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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-10
Little Stories, For Bedtime
Peter Grows Curious About Sooty
(By THORNTON BURGEssl

Feter GrOWs Curl0uS ADOut C0Oty ! NTOw, UP to the time that Johnny
 lN Chuck had informed Peter Rab-
 bitt that Sooty the Swift was not a swallow at all Peter had not been the least curious about Sooty. But the minute he found that he didn't know as much as he supposed he did about one of his neighbors;.s whom he saw every day in his life in summer, he just bubbled over with curosity. He asked questions so fast that Johnny Church suddenly decided that it was time to go to bed. He dived down his long hall, leaving Peter sitting alone on his doorstep, and the last thing he heard as he curled up in his snug bed- room, way down in the ground, was Peter's voice, asking wistfully, Please, Johnny Chuck, where does Sooty live"
 But that was a question that John- ny left unanswered, and after little Peter made up his mind that there was no use in staying there. So he left Johnny Chuck's, house and went across the Old Orchard until he had reached a place where, by sitting up, he could peep over the Old Orchard and see Farmer Browns house and little of the dooryard. That great house and the things that went on in and around it always fascinated Peter. He often went to that particular place in the Old Orchard at that hour just be- tween daylight and dark, just to stare at Farmer Browns house and Farmer Browns Boy doing his evening duties, and Black Pussy sitting on the door step, waiting for her supper, and Bowser the Hound humping the ground with his tail every time his master spoke to him or passed close by tim. It was all very interesting to Peter and he never grew tired of it. Especially was the tail, or rather over the use Bowser interested in that tail of Bowser's. He studied a, great deal over that made of it. If Bowser hap pened to be sitting or lying down when Farmer Browns Boy passed he thumped the. ground with it. If he hap pened to be standing he wagged it from side to side. s Peter never could make out what it meant. The first time he had heard Bowers. tail humping the ground he had thought that it was some kind of a signal. You know, Peter himself signals Mrs. Peter by humping the ground with his feet. But there was
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never any answering signal, and, though he watched and watched, noth- ing ever happened. Finally Peter gave up trying to guess what it meant. You see, having no master himself. he couldn't know that it meant love.
 But he never lost interest in watch ing, and so this evening, as soon as he peeped over the old wall, he quite for got Sooty the Swift in watching Bowser and Black Pussy and Farmer Browns Boy.- The black Shadows were creeping everywhere very fast now, A soft dusk, which, you know, is the beginning of darkness, covered all things. "Chitter-chitter-c -chitter-chit- chit! The voice of Sooty the Swift shouted joyously from right above Peter and made him look up. He was just in time to see swiftly-moving little black form race. over straight toward Farmer Browns house. It brought back to Peter all the curosity which Johnny Chuck had awakened, and for the moment he forgot everything else as he watched Sooty race through the air. Against the sky Peter could see Sooty very clearly.
 Peter watched until Sooty was right over Farmer Browns house. Then an astonishing think happened. It seemed
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"J. B. Frazier. Mrs. Pride and
 iilsey Pride, who made the trip
 ningham with them in their car,
 tmain in the city a short while,
 yilsey Pride leaving Wednesday
 g for Gulf Coast Military
 imy.
 Is Elizabeth Lipscomb of Rome, arrived Sunday to spend the winter .th her aunt, Mrs. Andrew Lipscomb.
 
 Mrs. Harry Jones has returned from West Virginia.
 Miss Katherine Ivy has returned from visit to her mother, Mrs. Rich ard Hundley, and Mir. Hundley, at Belle Nina, Ala.
 Misses Helen and Mildred Hamrick left Monday night for Spartenburg, S. C., where they will enter Converse col lege for the coming year.
 Mrs. Edwin Hail (Bessie Dawson) of Little Rock, Ark. is visiting her mother, Mrs. F. W. Whitman, in the Margaret apartments.
 Miss Christine Morrow returned the nast week with the other caIpers from 5'NaaAA NVoodo N-C AAaN4fahha~
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CHAPTER s-Continued

