Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 262, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 March 1921 — Page 4

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JuMana gaifo STimrs INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. Dally Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Street. Telephones—Main 3500, New 28-351 MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. .. . < Chicago, Detroit, St. Louie, G. Logan Payne Cos. Advertising offices | j; ew York, Boston. Payne, Burns & Smith, Inc. INCOME TAX PAYING Is painful, but as Mr. Elder suggests, It might as well be done early as late! PERHAPS the school board would do as well if it abolished its counsel and submitted all its legal problems to the State board of accounts direct. IN THESE DAYS of high prices it Is hard for any one to understand the plea of a man who wanted to be sentenced to jail so that ho could “sober up." AS A PUBLIC OFFICIAL who urges all others to respect the spirit as well as the letter of the law, that $3,000 bonus must be a great temptation to Jesse Eschbach. IT IS PREDICTED that two classes of citizens will get beer under the government’s new ruling and it is a safe bet that all who desire it will belong to one class or the other! THE AUDITOR of Grant County can take some consolation from the fact that he is not the only public official who disagrees with the rulings of the State board of accounts! NEITHER the controller nor the sanitary board respects the law des ignating the time they shall file their reports, but what’s a little matter like the law among the members of the Jewett administration? MORRIS BLEIWIESS Isn’t the only defendant In a criminal case who has arranged for a parole hearing while enjoying a reprieve recommended by Judge Collins “to allow him to attend to important business matters.” THE UNEXPECTED DEATH of Judge V. G. Clifford comes not only as a blow to a host of friends, but also as a blow to the whole community, for whose interests he sacrificed himself as an able member of Marion County s bench. Repardless of the Law / Section 2 of the act under which the sanitary district of Indianapolis was created says: “Such city of the first class shall furnish suitable office and storage room for the use of such board of sanitary commissioners without cost to the board, and all maps, plans, documents, records and accounts shall be there kept by said board subject to PUBLIC INSPECTION AT ALL REASONABLE TIMES.” This same section also says, “ALL MEETINGS SHALL BE PUBLIC.” This Is the law of the State of Indiana and the members of the board of sanitary commissioners of Indianapolis are as bound to respect it as

