Incandescent light*. One contains a vacuum and the other a ga*. usually nitrogen. In the vacuum bulb, the air is removed after the bulb* are completed by exhausting it with a vacuum pump, and then sealing the tip of the bulb before air can enter. FATHER MAY BK WITNESS. Q. Can a father be a witness for a son who is about to get his naturalization papeiN, or 1* a relative barred? J. V. A. The Naturalization Bureau *ays that a father may boa witness for hi* on when h* mkes application for hts final papers. VALUE OF ASHES TO SOIL. Q. Are soft ooel ashe* Injurious to a garden where the soli la heavy? W. C. ZA A. Coal ashes huvo marked value for lightening heavy clay soils. HUNTING LICENSE FEES. Q. What 1* done with the money charged for hunting permit*? M. E. A. The proceeds from collections for hunting licenses, fines, et cetera, help to defray the expenses incurred by the various States In protecting game and administering the game laws. NEW ORLEANS “CRESCENT CITY." Q. Where la the “Crescent City?” A. M. P. A. This Is a name applied to New Orleans because of its situation on a bend of the Mluslsslppt river. ORIGIN OF WORD “PHILIPPIC." Q. What is the origin oi tbo word •philippic?" W. A. W. A. Any oration or declamation aboundIn acrimonious Invective has boon giver, this description, since the first famous orations of this sort were a serins in which Detnosthenps denounced Philip, King of Mt'.cedon. The name was applied

over other white nations. The Panama Canal, the building of which opened up anew era in the Pacific, belongs to us. and od our Pacific coast we can lay down for the use of our own vessels great quantities of oil,''-which rapidly Is displacing eoai as the fuel for ships. The United States Is seeking by maims of a shipping board to build up again a merchant marine flying our flag. The report of the board "Shows that it hns 140 vessels engaged lu trade In the Pacific, that all but one of them Is equipped to burn oil and that contracts have beeu wade by which all necessary fuel is now otdainable It points to huge oil storage stations st Honolulu and Manila already built and gthere In process of construction, and declares that we are rapidly achieving a place of prominence in Pa c'.flc shipping. * Opposed to that sre those who declare that the shipping board has been u failure, that the Government lu trying to control our merchant marine Is In the position of a man who has by the hind Pg a wild cat which Is going to be pretty hard to manage if he decides to cut loose. It Is almost impossible to tell what this adventure of ours in shipping has cost and Is costing us. The shipping board was organised to build and operate shlpa for us during the war, but with the war over aud the board turning Its vessels and expensive equipment to pursuit of trade, there Is in the minds of many a question as to whether we are not losing a great deal of money. Certainly a great many ship* under con- |

first to the orations of Cicero against Mark Antony. TALL TELEPHONE POLKS, Q. How high are the tallest telephone poles? G. I. T. A. Probably the highest telephone line ever built was on West street. New York City, with poles ninety feet long, some of them carrying as many a* thirty crossarms, HIRING FARM HELP. Q. Are laborers op farm* hired on a strictly money basis, or is board included? K. R. C. A. The Department of Agriculture sty* that of the totaj labor hired on farms In the United Stales. 36.1 per cent Is on a monthly basla with board, 155 on tht* baais without board, 31 per cent by the day, not counting extra harvest help, which smouuts to 17.4 per cent. VOTING MAC HI N EH. Q. Is the top lever on voting machine* always Republican? If ao, why? M J. S. A. The Republican national committee saya that the top lever of a voting machine is hot necessarily Republican: thU being a matter which Is generally nrringed between the manufacturers of the This Ad May Save Your Child's Life If It should step on a rusty nail would you know how to keep It from getting lockjaw ? If It caught diphtheria would you recognize the symptoms? I>o you know how to protect it from Infantile paralysis? We offer you the information that will enable you to meet these aud other emergencies of child life It is in the form of a bulletin written by the American School Hygiene Association and published by the American Rod Urns*. A copy of It may b© secured from our Washington Information Bureau. (In filling out the coupon print name and address or be sure to write plainly.)

