Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 310, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 May 1921 — Page 4

Jtttaia gaily STimcs INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. Dally Frcept Sunday, 25-29 Sout^Meridian Street Telephones—Main 3500, New 28-351 MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS^ (Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, G. Logan Payne Cos. Advertising oQces (jCew York, Boston, Payne, Burns & Smith, Inc. AS POSTMASTER, Mr. Robison might not be satisfied with certain statements of ownership, management etc., as filed by a well-known “truth teller!” FROM THE AMOUNT of preparations being made to retract and avoid responsibility, it might be believed that that government slacker list Is hardly correct enough to Justify publication. WITH VACANCIES on the tax board, utility commission, industrial commission and board of works, there ought not be so much trouble finding places for the faithful, whoever they are! HAD MR. HOWE been nominated, Mayor Jewett would have hurried to Washington in behalf of his friend, Bob Bryson, for postmaster. As It Is, Mr. Bryson may have to go to work for a living soon. What Jewett Might Do { There remains a little more than seven months of the repudiated Jewett administration of the city of Indianapolis. Seven months is an exceedingly short period in which to atone for the mistakes of three years and four months, but at least a partial atonement is possible and ought, by all means, to be realized. Prior to the primaries of last Tuesday Charles W. Jewett would not admit that there was anything in his administration that could be bettered. But a week before the primaries he put the popularity of his administration to a test when he declared that both Mr. Shank and Mr. Robison had repudiated his administration and demanded that the party support Mr. Howe, who had indorsed him. The Republican party contained only 27,20? voters who thought enough of the.Jewett administration to vote for Mr. Howe, while 39,164 voters supported the candidates who had repudiated the mayor. In view of this showing Mr. Jewett ought to be convinced, as are the people of Indianapolis, that his administration of the city has not been a success. In the seven months that are left. Mayor Jewett may do mmh to get back into_the good graces of the majority of his party. Asa first step he might stop the special privileges which he has been extending to the worst element of the negro race In this city, close up the Rufe Page and Joker Young gambling dives and rescind his instructions concerning the right of these negroes to “mingle'’ with the whites in the amusements of the whites. The primaries demonstrated very plainly that the voters of the Republican party were thoroughly out of patience with the administration’s pampering of this class of negroes. • The voters refused to nominate a negro for any office by a vote that cannot be mistaken. Having revoked the privileges of the negro gamblers, the mayor might go farther and make it plain to the eighteen hundred or more city employes on whom he depended for political strength that they have some duties to perform for the taxpayers who revolted against maintaining them for political services. He might lay down a rule that they forget politics sug deliver six days’ work a week for the city. With these two general improvements in effect, the mayor might climb down off his pedestal long enough to explain to his constituents just what it is he wishes to build at the /city hospital—whether it is a “mingling” place for negroes and whites or another unit of *the hospital. There is iTX>m for improvement in the physical property at the hospital and the opposition to improvement will fade whenever the mayor ceases trying to make a vote catcher for negroes out of his plan to improve it. Next, the mayor might put into effect those recommendations for the improvement of the administration of the market house. If he made of the market house a properly conducted place for the meeting of producers and consumers he might reasonably expect assistance in the improvement of the property. Along with these betterments the mayor might change the qualifications for employment at the asphalt plant sufficiently to get some men on the city pay rolls whose interest would be in repairing our porous pavements rather sfian in patching a political machine that is n%w oast repair. Further, the mayor might devote a little time toward seeking an economical method of collecting and disposing of garbage. Every one in the city knows now that he wasted about $170,000 of the taxpayers’ money he bought the garbage plant and that he has since wasted about SIOO,OOO a year in the effort to make it appear that this garbage plant is “profitable." Summed up, Mayor Jewett will find that there is an opportunity for him to recover some of his lost popularity by devoting his time to the following things: 1. The acknowledgment of the fact that his negro henchmen treas amenable to the law as the white people of the community.2. The acknowledgment of the fact that the taxpayers are paying municipal salaries for other purposes than perpetuating a political machine. 3. The improvement of the city hospital along lines that will make it an institution for health rather than a place for negroes to “mingle” with the whites. 4. The administration of the city market for the benefit of the consumers rather than a political machine, which is the first step necessary to the building of a better market. 6. The repair of our streets to a point where they are passable. 6. The collection and disposal of garbage at a cost to the city of not more than the same could be done by private contractors at a huge profit We.do not know that Mayor Jewett will attempt any of these things. But it was his failure to attempt them before the primaries that led to his repudiation by more than half the voters of his party in the primaries and hlB failure to make an attempt to accomplish these things before the election will be the biggest asset the Democrats of Indianapolis will have in the election.

% I Undesirable Support It ought to be apparent to the aspirants for political honors in this community that the pledge of support from a mysteriously owned newspaper of doubtful politics is no longer an asset in 4 campaign. Gen. Leonard Wood enumerated that pledge as one of the instruments on which he depended to win the Republican nomination for president He failed in Indiana as elsewhere. James W. Fesler listened to the siren call and banked upon this support to win the nomination for Governor. He quit the race a poorer but a wiser man. , >- The Democrats of Indiana looked with favor on its support of the League of Nations and placed its "counsel” at the head of their speakers’ bureau in the State campaign. They had lost the fight before they realized that by the alliance they had been tricked out of the opportunity to present the State issues on which they had a chance to win. Mr. Thomas C. Howe, former president of Butler College, rejoiced over the unlimited exercise of this influence in his behalf in the primary campaign and he owes his defeat as a Republican candidate for mayor to the fact that he had its very best effort. It Is a fact, well known in editorial circles, that a newspaper may crys tallize but it cannot compel public support of a man or an idea. The province of a newspaper is still the truthful presentation of fact3 to its readers. Efforts to think for the reader, or so to color the facts that the reader will be misled into conclusions that are not correct but Selfishly desired cannot long succeed. This community has been surfeited with such efforts and at last it has awakened to the fact that hypocrisy is no -more Impossible In the press than In the individual. Cumulative incidents of misrepresentation, of truths half told, or frenzied lying and plain deceit make a record that eventually overshadows a reputation for truth and veracity. A newspaper is no different than an Individual in that respect. Each time it is caught in a falsehood there is engendered a doubt of its ability to tell the truth. Probably there will be more names added to the list of estimable gentlemen who have been deceived as to the strength of the mysteriously owned and managed newspaper before its sheer inability to make itself believed is completely demonstrated. But the candidate who aspires to office in Marion County will do well to think twice before he places himself In the same unenviable position as Mr. Fealer and Mr. Howe found themselves on the morning after unsuccessful elections.