they are to refrain from committing murder. Failure to keep the records of their board meetings and their accounts of the hundreds of thousands of dollars that pass through their hands “subject to public inspection at all reasonable times,” is malfeasance In office, all the more reprehensible because it can have only one purpose—the deceiving of the people of Indianapolis as to how their business is being transacted. Regular and special meetings of this board, held behind locked doors, with the public excluded, are not only contrary to law but can have but one purpose—the suppression from public knowledge of facts that the public should know. Such Is the law' and such is the only Interpretation that can be placed on its violation. But the facts are the Indianapolis board of sanitary commission does not keep its records and accounts subject to public inspection at any time. The reason is obvious. The board of sanitary commissioners of Indianapolis is the weakest spot in the administration of Charles W. Jewett. Its official actions can neither be explained nor condoned in a manner that makes it advisable for the Jew'ett administration to allow the public to know what it is doing. One of the first acts of this board was the purchase from James P. Goodrich et al. of a garbage plant for $175,000 after the president of the owning company had declared under oath that “it would cost more than the plant is worth to junk it.” Another of its secret actions was the signing of a contract with the United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company to complete, for a substantial block of public money, a contract which the company had bonded itself to complete at a figure considerably lower than this board finally agreed to pay it A third feature of its illegal proceedings was the suppression of its report on the operation of the $175,000 garbage plant which it bought from Goodrich et al. The law that created this board says that it shall make a report of its proceedings to the mayor prior to Feb. 1 of each year. The board failed to make this annual report until March 10 of this year. When It did make the report it failed to place a copy where it would be “subject to public inspection at all reasonable times.” **!• The explanation lies in the rumor that this suppressed report shows that last year the sanitary commission operated its $175,000 garbage plant at a deficit of $33,000. There Is, of course, a way to compel these sanitary commissioners to live up to the law that created them. If they were compelled to live up to this law the citizens of Indianapolis would, at least, have the satisfaction of knowing how much of their money the board was scattering to the four winds, even though they were unable to save the money. The very secrecy with which the members of this board surround the affairs of the board is sufficient to destroy any confidence which the public might have in it The fact that its members openly violate the law relative to the maintenance of its records “subject to public inspection” is a very good indication of their willingness to violate other sections of the act. Secrecy in public affairs does not always indicate graft, but graft in public affairs is always clothed in secrecy. Better and Happier The boiler in which the daily fare was prepared, in St. George s workhouse at London, is to be preserved in a museum, because it was made famous by Dickens In “Oliver Twist.” It w-as there that little Oliver held up his bowl and asked for more gruel, and received none. There began the Btory now rt lognized as a wonderful piece of literature. The building is to be a warehouse. No tears will be lost over the conversion of this old workhouse into something commercial, for the lover of good literature cannot feel kindly to the shelter -where little Oliver Twist was mistreated. Dickens had a wonderful ability to paint a word picture and in his books he did it, without fear or favor, and that of the workhouse makes one shudder. Happily the time of corporal punishment is passing. No longer Is an act of cruelty to a child or even to a beast tolerated, if it is known, and no longer does a resort to pain meet with approval. One of the great signs of the advancement of the human family is its appeal to reason rather than to suffering, to accomplish anything. In Russia railroad men w r ho make certain mistakes are flogged. In England less than fifty years ago soldiers and sailors were punished with the lash, while in America scarcely sixty years ago, labor was enforced among the slaves with all the inhumanity greed could devise. Now, it is recognized that even horses do not need to be “broken”— trained is the proper word, and that Is to be done not by the terror of the •whip but by an appeal to the intellect. With children, one who would advocate the necessity of the rule of the hickory stick would not be heard. To say a child’s will must be broken is savagery—to advocate its education is sense. A better citizenship, a happier world has arisen since Dickens portrayed little, half starved Oliver Twist saying “Please, sir, I want more,” and then being punished by confinement in a barren dark room, on bread and water, and whipped daily for a week.

THE FIFTH WHEEL r , /-V t T'P'X TT\"K T Copyright, 1920, by Doubleday, Page 1 1 I—l H ra ¥ & Cos., Published by special arrange.- • A AJLii. VIV X ment with the Wheeler Syndicate, Inc.

THE racks of the Bed Line moved closer together; for It was cold, cold. They were alluvial deposit of the stream of life lodged In the delta of Fifth avenue and Broadway. The Bed Liners stamped their freezing feet, looked at the empty benches In Madison Square whence Jack Frost had evicted them, and muttered to one another in a confusion of tongues. The Flatiron building, with its lmpous, cloud-plerclng architecture looming mistily above them on the opposite delta, might well have stood for the tower of Babel, whence these polyglot Idlers bad ueen called by the winged walking delegate of the Lord. Standing on a pine box a head higher than his nock of goats the preacher exhorted whatever transient and shifting audience the north wind doled out to him. It was a slave market. Fifteen cents bought you a man. You deeded him to Morpheus; and the recording angel gave you credit. The preacher was Incredibly earnest and unwearied. He had looked over the list of things one may do for one's fellow man, and bad assumed for himself the task of putting to bed all who might apply at his soap box on the nights of Wednesday and Sunday. That left but five nights for other philanthropists to handle; and had they done their part as well, this wicked city might have become a vast Arcadian dormitory where all might snooze and snore the happy hours away, letting problem plays and the rent man and business go to the deuce. The hour of eight was but a little while past; sightseers In a small, dark mass of pay ore were gathered In the shadow of General Worth's monument. Now aud then, shyly ostentatiously, carelessly, or with conscientious exactness one would step forward and bestow upon the preacher small bills or sliver. Then a lieutenant of Scandinavian coloring and enthusiasm would march away to a lodging house with a squad of the redeemed. All the while the preacher exhorted the crowd in terms beautifully devoid of elo-

