The Syracuse Journal, Volume 29, Number 18, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 20 August 1936 — Page 6

DRAGONS DRIVE YOU By EDWIN BALMER Copyright by Edwin Balrr.gr WNU Service

CHAPTER I Jeb wrote his name, Judson E. Braddon, with a finishing flourish, on the last of the sheaf of checks before him; and he flung his fountain-pen accurately Into Its bell-lipped holder. He liked to hit it like that, after signing checks for four hundred thousand. And It was his money, or funds under his control His name, written by himself, converted these green slips of paper Into cash. Sometimes, sitting here, he bad signed for more 6 than half a million; once for a million. And he could sit back and spear that holder with his pen so that It stuck In. two out of three tries. That was showing your nerves were In shape; that was staying twenty-eight and beating business at the same time. Miss Gilbert came in td gather up the checks. •Who's waiting?" Jeb asked. “Mr. Saunders about Insull Utilities; Mr. Hazen . . . And bare you forgotten your brother, Mr. Braddon?” Jeb laughed. 4 "Good Lord, I did! Is he still out there? Shoot him tn Aral" Left alone. Jeb swung about slowly in the winter sunlight and gazed out hii windows over the city. All Chicago, except a rival pinnacle or two, lay below him; for the offices of J. E. Braddon and Company claimed two floors high In one of the tallest towers. Roofs white with last night's new snow reached away, square after square. Hidden under those roofs, and In the deep ruts of the streets between, were three millions of people. The conflict of their lives. In Its Innumerable forma, set beating this tense, eager Impulse that you felt here In Chicago. > Crude and cultured; pagan and Puritanic; savage and o»erclvlllzed; Incredibly cruel, and extravagantly, absurdly maudlin in many of Its mercies. A city, like all the nation, anperspeeded for making money. It put millions Into many hands that never before had fingered either wealth or privilege. Judson Elliot Braddon's were far from the least familiar with these. He had much more behipd him than most of these young men of‘destiny of 1929; and the place he won for himself In thia city bad surpassed theirs. How Important It was. his gplendld Impressive offices declared; and at the sound of the door, Jeb swung back, giving a glance around his big room. ' It had not ceased pleasantly to impress him. It never Impressed his brother. No display of Jeb's swift success ever aroused Rodney. He did not envy or disdain It; he simply seemed not to be affected by it. Hod always had been that sort, utterly different Jeb could not remember that Rod ever bad expressed a desire to make money; neither as boy nor man. Some day. both boys had known, each of them would “come into'.' forty thousand dollars left in trust by their grandfather. That day. when he was twenty-one. had come for Rodney eight years ago; and tn the bank at Andover reposed the identical forty thousand dollars, in bonds of the city of Andover and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, which eight years ago had been formally delivered to Rodney. Braddon. The day. for Judson, bad arrived seven years ago; and the forty thousand In bonds had become four millions In stocks and equities; In fact, nearly five—lf Jeb sold out at today's prices. The door opened. “Hello, Rod." •Hello, Jud." “Jud" was the old familiar nickname when they were boys; but after be went to Yale, Jud had cast It off for the name made from his initials—J. E. 8., like “Jeb" Stuart. Rodney had not gone to Yale; be was then at Johns Hopkins, going in for medicine and biology. “Come In!" Invited Jeb; and Rod closed the door behind him. “Busy?" asked Rod. absolutely without offense. - ‘ “Didn't mean to be. old fellow," said Jeb as the lifetime of affection for thia unpractical, unoeeklng brother. so different from himself, flowed over him. “Tell the truth. Rod, I Just forgot." * “I Just thought Td look In to see you. since I'm leaving town," said Rodney. “Leaving Chicago? For how long?" “A full mopth, anyhow." “Where you going?" •Rochester—Minnesota, Jud, where the Mayoe are. They're doing some work In Immunity up there that I've got to see." Actually Rod had been invited to take part In the work, but that was something be would never volunteer, not even to bis brother. “Then you’re coming back here, “Probably oct Germany—Leipeie. 1 think, on the same trail." “That'll take more than another month." •Six—or a year, 1 guess, Jud, once 1 get la Europe." “When you leaving?" "I'm taking the train tonight." •That menas you’re pre ctieally clearing out tonight—for a year." ) “1 guess so, Jud." The two tall brothers gazed at each other la silence, la all their Uvea, they had never held a hope or a desire which brought them Into conflict, until now. •How much has Agnes Glenelth to do with this?" Jeb Inquired. "Agnes?" repeated Rod tn his quiet way. "Agnes Is not tn it, Jeb." "But yon don't want to go alone. Do you?" "No. Jud, I don't," answered Rodney honestly. - -