Frederic J. Ilaakin, Dlrertor, The Indiana Dally Time* Information Bureau, Washington, It, C. 1 encloso herewith 2 cents In stamps for return postage on a free copy of the booklet “The School Childs HcJrtth." Name Street City State

trol of the board are lying in harbors and will continue to lie there and go to pieoee because there Is no demand for them aud we, apparently, can't find any use for them. Right at the end of the war those ships would have brought a fancy sum. Today It Is said the shipping board would be mighty glad to Dud purchasers nt almost any price. There was a time when America sold to other lands mostly raw materials which the purchaser took abroad in his own ship*. Gradually we began to manufacture more goods than we could use ourselves, and soon that surplus may reach ns much a* 50 per cent of our total production. If we are to realise the most from this, wo must send these goods to their purchasers in our ships, and bring back from other countries those goods which we mu*t buy from them. Wu must prove to the world nt large that our effort* lu the direction ox a merchant fleet are in the right direction and that we are golug to make a go of It. The I’aclflc offers us a vast field which we have neglected In the past. We can do much business in Its provinces and we are beginning to realize that fact. First, howpver, we must study and know conditions In those countries wlth/-wh!ch we wish to trade and whose Interests sre In many respects similar to ours. To get information on this subject Is one of tbo objects of the forthcoming visit of IV. D. Boye to the South P-icifle and concerning which he will send back articles for publication in The Indiana Dally Times. •

Just Couldn't Get Out of Chillicothe CAMP SHERMAN, Ohio. Dec. IS. Private Leon Denton made three attempts to *UI a ride out of Chillieotile. Finch crain he caught brought him back lo the city and he svirrea dereii to camp officials In disgust.

machine and the officials of the State, county or town desiring the machine. TO MAKE BROWN CEMENT. Q. I wish to make a cement retaining wall near my house and wish to have It match In color a* nearly as possible. U'bat will make the wment brown? G 11. H. A. Burnt umber. In the proportion of four pounds to tho bag of cement will produce a chocolate borwn. INSANE PEOPLE MARRIED. Q. What per cent of Insane asylum patients are unmarried? C. C. C. A. About 20 per cent of the patients In Insane asylums are single. “THE CITY OF KI.MS.” Q What city is called “the City of Elms?” A. M. P. A. New Haven, (’onnyis so known, but Its elms are disappearing. Its streets are still shaded, however, by more than HO 000 trees. STATES IN CORN BELT. Q. I often see reference to the “corn belt.” Just #hnt States are included? K. C. A. The region. Including Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, lowa, Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska vix’iieh are the chief growers of corn is known as tho corn belt. At TO CASUALTIES. Q. How many people are killed by automobiles each year? O. R. A. The National Safety Council says that approximately 10,000 persons a year meet death in this fashion. This number Is half as many as tho total loss through accidents In factories, railroads and mines combined. FIRST CALLED AMERICA. Q. When was America first used as a term applied to the whole Western world? O. K. NA A. Gerardus Mercator, a Flemish geographer and mathematician, first used the name In this sense in 1541. FIRST USE OF GOLD. (j. What was gold used for when first discovered? J- H. S. A. The gold mined by the undents was used for practically the same purposes ns today, with the exception of coinage. The metal whs used largely for decorative purposes In temples and also for personal adornment. In Rome, statues of the emperors were very ofteu made entirely of gold. w

WHEN A GIRL MARRIES A New Serial of Young Married Life

CHAPTER CXII. Jim finished his cup oi coffee, thick and syrupy with cream and pushed over the cup across to me to fill with the swallow of clear, black coffee with which he always concludes his breakfast. He had the benevolent. look that crisp buttered toast and eggs, done to the final second of their four minutes seem to give a man. “Jim, will you let me talk to you about —something important?” I said gravely as I passed back the cup of steaming coffee. Jim got out a cigar—token of leisure —and lighted it with the comfortable air a cigarette could never have Imparted to our conference. “You may fire when ready,” he announced. I leaned across tLe table, clasping my hands in my lap to hold them steady. “Jim, it’s like this,” I said at last, holding my voice steady, too, and meeting the amused glance of Jim's gray eyes soberly. “I married you because I loved you, I know. I couldn’t Btop If I tried —not even to be Just a ‘pal.’ You’re my man —MY MAN!” Jim put out his hand ttk, take mine, but I drew away. I hadn’t finished yet. With a little air of embarrassment he flecked at some dust that wasn’t on the breakfast cloth. “But love isn't everything,’’ I went on. “There’s work. You have yours, and I’m going to respect it always. But I too worked before I knew you, and I

PUSS IN BOOTS JR.

