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brown eyes-admirfng eyes. obedtent
and faithful, like a dogs. And. while
these thoughts foated within him. he
would sit by the half hour. gazing at
the Bottle gentle and warming affec-
ton emanatinE toward 1t from him.
Twenty-one slow days must pass be-
fore the rapturous advent; twelve had
gone when Sam reported that symp-
toms OF the great chanee We're appear
ing IN MS SNAKE Mhlch ne hho taken
70 MS own home. tIhey mad discarded
me Term mar on tne s ., uas,g -,
siI, salu sam. nc - vi .eu a. d - =
louiiu M the oos.ie iiuii, .s Wy nc
rasin ses.eioas 49, "a 40 80 $3.50 In
nrr,mth,rs. 81 7;++Io h,hh,es IN hin, IN
at ~ a,d ,,.t - his haads eoin. 70 he :,
Tha bair -, panrod.s hottIa had M
h . -: l si. o. e. - ~ ~
sa,,1,+ ~ ,a,,., LII, o ~ g., and heo
gan to wbist1e ''''
"yes sir" Saw want IN with nor
hans too much ,,nction chat snake of
mine looks 70 me like It was poin' to
make misbty fne shaker.
.sWeIl T dom know" penrod said
s,,rhtinn az al, 49,. 49, ~ ,,,iat
err.
Nor did the fact that his treasure ex-
bihited NO toLans ~ the tranaition dis
rouse his cbamnionape No slightest
doubt ever shadowed his ardent con-
f1dence. never for ono instant, Tad
no1es beco,na froas n.+arn;11ars ,oals
tbemSeIves into rocoops. and cocoons
are really b,ttaraies. ba had owned
aa.a>a - -, " ~
o.ooi.s 'ii.'. siio~so nv etahse ~
buttsrnies. o, .ae very ~, aIur ~ t the
hott1a iooL ID go, ~ .,,ora - ,,ora
l,l,a a, ,tt-,ot;,,a ,o,'Hn .naIa 49, ~
the time penrod discoyerad that the
tbirtysaoo,d ~ ~, r-o,,,a roaIIu ~
tha f1rst NJ Au,,,st - aaemed 70 him
that il aJmos, vas a snake already
The final week Of tho three w.s one
of interna1 eycitement beipbteninp al
most unbearablv as the climay an
proac hed Then the Nrst If August
dawned fair and cool. no sweater NTH
day could hay4 been selected In all the
year. Penrod woke with the ioyous
feeling that riches had come to him in
his sleep. ' '''' ~ ''''''
= AS his ewes opened and foil unon the
bottle, bathed in morning sunshine on
the chair by his bed, he started with
joy The hair had altered its position
in the water during the night; the mir
acle had begun to work, and sixteen
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sighted up to $500 yards, but 1t is also
said that such an extreme range is out
side of all probability for the usual
purposes of war.
The chief criticism against the Amer
lean Springfield is that in aiming at q
mans head or body 200 or 300 ya1
away. using the battle sight" which Is
a crotch on the bar of the sighting-leaf
when 1t is laid fiat on the gun. the bull
let will go above him. 1t is necessary to
aim at the ground in front of the man.
or at his feet. The instinct of n man Is
to aim at the body of an enemy An
expert tells the story of the battle
sight" in this way:
1.-The battle sight is set for CAT yards
instead of for point-b1ank range. The
consequence is, owing to trajectory, to
hit the mark less than SAT yards dis
tant aim must be taken below the
mark. For instance. to hit any object
at 800 yards the aim must be about two
feet below such object. If a mans
head is aimed at, and the aim be per-
feet. at 200 or 900 yards the bullet will
miss him and whistle harmlessly two
stop to think in the excitement of bat
tie that the front sight must be held
two feet below the enemy fired at to
make a hit? 1t should be remembered
that in moments of great excitement
ninety-nine riflemen out OF a hundred
shoot high and to the right. The
Springfield battle sight multiplies tho
common fault. It would be far better
to have the battle sight fixed to shoot
low than high. as at present.
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Williams. radiant with excitement
Como on over to our stable. shout
ed Sam. Come on! Come on and look
at him.
