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During the month of April, thlr-
teen oranges were organized IN the
United States and ten reorganlZed
while May brought twelve more new
subordinates and four reorganiza-
tions. The great bulk of these new
oranges were found in the states of
Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania and
Oregon, although Pacific Coast and
Atlantic were represented in new
oranges in California and Massachu-
sets. 1t is expected that the coming
of the fall season will see more new
oranges organized throughout the
country than in any previous three
months period in a long time.
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A fiYe-ton truck. equippe

A five-ton truck, equipped with
solid rubber tires, travelling at rate
of fifteen miles an hour, delivers a
blow to the road equal to four times
it's own weight when it hits a de-
preston of only quarter of an inch
in depth.
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DISHES.

DISHES.
CBy Lydia NJ Durham O'Neil)
He ent to the station to see her de
part,
GO on your journey it'll contented
heart;
You've earned a vacation-you need a
rest;
Now l shall keep house, at my own re-
quest.
IN feed the canary, the dog and the
cat;
III set the trap for the sly old rat.
I'll make the bed and I'll sweep each
room;
In a pail of salt water III dip the
broom.
I'll dust off the pictures, the tables
and chairs,
And never fly shall get in unawares.
I'll water the flowers and feed the
goldfshes,
And in all things attempt to comply
with your wishes
You will?"
L Will"
Then promise you'll wash the dishes.'
"Why, surely I'll wash the dishes!"
She swung in hammock, she sat in
the shade;
She walked in the sun, with tanned
country maid;
Ate pure country food, and breathed
pure country air
Grew robust and rosy and bright-eyed
and fair.
A1M then she returned to the city once
more,
Back to the rush and the rattle and
Dog, cat and canary were happy and
No sign of fly, or a cunning old rat.
The kitchen was clean and the range
free of rust;
Quite tidy the parlor-no atom of dust.
Blooming the flowers, and swimming the
fishes
Everything neat, as housekeepe
wishes.
But dear
Look here
In the pantry! Just look at the dishes,
That man never once washed the
dishes!
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UNUSUAL DESSERTS.
Value of Fruit in the Daily Menu
Dried Fruits.

(Claire e. Herrick, Home Demonstra-
ton Agent, KnoX-Lincoln Counties.)
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SICK 3 YEARS
WITHOUT RELIEF
Finally Found Health by TAX
ing Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound

Columbia, S. C.-"Your medicine has
done me so much good that | feel like
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Terence" IT'S fine lad we have
here. A magnificent head and noble
features. Could We lend me a couple
of dollars?"
Pat-'I could not. 'Tis me wife's
child by her first husband. LONDON
Telegraph.
One of the issues of Uncle Sans
2O-cent airmail stamps got into cir
culation with an error, the airplane
pictured flying upside down. Only
100 slipped by the inspectors, and
while their real value is absolutely
nothing collectors are paying as high
as $500 for them.
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WHEN He VISITS GRANDMA.

