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CHAPTER xxx

R. AND MRS. MOBERLY had hlvl just gone down to their country
 home, which was an old Colonial house situated in a lovely part of Con- necticut. Mrs. Moberly was devoted, to her garden and spent great deal ot time among her flowers, while her hus- band would sit for hours in a small sum- mer house that he had built especially for himself so that he might have the quiet and seclusion he liked for his writ ing. A charming couple, well on in years, they enjoyed the distinction of being happily married. During the months of summer their manner of liv- ing was truly idyllic.
 As rule Mir. Moberly left his office on Thursday evening and did not re- turn to the city until the following Monday, unless his presence was par ticularly demanded in court. This did not happen very often as he relegated as much of his work as possible to his junior partners who were only too glad to have the opportunities he provided.
 Neither he nor his wife was par ticularly interested in society, so did not waste their energies in trying to out rival others in the matter of entertain ment. During the long months they spent in the country they had many in innate friends sojourning with them. They however had interests in common with their host and hostess and enjoyed the simple pleasures that were offered throughout the season at this. delightful country house.
 MT. Moberly loved to befriend young artists and writers and had hoped that Joan Fairweather would join them now that she could afford to give up her job. Mrs. Moberly was also very fond of Joan, but while she felt she ought not to write Joan and advise her as to what she should do, yet she had begged her husband to urge her to visit them when she learned of the change in her affairs. Knowing that Joan had rented
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think she was engaged to marry him. Now, don't go and build wonderful castles in the air only to have them tumble down about your ears"
 "Oh, but I'm sure I'm all right and you know what Rupert wrote to you the other day." answered Mrs. Mober- ly as she glanced at her husbands beau- tifully modelled fingers.
 What was that?" he questioned lazily.
 You know perfectly well," she in- sisted. I'm certain he's devoted to her, and did you notice what she says about Sonny-'a darling little boy, 50 full of mischief, he's a delight"
 John Moberly laughed. "Oh, you women with your intuition" he ex- claimed, although in his heart he hoped that Joan had found her mate, at Hearts Desire.
 (To be continued.)
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right. As usual she was humble soul.
 Today she is an invalid, unable t. leave her bed, but the letters that come from her are always full of cheer and when she makes a suggestion it always is a good one.
 Such people. and they are found especially among the lowly, you will find to have truly wonderful ideas. They are usually whole-hearted and worthwhile listening to.
 Blessed is the man who can learn something from anybody, who has an open mind and an open heart. He will learn much that is worth while.
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Keep Mind Open For Opinions
 Of: Others
By SOPHIE IRENE LOEB

OOU have met him--the individual
 who knows it all, whose opin- ions are of prime importance in the world, according to him, and who is never open to suggestions from any body. G.-t
 Such a one had a decided fall the other day. He had reached to a place of some prominence, but in the new concern in which he last worked he did not make good.
 He had reached the high place more by his bravado, and by giving the ap- pearance of knowing much he had fooled a great many people many times.
 But, as usual, he could not fool all the people all the time and his self assertive manner proved useless to him when the firm found a loss that could have been averted.
 He was told of the possible pitfall, but insisted upon using his own judg- ment against all the rest, This fellow has to start all over again in the busi- ness world. Perhaps he has learned "a lesson-the biggest lesson in life to accept suggestion.
 The men who are near the top of the world are those who have known how to take the opinions of others and how to use them. Many of them have allowed others to work out those opin- ions.
 In truth, many a business mans success has been due to his ability to pick the people who not only can give good suggestions, but can carry them out.
 It is common knowledge that the smart people-people who arrive-are those who know how to get others to do their. work. That is to say, that the general who selects the right lieutenants to carry out his orders, or even to suggest them, is he who usu- ally carries through his projects.
 once had a seamstress who was the greatest source of advice to me- Her suggestions were always worth while
 She did not presume to know a great deal, but somehow she had sound sense, and when ever was in difficulty about something it was my habit to talk to her about it.
 Somehow her thoughts on matters were so reasonable. that I usually fo, lowed them and semed to find them
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A SIMPLE CURE

