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"A Stirring Narrative of the Influence of Love the Lives Of
Man and a Girl Each Eager for Fame

be carried only by storm and vio-
lenee. And yet he ives staring at
a girl, he rsmsmbsrsd, who was
shameless enough TO sit half
dressed on the window sill Of .
Rialto hotel and dangle her heels
on a dirty fire-escaps.
What prompted that sudden -.
vulsion Of feeling Storrow could
never quite understand. But his
interest In the haif-draped figure,
for all its pictorial values, seemed
to seep away. His eyes had ex-
hsusted her. like q Landscape too
minutely overlooked. She became
merely a lszy-bodied young animal
summing herself on the edge Of sn
unkempt roominS house frees
cape. There would be much that
was sordid about her. he rsmem-
bered, just as the atmosphere In
which she existed was sordid.
A Marital Argument.
Proof Of this all.pervadins sordid.
ness. in fact, came up 70 him even
as he stared down into the unclsan
area below. He could hear the sound
OF wrangiing voices from the base
ment doorway OF the very building
in which he stood. a wordy warfare
which was not altogether unfamiliar
TO him.
He knew. even before that ftesceiy
quarrelinE couple came out into the
open. that IL was Michael Muilnly.
tho browsy engineer OF that ill-kept
apartment hotel. once more fighting
with his wife. In this case. however.
their quarrel soon gave every evi.
dsnce Of developing into something
more than the customary exchange
Of unciean language.
It was already more than . more
clash Of words. for Muiisiy. OBJ
viousiy oppressed by that unmiti.
gated heat Of New York rnidsum-
mer Afternoon, had sought q snort
cut to oblivion by minglins cool.
ing draushts Of bottled beer With
the firier assuagement Of fusel-oil
whiskey.
whereupon. II was equally plain.
he was exercising the ancient and
established preroKative OF usinS his
fists upon the features Of his pro.
testing heipnnate. who. Storrow no.
ticed. was not taking this punish.
rnent without some slight recipro-
cation Of force.
Yet that combat COW seemed
something very remote from Stor.
row. He had seen too much Of life
in the wilds to be particularly moved
by conflict as mere conflict. The
city. too. had already touched him
with some shadow of its seif-im-
The Washington times., 1921-10-14
BY Bee Mcdonald
" HoMAS BORLAND acknowl-
edged Monnan's sIInrennacv

m HoMAS BoRLAND acknowl-
edged woman's supremacy
over man in one particular
only. Forced to admit they make
better mothers, he counted 1t the
one grand mistake in the scheme
of the universe. To Borland, woman
always would be Adams rib.
He was past thirty before he
reached a point where to marry
seemed the thing to do-mostly be-
cause other men married, and his
mother urged her son TO carry
out his purpose, convinced that
matrimony was the only means
whereby her beloved first born
might be shorn of his distorted
ideas concerning women, and mould
ed into the broad-minded specimen
OF manhood she knew he could be.
When he finally selected little
Phyllis Grant, apparently the super
lative degree of the clinging vine
variety, everyone said. II told, you
So" Phyllis had been Celias ROOM
mate at the college and had often
visited the Borlands.
When they returned from their
honeymoon they began the furnish
Ing of their suburban home which
, had just been completed. As usual,
Tom took the initiative at every
turn. Mrs. Borland might have
told her husband she thought women
eminently better fitted to solve the
problem of interior decoration, but
she was daily gaining wisdom and
refrained.
The climax OF Tom Borland's dis
approval seemed to have been reached
when his wife intimated she wanted
a roadster for her personal use. He
tabooed the proposition soundly and
announced women were altogether
too careless to make good drivers
that when she rode either he or the
chauffeur would drive.
II was one evening six weeks
later when n telephone message
broght Phyllis the news that her
husband, In driving too close to the
ditch, had tipped over--that he did
not seem to be hurt much. and that
he would like her TO send tho chauf-
feur with n car from some garage
to tow him home. On the River
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Moving Inventions

