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The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-31
Moons Live & Dressed Poultry
Eggs, Butter and Fish,
Fresh from the Country. Wholesale
and Retail.
THE DRAMA

Of all history, crimsoning Europe with
the blood of ten nations, yields to
the United States the commercial and
industrial supremacy of the world.
Just remember, you are living in the
best and soundest country in the
world, and keep on hustling. If the
wal fever gets you and you feel like
shooting-shoot your orders in to
MOONS-where the Best of Every
thing" quality. A place where time
may be well spent in just being
shown" There is an almost Com
polling Consideration" when you see
the cost is no more. For quick service
call Bell 1746W.
Moons market, with its BEST Of
EVERYTHING" quality, going con-
stantly forward, is on the march to
win. Business expansion and devel-
opment will take care Of your every
need here-the cost is no more.
Moon Bros. Commission 90.
isa5 EAer 18th STREET.
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STOOD FOR ANCIENT SPELLING
Dean Swift About the First to Thun-
der Against Reforms" in
English Language.

In the eighteenth century we find
Jonathan Swift, whose mastery of
prose is one of our delights, writing as
the very first article which appeared
over his acknowledged name "A Pre-
posal for Correcting, Improving and
Ascertaining the English Tongue" He
lamented that the English tongue was
becoming debased. but he attributed
the cause, in part, to the liberties
which Dryden and the other poets of
the Restoration had taken in shorten
ing their syllables by emitting those
very e's which our spelling reformers
would eliminate.
These gentlemen" wrote Swift, al
though they could not be insensible
how much our language was already
oVerstocked with monosyllables, yet
10 save time and pains, introduced
that barbarous custom of abbreyiating
words to fit them to the measure Of
their verses SO that most of the books
wa see nowadays are full of those
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TWO BEARS FIGHT TO DEATH
Huge Grizzly and Black Member OF
Bruin Family Battle to Finish
in Denver Park.

Denver.-A huge male grizzly" and
a black bear cub fought a finish fight
at City Park zoo. The black bear,
one of den of five, is dead. Curios1
ity and the stimulus of a crisp spring
morning are responsible.
The bear went in quest of adven-
ture. He shifted the air, shook him.
self and placed a paw upon the first
crosspiece of the iron grating which
separated his pen from the one adj
joining, in which the grizzly, the largI
est in the zoo, was confined.
The visiting Bruin looked inQuisi-
lively toward the top and then COM
menced to mount, stopping at every
round to regard inquiringly the four
black bears which he had left below.
From the other side of the grating
the grizzly regarded the approach with
disapproval.
The bear reached the top and
paused to take account of his exploit
with conscious satisfaction. Then he
lost his balance and a moment later
fell to the cement floor of the griz,
zly's preserve.
When the keepers arrived later the
black bear was dead.
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FINDS KIN, AFTER 20 YEARS
Having Been Separated for
Score Of Years.

