The Vernon Times, Volume 8, Number 1, Vernon, Jennings County, 19 June 1919 — Page 6

THE VERNON TIMES, VEItNON, IND.

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The Ethiopian t.. 13 DORA II. MOLLAN s s s s i s The Ethiopian lives over the kitchen range in the 1.;,.-. n..-!:t of -V" I arrow street, N-w V,.rk city. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Lee i, :) on a ranch r . -: t ".! ody. Wyo. Km rv year thev j'u: i -r the intervening .space on a su.it. limited and make their obeisance to the grinning slave. Ebony ,:,, wiih an orange smile. he st a nds ever patiently bearing aloft on his ilatfened palms a woven basket fof gorgeously eoloi ci tropical fruits. Quivering bent wa es rio around his stalwart form, but to such a temperature he inherits ;mn. unity. Tiie dark eity kitchen with its dismal outlook stents something of the spirit of the "Thouaml and One Nights' from his colorf u I i I-or three years now have Mr. and j Mrs. l.i i' iule the pilgrimage to this j shrine. .nd jut four years and two J months ago the events took place, j grateful memory of which brings them i back. lit those days Mrs. Stanley was Kvelin i:;-ook. fa-iilon artist for the Standardized Pattern company, and Stanley was making his first ranchman's business trip Ea-f. He not only belong! d to Hie West, but looked it, fur he was tali and broad, with the keenly interested eyes of the plainsman, and his sartorial preferences run to corduroy, soft shirts and the like. So he was dressed at nine, o'clock on this morning as- he ran down the two Mights of stairs which led from his Hint's apartment to the bnsem. til kitchen in the house on I'liri'inv street. Aunt Mag was all right and a good sport, Stanley was thinking on the way down, even if she had horrified the Cody folk ld summer, driving to town dresse.i in a queer, shapeless garment of bright green, with sandaled feet and floppy 1 1 ; 1 1 , embroidered with impossible llowers. He grinned as ho recalled the commotion she bad caused in the post ot'ico. But all the same, this way of living got his goat sta.ving up most of the night and sleeping until noon, like a bat. l'our hours after bis usual breakfact time, and riot a sound from his aunt's roor i ! Her last words before bidding him good night had been: "Stan, dear, if you get hungry before I'm up in the morning, just run down stairs and cook yourself something. There is a community kitchen down in the basement and you'll lind my things on a shelf labeled with my name. Help oufseir." Stan didn't exactly like the of fussing a rmmd in some one else's hous , but w : i perateJv hungry : so he tried a do"r that looked as if it might open into a kitchen. It did, but the roem was so gloomily dark i! it he lighted the gas. Just then the door bell rang. Stanley stood still and listened, but there was no sound of steps along the bare floor (f the hall, and again it rang. So he ran up the basement stairs nnd opened the door. On the step - stood a girl. She was quite good to look upon, dressed in an unusual shade of blue-green, with hat to match, trimmed with small llower. of many colors. The young woman appeared perhaps a bit surprised when this lug young man opened the door, but remarked fn n quite ordinary tone of voice: "I came to paint over the kitchen stove." Now, Stanley knew enough, from his .short experience oi this casual, bohemian life Ids aunt led. t ho prepared for the unexpected, but at this strange announcement Ids mouth half opened and he looked quite idloUc. for no word- ;o..e from it. In the first place it was Sunday morning, and in the second the girl was not only well, but ep, c ! y drowsed. Handsome young women in costly clot lies coming around on the Sabbath to do a job of house painting were utterly outside his experiences. Stan's thoughts were becoming even more hopelessly muddled when the girl spoke again: "1 left my materials at the basement door nnd. I will go and get them if you don't mind letting me in that way would yu ;" And as Stan seemed st ill to be in a sort of ratsce -Mi Sanderson expects me. but I presume she hasn't arisen yet." And she ran down the steps. Stanley recovered enough to close the door, make his way downstairs again and admit this unaccountable visitor at the basement entrance. Site knew th? landlady, evidently, so it must ht M ri: He helped, as a matter of course, with the brushes and pails, but still remained tonguetied. Wit en they gained the kitchen the young woman nsaM Stan to bring the stepladder from tn- laundry, and proceeded to remove her hat and coat. When he return -d with the ladder the girl stood on the far side of the room gazing at the painted area of wall directly above the set-in range. "You see." s said. ; I. ese walls are such a horrible, gloomy odor, and the agent just won't do another thing to the house. Miss Sanderson can't afford to do them over herself, so I offered to paint something colorful up there. Don't you think fruit would be nice?" i "But that's rather tr.me." she continued speculatively; then, her face Ulnrainated by a sudden idea, she exclaimed: "Oh, T know-" and betook