•Then why don’t you make a try for her? For the first time In your life you want something for yourself —you do want her, like the very bell, don’t you?" “Yes," said Rodney. do. And you do, too. Don't you?" "No," denied Jeb. “Not the way you do." He did want Agnes; as a matter of fact, he was becoming sure he wanted her for bls wife; but he was aware that he was capable of no such singleness and devotion as Rodney. For Jeb to live—really live—was to be In love, more or less excitingly, with some girl of the sort you might marry; and until you married, to have “affairs” with women whom you could not “harm," and whom you kept dis creetly screened. In Rod's life there had been nothing of that sort, never. There was a deeper, obstinate decency In Rod, and

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much tterner restraint. He offered to Agnes Glenelth an almost totally different outlook; and Jeh was real Izing this with something like a pang of shame when he said: “How do you know she’d not rather have you than me—or anybody else?” “Do you think she might. Jud?" Jeb jerked shout. “They’re funny fools, women. Rod.*’ he wild. “Sometimes they'd rather throw themselves away than—" He caught himself as he saw his brother’s flush. “1 don’t mean that Agnes marrying von would be throwing herself sway, except from your point of view. I’m trying to tell you. Rod. what they do. They won't care a damn about you when you’re sure they should; and when they shouldn't, you've got ’em. And you won't know It; you’ll be the last to know It. and you've had ’em ail the while.” He moved abruptly to hla desk and pressed bia buzzer. The prompt appearance of Miss Gilbert forestalled any reply from "Get Miss Glenelth on the phone," Jeb said. In the bouse twenty miles north along the lake shore. Agnes Glenelth had been Informed that Mr. Braddon wished to apeak to her. “You tell her. Rod; or shall 1?" Jeb extended the Instrument “Tell her wbatr “That you’re coming out to her on the first train. Quick! 1 can bear her near the phone. You're going to tell her—or I will!" Rod, with a sudden violence that

Beginning an unusual story by Edwin Balmer DRAGONS DRIVE YOU “TA ere is just so much in the cup.” fie toW Imt. “You can sip it all your life, afraid really to taste it —or you can dare to drink the whole thing down while you are living!” Such was the challenge of in which cravings for Jeb Braddon, young, am- money and powerwere like bitious, fantastically sue- dragons, driving men to cessful broker, wooing incalculable ambitions and Agnes Gleneith from his ‘bis ««- rivals by the impetuous background is unforce of his love. Su7h. too. was the spirit of the mad. for happmess, losing it in seething city of Chicago, the confusing world about just before the Crash—a her, and at last finding it very maelstrom of madness again. Start Reading This Timely Novel Today Now lias Edwin Balmar written a mor* pawor* fW and moving ttory . • . Dont miss a chapter. Follow It Serially in These Columns

