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you-that this young man-you
mean"
why" she returned, smilingly,
yes, of course, we're to be married
soon. Fred has been away few
weeks on business. He's just re-
turned. l knew you'd want to meet
him right away"
But Emerson's face, reflecting his
shifting emotions as plainly as If
they had been spelled out before her.
became tense, serious, questioning.
why" Gloria began, appealingly,
you don't think THAT ia. you
didn't expect newly. John, surely
you weren't serious with me-" And
she broke forth in ripple of laugh
ter why, John, you're old enough
to be my father!"
The man from Southern California
recoiled. He could not speak He
only nodded his head. He was slowly
realizing what it meant. He was not
young! She did not think him young!
She never had thought him young!
These thoughts were quite slowly but
certainly stamping themselves upon
the mind and soul Of John Emerson.
He felt sick. He became faint. He
stumbled dumbly and kwardly
through the doorway.
Once In the open air he regained
control Of his stunned senses. His
first thought was of Mary. Her kind,
sad face came before him as in a
vision. A mail truck passed. He re.
called the letter. He must reach the
letter box where he had posted it
reclaim 1t and rush home to Mary
He raced down the crowded street
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XTHE DANGEROUS ACE
GdfRAD
I Of By
y anegahd 9h,t AoAona oaann.>

madly and reached the mail box final
ly, after what seemed ages to him.
He fumbled nervously at the lock. "A
policeman came leisurely toward him,
swinging night stick.
Say, Bud. it looks like I'll have
to run you in for tamperin' with the
mall" the policeman waned.
Cant get it, officer?' John cried.
Cant get it,"
Get what7"
my letter. l mailed it just few
oh, suppose an hour ago. Can
I get 1t back?"
And then he confided to the police
man, in sketchy, half delirious style,
what he had done. The officer, a
warm.hearted Irishman, took compass
sion upon the frantic man, and
promised to do what he could to help.
But they were assisted ever more by
the arrival at that moment of post
man, who threw open the box to
gather the letters, and began pour
ing them into his bag.
John Emerson pleaded with him
to look through the scores Of letters
for the one he had mailed, but the
postman refused to be persuaded.
TITS against the rules" he said.
Cant do 1t, old man."
But after somewhat lengthy ex-
PLANTATION of the situation from both
John and the policeman, the post
man relented, and the three went
carefully through the contents of the
large bag.
(To Be Continued)
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1NsTALLMENT NO. 6.
CHAPTER ~.