by simple timidity and lack Of corr.
age to try.
Nature he has always had before
his eyes, with her forces and her
hints, and from the earliest times ne
has shown that he glimpsed the pos
sibilities placed at his disposal; but
always some strange inhibition
seemed to hold him back.
But how long II took to push in
vention beyond simple imitation of
the motionless features Of nature.
Imagine yourself an inhabitant of
Egypt in the days of the pyramid
building kings. The slow piling mp
of the vast structure of the pyramid
of Cheops would seem an immense
undertaking to you, and IL you were
not too abased by the ruling tyranny
TO have any more thoughts than q
brute animal, you might, as an
Egyptian, take some pride In the
achievement; but, after all, what in
spiration could there be in a mere
heap of stone, mechanically piled
together, with no artistic motive or
suggestion? Its bigness was no
token of genius.
Neither Greece nor Rome made
any notable progress in methods OF
locomotion or OF inter er-communica-
ton. There was not a man pro-
duceu by either who could perceive
or who. IL he could perceive, was
mentally bold and strong enough to
utilize the power of steam to drive
mans machinery and to carry him
and his burdens.
Up to the days Of our fathers the
wind and the oar alone drove ships
and boats. Caesar rowed and drifted
over TO Britain. and even Napoleon,
when he wished to go that way,
could only trust to the tickle breezes
and so never got there.
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was not an overmastering one. AID
again Mullaiy's weli.plaoed fist feli
on the upfurned face 90 close to his
shoulder
''oh. yon beastr' the girl called
shudderingly down into that echo.
Ing well OF shadow. And that shriIi
challenge both arrested and nettled
the scottish man now sure OF his vic.
tory. PIE lifted his head, like
wounded moose. and stared drunk.
emily Upward
SO It's yuh. yiih ---p he trum.
peted defiantly up out OF those
echoing depths. And having dc.
hvered himself OF that ultimate
epithet. absolutely In its finality. un.
surpassable In Its contempt, he
went on with the task more imms.
diately before him.
storrow heard that fool word,
that impossible word. just as he
had heard the throaty soprano of
the high-pitched voice which even
shriilness failed to rob of its rich.
ness. He could also catch the
quick Vince Of the girls stoopins
body as though a lash had fallen
across her bare shoulders.
He las never quite sure In his
own mind as to which II was that
fired the train. But through his
body went the feral flash. like a
spiutter OF fireworks. He tingled
and burned with a sudden righteous
indignation, with quick rage that
sent him vaulting through the open
window to the fire-escape platform
In front OF him as unthinkingly as
though the room floor beneath him
had risen and projected him upward
and outward.
He heard the girls gasp of al.
tonished fright as he went scram.
bling down the iron ladder and swept
past her timorously withdrawn
body. But he went nimbly on, with
tne anger or Galahad singing in
his ears. 1t had occurred to him,
by this time, that 1t was a terrible
and unforgivable thing to strike a
woman.
And as he dropped as lightly -
a couger from the lowermost iron
platform to the asphalt area.
floor, close beside the astounded and
breathless Irishnran. he was as
drunk in ais own way as that
denim-ciad engineer confronting
him. But 1t was not on fusel-oil
whisky.
CTo BE Continued Tomorrow
Copyright. 1890. by Arthur stringer.
Published by Arrangement with Interna.
The Washington times., 1921-10-14
BY Arthur Stringer,
Well-known Novelist and Author
of Countrywide Reputation.
CHAPTER ].

" Ell ne knew, the next mo-
ment that she had merely
been drying her hair. He
could, in fact, plainly discern a
cluster of hair pins still held be-
tween her lips. He noticed, as
she tossed the loose torrent of
hair back from her face, that her
arms and shoulders were quite
bare, her skin standing out a milk
weed white against that waving
curtain of gloom. For this hair,
Storrow noticed, was extremely
thick and heavy, dull mahogany
brown in tone. Yet it was quite
without wave, as uncompromising-
ly straight as an Indians, less sug-
gestive of beauty, in it's thick
flowing mass, than strength.
Storrow realized, as he watched
her, that she in turn was intent on
watching something at the back of
the eating house where tn Italian
+ orchestra played by night.
Following the direction of her
gaze, he caught sight of lean
and hungry eat reaching up to
window sill on which rested a
ban of freshlyboiled Holsters, as
red as a cardinals cap. That
odorous wealth. however, seemed
Just beyond the reach of the
hungry animal, which stretched
and clawed and complained thinly
as it continued its Intellectual cf-
forts to reach the pan.
1t was a trivial enough incident,
yet it made a picture which in
some way became memorable to
Storrow, lean and padded hun
ger writhing and paving and
whimpering for that savory meal,
as rich in aroma as it was in
color. just beyond its reach. 1t
seemed desire made manifest, un-
controlled and torturing appetite
typified by an eager and lean
ribbed body quivering with its
self-immuring ache for the un-.
attainable.
1t, made him think of his long
treasured print of Robins "La
Porte de PEmer" of the great
door about which writhed and
coiled and reached the tormented
creatures of desire, fevering for
that which they were denied,
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of childlike wistful oroodiness.
Why it impressed him as a face
Of depth Storrow could not tell.
That impression, he felt, might be
based on its very contradictions,
for his final estimate Of her be-
came one of loose-jointed compact
ness, Of vigor in lasoitude. Of
strength in slenderness. But the
woman, like the fact, was a chal-
lenge to him.
In each seemed to lurk the peril
Gus note of intimacy, the promise
Of mystery. the arresting air Of
a barricaded citadel which could
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The Story of Young Man Who Goes to New York Hoping
Win His Way to Fortune as Sculptor

