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The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-11-03


the driver, turned a corner and passed
into an apartment hsise for bachelors
He took the elevator to the third tiOor
and rang an electric hell ut door
which carried the name mfr. Claren
don Brmmfield."
From the man who came to the dool
Mr.. BrOmfeld's visitor learned that he
was not well and could receive nc
callers.
"Just mention the Omnum club
and say I'm here on very important
business" said Jerry with a sour grin
The reference served as a pass~ ORD
Jerry was admitted to meet a hos,
quite unable to control his alarm. At
sight of his visitor Bromfield jumped
up angrily. As soon as his man had
gone he broke out in subdued
scream.
"You rotten traitor! Get out of my
room, or I'll call the police"
Durand found a comfortable chair,
drew case from his pocket and Sc
lected a cigar. He grinned with evil
mirth.
you will, ehI Like HI you Will.
You're hldIn' from the cops this
blessed minute. I've just found out
myself where you live"
"You took my money and threw me
down. You hired gunman to kill
me-"
"Now. what would l do that fort
hadn't thing In the world against
you. an haven't now"
"That Id rufiiun shot at me. He
was still shooting when l struck him
with the chair" cried Bromfield, his
voice shaking.
"He didn't know 1t was yOu-mis-
took you for Lindsay In the darkness"
"My Cd. didn't mean to kill him.
I had to do something"
"You did 1t all right"
II told you there wasn't to be any
violence. II was explicitly stated.
You promised. And all the time you
were planning murder. I'll tell all /
know. BY Cd, I Will"
go easy, Mr.. Bromheld," snarled
Jerry. "If you do, where do we think
you'll get off att"
IN go to the police and tell them
your hired gunnan was shooting at
u.s."
"Will you now? An I'll have plenty
Of good witnesses to swear he wasn't"
DuraDd barred his teeth In a threat.
"Thats not all, either. I'll tie you up
with the rube from the West and send
you up to Sing Sing as accessory.
How'd you like that?"
IF tell the truth"
you'll be convicted of murder in
place of him and he'll go up as Access
sorry. / don't care two straws how it
Is. But you'd be id fool. I'll say
that for you"
''I'm not going to let an innocent
man suffer in my place. 1t wouldn't
be playing the game"
Durand leaned forward and tapped
the table with his ingert tips. His voice
rasped like file. You can't save
him. He's goln' to get it right. But
you can hurt yourself HI Of lot.
Get out of the country and stay out
till it's all over with. That's the hest
thing You can do. Go TO the Hawaiian
islands, man. That's good healthy
climate an the hotel cooking's lot
better than 1t is at Sing Sing"
81 can't do it," moaned the cIubman.
"My Cd, man, il 1t ever came out
that I'd paid money to--to--ruin his
reputation. and that I'd run away
when l could have saved an innocent
man--Td be done for. I'd be kicked
out of every club I'm in
1T won't ever come out If you're
not here. But II you force my hand
well, that's different" Again Jerry's
grin slit his colorless face. He had
this poor devil where he wanted him,
and he was enjoying himself.
'.What do you want me to do.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-11-03
CHAPTER XVIII
2 umfleld Makes an Offer.

A youth with face like a fox
sided up to Durand In the hotel lobby
and whispered In his ear. Jerry nod
ded CURLY. and the man slipped away
as furtlvely as he had come.
Presently the ex-prize-fighter got up,
sauntered to the street and b"''ed a
taxi. Twenty minutes later he paid
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-11-03
ATTENTION, sTOCKMEN

Anyone who may have missing 6
two (2)-year old steer, may call OF
me and / may be able TO locate the
same for him or give him such infor'
nation, after Identification, as to the
whereabouts of the steer. II. o
Kennon, Esther, Mo. 43-2t
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-11-03

New flake hominy at Klein's.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-11-03

CHAPTER X--Beatrice resents Lind
says interest in Kitty. Though not ad-
hitting il even TO herself. she is becoming
attached to the Arizonan. as he is to her.
The two part In anger
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-11-03