At this time uneasiness had pene-
trated the Emerson home. Mary. now
quite upset because of her failure to
hear from John regularly, feared many
things. or course, she had no know
ledge of what really was transporting.
But on this particular night, after see
ing carefully to closing the house and
mending stockings and arranging the
laundry, Mary CHANGED to choose from
Johns great row of books a novel en-.
titled 1.-THE Dangerous Age" which
caused her to conjure up frightful
visions that she had never before
dreamed could enter her mind.
The story, as she remembered it's
most important Incidents. had to do
with the affairs of middle aged man
and woman and happiness and
home She remembered distinctly, SO
distinctly that she could almost re-
peat its very words, that it had
stated that the dangerous age for
men is forty! That was her first
shock. John-yes, John was just for
tyi And the book had said that at
the dangerous age" men sometimes
sought out new fields-searched for
romance because it was SO often
denied them in their homes. It told
of a man who went to New York on
business ostensibly, but who while
there met and fell in love with
beautiful girl. 1t said that his poor
wife at home had sighed day after
day for letters from her loved one,
but they did not come. Until at last
one did come. And it was-not a
letter of love. 1t was letter telling
her that he had fallen in love and
would never return. And the book
said, too, that the wife, stricken with
grief, rushed to her room. Even
while her husband knocked at the
door to return and beg her forgive
ness the woman in the story had
sent a bullet into her brain and had
fallen in death.
Cold, limp, frightened, Mary Elmer
son sat long, thinking of that awful
climax. And it came suddenly to her
realization that after all John, too,
had fretted recently about things
little things, she thought-but many
little things. Rushing In upon her
mind also came the words of Ruth
Of that very afternoon. Ruth had
innocently enough repeated the ex-
preston of her father He had said
to her that a woman ought to always
be young, ought to always be a fell
lows sweetheart, ought never to grow
old fashioned and grumpy. And as
Mary remembered all these things,
the first definite feeling Of fear. of
sickness, Of foreboding of i'll came
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over her. She left her chair and stood
before the open window. listening to
the sounds fthe night. An owl
booted. Mary shivered.
"Oh," she sobbed at last, as she
turned away, IF he would only come
back. would show him. I'd not be
cross and fault-finding any more, nor
old fashioned Oh, I'm so miserable!"
And she fell weeping into the lounge
and lay there quite still.
In her mind she went back to the
time when she and John together
were as light-hearted and as filled
with the joyous spirit of children as
her own daughter of today She re-
membered him in those days, vigor-
GUS, young, handsome, chivalrous.
And she dainty little Miss who
blushed in his presence and felt her
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whom he very apparently considered
to be an unwelcome intruder.
Gloria spoke first. She drew away
from the young man. and gestured to
John to enter.
Come in, Mr.. Emerson" she said,
her voice ringing with clearness
which John had not heard before.
II want awfully to have you meet
Mr.. Tilson-Mr. Fred Tilson, my
fiance."
John had expected to demand an
explanation, but now he was not re-
quired even to do this. He stared
into the eyes Of the boy, then turned
sharply toward Gloria. In his eyes
the girl could read his thoughts. He
was mystified. And he was very
greatly alarmed.
"You mean," he said to her, that
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heart go sailing when he placed hi
hand upon her shoulder.


eff he would only come back now
I'm sure l could be the same as we
were then" she kept saying over and
over to herself. "Pd really like so to
be. I'll be young again. and happy,
and-and romantic"
But the man Of her thoughts stood
impatiently now on the threshold of
the Tuyl apartment He did not
know that few minutes previous to
his arrival an athletic young fellow
with inky black hair and almost
fierce brown eyes had passed over
the same threshold. He did not know
that this instant, just beyond the
closed door, this young man, to whom
6loria's hand In marriage had been
promised months before, stood clasp
ing her in his arms and implanting
upon her pink lips many kisses
kisses which bespoke the hearts of a
lass and lad in love.
John could not. understand why
the servant had refused to allow him
to enter as usual without ceremony.
He determined not to be so mis-
treated by a common butler. And he
advanced turned the knob, pushed
back the great door and looked in
upon flood Of light and picture
before him which set his head Keeling
ward-shocked. There, beneath the
huge candelabra Of the drawing room,
stood Gloria Tuyl and a ruddy faced
youth who now held her tightly to
him and gazed menacingly over her
shoulder into the eyes of the man
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Fancy Potato to Local Trade

AS result Of meeting of potato
growers in the county, the leading
merchants of Chewelah and COlville
have agreed to sell graded and sized
in %, 80 and 100 pound crates. All
crates will be labeled and the grade
guaranteed County Agent Henry
Plumb helped secure the cooperation
Of the local produce men to assist In
grading the potatoes and furnishing
warehouse facilities.
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Music hath charm to soothe the say
age beast--and even judge, says
Oscar Taylor, colored, of New York
City. He was arrested on a charge OF
Hsorderly conduct and in his cell
whiled away the hours by singing and
strumming his banjo. When he APP
peared in court, Magistrate We'll, com
plimented on his singing and suspend
ed sentence.
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POULTRY
(To Be Continued)