F.jian hr dye Simple Affair

Fijian bridge is not a thing of architectural marvel. Posts or heavy poles lashed to each other In the shape iof an X are the piers. Where the poles i cross other poles are laid lengthwise to form a walk and lashed into place. Ilandral’s are lashed to the crossed poles

quenee—splendid with the deadly, accu•lve monotony of truth. Before the picture of the Bed Liners fades you must hear one phrase of the preac.ier's—the one that formed fits theme that night. It Is worthy of being stenciled on all the white ribbons In the world. “No man ever learned to be a drunkard on 5-cent whisky.’’ Think of it, tippler. It covers the ground from the sprouting rya to the rotter's Field. A clean-profiled, erect young man In the rear rank of the bedless emulated! the terrapin, drawing his head far down, Into the shell of his coat collar. It was a well-cnt tweed 'oat; and the trousers I still showed st/ns of having flattened' themselves beneath the compelling goose. But. conscientiously, I must warn tiie milliner's apprentice who reads this, ex-i pc tii.g a Reginald Montr<-ssor In straits, 1 to peruse no further The young man was no other than Thomas McQuade, excoachmnn, discharged for drunkenness one month before, and now reduced to tbe grimy ranks of the' one-night bed seekers. If you live in smaller New York you must know the Van Smuythe family carriage, drawn by the two I.SoP-pound, 100-to-1 shot bays. The carriage Is shaped like a bath tub. In each end of It reclines an old lady Van Smuythe holding a black sunshade the size of a New Year's eve feather tickler. Before his downfall Tluujia McQuade drove the Van Smuythe bays and was himself driven by Annie, the Vam Smuytlie lady's maid. But it is one of the saddest things about romance that a tight shoe or an empty commissary or an aching tooth will make a temporary heretic of any Cupld-worshiper. And Thomas’ physical troubles were not few. Therefore, bis soul was less vexed with thoughts of his lost lady's maid than it was by the fancied presence of certain non-existent things that his racked nerves almost convinced him were flying, dancing, crawling and wriggling on the asphalt and In the air above and around the dismal campus of the Bed Lire army. Nearly four weeks of straight whisky and a diet limited to crackers, bologna and pickles often guarantee a psycho-zoological sequel. Thus desperate, freezing, angry, beset by phantoms as he was, he felt the need of human sympathy and Intercourse. The Bed Liner standing at his right was a young man of about his own age, shabby, but neat. ‘•What's the diagnosis of your case, Freddy V” asked Thomas, with the freemasonle familiarity of the damned—•'Booze V That's mine. You don’t look like a panhnndler. Neither am I. A month ago 1 v.as pushing the lines over the backs of the finest team of Pereheron buffaloes that ever made their mile down Fifth avenue In 2:58. And look at me now! Say; liow do you come to be at this bed bargain-counter rummage sale?” The other young man seemed to welcome the advances of the airy ex-coach-man. “No,” said he, “mine isn’t exactly a case of drink. Unless we allow that Cupid is a bartender. 1 married unwisely, acordlng to the opinion of my unforgiving relatives. I’ve been out of work for a year because I don't know how to work; and I’ve been sick in Bellevue and other hospitals four months. My wife and kid had to go back to her mother. I was turned out of the hospital yesterday. And I haven't a cent. That’s my tale of woe.”

BRINGING UP FATHER.

