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| Then he took his General Dawes
pipe from his pocket and went into
the living room He switched on
the lights there, and stopped short,
staring.
There was a vase of wilted roses
on the table that stood beside his
armchair. They had not been there
a week ago! His smoking
stand was in perfect order.
And beside it on the floor Law a
square of crippled cambria. E.
GIoria's handkerchief. She had
been in the house! She had
come back! But why? And
when?
And how had she managed to get
in, without a key? Dick tried the
llving-room windows. They were all
locked. Then he went into the sun
room.
He saw at once the window that
Gloria had pried open. There were
marks on the window sill where the
clothes pole had scraped it
Dick sat down i'm his armchair,
and looked at the handkerchief in
his hands. The initial &C" was en-
hroidered in one corner of it. And
it smelled family of mimosa flow
er.
He put it against his nostrils, and
the perfume of it brought back to
him the memory of Gloria so keenly
that it seemed she must still be there
in the room with him.
Dick could almost see her
there, putting the g-stemmed
roses into the vase, busting off the
smoking-sta with her fluttering lit
tie hands. He could hear her Hitting
voice saying "Rikky-Tikky-Tavvy, l
need new hat" or, ooh, Dick, why
worry about the bills?"
He found himself staring at the
telephone on its Lakewood table IN
the hall.
:. All he had to do was to give
q number =. tell, Gloria that he
wanted her. And in a few minutes
she would be here. Here in his
arms!
(To Be Continued)
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won't have to worry about when he's
with Miss Briggs" she thought. F'No
one would look at her twice. She's
jas homely as a mudfencew
There was undeniable comfort III
the thought of Miss Briggs plain
Eess.
But Dick was not having dinner
with Susan Briggs that night.
He was not having dinner with
anyone.
At the very moment when Gloria
was wishing Ulysses X. Forgan good
night and goodby, he was tearing
along green country lanes in the
little car he had bought for her.
He came back to town against
the wind It set the blood racing III
his veins, and burned his face. It
was good to be challenged by the
wind to defy it with his own
speed.
All day he had been "blue" !.
low in his mind, Everything in his
life, lately, seemed to have gone
stale and flat.
It was nine o'clock when he got
back to town. He drove down the
street toward home.
"Home" these days meant his
mothers perfectly ordered house.
Perfectly cooked meals =. al
WAYS on time.
His ties were always pressed and
folded neatly in his drawers. HIS
socks were always mended. There
never was a single button missing
from his shirts.
But, nevertheless, there was some
thing distinctly missing from his
life. He didn't know just what il
was, either.
:. AS Dick swung his car into
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NeW Assistant Attorney
General is Woody WeS1erner

was wide open. Let 'er roll! Let
'er roll! Let 'er roll!. NOW SHE
R0LLSn came day and night from
the big tent where they ran the
wheel"
sit may have been only a coin
cidence," Parmenter observed, "hut
Lawton started with just $50 law
yers and just 80 saloons.
The saloons are neither here
nor there. But you can under
stand, with so many lawyers, we
had to have some law. So we or
gained local government in a
month or six weeks.
eve established order. We be-
gan building wooden shacks in
place of our tents. In six months
the railroad built in.
"Then Oklahoma was admitted as
a state"
Parmenter is going to be popular
with the press-for he doesn't bluff.
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the driveway, he saw that another
CAY was parked there. His father
and mother evidently had guests. +.
lie backed the car out of the
drive. The thought of talking to a
roomful of people was intolerable to
him just then.
A half hour later he was in the
Kitchen of his own house. He had
tied a clean dish-towel around his
waist for an apron.
He held a can opener in one hand
and tin of baked beans in the
other. And he was getting his own
dinner. A wedge of Yorkstate
cheese, a loaf of rye bread, and a
bakers pie were on the kitchen
table.
For this "delicatessen" meal, Dick
had fOregone chicken pie and rasp-
berry shortcaka at his mothers
house that night.
He had come home straight from
the office to get his car. And then
he had driven out into the open
country. =. Like all people who
are beset with loneliness. he had
wanted to be alone.
But he was cheerful enough now,
puttering around his own house
the house where Gloria had
so lately been. He ate his cold, in
digestible food with gasto. He
whistled as he rinsed his dishes and
piled hem up on the drainboard.
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Blood Medicine and Liver Pills, and
used Lydia E. Pinkham's Sanative
Wash. | have had good results in ev-
cry way and am able to do my work
again and can eat anything that
comes along. My friends tell me how
well / am looking. - Mrs. f. K.
CoRIELL, 129 Peete St., Cincinnati, o.
Willing to Answer Letters
Philadelphia, Pa. - have used
your medicines for nervousness and
rundown system with a severe
weakness. After taking Lydia E.
Pinkham Vegetable Compound and
using Lydia E. Pinkham's Sanative
Wash | feel like a different woman
and have gained in every way. am
willing to answerletters asking about
\ the medicines. " = DORA HOLT zo4s
s 18th St., Philadelphia, Pa.
Il 81
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Il Tell You, Karnak Is Simply
Wonderful, And My Wife
And | Both Owe This Great
Medicine More Than We Can
Ever Repay" Says A. Nj.
Eason.

