Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 87, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 August 1921 — Page 4

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JMatm Satin QTimro INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. Daily Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Stret. Telephones—Main 3500, New 28-351. MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. . . ... 1 Chicago, Detroit, St. Louie. G Logan Payne Cos. Advertising offices j New Boston, Payne, Burns & Smith, Inc. WHAT’S A LAW. more or leas, where the city Is concerned? IT IS at least refreshing to have a Governor who disregards the road material dealers. ONE good thing about war memoirs is that there can't be more than four million of them. HERE is another blow to the taxpayer: Naval authorities have decided the battleship is not obsolete. A REVOLT Is being threatened in Mexico again. Apparently they think the Irish are getting too much attention. FARMERS are being urged to keep their cattle off the market—and the next Instalment of taxes is due id two months. NOW It appears that the proposed constitutional amendments must be adopted in order to prevent a constitutional convention. Harding’s Problem A phase of the coming disarmament conference in Washington which baa been subordinated to the seemingly paramount question is the proposed discussion of the Pacific problems, or more explicity the relations between Japan and China. This, even more than the perpetual peace program, will try the mettle, the craft and the ingenuity of the Harding statesmen and unless It is handled with consummate skill It will be the rock upon which the disarmament parley is likely to be dashed to pieces. Lodge, the master strategist and politician, will have an opportunity therein to reverse the destructive arts which he displayed with such audacity in killing the covenant of Versailles into constructive diplomacy that in the end may save the face of the Harding administration. It Is a big problem for big men. It vill pit the statesmanship of the western hemisphere against the Wiles of the Orient while Europe will sit complacently by. It promises even to overshadow the disarmament discussion, for unless the Pacific is restored to a peaceful area there can be no reduction of warlike forces. Japan, with her hands on the throat of China, has reluctantly consented to sit in the conference, mainly because her ally, Great Britain, accepted with such alacrity. She could not afford to be left out of the concert of powers, even if her heart Is not in the undertakingChina, torn by dlssention, with many of her ports and much of her valuable territory under alien suzerainty, sees In the Pacific discussion the only ray of hope for a none to certain future. Shantung, which loomed so big at Paris and which was one of the things the Republicans seized upon as a pretext for repudiating the League of Nations pact, will be the big issue again. Can the Republicans, whose orators wrung tears from 1 the multitudes over the "Rape of Shantung,” force Japan to restore China to territorial integrity. Can the Harding statecraft bring enough diplomatic force to bear to disillusion the Nipponese dreamers of an Asiatic empire and still preserve the friendly relations that have marked the course of the two nations? Japan, even in the face of the growing disarmament fervor, is fortifying her outlying islands and her shores: she is building a navy that soon will place her in second place among the world powers; she is firmly entrenched in Korea and with a rapidly multiplying population she is easting her eyes on the fertile fields and resources of Manchuria. The crafty Japanese leaders realize that to maintain her pla:e in the sun the island empire must have an outlet on the mainland and impotent, docile China is a magnet that it is impossible to resist. France is not interested In the Far Eastern problem as long as virile Germany is at her doors. Great Britain is bound by treaty to Japan and she has Eastern problems that/are inescapably linked with the aspirations of Japan. . 'America, always the friend of China, must bear the bu**.