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"Tough luck,” said Thomas. “A man alone can pull through all right. But I hate to see the woman and kids get the worst of It" Just then there hummed up Fifth avenue a motor car so splendid, so red. so smoothly running, so craftily demolishing the speed regulations that it drew the attention even of the listless Bed Liners. Suspended and pinioned on its left side was an extra tire. AY hen opposite the unfortunate company tbe fastenings of this tire became loosed. It fell to the asphalt, bounded and rolled rapidly In the wake of the flying car. Thomas McQuade, scenting an opportunity, darted from his place among the preacher’s goats. In thirty seconds he had caught the rolling tire, swung It over his shoulder, and was trotting smartly after the car. On both sides of the avenue people were shouting, whistling, aud waving canes at the red car, pointing to the enterprising Thomas coming up with the lost tire. One dollar, Thomas had estimated, was the smallest guerdon thut so grand an sutomobliist could offer for the service he had rendered, and save his pride. Two blocks away the car had stopped. There was a little, brown, muffled chauffeur driving, and an Imposing gentleman wearing a magnificent sealskin coat and a silk hat on u rear seat. Thomas proffered the captured tire with his best ex-coachman manner and a look In the brighter of his reddened eyes that was meant to be suggestive to tbe extent of a silver coin or two and receptive up to higher denominations. But the look was not so construed. The sealskluned gentleman received the tire, placed It Inside the car. gazed Intently at the ex coachman, aud muttered to himself inscrutable words. ’’Strange—strange!” said he. "Once or twice even I, myself, have fancied that the Chaldean Chlroscope has availed. Could It be possible?” Then he addressed less mysterious words to the waiting and hopeful Thomas.

and the bridge Is complete.” This Is a picture \V. D. Boyce, owner of the Times, who 1s leading a “AA’est by Southeast" expedition In the South Pacific,’ sent back from the FIJI Islands. An Interesting article by Mr. Boyce will appear on this page Monday.

• ’’Sir. I thank you for yo-ir kind rescue of my tire. And I would ask yoix, if I may, a question Do you know the faintly of Van Smuythe* living in AVasUlngton Square north?” "Oughtn't I to?" replied Thomas. “1 lived there. AVlsh I did yet." The sehlsklnned gentleman opened a door of the car. ' Step In, please,” he said. “You have been expected.” Thomas McQaade obeyed with surprise but without hesitation. A seat In a motor car seemed better than standing room In the bed line. But after the laprobe had be-n tucked about him aud the auto had sped on Its course, the peculiarity of the Invitation lingered in his mind. "Maybe the guy hasn’t got any change," was his diagnosis. Lots of these swell rounders don’t lug about any ready money. Guess he'll dump me out when h” gets to gome Joint where lie can get cash on his mug. Anyhow, It’s a etneh that I’ve got that open-air bed convention beat to a finish.” Submerged In h!s greatcoat, the mysterious antomobilist. seemed, himself, to marvel at the surprises of life. "Wonderful! amazing! strange!" he repeated to himself constantly. A\ hen the ear had well entered the crosstown seventies it swung eastward a half block and stopped before a row of high stooped, brownstone-front houses "Be kind enough to enter my house with me,” said the sealskluned gentleman when they hud alighted. “He's going to dig up, sure." reflected Thomas, follow lug him Inside. There was a dim light in the hall. Tils host conducted him through a door to the left, closing It after him and leaving them In absolute darkness. Suddenly n luminous globe, strangely decorated, shone faintly In the center of an Immense room that seemed to Thomas more splendidly appointed than any he bad ever seen on the stage or read of la fairy stories. The walls were hidden by gorgeous red hangings embroidered with fantastic gold figures. At the rear end of tho room were draped portieres of dull gold spangled with silvor crescents and stars. The furniture was of the costliest and rarest styles. The ex-coachman’s feet sank Into rugs ns fleecy aud deep as snowdrifts. There were three or four oddly shaped stands or fables covered with black velvet drapery. Thomas McQuade took In the splendors of this palatial apartment with one eye. AA Ith the other he looked for his imposing conductor—to find that he hud dis appeared. "B’gee!” muttered Thomas, “this listens like a spook shop. Shouldn't wonder If it ain’t one of these Moravian Nights' adventures that you read about. Wonder what become of the furry guy.” Suddenly a stuffed owl that Rtood on an ebony perch near the illuminated globe slowly raised his wings and emitted from his eyes a brilliant electric glow. AA ith n fj-igbt-born imprecation Thomas seized a bronze statuette of Hebe from a cabinet nearby and burled it with all his might at the terrifying and impossible fowl. The owl and tils perch went over with a crash. With the sound there was a click, and the roo n was flooded with light from a dozen frosted globes along the walls and celling. The gold pertieres parted and closed and the mysterious antomobilist entered- the room. He was tall and wore evening dress of