The praise heaped upon Karnak,
the sensational medicine that has
caused intense interest in Atlanta
since its introduction here a few
weeks ago, grows greater and great
or every day.
From all parts of Georgia, men
and women in all walks of life are
daily reporting the most remarkable
results in restored health, strength
and energy after taking the amaz-
ing medicine and the demand for
Karnak at Planters Drug and Seed
Store and howelI's Pharmacy is SEN
sational.
Alfred NJ, Eason, Of 127 Broyles
ST., Atlanta, says:
'I'll tell you, this Karnak il
sin ply wonderful, Why, it has pu
me in as perfect physical condition
as a man could possibly be and j
has done wonders for my wife, too
For over a year I was all run
down and feeling just miserable al
the time. I wasn't sack in bed, bu
most of the time / felt like being
there. | was tired and sluggish ant
couldn't get rested. My work seem
ed to wear me down and | had &
hard time keeping going. I was al.
ways bilious and constipated anc
my stomach and liver upset most OF
the time.
Il couldn't sleep and mornings ]
] would just drag myself to work b,
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TUESDAY AFTERNOON. JULY IA, 1925

room was man accused of counter
revolutionary activities, who was
condemned to death. Ten years is
the maximum for murder in the
first degree, but death invariably is
melted out to those found guilty OF
working against the present polltleai
regime The Bolsheviks say this
severity is necessary in order to in
eure the success of revolution.
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INMATES OF RUSSIAN
PRISONS ARE ALL
TREATED HUMANITY
CONTINUED From Page Onel

(Contlnued From Page Onel
down the morale and spirit of the
prisoners, making them morose and
respondent, and when they are re-
leased they are wholly incapacitat-
ed for any useful pursuit.
Murder in Russia is relatively a
mild offense as compared to count
er-revolution. The correspondent
on a recent visit to one of the Mos
COW prisons spoke to a youth guilty
of triple murder, who was serving
only three years, while in the next
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and the blues, ana
didn t care if |
lived or died. My
rightside was very
bad andIhad back
ache and a weak
ness. Tread about
your medicines in.
the papers and
wrote for further
information. |
took Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vege-
] table COMPOUND,
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You Know a Tonic is Good
when it makes you eat like hungry
boy and brings back the color to your
cheeks. You can soon feel the
strengthening. Invigorating Effect of
GROVES TASTELESS CHILL TONIC
G0o
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WOMAN
VERY NERVOUS
Weak, Blue, Discouraged
Relieved by Taking Lydia
E. Pinkham's Medicine

Cincinnati, Ohio. 81 was nervous
and could not sleep, had crying spells
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Reprinted from the First Balloon Tire
Announcements

You ride ON cushion of air"
"Ruts and bumps are smoothed out"
he car and its occupants are protected from
jolts and jars"
Shocks are absorbed before they reach axles
and springs"
"On uneven roads where ordinary tires bounce
these flexible low-air pressure tires roll over
the bumps permitting better average speed"
Save repairs"
Evening star., 1925-07-14
BEDTIME STORIES BY Y TH1sATe" sTSe9ss