Hrouching low, they giided, noise- N Iless as shadows, to the quarter
 deck rail, and thence slipped with out sound down into the waist In the vessels waist they hung awhile, until Blood had satisfied himself that no other sentinel showed above decks but that inconvenient fellow in the prov. Their first attention must be to him. Mir. Blood, himslef, crept for ward with two companions, leaving the others in the charge of that Nathaniel Hagthorpe whose sometime commission in the Kings Navy gave him the best title of this office.
 MT. Blood's absence was brief. When he repoined his comrades there was no watch above the Spaniards' decks, Meanwhile the jewellers below continued to make merry at their ease in the conviction of complete security. Suddenly out of an uncouth pack of savages that beset them, stepped a slim, tall fellow with light-blue eyes in q tawny face, eyes in which glinted the light of wicked humour. He ad dressed them in, the purest Castilian.
 You will save yourselves pain and trouble by regarding yourselves my prisoners and suffering yourselves to be quietly bestowed out of harms way"
 "Name of God :" swore the gunner, which did no justice at all to an amazement beyond expression.
 If you please" said Mir. Blood, and thereupOn those gentlemen of Spain were induced without further trouble beyond a musket prod or two to drop through a scuttle to the deck below.
 It was soon after sunrise that the rebel-convict who paced the quarter deck in Spanish corselet and headpiece, Spanish musket on his shoulder, an- nounced the approach of a boat. It was Don Diego de Espinosa Valdez coming aboard with four great treas- ure-chests, containing each twenty five thousand prices of eight, the ransom delivered to him at dawn by Governor Steed. He was accompanied by his son, Don Esteban, and by six men who took the oars.
 Don Diego mounted the ladder and stepped upon the deck. alone, and en- tircly unsuspicious. Before he. could even look around, and survey this guard drawn up to receive him, a tap ! over the head with a capstan bar eff ficiently handled by Hagthorpe put him lO SIceD W1tHOuI lne lSuSC IuSS. He was carried away to his cabin, whilst the treasure-chests, handled by the men he had left in the boat, were being hauled to the deck. That being satis- factorily accomplished, Don Esteban and the fellows who had manned the boat came up the ladder, one by one, to be handled with the same quiet efficiency.
 With Colonel Bishop at their head, and gout-ridden Governor Steed sitting on the ruins of a wall beside him, survivors on shore glumly watched the departure of the eight boats containing Ae weary Spanish ruffians who had
 utted themselves with rhpine, murder
 d violeHces unspeakable.
 The boats pulled away from the
 re, with their loads of laughing,
 ing Spaniards, who were still fling
 taunts across the water at their
 as. They had come midway be-
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My NeighborSays

To cut down your ice bill, pro- cure a piece of felt half an inch thick, from a harness maker, the size of the bottom of your ice compartment. Take two pieces of coarse wire and cut both felt and wire the size of your box, leaving about one inch space all around. Soak felt thoroughly place between wires and set in the chest, put ice on top of this, and in. 10 minutes the chest will be one of the, coldest.
 A tasteless sandwich will be greatly improved with a dash of horseradish or of Worcestershire sauce.
 When sewing hooks and eyes on a cotton dress that is to pay frequent visits to the washtub, try sewing the eyes on the outer flap and the hooks on the under meath, wrong side up: Shis will permit the dress to be ironed more smoothly on the outer side.
 To prevent seams from pucker- ing first pin and tack them flat on the table. This should be done always fro mthe waist down.
 When making babies petit coats and dresses it is advisable to tuck them so as to provide for shrinkage or lengthening.
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Hearts Of Tsoo
CHAPTER FPS