Eighty-tWo members of the 1923
winter poultry school of the western
Washington experiment station were
graduated on February 18th, at Puy-
allup. These students came from all
parts of the state, and at least, one
from Alaska, to take advantage of
the six weeks course in scientific
poultry raising. The western Wash
ington experiment station has estab-
lished the reputation of conducting
one of the best poultry schools to be
found anywhere. The success of the
school is largely due to the very
practical course given-actual work in
feeding, breeding, culling and selec-
ton.
Rhode Island Red hen owned by
L. A. Cathcart of Davenport has made
which Mr.. Cathcart states is unusual.
During the months of November, De-
cember, January, February and 20 days
in March, 100 days in all, the hen laid
1875 eggs, only missing four days dur
ing the entire period. Mr. Cathcart
recently moved the hen into another
pen, and the laying record has been
interrupted as a result. The hen was
kept in q separate pen all the time,
so there could be no mistake in the
number of eggs laid
Walter Ottevanger, Sunnyside, re-
ports a net profit on the eggs, pro-
duced during 1922, by 500 White Leg
horn pullets. His flock produced T.
1913 Ia dozen eggs which he sold for
an average Of 1877 cents per Dozen
making a gross return of $1,737.98,
from which he deducted $917.98 to
cover expense for feed, light, straw
etc. Mr.. Ottevanger got his start in
the poultry business by the purchase
of HOO day old chicks, in the spring
of 1921, from which he raised 500
pullets, whose work is here reported
His purchase of chicks was made
from Bridgman and Son, and Holly
wood farm. He expects to increase his
flock through the purchase of an addl-
tional order of 1000 chicks to be de-
livered this month.
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At Fiume, Italy, the Facisti break
into apartments, forcing the residents
TO utter the cry Hail, Hail, Italy"
Whoever refuses has some of their
sound teeth pulled out. Those vic
Tins are lucky. Over here we pay
money for it.
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A man arrested in Newark, NJ j.,
at the police station said his name
was Smith Asked to spell 1t, he
spelled S-t-e-c-k-e-r-t. Police remem.
bered that an Edward Steckert was
wanted for escaping from the New
Jersey state prison. 1t was him.
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Student docking at frogs in jar)--
There never was or never will be"
Observation-Disclosures was and never
will be what?"
Student-"Frogs with eyebrows"-
Elk
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do you always leave cards when
you call?'
"No, sometimes | leave pair Of
oyershoes or an umbrella"
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WORLDS NEWS
BRIEFLY RETOLD
Important News of Both Henri
spheres Boiled Down to
Last Analysis.

Detroit. Retail deliveries of Ford
cars and trucks for the month of
March reached the record-breaking
total Of 1898, 1t was announced here
by the Ford Motor company. This
marks the greatest selling month In
the history of the company
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Unrest among workers in England
was manifest in increasing proper
budget was placed before parliament.
Conferences between employers and
employees were scheduled this week
in builders, railway shopmen, pottery
workers, cotton millers, chemical
workers, shipyard and coal trimmers
trades. There has been strike or
lockout threatened in each of these in
dustries and hundreds Of thousands of
men are involved.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1923-04-27

Announcement is maed of the open
ing of 1876 acres of homestead and des-
ert land to ex-service men Of the world
war. The land is in Converse county,
Wyoming, in the Douglas land dis.
trict. 1t is open to entry for period
of 81 days, beginning May 8, 1923.
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Better living conditions are being
enjoyed by the peasants Of southeast
ern Europe. They are eating bread
for the first time in years-and meat.
a former Sunday luxury. The peas
ants wife is demand to be better
clothed, even buying astins, which she
swish"
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1923-04-27

Improved business conditions in the
packing industry were given as the
reason for the II per cent increase In
wages of 100000 workers, going into
effect Monday. Unlike the advances
during the wartime peak, the wage
increase agreed upon between man
agement and representatives of com
pany unions is not based on higher
living costs but on the proposition the
industry can better sustain a larger
pay envelope.
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NEW TO-DAY
BEES AND HONEY

finest QUALITY ALFALFA SWEET
clover honey, clean and sanitary, 0O'lb. can,
so so; two 60lb. cans $12.75, at Sunnyside
Wash; GOIb. Gun by parcel post anywhere
in second zone, 1929. King Clover, sunny
,iJ. Woub
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BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