amazed Jud. snatched the telephone and in a moment be was speaking t< Agnes. . . . Agnes was nearly twenty-three, and she would have said upon thrff winter afternoon, when snowflakes were beginning to blow from the north even before the clouds floated under th* sun, that nothing In the least extraordinary had ever happened to her She had been born In an attractive pleasant house only half a mile away from this huge handsome country mansion, on the lake shore, which for the last eleven years—almost ball of Agnes* life—had been home Beatrice, her sister who was two years older, also bad been born in that same smaller bouse; for there her father had brought her mother as a bride Such was the phrase by which her mother always described that house: “When I was a bride. Bob brought me here to that little house on Easter Lane—" It was little only In comparison; It had a great garden, gay In summer with phlox, sweet William, larkspur and Canterbury belle It had Intimate. cheery fireplaces, and next the sunny rooms which had been Agnes' and Bee's, had been Papa's and Mamma's room wherein had been their big bed. Agnes thought of that house as having been always happy; and she could remember when she was a child, and would run Into Papa's and Mamma’s room in the morning tn her white flannel “teddy" with “feet," and Papa would pick her up and kiss her and then bounce her down between Mamma and him in the big bed. , Father must have been making plenty of money then. Os course he had much more now. very much more. Millions, Agnes realized; yet the money had not greatly altered the patterns of her dreams, which had been shaped to satisfaction tn the little house; nor had It greatly changed the actual course she pursued. She bad left Country Day school for a very expensive girls’ school tn Connecticut when she was fifteen; and that might not have happened from the little house; but soon she went on to Smith college, as always she had planned, and had been graduated last June. The summer abroad; and now she was at home, which meant, when she was in the house, that she was with her mother, mostly; and when she was out. she was with Bee, who had married four years ago and had two babies; or she was hurrying about, being busy with Junior league errands;.and she was waiting for the man she was to marry. Agnes did not pretend anything else with herself. To be happy, a girl most bind herself In utter Intimacy with a man; she must be a wife: Agnes wanted to be a wife and have babies. like Bee’s dear adorable little boys. But she did not want a husband like Bee’s, though Bee argued she was happy. Agnes knew that when yon were, you showed it—you didn't debate It. (TO BE CONTINUED) Why Gold la Standard Gold Is the logical standard of value measurement, because It has no commercial use other than for a few minor trinkets and It therefore Is not a commodity In the general meaning of the term. The value of gold Is established by the amount of labor or service that Is required to produce it and only the coat of production can ever permanently change Its worth. If gold were plentiful and cheap to produce, its value would be lowered and its use as a monetary gauge would be destroyed. The quantity of gold produced and the cost of its production has always kept pace with the growth and Increase in the wealth of the world, which fact still more firmly establishes it as the logical standard of value measurement.