for q body carrying so distinct
q note Of slenderness.
This impression of plastic sol
idity was repeated In the lean
Ing torso itself, SO maturely
thick from the full shoulder
blade to the flat, firm breast.
He knew enough Of anatomy to
accept this as an announcement
Of physical vigor, as a symbol
of bodily strength which he
found repeated in the round,
unmuscled arms, In the full col
umn Of the throat, In the calls
thenic line Of the hips which
even the girls squatting posi-
tion failed to foreshorten into
hssviness.
That body, in fact, made him
think Of a young colts, though
he was not sure whether this
arose from It's hint of undis-
ciplined vitality OF from some
thing snimsl-like In the girls
serene unconcern as to even
that partial nudity.
This absence of sex conscious
ness, in fact, took Storrow's
gaze back to her face. 1t was,
in many ways, a remarkable
face, though he could not see it
as distinctly as he wished. His
first impression Of it was one
Of careless vitality, of over
abundant and as yet unco-
ordinated ardor.. But the next
moment this was contradicted
by q subsidiary and more per-
sistent impression of lassitude,
Of something that seemed to ap-
proach lsnguid and sophisticated
self-concernment.
He WIS anxious to see her
eyes, as though by them to con-
tradict this impression. But they
were hooded in shadow by the
heavy brows, and all he could be
sure Of was that they were wide
apart, so wide apart, indeed,
that they carried to his mind a
vague hint Of Egyptian sarco-
phagal drawings,
In color, he conjectured. those
eyes would be dark, as dark as the
loosely coiled hair with which the
slow white hands were crowning
the overweighted head. Her mouth,
he could see, was undoubtedly
large and Of a vivid red, red that
gave buoyancy to a jaw already
too heavy in its width of line,
accentuating some wordless sug-
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mupement. IL had sufficiently .ni-
pressed him with it's first social les
son OF remembering TO mind his own
business. And the last iisht-shaft or
tho coppery afternoon sun was slant.
ing like a meiowed calcium flare
acros the fire-escape platform on
which the bare-shouidered girl was
now standing. enriching both drap-
cry and milkyskinned figure with
new and arresting shadows. picking
her out line by line az she stood
there In her careless and preoccupied
pose until she seemed plastic. stat.
uesQus. as marbie-liks as a Caryatid
leaning from a temple wall.
Again the pcnduium-swinx Of
emotion carried his interest back
to . subject which he had only
thought TO be exhausted. though It
piqued him a little that this alert
figure 90 near him could remain so
unconscious of his presence there
above her.
The Brute Personificd.
The combat In the area. however.
was already becoming more Ho-
neric. more explosive in movement.
storrow could see the girl on the
fire-escape lean further out over. the
rusty railing. and for the second
time he let his eyes follow her line
Of vision. He could see the big -limbed
engineer. In short-sleeved undershirt
and soiled denim jumper. strike vi.
iously at tho upturned face Of his
mate.
Yet even then the persistent ar
tistic impulse Of the studiouseyed
youth prompted him to take imper-
sonai note Of the brawny chest and
the huge.muscled bioeps. for Null
laiy in his younger day had toiied
long and arduously an a Pittsburgh
steei-puddisr and his strength was
stiii that OF an Antaeus.
II he seemed intent on exercis-
Ing what remained OF this Strength
on the less sinewy eharer Of his
Joys and sorrows. that ragged.waist-
cd fury. still fighting Ike a cat.
stood able to prevent the conflict
from being an altogether one-sided
matter. She continued To dispute his
mastery, by tongue and nail and
tooth. until Mullaly managed to
draw back his great fist and bring
It fiat down on the face Of the
woman, clawinS and elinSing to
him.
"Ycu brute" sasped out the bare.
shouldered girl from the fire-escape.
That sxpletive seemed to awaken
IN Storrow his first active interest
in the combat below. II It awak-
ened in him . corresponding impulse
toward Interference. the impulse
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THE STORY so FAR