It was just getting very exciting when I had to leave of in the last story, for don’t you remember the handsome prince with little Puss Junior had Just Jumped out of the coach and were running into the castle to save the lovely princess who was a prisoner there? Well, no sooner had they entered than a wicked lord came down stairs with a sword In his hand and struck at the handsome prince. And, oh, dear me! the handsome prince received a great wound in his arm and his sword fell from his hand. And then little Puss Jumped up on the banisters and before that wicked lord could kill th* prince our brave little cat cut off the wicked lord's head. And then a great key fell to the floor with a bang, and Puss picked it up. end ho and the handsome prince, who felt very weak, because his arm hurt him dreadfully, you know, went down Into tho basement and then down into the cellar, and then down into the dungeon. And I don't see bow little Puss Junior knew that the key would fit the dungeon door, but It did, and in less than ive hundred short seconds the lovely princess was led out, for it was so dark that you could hardly see, and If It hadn’t been for the flaming feather In Puss Junior's cap, which was Just as good s* the little lamp that a miner wears In his cap. I don’t belts** they would have found tbelr way hack to the great hall. Well, after the prince had his arm bound up with bandage* and the lovely princess an Ice cream soda, they all fe.t happy as blue birds in spring, and Puss

Jnst Discouraged A pretty girl at un evening party was bantering a genial bachelor on bis reasons for remaining single. “No-00, I never was exactly disappointed In love,” he said. “I was what you

I might call discouraged. You see, when i I was very young I became enamoured iof a young lady of my acquaintance. I wss mortally afraid to tell her of my feeling, but nt length I screwed up my courage to the proposing point. I said: 'Let's get married.’ And Bhe said, ‘Why, who’d have us?’ ” Appeal for Children to Be Heeded in State Herbert Hoover’s appeal for a national collection In all of the churches on Sun dny, Dec. 19, for the three rflUlon starving children of central Europe, will be generally observed In this State, acccrrding to word received by State Chairman Caleb * Denny at the headquarters, 147 North Pennsylvania street. A number of tho pastors of local churches have sent word of their Intention to speak on the cause, among them being the Rev. W. O. Trueblood, pastor of the First Friends Church. Members of the Central Avenue M. E Church have had their attention directed to tho cause through an article written for the church bulletin by the pastor, the Rev. O. W. Fifer. Armour and Mitchell Riehesjto Be Linked CHICAGO, Dec. 18.—Two of the greatest fortunes of. the Middle West will be merged with the marriage of Miss Lolita Armour, sole heir of J. Ogden Armour, and John .T. Mitchell, Jr., eldest son of John J. Mitchell, bank president and director in a score of companies. The announcement of the engagement was made today. Miss Armour, It is estimated, has a fortune of $10,600,000 and Is the sole heir of tho Armour estate, valued at s<lo.(100,000. Mitchell’s father has a fortune of many millions. TO EXHIBIT PICTURES. An exhibit of twenty-one gum-bichro-mate photographs by B. F. Langland of Milwaukee will be on display to the Indianapolis public from J o'clock to 5 o'clock tomorrow- afternoon at 406 Itauh building. The pictures are brought to the city by tbq,Camera Club of Indianapolis and will be exhibited to the pub 11c free of charge.