herself to the top of the ladder with the ability of a squirrel. Though Stanley Lee's tongue had been idle, his eyes had refused to go on a sympathetic strike, and what he saw was a slight, almost boyish figure, with a mop of short black' hair, clad

in a becoming smock o! bright ortinge. Then he spoke actually spoke. "Wouldn't my fussing around here bother you any? You see, my aunt, whom I am visiting, isn't up yet, and I'm nearly starved." The lady of the pigments, absorbed in hex work, replied that it would not not at all. But she did not add what she was thinking, that this was quite the handsomest man she had seen for some time. Under her facile brush the bright colors took shape, and in Stanley Lee's mind an intention took shape not to leave on the next day as lie had intended, but to stay a while and cultivate this girl's acquaintance. Perhaps she would go to some shows with him. Even so. she did. Aunt Margaret appeared opportunely and got together some breakfast ami insisted on Evelyn's participation in it, and Stanley took his courage in hand and suggested that "show" idea; and they went to the show, and more shows; and not only to the theater, but .once to the opera and to a concert and hunted up several queer and interesting places to dine together and for a week the Ethiopian over the kitchen range remained blind as a. mole for want of eyes, and it wasn't till Sunday again that Evelyn got her breath and insisted that the Ethiopian must be finished. So again she came with her brushes and paints, and this time Stanley was on the alert and let her in at the basement door in a jiffy. I Jut he was stiff and silent, while the artist girl busie,i herself with her preparations and quite forgot to h d her a hand as she climbed the stopladder. For many minutes he watched the deft hand giving sight and life to the blazing picture of the slave. Then he blurt ed : "You've made ;t man of him; a regular, . breathing, living man. Rut he won't even say 'thank you, ma'am.' You can do as much for me, Miss Evelyn, if you will, ami I'll be a heap sight more willing slave to you than that chap up there, happy as he looks. Here you're just doing things for dead walls come out to Wyoming and fill with warmth and color a human life!" Evelyn looked down at him from the ladder for a long minute. Then she climbed down and said: "Stan, that's the biggest commission I ever had. I'll undertake it." Io you wonder that they love the Ethiopian and come hack every year for a little fling in New York under his grinning cha peronage? Great Wealth in Ivory. To the northeast of the mouth of the Lena which is one of the great rivers of the world, rising in eastern Siberia and flowing northward to the Arctic ocean is a group of islands which must formerly have been connected with the mainland. There an American naval expedition, which sought survivors of the ill-fated Jeannette, found deposits of mammoth tusks that were literal ivory mines. The frozen soil of the islands was so crowded with mammoth skeletons as to suggest that the mighty pachyderms must have had there a "dying place," to which, through thousands of years, they resorted when death approached. Lieutenant Schuetze, wdio was a member of the expedition, told the writer that there was a big fortune to be gained by a few adventurous men who should take a stanch vessel through Bering strait at the opening of the arctic summer, dig for ivory and return in half a dozen weeks. They would encounter perils, however, for the coast is most inhospitable and almost uninhabited. The Art of Talking. The art of talking is rare, but If one has the least spark of talent it may be improved. Time, thought, nnd constant practice are necessary to develop any faculty. We cannot hope to learn music, painting, or tennis without: practice, and so it is with conversation. We cannot expect to talkwell in society If we are dull, silent, taciturn at home. We must read the best books to learn the fluent use of language; we must learn to think and to remember, to observe carefully ; we must keep in touch with the events of the day, not merely within a narrow circle but in the wide world. General knowledge is necessary. Books, magazines and newspapers tire within the reach of every one. An ideal conversationalist is a conscientious listener, the first to see merit, the last to censure faults. A very earnest talker is not always popular because of heaviness; to be able to talk about nothing in a way to make that airy subject interesting is a talent. Small talk is valuable yociallv. Latin Words in Use. Many Latin words crept into our language through Home's military conquests. For instance, castra was the Latin word for camp, becoming Chester in English. So Colchester. Dorchester. Winchester, and similar names indicate English cities which were once Roman ramps. When the Pilgrims came to America, they gave to many new settlements the names of English towns which they still loved. Yon will find other equally interesting words which have come into English directly from Latin. And even nowyon may like to know that there is a real, though long-drawn-out connection between our mother tongue and the Latin language of the old Romans, Christian Science Monitor.