Many beginners in golf-apd many who are not beginners-are previously afflicted with the malady of topping the ball. A player whose efforts to cure himself of this infliction only resulted in the reverse of the Coue formula, ad- dressed professional with gloom in his ear and despair in his eye. "I'm hitting the ball every time right on the top. want you to tell me a cure for it."
 "Oh," replied the professional, just turn the ball upside down."-Argonaut
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Little Stories For Bedtime
Old Man Coyotes Dinner Disappears
IBy THORNTON BURGEsS)

Old Man Coyotes Dinner DtS0ppenrS
 MY, my, my, how the sticks in MI that pile of brush did fly! Old
 Man Coyote was making them fly. He knew that somewhere under meath was Danny Meadow Mouse and he was just hungry enough to be will ing to work for his dinner. To be sure Danny wouldn't be 50 very filling be- cause he was so small, but he would make very good beginning and Old Man Coyote intended to have him if he had to tear that pile of brush all to rieces. He hoped 1t wouldn't be neces- sary to do to quite all that work. He hoped that Danny would become So frightened that he would creep out on the other side and try to run away. But Danny didn't do anything of the kind. Every minute or two Old Man Coyote would stop work and run around to the other side to see if Danny had come out and every time he was dis
 Then the sticks flew this way and that way in the moonlight faster than ever. Whenever he stopped to sniff the smell of Danny Meadow Mouse was stronger. This meant that Danny was still there. Old Man Coyote chuckled. Half that pile of brush was already scattered and it wouldn't take him long to scatter the rest. It was too late now for Danny Meadow Mouse to try to run away because he couldn't possibly do it without being seen.
 That is what Old Man Coyote cried as he stopped to rest minute. Then he chuckleds at his own joke. Then he cooked his ears and listened for some sound from Danny Meadow Mouse. But there was no sound, not even little rustic. Danny Meadow Mouse, was keeping as still as if he wasn't there at all. But this didn't fool Old Man Coyote, who thought it probable that Danny was by this time too frightened to move.
 Old Man Coyote went on scattering
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'Thirty-nine of the fotry-eight state superintendents of public instruction assert that their attitude toward Latin is sympathetic or distinctly friendly. Seven express themselves as neutral and two as unsympathetic or distinctly unfriendly.
 "As regards Greek, eight are sympa- thetic or distinctly friendly, twenty-four are neutral and sixteen are unsympa- thetic or distinctly unfriendly." ."-New York Times.
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FOR CLEVER FINGERS

A cunning little frock for tiny girl may easily be made by the amateur seamstress. It has a straight smock of black sateen and at intervals little apples are embroidered in shades of yellow and orange. The skirt is cut in scallops and piped with yellow taffeta,
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-04-10

Local readers should tear
out this page and mail to a
friend = or send the whole
paper.
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SCRAP FOLLOWS
|LLFEEL|NG
Of TEAMS
Seals and. Portland Precipi-
tate General Riot as
Blows Are Struck.

SANFRANCtSCO. April l9.-An
undercurrent of i'll feeling between
the San Francisco and Portland
baseball players. which has been
evident since the season started,
broke out yeste rday and resulted in
one Of the most riotous scenes ever
enacted on a local diamond.
Eddie Mulligan. Seal third base.
man, and Bill Kenworthy, manager
and second baseman of the Port.
land team, engaged in a spectacu.
lar fist fight, the decision going to
Mulligan by knockout in the
second round. All the players Of
both clubs joined in the general
roughing, but in the excitement
the only other blow recorded aside
from the main event, was delivered
by Dee Walsh, who entered the
Donnybrook by pasting the first
Portland man that got in front of
him. This happened to be Frank
Wetzel, outfielder Of the Beavers.
Walsh, together with Mulligan
and Kenworthy was, Of course,
banished from the game.
In the opening game Of the sea-
son Manager Kenworthy, in an
attempted steal of third base, ap.
parently went into third base,
guarded by Mulligan, with feet
high and spikes shining" Multi
gan side-stepped the dangerous
weapons of baseball and politely
tapped Kenworthy on the jaw with
the ball, that part of the Beaver
leaders anatomy being handiest.
kenWorthy was out in a baseball
sense, and jawing match ensued,
with challenges issued on both
sides. The umpires stepped in and
prevented any hostilities.
Nothing Of moment occurred in
other games until today. In the
first inning Mulligan had singled
to right. On a long fly to the out.
field, on which Valla scored, Multi
gan tore for second and slid into
Kenworthy with great force.
Kenworthy, enraged, struck Null
ligan In the face while he still lay
on the ground. Eddie promptly
jumped up and knocked the Port
land man down with q well-directed
blow to the jaw.
BY this time the players of both
teams were out on the diamond
and a general melee started, play.
ers showing and hauling in all d.
rections as the police rushed out
and attempted to stop the rioters.
This was done with some difficulty,
the bluecoats being necessarily
greatly outnumbered.
When the roughing and punching
did stop Kenworthy, face bleeding,
ran after Mulligan, who was being
led away by his teammates, and
again challenged the Seal third.
sacker,
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MAROON FIELD
HOUSE ONLY
A DREAM
Chicago University President
Sees Other Pressing Needs
for 100000.