-n a.one. Can the statemen trained in the Harding school reach the heights necessary to bring about a reaffirmation of the Open Door Policy, maintain the political integrity of China and still preserve the bonds of friendship that stretch across the Pacific? If not, the Harding Administration, like the Wilson administration, is doomed to be wrecked in the mad maelstrom of world politics. - _ ... % Ashby’s Mistake What profits the public from a budget system of handiiLg public expenditures if the budget is kept secret? What benefit to the citizenry is the right to remonstrate against any item of a taxing unit’s proposed budget if the public is not tc know what is contained in that budget. We iiave in Indiana a State law that say3 taxing units shall be established /after the publication by them of a budget on so ms prescribed by the State board of accounts, SHOWING IN DETAIL money proposed to be expended during the succeeding year.” Here in Indianapolis we have also Samuel Ashby, corporation counsel, who Is paid to interpret the law as it pertains to the municipal city. Sam has read this law with his political glasses clamped down over his discerning eyes and he now gives it as his opinion that the law means that the budget does not have to be published in detail. He further holds that the publication of an appropriation ordinance in which the “details” are eliminated and the various sums to be expended shown In the aggregate is sufficient. In other words, Mr. Ashby takes the undeniably erroneous viewpoint that "what you don't know won't hurt you’’ when it applies to municipal affairs. If his interpretation of the budget law is correct, there might as well not be a budget law. If the ability of the municipal officials to hide their proposed expenditures of public money is to be enhanced by Mr. Ashby, then the right to remonstrate is a delusion and a snare and the statute with its prom'se of home rule on municipal expenditures Is a nullity. We believe Mr. Ashby is honestly mistaken in his conclusions relative to the publication of the budget. We believe his mistake will open the way for taxing units to defeat about the only good feature that was contained in the tax law which was officially termed "the greatest achievement of the Republican party in Indiana since the Civil War.” Mr. Ashby's contention ought to be subjected to the court/for and if the tax law is to stand it will have to be so subjected. McCray’s Road Program Governor McCray's announcement of an end of the foolish and extravagant cement road program which resulted in the waste of millions of dollars of the taxpayers’ money under the regime of J. P. Goodrich and L. II Wright, is cheering reading for the people of Indiana. The Governor, in declaring that hard surfaces are to be built only on those roads where the traffic demands them, points out that the difference between Interest charges on cement concrete roads at $40,000 a mile and gravel or crushed stone roads at SIO,OOO Is sufficient to maintain the roads and pay for them at the end of twenty years. He calls attention to the obvious fact that it is utter foolishness to invest $40,000 in a road when a SIO,OOO investment will give greater satisfaction. The conclusions of Governor McCray, which are boeh sound and courageous, serve to call attention again to the tremendous waste practiced under the Goodrich regime, which the Times first brought to public attention in 1918. Then, mistaken advocates of good roads, skilfully encouraged by load material agents and certain contractors, forced expenditures on this State for roads that were of benefit to no one except those who shared in the profits of their construction. This gleeful business of spending the public money where it woui.j do the most political and private good continued until the whole good roads movement threatened to collapse in Indiana. Governor McCray, in bringing the building of roads back to a sound financial basis, is not only saving the taxpayers millions, but he is also doing that which is necessary to the preservation of the public demand for good highways.

1 KILLED, 1 MAY DIE AND 5 MORE HURT IN CRASH Two Automobiles Collide Near Anderson—Driver of One Is Arrested. Special to The Times ATDERSON, Ind., Aug. 22.—1n an ail- | tomobile collision, which occurred twelve miles southwest of this city near the 1 village of I.apel Sunday, Mrs. Viola Bailey, 30, of Elwood was killed and six i others were injured. The Injured are: Mrs. Charles Trotter, 48, of Elwood, arms crushed, breast bone broken and i internal injuries. Paul Lanbam, 20, Markleville, three ribs broken, gash cut out in face and injured internally. Charles V. Trotter, 63, of. Elwood, collar t bone broken. Herseol Bailey, 32, Elwood, ribs broken, cut and bruised about the face and body. Commodroe Markle, 20, minor cut* about the face. Betty J. Bailey, 20-months-old babe left arm and right leg broken. Injured internally and may not live. The accident occurred on the IlaroiltonMadison county line three miles west of Lapel. Charles V. Trotter of Elwood and Commodore Markle of