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without needing a boys clothes.
But that didn't change finders
taste. BY the way, must tell
you how he got his name. His
name really was Tinderbox. be-
cause every time he would butt
his horns against a tree sparks
would fly out. So Bobby thought
that Tinderbox was good name
for him, and called him finder
for short.
One day ] was sitting on the
porch overlooking the lake, where
l was watching finder capering
around and kicking up his hind
legs just to show how good he
felt. Bobby was in swimming,
having left his clothes in the
stern of the boat, which was
moored to our landing.
Suddenly finder ceased his ca
vorting around and made straight
for the boat.
Before I knew 1t he was nib.
bling at the rope. Then he spied
Bohhg's clothes lying in the stern
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of the rowboat, gave a leap and
landed on them. The rope had
been weakened by finders gnaw.
ing, and the force of his landing
in the boat broke the rope, and
off down the lake sailed finder.
taking his second course for din.
ner in the form of Bobby's trou-
sers!
gave a shout and called
Bobby, who had not seen what
had happened, and called to him
to look at finder.
There he was chewing away on
the trousers, and heading straight
for the falls.
He'll be drowned" screamed
Bobby. climbing up on the dock
and running along the bank Of
the lake.
Then I was proud of Bobby,
for / will tell what he did.
Tearing along the shore he
kept UP pretty well with finder.
and then just before the boat
reached the FALLS Bobby Owed
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won't let him! It's the last
straw
Several couples near the table
were staring curiously at Elsie,
now, as she leaned close to
Ranny, blowing cigarette smoke
playfully into his eyes. He kept
blowing It back at her, his mouth
ali but touching hers every now
and then.
Peggy thought she had never
seen anything 30 disgusting In
her life, never!
Suddenly she pushed her chair
back from the table.
Lets go, Peter she said to
him, II can't stay here a second
longer. I shouldn't have come!
Above all, ! shouldn't have asked
you to sit here with us!' She
was all apology.
He stood up and helped her
out Of her chair.
Where do you think you're 60
ing-you two?' Ranny's voice
stopped them.
Peters going to take me home.
I'm getting a little nervous about
the baby" Peggy tried to smile
as she spoke. She really was
nervous about leaving the baby
so long with old Mrs. Pigeon.
You sit down. Ranny said,
with command in his voice.
"Wilk can beat it if he wants to!
But you stay here It'll I go, seer"
So just drop your anchorv'
It wasn't until then that Peggy
saw that he had been drinking.
but she saw it plainly now-saw
it in the flush that had risen to
his lean cheek and in the sullen
glitter Of his blue eyes.
She sat down quietly. 1t was
the only thing to do.
Peter looked at her for a min.
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'sUoUR aunt viii probably call
you up first thing in the morn.
Ing and tell you that your hus.
band il. running around with a
wicked sireng.' she said, with a
horrid little laugh. 1.-THE older.
generation doesn't understand US
at all. They're ali 20 straight
laced and"-she CROPPED for a
woodland 30 dumb!
She took her cigarette out OF
her mouth and leaned toward
Ranny, her imitation pearl beads
swinging gently with the sugges-
tive sway of her body. She laid
one of her hands on his sleeve.
"But we understand each other,
don't we, old kid?' she asked
him. II understand you, at
ieast-whether you get me or not!
You're not quite so smart az you
think you are?"
Peggy looked at the pair Of
them for a long moment as they
looked at each other. Then she
quietly gathered together her
handbag and her gloves--her
worn-out gloves with their beau.
tifuliy mended tips.
She knew now why Ranny had
asked her to come down town to
have dinner with him and Elsie
Leopold-simply because Aunt
Agony would tell Peggy about
seeing him with Elsie!
And not only that, bat she
might tell his own father about
1t. She was quite capable of do.
ing it, as Ranny very well knew.
He had been MORALLY afraid OF
Aunt Agony and her tongue ever
since she had threatened to tell
his father that Peggy was giving
music lessons
He's using me to protect him.
self in this love affair."" Peggy
summed it up TO herself, land /
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Miss Seaton,'' he said, II have
to give you an explanation. I
am q man who has had q rough
time, and has been placed in a
difficult position, through no fault
OF his own" He paused. How
shall I begin? There is one thing
/ must tell you first, Miss Seaton.
IT want you to know what a
very great help your friendship
and your sympathy have been to
me. The memory of you, the
thought OF you, are always with
me; you have been, though you
may not know it. the guiding
light and the good angel Of the
loneliest ana unhappiest man in
New York"
His eyes never left her face,
his voice became every moment
more gentle and caressing. An
Incompatible rascal and egotist,
Terry Parker, like many of his
type, could make love very
charmingly. But Jill did not look
at him: she played with her spoon,
and listened.
As he continued, one thing be.
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who flattered her out Of all pro.
portions to her merits.
1t is d well known fact, Stats
tics prove, that most Of the gold
diggers, gimme girls, night life
queens. and moths burned in the
flame all headed into the Big
city from the little towns!
That they were pretty children
il usually the beginning Of bad
finish.
They were the family favorite.