The Shamrock and the Palm

By O. HENRY

clutch. 'Twas hard work. ’Tis strainin' to the back and makes corns on the hands.” “I didn't know you had ever lent your sword to an oppressed people," murmured Atwood, from tne grass. "I did,” said Clancy; “and they turned it into a ploughshare.” “What country was so fortunate as to secure your aid?” airily Inquired Blanch ard. "Wbere’s Kamchatka?” asked Clancy, with seeming irrelevance. “Why, off Siberia somewhere in the Arctic regions," somebody answered, doubtfully. “I thought that was the cold one,” said Clancy, with a satisfied nod. “Qni always gettin’ the two names mixed. 'Twas Guatemala, then—the hot on* —I’ve been filibusterin’ with. Ye’ll find that country on the map. ’Tis in the district known as the tropics. By the foresight off Providence, it lies on the coast so the geography man could run the names of the towns off into the water. They're an inch long, small type, composed of Spanish dialects, and, 'tis my opinion, of the same system of syntax that blew up the Maine. Yes, ’twas that country 1 sailed against, single-handed, and endeavored to liberate it from a tyrannical government with a single-barreied pick-ax, unloaded at that. Ye don't understand, of course. ’Tis a statement demandin’ elucidation and apologies. “ ’Twas in New Orleans one morning about the first of June; I was staudin’ down on the wharf, lookin’ about at the ships in the river. There -was a little steamer moored right opposite me that seemed about ready to sail. Tbe funnels of it were throwin’ out smoke, and a gang of .roustabouts were carry In’ aboard a pile of boxes that was stacked upon the wharf. The boxes were about two feet square, and something like four feet long, and they- seemed to be pretty heavy. “I walked over, careless, to the stack of boxes. I saw one of them had tieen broken In handlin'. ’Twas curiosity made me pull up the loose top and look inside. The box was packed full of Winchester rifles. ’So, so,’ says 1 to myself; ’somebody's gettin’ a twist on tbe neutrality laws. Somebody’s aidin' with munitions of war. 1 wonder where the popguns are goin' V "I heard somebody cough, and 1 turned around. There stood a little fat man with a brown face and white clothes, a first-class-looking little man, with a four-karat diamond on his finger and his eye full of interrogations and respects. 1 judged he was a kind of foreignermay be from Russia ii - Japiui or the archipelagoes. ' “'Hist!' says the bound man, full of concealments and confidences. ‘Will the senor respect the disco very meats he has made, that tbe mans on the ship shall not be acquaint? Tbe senor will be a gentleman that shall not expose one thing that by accident occur.’ “ ‘Monseer,’ says I—for I Judged him to be a kind of Frenchman—receive iny most exasperated assurances that your secret is safe with Jrmes Clancy. Furthermore, 1 will go so far as to remark, Veev la Liberty—veev it good and strong. Whenever you hear of a Clancy obstructin' the abolishment of existin’ governments you may notify me by return mail.' “ ‘The seuor is good,' says the dark, fat man. smilin' under his black mustache. ’Wish you to come aboard my ship and drink of wine a glass.' "Bein’ a Clancy, In two minutes me and the foreigner man were seated at a table in the cabin of the stumor with a bottle between us. I could hear tinheavy boxes bein’ dumVed into the bold. I Judged that cargo must consist of at least 2,1)00 Winchesters. Me and the brown man drank the bottle of stuff, and he called tbe steward to bring another. When you amalgamate a Clancy with the contents of a bottle you practically Instigate secession. I bad heard a good deal about these revolutions in them tropical localities, and I begun to waut a hand in it. “ You goin' to stir things up in your country, ain’t you, motiieer?' says I, with a wink to let him know I was on. “‘Yes, yes,’ said the little man, pounding bis first on Phe fable. ‘A change of the greatest will occur. Too long have the people been oppressed with the promises and the never-to-happen things to become. The great work it shall carry on. Y'es. Our forces shall in the capital strike of tbe soonlst. “Carrambosl" ’ “ ‘Carrambos is the word,’ say* I. beginning to invest myself with enthusiasm and more wine, ’likewise veeva, as I *tid before. Slay the shamrock of old—l mean the banana vine or the pie plant, or whatever the Imperial emblem may be of your down trodden country, wave forever.’ “‘A thousand thank-yous.’ says the round man, ’for yonr emission of amicable utterances. What our cause ne*ds of tbe very most is mans who will to work do, to Ufa It along. Oh, for one thousand strong good mart to aid the General De Vega that he shall to his country bring those success and glory. H is hard—oh, so hard to find good mans to help In the work.’ “ ‘Monseer,’ says I, leadin’ over the ta-