MarklevUle, were the drivers of the two machines and are held to blame for the accident. It Is said that both cars were running at a high rate of speed and tall corn shut off the view of the drivers where two roads in trected and the drivers of the machines headed straight fox opposite crossings. Coroner J. I. Rinne of Lapel wag on 1 the scene soon after the accident and or j dered the arrest of Commodore Markle on a charge of manslaughter until a further Investigation could be made. Markle was taken In charge by the Anderson police j and released under $5.0*1 bond. Mr. and Mrs Trotter accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Bailey and little daughter, were on their way to Greenfield in the Trotter automobile to attend basket picnic of the United Brethren Church, and were traveling south. Commodore Marklo with Paul Lanham In the other car .were gbHig west toward Sheridan on the Xobiesvllle Pike, when the two cars ran together, with terrible force. The car driven by Trotter turned about and upset in a ditch a few yards from the crossing. Trotter was pinned beneath the car and Mrs. Bailey, caught under the machine was killed instantly, her head being crushed beneath the automobile seat. The infant child of the Bailey’s was asleep In Its mother s arms at the time of the crash and was burled out of the nutomoblle. Little hope la entertained of the child’s recovery. The body of Mrs. Bailey was'taken to FLwood in an ambulance and the Injured were taken to an Anderson hospital by Coroner Itlnne and assistants. Boy Refutes Charges Made Against Father Special to The Times. COLUMBUS, Ind., Aug. 22—When ] Ralph Hicks, 17, son of John Hicks of Jonesvllle, who last week confessed to having robbed the Jonesvllle railroad station last winter and Implicated his father In the crime, was arraigned In court here Saturday he pleaded not guilty and refuted his confession. The youth stated that O. E. Whiteman, railroad patrolman to whom he made the confession In writing bad coerced him Into doing so. The elder Hicks also pleaded not guilty and declared his son's confession was false. The son was committed to the county jail when his father refused to pay a tine given the boy for stealing watermelons and the father joined his son when the boy made the confession. The two were together tu the jail all night before being arraigned. * Passengers Jump as Train Hits Motor Car Special to The Time*. SOUTH BENI). Ind., Aug. 22—The New Carlisle death trap, where the New York Central and two electric roads cross the Lincoln highway, almost claimed two more victims late Sunday, when Mr. and Mrs. Howard Rupei of near New Carlisle escaped from their touring car, which had stalled on the track, just a few seconds before the Twentieth Century limited struck and demolished the machine. Mrs. Rupei falutcd after the crash. A movement has been started to have a subway built at this crossing. Says Hubby’s Action Brought Distraction Special to The Times. _JSRELBYVILLE, Ind., Aug. 22—Charging her htißband with coldness and indifference and alleging that for a number of years he has given attention to another woman, which drove her to distraction. Mrs. Carrie J. l'rltts has Hied complaint In the Shelby Circuit Court fir a divorce from George P. Urltts, prominent farmer of Shelby County. Alimony of $5,000 and the custody of their two children and S2O a week for her support until the hearing of her complaint is asked. The couple has been married for thirtytwo years, but were separated on two other occasions when Mrs. Erltts declares lie compelled her to leave him. INMATE ATTEMPTS SUICIDE. HARTFORD CITY, Ind., Aug. 22 David Harmon, an inmate of the county infirmary. may die as the result of an attempt at suicide last night, when he slashed his throat with a penknife. He .tad been in poor GLASS PLANT DIVIDEND. HARTFORD CITY. Ind.. Aug. 22—The American Window Glass Company, which has a big plant here, has declared a serai- 1 annual dividend of 3V£ per cent.