Serfect cut and accurate taste. A Vanyke beard of glossy, golden brown, rather long and wavy hair, smoothly parted, and large, magnetic, Orientally occult eyes gave him a most Impressive and striking appearance. If you can conceive a Russian grand duke In a rajah s throneroom advancing to greet a visiting emperor, you will gather something of the majesty of his manner. But Thomas McQuade was too near his and t’s to bo mindful of his p's and q’s. When be viewed this eilkea, polished and somewhat terrifying host he thought vaguely of dentists. “Say, doc,” said he resentfully, “that’s a hot bird you keep on tap. I hope I didn't break anything, but I’ve nearly got the wllllwallocs, and when he threw them 82-candle-power lamps of his on me, I took a snapshot at him with that little brass Flatiron Girl that stood on the sideboard." “That Is merely a mechanical toy,” ■aid the gentleman with a wave of, his hand. "May 1 ask you to be seated while I explain why I brought you to my bouse. Perhaps you would not understand nor be In sympathy with the psychological prompting that caused me to do so. 8o I will come to the point at once by venturing to refer to your admission that you know the A'an Smuythe family of Washington Square North.” “Any silver missing?” asked Thomas tartly. “Any Joolry displaced? Os course I know ’em. Any of the old ladles’ sunshades disappeared? Well, I know 'em. And then what?” The Grand Duke rubbed his white hands together softly. "AA'onderful!” he murmured. “Wonderful! Shall I come to believe In the Chaldean Chlroscope myself? Let me assure you,” he continued, ‘‘that there is nothing for you to fear. Instead, I think I can promise you that very good fortune awaits you. We will see.” "Do thejr want me back?” asked Thomas, with something of his old professional pride In his voice. “I’ll promise to cut out the booze aud do the right thing If they’ll try me again. But how did you get wise, doc? B'gee. It’s the swellest employment agency I was ever in, with its flashlight owls aud so forth.” With an Indulgent smile the gracious host begged to be excused for two minutes. He went out to the sidewalk and gave an order to the chauffeur, who still waited with the car. Returning to the mysterious apartmenL he sat by nls guest aud began to entertalu him by bis witty and genial converse that the poor Bod Liner almost forgot the cold streets from which he had been so receutly and ao singularly rescued. A servant brought some tender cold fowl and tea biscuits and a glass of miraculous wine; and Thomas felt the glamor of Arabia envelop him. Thus half an hour sped quickly; and then the honk of the returned motor car at the door suddenly drew the Grand Duke to his feet, with another soft petition for a brief absence. Two women, well muffled against the cold, were admitted Ht the front door and suavely conducted by the master of the house down the hall through another door to the left and into a smaller room, which was screened and segregated from the larger front room bv heavy, double portieres Here tbe furnishings were even more elegant and exquisitely tasteful than In the other. On a gold-lnlald rosewood table were scattered sheets of white paper and a queer, triangular instrument or toy. apparently of gold, standing on little wheels. Tbe taller woman threw back her Mack veil and loosened her cloak. She was 50, with a wrinkled and sad face. The other, voiing and plump, took a chair a little distance away und to the rear us n servant or an attendant might have dona. ■•You sent for me, Professor Cheru bosco.” said the elder woman, wearilv "I hope you have something more definite than usual to say I’ve about lost the little filth I had In your art. 1 would not have responded to your call this eve

PUSS IN BOOTS JR. By David Cory.

