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The Washington times., 1925-05-20
CHAPTER ]
Sound of Hammers at Dawn

Souno OF hammers at Dawn
TT WAS o'clock in the morn
i ing-the death hour!
1t is not pleasant to contem-
plate the certainty of death at
any particular hour. but at 5
q. M, in winter, and still dark
All night I had lain awake.
and it had been very quiet-that
eerie quiet that prevails over the
Arizona desert expanses during
night hours. At a quarter be-
fore five / heard the stealthy
tread of human feet. and sub
dued, husky, mysterious male
voices. l couldn't help hearing
these voices. for my prison cot
was outdoors. on the north side
of the wide sleeping porch ot
the tubercuIar bungalow. / had
gone to bed eight hours before,
intent upon getting a good nights
sleep, but the knowledge of what
was to happen. the certainty Of
It, and my desire to escape the
reality of the stark truth, kept
me awake.
drew my cheap watch from
under my sea moss pillow and
held 1t so that the electric rays
from the wall guard tower a hun
dred feet distant enabled me to
decipher the exact time. 1t was
three minutes past five. and
was tuclxing the timepiece hack
under my pillow when the iun
thud, like the noise made by
dropping a water-soaked wooden
washtub. sounded distinctly And
then, abruptly, the stiffness was
broken by another sound. the
whine of a coyote outside the
twenty-foot prison wall. out on
the desert. Almost instantly the
whine became chorus - ten.
fifty, a hundred coyotes were
sending their weird lament 10 the
Gtars In many-noted unison I
nNuddered. There is something
Enoarthly about coyotes at best:
they seem like lost spirits doing
penance In this sphere for shame
ful sins elsewhere. Besides, was
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w HEN DID 1T
HAPPEN AND
WHERE

when was Phoebus, the
inner of Mars satellites, discov-
cred?
2-when did Emily Faithful,
English philanthropist. die?
3-When were double -bottoTned
ships invented?
4-when did Francis Rouse
publish his metrical version Of
the Psalms?
6When did Fahren. the Chi.
nese monk, make his famous
pilgrimage to India?
Answers to these queries will be
printed tomorrow.
ANSWERS
To Yesterdays Questions.
1.-The Expunging Resolution
to wipe out the Senate's censure
of President Jackson was intro
duced in 1884.
2-Offa's Dyke, between Eng
land and Wales, was built in the
eighth century.
3-The Turks took Euboea from
the Venetians in 1870.
4-Poussin, French artist, paint
ed Moses Striking the Rock" in
1649.
5-James Watt invented the
condensing steam engine in 1868.
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BE SURE TO
COUNT THE
CALORIES
By Hannah Wing.
A Recognized Authority ON An
Matters Pertaining to House
hold MANAGEMENT.

Matters pertaining 10 hOu0
hold Management.
WHILE calories are no gauge
w of an adequate diet, they
are the measuring-stick used by
those who seek either to gain or
lose weight. since they measure
the heat and energy given by the
different foods. Starches, sugars
and fats are the foods giving the
greatest number of calories per
serving. and are therefore the
foods whose calories are most
carefully watched by those who
are counting calories.
AS calories are usually counted
in units of one hundred. the FOL.
lowing table may serve as a
mental ready reference when one
must decide between foods.
OF the foods rich in starch the
following amounts will each yield
one hundred calories: Bread. q
slice an inch thick and approx
mately three inches square; maca-
roni, one-fourth cup; rolled oats,
a third of q cup potatoes, one
medium; rice, two tablespoonfuls:
shredded wheat. one and two
thirds cupfuls; cracked wheat, two
and one-half tablespoonfuls: corn
flakes. one and one-fourth cup
fuls; corn meal, three tablespoons
fuls.
of the foods rich in sugar, the
following amounts each yield
100 calories: One apple. one ba-
mana, four dates, two figs, one
very large orange. three large
peaches, four large prunes' four
tablespoons Of raisins, a cup and
q half of strawberries.
Two tablespoons of pure sugar
or three and one-half Jumps give
100 calories, as will one table
spoon of honey or one and one
half tablespoons of molasses.
In the class of fat-rich foods.
four thin slices of cooked bacon.
one tablespoon of butter, one
half square of unsweetened choc-
olate, one and one-third table
spoons of whipped cream, a table
spoon of salad oil and six or
eight olives may be counted as
100 calories each.
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New and Amazing Serial Describes in Detail One Mans
Long But Losing Battle for Freedom, AS Told
By Himself.