BECK EEPERS PRICE LIST FREE OR IN
struction booklet explaining fully for dime
g. Spencer Apinrics, Sawtclle, Calf.
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Canadian mounted police say an
epidemic of violence has broken out
among the usually kindly and docile
Eskimos. Nine are under arrest for
murder and other cases are being in.
vestigated
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Solitary confinement for life in the
state prison at Marquette was the
sentence imposed upon the Rev. Faith.
err Charles Dillon, Catholic priest, Of
Kalamazoo, Mich, who confessed to
Staying the Rev. Henry ONeill, his
superior, last week.
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REGAL DoRCAS. WHITE wYANnoTTp
Matching eggs, $175 setting 80 per 100
repaid. A. Kruger, Colfax, Wash.
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A family of six can live on $110.85
month, Miss Florence Nesbit OF
United Charities declared In a budget
made public recently. The budget
provides for the mother. a working
girl of sixteen, and four children, from
four to ten years old. A total OF
$3.50 monthly is allowed for the work.
ing girls clothes. 1t does not include
rouge, permanent waves nor silk
stockings. Rent is allowed S18, food
$44.S5, and fuel $9.75.
Four mice got inside transformer
at the municipal power house at Lin
coin, England, and bit through the
rubber of a cable, plunging the town
into darkness The mice we're electro
cuted.
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FOR SALE-$3,00 900; acres fruit, overlook.
ing Luke Washington, block from paved high
way; 5room house, chicken house and gran
nry good location best OF soil; 80 minutes
from Seattle; stage and boat service. Fred
Brown. Kennydale Wash.
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SEEDS AND PLANTS

WANTED TO HEAR FROM OWNER OF
fnrm for snle. Describe fully-give lowest
price. H. III. Troll, Pendleton, Ore.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-06-13
Letters From Prominent People

law Of the land.
Sunday observance is religious
institution and its enforcement be-
longs to the Church and not the state.
There can be no such thing as a
Civil Sabbath" any more than there
can be civil Lords Supper, civil
baptism" etc. The influence which
placed Sunday laws upon our statute
books was from the church, and Sun
day laws for the compulsory obser-
vance Of Sunday bespeak union Of
Church and State to that extent. This,
of course, as you know, is contrary
to the fundamental law Of Wisconsin,
as we'll as against the fundamental
law Of the United States, which sets
forth the attitude of Americanism in
the language Of the first amendment.
Congress shall make no laws re-
speeding an establishment OF religion
or prohibiting the free exercise there
Of"
AS an evidence that Sunday laws
are at variance with the principles
upon which our government was
founded l quote from a Congressional
report of 1850 adverse to the enact
ment of Sunday law, namely, If
the measure recommended should be
adopted, it would be difficult for hui
man sagacity to foresee how rapid
would be the succession, or how nu-
merous the train of measures which
follow, involving the dearest rights OF
all-the rights Of conscience. 1t is
perhaps fortunate for our country
that the proposition should have been
made at this early period while the
spirit Of revolution still exists in full
vigor."
Such is the American doctrine of
Sunday legislation, the basis OF which
is the Declaration of Independence as
interpreted by our National and State
Constitutions. Vice-President Coo
lidge says, the Americanism needed
in America today is the Americanism
of the Declaration of Independence,
that life, liberty, and pursuit of hap
piness should be as much in the minds
of modern statesmen as they were IN
the minds of the pioneers of Ameri-
can liberty"
1t is, therefore, to be hoped that the
Legislature will enact into law the
amendment proposed by Representa-
tive Grain,
S. B. HORTON,
Religious Liberty Secretary.
Box 513, Madison, Wis.
Prof. Demaree EnfOrcedly NOncOm-
initial.
Kentucky Wesleyan College
Winchester, KY.
RALPH G. DEMAREE
Departments of Physics and
Mathematics.
Mr.. A. L. Sherman,
Lancaster, Wisconsin.
My Dear Sir:
Your letter requesting statement
regarding my views on the question
of the imaginary conflict between
evolution and religion has been re-
ceiyed l regret that | shall be I'M
able to send you such a statement as
| have agreed that l shall not discuss
the subject "for the press" before
May 10Th, 1923, at which time my re
lations with this institution termi-
nate.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-06-13
HELP WANTED IN LANCASTER
And Furnished by the Help of Lam
caster People.