 MARIAN looked at the doctor, MI anguished inquiry in her eyes.
 As if in reply to her unspoken question, he gave a low-voiced order to the nurse.
 Mrs. Fisher is preparing a stimulant for you,' he explained to the patient. Drink it. Then you may say what you wish"
 While the sick man was swallowing the contents of the glass held to his lips Dr. Hagen spoke to Marian in a low voice.
 "It will not hurt him as much to speak as to be forced to keep silence. Nothing can make much difference now," he added, with shake of the head.
 : Lois, who was listening, turned ap- pealingly to the minister. But he seemed not to notice her.N His gaze was on James Horton's face. And Horton, meeting that gase, spoke again. The stimuplant had already given him artificial strength.
 MT. Sumner, I want you to hear what I have to say-for you have heard what have to say-for you have heard the other side of the ques- ton. 1t IS hard for me, fathers to tell you the truth about my girls-but I must. Marian is true gold. You may trust her always. You must have seen how she has worked and sacrificed for me-"
 The minister hooded. We have all seen how both of your daughters have loved you and worked since your ill., ness," he soothed. But they have not considered it any sacrifice"
 Marian has not considered it sacrifice, but Lois has," the hoarse voice went on. 'I have heard conver- sations that I have tried to cry out against, but I could not. Marian has been put in the wrong-Lois in the right, It has all been a scheme. Lois could have protected her sister-could have warned her" ~
 (To be continued.)
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SYNOPSIS
 Peter Blood, a young Irish physi clan, is arrested as Monmouth rebel by soldiers of King James and sentenced to death by the bloody Lord Jeffreys. The King. however. realizing the need of man power in the colonies. orders the rebels-convict sent to the Barba- does to be sold as slaves. Blood and his friend Jeremy Pitt. with fifty others. are shipped to Bridge town. There Colonel Bishop, mili- tary commander, at the behest of his niece. Arabella Bishop, pur- chased Blood for ten pounds when he learns that he Is a skilled physi- clan. Arabella offers her friend ship to Blood but in his own bitter ness over >theF cruelty of his posi- tion he does not at first understand the true character Of Arabella. Later he comes to know her true worth. A Spanish galleon conn manded by Don Diego de Espinosa Valdez attacks Bridgtown and the Spaniards sack the city. Blood saves Mary Trafll from a Spanish ruffian and sends her and Arabella to safety back of the town. He then marshals his fellow rebels convict together and they capture the galleon while the crew Is feast ing and ravaging the city.
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ter, Jane, are visiting Mir. and Mrs. Joseph Balfour in Gadsden.
 Lieut.. and Mrs. Warfield Wood, who have been visiting their parents, Mir. and Mrs. Sterling Wood, are spending few days with MT. and Mrs. F. H. Coleman in Selma before going to Kelly Field, San Antonio, Tex, where Lieutenant Wood will be stationed this winter.
 MT. and Mrs. John Luke and Mir. Levin Foster have returned from a short motor trip to Gadsden.
 Miss Lila Herrin has returned from visit to relatives and friends in An niston.
 Mir. and Mrs. J. W. Mosley and daughter, Frances, have returned from visit to Mir. and Mrs. J. H. Edmind- son in Anniston.
 Mrs. L. M. Burns of Anniston is visiting her sister, Mrs. J. G. Adams. Dr. and Mrs. Robert Simpson have IcIuInCu 1IOM VASAb SO SN Kentucky. |. Miss Maurine Walker has returned A6 her home in Talladega. I Mir. and Mrs. W. II. Manly and Iildren left Monday for Atlanta, here they will pass two weeks.
 Miss Mary Griffin John left today for Tuscaloosa, where she will spend the winter as a student at the uni versity.
 
 Mir. and Mrs. W. c. Strict have re- turned from Europe, where MT. Strict was in attendance at the Olympic games in Paris.
 Miss Janice Dollins will leave Wednes- day for a motor trip through North and South Carolina and will visit friends in Washington, D. C., before returning home.
 
 Miss Edith Culver and Mir. LinziS Culver have returned from a trip to Chattanooga. Asheville, N. C., Go. lumbia. S. C.. and Atlanta and other points of interest.
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One day realized that I was doing too much for my children--two piano lessons week, dancing class, concerts and reading to them every night. This was good for them, but they took it all for granted, grumbling if one of these pleasures was not forthcoming. So I stopped it for awhile and let the children read to me, invite me for walks, study the concert program be- fore they go, and tell me all about a play they have seen. For every pleas ure they enjoy they give back somc- thing.
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CORRECTING A LECTURER.

A lecturer was growing very vehe- ment in the course of his address. His subject was 'The Perfect Wife,
 "As/we all know" he said, "the duty of wife is to be helpmate to her hus- mand by cooking his food, attending to his requirements, conducting his house and household affairs in diligent and businesslike manner and so on and so on."
 Then little man in front got up and exclaimed: 'They don't do the last thing you mentioned, sir"
 (Which one is that?" asked the lec- turer.
 Why" said the little man, "sew on and sew on. ."-Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.
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Miss J a ( obs
 Entertains < Club