Towanda, Pa.-"George, / will stand
by you through thick and thin and
when your prison days are ended come
home to me and will welcome you
with all my heart"
Thus spoke Eugene Bowers, thirty
two years old, as he tearfully babe his
brother George good-by at the Towan-
do Jail. Eugene had found and claimed
his brother George after a separation
of 20 years. George faces at least fiji.
teen years in the Eastern penitentiary
for assault and robbery.
Through newspaper clippings, Eu-
gene established the identity Of the
prisoner as his brother.
When Eugene and George met they
embraced and sobbed like children.
Then Eugene unfolded a story which
brought tears to the eyes of those who
heard it. His mother, he said, eloped
in 1893, taking George, then child of
three years, with her. Since that time
they have been lost to the deserted
husband and all blood relatives.
George grew to manhood, fell into
evil ways and his downfall ended in
the assault which will send him to
prison for many years. The father,
two brothers and sister who were
forsaken by the wife and mother, live
in Corning, N. Y. They supposed the
woman and child she had taken with
her were dead.
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I'm sure hope it will" She rescued
the fallen piece of bark and an
nounced: "The collection this after
noon has amounted to hundred dol
lars and seven cents. And now, chill
dren, we will skip the catechism and
l will tell you a story"
Her auditors hunched themselves
nearer, a double row of attentive white
and black faces, as Hickey with pre-
liminary bass cough, began in drawl-
ing tone whose mimicry called forth
giggles of esctasy.
There were once two little sisters.
! who went to Sundayschool and loved
their teacher ve-e-ery much. They
were always good and attentive-not
like that little niger over there! The
one with his thumb in his mouth! One
was little Mary and the other was
| little Susy. They had mighty rich
uncle who lived in Richmond, and
once he came to see them and gave
them each dollar. And they were
ve-e-ery glad. 1t wasn't mean old
paper dollar, all dirt and creases; nor
battered Whitley silver dollar; but
it was bright round gold dollar, right
out of the mint. Little Mary and little
Susy could hardly sleep that night for
thinking of what they could buy with
those gold dollars.
early next morning they went
downtown, hand in hand, to the store,
and little Susy bought bag of goober-
peas, and sticks and sticks of striped
candy, and timber jack, and gold
ring, and wax. doll with silk dress
on that could open and shut it's eyes"
HUH" said sthe captious Cozy.
"You can't buy a wax doll for dollar
My littlest, littlest one cost three, and
she didn't have stitch to her back!"
"Shut up!" said Hickey briefly
DOLLS were cheaper then" She looked
at the row of little negroes, google
| eyed at the vision of such largess
What do you think little Mary did
with her gold dollar? She loved dolls
and candy, too, but she had heard
about the poo-oo-r heather. There was
tear in her eye, but she took the dol
lar home, and next day when she went
to Sunday-school, she dropped it in
the missionary-box.
Little children, what do you reckon
became of that dollar? 1t bought
big satchelful of tracts for a mission
ary He had been a poor man with
six children and wife with bone
felon on her right hand-not a child
old enough to wash dishes and all of
them young enough to fall in the fire
so he had to go and be missionary.
He was going to Alabam-to canni-
bal island, and he took the tracts and
sailed away in a ship that landed him
on the shore. And when the heather
cannibals saw him they were ve-e-ery
glad, for there hadn't been any ship
wrecked sailors for long time, and
they were ve-e-ery hungry. So they
tied up the missionary and gathered
lot of wood to make fire and cook
| him.
But is had rained and rained and
rained for so long that the wood was
all wet, and it wouldn't burn, and they
all cried because they were so hungry.
And then they happened to find the
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SYNOPSIS.

John Valiant, rich society favorlte,
suddenly discovers that the Valiant cor.
poration, which his father founded ana
which was the principal source OF MS
wealth. had failed He voluntarily turns
over his private fortune to the receiver
for the corporation. His entire renlal am.
possessions consist of an old motor Cal. q
white bull dog and Damory court a neg
lected estate in Virginia. On the Way "
Damory court he meets Shlrley Bal ~
ridge. authenticated beauty. anu ue
.cides that he is going to- like Virginia I'M
mensely. Shirley's mother, MRS. Danu-
ridge, and Major Bristow exchange rem rem,
iniscences during which It Is reveaieu
that the major, Valiants rather. anu
man named Sassoon were rivals for the
hand of Mrs cambridge in her youtn.
Sassoon and Valiant fought duel Oh OILY nSI
account in which the former was r.rn,,,,,
Valiant finds Damory court, overgrow.n W
with weeds and creepers and declues W
rehabilitate the place. Valiant saves
Shirley from the bite OF a Snake. 49, ~
bites him knowing the deadllness OF me
bite. Shirley sucks the poison from llle
wound and saves his life Valiant learns 3Iil
for the first time that his father lett II
ginia on account of n duel III Whlcn i,oc-
tor Southall and Major BristoW acted as
his fathers seconds Valiant ana ohl i5y
become good friends. Mrs. Da al w.
faints when she meets Vanaht IL b b
first time Valiant discovers that ne mas
a fortune in old walnut trees. me yearly
tournament, a survival OF the Jouslns a.
feudal times, is held at Damory court. AZ
the last moment Valiant takes the pIace
of one of the knights, who is sick, and
enters the lists He wins and chooses
Shirley cambridge as queen of beauty n., to
the dismay of Katherine Fargo a I oLili.er
sweefhearf. who is visiting in Virginia.
The tournament hall at Damory court
draws the elite of the countryside. Shire
ley s crowned by Valiant as queen OF
and they become engaged. Katherine
Fargo. determining not to give up vail
ant without a struggle, points cut TO Shlf-
~ Ion NJ
an who caused the duel to meet Valiant,
who looks so much like his father.
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QUAINT OLD RELICS
Ancient WindmilIs Make Cape
Cod Resemble Holland.
Odd Structures Nearly All Gone But
Those That Remain Are Greatly
Priced as Curiosities and Adorn
the Estates of Many.