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FARM THIEVES CLEAN COOPS OF EVERY CHICKEN One Columbus Farmer Loses 150, Another 100 — Take Setting Hens. Sppela! to The Time-. COLUMBUS, Ind., Aug. 22 Chicken thieves by their frequent activities within the last few weeks have thrown terror lot.) the h<*rts of fanners. Following reports of many theft*, police and county authorities were 1 ing today to round up the thieve* who raided Bay Marr's chicken house north of the city last week and stole 350 white rook chicken* Not satisfied with taking the chickens from the roosts, the thieves even took sotting bens from- the nests and a whole flock of chick* which bad been hatched only a few days. They ; 'iloaned Marr’s coop of fowls. Tbo samb night two dozen bens were stolen from the chicken house of U. O. fimith near tide city. Theodore Mobley of Hartsville also was a victim of thieves last week, losing 100 hens of the white rock variety. Several smaller theft* have been reported from the vicinity of Hope. Illegal Possession Costs Trip to Farm Special to The Time*. COLUMBUS. Ind, Aug 22—Emery Roup of this city was sentenced to sixty days at the Indiana Stale Farm and fined SIOO when he pleaded guilty to Charge of possessing and transporting intoxicating lluqors unlawfully. Roupp was arrestad following Investigation* of bootlegging operations be tween this city and Edinburg Liquor was found In his automobile and garage. Bartholomew County Lets Road Contracts i Special to Th Tim#*. COLUMBUS. Ind.. Aug. 22.—A cou'-reet for the construction of the Shaw road ! In this county for $14,830. wne awarded i to George Nugent at a meeting of tna Halholomew County commissioners to- | day. a contract for the building of the Dunn j toad was awarded to Charles Waugbtel, I for $7,000. The board appropriated for tb econstructlon of tho Bolto bridge on the line between Bartholomew and Jackson Counties. Farm Products Sell High at Public Sales Specisl to The Times, j NOBLEBVILLK. Ind., Aug. 22—Farm j product* are bringing good prices at the i many public sales which are being held in central Indiana at the present time. | Farmers attending the sales in large l numbers qtul they arc biding high on j moat of the stuff that Is being offered at l auction. Horses are the only thing in’ j the way of Hve stock that is selling low. There seems to be mo demand for them and as ft result, good teams are being knocked down to buyers for $l5O and S2OO. They were selling for double that money eighteen months ngo. The price of cows range from S9O to $123. Good feeding shoats are selling for 1$ and 20 cents a pound and corn la the field brings from sl7 to S2O an acre Most of the hay | brings from sl2 to sl3 a ton. NOBLE COUNTY FARMER DIES. N'OBLESVILI.E, Ind., Aug. 22. David TANARUS,. Crosson, 62, dropped dead of apoplexy on his farm in the eastern part of Hamilton County Saturday afternoon. Ho served eight years in the regular army, enlisting in Company K. Twentieth llegi ment as a corporal at Fort Asslnabolne, Mont., In 1887.

Ye TOWNE GOSSIP Copyrigh: 1021. by Star Company. By K. C. B. Dear K. C. B—l have often seen In your column where someone w-rote you something and you answered It, and I have been wondering If it was true that they really wrote or if It was just makebelieve. If it Is really true 1 know you will answer this. Two months ago 1 was injured and went to a hospital, and three wtvks later I was allowed to sit out on the front veranda, and one day they brought a girl who was 111 to the hospital and she bad a dog and the dog followed them and they took the girl in at the frout door and shut the dog out and the dog waited on the front steps. The girl died and they took her away and ir-* dog dtfln't know it, and thpy -.ed to drive the dog away, but be would howl and run around the corner and come back when they stopped throwing stones at him. Then I left the hospital, and the other day I was there to Inquire about some mail and the dog was still waiting around for the girl to come out. He keeps his eyes always on the front door. Isn't It too bad that he doesn't know that she came out. 1 hope you will sympathize with me in my emotions, as no one else eems to understand. R B. P. Los Angeles, Cal. MAYBE YOU’VE seen. voc readers of mine. THOSE TERRIBLE "persons. VTIIO RIDE saucer tracks ON MOTORCYCLES* * • • • AND WEAR strange clothes. AND STRANGER goggles. AND SEEM always. * AT LEAST to me* * * TO BE things apart! FROM THE, rest *f*t*e world v. . . AND IF you have. I to know I HAPPEN to know* THAT HE who writes* IS ONE of those. AND I am glad. THAT T have found. THEY ARE human being*. WITH HUMAN hearts. AND I'M sorry. • • • I KNOW no way. TO EASE the mind. OF THE faithful dog. AND HIS helpless friend. * * • THE CYCLE man. I THANK you. * Hoosier Canning Firm Breaks Past Records Sneoiai to The Times, BHKLBYVILLB, lu,d.. Aug. 22.—Streets of this city are lined with farm wagons carrying corn to the plant of the Fame Canning Company. Officials of the company declare all records for production will be broken this year. More than 5,000 tons of corn will be canned it was said, 1,000 move than ever canned before In one year. More than 600 tons were received at tho plant today. T‘. > hundred wagons waited in line at one time.

