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Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1921-03-31
"YoU, you HUzzY!"

Synopsis. Lonely and friendless,
Tonnibel Devon. living on a canal
boat with a brutal father and
worn-out, discouraged mother, wan
ders into a Salvation army hall at
Ithaca, N. Y. There she meets a
young Salvation army captain,
Philip MacCauley Uriah Devon,
Tony's father, announces he has
arranged for Tony to marry Regi-
maid Brown, a worthless compan-
ion. Mrs. Devon objects, and Uriah
beats her. Their quarrel reveals
that there is a secret between them
in which Tony is the central figure.
Tony refuses to marry Reginald
and escapes a beating by jumping
into the lake. She finds a baby's
picture with offer of reward for its
delivery to a Doctor Pendlehaven.
With the Pendlehavens, a family
of wealth, live Mrs. Curtis, a cousin,
her daughter and son, Katherine
Curtis and Reginald Brown. Kath-
crime is in love with Philip Mac
Cauley Tonnibel returns the pic
ture to Doctor John, and learns 1t
belongs to his brother, DR.. Paul
Pendlehaven. 1t is a portrait of
Doctor Paul's daughter, stolen in
infancy. Doctor John goes with
Tony to the canal boat. Mrs Devon
is deeply agtated and makes Tony
swear she will never tell of Dew
on's brutality. The older Devons
disappear and Tony is taken into
the Pendlehaven house as a COM
panion to Doctor Paul. Philip
fights with Reginald on the boat
and saves Tony. Uriah appears,
orders Philip off and locks up Tony.
Philip again rescues her. They ex-
change love VOWS. Doctor Paul i'm
proves and the Curtises are furi-
Gus over her presence. Philip and
Tony Unexpectedly meet in the PEN
dlehaven home.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1921-03-31
A Good Trencherman.

The phrase originated at the time
when people ate their food off trench
ers. These were usually clean white
wood, probably maple, and were often
hollow on both sides, so that meat
could be served on one side and pud-
ding on the other.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1921-03-31
CHAPTER x-continued.

She went extremely pale and put out
her hand to grasp something for sup
port as if she were going to fall. She
saw him rise up slowly, an expression
Of amazement and relief going across
mis- face. She smiled, but what a weary
little smile 1t was and how full of
pleading, as If she were silently beg
ging him to forgive her for some deed
she'd done.
John Pendlehaven gazed at the two
young people, and then he too got to
his feet.
'Philip," he said abruptly, "this is
Tonnibel Devon. She's Paurs COM
panion. We have" I
Philip interrupted the speaker by
his sudden bound around the table.
Tony Devon, little Tony" he cried
II thought, oh, l thought you were
dead. I thought I'd lost you forever"
A noise fell from Katherine's lips,
and Mrs. Curtis stumbled to her feet
$50 you know her too, Philip" she
Enarled with hasty glance at her
pallid daughter II thought we'd kept
her well out of your way. So you've
played the sneak while eating bread and
butter in my house, MISS" she blurted
at Tony. "Well, it's what one might
have expected Of yOu-you huzzy"
"MOther!" gasped Katherine, as Ton
nibel snatched her hands from Philip.
"Kathie, you needn't mother me !"
''Either she goes away or do. won't
stay in the house with a common
meak-a common"
Sarah, sit down." Numbered John
Pendlehaven. Don't speak another
such word Or"
Tony was at the doctors side be-
fore he could finish mis- threat.
Il didn't Aneak," she said, looking up
at him. "Oh, please-please believe
me-"
''That she didn't" cried Philip, COM
ing to her side. cousin John, I've |
known Tony Devon ages, and 1 didn't |
even know she was In this house." He |
turned his flashing eyes upon Mrs. Cur
tbs, who was weeping Historically. |
''fou ought to be ashamed of yourself, |
Cousin Sarah," he went on, ito use
such language to perfectly nice little |
girl. Why, you've just about broken
her heart"
His voice had sunk to a passionate
whisper. His eyes misted in youthful
struggle to control his joy, and-and
at the sight of him, Katherine lost her
wits entirely.
who and what have we been har-
boring in this house, Cousin John2'
she shrieked in high thin voice, strug-
cling to her feet. "A gutter rat, lit
lie snake, a loose girl"
Each word, brought out with greater
Tehemence and passion than the one
lefOre, struck the listeners dumb. In
hame-faced misery. Tonnibel sank to
ne floor, dropping her head into her
ands.
"Oh, no, I'm not that" she walled.
BY mummy never lived in the gutter;
be never did. was poor, awful
Dor"
"POOrl" exclaimed Katherine. You're
'orse than poor. suppose you've
heedled Philip the same way you
ave Cousin Paul"
katherine, l command you to be
lent. shouted Pendlehayen. "If you
y another word, shall ask you to
ave my house"
'aVclI, neVerp screamed Mrs. Cur
And you too sarah" thrust in the
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1921-03-31
HOPE SPRINGS EternaI.

