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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-12
CHAPTER XIV.
He Runs to Earth.

AS the fox seeks an earth, he was
seeking for a hole to hide in. Across
the road a narrow house, set be-
tween fishmonger's shop and
seaside library, displayed in one Of
Its lower windows card with the
word apartments" Jones crossed
the road to this house and knocked
at the hall door. He waited minute
and half, ninety seconds. and every
second framed vision of Hoover in
pursuit. Hoover and his assistants
streaming like hounds on hot scent
Then he found decrepit bell and
pulled 1t, IA FL.
Almost on the pull the door opened
disclosing bustless. sharp-eyed and
cheerful-looking little woman Of fifty
or So. wearing a cameo brooch and
things. but you did not notice them.
Have you rooms to lct?" asked
Jones.
well, sir. have the front parlor
unoccupicd," replied the landlady.
land two bedrooms on the top floor
Are there any children"
NO" said Jones. II came down here
alone for holiday. May see the
rooms?'
She took him to the top front bed
room HFSt. III was Cream ana tlQy,
just like herself, and gave a CHEEKY
view Of the shop fronts on the OPP
posite side of the street.
Jones. looking out of the window,
saw something that held him for a.
moment fascinated and forgetful of
his surroundings and his companion
Hoover, no less, walking hurriedly
and accompanied by man who look
ed like a gardener. They We're pass
ing toward the sea, looking about
them as they went. Hoover had the
appearance of person who has lost
a purse or some article of value. so
Jones thought as he watched them
vanish. He turned to the landlady.
II like this room" said he, ut is
cheerful and quiet, just the sort OF
place want. Now let's see the par
lor."
(To be Continued Next Sunday.l
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IL never lend sovereigns," said
Smithers.
why. I'm going to give
you nfty--and only ask
you to lend me five for moment In
smithers put his hand in his pocket
and produced the coins; they were In
a little chamois leather bag. "Don't
1t and they'll know there sus are s. aoxe
ereigna In II by the noise"
:, ~, Hight" said Jones. Now 60 and
s ssys I he;s aa ,sar that Maj. Barstowe
smithers went of. butterfly net in
hand. "
Jones was under no delusion. He
reckoned that the. garden was always
unaer surveillance. and that man
chance OF reaching the street. unless
ne managed to distract the attention
or watchers. He thought 1t probable
tfat his conversation with Smithers
mad been watched, and possibly the
hanalng over OF some article noted.
There was a seat just here, close
to the wall. He sat down on IL.
pllled his cap over his eyes and
sirNtched out his legs. Then undo.
the peak of the esp he waite ed
Smthers approaching Col. HawI,er,
interrupt him iHst as he was on the
point of making stroke, ana lead
him aside.
The effect on the co,onei's mind Of
the Information to his stroke. fol-
lowed by the sudden information that
ms Feracit% had been impeached. was
miraculous and Sudden as the slap
on on inc s:de OF the face that sent the
butterfly hunter flying. The attack
on BarstoWe, who seemed TO fight
we'll. the cries. the shouts the i'm r,re
cations the fact that half dozen
people. inmates and attendants, join d
In the confusion as if by fnagic--all
ms vas nothing to Jones. nor was
the subsidiary fact that one of the
inmates. auiet-mannered clergy
man with taste for arson, had
taken advantage of the confusion and
was Patiently and sedulously at work.
hr!ng the thatch of the su,yrrler house
in six different places. with n ,ong-
concealed box of mat ches
Jones, on the stroke of the colonel,
had risen from the seat. and, with tho
aid of a vail trained plum tree, had
re&ehed the TOP of the wall and drop
ped on the other side into bed of
m M, 1t was hockey day at
the school. and there were no girls
in the garden. lie ran across it TO
the open front gate and reached the
ROAD. ran DON the road which was
deserted, ard burning in the late
afternoon sunshine. reached n side
roads were of the same pattern.
f"ond res~ectah'e md lined with de-
tached and s. mi-detached houses set
in gardens. and labeled according to
the owners fancy. Old Anglo Indian
co'onsls and majors lived here, and
one knew their houses by srch name 8
as Lucknow" "Cawnpore," ETC. Just
as one knows azalcas by their bios
Sous. JOINS. like an animal nakinr
for cover. pushed on till he reached
Gfr fey1,
running north and south, with the
shop fronts on the eastern side, sun
blinded and sunlit. A peep of blue
ard perfect sea showed at the end
or the street, and on the sea the
white sail of boat, Sanbourue-on -
Sea is a pleasant place to stay at.
but Jones did not want to stay there
His mind was working feverish-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-12
By H. De We're Stacpoole
Copyright. 1918. by John lane Co.