KEEPING HOUSE WITH THE HOOPERS

(The Hoopers, an average American family of five, living iu a suburban town, on a limited income, will tell the reader* of the Dally Time* how the nany preaent-day problem* of the homo are solved by working on the budget that Mrs. Hooper has evolved and found practical. Follow them dally n an intores'.lng review of t-eir home life and learn to meet the condition* of the high cot of living with them.) SATURDAY. The conversation at the breakfast table centered about the kind of new suit Roger was to have. He and his mother had talked It over and she knew what his personal incllnptlons In the matter were, go that It seemed quite possible that she might be able to select a suit for him that would be perfectly satisfactory. “I believe as long as it is raining so that you and Roger can't possible work In the garden this afternoon it would be much better for him to come with me when I select hi* suit,” said Mrs. Hooper. “I Intended, of course, to have him try It on before I bought It, but I thought-I'd just go around this afternoon and see how near 1 could come to getting Just what he wants.” “Certainly he ought to go with you, agreed Henry. “I’ll keep Betty home here with me and you can both take the whole afternoon to It and finish it up. Mrs. Hooper's budget showed a surplus of $19.00 In her clothing account and from this amount she Intended to deduct the price of Roger's new summer suit, so that no inroad on her weekly allowance would be made to help pay for the suit. She had been much comforted by the thought that the price of wearing apparel was going down, but the deplorable truth remained that material was still of much poorer quality than It had been before the war, and that there seemed scarcely any guarantee that a suit would wear well, even at a price that would have been considered unreasonably high a few years ago. It was rather a long and tedious process before she found what she wanted that satisfied Roger as well. They went to three or four shops and tried on what seemed like an endless number of suits and Mrs. Hooper had almost concluded that. after all, the purchase would necessitate a trip to the city, when almost by accident In the last store they ran upon. Just the thing for which they had been searching. It a mixed tweed material—a sort of pepper and salt effect—that had the appearance of being rather light and summery and still had a dark-toned body that made it a perfectly possible suit to be worn late Into the fall. The price was $15.00, which Mrs. Hooper had found was what all the medium suits were costing. There were ‘less expensive ones but the material did not warrant the risk saving a few dollars on the initial cost, and those that were higher priced suited her purpose no better than the on* she and Roger decided on, as the extra amount asked for them seemed In many cases not to be because of much more superior

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ble and graspin’ his hand, ‘I don’t know where your country it, but me heart bleed® for it. The heart of a Ciaucy was never deaf to the sight of an oppn ssed uepoie. The family is flllbusterers by birth, and foreigners by trade. If you can use James (.Taney's arms and bis blood lu denudin’ your shores of the tyrant's yoke they’re yours to command.’ "General De Vega was overcome with Joy to confiscate my condolence of bis conspiracies and predicaments. He tried to embrace me across the table, but bis fatness, and (the wine that bad been in the bottles prevented. Thus was I welcomed into the ranks of flllbustery. Then the general man told me his country had the name of Guatemala, and was the greatest nation laved by any ocean what-’" evdr anywhere. He looked at me with tears in his eyes, and from time to time be would emit the remark, Ah! big, fctrong, brave mans! That is what my country need.’ “General De Vega, as was the name by which he denounced himself, brought out a document for me to sign, which 1 did, makin’ a fine flourish aud cui-lyeue with the tail of the ‘y.’ # " ’Your passage-money,’ says the general, businesS-Uke, 'shall from your pay deduct.’ “ ’Twill not,’ says I, haughty. ‘l'll pay my own passage.’ A hundred and eighty dollars f had in my lnsule pocket, and 'twas no common filibuster 1 was goin' to be, filibusterin’ for me board aud clothes. “The steamer was to sail in two hours, and I went ashore to get some things together I’d need. When I came aboard i showed the general with pride the outI fit. 'Twas a flue CbluclUa overcoat, Arctic overshoes, fur caps and earmuff-s with elegant fleece-lined’ gloves and woolen muffler. “‘Carrambos!’ says the little general. 'What clothes ure these that shall go to the tropic?' Aud then the little spalpeen laughs, and ho carls the captain, and the captain calls the purser, and they pipe up tne chief engineer aud the whole" gang leans against the cabin and Jaughs at Claney’s wardrobe for Guatemala. “1 reflects a bit, serious, and asks the general again to denominate the terms by which his country is called. He tells me, and 1 see then that ’twas the t'other i one, Kamchatka, i had in wind. Since I then I've had difficulty! in separatin’ the ! two nations in name, climate and geographies disposition. . I “1 paid my passage—twenty-four dol- ! lars, first cabin—and at the table with | the officer crowd. Down on the lower deck was a gang of second-class passen- ! gers| about forty of them, seetnin to be Dagoes and the like. 1 wondered what so many of them went goiu’ along for. I "Well, then, in three days we sail'd j alongside that Goutenjala. ’Twas a blue j country, and not yellow as ’tis ntisioi- ! orwi on the map. We landed at a town I on the coast, where a train of cars was i waitin’ for us on a dinkly railroad. The ! boxes on the steamer were brought ; ashore and loaded ou the cars. The j gang of Dagoes got aboard, too, the general aud me in tilts front car. Yes. me . and General De Veva headed the revoj lutiou, as it pulled out of the Seaport j town. That train traveled about as fust ;as a policeman goin’ to a riot. It petie- ‘ trated the most conspicuous lot of fuzzy scenery ever seen outside a geography. We run some forty miles in sirs eir hours, and the train stopped. There was n* more railroad., ’Twas a sort of camp in i a damp gorge full of wildness aud luei--1 ancholh s. They were gradin’ and chop- ! pin* out the forests ahead to continue [ ttie road. ‘llare,’ says I to myself, TANARUS tie romantic haunt of the revolutionists. : Hre will Clancy, by the virtue that is lu a superior race and the inculcation of l Fenian tactics, strike a tremendous blow for liberty.’ ‘They unloaded the boxes from the I train and begun to knock the tops off. ! From the first one 1 1 vat was open I saw i General De Vega take the Winchester rifles and pass them around to a squad Int morbid soldiery. The other boxes | were opened next, and, believe nte or I not, divll another gun was to be seen. Every other box in the load was full of pickaxes and spndes. I “And then sorrow be upon th-m I tropics—the proud Clancy and the dls--1 honored Dagoes, each one of them, had ;to shoulder a pick or a spade, and i tuurch away to work on that dirty little railroad. Yes: ‘twas that the Dagoes 'shipped for, and twas that tlw* fill busj terin’ Clancy signed for, though unbeknownst to himself at the time. In after days 1 found out pbout it. It seems twas hard to gi-t hands to work on that road. The intelligent natives of the country was too lazy to work. Indeed, the saints know, ’twas unnecessary. I’.y 1 stretchln' out one hand, they could seize the most delicate and costly fruits of the earth, and, by stretchln’ out the other, they cpuld sleep for*days at a time without bearin’ a seven o’clock whistle or the footsteps of the rent man upon tlie stairs. So, regular, tbe steamers traveled to the Fulled States tn seduce labor. UsuWly the Imported spadesiingers died In two or three months from eating the over ripe water and