BOARD AND ROOM AT DE PAUW FOR $1.50 WEEK—IN ’4B Sometimes as Much as $1.75 D as Charged—ss a Year for Societies. Special to The Times. GREF. X CAST LE, Ind., Aug. 20— “Boarding Is obtained in private families in town and neighborhood at various prices. Board only, the student providing and furnishing his own room, at sf.“s a week. Board with room furnished and wood, at from $1.30 to $1.75 a week.” The above is a paragraph from a rata- ' log issued by Indiana Anbury University. now De Pauw, for the year 1848. a copy of which has just been received by Robert 1,. O'Hair, president of the Central National Bank of this city, from William H. O'Brien, a hanker of Lawrenceburg. Names of the trustees and members of the faculty of the institution of that time along with names of 295 students are contained in the catalogue, with oilier geueral information. Under the head of “Incidental Expenses,” the catalogue contains a statement which seems unreasonable in the light of present day student expendi- 1 ture*. It says: “Each student may need about $5 a year for society fees and for voluntary contributions for public purposes. The amount necessary for clothing and traveling expenses varies so much, according to the habit of each student. that no general estimate can be made.” Referring to student fees, the catalog goes on to say: ‘‘Tlie tuition In the collegiate and scientific departments is $8 a term and in the preparatory department $5.75 a term. The janitor fee designed to meet the expense of fuel for the recitation rffoni. the ringing of the be!!, sweeping of the halls and keeping the building In repair, is $1 per term. The fees must be settled at the. beginning of each term. The faculty is prohibited from admitting any student to recitation until the fees are paid.” One of the last comment* made in the catalog is as follows: "All absences of each student from recitation, prayers and church, with hla average a4 a scholar in each recitation are recorded every week in a book prepared for that purpo*“ At tlie end of each term and at other times, if desired, an abstract of this record will be sent to the parent or gqurdian of each student.” Mr. O'Hair, the recipient of the catalogue. will present it so De Pauw and It will be tiled among the archives of the university. Vandalism Charged to Shelbyviile Boys Special to The Times. SHELBYVILLE, lu<L, Aug. 22—Laverne Scudder, 10; Koscoe Scadder. 8. and Paul Scudder, 6, sons of John Scuddcr of this city were arrested today on cl.urge* of delinquency which were tiled by a number of resident* of the city who had complained to local authorities concerning recent actions of the boys. Judge Alonso Biair will conduct a hearing of the cases in juvenile court next week. Tha boy* are charged with breaking Into several homes, where they caused much damage. At one place they stole a quantity of paint, which they used in painting *!gns on buildings, garages, 'barns, sidewalks and other public places. They are also said to have ruined a number of shade trees, which they tapped and also cut the bark from a number of saplings which were killed as a result. Robbery of His Home Brings Heart Failure Special to The Tjmes. SOUTH BEND. Ind , Aug. 22—While robbers were searching bis bonne one mile northeast of Notre Dame University, John Woatner, 87, died of heart failure from the shock. , lie had been bound and gagged by the men. The body was found fully clothed with the pockets turned Inside out. A heavy twine held the old man’s wrists and feet, while an old handkerchief served as a gag. The discovery was made laie Sunday when a neighbor, Jacob Williams. culled at the Wozncr place to borrow some tools. Coroner C’rumpaeker gives heart failure as the cause of death. Wozner had ! lived aione for more than twenty years. ! Hi* house was in a clump of tree* quite 1 a distance from the highway. The rob- . bers are believed to have obtained only about SSO.

Do You Know Indianapolis?

j This picture was taken in your home city. Are you familiar enough with it to locate the scone? Saturday's picture was west in Thirtieth street from just west of Meridian street.