You remember In the last story how Puss Junior starts out from the castle to find the three white doves. AYell, he fo’lowed the little white feathers which they had dropped upon the ground and by and by, after a while, he came to a small white house In the woods, and when he looked In through the window he saw three girls seising at a table. And the three dresses they were making were of white feathers. And as soon as Puss knocked on the door, they hid away the dresses and busted themselves setting the table fer •upper. And by and by one of the girls sal-1 to Pns. “Did you never hear of the wicked witch who lives in an old tree In the forest?” “No," replied Tu-s. "but I have met miinv witches In my travels.” “AYell. If you will promise never to tell her what you see, I will show you some thing." So Puss promised, and then the girls brought out their feather dresses “Unless we finish them by midnight we shall turn Into doves again,” they said. And then they set to work as fast os possible to finish the dresses. And pretty soon the clock struck eleven, and tlie sleeves were not made. So the throe girls plied their needles faster than before and when the clock struck tho half hour there still remained one sleeve to be made. “Make haste.” said Puss. And then the three girls worked even faster and their needles few in and out so fast that pretty soon oulv a little remained to be done. But, oh dear me. The great hand on the clock was almost to twelve, and Just then a noise was heard at the window, and there stood the wicked witch herself waiting until tbe clock should strike the hour of midnight. AYell. Just then a little mouse looked out of her hole, and before she could hide. Puss caught her. “I won’t hurt you," he whispered, “If yon will promise to run up the clock and keep the hour hand from going to twelve." So the little mouse promised, and ran along the floor close to the wall so that the wicked witch might not Roe her, and then ran up the Inside of the clock until she reached the top. And then with both strong little forefeet she held the wheel behind the Mg hnnd until tho last stitch was done and the dresses finished. And as soon as the three girls had put them on the clock struck twelve, for the little mouse let go the big hand when Puss nodded to her. “AVhat are you doing here?” asked the witch, turning to Puss with a dreadful scowl. “I do not fear yon,” he said. “I have met many witches In my travels.” And this made her even more angry and with a loud scream she rushed at him. So Puss took out hts little hurricane w'hlstle and blew upon It, and sway went that witch through the wli dow like a bundle of thistledown In a high wind. And maybe she Is going yet, for I’ve never heard of her since.—Copyright, 1921. (To be continued)

nlng If my sister had not Insisted upon It.” “Madam," said the professor, with his prlncellest smile, “the true art cannot fail. To find the true psychic and potential branch sometimes requires time. AA r e have not succeeded, I admit, with the cards, the crystal, the stars, the magic formulae of Zarazln, nor the Oracle of Po. But we have at last discovered the true psychic route. The Chaldean Chlroscope has been successful In our search.” The professor's voice had a ring that seemed to proclaim his belief in Ills own words. The elderly lady looked at him with a little more interest. “Why, there was no sense In those words that It wrote with my hands on It,” she said. “What do you mean?” “The words were these.” said Professor Cherubusco, rising to his full magnificent height: ‘By the fifth wheel of the chariot he shall come.’ ” “I haven’t seen many chariots,” said the lady, “but I never saw one with five wheels/’ "Progress,” said the professor—“progress In science and mechanics has accomplished It —though, to be exact, we may speak of It only as an extra tire. Progress In occult art has advanced In proportion. Madam, I repeat that the Chaldean Chlroscope has succeeded. I cannot only answer the question that you have propounded, but I can produce before your eyes the proof thereof.” And now the lady was disturbed, both In her disbelief and In her poise. “O professor!” she cried anxiously—"When?—where? Has he been found? Do not keep me In suspense.” “I beg you will excuse me for a very few minutes.” said Professor Cherubusco, “and I think X can demonstrate to you the efficacy of the true Art." Thomas was Contentedly munching the last crumbs of the bread and fowl when the enchanter appeared suddenly at his side. “Are vou wllllDg to return to your old home if you are assured of a welcome and restoration to favor?” he asked, with his courteous, royal sinlle. “Do I look bughouse?” answered Thomas. “Enough -of the footback life for me. But will they have me again? The old lady Is as fixed In her ways as a nut on anew axle.” “My dear young man," said the other, "She hag been searching for you everywhere." “Great!” said Thomas. “I’m on the Job. That tam of dropsical dromedaries they call horses Is a handicap for a first class coachman like myself, bur. I’ll take the Job back, sure, doc. They’re good people to be with.”

Do You Know Indianapolis?

This picture was taken in your Rome city. Are you laminar enough with it to locate the scene? Yesterday's picture was of the northwest wing of the Thirtieth street bridge over White river.

