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IMPROPER and Fatal

The of
mobile driven by city empoye intent on personal errano or mayor
violent call attention to
property and city funds that has become SO
prevaIent in he this administration
killed probably unavoidable manner by
impact Illegally purchased by the board OF works for
being illegally used for the personal
emplOy the city whose time could not
the
accident others that the less deporab
frequency dissiar that occurred under cir
possible and would not be permitted we're
laid down repeatedly by the State
O
By no stretch of the Imagination
take Mrs Jewet the farm be
interpreted automobile driven by city
employee inference that both
been utilized for that purpose not once but
times
city employe any
garage take city
he would be subject
automobile vehicle taking
NOR
prosecution contemplated
automobile
city who
presumed uphold
IIegy Of automobile for
public Official the State board in 1919 said:
the conduct of the various Offices do not
machines public
Legislature provide such
ownership maintenance have failed"
heretofore been blind the
automobile which
killed by The board Of works for the Of the
appropriation by the city
council without the public having been appsed of the purchase
the purpose.
again
killed automobile lcty purchased for
nose the 0 declared illegal
driven empOye Of the doses
the
using the city property in the performance of work
fol
the
city
Of the
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lutely unprepared. The public buildings
Ulll Ie taken. the regular army made
prisoners and the new administer ton set
up. To the capital u will not be so easy
eu account Of most OF the army being
stationed there. They viii occupy the
presidents palace and the strongly forti
He'd government buildings and stand &
Siege But on the very day Of the out
break o body Of our troops VIII begin
march 10 the capital from every town
as soon as the local victory has 'been
won. The thing is so well planned thar
Il is an iuposSihUIty for us to fail. !
mesfE viii lead the troops from here
Tho new president will ne Senior Espadss.
nov minister OF finance In the present
What do you GET ] asked
Irwin be strange. sHid O'ronuor
smiling, III ! don't have I'll The Jobs
handed Co MO on @ silver >aiyer re- p'cG
" bar / choose. I've been the brains OF
the scheme. and when the fighting opens
7 guess I won't DE IN the rear rank. VINO
managed IL so our troops could get arms
smuGgled into this country Didn't
arrange it with a New York firm before
I left there? Our financial agents tn
form me that 10000 stands of Winchester
rifles have been delivered month ago at
q secret place up coast and distributed
among the towns l tell you, Bowers,
the game IS already Won.
We'll that kind q talk kind Of shook
my disbelief in the infallbility OF the
serious Irish gentleman soldier Of for
tune. II certainly seemed that the pa
trioGc grafters had gone about the
thing In a business way. l looked upon
O'COnnor with more respect, and began
60 figure on what kind Of uniform I
might wear as Secretary of War.
Tuesday the day set for the revolu-
ton, came around according 10 sched-
Ule O'ConnOr said that signal had
been agreed upon for the uprising. There
was an old cannon on the beach near
the national warehouse. That had been
secretly loaded and promptly at 70
O'Clock was to be fired off immediately
the royotutionists would seize their CON
cealcd arms, attack the commentaries
troops IN the Quartet and capture the
custom house and all government prom
erty and supplies
Il was nervous all the morning. And
about II o'clock O'ConnOr became in
fused with the excitement and martial
spirit Of murder. He geared his fathers
sword around him, and walked MP and
down in the back room like a lion in
the Zoo suffering from c0rns I smoked
couple Of dozen cigars, and decided
on yellow stripes down the trouser legs
Of my uniform.
"At half past eleven oConnor asks me
to take q short stroll through the streets
10 see if I could notice any signs of the
uprising I was back In fifteen minutes.
8 " J did, says I. AT first I thought 1t
was drums But it wasn't: it was
snoring. Everybody in towns asleep
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Literary ShriueS