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Lesson for August 23 THE GOSPEL FOR ALL MEN LESSON TEXT—Acts 11:5-1?; Romans 1:15-17- . GOLDEN TEXT—For God so loved we world, that he gave his only begotten Son. that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:1«. v__ PRIMARY TOPlC—Peter Learns a Leaton. __ * JUNIOR TOPlC—Peter Makes a Great DiSCO .armINTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC -First Step. In World Brotherhood. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC —Universal Brotherhood in Christ. Christianity early found its. progress impeded by a difference of opinion. Such a difference when met in a Christian spirit will not ba a stone of offense, but when properly and tactfully settled may be a stepping stone to progress. Jewish Christians at Jerusalem were disturbed by the report that Peter had received the gentile Cornelius as a Christian brother without requiring him to fulfill the Jewish law of circumcision. Peter defended his action not by asserting his position or appealing to his apostolic authority, but by relating what God had done. Henry Drummond once said, "The best argument for Christianity is a Christian.” The best proof that God has actually been at work is to present the unanswerable evidence of a redeemed soul. In thus making his plea Peter reveals that I. He Had a Vision of God’s Purpose (w. 5-10). God had spoken to him. When we meet a man who is in touch with God, we should at once give heed. He may be, and perhaps should be, the minister or a Christian leader, but he may be and frequently is some humble, unknown servant of God. But if God has spoken to him we will do well to listen. Peter had learned the great lesson that what God had cleansed man should receive as clean. H. He Had Seen God Work (w. 11-15). The Holy Spirit had fallen on the gentiles and they actually had been saved. Is it not singular that in the early church they could hardly believe that a gentile could be saved? Now we are astonished if a Jew is saved! Why will we in our unbelief limit the Holy One of Israel? The all-powerful gospel of the grace of God is still saving men and women, Jews and gentiles, from their sins. Have you seen it happen? It is a great inspiration to faith and service. God is ready so to encourage us—he is the same today as he was when he sent Peter to Cornelius. Are we willing to run his errands, proclaim his message? 111. He Had Received a Fresh Insight Into God’s Word (v. 16). The best way to learn the meaning of God’s Word is to use it, live it, obey it. "If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God" (John 7:17). had learned anew toet God’s Word meant just what it said. We who are his servants should believe his Word and act on it in faith. IV. He Knew Better Than to Withstand God (v. 17). When God has not raised any barriers of race, creed, color, class, or social position, it is not for his followers, and assuredly not for his servants, to build "fences" which he would not authorize or countenance. If God intended to save gentiles, Peter wanted to be an instrument in his hand, not a hindrance in his way. One of the needs of our day is that those doing God’s work should not withstand him and his will. He who is the same yesterday, today, and forever is ready to work as powerfully today as he did in the days of Finney and Moody, and in the days of Abraham, Moses, Daniel, and of Peter. Let us give him liberty to work in and through us, not as we may wish, but as he desires. Who are we that we should withstand God? V. In Conclusion (Romans 1:1517). This portion presents a magnificent declaration from Peter’s coworker, Paul, the apostle to the gentiles, that the gospel is the power of God unto salvation for everyone that believes, Jew or Greek. Regardless of race or condition, we are all unrighteous, and there is but one way of salvation—through faith in Jesus Christ It is our responsibility and privilege to make this message known to all men everywhere. Your neighbor and mine, whether in the next house or on the other side of the world, is our opportunity. Not one is unclean or untouchable, although he may be stained with the dark pollution of sin. God is ready and willing to save. Let us tell men the good news! Futility of Chance Chance never writ a legible book; never built a fair house; never drew a neat picture; never did any of those things, nor ever will; or can it, without absuridity, be supposed to do them, which are yet works very gross and rude, and very easy and feasible, as it were, in comparison to the production of a flower or a tree.—Barow. I shall pass through this world but once; any good thing, therefore, that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human creature, let me do it now; let me not defer it, or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.—S. Grellet Pack Up Tour Troubles I make the most of my enjoyments. As for my troubles, I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annnv Robert Southey.

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1936.

He Won't Stay Out If a man is a hustler he gets busy and secures a key to the door of success. • It may be pleasanter to give than to receive, but it isn’t always easier. In the United States “fame” is often little but the knowing of your name by millions. Eccentric Behavior Eccentricity of opinion can be forgiven but not so easily eccentricity of behavior. Charity begins at home, but as a general thing it is a mighty poor traveler. Sneering has its penalty. It makes one’s face ugly. The trouble with some average men is that they seldom increase their average. Reward of Fault-Finding After one has the reputation of finding fault, it takes years to • overcome it, even though one carefully finds no fault for months. Did you ever stop to think what is the essential quality of the • great? Courage: from NapoleonV to Lindbergh. Prepare for an emergency and nine times out of ten you won’t have to meet it. What Is Missing All that stands between most men and the top of the ladder is the ladder. Why does a man think a baby has to be “jounced," when it is something wrong inside of it that makes it cry? There is nothing more uncertain than a sure thing. A w’ise young man looks in the mirror and decides not to try to be a sheik. No one who is really sad and lonesome makes a pose of it. He tries to conceal it. A man throws himself at a woman’s feet and a woman throws herself at a man’s head. Our Country We cannot honor our country with too deep a reverence; we cannot love her with an affection too pure and fervent; we cannot serve her with an energy of purpose or a faithfulness of zeal too steadfast and ardent.

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