Miss Virginia Jacobs entertained the members of the Nifty-Nine club Tues day afternoon at the home of her par ents, Mir. and Mrs. Solon Jacobs, on Altamont Road. >
 The girls enjoyed series of bridge games after which salad course was served.
 Composing the membership Is Miss Virginia Jacobs, Miss Lucille Hassin- ger, Miss Mary Perry, Miss Caroline Fowlkes, Miss Mary Nabb Phillips, Miss Elizabeth Crabbe, Miss Elsie Kirkland, Miss Susan Porter and Miss Alberta Bush was an invited guest.
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ioiph ieitS .or 1sIgxandria, La, where they were called on account of the death of the latter's father, Rev. Angps Crawford.
 Mrs. Lloyd Smith left Monday for Chicago, where she was called on ac- count of the death of her mother.
 Mrs. George Morrow and George Morrow. III, have returned from Lake Fairfield, N. C., where they have spent several weeks.
 Miss Katheryn Massey. who has spent the summer at Lake George, with her parents, MT. and Mrs. Richard W. Massey, has returned and is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Robert Mccoy, un- til the return of her parents.
 Miss Elizabeth Redd has returned to her home in Mississippi, after a visit to MT. and Mrs. William Pittman Redd and MT. and Mrs. W. D. Hammet.
 Mir. and Mrs. F. c. Powell and Miss Elizabeth Powell left Monday for a visit to Mir. and Mrs. J. E. Brantly in Philadelphia.
 Mir. Eugent Johnston has returned to his home in Pittsburg, after a visit to his mother, Mrs. Richard F. Johns ton. and Mir. and Mrs. Richard M. Johnston.
 Mir. and Mrs. r. E. Butcher have re- turned from a motor trip through In- diana and Ohio. Mrs. Butchers father, who is S4 years old. made the return trip from Ohio with Mir. and Mrs. Butcher, for a visit to Bir- mingham.
 
 Mrs. Henry Allen and little daugh-
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to Peter that something happened to Sooty right in midair. One instant he was racing through, the air as only Sooty can, and the next instant he seemed to be droping straight down, fluttering queerly as if something had happened to his wings and he could no longer fly. Down, down, down.. he dropped and disappeared. He had fal- len into the chimney on the top of Farmer Browns house! There wasn't any doubt about it. Peter had seen it happen with his eyes. It gave Peter a queer feeling. For a long long time he waited to see if Sooty would come out again, but he didn't, and at last Peter was forced to believe that some thing had happened, and that never again would he see Cooty the Swift of hear Sooty's joyous voice. The thought made Peter, feel bad Somehow he wanted to get away from there. So with last look he turned and hopped away through the Old Orchard, and his thoughts were all of Sooty the Swift and the dreadful thing he had seen happen. And with these sad thoughts was a renewed curosity to know more about Sooty and how he had lived.
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A SIMPLE MATTER

They were sitting on the piazza of a summer hotel swapping stories. Ever hear this one?" asked the dark young man. "A dog was tied to a rope 14 feet long. Twenty feet away was a fat juicy bone. How did the dog get to the bone?' ~...
 "Oh, that's an old gag" said the companion. "You want me to say, I give it up and then you'll say that's what the other cur did"
 No, your wrong, for the dog got the bone."
 Well, how did he get it?'
 "Why the other end of the rope was not tied. Boston Transcript.
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Theatre I'd Have Reading
 Of First Play

"Rollo's Wild Oats'' will be the first play of the Little theater and the first try-out for parts will be held on We'd nesday evening. This fascinating comedy requires for it's presentation quite variety of characters. All per sons interested in taking a part are in- vited to the Little theater on Wednes- day evening at 8 o'clock
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DuLY ANNOuNCEn

Little sister (calling upstairs while visitor waits in the hall) Oh, iVola You know that man you told mother would sooner falk mile than pay car fare? We'll, he's come to see you again R-Boston Transcript.
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TACT.

TACT. \ Bachelor (admiring baby)-But isn't he big for his size-I mean, isn't he old for his age-oh, hang it! Isn't he some- thing no other baby is?-Life.
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Do you know the man who insured his life at the same time as yourself? :? Well, he died yesterday
 Lucky blighter! He only had to pay premiums for one year !"-Pele Mele, Paris.
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In Belle Nina, Ala,
  Dr. W. T. Pride and Richard Pride have returned to their home in Madi- son, Ala, after a brief visit to Dr. and
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IJJCKY.