Scarcely any becoming
literary
Indiana backwoods
other community which
point places Of literary interest short history
a Indiana
LOngfeoW. where he wrote his
pilgrimage
Washington
literary
whtcomb Riley fortunately pre-
served Charlottesville with pride
dued his living
and whose ideas eagerly sought there
Meredith Nicholson.
to
host of others and generations unborn
Places where authors lived lie
different Abby
London It the association of affairs
the distinction
is advised that should
be the President Of the United States with
and pushe They recognized
in their line and all that
valued The
card table Of Washington o
BY all deal gently with
He be hero his home
tomOrrGR.
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WAS zaldas that maroon -colored old
biaa with a paper collar on and I'M
He was says O'Connor.
saw him tucking a yellow back
into his vest pocket as he came OUT says
|. 1t may be-, says + that they can
more like the side door Of a bank But
let us hope for the worst
1t has cost money, of course says
O'ConnOr; but Wen have the country in
our hands inside of a month
In the evenings We walked about in
the plaza and listened to the band play
ing and mingled with the populace at
its distressing and obnoxious pleasures
There were thirteen vehicles belonging to
the upper classes, mostly rockaways and
old style barouChes. such as the mayor
rides in a the unwilling Of the new poor
house at Milledgeville. Alabama. Round
and round the desiccated fountain in the
middle Of the plaza they drove and lift
ed their sigh silk hats TO their friends
The common people walked around in
barefoOted punches, putting stogies that
= Pittsburgh millionaire wouldn't have
chewed for a dry smoke on ladies' day
at his club. And the grandest figure in
the whole turnout was Barney O'Connor
Six foot two he stood in his Fifth ave
nue. clothes, With his eagle eye and his
black moustache that tickied his ears
He was born dictator and GEAR and hero
and barrier Of the human race 1t looked
to me that all eyes were turned upon
OC0nnor, and that every woman there
loved him, and every man feared him.
Once or twice ! looked at him and
thought Of funnier things that had hap
pened than his winning out in his game :
and I began 10 feel like a HidaLgo de
Ohicio de CRATIC de South America mys
Sc T. And then l would come down again
70 solid bottom aud let my imagiua ton
Rloat, as usual, upon the twenty one
American dollars due ME on Saturday
night
Take note says O'Conuor 10 me as
thus We walked, of the mass of the PEG
pie. Observe their oppressed and mel
ancholy air. Can ye not see that they
that they are disaTected3
81 DO not says l. Nor disiufected
either. I'm beginning % understand
these people. When they look unhappy
they re enjoying themselves. when they
feel unhappy they 90 to sleep They re
NOS the kind Of people TO take au interest
ina revolutions
-" They'll flock to our standard says
O'COnnOr Three thousand men IN this
town alone viii spring 20 arms when the
signal IS given. / am assured of that
But everything IS iu secret. There is no
chance for us TO fail
ION Hoohgan alley, as ! prefer to cau
the street our headquarters was on.
there was row Of fat 'dobe' houses with
red tile roofs, some straw shacks full
Of Indians and dogs. ana one two story
wooden house with balconies little far
Their down. That was where General
Tumbalo. the communicate and com
Right across the street was a private
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laughed all ever from the beginning
again Then he looked at me and repeat
ed himself. That's why I asked you if
you thought an freshman had any humer
He'd been doing farce comedy from the
day l saw him without knowing It; and
the first time be had an idea advanced to
him with any intelligence IN 1t he acted
like two -twelfths Of the sextet in
Floradora' road company.
The next afternoon he comes in with
a triumphant smile and begins to pun
something like ticket tape out Sf his
pocket
'GreatP says / This is something
like home, How is Amalgamated Cop
per today?"
1--we got her name says 0'Connor,
and he reads Off something ike this:
| 'Dona Isabel Antonio Inez Lolita Car
reras Buencaminos Monteleon. She
lives with her mother explains O'Con-
! nor Hex father was killed in the last
revolution. She is sure to be in sym
patty with our cause
And sure enough the next day she
flung a little bunch Of roses clear across
the street into our door. O'Connor dived
for it and found q piece of paper curled
around q stem with a line Ia Spanish
on it. He dragged the interpreter out of
his corner and git him busy The inter
prefer scratched his head, and gave US
as a translation three best bets: For
tune had got a face lige the man ignt-
ing Fortune looks like a brave man /;
and Fortune favors the brave. We put
our money on the last one
" DO you see! says O'COnnor. She
intends to encourage me sword to save
her country
at looks 20 me like an invitation to
supper says ].
80 every day this senorita sits be-
hind the barred windows and exhausts
a conservatory or two one pOsy at
time And O'Connor walks like 4 Domi-
necker rooster and swells his chest and
swears 70 ne ne will win her by feats
of arms and big deeds on the CORY delG
Of battle.
Thy and by the revolution began to
get ripe One day OTonnor takes me
Into the back room and tells ne su.
Bowers says he, TAT u o'clock one
week from today the struggle viii take
place II has pleased ye 10 and amuse-
meut and diversion In this project be
cause We have not sense enough TO par
ceive that il Is easily accom- pAshed by
a man OF courage, intelligence and his
tor!cal superiority, such as meself The
whole world over says he, the 0Con-
nors have ruled men, women and nations.
To subdua small and Indifferent ceun-
try like this is a tride. Re see what
little barefooted mJnikins the men Of 1t
are. I could Hex four Of EN- single
NO doubt says l. But could you
dck SIX And suppose they hurled an
army Of seventeen against YOU
d" Listen says O'CornOr. TO what VIII
occur At noon next Tuesday 1900 pa
triots will rise up IN the towns Of the re-
public. The government will be sbso-
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residence nuilt IKE combination "a
Vteh ana l'Iuing osa. one Gay Nou-
nor aH9 me were passing Us sluS'r ll'
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Alu 'e see Ne' eyes powers lie
"shS u'e'
I did, says ] and ! can see more
than that. It's all coming ont accord
ing 10 the story books. l knew there
was something missing. Twas the love
interest. What Is il that comes 10 Chap
ter VII TO cheer the gallant Irish Gd-
venturer! Why, Love, of course-Loye
that makes the hat so around. At last
we have the eyes II Midnight hue and
the rose flung from the barred window.
ground passage-the intercepted letter
the traitor In cRmp-the hero thrown
into dungeon-the mysterious message
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A RULER OF MEN
By O. HENRY .s IL Il: W.: 4is S5s,:s e:
Continued From Page one.)