People full of curiosity usually are
foolish" replied Digger drily.
Peter grinned. He knew that Dig
ger meant that for him. II guess
that's so. Please go on. Mr.. Badger" "
said he.
Well" continued Mr.. Badger, "the
Coyote who had walked into town
those Prairie Dogs. He would pre-
tend that he wasn't interested in
them in the least. He would just
keep on his way. OF course the
Prairie Dog in the mound behind
which the other Coyote was hiding
would see the first Coyote and would
see that he was beyond the danger
point. Right away that Prairie Dog
would come wholly out and sit up
to bark his head off at the Coyote
who had created all this disturbance. :"
What happened them" asked Peter
eXcitedly.
Sometimes one thing, and some
times another" replied Digger.
Sometimes that Prairie Dog never
barked any more and those Coyotes
had Prairie Dog dinner. Sometimes
that hidden Coyote would not be quite
quick enough. When this happened
those two Coyotes would go off and
try it again somewhere else. Sooner
or later there was sure to be one
less Prairie Dog in town. One Coyote
working alone couldn't have done it,
but two working together that way
were pretty sure to be successful"
Peter thought it all over. Then
he gave a little sigh of thankfulness.
We'll" said he call I can say is that
I am glad Old Man Coyote hasn't
any one to hunt with him here What
you've seen those Coyotes do out there
in Prairie Dog town I have seen
Reddy and Mrs. Fox do when trying
to catch one Of Johnny Chuck's chill.
dren. Are Prairie Dogs the only folks
you hunted out there, Mr.. Badger"
Digger shook his head. Goodness
no." said he. IT guess I would have
gone hungry large part of the time
if 1 had to depend wholly on Prairie
Dogs"
Evening star., 1925-07-14
SUMMERTIME
Jimson Weed.
BY d. c. PEATTIE

If you see purplish-gree weedy
plant coming up in your garden, with
triangular, jagged leaves, a rank, bit.
ter, sulphurous smell and beautiful
lilac-purplc tubular flowers, pull it up.
for 1t is jimson weed. All parts of
the flower are poisonous to eat (thoueh
not to touch), and the peculiarly at
tractive blossoms are especially at
tractive to children, who often put
them in their mouths.
The seeds are especially poisonsous.
and contain the aikaloid drug stra.
monium. 1t is a cerebral excitant, in.
ducing frances and maniacal states of
mind. There are incredible tales of
the things that people will do in India
when stramonium has been put in
their food.
For the jimson weed is naturalized
from the Old World tropics. In spite
of that fact. the name ''jimson" is a
Yankee corruption. of jamestown. The
the old colony Of Jamestown. Va, and
for a long time it was though to
have originated there.
DIR. Blakeslee. a biologist. recently
gave a statement to the press in
which he was quoted as saying that
many of the problems of biology could
be settled through a study OF chrome
somes, heredity and sex of the jimson
weed. Some of his fellow scientists
are unconvinced.
Jimson weed, or any common, de-
spised, rustic weed contains in its
mysterious life history a little uni.
verse of practical information to
which any scientist might profitably
devote a lifetime Of study. AS you
pull the jimson weed from your gar
den today and fling 1t from you as
you would cast out a leper, 1t Is in
teresting to think that somewhere
scientists are carefully growing it,
observing it, throwing other plants
out Of its plots as weeds.
Evening star., 1925-07-14
Opera Glasses for Field Purposes
BY LYDIA LIE BARON WALKER.

close view objects that are in the far
distance as will strong field glasses,
but they will do much to magnify OBJ
jects and apparently shorten the dis
tance between you and the thing You
wish to study. Some opera glasses
are so strong that they are almost as
good as field glasses So, If you have
not the field glasses, do not forget your
opera glasses, even on camping trips.
Bird Study.
A vacation that is not merely the
spending of days in some fashlonaole
resort, but which is devoted to out-ot-
door life In simpler style, has more
zest when the person has a hobby,
such as the study of birds, of botany,
of minerals, etc. Then, the country is
full of absorbing things and as grip.
ping as any novel. The discovery OF
something in connection with the
habitat of birds that was unknown TO
YOU is thrilling The early morning
hour is best for this study-the time
when the birds begin to come out OF
their nests and sing their early mat
ing songs. If you lie below the tree'
where YOU can get full view OF tne
nest, YOU are likely to be rewarded
with some new revelation. II the time
seems too early to get up in the morn
ing. the next best chance to pursue
such study is at nesting time in the
twilight.
Time Is not so essential an element
when studying flowers, with the eH-
ception of some such varieties as
fol1r-o'clocks, etc, which blossom only
at definite times. Whenever you
choose to stroll about there are hun
dreds of plants that tempt you 10
study them. And should you not teel
like hiking, this does not deprive you
of opportunities to make your own ais
coveries along many lines. You have
but 70 step out Of doors to be sur
rounded with objects of botanical IN
terest, and a desultory study can be
pursued as you lie on the grass lazing
away the hours in a fashion that re-
news vitality.
Practical Advantages.
Since distances are minimized by the
use of glasses, we can descry places
that are particularly beautiful, hauntS
that lure us to closer inspection and
roads that may be just the ones we
would most enjoy to travel. In all or
these WAYS opera glasses are a delight.
By making use of them in our out.of.
door life we get double satisfaction ana
feel that money spent in buying them
is not restricted to enjoyment of win.
ter entertainments alone. Such
glasses may be, and indeed are, count
ed as luxuries, but they can be put
to practical uses, since it is indeed
true that anything that broadens a
persons vision adds to the grasp and
understanding of things and Of life.
We can appreciate that putting our
glasses to double service we gain de-
cided advantages.
Evening star., 1925-07-14