Penrod did not stop for his hat: a
Jealous fear. suddenly reused. added
speed to his feet And when they
reached Sans stable he was profound
ly relieved to find Sans snake" no
more advanced toward the great trans
formation than his own. He expressed
the opinion. indeed. that his was much
further along.
why, how could 1t be-" demanded
Sam reSentfully. I've been sittin' here
lookin' at mine ever since breakfast
and never took my eyes OFF him. Well.
sir. / saw him breathe-he did 1t lots
of times. You can't tell it just lookin'
at him this way. You got to keep lookin'
1T him and lookin' at him; you bet l
saw him do it. all right, And once he
almost wiEgled.''
Almost wiggIed, Mine did wiggle.'
Penrod said-and thereafter believed
Well. sod mine" said Sam.
Well. who said he didn't? l don't say
he didn't. did IT,
Well. who said you did say"
Come on" Interrupted Penrod. Let's
go back and look at mine"
NO. sir. I want to watch my own
snake change don't /? You better stay
here and wait till he's all good and
changed. then we'll go and see If
NO sir" shouted Penrod over his
shoulder. as he started home on the
trot I'm goin' back to watch a good
snake"
He passed through the kitchen OF his
own home at the same gait. disregard
Ing a request by Katie, the housemaid,
for a. hearing.
Mister Penrod." she began. I'D like
to know what fer you want"
Cat fur" facetiously shouted Pen
M he h2f or ira
Cat fur, to make kitten britches with"
Next moment fearful howl issued
from Margaret's room. Mrs. Schofleld
hurrying thither from her own apart
sageway
"Penrod. what's the matter?"
where's my snake?"
where's WHAT"
MY snake" he beloved II want
my snake! Where's my sna "a -ake?"
"Penrod. are you crazy?" she cried
what on earth are you-"
MY snake! 1 left it on Margarets
bureau and it's gone! Who took it?
Who's been in there? Who's got my
snake
Mrs. Scofield began to be alarmed In
earnest. her sons manner and look
We're frantic. and his words, to her. in
comprehensive.
"Penrod." she said. nervous1y, you
must take some castor oil. There wasn't
any snake in Margaret's room. / heard
her come upstairs for something a min
ute ago and go in there. If there'd
been snake there she'd have screamed
but she went downstairs again
and
SO did Perrod go downstairs again
He plunged, three steps at time. and
exploded himself into the parlor, where
Margaret sat Cooking family emhar-
rassed) with Mr.. Ethelbert Magsworth
Bits (who has come to take her to
drive and was frowning) and Mr.. Rob
ert Williams twho had come to take
her for walk and was scowling) and
the gold fish twho were swimming).
wv here's my snake!"
Margaret jumped. Good gracious
What in the world"
Il want my sna-a-ake. I left 1t in a
bottle on your"
oh" Margaret laughed, relieved
There was bottle on my dressing
table. and I noticed your name pasted
on it: but I don't think there was any
thing inside it except water"
Penrod jumped up and down. What
did you do with it?" he reared
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A Prussian Attitude.

~OI. GUSTAV PABST said at a brew
" ers' banquet in Milwaukee,:
when the Germans invade Belgium
they declare they have a perfect right
to do 1T. because necessity knows no
law. When they murder babies with
their submarines they say 1t is the al
lies fault. because the allies ought to
stop fighting them and give in. When
they lombard cathedral
But why go on? The Germans, no
matter what they do. are always in the
right, and the summarized and zeppe-
lined and gassed allies are always and
invariably to blame. Pah!
1.-The Germans remind me of a lady
who attempted to open an account at a
department store. The store asked her
for a reference, and she named Coots'
Bank.
"Coots Bank, on being appealed to.
replied that as credit proposition the
lady was an uncertain and even danger
Gus risk. and accordingly the depart
ment store wrote to her:
Madam. we regret to say your ref
erence is unsatisfactory
ITO this the lady wrote back:
"'You certainly surprise me. I al
ways considered Coots' Bank a most re-
spectacle and solid institution"
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EARLY FOOD SPECTATORS

and selling it again in the same mar
ket. or within four miles of the place.
blackstone added: For this also en-
hances the price OF the provisions. IS
every successive seller must have a
successive profit"
The Romans were troubled with food
SPECTATORS and they had laws to pun
ish all offenses and malpractfces to
raise the price of provisions by filming
the offender
In one of the famous English cases
referred to in Chitty's Criminal Law"
1t was decided that spreading rumors
with intent to raise the price of par
ticular species of aliment, endeaVorinS
TO enhance its price by persuadfnG 9TH
ers from abstaining from bringing IL
to market. and engrossing large guam
titles in order to resell them at the eN-
orbitant prices occasioned by their own
articles are offenses indictable at com.
mon law. and subject the party SO act
ing to fine and Imprisonment at the
discretion of the court in which he is
convicted.