Mayme-There! Didn't tell your
You asst when you'd get married an
the ouija board SEE "Never!"
Gert-Wait fer the finish. It's gon-
to spell out Never fear. You'll be
wed sOon."-HouSton Post
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1921-03-31
"Pd like to kill her"
GRO BE CONTINUED
The ProbIem al Preaent

The Problem at Present.
"Do people in society talk about one
another"
= "Not as much as they used to" said
Miss Cayenne. "They seem to be let
ting one another alone and talking
about their servants"
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1921-03-31
&[lal
Trophies Of the Chase

Motorson-Was that guy we hit
hurt badly?
Speedup-I dunno. I just got out
to cut button Off his coat to put in
my collection of trophies.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1921-03-31
A cone.Raek

II wouldn't be a fool if were you 7"
"That's the only sensible thing
you've said during this discussion. If
you were you certainly wouldn't be
a fool"
The Washington times., 1921-03-16
MARCH 16, 1921
City Club on the Way to
Its :NelU Home
By BILL PRICE

"Let's go is the enthusiastic cry of the members Of
the City Club they prepare to again take up the project
of building their home the original plans for which
halted almost year ago owing to unavorable f.
nancial and other conditions.
The new plan, unanimously approved by the board Of
governors and again last night by special ways and
committee of 100 of the most prominent and energetic
members of the club, is to be submitted to the full
bership tonight with every prospect that the approval
then will be equally unanimous.
The plans conceived and matured by THOMAS
BONES of the ables and most successful builders of
Washington will give the club commodous home its
street ste Fourteenth the bottom floor of which
will be four large producing stores and
of the top floors large auditorium with capacity adapted
to local needs.
The City Cubbers entering upon the project with
characteristic vim and determination and there little
doubt that Washington is assured of permanent club
house for of its chief civic organizations suitable
only for the club itself but constructed for by other
organizations.
The civic spirit of Washington will note with interest
and approval the grit of the City Club in determining
be the first in the District to its home.
The Washington times., 1921-03-16
Stars and Stripes

A boaster is a fellow whose memory has
devoured his modesty.
A dog may either lick the hand or bite
the heel; a servile flatterer does both.
The man who is blind to his own faults
and deaf to the praise of others is never
dumb in regard to his own virtues.
It takes two to make bad company.
Inefficiency has slain it's hundreds; but
indifference, its thousands.
Discomfort arises not so much from the
i'll that befalls US as from the good fortune
that visits others.
Brave men face trouble; towards sur
render to pleasure.
Initiating genius is like borrowing fire:
soon it is nothing but ashes.
Authority is like rubber; stretched too
far, it will either break or snap back.
A character stai I'D by slander can be
washed by truth; { character tarnished
by conduct can never be rubbed bright
Love is blind, but never has to ask its
way.
Who peddles gossip buys his wares for
nought, sells them for nought, and so gains
nought
The Washington times., 1921-03-16
THE GEILINGER PUZZLE.