. + oil
.,,,,t bar,1l,, think
There's Jimmy Brown, he never prays.
An he amt good a bit
He Goes a-s,vfmmfn' Sundays, God,
Az, he amt drownded yit
PM Fa,-a. ia NV "faV me" when
I mixed the power am glory in
Along with soul to keep
Sides Gran pa HoWe Is a"Iul soo"
The morning prayers TER say.
While Gran ma tptoes fouh SO solt
Ter shoe the mems away
An see at breailus doesh eafh'
While Gran'pa 'spiains ter you
About them sparks at up araS hy
An tells you what ter 40
s1,,,l.,.l. ,,i,,. no harm,
an ~ ~ .+a-,.
i"' pi''N0
i'"'
-. 49,, 49,,
1,,,.',,+ .,.o,,
II ii9e' y" - ,o,.,,,,
an "a!
. va. l'' i''''''
0oe'
e,.....
Dear Aunt i''se ','i'' ~.
once more 'iie III a.
June Is nere, WIN me 80 "
ana sweet sIri era" U"'e9' nm ,r,'''
1t Is the oesl li'oiitIl Oh me we've NJ
grass ana Iress' never 'PPS - GO
green any oei'e! IN
seems TO De SililliAs o"t ''ie U"S' d
passing so swiftly that 1t VIII De sohe
TOO soon.
wish to thank AUNT ousaH-py me
Sea for her cordial invitation.
haps sometime may nave the pressure
oil accepting IT. pul 10 iio' ol'eH 81 90
Tar away from nome
nave enjoyed the hidhS iii'ei e''i"7
letters in the NJ. b. O. and l am gao
that other people can traVei 'ro"iio
and nave something TO write 'pou'' II
l cannot.
Tonight as was ioohlHs "' ''ie
SKY, ABOUT sunset 'Ilere "eie SUM
wonderful looking cIouos III me Ne'''
and thought OIL the pedutllul pie'"i %
in the clouds that EGO uSed " "li1e
about. miss lhe letteiS u ene NS'
sisters, who used to write Sueh sooo
letters and take so much interest," III l'ie
column. l hope that Aunt Maase mas
wholly recovered from her lllhess' ana
that all of the NJ. BIS Will De aple 10
enjoy the pleasant summer Time.
AleNla.
Dear NJ. B. Friends:
Some of you may not know tnat
Alexia is one of our older falthful
members. [ find the date OF 1914
against her name in one OF my M. b.
record books, and | think she wrote
before that year. We are indebted to
her this week for the letter, the poem
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Human beings have been on earth
about 100000 years and in the last
$50 years their environment has
changed more than the previous
499, S50.-Caroline Stratton Parker.
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A first edition of Swift's "Gulliver's
Travels" dated 1926, sold recently
at $3,625, and first edition of
Thackeray's vanity Fair" brought
1925.
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with Understanding else seems to
matter.'-American Magazine.
MY ADVENTURES IN COOKING.
Irene looks like a child-she is SO
small and slim. But, in reality, she
is a very efficient housewife and the
mother of two lovely children, One,
seeing her, would never place her
against the ackground of a blue-and-
white kitchen. That is why she is so
charming-and such a surprise!
1 could give you many of lrene's
recipes, had 1 the space, for she is
gifted in cookery. She has that magic
touch that transforms the everyday
dish into a masterpiece. But, because
I have not the space. l will print for
you my favorite from her large cook
book. 1t is called Coffee Bavarian
Cream"
Scald one pint of milk in a double
boiler for ten minutes with three table
spoonfuls of ground coffee. Strain, and
add the yolks Of two eggs, well beaten,
and three-quarters of a cup of sugar.
Return all to the double boiler and
cook until it begins to thicken Then
soak one tablespoonful of gelatin in
one-duarter Of a cup of cold water,
and-when it is dssolved-add it to the
hot mixture. stand the custardy sub
stance in a cool place until it begins
to thiclen and then add the whites of
the two eggs, beaten stiff. Serve with
a soft custard or slightly sWeetened,
whipped cream, or--if you so desire
plain.-M E. S.
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Dear NJ. B. Friends:

Dear Vt. 3. FTIenUS.
Some of you may not know that
Alexia is one of our older faithful
members. I find the date of 1904
against her name in one of my M. B.
record books, and | think she wrote
before that year. We are indebted to
her this week for the letter, the poem
and the clipping, "My Adventures in
Cooking" The Bavarian cream
must be very nice. Thanks for all
your help, AleXia.
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MIR. Blinky-Blink
Was Lonely
By EDITH Fl. OLIVER

20, 1925, Western Newspaper Union.)
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as if it were a game. Childhood had
been untouched. In one of the little
rubble and plaster sheds a newborn
calf was bawling, and yet in Paris, as
he reflected, serious men were discuss
ing the future of the world exactly
as If they could touch or affect it's
fundamental nature.
He walked on. The trees trained
against the high wall spread their
branches like fans, edged at the tips
with the pink blossoms of a new year,
symbolic of the eternal round of prom
Use, fruit and decay.
at goes so soon," said DeWolfe
aloud, and this voice which spoke was
lust as if some old friend had given
him counsel as they strolled together
in the dusk. He turned.
The Englishman waved 20 him from
the wall and held one arm aloft in a
gesture of farewell Peter could see
every finger on his hand as if they all
were painted in sepia on the velvety
gold of the sky.
by the by" called Benham, the
strange lady is half a Greek. | say
Can you hear? Her father was a ban
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ished patricia fighting professor OF
chemistry or something"
Peter smiled anG waved his hand
He turned the corner of the wall and
stepped into the cobbled street where
the endless wagons of some French
artillery maneuver were rumbling
deeper into the ruts of War worn in
the ancient stones.
Only at nine that evening did he
hear more. Benham called him by the
service wire of the signal corps.
Saying good-by, that's ALL" said
the Englishman, lying glibly. Good
luck. And l forgot to say that her
mother was Irish.'
Send me that letter to your family,
care of the American port officer at
B%oulogne," said Peter calmly after a
moment In which Benham wondered
whether the line had been cut off. I'm
off for England tomorrow"
He put his cigarette down and al
lowed it to burn the edge of the table,
staring at the wall with its maps and
blue-prints, his eyes full of wonder.
This explains, in part, why the rea-
son for his going to London was typi-
cal of Peter DeWolfe.
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steam which may blow their surround