that they pulled here a. few min"
utes ago. No beast could do 1t.
He wouldn't have any excuse.
And. I've thought of something
else, too" he added. Mans the
only animal that will attack his
female. If Sam had been tiger
or hyena he wouldn't have killed
his wife. and he'd have seen the
sun rise this morning, like we
will. L"
Hey, look out, that bacon's>
burnin," interrupted Reese, grab
bing for the skillet. Never mind
the 'hyenas and tigers; we gotta
eat. An what's the use of talk
in about this old stuff, anyway?
1 used to have them continental
ideas myself-before 1 went to
France. But l got used to KILN
an slaughter over there. One
guy had his bean blown to
jelly while has was talkin' to
me, and laughin'. What's the
diff? We gotta die, anyway.
don't like to see no guy bumped
off, but / amt goner let 1t
worry me when they do it."
"Oh, you're just talking to hear
the noise,' derided Frank. You
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''Back in Prison---Why?''
Il Can Taste It Now Burning Like Fire on My Tongue and
LSee the Face of Her Who
Offered It'---LOwrie.

who really exist, and whose ex.
posure might hurt innocent relas
ttves and friends. but not ~
very many instances. II ] don't
spare myself. why spare cthsrs?"
sIt's Q cinch you can't hurt the
world" he rejoined People need
knowledge. You have It. Give if
to them so they can rely upon
it." He arose and looked square
Iy into my eyes.
Don't 5uggie the truth. he
admonished, ''and hang On to
that one lung Of yours and
after a hand clasp he was gone.
leaving me standing there under
the castor bean trees IN the
walled-in tubercular yard. breath
ing heaSlly.
It is in the same spot. under
the castor beans, sitting n the
rays of the life-givtng Inidwinter
Arizona sun. within the walls Of
the Arizona State prison that ]
write.
CHAPTER II.
ARIZONA STATE PENITENs
TIARY. FLoRENcM. Aris.. March
Ill leaned against one Of the
trees in the prison yard after
Older left and stared at the walls.
the flare Of sky. the winter aun
polishing the green leaves. :
took in these details heavily b.
cause of an almost unbearabie
hush that had fallen On my
thought.
had agreed to tell the truth
the stark facts that made mo
what / am today. And what J
am today or why am this thing
is not pleasant thenne to con.
template.
No man likes TO look in his
naked soul; to look long or stead
ily at the raw and scarlet aeeu-
mutations Of his years. ! am
looking at mine now. Much thst
would gladly hidel Much taaat
only this own soul knows. ard
knowing, conceals 80 jealously.
(To Be Continued Tomorrowl
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A Gift to an Adnlirer

BY Beatrice Fairfax

from which I can chooss7 I
would like to spend about $2S.
BETTY.
noN'T do it, Betty-don't give
~ him q gift Of any financial
value. Al book, a box OF his
favorite cigars, q large box of
the cigarettes he likes best Of all
or a birthday card would be
appropriate. Even to accept an
expensive gift from man to
whom one is not engaged is uN-
wise. And to give him such . gift
is simply out of the question.
Let him take the initiative.
Let him show you attentions.
But don't run after him" by
making expensive presents or
you may lose his friendship.
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part of 1t which acts uncon-
sciously, whether waking or sleep
ing, and that YOU, therefore, call
your unconscious mind.
Now the trick is to set this un-
conscious mind to work, and to
have it work chiefly. but not AK
c!usively, while you are sleeping.
OF course, if you desire it to
work to a definite purpose. such,
for instance. as the solving of
some problem IN your affairs,
which it does best while you are
sleeping, you must be conscious
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DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:

nEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
~ have been going about
with a young man for six
months. His birthday comes
very soon and I would like to
know whether 1t would be ap-
propriate for me to give him a
gift.
It happened that my birthday
was a month before I met hiraY
so, of course. he couldn't give
me birthday gift. In fact, he
has never given me anything.
l love this young man dearly
and he tells me and shows by
his actions that he loves me.
If it is all right to give him a
gift, will you please make a list
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StOrehouSe OF
your intellect,
you call 1t an
act of memory
and when YOU
consciously use
it in thought
or action you
do so by what
Is called your
conscious mini.
But you will
remember shat
[ h e gre a t
bulk" Of your
mind is that
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Here and There

Seven hundred officers Of high
rank belonging to the old Aus.
trian army are on the verge Of
starvation. One field marshal re-
Gently died Of sheer starvation,
after selling his medals to buy
food.
The worlds heaviest liner is
the Majestic. Fully laden she
turns the scale at "a 900 tons.
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Go TO. A man with UNDER
STANDING is as a pearl in the
oyster or q proposal after thirty
Q rare and beautiful surprise!
But an Adonis that hath re-
ceived all his sentimental educa-
ton at the 'petting party" is a
street car with a flat wheel or a
taxicab without springs. He
causeth thee only jolt.
AS a tack in the heel Of a dane
on a July night, as salt in the
coffee, so is a man that seeketh
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By DIR. Chas. A. L. Reed.
THE most effective actions thai