heads are better than one, and eight
legs are better than four. Any way,
that is the way those Coyotes out
there in Prairie Dog town used to
think, and they pretty nearly proved
it. Yes, sir, they did SO. When they
wanted a Prairie Dog dinner they
started out together to get it. One
Coyote would hide by lying fat in the
grass outside the Prairie Dog town.
The other would walk into the town.
OF course as soon as he started warn
ing would be given, and down into
their homes would dive all the Prairie
Dogs near at hand.
Then the Coyote hidden in the grass
would run forward and lie down fiat
behind the nearest mound in which
a Prairie Dog had disappeared. Now
you must know that Prairie Dogs
always feel safe the moment they
have reached their homes. Just a
little way down from the entrance
they have a little place dug to give
them room to turn around without
going clear to the bottom. So when
they have dived head first into their
homes they go no farther than these
little places and there they turn
around and in a moment or two pop
their heads out TO see what has be-
come Of the danger that frightened
them"
That is foolish said Peter.
Evening star., 1925-07-14

Mrs. Hews came to ace ma this
afternoon and they was tawking about
alHerent subjecks sutch as how hard il
Is to Keep cooks without paying them
more money, and all OF a sudden Mrs.
iews started to cawff without stop.
ping, and ma started to pat her on
the back saying, Benny, run and get
now.
Hot or cold? I sed.
Eny kind, cold, for goodniss sakes
hurry up, cant you see she's chokink7
ma sed.
And ma kepp on hittin her on the
pack, changing the pats into SLABS.
and L hurry up ran back to the
kltchin for a glass of water and our
COOK Nora was back there looking in
the oven and CRATE smell was com.
ing out, me saying, Wat is 1t, Nora
cookies?
ASK me no questions and III tell YOU
no lies. Nora sed. Being the kind of
disposition she has, and Jest then
somebody started to mock on the back
gate and Nora went out to see who
1t was and quick looked in the oven
for curiosity sake, being cookies ali
rite and proving wat a perfeck sents
of smell l have, and jest then Nora
came back saying, 1 saw you shut
e@AHe OfSii oOoip yOu InlZZerDle var
mint, wat are you doing back heer
anyhow?
I'm getting a glass of water for
Mrs. Hews. she's choking out there
l sed. -
Well in the name of Sent Peter a
body could be ded and berried alive
by the time you got there, Nora sed
And she quick gave me a glass of
water and a push and wen / got out
in the hall I could heer Mrs. Hews
still cawffing and ma still slapping
her on the back and calling, BENNY
ware are you,, haven't you got that
water yet?
Yes nam. heer I am. heer IL is 7
sed. And jest then 1 tripped over a
rug and fell down and all the water
shot out of the glass over. Mrs
Hewses feet, and she stopped cawffing
saying, o my godniss now III catch
a cold and I'm sure my back is a
mass of bruises, I'm sure Id of stopped
caWffing long ago if YOU hadent
kepp on humping me, now I haff to
hurry rite home and change my
shoes.
Wich she did and I'm still in the
house for punishmint.
Evening star., 1925-07-14
Fruit Popovers.

Popovers for dessert are made in
the same way as those for breakfast,
using one pint Of -four. three eggs,
two cupfuls of milk. and half a tea.
spoonful of salt. Slightly beat the
egg. add the milk. aVd stir gradually
into the mixed flour and salt. Beat
only just enough to make q smooth
batter and strain into creased cups or
deep muffin pans until each is nearly
filled. Have the oven very moderate
and allow them about so minutes for
baking. When the oven is too hot
they rise rapidly and are sure to fall.
When taken from the oven. open one
side Of each carefully, put in a spoon
full of jam or preserves, and serve
with a creamy sauce.
Evening star., 1925-07-14
The Story of the Prune.