Bostou.-A half century ago the
windmills of Cape Cod were as nu-
merous as those in Holland. They
were used extensively in the salt
manufacturing plants, an industry
which was the right arm of Massa-
chusetts" until new process or
manufacture was discovered and the
salt was imported at such low cost
that the Cape manufacturers were
forced out of business. The windmills
were also used in the grinding of the
grain, and in not a few cases the
powerful mill wheels were harnessed
to crude pumps to flood cranberry
boys.
In due course of time, however,
practically all of these odd mills were
torn down, moved away as relics or
left to decay on their foundations.
Those that remain today are greatly
priced as curiosities, and they adorn
the handsome estates owned by sum-
mer visitors from all parts OF the
country. The towns which still have
old windmills left enter into negot1a-
lions with rich landowners, and offer
their relic for sale. These mills, by
the way, are constantly changing
hands, and it is said that each time
they are sold they bring higher sum.
These towns each have one Of the old
time relics within their borders:
Harwichport, Chatham, Yarmouthport,
Dennis, Brewster and Nantucket
island. The Nantucket structure,
built in the year 1746, and which Is
as quaint and interesting as the island
itself, still turns to the amusement OF
permanent residents and hundreds OF
summer vacationists alike. In nearly
every case the mill stands out promi-
nently from the high hill on which 1t
is located, a thing of beauty which
may be seen from nearly any section
of the village.
The Cape Cod windmills, like those
Of Holland, are awkward, box-like
structures, set On posts. They are
about 25 feet in height; some are
hexagonal, while few were built
exactly round. So far as is known,
none were made square, as there
would have been too great surface
exposed to the winds.
The oldest mill of all is located at
Yarmouthport, small hamlet on the
south side of Cape Cod, midway be-
tween the "tip end of the Cape" and
Buzzard's bay. This is covered with
thick growth of ivy and is mass OF
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Historic London BUILDING.

The Inns Of Court hotel, London,
which is to become the telephone ex-
change for Holborn, began life as the
Blue Boar tavern in Plantagenet times,
taking it's name from the crest of the
De Veres, who owned the land there
abouts. When its neighbor and rival,
the George inn, was demolished under
Queen Anne, the Blue Boar annexed
the name George as its subtitle. It
was at the Blue Board that Cromwell,
disguished as trooper. stopped a
man about to set out for Dover. In
his saddle he found a letter from
Charles l. which determined him on
the kings execution
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green foliage. 1t is not known exactly
when this mill was built; 1t is sup
posed, however, that it was during the
latter part of the Seventeenth century,
and some are of the opinion that one
of the Cape's fishermen made 1t as
early as 1850 to pump water into his
salt watts. 1t is known for a certainty
that there were a great many salt
works in the town of Yarmouthport
and the neighboring villages of North
and East Dennis.
The salt works which were doing
business on the Cape 40 or so years
ago, each covered many acres of
ground. The mills we're erected near
the ocean, where sea water was OBJ
tainable. The mills pumped the water
up into troughs, whence it ran into
watts" or wooden pans about IL feet
square. Not more than four or five
inches of water was allowed in vat.
The sun evaporated the water, leaving
the salt on the boards which were
afterward carefully scraped off and
the salt canned. This was a very
slow and expensive process. About
this time a new process was found
by which the salt was made much
more rapidly and at small cost, and it
was shipped into this country from
foreign points and could be sold at
half the price of the native product.
So the old salt works and mills
were torn down and sold.
A few of the mills from the salt
making plants were transferred to
cranberry boys, where the cranberry
cultivators used them to run their
pumps for flooding their boys to de-
strpy insects, moisten the earth in dry
weather and ward off frosts. The
pumps" of those years were very
crude affairs. They worked on the
principle of a grain elevator, that is,
continuous chain running over
wheel overhead. At intervals Of sew
eral inches on the chains were fas-
tened cups formed from narrow
strips of board. The. pumps drew very
little more water than could be bailed
up with buckets. The mill was con-
nected with the pump by means of
numerous cog wheels OF various sizes.
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the color of your lips!) No, it was not
hour when you fought with me to save
my life-nor the morning you sat your
horse in the box-rows in that yew-
green habit that made your hair look
like molten copper No. it began the
first afternoon, when | sat in my mo-
tor with your rose in my hand! 1t
has never left me since, by day or by
night And yet there are people in
this age of airships and honking high
ways and typewriters who think love-
at-frst-sight is as out-of-date as our
little grandmothers' hoops rusting in
the garnet. All, sweetheart, l, for one,
know better!
Suppose l had not come to Vir-
ginia-and known you! My heart
jumps when / think of 1t. 1t makes
one believe in fate. Here at the Court
found an old leaf-calendar-it sits
at my elbow now, just as l came on it.
The date it shows is May 14th and
its motto is: Every man carries his
fate upon riband about his neck.
[ like that.
THAT first Sunday at st. Andrews,
l thought Of day-may it be soon!-
when you and l might stand before
that altar, with your people (my
people, too, now around us, and /
shall hear you say: 4, Shirley, take
thee, john And to think it is really
to come true! Do you remember the
text the minister preached from? 1t was
But all men perceive that they have
riches, and that their faces shine as
the faces Of angels l think l shall
go about henceforth with my face
shining, so that ali men will see that
have riches-your love for me, dear.
Il am so happy can hardly see the
words--or perhaps it is that the sun
has set. l am sending this over by
Uncle Jefferson. Send me back just
word by him, sweetheart, to say
may come to you tonight. And add
the three short words l am so thirsty
to hear over and Overcome verb be-
tween two pronouns-so that l can
kiss them all at once!"
I10 IdiSSu uLS D6du, d IlLLI6 uuSllGu
and with eyes brilliant, lighted a
candle, sealed the letter with the ring
he wore and dispatched it.
Thereafter he sat looking into the
growing dusk, watching the pale
lamps of the consultations deepen to
green gilt against the lapis-laZuii of
the sky, and listening to the insect
noises dulling into the woven chorus
of evening. Uncle Jefferson was long
in returning, and he grew impatient
finally and began to prowl through e
dusty corridors like a leopard, then
to the front porch and finally to the
driveway, listening at every turn for
the familiar slouching step.
When at length the old negro ap-
peared, Valiant took the note he
brought, his heart beating rapidly,
and carried it hastily in to the candle
light. He did not open it at once, but
sat for full minute pressing it be-
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CHAPTER xxvlIl.-continued.