Those who suffer with kidney back
ache, urinary ills or any little kidney
or bladder disorder want kidney
help. Who can better advise than
some Lancaster resident, who has
also suffered, but who has had relief.
Lancaster people recommend Doan's
Kidney Pills. Here's one case and
there are many others.
L. w. Hounsell, county treas,
Washington ST., Lancaster, says:
II used Do1n's Kidney Pills some
years ago when suffering from dis
ordered kidneys and attacks of back
ache. They cured me of these COM
plants and / have never been both
cred since. Another member Of the
family has used Doan's with benefit
also. l recommend them highly"
Price Coo, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for kidney remedy-get
Doans Kidney Pills-the same that
Mr.. Hounsell had. Foster-Milburn
Co.. Mfrs, Buffalo, N. Y.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-06-13
GRAND ARMY REPUBLIC
NOW FAST DIMINISHING

DIES MONIES, Ia. May 30.-Slowly
the ranks of the Grand Army of the
Republic are thinning. Familiar faces
drop out, and none take their places.
Exactly how many still survive is
unknown. Last year some 100000 re-
manned. This year that figure is
shortened by approximately $4,000
at the rate of 1000 a month.
Judge ]. W. Willett of Tama, Iowa,
continues to rule the diminishing
ranks. He is commander in chief,
and the only naval veteran to hold
this office.
A native of Illinois, he enlisted at
Cleveland, O., in the volunteer navy
in 1865. For a while he served on
the receiving ship Clara Dolson at
Mound City, III. Then he was trans
ferred to the gunboat U. S. S. Spring
field, Mississippi squadron, where he
served until the wars end.
1t is estimated that in about eight
years this thin line of veterans will
have vanished altogether.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-06-13
QUERY AND ANSWER

j. K, Boscobel.-Too much of a
mans time is spent in eating during
a lifetime? Answer: Statistics avail
able state that taking 70 years as a
base the average man spends six
years and ten months in eating; also
two years in dressing.
S. j., Blue River.-Why do they
speak of money as the almighty dol
lar? Answer: Because it takes al
almighty lot of hustling to get hold of
them.
L. H, Excelsior.-To settle an ar
gument does the slush ice that forms
in the early winter in the Wisconsin
river form from the bottom of the
river or the top? Answer: The top.
-Muscoda Progressive.
Towns like Muscoda can't afford to
maintain high-salaried health Off
Gals. But there's no monopoly on
common sense, the use of it doesn't
entail a large expenditure, so we are
as free to use it here as lavishly as
they do in the larger cities.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-06-13

ate, IA to IS, over the protest OF the
chiropractors.
The Miner bill advocated by the
chiropractors and passed by the as
sembly, calling for an examining
board of chiropractors, was amended
to provide that a chiropractor shall
be one of the members of the chlro-
practic examining board. This amend
ment was adopted ID to II and the
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-06-13
REGULATING
CHIROPRACTORS PASSES

MADISON Chiropractors desiring
to practice in wisconsin will have to
pass an examination to show that
they have adequate knowledge OF
diagnosis, under the Bentley bill adj
vocated by the medical profession,
which was engrossed by the state sem
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-06-13
bill as amended was approved and
passed to third reading.

Francis Rocckel, II, Depere, was
drowned Monday when he waded be-
'yond his depth.
Darlington fair members have voted
81 400 to be used for a floral hall. The
building will be ready when the fair
opens this fall.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-06-13

My views on the matter are funda-
mentally the same as those Of Edwin
G. Conklin of Princeton University.
Most sincerely,
RALPH G. DEMAREE.