quality but because of some little fad of stylo that made If popular for the moment There was very little alteration necessary beyond the shortening of the trouser legs and Mrs Hooper and Roger returned Just In time for tea, delighted at having found exactly what they had in mind for his summer suit “I'll get you a straw hat and anew tie and with your n< w shoes that I bought last fall and that you haven't woru yet you will be 'off my hands’ for the season ns well'as Helen, and I can turn my attention to Itetly and your father and myself,” said Mrs. Hooper as she took the tea Helen brought her as soon as she was sen ted. The menu for the three meals on .Sunday is: ’ BREAKFAST. Orange Juice. Cereal. Hot Corn Bread. Boiled Bacon. Coffee. DINNER. Beg of Mutton. Brown Gravy. New Potatoes. Creamed Cauliflower. Raisin Pie. SUPPER. Nut Sandwiches. Radishes. Olives. Banana Bayer Cake. Cocoa.

TENTH XVEEK. WEEKLY STATEMENT FROM MRS. HOOPER’S ACCOUNT BOOK. Received Henry’s Salary..., .....$30.00 Budget. Paid out. Balance. Surplus. Shelter SO.OO Nothing $6.00 $50.50 Food .20.00 Meat $11.25 Dairy Supples 0.30 Flail 1.00 . Fruit and Vegetables.. 4.20 Groceries 4.20 Ice 1.00 Henry’s Bunches 2.50 . „ , 19.75 .25 v Eggs for “putting down” $2.20 from supply of $2.44. ' .24 Clothing 700 Helen’s Belt $ .50 Roger’s Underwear 3.00 Two pairs socks 30 Two Shirts at 97c 1.94 ’ < 5.74 1.26 x Roger's suit $15.00 from surplus of $19.60. Onersf'nsr Ft oon Paint for bathroom $1.50 Operating Ex.. 9.00 Uouse Bupplles 2 .25 . 3.75 5.25 45.90 Advancement... 3.C0 Helen's dancing lessons $ .50 Church 25 Newspapers 25 Savings for life Ins. Prem... 509 Nothing 5.00 45.00 $50.00 $30.24 $19.76 $50.00 —Copyright, 192 L

breathin’ the violent tropical scenery. Wherefore they made them sign contracts for a year, when they hired them and put an armed guard over the poor divfls to keep them from runnln’ away. “ ’Twas thus l was double-crossed by tbe tropics through a family failin’ of goin’ out of tjje way to hunt disturbances. “They gave me a pick, and X took it, meditatin' an insurrection on the spot; but there was the guards handlin’ the Winchesters careless, and I come to the conclusion that discretion was the best part of filibusterin’. There was about a hundred of us in the gang startin' out to work, and the word was given to move. I steps out of the ranks and goes up .o that General De Vega man, who was iinokln 'a cigar and gazin’ upon the scene with satisfactions and glory. He smiles at me polite and devilish. ‘Plenty work,’ says he, ‘for big strong mans in Yes. T’irty dollars In the month. Good pay. Ah, yes. You strong, brave man. Blmeby we push those railroad in the capital very quick. They want you go work now. Adlos, strong mans.’ “ ‘Monseer,’ says I, lingerin', ‘will you tell a poor little Irishman this: When I set foot on your cockroaeby steamer, and breathed liberal and revolutionary sentiments into your sour wine, did you think I was conspirin' to sling a pick ou your contemptuous little railroad? And when you answered me with patriotic recitations, huatping up tbe starspangled cause of liberty, did you have meditations of reducin’ me to the ranks of the stump-grubbln’ Dagoes in the chain-gangs of your vile and grovellu’ country ?’ “Tbe general man expanded his rotundity and laughed considerable. Yes, he laughed very long and loud, and 1, Clancy, stood aud waited. “ 'Comical mans!' he shouts at last. So you n ill kill mo from the laughing. Yes; It is hard to find the brave strong mans to aid my country. Revolutions? Did I speak of r-r-revolutions? Not one word. I say, big. strong mans Is need in Guatemala. So. Tbe mistake is of you. Y'ou have looked in those one box containing those gun for the guard. You think all boxes is contuin gun? No. “ ‘There la no war in Guatemala. But work? Y'es. Good. T’irty dollar In the month. Y’ou ghall shoulder one pickax, senor, and dig for the liberty and prosperity of Guatemala. Off to your work. The guard waits for you.’ “ ‘Little, fat, poodle deg of a brown man,’ says I, quiet, but full of indignations and discomforts, ‘things shall happen to you. Maybe not right away, but as sooti as J. Clancy can formulate somethin’ in the way of repartee.’ ‘‘Tbe boss of the gang orders us to work. I tramps off with the Dagoes, and I hears the distinguished patriot and "kidnaper laughin’ hearty as wo go. “ ’Tis a sorrowful fact, for eight weeks I built railroads for that misbehavin' country. 1 filibustered twelve hours a day With a heavy pick aud a spade, cboppin' away the luxurious landscape that grew upon the right of way. We worked in swamps that smelled like there was a leak in the gag mains, trampin’ down a fine assortment of *',:e most expensive hothouse plants and vegetables. The scene was tropical beyond the wildest imagination of the geography man. The trees was all sky-scrapers; the underbrush was. full of needles and pins: there was monkeys jumpin’ around and crocodiles and pink tailed moekin'-birds, and ye stood knee-deep in the rotten water bug grubbed roots for the liberation of Guutemuia. Os nights we would build smudges In camp to discourage the mosquitoes, and sit in the smoke, with the guards pacin’ on the road—mostly Dagoes, nigger-men, Spanish men and Swedes. Three or four were Irish. "One old man named Ilallorau —a man of Hibernian entitlements and discretions. explained it to me. He had been worthin' on the road a year. Most of them lu less than six months. He was dried up to gristle and bone, anti shook with chills every third night. t “ ’When you first come,’ says he, ‘ye think ye'll leave right away. But they hold out your first month's pay for your passage over, snd by that time the tr iples has its grip on ye. Y'e're ear rounded by a ragin’ forest full of disreputable tn-asts lions and baboons and anacondas- waitin’ to devour ye. Tbe sun strikes yo hard, and melts the marrow In your bones. Ye get similar to the lettuce-enters the poetry-book speaks about. Ye forget the elevated sintiments of life, such as patriotism, revenge, disturbance of tbe peace, and the daclnt love of a c!ne shirt. Y'e do your work, and ye swallow the kerosene lie and rubber pipestems dished up to ye by the Pago cook for food. Ye light your pipeful, and say to yourself, ‘Nixt week I’ll break away,* and ye go to sleep and call yersllf a liar, for ye know ye'll uever do it.’ “ ‘Who is this general man,* asks I, ‘that calls himself De Vega?' " ‘Tis the man,' says Hailoran, *who Is thryin’ to complete the flnishln' of the railroad. ‘.Twas the project of a private corporation, but it busted, and then the government took tt up. De Vegy is a big politician, and wants to lie president. The people wHtit the railroad completed, as they’re taxed mighty on account of ‘t. The De Vega man is pusbin’ it along as a campaign move.’ “ ‘ 'Tis not my way,' says I, ‘to mak* threats against any man, but there'* an account to be settled between the railroad man and .Tames O’Dowd Clancy.' “’’Twas that, way 1 thought, mesllf. at first,’ Hailoran says, with a-big sigh, until I got tie a lettuce enter. The fault’s wld these tropics. They rejuices a man's system. Tis a laqd, as the poet says. “Where it always seems to be after