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Farmers Going More and More to Better Type. DESIGN THAT IS FAVORITE Erect Houses for Live Stock and Winter Supply of Feed That Keep Animals at Their Best Profit Producer. Ifr. William A. Radford will answer questions and give advice FREE OP CCST on all subjects pertaining to the subject of building work on the farm, for the readers of this paper. On account of his wide experience as Editor. Author and a-ianuiaciurer, ne is. without doubt, the highest authority on all these subjects. Addresr all inquiries to William A. Radford, No. 1S27 Prairie avenue, Chicago. 111., and only inclose- three-cent stamp for reply. Everywhere throughout the country the farmers this year 'are-going more nnd more to the modern type of barn a barn that will keep their live stock in the best of health and at their highest point of productivity all winter. Such barns cost more than the old-fashioned, loosely constructed A buildings, but in the end they more than pay for themselves. Warm animals produce more from the feed they consume for the simple reason that the nourishment is not required to keep them warm. Vhile it is a long time until winter, now is the time to build barns, houses and the other buildings the modern up-to-date farm requires. Foresight, someone has said, is better than hindsight. This is true in planning the sort of barn to be err-cted this year. By taking into consideration the facts that the successful farmers have found during their experience, the modern farmer will profit in the end. These facts are that' good houses are the most important feature in making dairying profitable. Illustrated here is the type of barn the modern farmer erects. It is what is known as a plank-frame barn, one constructed of lumber, but framed on the foundation, rather than on the ground. The latter type was popular in the days of the "barn-raising bees." This is the most economical type of construction, and, at the same time, provides the best sort of a weatherproof barn for the live stock. The dimensions of this barn are 42 by 72. feet, which is amply large for the average farm. The floor plan shown is designed to accommodate ten milch cows and twelve horses, besides considerable loose stock. This can be changed, however, to suit the needs of the owner. For iu-tance. one end of the barn can be partitioned off so as to have the hordes ,--r:.te from the cows, which is re; ilred by the pure food laws of some When this is uone, as much or as :!.: -r-ce can be set aside for the horses as is wanted, and the balance devoted to the cow stable. This barn has an exceptionally attractive exterior appearance and will make a fine addition to any farm building group. It is of the gamhrel-roof typ?, which provides a large amount of mow space. The building is set on a concrete foundation, with a concrete stable floor. The balance of the building is of wood. As in most modern barns the stalls are placed so that the anmals face in. Through the center of the building runs the feed alley, wide enough for a wagon to be driven 'through. This gives the owner an opportunity to firry the grain feed by wagon directly fo the feed bin, from which it is distributed by an overhead carrier directly to the mangers. Along one side of the building, back of the faors stalls

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is a litter alley. The overhead carrier track is extended over this part of the barn, which makes the work of removing the manure easy. In the arrangement of the stalls here shown, the cows face each other at the end of the barn. Between the stalls is a feed alley, while litter alleys run back of each row of stalls. The hay chute Is located In the center of the building with the feed bin. Each stall is equipped with modern stanchions, which give the animals much freedom and at the same time hold them securely, while at each stall is an individual drinking cup. Gutters are sunk Into the concrete floor back of each row of stalls. The water system is used to flush these daily, as well as the floor, thus keeping the stable floor clean and wholesome. This ham provides three features that all animals need to be kept healthy and at their highest point of productivity. They are sunlight, fresh air and fresh water. It will be noted that there are many windows ranged along each side of the building. These admit quantities of sunlight, and are at a height that will permit the sun's rays to hit the litter alley. Sunlight is nature's greatest germ killer, and by admitting the sunshine there is less danger of the spread of disease among the animals. On the ridge of the building are two ventilators, which are connected with foul air shafts leading out of the stable. These ventilators suck out the foul air, which is replaced by

fresh air. The fresh air is admitted at a height that prevents the animals from being in a draft. The drinking cups at the stall provide the cows and horses with fresh water at all times. Water makes milk, and those who have put in water cups have been surprised at the amount of water a cow will consume while standing in the barn, and at the increase in the amount of milk .she will give. The mow floor is clear of obstruction in this type of a barn, the roof being supported by rafters only, a carrier track Is run along the ridge and out underneath the garde at the front. The door drops down out of the way, and the hay is mowed away by power. While no silo is shown in this illustration, one Is put up in connection with most modern barns, as it has been discovered that the animals thrive on silage, while at the same time less hay Is consumed. Hay demands a good price in the grain market, while there is no sale for corn stalks. A silo adds to the farmer's income. While the cost of building now is higher than it was before the war, the farmer gets so much more for his products in proportion that he cannot afford to put off building. As was said at the beginning, a modern barn is a profit producer. It will increase the milk production and will keep his highpriced animals healthy. Prices of materials now have been stabilized. That is, there will be no change in them during the year. There is no reason why every farmer should not have the new buildings he needs. And now is tho time to build them. Lost French Children. A correspondent In the London Daily Mail writes of the lost children of Lille as follows: "According to information received by me from France, fhe mother of Lille, through MM. G. Lyon, the sector, and E. Doumer, professor of the University of Lille, have presented a petition to the president of the French republic asking him to demand from the German government the return of their children, of whom nothing is known except that they have been taken away by the German?, and urging that it is possible that the fear of reprisals might induce the barbarians to return the children to their mothers. The missing children include 13 under fourteen years of age, 1,109 under fifteen, 1.447 under sixteen, 1,443 under seventeen, or 4.01S in alL