The rest of the family saved and
shaved and sacrificed that this one
best bet in their group might
have everything to enhance her.
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She was spoiled, and much heart.
break was born by her sisters
and brothers who were forever
having to give her the right Of
way.
1t was only natural that in time
she was so far pushed beyond the
limitations of her family that she
became bored By their meager OPP
portunfties and dreamed of con-
quering bigger fields.
At last the family gathered to-
gether funds enough to send her
to the city Of her dreams and
further deny themselves to squan.
der more money on her!
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you. You are the only woman
in the world for me. have
loved you from the first day
saw you. / have not dared to
tell you, till now. Jill: don't tell
me that / have spoken too soon2''
Jill looked at him. pale and
perfectly amazed. She realized
now that. though interested IN
him. she did not love him. She
blamed herself bitterly, and could
find no words to answer.
Terry saw that he was failing.
he determined to play his strong
est card, one that he believed
could not fail. He knew that
sooner or later the truth would
have to come out.
His Alias
s'Listen.'' he said, laying his
hand on hers, don't answer yet,
Jill. see what you are think
ing-you blame me-you should
have had your explanation first.
viii tell you the truth, Jill, for
you are a girl to whom / dare
tell nothing but the truth.
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It upon JlIl's. his voice tense with
passion ana longing. Let this be
our secret. dear. yours and mine;
for you are al the world to me,
and if have not won you, al the
rest is dust and ashes!
Jill strove for speech. She was
supplied She looked at him, and
drew back her head.
Do you think, she said, s'tf1at
even IL Il had cared for you would
have anything to do with q man
who dared not aclknowled9e me.
or with family that did not want
me. and despised met know Meth
Ing Of vour money, or your fathers
money. want to know nothing
Terry Parker was utterly a.
founded This was the last thing
he had expected to hear. He did
not believe that any giri In Jillss
position would resist such an APP
peal. He saw the contempt IN her
eyes. and she read the amazemeflt
in his.
AS she looked at him, she saw
his expression change in the most
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WE were spending the summer
w in a bungalow by a beautiful
lake, at the end of which was
dam. We could hear the water
falling over the dam In the dis
lance, and tumbling down into
the outlet which went it's way on
through a ravine between the
mountains beyond. One morning
Mary, our maid, come to me, and
saw before she spoke that she
was indignant about something.
What is it. Mary?" asked.
"It's that kid, Foxy Grandpa"
she replied.
"Why?" 1 asked. What has
happened?" .~.
"That kid ate up three suits of
Bobby's underwear from the
clothes line this morning.
l could not help laughing at
this, but to Mary it was no
laughing matter. She said some
thing about the goat eating
enough for 10 other animals,
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my name Ii not Heatheredge.
NY father is wealthy and q very
ambitious man. That Is the Sc
cret OF my unhappiness. There
is not the sympathy and the con-
fidence between 10 that there
should be between father and
son. We look upon the world
with different eyes, he and i
have been weak enough-coW
ardly enough. IL you will-to
wear false coIors. It was through
no fear for myself. but only the
fear that any slight, any humiliar
ton, might be brought upon the
girl I love. For even the thought
OF such q thing have not dared
to face.
MY name Is Parker. ! am
the only son Of John Parker. Of
the Ajax Steel Company. one of
the richest men In New York. Is
that not a bond, between Us. jill?
II ask you to trust ne--to con-
fide yourself in me, till the time
comes when<vve stand before him
hand in hand-n1an and wife!' He
stretched out his hand and closed
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YOU'LL find a lot OF the bad
i breaks blamed on the bright
lights are really home brewed
miseries, If you trouble to trace
them back far enough!
Many q girl who beat 1t from
the little home town to make her
fortune in the big city and found
only sham and shame would never
have thought Of seeking SO much
beyond her beauty and accom-
plishments IL it hadn't been for q
doting family and foolish friends
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Contact with others who flock
TO the place where many start but
few stick. she soon finds her lot
liz not so easy among strangers -
among friends. And the family
funds didn't go far.
Never having been denied any
thing she cannot adjust herself 70
rev conditions in which she counts
but little. So II is only q matter
of time before she gives up-oT
makes shady progress!
The true tragedy or a great city
is not that written in its glartng
headlines at the finish. but the
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J first chapters that were written in
the little home town.
The majority Of boys and girls
born and raised In Big City are.
al wholesome q home town type
as those who were born and raised
and live the rest Of their lives In
two.tTain town.
tbs these others who come false
W prepared. far away from home
ties and loving care, who are car
ried away and plunge deepest into
the scandals that blot the good
name OF the Big City.
Al lot Of Main Streets mistakes
are blamed on Broadway!
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" here EUe Scores