WHEN A GIRL MARRIES A New Serial of Young Married Life - ' ♦

CHAPTER CCVII. "Nine hundred and seventy-five dollars!” I cried lu a voice that would rise shrilly on the last word In spite of me. •'lt Is cheap,” replied Miss Emily elaborately misreading my meaning. “You've made splendid selections, Mrs. Harrison. Now we'll have to see about fittings. 1 suppose you want us to get the things out as soon as possible.” “Oh, I can’t—” I began. Virginia broke In “Emily, not every new customer takes three dresses and a fiuit and capo and four hats, lou must make it an even nine-fifty, or Mrs. Harrison won't order.” "Oh —I wouldn’t. I've given very good prices. All those things and the parasol for only nine seventy-five is dirt cheap, Mrs. Dalton. It ought to be a thousand, at least.” “Nine-fifty!” said Virginia Inexorably. I—feeling caught between the upper and nether millstone—said nothing. This bargaining startled me. I didn’t see how even my haughty Virginia dared argue with the elaborate and elegant Miss Emily, who smelled of expensive scent and Jangled expensive diamond bracelets and had the very latest thitig in slicked back colfures. “Mrs. Dalton always haß her way,”

dinner.’ I does me work and smokes me pipe and sleeps. There’s little else In life, anyway. Ye’U get that way yersilf, mighty soon. Don’t be harborin’ any sintimints at all, Clancy.’ “‘I can’t help It,’ says I; *l’m full of ’em. I enlisted In the revolutionary army of this dark country in good faith to fight for its liberty, honor and silver candlesticks; instead of which I am set to amputatin’ its scenery and grubbin’ its roots. ’Tis the general man will have to pay for it.’ “Two months I worked on that railroad before I found a chance to get away. One day a gang of us was sent back to the end or the completed line to fetch some nicks that had been sent down to Port Barrios to be sharpened. They were brought on a hand-car, and I noticed, when I started away, tnat the car was left there on tbe track. “That night, about twelve, I woke up Flail ora n and told him my scheme. “‘Run away?’ says Haloran. ‘Good Lord, Clancy, do ye mean tt? Why. I ain’t got the nerve. It’s too chilly, and I ain’t slept enough. Run away. I told you, Clancy, I’ve eat tbe lettuce. I’ve lost my fertP- ’Tis the tropics that's done it. 'Tis like the poet says. “Forgotten are our friends that we have left behind ; in the hollow lettuce-land we will live and lay reclined.” Y’ou better go on Clancy. I’ll stay. I guess. It’s too early ana cold, and I m sleepy.’ “So I had to leave Hailoran. X dressed quiet and slipped out of the tent we were In. When the gtard came along I knocked him over, like a ninepiu. with a green coooanut I had, aud made for tbe railroad. I got on that hand-cat and made it fly. ’Twas yet a while before daybreak when I saw the lights of Port Barrios about a mile away. I stopped the nand-car there and walked to the town. I stepped Inside the corporatJoog of that town with care and hesitations. I was not afraid of the army of Guatemala, but me soul qttakes at the prospect of a hand-to-hand struggle wltfi Its employment bureau. ’Tis a country that hires its help easy and keeps em long. Sure I can fancy Missis -America and Missis Guatemala passln' a bit of gossip some fine,''still night across the mountains. ‘Oh, denr,’ gays Missis America, ‘and it s a lot of trouble I’m havin’ ag’in with help, senora. ma'am,’ ‘Laws, now!' says Missis Guatemala, •yob don’t say so. ma’am. Now, mine never think of leavin’ me —te-be! ma'am.' snickers Missis Guatemala. “I was wonderin’ how I was goin’ to move away from them tropics without brio' hired again. Dark as It was, I could see a steamer ridin’ in the harbor, with smoke emergin' from her stacks. I turned down a little grass street that run down to the water. On the beach I found a little brown nigger-man Just about to shove off in a skiff. “Hold on, Sambo,' says I, ‘savve English?’ c “‘Heap plentj, yes,’ gays he, with a grin. “ ‘What steamer is that,?’ I asks him, “and where is it going? And what's the news, and tbe good word and tbe time of day?’ “ ‘That steamer tbe Conchlta,’ said tne brown man, affable and easy, rollin' a cigarette. ‘Him come from New Orleans for load banana. Him got load last night. I think him sail, in one, two hour. Vcrree nice day we shall lie goin’ to have. You hear some talkee 'bout big battle, maybe so? You think catehee General De Veva, senor? Yes? No? ‘‘‘How's that, Sambo?’ says I. ‘Big battle? What battle? Who wants catches General De Vega? I’ve been up at my old gold mines !u tne Interior for a couple of months, and haven't beard any news.’ “ ‘Oh,’ says the nigger-man, proud to spend the English, ’verree great revolution In Guatemala one week ago. General De Vega, him try to be president. Him raise armee—one-—five —ten thou sand mans for tight at the government. Those one government send five-forty—-hundred thousand soldier to suppress revolution. They fight big battle yesterday at Lomagrande—that about nineteen or fifty mile in tbe mountain. That government soldier wheep General De Vega —oh, most bad. Five hundred —nine hundred—two thousand of his mans is kill. That revolution Is smash suppress—bust—very quick. General De Vega, him r-r run away fast on big mule. Y'es. carrambos! The general, him r-r-run away, and his armee Is kill. That government soldier, they ltsy find General De Vega veree much. They want eateboe him for shout. Y’ou think they eatcheo that general, senor?’ "■Saints grant it!’ says I. ’Twould be the Judgment of Providence for aettln’ the warlike talent of a Clancy to gradin’ the tropics with a pick and shovel. But ’tis not so much a question of Insurrection now. me little matt, as ’tis of the hired-man problem. ’Tis snxious I am to resign a situation of responsibility and trust with tne white wings department of your great and degraded country. Row me in your little boat out to that steamer, and I'll give ye five dollars—sinker pacers sinker iwtcers.’ says I, reducin’ the offer to the language and denomination of the tropic dialects. * “ 'Clnco pesos.' repeats the little man. “Five rtollee, you give?' “ 'Twas not such a bad little man. He bad hesitations at first, sayln’ that passengers leavin’ the country had to have papers and passports, but at last be took me alongside the steamer. ‘‘Day was Just bpeakin’ as we struck her, and there wasn't a soul to be seen ou lioard The water was very still, and tbe niggor-tnan gave me a lift from the boat ,and I climbed onto the steamer where her side was sliced to the

said Miss Emily at last—spreading hands and shoulders In an elaborate gesture. “You must wear a gray veil with that turban, Anne. And you really need a fur. Might as well look at squirrel and moleskin now.” I opened my mouth to protest, but fate Itself seemed to step In and save me. “Mrs. Harrison wanted on the telephone,” announced a pretty mannikin, gliding across the soft, gray carpet to the curtain-bung door of our dressing room. “Who can it be?” I cried in a panic—the same sort of panic that keeps me staring at telegrams and studying the postmarks on special delivery letters. Then I slipped over the carpet to see, forgetting In my perturbation to study my stunning new turban In the multifold mirrors that reflected It. “Hullo—that you, Babbsie?” came back the voice over the telephone In answer to my “Yes.” Neal! I was at. once relieved, terrified and amazed to have him phoning me at Wickhams. “Called the Walgrave. Traced you to Tom Mason’s. Got It from his secretary that she’d heard you talking about going to Wickhams. Called Wickhams. Trailed yon to the third floor. Some Sherlock—eh what? I’ll say so!” replied Neal. “Oh, I’m glad to hear your voice, lad!” was all that came from me. “Well, I want you to hear it at closer range,” replied Neal. “It’s just 1:30. nave you lunched ? No. All right.. Meet me at the Clinsarge in fifteen minutes.” ,-“Neal —” I cried. But I was speaking to space—or the third floor operator, for Neal had hung up. Os course, under no circumstances, would I have refused Neal. Still I started back to Virginia feeling almost panicky as I had been on my way to the telephone. She had spent the whole morning with me, bargaining for values, giving her whole attention to me and my needs. And now at this tardy hour I was leaving her to a lonely luncheon, pet aversion of all women. I wondered If she would come with me, and If I ought to ask her. “It was all right, wasn’t it, Anne?" she asked with a further show of the real sisterly Interest she had been evincing all along—the sisterly Interest I was alwayß afraid might turn out to be thistied down. “It was Neal." “Neal? Then something Is wrong?” "No, Jeanie. At least, I hope not. He wants to see me right off.” "Then you run right along, Anne. I'll have a bite at the Clinsarge and be ready to meet Phoebe at 3. I'm helping her with some dresses.” “Oh. Jeanie, not the Clinsarge. Unless you'll come with us?” 1 said, miserably. "That's where I’m meeting Neal, and I couldn't boas-, to have you there