THE most effective actions that
Il you can perform as the result
of your own suggestions are &C.
complished through the action of
your unconscious mind.
When by act of will or force of
association, you consciously call
forth something from this great
-
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Savings of Mrs! Solomon
ToDAYs PHIL0soPHY IN YESTERDAYS WORDS
BY Helen Rowland
But, Who Hath Found One?

to Improve thee when thou
wishest to be admired and kissed.
But a lover that professeth to
adore thee blindly is sweeter than
music on the water and more in
spring than a becoming mirror.
AS exhilarating as a drugstore
drink, as thrilling as last years
almanac, so is a man that talketh
shop" and discusseth his dys-
pepsia beneath the June moon;
and he that is witty" in a canoe
at sunset is as sugar upon clans.
But a man that seeketh to he
slushy before the multitude Is as
one that applaudeth in the middle
of the aria. He breaketh the
charm.
AS a taxicab window that stick
eth and will not shut in a rain
storm, as a steel riveter across the
street, as a rat man In an aisle
seat. so is a "conversationalis
that regardeth thee only as a foil
for his own brilliancy.
But he that hearkeneth when
thou speakest. and applaudeth thy
wit, is freight upon a diamond.
He causeth thee to scintillate.
Verify, verify, In a world full
of near-overs and imitation sheiks
and would-be cavemen, an artistic
lover is a rare and beautiful thing.
and more refreshing than a cool
breeze in a desert!
SEIAH
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HOW long, oh my Daughter.
IL shall writer's and poets con-
tinue to sing of the ideal woman"
and aamsels seek to resemble her?
For, what man doubteth in his
heart that HE is the Ideal lover"
1, - ~ axyay~1y
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W o m a n seek
eth?
Y e t w h 0
hath found 3
Perfect Lover?
F or. verify,
in the winning
of a woman, a
little discretion
e x C e e d e t h
much pulchri-
t u d e a n d a
good Zine is
better than A
Greek profile.
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But he that hearkeneth when
thou speakest. and applaudeth thy
wit, is freight upon a diamond.
He causeth thee to scintillate.
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to improve thee when thou
wishest to be admired and kissed.
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SELAH
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1925-01-14
RIGHT GOODi!l

Annual Banquet -(Special5 to the
Miner) The Challis Croquet club
held their annual banquet in Dodge
hall dining room, Dec. %, 1924. Table
was laid for twelve. four members be
ing absent. The evening was spent
in cards, games and dancing. At
1920 o'clock each one opened their
package which was given by members
of the club. The gifts were most
beautiful, all hand made by each
member One of the most beautiful
was given by Mrs. H. H. Hartman,
q lunch set, hand embroidered, with
tatting on the edge of center and nap
kins. All members went home with
a feeling that Santa was a pretty
good old scout The Mackay Miner.
If the Crochet Club will appoint
reporter as the other Clubs in Chal-
lis do, we will be very glad indeed to
publish anything they might send IN,
thus doing away with the necessity
OF sending s'specials' 10 outside pa
pers.
We never Intentionally omit an
item of news.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1925-01-14
THE MANUFACTURER GIVES
CENTRAL IDAHO A BOOST

The Manufacturer, an industrial
magazine published at Salem, Oregon
has the following 70 say in their indus
trial review about Central Idaho and
gives this section just a little more
favorable publicity:
Ford Motors purchase and prelim-
mary exploration Of Red Bird and
South Butte lead mines near Clayton,
Custer county, attract wide attention.
This is district long known to car
~ good values, but remote from
transportation Robert y. Bell, for
20 years state mine inspector, sold
the properties 10 the Ford interests.
Extensive prospecting is being
started. 10 prove the deposits and to
develop them fully if results are sat
isfactory. This may add great lead
producing district 10 the states indus
trial assets An army OF men have
applied for work on the Ford proper
ties, IS miles from Challis.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1925-01-14
FIRST WEEKS CHRONOLOGY
OF IDAHO LEGISLATURE
SENATE