The wonderful line puzzle of FRED
EILINGER-declared by the fans to
have been the cleverest they ever
saw-brought S37 answers to II and
S. There Is an almost unanimous
demand for more puzzles from this
author.
OF the S37 answers just FOUR got
the missing word. All the others.
however. solved the words in the
puzzle. These were:
81 can shake my shoulders.
! can shake my knees;
But 1t takes a hot shimmy to SHIN on
Heard and Seen column of nuts.
What is the thirty fourth word"
1t was noted by Il. G. MILLER that
the last sentence isn't interrogatory.
That was what GEILINGER had in
mind. In other words he stated that
"WHAT, is the 34th word, putting
emphasis on the WHAT. If the SEN
tcnce had been interrogatory, some
other word would have been neces-
sary. Geilinger at first contemplated
placing an Interrogation point afte-
the last word and then making
MISSING" the missing word. mas
much as it was truly missing except for
the emphasis laid on what"
Those who win the auto lock at
tachments. and can get them by call
ing at Room 1856. Munsey building,
are MAYE SADTLER. 1923 22nd
street; EARL II. CRISTIAN, 1915
Corbin place northeast; Miss ANNA
HARVEY. 1929 30th street northwest:
r. +. SMITH. Accotink, Va.
ERNEST MUELLER, 835 Quebec
place, said the 34th word was
MISSING" and is probably entitled
to the ifth lock attachment.
There were some clever cracks
about the puzzle. w. II. LAWSON.
BaIIston, Va, writing his answer.
said: Say, Bill. you AUToLoCK US
both up"
S. c. CROSS, 1919 F street. added
these lines to his solution:
It's a shame to take the money:
It's a shame to take the locks;
But Lizzy needs protection,
To keep her where she stops
May C. remarked: I'm almost cock
eyed looking for tho 34th word"
AS to the 34th word, L. b. KEEDY.
Msrtinsburg. w. Va. wrote: you
tell 'em. kid"
]. w. T. thought the missing word
was "whiskey;" DEL ]. HICKS, "clev-
err" I. SELTZER. Indian Head. Nd.
eureka" Master CHARLES BECK.
Times" ". DECKER. "shimmy;" A.
II. WALL. "autolock;- e. i. p, "there
amt any" TEXAS at TECH" -there
amt none:" OCCOQUAN, barrel"
which he saw formed by some of the
letters: w. C. McGINNISS. "sneeze;"
G. +. BAKER, peanuts"
DOROTHY ]. wrote that she once
had a sweetheart who was sneaky."
and he wrote her letters like the puz-
zle asking her to elope.
The Washington times., 1921-03-16
as;1EARlsn n55EElf41

THEY ALL FLOP, ETC.
Rose?
She's a cute little dancer with burIeous
shows
With short silken socks and scads of good
clothes
(where does she get them?-rhs Lord
only knows)
She ought to be happy; but great are her
woes;
For Bella dear Bella. has warts on her
nose.
But you amt heard tho half how the sad
story goes
1t made me quite dippy when she kicked
her toes;
rushed to the stage-door right after the
close
And in less than an hour to her I did
propose.
For what did care bout the warts on her
nose
Don't the good books say there are
thorns on the rose?
But what did do7 Will someone disclose
The reason I'm picked for all Ife's woesY
For Bella each night goes through all my
And sauanders the pickins' on ten-doilar
hose.
could keep 'ieven horses on the money she
throws:
And now it is l. my dear friends thars
morose. OHIO.
The Washington times., 1921-03-16
Conceit is militant ignorance.