deck for loadin’ fruit. Tbe hatches was open, and I looked down and saw the cargo of bananas that filled the hold to within six feet of the top. I thinks to myself. ‘Clancy, yon bettor go as a stowaway. It’s safer. The steamer man might hand yon back to the employment bureau. The tropic’ll get you, Clancy, if you don’t watch out.’ "So I Jumps down easy among the bananas, and digs out a hole to hide lu among the bunches. In an hqur or so I could hear the engines going and feel the steamer rockin,’ and I knew we were off to sea. They left the hatches open for ventilation, and pretty goon it was light enough in the hold to see fairly well. I got to Heelin' a bit hungry, and thought I’d have a light fruit lunch, by way of refreshment. I creeped out of the hole I’d made and stood up straight. Just then I saw another man crawl up about ten feet away and reach out and skin a banana and stuff it into his mouth. ’Twas a dirty little man, blackfaced and ragged and disgraceful of aspect. Yes, the man was a ringer for the “pictures of the fat Weary Willie in the funny papers. I looked again, and saw it was my general man—De Y’ega, the great revolutionist, mule-rider and pickax importer. When he saw me the general hesitated with his mouth filled with banana and bis eyes the size of cocoanuts. “‘Hist!’ I says. ‘Not a word, or they'll put us off and make us walk. "Veev la Liberty 1” I adds, copperin’ the sentiment by shovin’ a banana into the source of it. I was certain the general wouldn’t recognize me. The nefarious work of the tropics had left me lookin’ different. There was half an inch of roan whiskers coverin’ me face, and me costume was a pair of blue overalls and a red shirt. “ ‘How yon come In tbe ship, senor?’ asked tbe general as soon as he could speak. “‘By the back door—whist!’ says I. ’Twas a glorious blow for liberty we struck,’ I continued, ‘but we was over-, powered by numbers. Let us accept our defeat like brave men and eat another banana.’ “ ‘Were you in the cause of liberty fightiu', senor?' says the general, sheddin' tears on the cargo. *. “‘To the last,’ says I. ‘ ’Twas *T led the last desperate charge against the minions of the tyrant. But It made them mad, and we were forced to retreat. ’Twas I, general, procured the mule upou which you escaped. Could you give that ripe bunch a little boost this way, general'! It’s a bit out of my reach. Thinks.’ “‘Say you so, brave patriot?’ said the general, again weepin’. 'Ah, Dios! And I have not the means to reward your devotion. Barely did I my life bring away. Carrambos! what a" devil’s animal was that mule, senor! Like ships in one storm was I dashed ‘about. The skin on myself was ripped away with the thorns and vines. Fpon the bark of a hundred trees did that beast of the infernal bump, and cause outrage to the legs of mine. In the ntght to Port Barrios I came. I dispossess niyse'f of that mountain mule and husten along the water shore. I find a little boat to be tied. I launch m.vlf and row to the steamer. I climbed one rope that bang at the side. I then myself hide in the bananas. Surely, 1 iay, if tbe ship captains view me, they shall throw me again to those Guatemala. Those things are >#t g(Xid. Guatemala will shoot General He Y’ega. Therefore, I am hide and remain silent. Life itself is glorious. Liberty, it is prettv good, but not so good as life I do not think.' “Three days, us I said, was the trip to New Orleans. The general man and me got to* be cronies of the deepest style. Bautinas we ate until they were distasteful to the sight and an eyesore to the palate, but to bananas aJone Was the bill of fare reduced. At night 1 crawled out, careful, on the-deek, and gets a bucket of fresh water. "That General De Vega was a man Inhabited by an engorgement of words and sentences. He added to the monotony of the voyage by divesting himself of conversation. He believed I was a revolutionist of his own party, there heln,’ ns he told me. q good inatlv Americans and other foreigners in its ranks. Twas a braggart and a conceited little gabbler it was, though be considered himself a hero. 'Twas on hlniself he wasted all bis regrets at the failin’ of his plot. Not a word did the little balloon have to sav about the other misbehavin’ idiots that had been shot or run themselves to death in his revolution. "The second day out he was feelin’ pretty brnggy and uppish for a stowedaway conspirator that owed his existence to a mule and stolen bananas. He was tollin' tne about tbe grout railroad he bad beeu buildin’ and he relates what he calls a comic incident about a fool Irishman he Inveigled from New Orleans to sling a pick on his little morgue of a narrow guage line. ’Twas sorrowful to bear the little. dirty general tell the approbrious story of how he put salt upon the tail of that reckless and silly bird, Clancv. Laugh, he did, hearty and long. (ite shook with laughin’, the black faced rebel and outcast, standln* neck-deep in bananas, without friends or country.) “ ‘Ah, senor,' he snickers, ‘to the death you would have laughed at that drollest Irish. I say to him: “Strong, big mans Is need very much i n Guatemala." “I will blows strike for your down-pressed country,” be say. “That