After filling the order for 10000
prune trees in eight months" said
Mr.. Burbank, my nursery business
increased rapidly with the prune in
dustry, which became more and more
interesting to fruit growers.
What prunes were grown at that
timer" I asked.
'"The French prune, which had
been brought over from France by
two brothers named Pellier, who had
come to California in 1S49 for gold.
Failing in obtaining this, they estab
lished a nursery, and in 1856 one of
them, returning to France for
bride, brought back with him some
prune cuttings. These survived the
long journey, and on their arrival
were grated on plum stock, to be-
come the parents of nearly all the
prune trees in California for the next
SO years.
''I was not satisfied with this prune.
which, although having some good
qualities, has the defect Of being a
cling stone and has too large a stone
in proportion to the pulp. Also it
ripens too late and the trees are not
strong, vigorous growers.
80 I created a mental picture. a
blue print II you please, of what a
perfect prune should be, and decided
that 1t must not only ripen earlier,
but must be large, sweet, with free
stone fruit and skin Of the right
texture for profitable drying"
What is the process, Mr.. Bur
bank" I asked.
THE ripe prunes are dipped in a
solution of potash or lye, so that the
skins may crack sufficiently for rapid
evaporation and quick drying. This
quality is absolutely essential, and the
behavior of the prune in it's potash
bath decides its commercial value.
Therefore, my specifications called
for size, sweetness, early ripening and
a peculiar and unusual perfection of
skin. On the size, of course, depends
the market price; on the sugar con.
tent depends the drying quality OF the
fruit, and on the early ripening de-
pends the opportunity of drying in the
sun before the Autumn rains"
II think you had your work cut
out as they say" I remarked.
Yes" answered Mr.. Burbank
''and 1t took the better part OF 20
years to complete 1t. l crossed the
| French prune with the Hungarian
prune, which Is larger, but not Sc
sweet, and from 1t obtained many va
rieties Of seedlings, until by selection
and crossing the sugar prune was
produced.
This had no rival, until the Stan
dard' was produced. about 10 years
later, which possesses not only al
the fine qualities of the sugar prune
but Is a free-stone.
The last prune to be produced was
the Conquest from a crossing be
tween a diminutive. unproductive
partially stoneless wild plum and the
French prune. The Conquest is
generally entirely stoneless and has
Evening star., 1925-07-14
What TomorrowMeans to You
BY MARY BLAKE.
Cancer.

Cancer.
Nothing very encouraging can be
said about tomorrow, according to the
planetary aspects, for, although they
are not favorable, they are not. on the
other hand, so adverse as perplexing.
They do not encourage resolution or
decision. On the contrary, they denote
suspicion and mistrust. They do not
indicate keeness OF either mind or in.
tellect; rather do they presage doubt
and lack Of understanding. While such
influences predominate 1T would be
inexpedient to attempt to do anything
of Importance, and caution and judg-
ment both counsel that as few de-
cisions as possible should be made to.
morrow and only routine matters re-
ceive your attention.
Children born tomorrow, be they
boys or be they girls, will enjoy very
similar physical conditions, while
being, even after making due allow
ance for sex difference, very dissifnilar
in character and disposition. So far
as their health is concerned this will
be quite up to normal, and any slight
ailments from which they may suffer
will be of little or no consequence.
The girl will possess a reserved ma.
ture, and be rather disposed at times,
to sullenness. She will also take full
advantage of the privileges that her
sex affords her. The boy, on the other
hand, will be open, frank and above
board in everything. He will be OBJ
livious to trihes and always self
contained, and, with ambition, will
have the necessary ability and energy
to attain the goal of his desires.
If tomorrow is your birthday you
are gifted with remarkable intuitive
and psychic power. AS a natural con
sequence your judgment and fore.
sight are at times uncanny. Your per
ception is exceptionally keen. and, TO
back it all, your imagination is very
vivid. You are somewhat nervous and
disposed to worry and fret. as you gen
orally foresee more trouble than hap
piness. On the whole. however, you
are good-tempered, affectionate and
kind. You have a very strong sense
Of humor and a keen wit, and are al
ways willing to participate in the fun
and amusements of your friends and
intimates.
In your home life you are the center
of attraction, and the object of much
admiration and affection.
(Copyright. 1925.)