DADDY3 EVENING FAIRYTALE SymSX ORAMAM BONNER THE AZARA DOG.

"There are dogs." said the Azara rog, "that look like dogs." "That's rather a sensible tiling, isn't it?" asked a fox. "Well, perhaps, in some cases," said the Azara Dog. "I should think that It would be sensible in all cases." the fox answered. "Just suppose, for example, that a dog should look like a cat; wouldn't that be stupid? "Everyone would be going up to the dog and saying: "'Purr, pussy, pretty pnssy.' And they'd give that dog it bowl of milk instead of a bone, without a doubt." "Yes." said the Azara Dog. "it If usually quite sensible." "Very, very sensible." said the fox "for creatures to look as they shonhj look. A dog should look like a dog. Jttst as much as he cn. "A cat should i'-ok like a cat, n fox like a fox and a pig like a pig." "Of course one should have one of the features of the animal it is supposed to bo." said the Azara Dog. "What do you mean by features?" asked the Fox. "Yon mean that at least a pig should have a pig's snout, and a cat a cat's eyes, and so forth." "Yes," nodded the Azara Dog. "that is what I mean." "Dear me." laughed the fox. "I was just thinking if we didn't look like ourselves how very confusing it would be. Suppose a parrot should look like me and suppo.-.e I should look like a parrot. "I'd be mad. I can tell you. if any creature came up to me and said: "'There. Pretty Polly; Polly want T cracker?' I'd be very, wrv mad indeed. "Neither would I like to have anyone come up to me and say: "'Grunt, little pig. grunt.' Nor would I like to have any one say: "'Sing, little canary, sing.' "Wouldn't that- be very annoying?" "You're absurd, just as absurd as you ean be." said the Azara Dog. Ah. friends." he added, "it's niv tiiil which tells the tale." All tin' animals in tln zoo laughod. "Well." they said, '"it's nonsense, but jolly all the saline." "Yes. it's a jolly, jolly thought," said the Azara Dog. T. i: it's md nonsense." '"And why not?" asked the others. "Because," . said the Azara Dog. "it is true. My tail does tt 1! the title." All the animals laughed once more. "I will have to explain," said the Azara Dog. -In the first place, I come from South America. Perhaps none of you knew that?" Some of them wagged their heads "Yes." and some of them shook their heads "n." "Well, for thos.- who don't know," said the Azara Dog. "that is the first piece of information or te ws, or the tirst chapter of the book, or the first part of the story, or whatever y u want to call It. "And in the second place, if it wre not for my tail, wh'eh looks something like the tail of a dog. I wouldn't be called a 'g. but I o?;id be called a gray fox, for I look a great deal like a gray fox. "And so you see, friends, that it is my tail which tlN tho tale. Or, in other words, my .leglike end piecetells the story." "Oh. we s,.e." .-aid the other animals. "Glad to hear It." said tb.f Azara Dog. "I thought I could tell you something, and I have." "So you have," the others admitted. "And we see that what you said was not nonsense but the truth." "The truth, indeed," said the Azara Dog, wagging his tail and saying as he did so. "and the end of my story but not of mv tail !" Reward cf Politeness. They were entertaining the minister at dinner, according to the London Telegraph, and after desert little Johnny said : "Won't you take another piece of pie?" The minister laughed. "Well, Johnny," he said, "since you are so polite, I will have another." "Good!" said Johnny. "Now. ma. remember yonr promise. You said if it was neees-ary to cut into the second pie I rouid have another pie, e !"' Willing to Compromise. "Mamma," said little Edward a fewdays ago. "May I have some peaches and cream?" "Nil. dear, they are not good for you." replied the mother. "Then may I have a little piece of mince pie?" he aked. No. Bdwrird. I am afraid it would make you sick." Edward was silent for a few minutes and then exclaimed. "Say, mamma, do you think it would hurt me to have just one toothpick?" Thought He Was a Canoe. "Mamma," said small Bobbie, who had just been chastised for disobedience, "am I a canoe?" "Certainly not. Bobbie." she replied. "But what put that idea into your head." "Well, you are always saying that you like to s- -e people paddle their own canoe, and I thought maybe I Ras yours.