Young mars feel way up in de
clouds dis day." he said to Aunt
Daphne. "He wake up ez glad ez
eff he done 'fessed 'Iigion las night
Well, all de folkses cert'n'y 'joyed
deyselves. or Mistah Fargo done eat
bout forty uh dem jumbles. All heah
him talkin' ter Mars John. 'Reck'n yo'
mus hab er crackahjack cook down
heah,' he say. Hyuh, hyuh!"
"G'way wild yo' blackyardin'!-"
shifted Aunt Daphne, delighted. Don
need ter come eroun' honey-caffuddlin'
met"
Oats whut he say" insisted Uncle
Jefferson; he did TO- er fac'!"
She drew her hands from the suds
and looked at him anxiously. "Jeff'son,
yo' reck'n Mars John gwineter fotch
dat Yankee CONAN heah ter Danny
Co'ot, ter be ouah mistis?"
"Humph!" scoffed her spouse. dat
highfalutin' gal whut done swaller de
ramrod? No suh-ree-bob-tail! De
oldah yo gifts, de mo- foolishah yo'
citations is! DON yo' tex no mo-
trouble on yo' back den yo' kin keek
off'n yo' heels! She ain gwineter run
dis place, er oil Devil-John tuhn ovah
In he gravel"
Sunset found Valiant sitting in the
mushroom before the old square pi-
ano. In the shadowy chamber the
keys of mother-of-pearl cleaned with
dull colors under his fingers He
struck at first only broken chords, that
became finally the haunting barcarole
of Tales of Hoffman," 1t was the
air that had drifted across the garden
when he had stood with Shirley by
the sun-dial, in the moment of their
first kiss. Over and over he played
1t, improvising dreamy variations, till
the tender melody seemed the dear
ghost of that embrace. At length he
went into the library and in the Grim
soning light sat down at the desk,
and began to write:
Dear Bluebird of Mine:
II can't wait any longer to talk to
you. Less than day has passed
since we were together, but it might
h6FS USSA OO11Og ii OAS uSdSuICu l1Il6
by heart-beats. What have you been
doing and thinking, / wonder? / have
spent those cons in the garden, just
wandering about, dreaming over those
wonderful, wonderful moments by the
sun-dial. All, dear little wild heart
born Of the flowers, with the soul of
a bird (yet you are woman, tool that
old disk is marking happy hours now
for me!
How have I deserved this thing
that has come to me?-sad bungler
that have been! Sometimes it seems
too glad and sweet and l am suddenly
desperately afraid shall wake to find
myself facing another dull morning
in that old, useless. empty life of mine
I am very humble. dear, before your
love.
Shall l tell you when it began with
me? Not last night-nor the day we
planted the ramblers. (Do you know,
when your little muddy boot went
trampling down the earth about their
roots, wanted to stoop down and
kiss it? So dear everything about
you wash Not that evening at Rose
wood, with the arbor fragrance about
us. q think / shall always picture you
with roses all about you. Red roses
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tween his palms as though to extract
from the delicate paper the beloved
thrill of her touch His hand shook
slightly as he drew the folded leaves
from the envelope. How would it be-
gin? my Knight of the Crimson
Rose?" or Dear Gardener" (She had
called him Gardener the day they had
set out the roses) or perhaps even
Sweetheart" 1t would not be long,
only mere Yes or "Come to me-"
perhaps; yet even the shortest missive
had its beginning and its ending.
He opened and read.
For an instant he stared unbeliev-
ingly. Then the paper cracked to a
ball in his clutched hand, and he made
a hoarse sound which was half cry,
then sat perfectly still, his whole face
shuddering. What he crushed in his
hand was no note of tender love-
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'~ashinqton,s Return. Home.