Conceit is militant ignorance.
To despair is not only to surrender, but
ts betray the best that is in us.
Untrue friends are like shadows, cling
Tag to us in the bright light of prosperity,
but deserting us in the dark of adversely.
When a woman dresses extravagantly in
urder to keep her husband in love, she often
loses him because he can't keep her in
dresses.
It. is harder to dispute with a stupid
man than with a wise one.
A wrong remembered is wrong in
sreased; a wrong forgotten is wrong
deceased.
small mind is like a large SPONGE
which little knowledge can swell to great
proportions.
When the people allow a politician to
betray them twice, they become party to
the betrayal
Bad habits in youth lay heavy mortgage
on mans estate.
A snake may shed its skin, but never its
fangs.
It took ages Of evolution to set man on
the throne Of reason; but a single moment
sf passion can upset him
The Washington times., 1921-03-16
HUMANlSMS
william Athert0n Du Puy-

The task Of meeting the demands of audiences
is mean one. says Congressman Philip p. Camp
bell, chairman OF the House Committee on Rules.
Audiences have a way of insisting.
There the of one gathering which he
addressed in very large and very packed hall
where the acoustics were bad and the assemblsge
noisy. He couldn't make the folks in the back
OF the room hear.
The cry OF Louder. louder" came insistently.
Mr.. Campbell shrieked, but to no avail The cries
were repeated Finally there pierced the confus-
ion clear and bell-like call from the gallery.
which Mr.. Campbell holds. sums up the mod
demand of the audience upon the public
speaker. This voice said:
Louder and funnier."
Senator Pat Harrison, not long ago received a
reminder of the time when he was newsboy in
Crystal Springs, Miss. and used to sell the Mem
phis and New Orleans papers.
1t caused him to run through the intervening
years, four of them in college. where he worked
at $50 month, OF which he paid ~ Tor BOARD - ana
laundry. 1t was during these two lonesome
years that he read law and passed his bar ex-
aminatons Then there were six years as dis
trict attorney. eight years in the House OF Rep
resentatives, two years In the Senate and all by
the time he forty.
And this package that he got was from silver
Springs. 1t seems that they were tearing up
tho floor of the railway station down there and
underneath 1t they found roll of fifteen Mem
phis papers addressed to Pat Harrison.
their tale of a careless baggage man and a sad
day in the life of newsboy who failed his Gus
toners.
Dr.. Robert S. Woodward. for sixteen years
resident of the Carnegie Institution, of Washing
ton. and for fifty-five years an active worker in
advanced scientific circles. having reached the
age of seventy-two. has retired
In doing he sent out a card to his friends
which said that "he hopes to resume his ancestral
profession of farming and his adopted profession
OF civil engineering" To me he explained that he
thought advisable to retire while still vigorous
and avoid the tragedy OF being put out after he
had begun to fail.
At the same time he told me of his plans for
prosecuting future scientific work. There is
greater tragedy, he said. than tnat of the man
who had led active life trying to quit alto
gether He had just been talking with an army
surgeon. That gentleman had confirmed the
theory that army and navy officers, retiring
vigorous men in the early sixties. usually die
within five years. Having been active for
long idleness kills them 1t robs them of TWEEN
ty years
Copyright, 1891 by Public Ledger Coz
The Washington times., 1921-03-16
We TOWNE GOSSIP
Registered u. 8 Patent OfAc&
X. C.. B.

''The postal establishment is not an insti-
tuition for profit or politics; it is an institu-
ton for service. Every effort shall
be made to humanize the industry. Labor
is not a commodity. That idea was aban-
doned 1921 years ago next Easter.
There are 100000 employees fairly
treated and properly appreciated, all partners
with us here in this great enterprise, we can
do the job."-Postmaster General Will H.
Hays to the employees of his department.
The Washington times., 1921-03-16
OnCe-Overs
Copyright. 1921 Internst onal Feature Service. Inc
AN EVEN TEMPER.