FOREWORD. Motoring through Ari-
coma, party of fasteners. father and
daughter and q male companion, stop 10
witness a cattle round up. The giE leaves
the car and is attacked by wild steer
A masterpiece of riding on the part OF
bne Of the cowboys saves her life.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-05

but for the spirit in which their husbands
provide for them.
1t is the knowledge that a man tolls with
gladness for her sake, that he is willing to
make sacrifices and bear hardships to keep
her safe, that he bares his breast to the
storm to protect her, that his strong arm
stands between her and the world, for which
the woman is thankful-and not for the few
loaves and fishes, for any able-bodied WON
an can earn them for herself with less labor
outside of the home than in it.
In this question of gratitude between hus-
band and wife is to be found the root Of
very large percentage of domestic unhappi-
ness. For the thing that disillusions most
married couples is the thing that gets on
their nevers and makes them disgruntled
with each other, the thing that makes them
give up trying to please each other, and ask,
whats the use?" is the callous indiffer
ence with which each regards the others
sacrifices and labors.
1t isn't too much to say that the lack of
appreciation is the root of all domestic evil.
1t is the lack of even a common THANK you
or a perfunctory, "It was nice of you to re-
member" that takes the pep and thrill out
of family life, and makes men and women
start out a still hunt for somebody who
doesn't think that the best you can do for
them is no more than their due, and not
worth mentioning.
1t is mighty hard to keep on giving to
people who take without gratitude. It is
mighty difficult to keep UP your interest
in doing for people who never show any ap-
probation of what you do for them,
and, on the other hand, we are all
willing to work our fingers to the bone, and
deprive ourselves of our last cent for those
who keep the incense pot burning before u.s.
and tell us how great, and wonderful, and
generous we are, and what providence we
to them.
There isn't a man in the world who
doesn't love to give to the wife who goes into
ecstacies over his presents or who appre-
ciates the slightest act he does for her, who
never let's him forget how grateful she is to
him for everything he does for her, and how
fine and noble, and strong he is. There isn't
a woman living who doesn't squeeze the last
cent out Of dollar for the husband who is
always thanking her for being such help
meet to him, nor is there any wife who
doesn't willingly make burnt offering Of
herself for the husband who eats his dinner
while caroling a chorus of thanksgiving to
the best cook in town.
In their souls, most husbands and wives
do appreciate each other, and are grateful
for all that the other does for them Why
they should be so mean and niggardly in
expressing their sentiments, nobody knows,
but they would rather die, or be divorced,
than say the words that would turn matri-
mony from an endurance test to a picnic.
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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-05

but found. 1t is the best grass land of
Europe, and is used for raising small grain
and fruit and for pastures.
1t is interesting to find that the soils of
old Bohemia are almost identical with those
of southeast Pennsylvania, known as Cnes-
ter soils; and that the soils of southern Ger
many resemble the best part of Kentucky,
the Shenandoah valley of Virginia and the
Lebanon and Cumberland valleys of Penn
sylyania. With all the variety of soils in
this country immigrants of Germany and b.
hemia have settled in regions where the soils
are similar to those at home. This may &C.
count to some extent for the success of the
German farmers in the east.
Greece Like Arizona
Few of us have ever thought of the soil
of Greece as being anything like land in this
country, yet there is parallel. DR.. Marbut
compares the soils of Greece to those near
Tucson, Arizona. In both regions the soils are
reddish in color and have hardpan subsoil.
The Greek farmers had the ideal of pro-
ducing their own grain, wine and oil, and
sitting under their own fig trees, and the
farmers Of Greece still grow grapes, olives,
figs and wheat.
Crops are meager there because of the CHI
mate. The rainfall of Athens is only about
IL inches, and it all falls in winter. Irriga-
ton is almost impossible because there are
rivers from which sufficient water can be
taken. When you have country that is too
dry to grow alfalf~ ISIS, or clover there is
not much that can he done to rotate crops.
DR.. Marbut expects to make chemical
analyses of $50 soil samples he has brought
from Europe, and he says that analyses Of
the Greek and other soils may show differ
ences that his observations in Europe did not
reveal.
DR.. Marbut spent several days collecting
samples and studying the old soils on TIE
higher part of the Roman Campagna. Much
of the land about Rome is poor. However
there are soils near the city, mostly south
and some to the east, that have been farmed
for many centuries and still produce good
crops of alfalfa and wheat. Little live stock
is produced and apparently very little fer
tilizer used. Samples of soil from alfalfa and
wheat fields along the Appian Way were
brought back for analysis.
European civilization was developed on
poor soils and the people of western Europe
have struggled for centuries with the soil
problem. DR.. Marbut says. In this part of
Europe the first attempt to improve farm
land came through the discovery that animal
manures enrich soil. Then they discovered
that by resting the soil one year in three pro-
duction would be increased That was the
beginning of the three field system of feudal
times.
Even that did not solve the problem Of
raising crops on impoverished soil. EVentu-
ally man do 0vered that by growing grass he
not only helped the soil but he could feed
more live stock and so have more animal
waste to put on the soil. The latest stage in
soil history was the discovery of chemical fer
tilizers about Is years ago.
Now there are soil bureaus and experts.
DR.. Marbut of our government bureau of soils
is member of the International Conference
of Soil Scientists.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-05
ANDREW AND IMOGENE
BY ROE FULKERSON.