On December 4, 1888, Washington
babe farewell to his officers in New
York and rowed across the Hudson to
New Jersey, thence proceeding to
Philadelphia. There he handed to the
proper officers a statement of the
money he had spent out of his own
pocket after he took command of the
army more than eight years before in
Cambridge. The amount was $64,315.
For his services during that time he
refused any pay. When ne reached
Annapolis, where congress was sit
ting, he resigned as commander in
chief of the army, and proceeded to
Mt. Vernon, where he had been but
once during the eight years and half.
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aatchelful of tracts, and the tracts
were ve-e-ery dry. They took them
and stuck them under the wet wood,
and the tracts burned and the wood
caught fire and they cooked the mis-
sionary and ate him.
Now, little children, which do you
think did the most good with her dol
lar-little Susy or little Mary?"
The front row staggered, and a sigh
came from the colored ranks. Dem
ar can'bals," gasped dusky infant
breathlessly. "-dey done eat up all
dat candy and dem goober-peas, toos
(TO BE CONTINUED)
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cent and behavior, read your heart
and earnestness, your thought and
will, which he cannot buy at any price
in any village or city, and which he
may well travel fifty miles and dine
sparely and sleep hard in order to
behold. Certainly, let the board be
spread and let the bed be dressed for
the traveller; but let not the emphasis
of hospitality lie in these things.
Honor to the house where they are
simple to the verge of hardship, so
that there the intellect is awake and
reads the laws of the universe
Emerson.
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manglings and authorizations. Dis
turbd," "rebuk'd." are among the
words he finds especially unpleasant.
Swift was further annoyed at fool
ish opinion, advanced of late years,
that we ought to spell exactly as we
speak; which, besides the obvious in
convenience of utterly destroying our
etymology, would be a thing we
should never see an end Of" Also he
noted with impotence in 1872: 1T is
sometimes a difficult matter to read
modern books and pamphlets; where
the words are so curtailed and varied
from their original spelling, that who
ever has been used to plain English
will hardly know them by sight" How
many of our new" controversies were
waged centuries ago!
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The streets of our big cities, but there
are plenty of them in the country, and
the farmer thinks just as much of
good horse now as he did in the old
days. So, too, have observed that
our men of wealth, who for a time
took to the motor car, are coming
back to the fast trotter and roadster.
There is nothing like real life when it
comes to sport, and an automobile 10
an inanimate thing" - Washington
Post.
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When the Shoe Punched

She was British militant suffragist
who, after an eight months absence,
turned up in a state of indignation
against the British postoffice. The
postmaster general, she complained,
had been abstracting suffragettes' cor.
respondence from the postl Some
of them hadn't received their notices
duly. "Abominable!" The complain.
ant had just done time" in prison for
setting fire to letter boxes and de-
stroying other peoples correspon-
dencai-Chicag0 News.