Copyright. 1s2I 1nternati onaI Feature Servoe Inc
AN EVEN TEMPER
J. J. MUNDY.
There are days when you feel so blue that you
don't give a tinkers dam whether school keeps
or not.
Tempted you are to tell the boss that you are
through you let your imagination go on a ram
page, and then you sure you have not been
given a fair deal.
Then you go at your work in a disinterested
manner, and possibly while in this mood the
boss is looking upon you with favor for better
job. .....
He notes a change in the quality Of your
vice and your chance is gone.
In the past, such spells have killed other
chances-who knows?
II you a moody man, you are not the right
kind to put over other men.
You may think that other men In your depart
ment are to be envied because they seem always
good natured and seldom complain of little all
ments
1t 10 better control of themselves which they
have. not immunity from trials and suffering.
The Washington times., 1921-03-16
OLD BOTTLES.

There is a scarcity OF
bottles in Europe with the
result that the demand for
secondhand bottles Is un-
precedented. In the pre-war
days the empty "bubbly"
bottle was a drug on the
market. The rag-and-bone
merchant would give small
sums for whiskey. port,
sherry, burgundy and claret
bottles, but the champagne
bottle was on the black
list. Today II IL the king of
the empty bottle tradA
The Washington times., 1921-03-16

Vaslon ana military suDJugatlOn OF
the German Republic.
And what is the object of that in
vasion and proposed subjugationi
That question involves as many
answers as there are motives in the
tortuous and altogether abominable
villainy that dignifes its lies, thefts
and murders with the name of di-
plomacy.
Fear, hate, power, dominion, spoils,
military "glory"-all these motives
play their part in the hearts and
minds of the men who are melting
and planning the fresh invasions,
the fresh wars, the fresh conquests
with which the tormented and un-
happy peoples of Europe are being
threatened.
Entrenched behind their cannon,
ringed with bayonets, the land COW
cred with their armies and the seas
covered with their warships, these
plotting diplomatists and military
chiefs do not appear to suspect even
that their cannon may be turned
against them, that their soldiers
may bayonet them, that they may be
victims of those means of murder
which they have so literally pre-
pared for the slaughter Of the
masses.
They have seen with their own
eyes the Romanoff dynasty destroy
ed and the Car shot by his own
soldiers and subjects.
They have seen the Hohenzollern
and the Hapsburg dynasties de-
stroyed and the two kaisers driven
into exile by their own soldiers and
subjects.
And the fall of these three ancient
dynasties, under the blows of peo-
piles who had been ruled by these
royalties and their nobilities for
does not seem to have
taught either Lloyd George and his
Tory chiefs, or Aristide BRAND and
his military chiefs, that cannon and
bayonets cannot defend a govern
ment from it's own peoples rage and
despair, whenever that rage and de-
spair permeate the ranks of the
soldiers who are drawn from the
people.
The next two or three years, the
next few months, it may be, will de-
termine the ultimate fate of Eu-
rope s peoples, and the fate of those
ancient institutions of government,
law, property, exchange, credit and
the varied relations of capital and
labor which have long constituted
the framework of civilization.
French armies and British fleets
have begun to move in martial array
against the peoples of Centrad Eu-
rope and Russia, and this very year
may be the moment from which
future historians will date the be-
ginning of the fall of the established
and institutions of Eu-
rope and the beginning of the do
minion-however temporary it may
the Soviets and the Red
flag over every state and capital
from Moscow to Madrid and from
London to Delhi.
The Washington times., 1921-03-16
Anglo-French Imperialism
Is Inviting the Red Flag
THE only thing that can be said
about Europe with certainty is