By Ann Llalo

j can’t fill my days—the hours when you : are gone—without work. So I suspect that’s the real reason I’ve enrolled sos the canteen service during the lonfS months while they’re bringing our boys homo.” Jim came around the corner of the table and laid his hand ou my shoulder. , “You're all right, girlie. Go ahead with the work; you'll never hear a peep out of me again. Now give us a kiss and hold thumbs with yourself that in about forty-eight hours we have money enough to buy uniforms for a hundred I and eighty dollars, if wa like.” I “But, Jim, that isn’t all. Now. comes ! the real point. Anthony Norreys”— Jim pushed me away with a laugh that was at once forbidding and good humored; “Save Norreys for another time. No use making me see yed again just when you’ve coaxed mo back 'into loving my lilac lady. When I once swing this big deal of mine I’ll be ready to take a little ! vacation trip with you, and with a hundred miles between him and me, I’ll listen to your brief for Norreys. In the meantime remember you’re my girl. And A’U stand for no —nonsense.” As Jim spoke, he seized his hat and ' coat and made for the door. I tried to Intercept him, calling out as I hurried* across the room;—Copyright, 1920. 1 (To B* Continued.)

By Oavld Con/.

was Invited to spend a week-end at the castle, but he said he must be on his way, for he was a traveler and never tarried long. In castle or in humble cot, but sang this little song: Oh. I’m a wanderer, am I, Under tho blue or starry sky. Oh, I’m the captain of myself, For what care I for money and pelf. It’s on.y the love of the wild and free That keeps me going o’er land and sea. Oh. the rain may fall and the wind may blow. But ever I wauder on, heigh ho, heigh ho! And then PuSs took a hop, skip and a Jump, all of a sudden; he almost stepped on a little green snake. “Please be careful," said tho little snake, “you almost broke my diamond collar,” and she herse'.f into a ring and sat up and winked at Puss with her two pink eyes. “I love that song you Just sang. I wish I could travel and see the wide, wide world.” And then the little green snake sighed and wiped her eyes with a little leaf. “Some people are happier to stay at home and knit helmets for the soldiers,” said little Puss Junior, for he didn't quite know what to say. But the little green snake shook her head aud then oh* threw away the leaf and picked another one and fanned herself, for sun was very hot and her diamond collar made her very warm. And next time I'll tell you what happened afier that. — Copyright, 1920. (To Be Continued.

MONKEY USES PAWS TO TALK Elks Have Hundreds of Toys for Poor. “Two and two are four; three times two are six,” declared Consul, the educated monkey at the Elks’ Christmas Benefit headquarters today. He talks as he moves his paws after the fashion of Ouija boards up and down rows of figures. Consul Is only one of the hundreds of toys selected by the Elks Santa Claus for the poor kiddies Christmas. Fred E. Haliorun and William O. Stehlin have checked and tied into | bundles, gifts for more than three thousand children. Among the presents are gay little Japanese tea sets, dignified mission doll furniture, wash tubs and boards, numerous games, books, sewing sets, pencils, fountain pens, toy guns, building blocks, mouth organs, automobiles, dolls, banks, maps. Hay pianos? tops, Tinker Toys and aprons. More thau fifteen hundred pounds of candy, the same amount if mixed nuts, and 3,000 packages of crackerjack. with prize packages will be Included In the treat. In addition to the Christmas party to be given at the Circle Theater, food, clothing and fuel will be sent to needy families as calls come in through the winter months. Florida Governor Threatens to Use Buckshot on Editor JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Dec. 13—Florida Is hearing shotgun talk, coming from tho Governor himself, Sidney J. Catre, who indicates that newsprint may be expensive but that buckshot is more effective. Joe Karmai:, editor of the Palm Beach Post and president of the Florida State Board \of Health, who has always bccu recognized as one of the Governor s staunchest political friends, several days ago published a -eml-humorous page editorial under the caption, "Joe and Sid Friends No More.” Governor Catts released a copy of a letter he has written Mr. Earman. stating: “Now I have got to speak plainly with you. I am willing to let you and yours alone. y<m do tho same with me and mine, but you publish one more page in your paper like this last one ox 1 other mo or m.v business or my children any more I will go to West Palm Bench, Fla., with my double-barreled shotgun, loaded with buckshot, and I will have a final settlement with you.” FEDERALISTS JOIN REBELS. MEXICO CITY, Dec. 13.—Tile 230th Regiment of the Federal Army, stationed at Frontera. was reported today to have joined the revolutionists in the State of Tobaseo.