And now a change came o’er the suave countenance o fthe Caliph of Bag dad Ho looked keenly and suspiciously at the ex-coachman. “May I ask what your name is?” he said shortly. “A'ou’ve been looking for me,” said Thomas, "and don’t know my name? You're a funny kind of sleuth. You must be one of the central office gumshoers. I’m Thomas McQuade, of course; and I've been chauffeur of the Van Smuythe elephant team for a year. They fired me a month ago for—-well, doc, you saw what 1 did to your old owl. 1 went broke oil booze, and when I saw the tire drop off your wlz wagon I was standing In that squad of hoboes at the AVorth monument waiting for a free bed. Now, what's the prize for the best answer to all this?" To b!s Intense surprise Thomas felt himself lifted by the collar and dragged, without a word of explanation to tiie front door. This was opened and he was kicked forcibly down the steps with one heavy, disillusionizing, humiliating impact of the stupendous Arabian's shoe. As soon as the ex-coachamn had recovered his feet and his wits he has ened as fast as he could eastward toward Broadway. “Crazy guy.” was his estimate of the mysterious autoinoMllst. “Just wanted to have some fun klddln’, I guess. He might have dug up a dollar, anyhow. Now I've got to hurry up and get back to that gang of bum bed hunters before thev all get preached to sleep.’’ Al'hen Thomas reached the end of hie two-mtle walk he found the ranks of the homeless reduced to a squad of perhaps eight or ten. He took the proper place or a newcomer at the left end of the rear rank. In the file In front of him was the young man who had spokeu to him of hospitals and something of a wife and child. "Sorry to see you back again,” said the young man, turning to speak to him. “I hoped you had struck something better than this.” “Me?" said Thomas. “Oh. T just took a run around the block to keep warm 1 I see the public ain’t lending to the Lord very fast tonight.” “In this kind of weather,” said the young man, “charity avails Itself of the proverb, and both begins and ends at home.” And now the Preacher and his vehement lieutenant struck up a last hymn of petition to Providence and man Th of the Bed Liners whose windpipes still registered above 32 degrees hopelessly and tunelessly joined In. In the middle of the second verse Thomas saw a sturdy girl with windtossed drapery battling against the breeze and coming straight toward him front the opposite sidewalk. “Annie!” he yelled, and ran toward her. "You fool, you fool!" she cried, weep-

lng and laughing, and hanging upon his neck, “why did you do it ?” “The Stuff,” explained Thomas briefly. “You know. But subsequently nit. Not a drop.” He led her to the curb. “How did you happen to see me?” “I came to find you,” said Annie, holding tight to his sleeve. “Oh. you big fool! Professor Cherubusco told us that we might find you here.” “Professor Ch— — Don’t know the guy. What saloon does he work In?” “He's a dearvoyant, Thomas; the greatest In the world. He found you with the Chaldean telescope, he said.” "He’s a liar," said Thomas. “I never had It. He never saw me have anybody's telescope.” "And he said you came In a chariot with five wheels or something." “Annie,” said Thomas solicitously, “you're giving me the wheels now. If I had a chariot I'd have gone to bed in it long ago. And without any singing and preaching for a nightcap, either.” "Listen, you big fool. The Misses says she'll take you back. I begged her to. But you must behave. And you can go up to the house tonight; and your old room over the stable Is ready.” “Great!” said Thomas earnestly. “You are It, Annie. But when did these stunts happen ?” “Tonight at Professor Cherubusco’s. He sent his automobile for the Missis, and she took me along. I’ve been there with her before.” “What’s the professor's line?” “He’s a dearvoyant and a witch. The Missis consults him. He knows everything. But he hasn t done the Missis any good yet, though she’s paid him hundreds of dollars. But he told us that the stars told him we could find you here.’’ “AA’hat s the old lady want this cherrybuster to do?” “That’s a family secret,” said Annie. “And now you’ve asked enough questions. Come on home, you big fool.” They had moved but a little way up the street when Thomas stopped. “Got any dough with you, Annie?” he asked. Annie looked at him sharply. "Oh. I know what that look means,” said Thomas. “A'ou’re wrong. Not another drop. But there s a gny that was standing next to me in the bed line over there that’s In bad shape. He’s the right kind, and he’s got wives or kids or something, and he s on the sick list. No booze. If you could dig up a half dollar for him so he could get a decent bed I’d like it.”