Monday, Jan. s. Members sworn
together with other state officials, in
joint session in house chamber. Pres
ident pro tempore elected.
Tuesday, Jan. 6 Met in joint SEES
sion with house to hear governors
message.
Wednesday, Jan. Passed house
bill carrying emergency appropria-
ton for all state expenses in January
and February.
Thursday. Jan. 8, Mileage report
approved and printing committees
named. Bill introduced for bank de-
post guaranty fund.
Friday, Jan. 8. -Swore in addition
al attaches.
Saturday, Jan. 10. Standing com
mittees appointed and handling Of
bills explained by acting secretary,
A. NJ. Boylen.
HOUSE
Monday, Jan s. Members take
DdlH u OlllCt III JOiul ScoSiOu- OPCoh-
er and chief clerk elected.
Tuesday. Jan. 6. Joint session to
hear governors message.
Wednesday, Jan. Z. Passed Kiger
emergency appropriation bill carrying
s462,170 for state expenses in Janua-
ry and February.
Thursday, Jan. s. Printing COM
mittee appointed. List of attaches
completed.
Friday, Jan. 9. Passed bill extend
ing time for payment of auto license
from jan l to March Is. Bill intro
duced to permit contract labor by
county Jail prisoners.
Saturday, Jan. 10. Standing COM
mittees announced. Bill introduced
for maintenance of Salvation Army
rescue and matrnity home. Capital
News.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1925-01-14
TRIBUNAL UPHOLDS
BREYER'S SENTENCE
CUSTER COUNTY MAN MUST
SERVE LIFE SENTENCE FOR
KILLING OSCAR TAYLOR

Daniel C. Breyer must serve a life
sentence in the Idaho penitentiary for
the murder OF Oscar Taylor, accord.
ing to a decision of the supreme court
handed down Saturday. Breyer is now
in the penitentiary.
The killing took place on the night
of January %. 1921, at the Breyer
home in Custer county. In his de-
tense Breyer alleged Taylor had i'm
proper designs on his wife and testi-
fed that just before the killing he
had seen Taylor embrace her
Taylor was in the Breyer house with
Mrs. Breyer and her two grown
daughters. He started to leave gand
Mrs. Breyer said she would go with
him as far as the neighbours TO bring
her younger daughter home. AS they
left the house they noticed Breyer,
who approached with rife and shot
Taylor in the face, again through the
body as he was falling and in the
back as he lay dead in the snow.
The jury found him guilty of muir
der in the first degree and he was
sentenced to life Imprisonment. In
deciding the case the court SAID:
"The verdict of the jury shows that
1t repudiated the idea of self-defense
or insanity and also the idea that
there was any provocation which
would reduce the degree of the hon.
icide. All the evidence shows the
act to have been deliberate and pre-
meditated In the extreme. The jury
evidently regarded the case as one
of those in which an individual as
sumes the role of executioner and in
ficts capital punishment upon anoth-
err" Boise Statesman.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1925-01-14
IDAHO STATE WEEKLY
INDUSTRIAL REVIEW

1925 starts with less unemployment
than usual for January, with more
building in progress and in prospect,
with more orders in mills and FACTOR
les, with more money in the banks,
with more confidence in the public
heart 1925 should be a banner year
in the United States.
Idaho gold production for 1924 is
estimated at 26,S0e ounces.
Gooding $4,000 acres will be wa
tered by Milner-Shoshone canal from
water to be stored in great American
Falls reservoir.
Idaho has largest banking reserve
since 1905, says state commissioners
of finance.
american Falls New Power coun-
~ bank shows assets Of s202,96e.
Tr"ding county farmers iii build
s2.5O0.0O irrigation canal from Miner
with storage rights in American Falls
reservoir, to water.
Drill prospecting on site of pro-
posed Dubois project dam shows rs
feet of cinders under lava covering.
making insecure dam foundation. A
proposal TO build smaller dam further
up Clark's Fork river, to water 10000
acres considered.
January on federal road up South
Fork Clearwater
Idaho Falls Elks plan to erect a
100000 building.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1925-01-14
WANT TENTED STATEMENT

The village of Mackay has fled
complaint with the state public util-
titles commission requesting that the
Mackay Power & Light Co. be COM
PEELED TO file an itemized statement
|of its receipts and disbursements the
past two years. The complaint sets
forth that the village has stock in the
company TO the amount OF $4,000 and
has never been furnished q statement
The complaint is signed by e5 citizens
OF the city. Capital News.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1925-01-14
NEW COUNTY OFF,
Gers ARE SWORN IN
RICHARD BENhTTTs is MADE
CHAIRMAN OF BOARD OF
COMMISSIONER