THE only thing that can be said
about Europe with certainty is
that it is being steadily driven
in the direction of a war which will
surpass al. vars the world has seen
in violence and destruction.
Other wars have been national
wars, Government against Govern
ment.
This war will be a civil war
class against class.
The folly of the responsible lead
ers who are inviting this conflict
cannot be measured in words.
All the world knows how foolishly
and to what tragic ends the leaders
wrought at Paris. But all the folly
of the responsible Three and all the
woe their folly brought upon the
world will be light indeed when
weighed in the balances of fate
against the folly that is now regnant
in Paris and London, and the woe
which that folly will bring upon
broken and tormented Europe.
There is not a single State in
Europe which does not contain ma
jority, or very powerful minority,
of proletarians who are ready to
overthrow the governments and seize
the property and destroy the lives of
all capitalists, big or little.
The only thing which has held
these revolutionary sentiments in
check has been the steadying in
'f1uence of the bourgeoisie-of what
we, here in America, vaguely call
the middle class.
And just as Germany was former
ily the industrial balance wheel of
Europe's peaceful economic strife,
so Germany has been the political
balance wheel of Europe's class
strife.
If the German people, in rage and
despair, decide to throw Germany
into the arms of the Red Interna-
tionale, and decide that they would
rather take friendly dictation from
lLenin than to submit to the vindic-
tive dictation of Foch and his negro
lhordes, then the edifice of European
society, which has so long endured
the blows of circumstance and the
attacks of time, is doomed to fall
before the storms of revolution and
the assault of armed communism.
! Both Lloyd George and Aristide
Briand are playing a game of per-
sonal politics and domestic triumph.
but both are playing with fire, with
dreadful, terrible, consuming fire.
These men know we'll that they
can never get the enormous price of
defeat which they demand that Ger
many shall pay.
If the soil of Germany could be
scraped clean of every vestige of
wealth-crops, tools, buildings, ma
chinery, railroads and everything
else-and the very soil itself could
be confscated, it would scarcely pay
the bill presented.
What, then. is the object of the
British and French leaders in de-
manding the impossiblei Why, clear
" to find some excuse for the in
The Washington times., 1921-03-16
Mr.. B. Baer
RUMMANCE AND ROMANCE.

There seem to be but two
rules in romance this year.
Ask no questions and bury
your own dead. Question of
etiquette in Chicago whether
a lady should shoot her af-
fnity without a proper in
PRODUCTION.
The Washington times., 1921-03-16

The couple that mistake
rummance for romance are
the couple that wind up get
ting their marriage certifi-
cate from the county coro-
ner. The marriage ceremony
is. a coroners autopsy and
there are twelve best men in
the jury box.
The Washington times., 1921-03-16
EVERYBODY FALLING IN
FOR TIE PyC nav


Everybody's tumblinx in 40 fast for
the BIG DAY. April 1, that It begins
to look as IL H and 8 fans have
staged the most interesting April 1
event ever known.
Here's letter from SYDNEY
ASHBRIDGE, secretary of the AR
CADE COMPANY, which states that
his company has arranged to stage =
monster Heard and Seen danca"
the night Of April 1:
Rowing to the popular dsm,rs ~
furnish a hitting meeting place for
me clever contributors and readers
OF that Wonderfully clever section Of
THE TIMES. we have decided 10
nsse monster Heard and Seen
10. D.nss. In tn. Arcade Auditorium os
thoss charming deeuts ntes the Misses
sisted by Messrs. wall, Brazil ana p
Nuts. and chsperoned by old Mrs.
Butter Mutt. and we take pleasure in
very clever people who are noted con.
tbst eys,tSuI 20 De rs, tns guests Of honor -
II is needles. to add that the man
:semssnt :ass win take great pieasure IN
,,nr,n ,nr,nishinss appropri.te decorations
casion and that our refreshm.nt de-
partments will be well stocked with
NDiritious NUT Sundaea
trusting that we have you a. cN
chief guest of honor, we are
very sineerely yours,
ARCADE COMPANY.
All over Washington the fans are
getting fancy nut emblems ready to
wear that day. There1l he some
wonderful mementoes OF the day.
JUST ME-" for instance, is paint
ing a face on the largest peanut she
can find and is dressing II with rib
bon. "MARGIP' is to wear a pe
nut dressed In lavender ribbon. ak
so on through the ranks. ALA.
READERS Of II and =, as we'll ~
"contribs" are enthusing over IL
BIG DAY.