Annle’s fingers began to wiggle In her purse. "Hure. I've got money,” s dd she. “Lots of it. Twelve dollars.” And then she added, with woman's Ineradicable suspicion of vicarious benevolence: “Bring him here and let me see him first.’’ Thomas went cn his mission. The wan Bed Liner came readily enough. As the two came near. Annie looked up from her purse and screamed: “Mr. Walter Oh—Mr. Walter!" Is that you, Annie?” said the young man weakly. "Oh. Mr, Walter!—and the Missis huntHOROSCOPE “The stars Incline, but do not compel!” SUNDAY, MARCH 13. Astrologers read this as a fortunate flay, on the whole, although there are menacing stars. Mercury, Uranus and Jupiter are in benefic aspect, while Saturn and Neptune are strongly adverse. Editors and writers have the forecast of a period in which they will make money, even though the outlook may not seem encouraging. American authors are to win success In many lines of work and there will arise anew novelist of great power, the seers prophesy. Fersons whose blrthdate It Is have the forecast of an active aud profitable year. There may be danger of accidents, especially in tbe driving of motor cars. Children born on this day will probably be unusually successful In all of life s ventures. Girls will win great respect and even reverence. MONDAY, MARCH 14. This should be on exceedingly lucky day, according to astrology, for kindly stars hold sway. Saturn, Mars and the Sun are all in benefic aspect. Speculation In real estate should be fortunate under this planetary government, and the seers foretell an unusual interest In home buying. Persons whose birthdato It Is have the augury of a prosperous year In which new enterprises will flourish and old ones will increase In value. Those who are employed will benefit. Children born on this day will probably be very successful in life. These subjects of Pisces have Neptune for their principal ruling planet.—Copyright, 1921.

ing high and low for you!" "Does mother want to see me?" be - asked, with a flush coming out on his pale cheek. “She’s been banting for yoa high and low. Sure, she wants to see you. Sha wants you to come home. She’s tried police and morgues and lawyers and advertising and detectives an-1 rewards and everything And then she took up clearvoyants. You’ll go right home, won’t you, Mr. Walter?” "Gladly, If she wants me,” said th* young man, “Three years Is a long time. 1 suppose I’ll have to walk up, though, unless the street cars are giving free rides. I used to walk and beat that old plug team of bays we used to drive to the carriage. Have they got them yet?” “They have,” said Thomas, feelingly. “And they’ll have ’em ten years from now. The life of the royal elephantibus truckhorseibus is 149 years. I’m the coachman. Just got my reappointment five minutes ago. Let’s all ride up in a surface car —that is—er—if Annie will pay i the fares.” I On the Broadway car Annie handed ; each one of the prodigals a nickel to pay I the conductor. I “Seems to me you are mighty reckless 1 the way you throw large sums of money around,’’ said Thomas sarcastically. “In that purse,” said Annie decidedly, “is exactly $11.85. I shall take every cent of It tomorrow and give It to Pro- : fessor Churbusco, the greatest man In the world.” “AYell,” said Thomas, “I guess he must I be a pretty fly guy to pipe off things the way he dpes. I’m glad his spooks told him where you could find me. If you’ll 1 give me his address, some day I’ll go I up there, myself, and shake his hand. Presently Thomas moved tentatively In his seat, and thoughtfully felt an abrasion or two on his knees and elbows. “Say, Annie,” said be confidentially, “maybe It’s one of the last dreams of the booze, but I’ve kind of a recollection of riding in an automobile with a swell guy that took me to a house full of eagles and arc lights. He fed me on biscuits and hot air, and then kicked me down the 1 front sters. If it was the and t's, why am I so sore?” I “Shut up, yon fool,” said Annie. ! “If I could find that funny guy’s house," said Thomas, in conclusion, “I’d go un there some day and punch liis nose .for him.”

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