COULDN'T SLEEP Was riisentle zzi Laocin Weight Suffering Fron Kidney Cplaint Dcia's Removed the Trcullj. "I was ahT,;t dwn ir: .- from kidney trouble," says ih.rrv Griffith, of 22 N. Darlington St.. e-:chcstcr. Pa. "The kidney secret io; . s bnrned like scalding water. Son. ttn:-.- there wn!J be a complete stepp.e mi. !! what s-r pain 1 uf:rrd! Mv foot became .wdion "rt 1 I I 3 Lad a tin e of is gettinj; 4 5j ft? en mv si e. 4" " "My b ,;k hgrt right

over my kidney. Nights I did n. -long I is t to was ju-s a - i l , w Xt-.-u-h a knt- were X Wiv4v thms-t irro rr.y back. I - cculdn't 1 er.d ever withKr.Gn.atk rut tcrril le pain and I would fall to my knees .nd enw! a!jn; to get hold of something to help myself up. Ponding di.-zy spe!?-s came on nnd terrible headaches added to mv miscrv. "I was ramd! i i knew something would Live to be dene. I began taking I nan's A i ; Pills and was mere t han fv:t t r;ed. The troubles were soon leaving me and six boxes of - Dean's Kidney Pills cared me yntirely. To the dav I have been free "from kidney complaint." Sworn to before vie. A. J. TdWXSFXD. -dry Public. Get Dou'i at Act Store. 60c m. Bex BOAN'S k?j!? FOSTER-MUX URN CO- BUFFALO, N. Y. It ' 1 Every room is an outside room, with hot f and cold water. t H The Right Hotel ct the Rizht Prices. l JI M and $1 25 if W.ih B.ih (1 $1.50 and S2.0O H THEN SHE GOT A MOVE ON Tcok Warning of Dire Danger Impending to Get Angelina to Leave That Car. With sundry rattles, chmkings nnd strange noies. tlie tnotorear of obs(lete make seene,! to have taken into its head to behave in a most uncomplimentary manner. After running along in a quick sneeeoi.in of impatient jerks, it came to a dead stop. Out jumped a young and handsome driver and endeavored to eoax the car into a better temper by pulling various levers. Alas ! the car remained immovable. "Angelina." s-dd the young man. In tones of trembling emotion, "I'm afraid you will have to get out." ' Oh. Ge.,rge. why?" ri- d the dainty one. "Get out," he repeated! more anxiously. "But. George, dear, I want to stay in I" replied the girl, almost tearfully." "Get out at once !" cried George. "Tic boiler is g..ing to bu-t." Then Angelina obeved. London T!dBits. "FAKE" ASPIRIN WAS TALCUM Always Ask for Genuine "Bayer Tablets of Aspirin If yon see the "Bayer Cross" on the package you are sure you are not getting talcum powder. Millions of fraudulent Aspirin Tablets were recently sold throughout the country. Aspirin Is the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Mcnoaeeticacidesfor of Salicylicacid. His Escape. "My least, boy. Bearcat, was playing In the dust of the big road tntle r day when a motorcar knocked him gaily-winding," related Gap J dins .n of lJumpus Kidge. "Fur a minute I shore thought he was a goner. p;ut he riz up, gave a few Mf.-hos i;ke a chicken with a burr in its n-'-k. a eloud of du-t poured out of his mouth and he began to cuss everything and everybody he had ever heererl of. Thnni: the Lord '.' says I. 'The little fe'l,-.r s .iU ri2ht yet:" Kansas City Star. Taking Heed. "You do not seem to take any great pride in your oratorical ah;:;-v." "I have seen harrowing instances, replied Senator Sorghum. ". f a man's taking so much intere-t in his oratorv that he forgot to watch the who were attending to plain, pra--tical politics." To T:Hfy antf fnrlch h Klfwl TTe O ROVE'S TASTKt.E.'? Chi': TOXIC -whlrh is e'mp'.y IRON ar.d QTUNIXE "buSpnlfd in syrup. So Pleasant Kvm Ch!Jren Like If. You ran soon ita Strncth"&lnir Invigorating I. Pr!c- 60c. A wise man never wastes his tim he wa-tes the other fellow's. Some women are not as bad ns they are painted. VJhzn Vcur Eyes Hsscf Csrs Try flarins Evs Hsmcdy No (mtmni- jnsi Kt Cf.nur.--ii. t mtn a. 'Jl,0 wm;L "VVr,' V.r ire K lioo.

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