AS trade in England grew more vital
to the needs of the people and more re-
spectacle and prosperous. there was a
notable letting down of the bars, and
those practices which had been taboo
by the older law were carried on with
impunity by traders. Thomas Chitty,
celebrated as special pleader and au-
thor of legal text books, in whose pupil
room many distinguished lawyers be-
gan their legal education, and whose
activities covered part of the last and
the first half Of the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries, wrote: For the
mere transfer of purchase in the
market where It is made, the buying
articles before they arrive at public
market. or the purchasing of q large
quantity of particular article. can
scarcely be regarded as in themselves
necessarily injurious to the community.
and as such, indictable offenses. A
party buying and selling again does
not necessarily increase the price OF
the commodity to the consumer. for the
division of labor or occupations will in
general occasion the commodity to be
sold cheaper to the consumer"
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Robert Williams. Sans brother. a
senior on vacation. A glance over the
railing revealed this collegian, beauti-
fully attired, confronting Margaret.
who leaned against the newell post in a
way very irritating to a brother who
wished to get out to the stable with
out being stopped or questioned. When
Margaret got her back to the newell
post like that. Penrod knew she might
stay there hours and hours
Margaret" said Mr.. Williams, In a
voice wholly inexplicable to Fcnrod.
II believe you care more for that bowl
of goldfish. in yonder, thai you do for
me-"
Penrod retired from the hallway into
Margaret's room, and feeling satisfied
that she would not come there for a
long time, withdrew the treasure from
beneath his coat, set it upon her dress
ing table and seated himself beside it.
Goldfish.
With the prospect before him of what
was going to happen at, or before, six
teen minutes of eleven. the lives of
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S|loR boy summer time Is the Pc
In Rod OF highest scientific inter
est; It Is the bug season.
q Penrod Schofield and his friend
Sam Williams, stood enthralled in Pen
rods back yard staring at magnid'
cent creature they had discovered upor
tho stalk of a lush bush in the fence
corner. The thing was so still 1t might
have been a pixies concertina. painted
dusty green and ornamented with brill
liant pool balls from a pixie pool table
To Penrod and Sam it was known as a
tobacco worm." and 1t was the largest
and latest they had ever seem The
two boys stared in silence for long
time; finally Penrod spoke in a hushed
voice.
II wonder what he's thinkin' about
"Tkinkin' about how fat he is. may
be-" Sam suggested.
81 bet YOU don't know which end his
head is" said Penrod:
It bet you don't either
We'll, whoever said I did," Penrod
retorted GROSSLY.
We'll, did l say / dfdE
We'll. whoever said you did say you
did,
movement on the part of the green
creature distracted the attention OF
both boys momentari1y. -.
Look Penrod cried. Ties movfn
"Climhin' ur the bush" observed sam.
THAT shows which end his head is: its
ut doesn't have to be on top. Just
because he's climbin' UP the bush.
Penrod returned scornfully- Il guess
he could back up, just as well as Gimp
up couldn't her
wei, he wouldn't" Sam argued.
What would he want to back up for.
when he could just as easy climb up!
His heads on top of him. and that
proves it."
Penrod laughed pityingly. Suppose
s,Impthing was after him. he'd want to
have his head on his bottom end sos
he could keep watchin' out to see II II
was comm after him up the stalk.
wouldn't he? That proves it. l guess
II did-so far as Sam Williams was
concerned. Sam was overwhelmed:
he had nothing to say. He dug the
spondentIy then frightened, all at once
al bet I know sumpthing about grass
hoppers that you don't.
go ahead and prove it,.
81 bet you don't know grasshoppers
chew tobacco"
At this Penrod yelled with consum-
You watt" Sam began to browse
In the grass, searching.
"Grasshoppers chew tobacco" howied
penrod. Grasshoppers chew tobacco.
Grasshop-oh. no, no. no..
Here" said Sam. bringing a grass
hopper for his inspection. You watch
him. now.
lie gave the erasshopper a command
snueezed him slightly about the middle
and proved the case absolutely
Look there," he cried. fourishing
exhibit A upon his thumbnail. Now.
say grasshoppers don't chew tobacco:
Penrod was beside himself. but not
Gas would have been proper) with con-
fusion; ecstasy was his emotion-and
there followed a bad quarter OF an
hour for the grasshoppers in that por-
ton of the yard.