CHICAGO. April 19.-There will
be no 100000 fieldhouse built ut
the University Of Chicago this year,
nor next year, and probably not
the year after.
While President Burton is in
favor OF sane extension of the
athletic program of the university,
there are other needs than a field
house regarded as more pressing. It
was said today. Exclusive stories"
concerning the now gymnasium,
based solely on the purchase of a
piece of land on University avenue,
announced last Saturday, are mostly
imagination.
mo plans have been approved and
no land has been set aside, either
for q fieldhouse or for a new
stadium" Prof. Edgar GOodspeed,
secretary to President Burton. said
YESTERDAY,
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RECORDNUMBER
NOMINATED IN
PREAKNESS
Eight Washington Owned
Three-Year-OIds Entered in
$4,000 PimIico Stake.
By LEONARD w. COLLINS.

Washington owners have been
most generous in their nominations
of potential starters in the seven
teenth renewal of the $50,0CV
Preakness, the Maryland Jockey
Clubs most pretentious of stake
events for three-year-olds.
No less than eight Washington.
owned thoroughbreds in six inter
eSts have been nominated for this
greatest Of all Eastern racing
classics, foremost among which IS
the Salubria stables Fluvanna. q
fleet-footed daughter Of Cudgel-
High Pass.
Fluvanna's best bid for FAM.
came in the Belmont Futurity. of
last year, when she ran a SMASHING
second to George D. Widener's St
James. In that stake Fluvanra
out-paced Tree Top Diogene..
Thorndale, Lord Baltimore 2nd
Bracadale and other highly touted
Preakness and Derby candidates.
Other Washingtonians who have
candidates nominated in the Freak.
ness are Admiral Cary L, GRAY.
sons Sparkling Wit; Preston NJ
Burch, with Dixie Smith; Mrs. Rob.
ert !. Miller, Roland; James W.
Bean, Donaghee; Edward Beale Ne.
Lean. Modest and Gold Bug, while
Samuel Ross lhas a pair in Appel.
late and Trapnet.
Secretary William p. Riggs an.
nounces that in all 1873 have been
entered in the Preakness. The list
includes such stars as George D.
Widener's st. James, John e. Mad.
den's Polo Ground, the Kenton
stables Senator Norris, the Idle
Hour Stock Farms Beau Butler,
winner of last years Futurity. and
the Greentree stables Tree Top.
In addition to these there are
Walter M. Jefford's DiogeneS, the
Rancocas stables Mad Play, Stan
wix, Eaglet and Bracadale, John s,
Wards Wise Counsellor, the EalapG
FARMS Happy Thoughts, r. T..
Wilson's Runningwild, Bud Fishers
Mr.. Mutt. Clifford A. Cochran s
Revenue Agent, and others.
When the conditions of the
Preakness were changed from al.
lowances to a strictly weight for
age affair, it was with the idea
OF attracting only the very best OF
three-year.olds, eliminating those
depending upon big concessions in
weight to have a chance.
That there was wisdom in this
policy is best shown by the list of
nominations, the entries conprising
practically every three-year-old
worth while now in training.
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F I'VE: HUNDRED
THOUSAND SEE
MARATHON
Frank Zuna FaYorite to Win
Big Boston Race
Today.