on the left of the house struck Jones
as being practicable, and he noticed
that none of the walls were spiked
or glaased. Hoover's patients were
evidently not of the dangerous and
agile type.
whats at the other side of this
WALTZ" asked Jones. as they passed
along by the left-hand barrier
Smithers gigglcd
Girls" said I've. - $50 q. d. .
Girls. what sort of efrls?"
Little ones with long hair and big
ger ones; they learn their lessons
there. it's school The. gardener
left his ladder there one day and
there I nodded to them, and they all
came to the wall. / made them all
laugh. l asked them to come over
the wall and toss for sovereigns--
away. She didn't seem to like me-.
Jones, all during luncheone-the
meal was served in his own apart
ments--revolved things in his mind;
mania for handling gold had evident
ly been satisfied by giving him
these few coins to play with. They
We're real ones. Jones had sattsf1ed
himself Of that. Snithers. despite
his want of chin, was evidently not
a person to be put off with counter
felt coin Jones had come down from
London dressed just as he haa called
at Curzon street That is to say
in IL black morning coat and gray
trousers His tall lat had evidently
been forgotten by his depnrters.
After luncheon he asked for n cap
to wear in the garden, aud was sup
piled with gray NV ced snootinS
cap OF Foovers
With this on his head he tool. his
scat in an arlor, an arbor which,
he noticed. had It's open,nS facing
the house.
Here smoking. he con. inuod revoly-
ing his plans, and here afternoon tea
WaS eerN ed 10 him.
Ton minutes later the colonel and
the major began another Game of
crccuet. and five mlnutes after that,
came from the house Smithers with
ii butterfly net in his hand.
Jones left the a.bcr and joined
Smithers. ,sR
The sovereigns have COME" said
Jones.
The bag of sovereigns?"
Yes. with a big red seal from the
bankers, I'm soins to give you
fifty"
"Oh, Lord" said s!ntthers, but you
haven't said anything to Hoover?'
Not a Word-but you must do
something for me before / give you
them"
Whats thato" ,,..
II want you 20 80 uD TO Col Haw-
ker and take him aside"
"Yes?"
And tell him that Maj Barstowe
says he's liar
Yes"
That's all"
That's easy enough" said Smith
ers.
TN stand by the wall here, and IL
any Of the girls look over, as they
probably will. for I'm going to whis-
tie TO them, I'll make them come over
and toss for sovereigns."
THAI would be lark" said the
unfortunate.
Bother" said Jones' i've forgot"
"What2I
AN my sovereigns are upstairs in
the bag-I know--lend ME yours
whilst I'm waiting"
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An Interesting Wall.

IsTHE Germans in defeat" said Gov.
Edge Of New Jersey. will be
far more interesting than they were
in victory.
They'll display unexpected depths,
you know, like the little boy who
wore his fathers old clothes. No
body thought the little boy minded
this. but one day he burst out, pas
sionately:
Pops gone an shaved off clean,
an now know III have to wear his
old red whiskers""
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CHAPTER XIII,
Slnithers.