steam which may blow their surround
ings into fragments.
The most that Muriel had ever said
was that Peter was one of the mice
Americans" a ~patronizing compliment
which had made him tell the girl and
her mother that he was gratifed at
that judgment expressed by 1.-THE bet
ter type of English" He did not know
that by the processes within the Ben
ham sisters lovely head. she had
weighed carefully his physical appear
ance noting his high bronzed forehead,
his straight nose, his lean hard cheeks
and the thin judicial lips which had
been an inheritance Of the family ever
since Justice Devote had beer paint
ed by Copley. She had judged him as
one would judge an animal, and salts
fed, had methodically passed on to his
clothes.
Peters clothes are famous for their
charming incorrectness. No one quite
knows how he succeeds in expressing
through some extensively fashionable
and unimaginatiye tailor so much of
liz " " IL VI dloLlllSllOu III hlCoos
Evening clothes or bathwrap, majors
uniform or lounging 1annels, it Is al
ways the same; Peters clothes and
Peter are n An envious broker in
New York named Moore once said
that Peters clothes even expressed
Peters moods-they could be limp,
soft and contented in his idleness;
thnU .nt111 clifton inta E,o 1fo,ifx,
with a turn of his thought. MurieIs
father had given attention to clothes
the hunter's-pink riding coat that still
hangs in the hall closet in B%econshire
Heath reminds his successors of the
dominant, rare-roast-beef personality
of Sir Austin. His daughter, like other
women who are in the profession of
being women, gave Importance to the
decorative qualities of a male; she
only forgot about Peters face and fig
ure and clothes when they had been
swallowed by his complete whole-a
whole which defied her m%ethodical
judgment and made her eyes swim and
began to turn within her heart and
body the elementary machinery that
two hundred years of Benham tradi-
ton had kept locked in neutral.
peter, l saw you before breakfast"
she said. From my window
you saw me?" he said. "Why
didn't you call to me and say one of
CHEEKY good mornincs?"
She leaned so close that he could
the faint aroma of the lavender
which Mrs. Benham, with a beaming
lace, %sprinkled in the drawers. She
said, Because 1 was waiting to see
what you were DOING
What was l doing?" said Peter.
"The telescope-father's telescope"
"Oh yes-the telescope" repeated
Peter, as if he had been accused of
the squeaky old glass. 81 did
AVE the telescope, didn't II"
He was thinking that one could not
cry well tell hosts like these two
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editor of Golfers Weekly and in 1921
was appointed ambassador to Italy by
President Harding. He served. until
February, 1924, and during the time
Tas founder of the Council on Foreign
Relations and chief representative of
Genoa and the conference Of Lausanne.
Since about 1910, Mr.. Child has been
prominent as a writer of excellent ne
Uon. He Is exceedingly fond of writ
fng mystery stories and gives a genius
and distinction to this form Of the
novel hat have been achieved by very
Few modern authors. One OF his best
Ing Men in which is presented a baf-
fling enigma dealing with the strange
story of Brena Selcoss, a beautiful
woman whose influence on the lives
of men is not at all what she would
wish 1t to be. Pure as she is, a malig-
nant fate seems to assert itself in the
case of every man who becomes Inter-
ested in her. In spite of her bravery
and determination her life is Swallowed
by an inexplicable horror.
A writer less skilled or less true in
his art than Mr.. Child, would give
uncanny qualities to such a story,
would invest It with improbable
characters; but here is a story alive
with fesh-and-blood people and mat
ter-of-fact incidents. Distinctly of the
world of today, yet it has a haunting
quality as of something entirely in
applicable, that is not completely
dispelled even when the puzzling mys-
terry is cleared up. The range of ac-
ton extends from the battlehelds at
the close of the great war to an Eng
lish country house, to Dallas, Texas,
to New York and finally to the desert
regions of the Southwest.
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CHAPTER 1