BY ROE EULkEKSON,
T%HEY had turned out the light and Andrew
was roofing deep into his pillow to go to
sleep when lmogene sighed deeply.
whats the matter?" he asked, "some of your
sins resting heavily on you tonight"
"No," said Imogene, "rny sins are few and
my troubles are many. 1t is the latter that
worry me but Just then l was signing over one
in particular.
"That sigh was over the fact that there is
such thing as refrigerator pan in the world.
believe the refrigerator pan has been my
greatest domestic trial
"Many and many time have l gone to
perfectly good bridge party in the afternoon
and been satisfied with the way my clothes
looked, get nice hands, get along to the place
where it looked like was sure to win prize,
then get nice trump hand and while in
the midst of it the refrigerator pan would rise
up before me like spectre and | would begin
to wonder whether it would run over before
got home and | would get the lead in the
wrong hand and lose my prize.
81 90 over to the movie show in the evening
without thing my mind and sit there ex-
pecting to get an hour and hairs fun Tor
twenty cents and then they flash kitchen
scene on the screen and | see refrigerator
and suddenly remember that forgot to empty
the pan under ours before | left the house and
at once to come home to attend to ii.
"A refrigerator is like step-child. No one
ever thinks of it until it is too late to do it
any good.
"The last time we went out motoring out In
the country was having the best time of my
life until Billy Sands began to talk about
refrigerator he was having built for his car and
remembered had not emptied the pan under
ours at home and l was miserable all the rest
of the trip.
eve have had plenty of servants in our time
and most of them have been good ones, too,
but have never yet seen girl who could
remember to empty the refrigerator pan. They
just simply will not do it,
Andrew Snored oStentatiously.
"Now, you cannot fool me any more than
can fool you,' went on Imogene.
"You know that am worried about whether
that pan is emptied or not and you know that
l am not going to sleep until until know
Again he snored in different key.
"Uf course l can CO." she said, "but you
know went down there once in my bare feet
and stepped on "a water bug / will have to
hunt for my bedroom slippers and cannot find
them without turning the light and you will
get just as much walked up as if you went
down and empted the pan and"
"I'n go, I'll CO." said Andrew, Jumping out
of bed and going down stairs. He was gone
five minutes and then returned sullenly to bed.
"Had it been emptied?" asked Imogene
Sweetly.
"Of course" replied Andrew. gruffly.
81 thought it had replied Imogene, 'but |
was not sure"
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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-05