owen > torrow, a
young sculptor, comes to
New York from Canada
to try to perfect himself
in his art and to secure
the advantages of study
and instruction. From
his room in q cheap
hotel he sees a charming
girl, barefooted, drying
her hair, watching a man
fighting with his wife.
The mans blows arouse
her loud protests. The
man looks up and calls
the indignant girl a
name that rouses the
fury of Storrow.
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ADVICE TO THE LOVELORN
BY Beatrice Fairfax
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:

DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
Whenever I go TO see my glri
friend, her brother takes me home.
1 have learned to love him. He has
made many appointments with me
but has broken them, because he
has TO go TO work and to school.
Now Miss Fairfax the only way
TO see him Is to go down TO his
house. which he has asked me to do.
But II seems To me that his mother
thinks ] am not tho right kind ~
The Washington times., 1921-10-14
BY Aine Michaelis
Wedding Out The Weeds.

"HIS life 10 like a busy plot
for raising garden truck.
you have to work when It's
so hot you'd rather run amuck.
You needs must toll through sun
and rain to keep your larder full,
but though you kick about the
strain. things never once grow dull.
For you must help the beans along
and push the beets and peas: the
cabbage plants are mono too strong.
20 you must coddle these. One crop
alone you do not SOW, you never
save the seeds, and whence 1t comes
you do not know. the bumper crop
of weeds! Yes, life is like q garden
plot. the things you want to grow
will be but weaklings, like az not.
while weeds take every row. Oh,
they're the gardeners grimmest foe:
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girl because I come to see him.
Am l right or wrong, MARCY
IF the young man has time TO
talk to you In his home. I can't
see why he has not the time TO
come 10 see you In your home.
II you care to continue to visit.
his sister. time your calls when
you know he is not at home. Such
action may stimulate interest In
you, otherwise forget him.
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gestion of Orientalism in her char
acter, an Orientalism which the
lucid and wide-set eyes seemed
always to contradict,
The Washington times., 1921-10-14
This Day In History.

THIS is the anniversary of the famous Battle of
Jena in 1906, when Napoleon utterly defeated
Prince Hohenlohe and his Prussians. Hohenlohe
surrendered two weeks later to Marshal Lannes
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An Air of Thought. Il
The nose was short and straight,
too Unabridged to seem repel-
lantly sensual, yet with a faint
outflare of tho nostrils which
might in part have accounted for
his earlier impression of wild
animal eagerness. And if the eye
brows were heavy, they at least
gave an air of thought to a face
not otherwise intellectual. an air
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(To BE Continued Tomorrow
Copyright. 1890. by Arthur stringer.
(Published by Arrangement with Interns
tional Festurc Service, Incl
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1921-12-20

and infamous attack upon Chris
tianity.
We had better not have a State
University at all than to have one
which undermines the Christian faith
of the young men and women who
are sent there for an education.
When the matter is fully under
stood every Christian in the state
viii be up in arms against this in
famous teaching and the university
can only be saved by prohibiting the
use Of these specified textbooks and
the dismissal from the faculty Of
those professors who are teaching
this doctrine of evolution.
This is no denominational fight
upon the university, for the purpose
of building up denominational col
leges, but fght by the Christians
of every faith against this black flag
of infdelity which has been raised
over this state institution.
The matter is very properly TO be
taken to the legislature and new
board Of regents for the university
should be demanded vino viii take
enough interest in the institution to
know what is being taught there.
The people do not demand that
Christianity should be taught in the
Kentucky University, but they viii
demand that nothing shall be taught
there which is hostile to Christian
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1921-12-20
UNIVERSITY OF EVOLUTION