"Pshaw" said Sam, I've known
grasshoppers chewed tobacco ever since
/ was five years old"
Penrod paused to seek further knowl-
edge at its fountain-head.
sam, do you know anything else?"
he inquired, hopefully.
yes, do" replied Mr.. Williams.
with Justified resentment. Lemme
see Oh. yes! I bet you don't know II
you put a black hair from a horses tail
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ment I saw it. How came his foot to
bleed so much more profusely at that
one spot than at any other? There
could be but one ansWer--because here
81 surprise met him, a surprise so start
ling to him in his present state of mind
that he gave quick spring backward.
with the result that his wounded foot
came. down suddenly and forcibly, in
stead of easily, as in his previous wary
tread. And what was the surprise? |
made 1t my business to find out, and
now I can tell you that 1t was the sight
Of a woman's face staring upon him
from the neighboring house, which he
had probably been told was empty. The
shock disturbed his judgment. He saw
his crime discovered. his guilty secret
read. and fed in unreasoning panic
He might better have held on to his
wits. It was this display Of fear which
led me to search after it's cause. and
consequently, to discover that at this
especial hour more than one person had
been in the Shaffer house: that. in fact.
a marriage had been celebrated there
under circumstances as romantic as
any we read of in books. and that this
marriage, privately carried out. had
been followed by an immediate voyage
of the happy couple on one of the
White Star steamers. With the rest
you are conversant. I do not need TO
say anything about what followed the
sending Of that Marconi."
But I am going to say something
Il
Strange. The big detectives about here
have to look sharp if
Don't. please, Not yet" A smile soft
ened the asperity of this interruption.
THE man has yet to be caught and
identified. Till that Is done I cannot
enjoy any ones congratulations. And
you will see that all this may not be so
easy. IF no one happened to meet the
desperate wretch before he had an ap-
portunity to retie his shoelaces there
will be little for YOU or even for the
police, to go upon but his wounded foot.
his undoubtedly carefully prepared
alibi, and. later, woman's confused
description of a face seen but for Il
moment only. and that under per-
sonal excitement precluding minute at
tention. ! should not be surprised If
the whole thing came to nothing"
But 1t did not. AS soon as the de-
scription was received from Mrs. Ami
don "a description. by the way, which
was unusually clear and precise, owing
to the peculiar and contradictory fea-
lures of the MANI the police were able
to recognize him among the many sus-
poets always under their eye. Arrested.
he pleaded. just as Miss Strange had
foretold. an alibi of a seemingly unim-
peachable character but neither 1t nor
the plausible explanation with which
he endeavorcd to account for a freshly
healed scar amid the callouses of his
right foot could stand before Mrs Ami
don's unequivocal testimony that he
was the same man she had seen In Mrs
Doolittle's upper room on the afternoon
of her own happiness and of that poor
wnman's murder.
The moment when. at his trial. the
two faces again confronted each other
across space no wider than that
which had separated them on the dread
occasion in nth street is said to have
been one OF the most dramatic in the
annals Of that ancient courtroom
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man, more than we'll to do, much en-
coura ged by Mrs. Schofeld; and 1t was
he who had given Margaret the bowl of
goldtsh--which lends some flavor to
Robert Williams dismal comparison.
Mr. Ethelbert Magsworth Bits was
generally believed to be a very happy
and fortunate youth; he had yacht
somewhere; he had a motor-car. then at
the curb; he had money enough to buy
all the candy in town If he chose; yet
I'cnrod pitied him. Sixteen minutes Of
eleven that morning would find Mr..
Bits utterly snakeless There are some
things money cannot buy.
What time is it getting to be-" Pen
rod suddenly inquired aloud.
There was 4 little clock on Mar
garet's dressing table, but it had stop
ped. Upon an impulse, he jumped up
and ran downstairs to the kitchen.
There, the noisy old wall clock reas-
sured him soothingly. 1t marked fifteen
minutes after ten.
"Yay, Penrod!"
This was a shout from the yard. and.
going to the door. Penrod beheld Sam
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D-ZOOLOGIST

other people-who had no hope Of own
ing pet snakes, Matched in the bottle
seemed pitifully vacant. He felt sorry
for Robert Williams. He pitied the
young man for having nothing better
to do than to talk to an uninteresting
girl about whether she liked him as
well as she did some goldfish in q
glass BOWL
A motor whizzed in the street. and
bow. Penrod found occasion to be sorry
Cor another young man, evidently COM
ing to interview the uninteresting girl;
and from various overhearings of late
Penrod had little doubt that this one
too would be discussing, at The first
opport unity. what Margaret liked.