Hoover leading the way down.
stairs, showed Jones the billiard
room on the first floor, the dining
room. the smoke room. All pleasant
places. with windows opening on the
gardens. Then he introduced him to
some gentlemen. To Col. Hawkar
just come in from an after breakfast
game of croquet, to Maj. Barstove
and to a young man with no chin to
speak of, named Slnithers There
We're several others, very u,iet peop]e.
the three mentioned are enough for
consideration.
Col. Hawker and Maj Barstowe
smoking room when Hoover and
Jcres entered.
II did not say did not believe
YOU" said Barstowe. II said it was
Strange" cried the colonel. what
DO you mean by strange-it's not
the word object to, it's the tone you
spoke it,"
whats the dispute?" asked Hoo
yer.
Why" said Barstowe, 1.-THE co]one,
was telling me he had seen pigs in
Burmah sixteen feet long, and sun
flowers twenty feet in diameter"
oh. that story" said Hoover; yes,
there's .. nothing strange in that
knock any. man down that
that's flat"
Hoover laughed, Jones shivered.
Ihen the disputants went out to play
another game Of croquet, and Jones.
picking up with smithers. played a
game OF billiards, Hoover going Off
and leaving them alone.
After playing for about Ave min
utes, Smfthers, who had maintained
an uncanny silence, broke off the
game.
Lets play something better than
this" said he. did you know 1 was
rich?"
NO" said Jones.
Wei. I'm very rich. Look here" he
took TOOL n I'VE sovsreigns from his pocket
pitch and toss with these" said he,
Hoover doesn't mind so long as I
don't lose them. Pitch and toss with
sovereigns is fine fun; let's have
gamer"
Jones agreed
They sat on the divan and played
pitch and toss. At the end OF ten min
utes Jones had won twenty pounds.
II think I will stop now said
smithers; Give me back that SOW
ereign lent you to toss with"
But you owe me twenty pounds"
said Jones'
"Tll pay you that tomorrow" said
Smithers; these sovereigns are not to
be spent. they are only for playing
with"
s"oh. that doesn't matter" said Jones.
handing back the coin. and recognize
ing that, penniless as he was, here
was a small fund to be drawn upon
by cunning, should he find a means of
escape I'm rich. Tn worth ten
millions"
Ten million sovereigns?"
Eyes"
: Golden ones, like these?"
Eyes" 49,"
~ say said smithers, could you
lend me one or two?"
YES rather" '%'
but you mustn't tell Hoover"
cor course won't"
when will you lend me them?"
when I get my, bag Of sovereigps
from London. They are coming down
/ II like YOU, said smithers. wen
be great friends. won't we3'
Rather, come out In the garden"
They went out. s,.i. ~
The garden eiicircled the house. big
wrought.irpn gates. locked. gave
upon the road. 81, 800
The tcnnis, and 'croquet lawns lay
at the back of the house. brick walls. 7
covered. in part. with fruit trees, SUR
rounded the whole place. The wall
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-12
Author Of "The Gold Trail"
and "Sea Plumber"

ly. There was sure to be railway
station somewhere. and, as surely, the
railway station. would be the hrst
place they would hunt for him. :,
. London was his objective--London
and the National Provincial Bank,
but Of the direction or the distance
to be travelled he knew no more than
the man In the moon. -
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-10-02
TO RECEIVE BIDS FOR
NEW COURT HOUSE
Members of Special County Board Com
mittee to be in Session Much of
Tuesday to Accept Bids.

Kenosha may know all about what
the new court house is going to cost by
Tuesday evening as the special com
mittee of the county board in charge
If the receiving of bids for the build
ng will be in session considerable part
II Tuesday. 1t is expected that there will
be large number of bids for the buid-
ing and a number of the biggest CON
tractors in this section of the country
have been in Kenosha for a week max
ne figures. The bids will be received
~ Chairman Scott and his committee
md no decision as to when they will
De opened viii be made until the com
nittee meets tomorrow. 1t is posi-
Die that the bids will be referred I'm.
opened to the County Board at its ses-
ZION on Wednesday but it is more prob.
lble that the committee will open and
abulate the bids in order that they may
>e presented to the board in the most
intelligent manner possible. Several
Kenosha contractors have secured sets
# the plans and specifications but it
not known whether or not any Of
hem will present bids. 1t is expected
hat there will be several general bids
or the complete work
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PLEAD "NOT GUILTY"
TO HOLD-UP CHARGE
Men Who Made Confession to Police
Oficers Change Their Minds When
Arraigned in Court.

Arthur Moore and John Steinmetz,
the two Kenosha men arrested on
charges of holding up and robbing John
Harder Of Racine at the west side sta
tion of the Chicago, Milwaukee and
North Shore electric line on last We'd
nesday night and who later made con
fession to the chief of police, pleaded
not guilty when they were arraigned in
the Municipal Court this morning
charged with larceny from the person.
No statement was made by either Of
the men at the court hearing and the
further hearing Of the case was con-
tinued until next Monday afternoon.
Bonds were placed at $1,000 in each
case and the two men sent to the coun-
ty Jail pending their furnishing bonds.
The police said that there had been no
reputation of the confessions made by
the two men.
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HARD TO SECURE
THERAPEUTISTS
Great Difficulty Is Expert
enced In Finding Men To
Fill Positions Created BY
Last Legislature.
TRAINED MEN ARE SCARCE
Applicants For Service Must Have A.
taiued the Age Of Twenty-one Years
and Possess Suitable
Personality.