the Argentine confederacy," said Kansas
Bill. Anyway twas among great race
of people off colored but progressive l
was there three months"
NO doubt you are glad to be PACK
among the truly great race [ surm1sed.
Especially among New Workers. the most
progressive and Independent citizens OF
any country in the world | continued
with the faulty Of the provincial who
has eaten the Broadway lotus.
DO you want to start an argument
asked Bill.
Can there he one p" I answered.
Has an Irishman humor, do you
thinkf' asked he.
Il have an hour or two TO spare,' SAID
7, looking at the cafe clock.
Not TINT the Americans aren't great
commercial nation condeded Bill but
the fault laid with the people who wrote
lies for fiction"
what was this Irishman's name?" I
asked.
was that last beer cold enough" said
he.
4 see there is talk of further out
breaks among the Russian peasants 1
remarked.
Ills name was Barney o'Connor," said
Bill.
Thus. because Of our ancient prescicnce
of each others trail of thought we trav-
eled ambiguously to the point whore
Kansas Bits story began:
II met OCOnnor ~ boarding mousse
on the West Side. He invited me TO his
ballroom to have drink. and we became
like dog and a cat that had been raised
together. There he sat. a tall fine, hand
some man. with his feet against one wall
aud his back against the other, looking
over q map. ON the bed and sticking
three feet out of it was beautiful gold
sword with tassels on it and rhinestones
in the handle.
What's this?' saws I for by that
time We were well acQuaintedl. The an
nual parade in utilization Of The eX-
snakes Of Ireland? And what's the line
Of march? Up Broadway 20 Forty Sec
ond: thence east % AgcCarty's cafe;
thence
sit down on the washstand.' says
O'Connor. and listen. And cast no per
versions on the sword. Twas me IN
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'GOd-GiUen Destiny

God works believe matter what
God
people
Americas attitude is the hope Of cvia
ton"-President Harding
thoughts of that
temporary
inspired Republican party its greed control
Of he
Harding
stepped
President Harding
sGodgven."
with which President his cowOkers
which months
destiny" Democratic President
o express
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-06

PRESIDENT world disarmament has set
splendid Regular Army that
has been defense for than hundred
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-06

AMONG board wishes
telling the people Of Indianapolis what kind OF school
buildings they their children!
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-06

WITH city owned command is
not to understand why Mayor interest street
cars
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-06