BOSTON. April 19.--Despite the
rainy weather, some 100000 spec
tators gathered along the course Of
the marathon from Hopkinton TO
the Boston A. A. clubhouse today
to witness one Of the greatest road
races in years. About 146 runners
began the grind over the Olympic
distance of &c miles, 3S5 yards
Frank r. Zuna. of the Millrose
A. A, New York. was the favorite.
The race is of unusual Importance
in that it will be the basis Of fina!
selections for the American Olympic
team
Three former winners, Carl a. w.
Under, Boston A., A. 1919 winner,
William K. Kennedy. Port Chester
n. Y, 1917 winner. and Clarence
De Mar, ,Melrose A. G., 1928 winner.
were being carefully watched oy
Olympic officials.
Two distance winners from the
West coast, Churchill and Neiman
e. San Francisco; Charles Chuck"
Mellor, Illinois. A. c., Chicago, and
Victor McAuley, of Windsor. Nova
Scotia, were also in line
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CRACK HILLTOP
ATHLETES Do
STUFF TODAY
Track Team Meets West Viz
ginia; Ball Players
Tackle Yale.

Georgetown University's crack
track team is doing its stunts to-
day In competition with West Vir-
ginia University's. on the Hilltop,
with thirteen events listed in the
dual meet.
Immediately after the track meet.
or about $3.50 o'clock, the Hilltop
ball team, college champion, is
slated to meet Yale, which wal
Hoped Catholic University the other
day.
West Virginia has slight chance
Of taking first honors in the track
meet, for Georgetown's team Is con-
sidered about the best there is.
About the same can be said of its
ball team.
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ENGLISH RELAY.
STARSF|RST
On job
Cambridge Team Lands in
New York Tomorrow for
Next Weeks Classic.

PHILADELPHIA. April 19.-The
first arrivals for the Penn Relay
Carnival will be the Cambridge team
and Eric Liddell, the famous EIdin-
burgh Splinter. They will arrive
here tomorrow morning.
Howard Berry, former Pennsyl-
vania an-round' athlete, will meet
the foreign stars on their arrival in
New York today on the Berengaria
and escort them, together with the
Reception Committee, to the Polo
Grounds, to see the Giants in
action with the Braves.
The Englishmen have written
George orion that it is their earn.
est desire to see a baseball game.
John j. McGraw. manager of the
Giants, has given Berry box seats
for his guests for today's game.
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ONALL STUFF @
- FOR ROOTERO

Tonnorrow's game at the Griffith
stadium begins at $50 o'clock. This
will be starting time for all games
this season. except the first games
of doubleheaders when Q o'clock will
see the contest get under way.
Rubber Arm" Russell, king OF
relief Fingers, is under treatment
by the club physician for lame
back and is not expected to climb
the hill until warm weather arrives.
After winning three straight,
DOME Bush's Indianapolis Ipdians
dropped one yesterday to Mime
apolis, z to 6. Bush's team 10 lead
ing the American Association race.
Joe Martina, because he has
usually bothered the Yankees in
spring exhibition games, will prob
ably start a game during the series
opening here today.
After giving a very natty exhi'
bition for eight innings, Ray
Kremer, Coast League recruit OF
the Pirates, stalked the Reds to a
two.run rally and lost, 3 to 2. Carl
Mays, whilom Yank, got credit for
the victory although eased out by
a pinch hitter in the eighth. The
Reds obliged with seven errors.
The Indians welcomed Cole with
shower Of base hits in the third
for enough runs to beat the Tigers
S to 8, in the finale of the series
Passes and errors accounted for all
Of the Tigers runs off Edwards.
Just to prove that time cannot
wither nor custom stale, Eddie Col
Inns drove out three hits, one a
homer. scored two runs, handled
nine chances without a miscue and
altogether made himself conspicuous
in the 5.to.1 victory of the White
Sox over the Browns.
Home runs by Grimes and Miller
in the second started the Cubs on
a rampage that ended with 6.to.3
decision over the Cardinals. Horns.
by also waited one beyond the park
limits, but in vain.
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WHITE SOx GET FRENCH
TO PLAY At SHORTSTOP