Wisconsin is having great difficulty
in finding qualified occupational Their
apeutists to fill positions created by the
last legislature. The position Of state
supervisor in the newly created dc
partment of oceupational therapy is as
yet untitled and trustees of the vari-
Gus county tuberculosis sanatoria
have begun their search for trained d.
reetors to take charge Of the establish
ment of this new feature of sanator-
ium treatment
Under the law passed by the last
legislature, two or more county tuber-
culosis sanatoria may unite in the en-
ployment Of director of occupational
therapy and this is probably the plan
which will be followed where there is a
group Of smaller Institutions so located
that one director can take charge OF
the work for the group dividing her
time between the institutions. Such
plan, however, will call for four or
five directors as the establishment of
the work is made mandatory. At the
present time Muirdale is the only tuber-
culosis sanatorium in the state having
an occupational therapy department
The scarcity Of trained workers for
these positions, coupled with the fact
that there is q rapidly growing senti-
ment for the establishment of supervis-
ed occupational work in civilian hospi-
tails all over the country, makes of more
than state wide Importance the decis-
ion of Milwaukee Downer College to
continue its course in occupational
therapy established a year ago as 4
war measure. 1t was the work in mill
tary hospitals that first brought the
curative value of bedside occupations
and shopwork to the attention Of the
general public in such spectacular man
ner that it has led to demand for the
Introduction Of similar work in civil
liam hospitals. This demand has been
growing steadily but the introduction of
the work is necessarily delayed by the
lack Of directors qualified for the
work.
1t is to meet this demand that the
training course for occupational thera-
peutists is to be continued this year.
The new course opens Oct. | and closes
May %, 1926 1t includes work in
design, weaving, brush making and
chair Gaming, basketry, woodwork and
toys, mechanical drawing bookbinding,
metal work, miscellaneous crafts such
as clay modelling, beadwork, rake and
plain knitting, cardboard weaving, cts
Hospital teaching under the supervision
of an experienced occupationa thea
peutist in Milwaukee hospitals and
sanatoria affords practical experience.
The new profession calls for young
women with the spirit Of service -ap-
plicants for the course must have at
tanned the age of 81 years, must pos
sess suitable personality, and must
have had high school education or its
Notwithstanding Of handifcrafts
is not requisite for admission
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FARMERS BENEFIT
BY LABOR SURPLUS
Many Men who Have Been Laid OFF
at the Factories Accept Jobs
on the Farm.

Laying off of men in the several fac
tories of the city on account OF the
steel strike has been the means Of send
ing an unusual number of workmen to
the United States Employment Bureau
in search for employment.
Acting superintendent DeWane is
using every effort to place these men
in remuneratiye positions and he says
the bureau will do everything in its
power to help them obtain employment.
BY reason fthe surplus of labor
many men have been sent to the farms
this week. At least a dozen have been
given lucrative positions on farms
and by reason thereof the farmers
will be enabled to get their crops in
the barns.
Three men were sent to the farm on
Friday. Two Of them being married
men took jobs as day men filing silos
and the third, single man, took a job
as regular farm hand. Shakespeare
said: "Ill blows the wind that nobody
profits, and the southern darky in try
ing to quote the immortal William said,
cts a mighty poh wind dat don t
blow nowha But whichever is correct
the farmering situation just now is be-
ing alleviated by the laying off of men
in the factories
The situation in regard to domestic
help remains unchanged except that
wages for this class of work is being
increased.
Every person or factory needing
workmen and every workman needing
a Job will conserve their opportunities
by listing their wants with the United
States Employment Bureau, said Act
ing superintendent j. "a. McWane this
morning. 1--WE will use our every en-
ergy to help them and will no doubt be
successful in supplying your wants, IA
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-10-02
ARRESTED IN RACINE
ON LARCENY CHARGE