He was dainty and exquisite young
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hands behind him. to conceal the bot
tile beneath his pillow.
Speeding from the table at the first
possible moment he returned to his
own room and. in the doorway was
struck with an unnamed fear. Katie.
the housemaid, was putting the room
in order. but she had not touched the
bed. Once more able to breathe, he Sc
cured the bottle and departed. carryin <
1t under his Jacket, in front. without
Katie's noticing anything unusual in
his manner or bosom.
He started down the back stairs but
retreated, hearing his mother below in
conversation with the cook. Proceed
ing to the top of the front stairs. he
heard the voices of Margaret and of Mr..
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A Sheer.

NORMAN DE A. WHITEHOUSE,
IN chairman of the New York state
suffrage party. said in Newport of the
recent Rhode Island victory:
Between all factions a more ami
able spirit will now prevail. In the
past the spirit one encountered was
like that which was shown to the sum-
mer girl.
This girl. delighted with the sea-
shore trip that lay before her. said.
with a giggle:
IF while I'm away I get ten pro-
posals. that will be tender. won't it?'
YES said her disillusioned married
will be a wonder"
sister. and if you get one proposal q
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-10-20
At the Theaters
Majestic

II you were a minister. and wished
to die, and had taunted death, only 10
live on while n dance-girl and a gamb-
Ter drew cards to gee who should con :
troll your life. he to kill and she to
save. you would probably consider
Yourself In a startling predicament
Yet this Is only one of the experiences
OF THE Devil Dodger" in Snowstorm.
Ariz The whole story is related In
the new Triangle production, also
called The Devil Dodger." which will
be shown on the screen of the Ma ajes-
tic theater Sunday.
Silent Scott. the gambler and boss
of the town, dubbed the Rev. Roger
Ingraham the devil dodger" when
the worthy minister defied his author
ity and proceeded to clean up the des-
ert settlement. Fluffy, the little
dance hall girl, was inter ested In the
i reforming process even after Scott had
ordered her TO leave the improvised
when she interfercd in a quarrel be-
tween her master. Scott and the DOM
inie, she played cards for the weaker
mans life, and won the right to nurse
hirn back to health.
She did not win her battle to re-
store his waning strength, but he sue
ceeded in impartirg to her realiza-
ton of the goodness of things. Him
self despairing of the future. he awoke
In his nurse the hope of eternal life
the desire to live on in better and
larger way.
But she who had bought his lilo
with a card. killed him in the end. lie
loved her, but she loved Silent Scott,
and when they came to the crossroads
that tests every dual love, she sent
the minister to his doom in order to
protect Scott.
so do cross purposes run, so do
emotions direct a woman's major
acts, and produce that tangle of three
lives in which the existence of des-.
ert cowtown is involved to its very
roots.
Roy Stewart, the Triangle star.
plays the leading part of the gambler,
Silent Scott.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-10-20
The Daily Horoscope
Copyright. 1917, by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicateb
"The stars incline. but do not
compel"
Saturday. October 20. 1917.

Astrologers read this as an extraordinarily
lucky day, since Venus, Saturn, Neptune
Mercury and Mars are all in benefic aspect.
1t is u rule under which TO prosecute all
the important affairs of life and should be
especially lucky to women.
Prophets all unite in forecasts OF achieve
ments in which American women VIII ac-
complsh great reforms In their own spheres
OF activity.
As the beginning OF new era is at hand,
tho seers declare that the necessities brought
brought about by war are merely lessons OF
preparedness for tho beginning OF mil.
ienium that is to depend upon the sort OF
peace attained.
The aged should benefit from this con.
ficnration which seems TO promise relief
from mental and physical burdens.
The death of distinguished man is
presaged by the stars and 1t will make .
place for new popular hero.
Soldiers and all persons connected with
the army should find bhis day profitable.
Violent storms are threatened during the
next few weeks and II is predicted that the
winter will be changeable in temperature
and trying in effect on the health.
A dock strike or some trouble that viii
damage shipping at very critical time IS
foretold.
Washington, d. O., Is likely to be the cen
ter OF much religious excitement during the
winter which win be marked by efforts OF
many persons who represent many creeds
and many cults.
Italy probably will suffer severely from