A woman wants 20 know if think that
wife should be grateful to her husband be-
cause he supports her.
She says that her husband always insists
that wife should exist in an attitude Of
perpetual Thanksgiving towards her husband
as the source from which all blessings flow
and that he is forever reminding her of how
much he does for her, and telling her how
grateful she hsould be to him.
And she desires to know what / think
about it.
OF course q woman should be grateful to
her husband If he is good to her. If she is
married to man who is tender, and kind,
and considerate, who provides her with a
comfortable home, and a safe shelter, she
should go down on her knees and thank God
every night of her life for having given her
the best gift that can come to any woman.
And she should not go into her closet and
shut the door when she offers up her prayer
Of thanksgiving. She should pray aloud in
public, within earshot Of her husband so
that he may know that she appreciates his
efforts in her behalf.
But there is no more reason for woman
to be grateful to her husband than there
is for a husband to- be grateful to his wife.
What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the
gander. Husbands do not make any greater
sacrifices for their wives than their wives
do for them. Husbands do not bestow any
greater favor on their wives than their wives
bestow on them.
Indeed, a Womans gift to a man is far
greater than any present he make her,
because she gives herself, and if her hus-
band does not value the gift, she has no
compensations as he has if his wife does not
appreciate what he does for her. A man,
for instance, works primarily to provide his
wife with luxuries and keep her comfortable,
and safe, but he has a secondary pleasure
in his work because it gives him scone for
the exercise of his talents; it gives him the
thrill Of playing the biggest game in the
world and power and adulation if he sue
ceeds. He has these consultations, no mat
ter what his wife's attitude towards him is.
If, however, man does not appreciate
his Wife's Efforts to make him ore comfort
able, and her thought and care in saving
and economizing to help him, she has no
reward whatever. Her work goes for naught.
OF course, there are a few women who
are maintained like pampered pets in pal
aces, who are stuffed on tidbits, and clothed
in silks, and hung with diamonds and who
can make no return to their husbands for
all that is lavished upon them except by
being grateful to the hand that feeds them.
But the great majority Of wives earn their
board and keep Little Orphant Annie used
to say, by working about fourteen hours a
day for their lords and masters. What these
have cause to be grateful for is not their
alleged support-for goodness knows, they
support themselves hundred times over
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-05
Ladies IN Alaska

HIGHLY interesting development Of
N social conditions in Alaska is record
ed il statistics showing that the pro-
portion of males and females in our far
north territory is steadily approaching a
balance. The ratio has shifted from 1858
males to 100 females in 1900 to 1855 in
1920. Evidently the land once stressful
with hard adventure is acquiring the home
fires mellow glow.
Something of the details of the trend is
suggested in the report of the Eugenics Re-
search Association, which says Of Alaska,
4ndIstrially, eugenically, and socially, the
great need of the territory is settlers who
owe into the region with their families.
Perhaps the distribution of age groups with
sex-ratios indicates approaching stabiz& ton
of population. In 1920 the sex-ratios by age
groups were: 40 and more years of age,
3O45 males to 100 females; 20 to SO years
Of age, I'LL males to 100 females; under
. years of age 1907 males to 100 females. "
1t is worth noting by way of comparison
that in tie New England States the proper
ton of males to females 9S.5, in the South
Atlant' region 1912, and in the West North
Central 1921.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-05
THE DESERT BY NIGHT
BY JOHN BROCK

tn HE MOHAVE DESERT in midsummer
Ever since the days of the gold rush
caravans this has been the boyle of
all VINO travel the roads. It's reputation is
still bad-and that is the worst of it. Not
live years back I crossed it in the bloom of
early spring. I tackled IL again with full
precautions, five-galIon can of gasoline.
announcer OF water, anu gallon of heavy oil
TO reinforce the tagging energies of two
leaky pistons. A Ford car is like a burro. M
matter how decrepit it looks or feels it will
get most anywhere; but it takes it's time.
OddIy enough it did not take as much time
as ! expected. The road out of Barstow was
cooIeo by sunset wind. Though I stopped
more than once to watch the crimson sky
tade out behind it's craggy horizon was start
lea 10 run onto a toe of rock which
seemed put out on purpose to Jog my mem.
DRY. Just behind it was Newberry Springs.
the last water-hole o the old DAYS when I
had failed to find it. -"
This time it could not be missed. Around
tne curve lights sprang into view Here stood
store, gasoline-station, hotel (by title and
courtesy If not by size) and, most startling of
az, a sW1mmlng-pool. Modern tourist traffic
had paid the enterprising settler who had
sCaked his claim ovel the sunken lake which
underl1es the sand and cactus at this spot to
develop It's resources. Wonder of wonders
ne rad milk-iced milk at that!
me road beyond, once splintered rock as
lions which pave purgatory, had it's Edges
famed by wear. The great garage at Lud.
low, In the deserts !leart stimulates the sale
OF tires by advertising thirty miles Of bad
going either way. Bad it is Yet the pant.
Ing antiquity drove ploughed steadily
through it..
Night is the time for desert travelling. The
natives all know it, Hardly mile passed
that some jack-rabbit did not leap into the
path or my headlights and lope along as if he
thought he could escape more easily if he
coul'. see just where he was going and his
rabbit md could not connect them with the
Following wheels. Once a coyote darted out
at his rapid, creeping run, and snatched one
from before me-
The changing outlines Of the friendly hills
see"l to open ever new vistas lure me on.
Inc lights of Amboy twinkled at my feet when
turned into hollow between two spires and
Threw out my blanket. I did,. feel the need
OF town. l wanted - lie there in the silence
ana count the stars. For heaven is very near
TO earth on the Mohave So many tiny
CLEANS spangle the velvet sky they seem all
most to touch. A little owl flew out to perch
on the top OF the car. He was still peering
Denlgn!y down at me when l. breeze like the
Dalmy breath of a day in May famed me to
sleep.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-05
DID YOU KNOW THAT