Another echo of the famous old Hen
ry Rossi store case was heard IN the
Municipal Court on Friday afternoon
when Sophus Trolle was brought in
from Racine and arraigned on charges
Of grand larceny. He was charged
with stealing shoes worth $500 from the
store. He was held in bonds of $500
and the hearing adjourned until Oc-
tober 3rd. It was alleged in, the war
rant that the shoes were stolen on
July goth. Trolle admitted to the po-
lice that he had taken the shoes out
Of the place but declared that he would
have a proper defense when the case
is heard.
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lockout and it was said that majority
OF the contracting painters would meet
the scale without bubble. AT the pres
emit time the painters are receiving rs
cents an hour and under the new scale
the wages will be STA cents an hour.
I don t blame them for asking for
more money and / know that they need
it aud that there is nothing for the
contracting painters to do but pay 1t, =
said D. Harry Smith, one of the leading
painting contractors this morning. "It
came as bad bump for the contractors
just the same. There is no time offered
for US to adjust our contracts which
have been made at the old scale of 70
cents an hour and anyone can appre-
ciate that an increase of 1915 cents an
hour on the labor for these contracts
is going to put any idea Of profits out
of business. There is nothing to do but
meet the scale of the men. If we had
been given chance to readjust con
tracts, / think that the contractors
would have been glad to have given
the men more pay
Other contracting painters when ask
ed in regard to the new scale and the
probability of its putting a stop to
building work in the city indicated that
there would be no stopping of work
and that the scale would be paid by
most Of the painters. The scale be-
comes effective on next Wednesday
morning and it is possible that there
may be little trouble at that time.
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Increase Of Twelve and a
Half Percent Is Demanded
From Contractors On
Friday Afternoon.
EFFECTIVE OCTOBER FIRST

"Going Up" was the happy little
suggestion that the journeymen paint
ers of Kenosha made to the master
painters on Friday when they an
nounced that at the meeting of the jour
neynen held on Thursday evening it
had been unanimously voted to increase
the scale by 121aao and that the new
scale was to become operative on the
first of October. The master painters
mopped their brows, but it was indi-
Gated that there would be no strike or
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-10-02
President Birge- of Uniyer-
sity of Wisconsin Com
mends Campaign Of
State Colleges.
WILL START SOON HERE

Il am more than ready to express
my hearty sympathy with the plan of
the Wisconsin colleges for a consoli-
dated campaign writes L. A. Birge,
president of the University Of Wiscon-
sin, to President Melvin A. Brannon of
Beloit College, in, regard to the cam
paign planned by the Wisconsin Col
leges Associated, to be held from Oct.
gath to 31st.
ANY movement is to be welcomed
which promises to strengthen the cause
of education-and especially higher ed
ueation-in our state. But your plan
has an unusual significance The in
crease Of the endowment of colleges
is by no means all that will result from
it-although this alone is well worth
the labor The cooperation Of all the
colleges of the state in this campaign
tion and for the state. In this com
mon enterprise they recognize that their
fundamental relation is that of part
ners rather than rivals.
n tQAthAOA diitl uiiO u GUtuIUOH NOTh
lie beneath all the wide and useful
variety of the affinities and methods of
Duh endowed colleges. Yet so far as /
know this is the first time that all the
colleges of a great state have recogniz-
ed this fact officially. The Wisconsin
colleges are not making separate APP
peals for public support based largely
on the individual characteristics of each
college. They appeal together for
support on grounds which are common
to them ALL
Such union of eduea tional forces
rs peculiarly appropriate at this time.
A generation or two ago it suficed IL
the. college served its local community
and expressed the life of learning as
held by those of the faith which found
ed it. Today the principles which sh.pc
the life of the nations and Of the world
are everywhere being tested and Dues
toned by agencies which are ut least
r#'ional IN scope. II your co,.egs ideal
81 the union o. learning and religion
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in the service of the commonwealth is
to have its influence, it must be main
tanned and enforced by the united
powers Of all those who hold it. Be
yond, therefore, and above the good
which will came from the financial sue
cess Of your campaign, / place the re-
suit to the state of this union of its
colleges. Let me therefore express
once more my cordial sympathy with
your movement and my best wishes
for its success
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-10-02

Mayor Smith of Omaha may die
rom the i'll treatment he received from
mob bent on murder but the city of
lmaha will always have the proud rec
I'd that there was one man who serv-
il as Chief Executive who believed
the dignity Of the law and was will
ng to die if need be for his belief.
mith is entitled to every considers
ION that can be given patriot.
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SCHOOL SHOES

Ii you are looking for good solid school shoes,
the kind - will "stand the gaff bring the
youngsters here. There is wide variety to
choose from and the prices are right
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>PHONOGRAPHS

and Rel canto
both made by concerns of highest standing
ing these machines for but
because we wanted to be that they would
KNOW by actual test and have recommending these
machines who really grade and
the prices will mean very great saving