Next Story: Peter Tells What He Saw And Is Laughed At. /
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N T RoHance g nhe .Spanish Hair, rHkA [CAPTAM BL 00D l 06y RAFAEL SABATINI
SYNOPSIS

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Many of the garments are hand made of the finest quality nain- sock. Many have lace and embroid- cry trimmings. They're slightly soiled from handling-but one trip to the laundry will render them fresh and new.
 PLEASE NOTE-While there are 1000 pieces in the let, remember this Is an extraordinary offering and selling will be fast and furious. Come early!
 (FOURTH FLOOR-NEW BLDG.)
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Miss Edith Culver and Mir. Linzie Culver have returned from a trip to Chattanooga. Asheville, N. O., Co lumbia. s. C.. and Atlanta and other points of interest.
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Mir. and Mrs. W. c. Strict have re- turned from Europe, where MT. Strict was in attendance at the Olympic games in Paris.
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Miss Janice Dollins will leave Wednes- day for a motor trip through North and South Carolina and will visit friends in Washington, D. C., before returning home.
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(Continued Tomorrow.)
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Cotton chaIIle8, 1yc. Fast-cOloE giMghams, 2sc. KimOnO erepes, 3Ac. Scout percales, 125Sc. MeFcerixed pOplins, 2sc Zephyr ginghams. sSc.
 ~sc madras, 29c. Apron checks, Ice. Outing flannel, 19c. CheviOts, 1sc. ROmper cloth, 2sc. Plain linens, e8c. Scotch Einghams, &Sc. Plisse crepes, 25e.
 (sECOND FLOOR-NEW BLDG.l
The Monmouth inquirer., 1924-04-24

Dear Sir am in receipt of your
letter of inquiry concerning Rowena
Roe, who, in applying for position
as stenographer, has given you my
name as reference.
Unhesitatingly / can recommend
Miss Roe to any one who requires
the services Of stenographer, but
is not particular as to the neatness
Of correspondence sent out from the
Office If it is true that the bes. of us
make mistakes, / consider her then
to be better than most of US. She
can make herself at home in any Of
fee where there is a mirror and where
punctuality is not compulsory. She has
little knowledge of figures other than
her own.
/ have it on her own authority that
she is a perfect lady, descended from
a genteel Southern family. and is
working only pending the adjustment
of her grandfather's estate. Probably
it was there, amid those refined sur
roundings, that she learned to chew
gum by che yard. vigorously and With
audible sentences as ''ain't got no
right" "see them flowers" Hadn't
ought to of BEEN" and others equally
correct.
AS a senographer I unhesitatingly
pronounce her an excellent judge OF
couture and clothes. AS worker she
is an untiring conyersationalist. AS
to dependability. L have never known
her to leave the Office without
powdering her nose, or to permit
good-looking male client to visit the
Office without distracting his attention
from business to her. She was in my
employ two weeks, the length of time
it took me to get courage enough to
bring tears to her eyes by telling her
her services were no longer required,
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pale and rushed into the shrubbery
whore be hid himself Somebody
shook she heavy iron gas AID {
voice cried oat:
Liline, are you there?"
Eyes, paba dear"
"oDen the -quickip
"But can't, papa! You know The
lock is up to high
How did you lock it then7"
I did not lock it. lie gid"
1.-THE prisoner; | do not know his
name"
There YVES a cry Of terror. but
Liline turned about calmly and was
surprised to see the convict cIutching
the spade, the FIRE OF passion in his
bloodshot eyes.
Now she said angrily. don't act
like that. Don't look at the flowers
or the wei or the spade, when you
know it makes you mean. Open the
gate for papa. You promised to be
nice like Green; so nov drop that
spaae, or ! viii cry"
Trembling all over his body the
man stared at her Teas came into
his eyes and he dropped the spade.
Liline took him by the hand and
drew him toward the gate, dancing
gaily:
= GU see / am not big enough. SO
you will have to open the gate"
He raised his hand and drew the bar
back.
Three wardens made a rush for the
man and knocked him down whilo
fourth picked up the little girl and
took her into his arms.
But when Liline saw the men. strik
ing the struggling convict with their
fists, she cried:
Don't hit him, please! You must
not hit him. He has played with me.
and I don't want any one to hurt
him.
Her father shrugged his shoulders
tmpatiently and said:
Never mind, dear; he is the stran-
gler!"
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Improve British Port

Soutfiampton.-The local council re-
Gently approved scheme for the de-
yeiopment of docks here involving the
expenditure Of $4,000. 900. The
scheme includes the reclamation Of
1870 acres OF midland and the build
ing of docks to accommodate the
largest liners afioat.