A refinery has been opened in England to
refine the crude oil brought from Persian
fields, 5000 miles away.
Peanuts, u~kno7 in Senegal a few years
ago, now form more than SO per cent Of
the total exports from that part of Africa.
Human blood contains the same salts in
similar proportions as are found in
water.
Although no coffee has been planted in
Haiti in 120 years, the wild, weedy fields
will probably produce 60, 900 pounds of
coffee this year.
London is now largely dependent upon
the motor vehicle for her supply of market
garden produ e.
The early lighthouses were lighted with
open fires and tal,ow candles were used in
the Eddystone light for more than a hun
dred years.
The whales ancestors were land animals
and the whale still has vestiges of hind
legs.
The dead beat escapement and the mer-
curial pendulum, still used today, were in
vented by George Graham early in the
Eighteenth century and marked the begin
ming of accurate time-keeping in clocks.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-05
CONFESS IGNORANCE
By H, Addington Bruce

For many people, it would seem one Of the
most difficult things in the world is to say
frankly, II don't know when questioned re-
garding something of which they actually are
ignorant.
Instead of making the candid confession
they should, these misguided folk act on the
assumption that in such a case candor Is out
Of place. Promptly, and more or less i'm
pressively, they begin to dispense informa-
ton based wholly on guesswork.
They may, often they do, make lucky
hits" Just as often, when their information
is wide of the mark, those to whom they dis
pense it remain ignorant Of their ignorance
But, again and again, circumstances con-
spire to reveal the error, sometimes the abb
surdity, of their statements. Then not merely
is their ignorance revealed, but they are held
in amused contempt cheats and pretend
erS.
Which, in truth, is what they are. More
than this, since they know themselves to be
cheats and pretenders, they live always in
the terror of being found out. Thus to live
is good neither for their peace Of mind nor
for their general welfare. The fear-beset are
seldom at a high level of creative efficiency
Yet for some mysterious reason the pre-
tenders to knowledge usually continue to
cling to their pretending. Possibly as Sharp
err Knowlson has suggested, this is because
of the general generalization put on the pos
session of knowled ge-in-the-mass Thereby:
ly my ignorance Of the subject in which you
have specialized, or your ignorance of my
speciality, but ignorance Of the exact science
of the moon, Of dates in history, and of the
authorship of notable quotations from poets
and prose writer's.
$50 long as the Observation-Disclosures
ideal prevails, so long will it exact punish
ment for disobedience to it's laws. He that
knoweth shall be saved, and he that know
eth not shall be damned; such is the law"
But it is equally the law that detected pre-
tense-aye, and pretenso undetected-brings
heavier penalties still. To be justly despised
is certainly more CALLING than unjustly to
be held in disesteem. And it is misery colossal
to be unable to be on good terms with ones
self-as pretenders can never be.
Hence to say boldly 81 do not know" when
one does not know is the course of wisdom
as of honesty. 1t may mean temporary loss
of prestige. But it means, too, the retaining
of self-respect. And there are few things so
important as that.