He had gone to London the moment
he was out of uniform, and he had
gone there for a reason typical to him.
For most Americans a single track
success is an inspiration of life; there
is a raw meat satisfaction in hewing
to the line until some tree falls and
also an instinct for playing the latest
game. If it is mOney-making, or trade,
or industrlalism or production-efficien-
~, the rank and file go painting after
It until some one rings for the under
taker. | have always thought that the
source of the imagination which was
responsible for Peter DeWolfe's tastes,
policy and conduct was most difficult
10 uncover. The true Of play,
not only applied to play but to all the
endeavors of life, even those which are
usually accounted grim-like war and
marriages. a rare SOWer to bloom on
the American soil it is still more rare
a blossom to find growing in a family
tree rooted, as Peters was rooted, in a
bed of money and only fortified by
that humdrum conventional pretense
of our large cities which at latest ac-
counts is still giving many persons the
same old pale glories.
This rare flower blOomed in Peter
and saved him from doing the common
places with himself which rich young
men who have become orphaned bach
elOrs usually do. 1t made Peter a great
deal more like those individuals, rare
enough ever abroad-the whimsical
E~nglishman, the adventurous French
man, the humorous Spaniard and the
practical Russian, who, though they be
the white crows of their respective
focks, exceed in numbers the Ameri-
cans who value full living above that
rather uninteresting and easy prize
which is called Success"
Peter took an interest in living. The
common run of bachelors who are pro-
vided amply with millions accept the
alternative of going to the devil or
going to business; DeWolfeis magma
ton came to his rescue and provided
him with a third choice which, in his
quiet way, he seized about the time he
left college. 1t was to live for the sake
of living.
To some this might have meant self
indulgence; to Peter it meant an in
diligence of mankind. To some 1t might
have meant fads and whims, such as
hunting big game from airplanes ut
the source of the Nile Peter would do
that very thing, perhaps, but it was
an incident not half as interesting to
him as an oil field he developed In
Texas or a settlement house he pro
NOTED in New York. He kept him
self as a very neat, well-cleaned slate
upon which life could write If it
wished; if it failed to do so Peter
wrote on it a little himself-enough
fo keep himself useful. The same man
Who invented the DeWolfe milimeter
,lso set down from time to time some
,harming verses, and the public knows
# least one short lyric from the
Leaves of Argonne' which he wrote
q the hospital before his promotion to
lajor.
4
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women who had treated him as If he
were the owner of the estate and of
the old stone house and even quaint
Spode coffee cups which came on at
breakfast, that he had come to Becon-
shire not to see them. He was think
ing that if they had not chosen to men
ton an acquaintance other than the
rather stiff and dull and correct per-
M who had come to tea almost every
afternoon and three or four times to
dinners, saved by the Chateau Yquem
graciously left by Sir Austin as q
legacy in the wine cellar, he could
not very well mention this %acquaint-
nee. Furthermore he had begun to
feel that Muriel in some strange man.
ner of her own had created an atmos-
phere of a proprietress without any
other intimacy han calling hin Peter
and, upon one occasion, dressing a cut
of a hawthorn on the back of his hand
with a peculiar tenderness mixed with
all the care of procedure that one can
find in what to Dc in an Emergency
He shrank from making the one in
quiry he would have wished to make.
He now had a chance to- make this
inquiry, because Muriel said: "You
were standing there under that beech
tree. I thought"
what did you think?'
THAT you were looking through the
glass across the fields toward that
place under the big trees-the place
we call the Curate's because one used
to live there"
Peter might have spoken then to ask
who now occupied the little gabled
houSe with it's guardian trees. 1t was
the opportunity to hear q name he had
not heard since he had heard it from
Colonel Benham's lips; Peters char
acteristic perversity that often made
him allow life to set it's own pace and
bring events at its own within, added
at this moment to his Discrimination to
disclose one of his reasons for fdling
under the Benllams' roof. 1t prevent
him from speaking. The sun was
warm, there was a fatalistic assur-
that he would hear the name
soon enough, and there was the pos
oibiiits thoL q 1OVh VI PAIN NNliu tOlIle
into Muriel's face and he would hurt a
girl for whom he had acquired a good
natured, companionable and almost
p%aternal affection.
He only smiled, and Muriel's pink
fingers being near upon the glass, he
them lightly. After a long
pause, he said 81 was looking aroun