The STORY of NINETTE By RUBY M. AYRES

Synopsis of Preceding Chapters. Ninette, a tiny waif who first saw tho light of day in cheap lodgings in a dull road In the worst part of Balham. is adopted by “Josh” Wheeler, who shares his meager earnings as a scribe on a London paper, with the friendless babe. Under his tender care Ninette grew to girlhood and together they planne.d for the future. Josh contracts pneumonia. Ninette pawned everything they had and finally, in desperation, tries her hand at writing, signing her name “Wheeler.” Her efforts brought a. curt note from Peter Notbard. an editor. Phe call* *’ his office, but he does not accept the article. Hopelessly, Ninette turns Into the street and after a long, long walk finds herself In a far better class neighborhood than that in which she and Josh live. Two men come from one of the houses. They have left, the latchkey In the door. She finds it easy to enter and her only thought is to help Josh. Just as she picks up a costly watch she is confronted by Peter Nothard. Ninette explains everything to him. He decide* to help Wheeler, but when they reach Mm he is dead. Ninette faints. Nothard tike* Ninette to his home. Ninette get* brain fever. Ninette recover* and preparation is made to send her to Nothard’s s sler In the country for complete recuperation. Ninette loaches leaving Nothard s bouse. Bhe meets Margaret Delay, Not hard's only sister, at her country place, CHAPTER Xll—Continued. She led the way upstairs chatting away the whole time She was a pretty young woman, though not in the least like her brother; and she had soft, coppery-colored hair, and gray eyes with dark lashes: and he was beautifully dressed. She took Ninette to a room overlooking the garden and wild fields beyond. A fire burned here, too, and there was an easy chair by the fire. “You're to make yourself quite happy and at home here,” Margaret said. "Peter has told me all about you. and I cm sure we are going to be great friends. Peter is a dear, you know.” She looked at Ninette as if expecting confirmation of the all-important assertion; but Ninette made no answer and Margaret frowned. “Before I got married Peter and I were everything to one another," she went on determinedly. “It takes people a long time to understand him, but he’* one of the best men in the world, really.” Ninette had taken off her hat and was smoothing her hair. Suddenly she asked a question: “Who is the girl staying with yon, please?” Margaret Delay hesitated; then she laughed nervously. “Well, you’ll have to know sooner or later,” *he said, "so I may na well tell you now. Her name Is Dorothy Manvere. She came quite unexjiectedly yesterday. I should have put her off If I could, but there "Wasn't o chance. She just arrived Os course, it's very awkward, and I don't know what Pet“r will say when he sees her. but It can t be helped. And. after all. he's only here Just for luncheon.” Ninette turned around, .er dark eyea wide. “Why 1* It awkward? And why should Mr. Nothard say anything':” *he asked . Margaret laughed again, and spread her small, white hands deprecatingly. “Well, you see, he used to be .engaged to her, and she Jiited him," she said. “Peter was awfully cut up at the time, and I know he has never seen her since.” CHAPTER XIII. Dorothy Takes a Hand. Ninette was rather grave as she followed Margaret Delay downstairs for luncheon; she looked about her curiously as she went. The house had certainly been built for comfort; there was a wide fireplace in the hall, where a log fire burned cheerily, though the day was hardly cold enough to warrant it. and Ninette thought she had never seen so many rugs and cush ions and armchairs. There were lots of Hovers and ferns, too flowers everywhere; on the tables—in the windows, on tbe mantelshelves and the table a* they entered the dining-room was a mass of shaggy brown and yellow chrysanthemums. Peter Nothard was there, standing in the window talking t< a square shouldered. rather good look.ng man, who was Introduced to Ninette ts Margaret’s husband. He had thick, straight hair, brushed back from Ills forehead in American fashion, and penetrating dark eyes which somehow made Ninette feel uncomfortable. Ho shook hands with hei. and said be was glad to see her; he asked one or two perfunctory questions about the drive, and then turned to Ills wife. “What are we waiting for, dear? Isn't lunch ready?” Margaret flushed a litlle and glanced uneasily at her brother, but just as she was about to answer the door opened, and a girl came Into the room. At flrsi