By THE TIME its stand
on the uropod recorded its
opposition
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-06

PERHAPS the sanitary trucks
fora can care for the piled St. Clair park
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IT TOOK the police long minds raid Indian
apois' red district!
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Chicago Detroit St Louis G. Logan Payne Co.
oncsA lew York. Boston. Payne Burns & smith. Inc
The Washington times., 1921-08-16

And when want q certain amount OF
authority where Neal Is concerned,
you try to keep me from having 1t.
But you can't run the Harrisons and
the Hylands, toor'
Phoebe" said pleadingly.
won't you sit down here with me
on the couch and let me explain?
II may look to you as II I'm trying
to run things. But It isn't that,
dear. You'll see II in q minute.
Won't you sit down here and try to
love me a little2"
I'll stand" said Phoebe, quietly.
please get things right--if you
can"
ITS like this" ] began, picking
my words. I'm not trying to man
age the Harrison affairs at all.
I'm simply carrying out Jim's
orders. He wanted complete Sc
crecy-even from you and jeanne
and Pat. I've said nothing Of his
Neal"
Phoebe's face softened. She sat
down on the edge of the couch.
you've said nothing to any
one?" she asked You haven't
breathed a word about Jim and his
affairs to a soul--not a word?"
I've had to go over things with
Miss Storrs," | replied. lin left
her in charge of the office"
Phoebe stared at me with a pc
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HVA felt very sorry for Peter, he
~ looked more OF a boy than
ever, rs her eyes scanned his
nervous face. lie had taken great
pains with his appearance and wore
a collar which was too hing for him
and which compelled him to keen
his head rather erect: his clothes
looked too new, somehow, even to
Eva's fond regard, and she stified
little sigh.
II suppose there's something
about all of us that doesn't quite
fit into the picture she thouht
humbly.
They were shown into a large
drawing-room furnished i'm the not
very beautiful taste OF half a CEN
fury ago, the blinds were drawn,
and there was an air of general
formality about everything.
They were kept waiting some
time before Kitty appeared; Peter
had walked round the room at least
twenty times before the door opened
TO admit her.
When she saw Eva she stood
quite still.
They did not tell me you were
here" she said. She forced a smile
How do you do% I've been mean
ing to call, but I've been so very
much engaged - We'll,
ntr0 l.
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Whose Present Serial Has Scored
Big Popular Success.

Copyright, 1921. by the King Feature
Service. lnc.)
SSI UST a minute, Nurse Whit
.. comb" said Phoebe. smil-
ing with an air of knowing
precisely what she wanted to do.
will you please tell Mr.. Neal that
his sister merely dropped in to in
quire for him and that l thought IL
best to carry out the doctors orders
to keep him quiet this evening since
he is to sit up for the first time to-
morrow"
With whisk OF her white apron,
she vanished beyond the door lead
ing to the bedroom. The moment
she was gone burst out accusingly:
You are taking a shameful ad-
vantage of my love for Neal. |
can't appeal to him for square
deal to Evvy-and myself, so I'll
have to content myself with talking
things over with Jeanne"
"Jeanie!" cried Phoebe triumph
antly. Don't you suppose her pa
thence with you IL about worn out
as IL liz? You dictate to us in the
case of Jim, who was our brother
long before he was your husband,
though you seem TO forget it. You
make a mystery of his trip and won't
let us make a move to help him.
I'VE have to trust the Harrison
name to you. and your judgment.
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A Bird Husband