DIR. McVey, the president of Ken
lucky University, in answer to the
charges that evolution or Darwinism
is being taught in the university, and
that two text books, one on geology
and the other on biology are infam-
Gus and should not be used on ac-
count of the influence they are like
ly to have ON the Christian faith of
the student body, does not deny the
arraignment.
He says that biology, which
teaches evolution, is a science, and
he undertakes to defend himself and
the university against the charges
upon the grounds that tits science.
Evolution is not science. 1t is
merely a theory, and it is The most
harmful and dangerous theory that
could possibly be Taught. II is the
entering wedge to skepticism and in
fidelity for it is impossible for any
one to believe in evolution or Dar-
winism and be a Christian. If man
was net created by God but came
from a monkey, then the Bible is not
the inspired word Of God, but a ia
BILE. Without God as Creator,
there can be no Supreme Being at
all.
Evolution blots out God as Cree
ator and under the guise that il is
a science, il Is a most damnable
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1921-12-20
HONEY PHILOSOPHY FOR 1921

Ignorance is slavery wheresoever
ignorance exists. As an example,
the ignorant Russian masses are
slaves of few dozen highly educat-
ed and shrewd men led by Lenin and
Trotzky. On the other hand, there
is no place for ignorance in de-
mocracy. Where all men are equal,
every man should be educated in or
der that he shall enjoy the same free
dom, the pleasures and blessings
that the educated nan enjoys. There
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1921-12-20

is too much illiteracy in every state
and union, and we hope that the wo-
men, with their newly given right to
the vote, viii speedily put an end to
that.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1921-12-20

The Bottling Works Co., East Lo-
cust street, has put IN gascline
station and asks for a share Of pub
lie patronage. (1O4tf)
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1921-12-20

Beaded Bags and Pocketbooks
have always been great fayorites as
gifts. We have a most attractive
assortment and will be glad to
show them to you.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1921-12-20

Nobody ever had too many
handkerchiefs and they are always
acceptable gifts. From the plain
est hemstitched ones to those OF
daintiest crepe de chine, we have
them.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1921-12-20
GU
Mt. Ster|ing's Most Complete Xmas Store


THE BEST ON THE MARKET
not only as Xmas gift, but gift
for every day in the year. Ask the
busy housewife, who knows the
meaning Of those hours and hours
Of hard work that she is saved by
this modern method of cleaning.
Any woman will be proud to be the
owner Of an Apex Electric. Let as
demonstrate them for you.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-07-30
CALLS WILSON
CHAMPION
The Massachusetts, Boxing
Commission Opposes
Ohio Commission
SAYS REFEREE IS
FINAL AUTHORITY
Referee Jimmy Gardner
Ruled Downey Fouled
Wilson at Cleveland

Boston, July 3O,--Johnny Wilson II
still world middleweight boxing cham
MON so far as the Massachusetts, box
ing commission is concerned. The de-
cision of Referee Jimmy Gardner that
Bryan Downey struck him foul blow
in the seventh around of their bout
at Cleveland Wednesday night will be
recognized by the commission in this
state, it was officially announced.
In refusing to accept the action OF
the Ohio boxing commission in revers-
ing the referees award, the Massachu-
setts commission holds that the referee
is the final authority. His appoint
ment by the Ohio commission, Com
missioner Eugene n. Buckley Of Mas
sachusetts declared, carried with it SUI
preme control over the contest.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-07-30
TO HONOR WAR VETERANS.
The Knights of Columbus Will Show
Them Distinction.

San Francisco, July 30,--World war
veterans, living and dead, will be honr
ored by the thousands of delegates at
tending the thirty ninth annual inter
national supreme council of the Knights
of Columbus here August 2, 3 and I.
Many of the visiting knights served
during the war in American and over
seas camps in educational and war
activities of the knights of Columbus
and will meet soldiers with whom they
served
Hospitals in San Francisco. and Palo
Alto, near here, where many wounded
soldiers and sailors are being treated,
will be visited by convention delegates
and gifts will be left for the men and
entertainments presented for them.
At Palo Alto, Albert G. Bagley,
department director of the X. of C..
war and educational activities, will
take the visitors on tour of the hos
pital and tell how the order is carrying
on its hospital work.
One event on the convention program
will be the placing OF memorial
wreath to the men killed in the war.
This will take place at the San Fran
cisco civic center and the ceremony will
be attended by leading city officials and
officers OF the order.