I sight Ninette thought she was the most I perfect little creature she had ever wen; |it was only afterwards that she modli fled her opinion. She was very slim, almost childish in her figure, and her hair, which was cut in the approved "bobbed" fashion, was of a perfect shade of red which not even the unkindest of crftlcs could have called dyed. She had blue eye*, with dark curly lashes, ind a | charming mouth which seemed almost ! smiling. Margaret Delay introduced her nervously. "This Is Miss Manvers. Ninette—l hope you will be great friends. Peter, there is no need to introduce you.” I Nothard bowed formally; his face was ! a little pale, and his mouth set in a | hard line. I “It Is a long time since we met,” he 'said. ‘ “Yes.” blue eyes searched ■ his face with swift criticism, and the [color rose a little In her pale cheeks. I “It's a long time,” she agreed. “Nearly ■three years.” Margaret's husband interrupted. ■ “Well, if we're all here, we might have [lunch, don't you think?” I They took their places at, the table, ; and two smartly dressed maids waited, j Ninette was shy and 111 at ease; she hardly ate anything though she had said I she was hungry .and she did not touch ! the wine which she had been too shy ! to refuse. She sat next to Peter Nothard, and jat first he tried to talk to her, but after i a few monosyllable replies he gave U |up and devoted himself to his sister, jat whose right hand he was sitting. There was an empty chair next to Dor- | thy Manvers, and presently Ninette asked Arthur shyly: j “Please, who ought to be there?” He glanced at the empty chair, and [laughed at her qaifitiy worded question. 1 "Oh, that's D’ck Felsteds place—he's always late, and o we never bother to wait for him. He went out on his motor bike this morning, and I daresay he's | had an accident by this time—he has a j couple of dozen a week, according to all accounts.” “He's just a scatter-brain,” Margaret interposed, laughingly. “But he's a dear boy; I think you’ll like him. Ninette.” “I don't care for men much as a rule,” Ninette said bluntly. Every one looked at Nothard. and he colored in faint embarrassment, j “Ninette is the most candid young lady I I have ever met,” he said lightly. “You will find that out. Margaret, before she j has been here very long.” Ninette looked at lilm, her dark evea i flaming. “Why shouldn't I be candid?” she asked calmly. What's the use of pretending to like things when you don't—and people?” •’lt's no use at all." he answered her. j “But sometimes It's more polite.” Dorothy Manvers had hardly- spoken since the beginning of lunch, but she said jiow, with her pretty laugh: "You must get on well with Feter | then. Miss—Ninette—l don’t think anyone has told me your proper name!— because he love* candid people, don't you, Peter?” she appealed directly to Nothard. He met her eyes fairly and sqnarely. “I hate a liar more than anything In the world,” he said quietly. There was aq. uncomfortable little silence. Arthur Delay was looking at his brother-in law with faint amusement; Margaret was flushed and uncomfortable. "How dreadfully serious we are all getting.” she said, a trace of annoyance In her voice. ”1 don't like serious lunch parties.' Peter, when are you coming to see me again ?” J am very l usy—l nm afraid I can’t sp.ire the time yet awhile,” be answered, decidedly. “That doesn't sound very polite,” Ninette said quietly. Every one laughed and the little cloud that sen:ed to have fallen over them was dispersed, conversation was merry enough till tbe meal was ended, and Margaret rose. “We ll leave Peter and Arthur to bore one another,” sha said: she took Nl- . nette's hand. "Come along, you and Dorothy—we shall enjoy ourselves far ! more without the nten.” As they were crossing the ball, a side door, which led Into the garden, opened rather boisterously and a young man with a hot, flushed face and a rather dusty-iooking tweed suit, entered. He pulled off his cap when he saw the three girls and looked at Margaret with laughing apology. f ‘Tin so sorry, Mrs. Delay; but I had a beastly accident' The tire blew off and chucked me over a hedge! No. I'm not hurt, but the poor old mo-bike is! I : ieft her in the ditch and walked home. ; I suppose you haven't kept any lunch l for uie?” Margaret laughed. “You know quite well I have. Dick, this is Ninette, you have heard so much about ber already that I am sure you feel that you know her quite well. No, don't shake hands with him. Ninette—ho just reeks of oil, and horrors like that. Run away and wash, there's a dear boy! The men are still in the dining-room.” She led the way into the drawingroom on tbe opposite side of tho hail. (To lie Continued.) Deupree “Charges Are Dismissed Snec al to The Time*. -SHELBYVI LLE. Ind.. Aug. 22 Charges which were filed here last against Henry Brothers, for permitting minors in their poolroom and against William Maholm. -Tr., for violation of the prohibition law. were dismissed today by Prosecutor Elmer Bassett, acting on (he instructions of Edward Deupreo, former judge of the Johnson Circuit Court, who was responsible for lia -ing tho charges filed. Much criticism had been made h*re and at Franklin since the charges were filed. The charges wre filed by Ert Deupree, 17. son of Edward Deupree. who charged Henry Brothers permitted him in their poo’room here, (hat Maholm had given him a drink of whisky and that William Llpps. of this city, had sold him eignretlos. Lipps entered a plea of guilty to the charge and paid a fine and costa. Henry Brothers pleaded not guilty, however and the trial was set for today.

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