N Q birds mate for life? Mr.. w.
discussing the question in his
book, Birds of Town and Village"
tells an interesting story of a pair
of thrushes that were true to their
first love. A woman who lived In
Winchester, he says, had among
her bird pensioners in the garden
OF her house a female thrush that
grew tame enough to feed at the
dining room table. The thrush
paired and, bred for several sea-
sons in the same garden, and each
brood of young ones too, were
tame and would follow their mother
into the house to be fed. But the
male was too shy ever to venture
in. The first year that he appeared
the woman noticed that he had
wing feather stuck out, owing
probably to malformstion OF the
socket. Each year after the breed
ing season the male vanished, and
the female remained alone during
the winter months; but in the
spring the male came back--the
same bird with the same unmis-
taxable projecting wins feather.
II is certain that he had gone far
away; otherwise he would have re-
turned to the garden, where there
was food in abundance during the
spells OF frosty weather. As he did
not appear, II is possible that he
migrated each year to a warmer
climate beyond the sea.
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culiar glitter I'm her eyes. But
didn't know what II meant.
"Of course, Miss Storrs," she
said. ANY one else7"
mo one" l returned. Then I re-
membered, and in my desire to
have everything clear between US.
l gave her the precise truth. II
did tell Father Andrew one or two
things he had to know because Of
my father"
Phoebe leaped to her feet, and
her slim little body quivered into
tensity.
Your fatherr' she cried. Il
thought we'd come to him. You
see. you aren't much to Neal. after
all. Father Andrew isn't anything
to you. You're the dauhter OF this
Lucky Lee. Neal doesn't remem-
Der the mother. who died when he
came. And the one bond there
used to be between you Is gone"
Phoebe tossed up her little heart.
shaped flower face. Her lips quiv-
cred scornfully, but her voice was
steady as she demanded:
do you know how you're hurt
ing me7 There's nothing to stand
between Neal and me but you. His
worry over this father OF yours
and Jim's strange disappear
ance"-
Jim hasn't disappeared" l pro-
tested.
But Phoebe swept on:
Don't you see why | can't en-
dure your observation-disclosures in do
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IT don't want you to so-like this.
/ want you to go knowing in your
heart that you have been very
nice-agreeable--to a young girl
who hasn't perhaps had as much
experience as you think"
THANK God" he said smiling.
81 want you to like me always
she said. Twill your"
II promise" he replied so blithely
that for a moment his light irony
deceived her. Then something In
his eyes left her silent, concerned,
unresponsive-only her heart SEEM
ed to repeat persistently in childish
reiteration the endless question:
why7 why7 why? And she heard
II. but found no answer where love
was not, and had never been.
lam sorry" she said I'm a low
voice, II try to understand you
but I don't seem to. / am
so very sorry that you-care for
me-"
He took her gloved hand, and she
let him.
II guess I'm nothing but q hsr-
leQuin, after ALL" he said. and
they're legitimate objects OF pity.
Goodbye. Mrs. Leeds. You've been
very patient and sweet with a blith-
ering lunatic. I've committed
only another harlequinade Of q
brand-new sort. But the fall from
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with you. Az am today. my love
for you would do you no good
don't know whether yours would do
me any good-or your friendship.
either. 1t ought to IL / amounted to
anything: but / don't-and don't
know"
IT wish you would not speak so
bitterly-piease-
"All right. It wasn't bitterness;
II was just whine. III 60
now. You win comprehend. after
you think It over, that there is at
least nothing of impertinence in my
loving you-only a blind unreason-
= deadly fear lest the other man in
me. suddenly revealed. vanish before
could understand him.
Because when saw you life's
meaning broke out suddenly-like a
star - and that's another stale
simile. But one has to climb very
far before one can touch even the
nearest Of the stars So for
give my one lucid interval.
shall probably never have another.
May I take you to your car
riage?"
Mrs. Lannis Is calling for me"
THEM will take my leave
and the tatters Of my reputation
any song can buy It. now"
Mr.. Quarren!'
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Ing Just As you choose and not lis
tening to Jeanne and me at all?
You take up with Envy Mason and
we have to accept that. You won't
tell us thing about Jim and we
have to accept that. And all the
while that you're running things
your own way you're costing me
my happiness. II Neal didn't have
married and happy?"
Phoebe" i said. I'm going to
ask one favor OF YOU Don't tell
Neal how you feel about me. Don't
deprive me Of seeing him. And
for his sake
will you do the ono little thing
you CAN do to prove you aren't
stubborn and cruel?" asked Phoebe.
will you give up Evvy?"
Il can't"
Then III never speak to you
again. And I'll not live under the
same roof with you
You must speak to mo while
Meals sick-just to keep up APP
pearances before him." i protested
wearily. And in return for that
III go home and pack. I'll leave
Virginia's tonight"
with my head high and my step
firm closed the door OF Meals
apartment behind me.
i had two dollars in my purse.
had had no dinner. / didn't
know where was going for the
night.
To Be Continued Thursday