the country"
II do not believe you," the girl said,
Jumping up with startling suddenness.
where are you going?" he asked.
Into the house. l have ahead
She had often insisted that she
lever had headaches, as if not having
headaches was a part of a proper pro-
ram for a woman who intends to-
Continued on next to last page)
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sister" said Benham. ~ Il IN,
she takes the breath out of me. IT:
that queer combination of beautiful
fresh youth with the flavor of all til,
guile and conspiracy Of the ages
She's a Saint Cecilia or a Lucrezia
Borgia. But that's not bothering my
mother"
what bothers herr"
Funny thing. We don't know who
she is. From Texas, | believe. With
some money. But why does q girl
from the United States come down to
Beaconshire Heath and buy a cottage
next to our place and live in a garden
and stay out of London and read lying
fiat on the grass and see nobody and
evade all questions? And the look in
her eyes!'
What look?" asked DeWolfe in the
hush.
Fear" said Benham.
"Fear?"
Eyes, fear. And besides there is
something about her that tells a YER
son that she is waiting-marking time
~-treading understanding out over life
just like a watcher on the shore
stares out across the empty sea-"
Maybe she's thinking Of an ice
cream Soda
There's nothing of that kind of
thing in her." the British officer re-
piled with p%ositiveness. Your ice
cream soda and millinery and looking
glass lady has a personality of a pink
color. Brena Selcoss Is the color OF
freight on the walls of an old tenn
pie"
you might go ON to say that she
gives the impression of an Inca
princess. Some dried mummy from
the sands of a prehistoric citadel.
Bathed in some magic liquid, her
limbs expanded to the lovely contour
of girlhood, her face warmed with a
renewed coursing of spirited blood"
you've seen her" exclaimed Ben
ham.
my dear fellow, I've never seer
her; but l confess that as you talk
about her l feel a little as If I had
known her-long ago"
lift the cover"
He stopped suddenly.
"And I'd like t. have you meet
too. She's a very decent sort
of sister. I've a mind to give you a
to my mother and send you over
the Channel to loaf around in fiannels
at u place in the country"
I'm leaving Brest tomorrow night
IN a transport. Sorry"
"Ohi"
well, I said nothing about it."
Afraid of farewell dinners?"
Peter smiled.
Home" said he. Bring your sis
er over to America. She'll probably
hink it a jolly little unfinished coun-
ry."
Benham clasped DeWolfe's hand
md yawned; he had seen the Ameri-
an covered from head to foot with
Hood out of his own arteries when
Peter had brought him in with the aid
# an artillery horse. 1t was an init
macy not to be befouled with demon
trations.
$50 long" said DeWoIfe.
He climbed down from the broken
vail Of the house where the English
lan had been billeted and with a nod
f farewell walked away, leaving Ben {
am perched there-a black figure as
z cut out of black cardboard pasted
the sunset glOries of the skyline. |
He walked a hundred PAGES and }
He looked at a group of !
easant children bringing in fagOts, s
ut laughing and jostling each other 5
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Vi A1@
has ichar Wash
burn Child. Of
great distinction
as a lawyer and
diplomat, he is
equally prominent
in the literary
field, especially in
the writing of brill
liant short stories
and highly inter-
esting novels. He
was born in 1881,
from
Harvard In 1906
practiced law
until 1917, when he
became attached to
Treasury depart
at Washing
as an assistant
n war finance
After the
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RICHARD M4GERgz2N ClRzLD

Few young men have been so emil
nentIy and actively a part of the lie
Evening star., 1925-11-28
BAPTIST MEETINGS
DECLARED SUCCESS
Reports on Recent State Conven.
tions in South Gratifying to
the Membership.

Reports from the various Baptist
State conventions received at Baptist
headquarters at Nashville are to the
effect that many of the sessions
proved the best that have been held
in years. There was spiritual at
mosphere pervading the meetings
which. combined with an expressed
determination on the part of the mes
sengers to give themselves with re-
newed energy to promoting the gen
eral work of the denomination during
the new year, appears to augur new
day for the organized work of South
ern Raptists and of the various State
conventions.
Such a situation Is very favorab BILE
to the prosecution of the every mem
ber canvass for the cooperative pro-
gram that will be put on in the
churches of Missouri the last week in
November, in South Carolina the first
week in January, but in the other
States of the convention In December.
The ma jority of the churches will en-
p!oy the recommended week of De
cember 6-l3, though some churches
may have to modify the date to con-
form to local situations.
1t Is confidently anticipated that
many more churches will put on the
canvass this year than did so a year
ago.