Last Monday morning ceremony
was performed in the court house In
this city when new and reelected
county officials were sworn into
office.
The personnel OF county officers is
as follows:
Mary ". Jose, county treasurer, re-
elected
Thomas s. Mckinney, county ass
essor.
Charles McKelvey, sherih.
Jonathan Job. probate Judge. reel
Iected.
Merle L. Drake, county attorney.
Florence C. Rowles, school super
intendent, reelected
Joseph L. Ebberts, coroner, re-elec-
ted.
Julius Maelzer, surveyor.
Emmett Donahue, county auditor.
elected two years ago for four year
term, holds over.
Richard BENEFITS, county commits
sioner, district No. l.
David ". Williams, county commits
sioner, district No. 2.
Samuel VI. Miller, county commits
sioner district No. 8.
The Board met at ten O'Clock In the
morning of January 18TH and organ
lied by electing Richard BENEFITS. as
chairman.
Mr.. BENEFITS choice Will meet With
the general approval of the taxpayers
as he has had experience In the past
having served on the Board for two
years, and Is a resident Of the coun-
~ seat. The county business Il great
" facilitated when the chairman Of
the Board is located In the county
seat.
David NJ. Williams, commissioner
from district No. 2, was selected by
the Board to go 10 Boise for the pur-
pose OF obtaining money for Custer
county highway maintenance and he
left Tuesday morning for the Capital
City. expecting to be gone for sever
al days.
During his absence the other two
OF the Board are carrying
on the work of the Board
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1925-01-14
First Declaration Copies

The first printed copies of the Dec
laration of Independence which were
sent out contained only the names OF
the president of the congress and
the secretary. The parchment with
the original signatures was depositeo
With the Department of State. In 1S2S
John Quincy Adams had copper
plate facsimile made to give copies
to the signers or their heirs.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1925-01-14
Snake and Ape Pals

The Damon and Pythias of trav-
cling show are 20-fcOt constructor
and a 20-pound ape. The two spend
uours together in the same cage, and
although il would be easy for the
snake to crush and swallow the little
simian, they always are on the most
amiable terms The ape pulls the
snakes tail. beats the monsters head
and tries TO catch the red. needle-like
tongue as it darts in and out--an Id
fun, of course.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1925-01-14
AN UNFAIR ADVANTAGE?

From an exchange we CLEAN the
following, which may not be amiss
in these days days of coughs, colds
and other minor and major Ills:
THE editor Of newspaper appeals
to his subscribers in this unique way:
IF YOU have frequent headaches,
dizziness and fsinting spells, accom-
panied BY chills. cramps. chnDIains.
epilepsy and jaundice it is a sign
that you are not we'll but are liable
70 die any minute. Pay your sub
scription Z year in advance and make
Yourself solid for a good obituary no
tice."
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1925-01-14
Aurora Bore1lis

Scientists have not reached a def
mite conclusion as to the cause Of the
aurora boreaiis. There seems 10 oe
no doubt that it is the result Of cleo
trical discharges through the upper
regions of the atmosphere. Ii is
known TO be associated in some way
with the magnetism If the earth. and
the occurrence of sunspots has been
thought to have some connection with
its appearance.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1925-01-14
Gifted EaglishUoman

Elizabeth Smith was born in Ito
st the family seat of BurnhaIl. County
Durham. England. She understood
mathematics, drawing, Hebrew. Syrian.
Arabic, Persian, Greek, Latin. italian.
Spanish. German and French Her
works, Fragments" Translation Of
Job and Translation OF the Life Of
KlOpStock." have been published. She
was also & pOetess of ability She
died in 1906. aged thirty-Chirago
Journal.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1925-01-14
Bricks Maze From Dirt

Compressed bricks made from ordi-
nary dirt have been developed for
house construction by two French Ell
gineers. In the process ordinary sub
soil earth containing TO per cent
clay is compressed by tremendous
pressure The resultant bricks are
said to have q pressure resistance Of
600 pounds g square inch--POpular
Science Monthly.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1925-01-14
Frozen Elephdnts

The Smithsonian institute says that
Il is true that frozen elephants were
found in Siberia. and that the flesh
was In such state Of preservation
that it could have been eaten How
ever. It has no record Of anyone hav-
ing attempted 70 use the meat as food
II is understood that there are several
specimens preserved in museums
throughout the world
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1925-01-14
Began Enormous Industry

The manufacture of shoes in what
is now the United States was begun
in 1929 by Thomas Beard. who came
over on the Mayfiower on its third
voyage and brought hides for making
shoes. Seven years later Philip Kert
land Of Ruckinghamshire began max
Ing shoes in Lynn, Mass. Since thar
date the state OF Massachusetts has
come 10 lead the world in the manu-
facture OF boots and shoes.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1925-01-14
Hopeless

In a motor accident case recently
the motorist said that the injured man
would persist in walking right in the
middle of the road. Judging from the
state of some of our roads we think it
quite possible that the unfortunate
pedestrian had got into a groove
London HumoriSt.