CHICAGO, April 19.-The White
Sox have obtained from the Brook
lyn Dodgers on waivers Shortstop
Ray French, French is the shortstop
who burned up the Pacific Coast
league a couple of seasons back
and was obtained by the Yankees.
Owing to some mixup over the
draft rule, Judge Lands declared
him free agent and ineligible
TO play with the New York club.
and Brooklyn Immediately grabbed
him. He adorned the bench most
Of last season, and with Jones, a
newcomer, in the Brooklyn lineun.
apparently had little chance OF
breaking in this season.
According to all reports. the new
shortstop is a whale of a fielder
and can hit EN-, too, when the
occasion requires. There is moth.
ing the matter with Harvey McCiel.
lan's shortstopping on the present
White Sox team, but the Young
man is somewhat weak with the
bludgeon. French will report here
Immediately and probably will
break into the lineup within a
few days.
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300 Teams Get Park
Permits While 500
Are Too Late

Park Commissioner Edward
T. O'Loughlin will toss out the
first ball of the opening base
ball game today on the public
diamonds at the Parade Grounds,
at the south end of Prospect
Park in Brooklyn.
The twenty-one diamonds have
always been assigned for four
periods each day during the
entire months of April, May,
and June, and 300 permits to
play have been issued to various
teams. Five hundred others who
sought permits were notified
that those available had been
exhausted and that their re-
quests would have to be denied.
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A schedule of matches, in which
the leading American colleges will
sally~ forth to foreign chimes next
summer, has been drafted, COM
mittees named, Fluctuations ex-
changed, and the situation left on
the fire to come to a slow boil.
This happy circumstance will occur
early in July, when a combined
Harvard and Yale team will arrive
in England for series Of matches,
notably with the best that Oxford
and Cambridge can muster.
On or about the same date
Stanford University is due to send
a team to Australia. where college
and club teams will be taken on
at random. Correspondence on
this matter is now being exchanged
looking toward the arrangement Of
series Of playing dates. Failing
in this, Stanford plans to abandon
the tour until the summer Of 1895.
by which time mature plans will
have been made.
Meantime, Princeton is also
planning tour of England and
hopes to ease into the Oxford,
Cambridge situation some time
after the Harvard. Yale matches,
beginning July 25 at Eastburne,
are concluded.
4 In order that the American s;s.
uation will not be neglected, over
lures are being made to several
Canadian colleges to send team
of undergraduates to compete III
matches in this country. These, II
held, will be conducted in New
England and the Middle West
against college teams Of those
sections.
That the business is not so much
malarkey is indicated by the fac.
that English and American sections
Of an international intercollegiate
committee, already approached in
clude the names of the most promi.
nent men in the tennis world. The
American section includes B. s.
Prentice, chairman; George T. Adee
former president OF the United
States Lawn Tennis Association:
Dick Williams. the ationalist:
Holcomb Ward. one Of the first
Davis cup defenders; Dean Mathey.
Karl Behr, Lucian williams, and
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-19
TIGERS GRAB ROY MOORE
FOR ONE MORE CHANCE

DETROIT, April 19.-Refusing
to waive on Roy Moore. the &c.
centric southpaw once with the
Philadelphia Athletics. the Tigers
have obtained him from the White
Sox and will give him one more
trial
The Tigers originally took him
from Connie Mack and sent him to
Birmingham in the Southern as.
ISOLATION. He pitched good ball
there last season and was taken
back only to be sent to the White
Sox on waivers. Now he returns
to the Jungaleers.
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the captains of the big three, To
wit: Carl Pfaffman. Harvard: Ar.
nOld W. Jones. Yale, and Jonn n.
Howard, Princeton.
The international stars, A. II,
Lowe, r. M. Mavrogordato and
Max Woosnam are named on the
English section,