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shall you do," I tell him. Ah! It was ap Irish so comic. He sees one box byeak upon the wharf that contain for the guard a few gun t He think there is gun in all the box. But that is all pick-axe. Yes. Ah! seuor, could you the face of that Irish have seen when they set him to work 1’ “ 'Twas thus the ex-boss of the employment bureau contributed to the tedium of the trip with merry jests and anecdote. But now and tnOn he would weep upon the bananas and make oration about the lost cause of liberty and the mule u /• “ ‘Twas a pleasant sound when the steamer bumped against tbe pier in New Orleans. Pretty soon w-e heard the pnt-a-pa't of hundreds of bare feet, and the Ds;go gang that unloads the fruit Jumped upon the deck and down into the bold. Mo and tue general worked a while at. passln’ up the bunches, and they thought we wer* part of the gang. After about an hour we managed to slip off the steamer on to the wharf. .•• >xwas a great honor on the hands of an obscure Clancy, bavin’ tbe entertainment of the representative of agreat foreign filibusterin’ power. I first bought for the general aud myself many long drinks aud things to eat that were not bananas. Tbe general man trotted along at iny side, leavin’ all the arrangements to me. I led him up to Lafayette Square and set him on a bench in the little park. Cigarettes 1 had bought for him, and he humped < himself down on the Scat like a little fat, contented hobo. I look him over as he sets there, and wnat I see pleases me. Brown by nature and instinct, he is now brindled with dirt and dust. Praise to the mule, bis clothes is mostly strings and flaps. Yes, the looks of the general man is agreeable to Clancy. “I ask him, delicate, if, by any chance, he brought away anybody’s money with him from Guatemala. He sighs and (tumps his shoulders against the bench. Not a cent. All right. Maybe, he tells me, some of his friends in the tropic outfit will send him funds later. The general was as clear a case of no visible means as T ever saw. "I to-ld him not to move from the i bench and then I went up to tne corner of Poydras and Carondeiet. Along there Is O’Hara s beat. In five minutes i along comes O’Hara, a big, fine man, red-#aeed, with shinin’ buttons, swingin’ i his club. ’Twould be a fine thing for Guatemala to move into O’Hara’s prei cinet. ’Twould be a fine bit of recrea- : tion for Danny to suppress revolutions and uprisings once or twice a week with his club. “‘ls 5046 workin’ yet, Danny?’ says ■ I, walkin’ up to him. “ ‘Overtime,’ says O’Hara, lookin’ over me suspicious. ‘YVant some of it?’ "Fifty-forty-six is the celebrated city ordinance authorizin’ arrest, conviction and imprisonment of persons that succeed in concealin’ their crimes from the i police. ‘‘‘Don’t ye know Jimmy Clancy? 1 says I, ‘Ya pink-gilled monster.’ So when O’Hara recognized me beneath the scandalous exterior bestowed upon me by the tropickv I backed him into a doorway aud told him what I wanted, and why i wanted it. ‘All right, Jimmy,’ says O’Hara. ‘Go back and hold tbe bench. 11l be along in ten minutes.’ “In that time O'Hara strolled through Lafayette Square and spied two Weary Willies disgracin’ one of the benches. In ten minutes more J. Clancy and General l>e Y’ega, late candidate for tbe presidency of Guatemala, was in the station house. The general is badly frightened and calls upon me to proclaim bis dltttinguishments and rank. “ ‘The man,' says Uto the police, ‘used to be a railroad man. He's on the bum now. 'Tis a little bug-house he Is, on account of losin’ his job.’ "‘Carrambos!’ says the general flzzln’ like a little soda-water fountain, you (fought, senor, with my forces in my na- ! 'ive country. Why do you say tjie lies? Yiou shall say I am the General De Y’ega, one soldier, one cabaJiero— — ‘Railroader,’ says I again. ‘On the hog. No good. Been livin' for three days on stolen bananas. Look at him. Ain't that enough?’ “Twenty-five dollars or sixty days, was what the recorder gave the general. He didn't have ii cent, so he took the time. Tuey Lt me go, as I knew they would, for I had money to show, and O'Hara spoke for me. Yes: sixty days he got. Twas jut so long that I slung a pick for the great country of Karn—Guatemala.’’ (Taney paused. The bright starlight sliowed a reminiscent look of happy content on his seasoned features. Kedgh leaned in his chair and gave his partner a slap on his thinly-clad back thatsounded like the crack of the surf on tbe sands. "Tell 'em, ye divll,” he chuckled, "how you got even with the tropical general in the way of agricultural maneuvering*.'’ "Havin' no money,” concluded Clancy, with unction, “they sot him to work out his fine with a gang from the parisn prison clearing Frsulines street. Around the corner was a saloon decorated genially with electric fans and cool merchandise. I made that me headquarters and every fifteen minutes I’d walk around and take a look at the little man filibusterin’ with a rake and shovel. 'Twas Juat such a hot broth of i day as this has been. And I'd call at him, ‘Hey, monseer!’ and he’d look at me black, with the damp showin' through his shirt In places. “ ‘Fat, strong mans,' says I to General De Y'eg'a. ‘ls needed In New Orleans. Tes. To carry on the good work. Carrambos! Erin go bragh!”

of the west coast of Africa, as Its nant® implies. LICENSED CABS IN tt. 8. Q. How many motor cars are licensed yearly In the United States? A. A. A. A total of 9,211,295 motor cars were registered last year in this country. The fees collected for registration and license for cars, chauffeurs, operators and dealers amounted to more than $110,000,000. IMMIGRANT STATISTICS. Q, How does the number of Immigrant* admitted In 1914 compare with the figures of 1920 B. S. K. A. There were In 1914, 1.218.480 immigrants admitted to the United States, and In 1920 there were 400,001 immigrants admitted. FEW ENTER COLLEGE. Q. Os the boys and girls of college age, how many attend college? W. E. P. A. According to the latest statistic* available, which are for 1918, there are 8,293.397 boys and girls of college eg* (19-23) and 373,000 of these attend college. TRICE OF RADIUM. Q. What is the price of radium? What are its principal uses ? F. A. G. A. The price of radium Is about $90,000 to SIOO,OOO a gram. Radium is employed successfully for the removal and prevention of certain forms of cicatrices, -removal of hairy and pigmented moles, corns, warts, rodent ulcer, and some forms of goiter and of cancer. NUMBKIf VISIBLE STARS, Q. How many stars'can be seen by the naked eye? A. M. P. A. It has been estimated that the number of stars which can be seen by a person of average eyesight is 7,0p0. The number ..visible through the telescope has been estimated by J. E. Gove at. 70.000,000 and by Professors Newcomb and Young at 100,000,000. FEIST OF WEEKS. Q. What is the Jewish holiday cele-brating-the handing down of the Commandments? M. L. D. A. The Jewish rcligi j holiday celebrating the handing down of the Commandments Is known as the Feast of Weeks. It occurs On June Cth and 7th, of each year. MEZZANINE FLOORS. Q. What la the meaning of a mezzanine floor? O. C. O. A. “The Mezzanine Floor” is one approximately half way between two floors spaced at a regular distance. For Instance, In a hotel, frequently, half way between the_ lobby floor and the first floor to be occupied by rooms for guests. Is an additional floor, sometimes given over to use as a balcony, or for business purposes.