R babies have much better Of lie than boy babies
U While the average Adam attans full height 81 Eve adds
to her stature up every hundred who 90 bald
there ID only one Eve
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This Dan il, History

anniversary scutng of the German fleet at
Scapa Flow in 1919 bateshps and cruisers which
great sunk by the Germans after
their surrender.
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An Absorbing Romance With a Mystery
To Which the Moving Pictures
Furnished the Solution
Read This F'irst

refined girl works stenographer ana
secretary big steel concern with oces
n city Parker gruff man, and jill greatly sur
he weekend OIL,
only OF Parker y caAed before
father ne
with and the elder Parker had sent nun 20
work. Terry agrees
leaving office promising to pc on hand onday
asfonished and grests him Mr.
him that there and piCres
viii then explain everything he jill very much myssed
the alley hears Jul singing makes an excuse comes over ana
trained While showing
sing Aafada s sister 10 Frank at once attracted Dy
her and Jill TO to their rooms to tea
MaIaIda accepts She then tells jill shes sure the men are
Then she tells JM Pete coming to take her ont ~ says she
and demands e know who the man ~ mas been meet1ng
eathedge. 10 her intense surprise Jill receives note from Mr.
enclosing $780, She
rushes 10 ten Mafalda but finds her room empty.
.#- Mnrn nnrakSmnan
New Britain herald., 1926-09-11
SEEK THREE WAR HEROES
Military AuthL ties Wish to Award Distinguished Service Crosses But
 Cannot Find MeI Who Won Them.

Through efforts of Major William A. Stack, Inf, DOL, |. S. army re- cruiting officer, at New Haven, Conn.,, three coveted bits of bronze. with bright ribbons of red, white. and blue attached, may at last be presented to relatives of three heroic
 American soldiers who died on the battlefelds of France while carving out exploits beyond the call of duty"
 The three bronze decorations are the last to remain unclaimed of the Distinguished Service Crosses award ed for gallantry under fire during the
 World war. For eight years the war department has sought informa- tion which would enable it to deliver the awards to relatives of the dead soldiers entitled to receive them. Major Stack and other members of the local recruiting force, accept ing it as a debt of honor due their departed buddies, will join the army recruiting service of the entire coun- try in a nationwide quest for the missing relatives beginning today. In the systematic search that will
 be carried into every section of the United States by soldiers of the army recruiting service, the newspapers radio, Boy Scout troops, c. NJ. T. c. Boys clubs, veterans organizations and missing persons bureaus of po- lice departments will be utilized to supplement the personal canvassing of the soldiers.
 The three heroes post humously awarded the D. S. c. were: Edward c. Mason, of Detroit, Mich, serving | in Co. "D," 55th Infantry. 7th Divi-
 sion: Sergeant Carl c. Carter, Of Fresno, Calif.. serving in Co. "A" 7th Infantry, Srd Division, and Private Frank Arkman, of Belling-' ham. Minn., serving in Co. 'L. :" 305th Infantry, 77th Division.
New Britain herald., 1926-09-11
Ticket Committee for
 Outing of Republicans

Councilman Donald Bartlett, in charge of the distribution and sale
 of tickets for the annual barbecue
 of the Third Ward Republican club
 to be held September 25 at Lake Compounce, today announced mem 'bers of the ticket committee.
 Those who have tickets for sale are the following: Richard Covert.
 Edward r. Hall, Judge B. w. filling, G. P. Spear, D. L. Nair, Isaac Black, W. S. Warner, W. C. Wall, T. S. MeskilI, H. J. Foster, Claude W. Stevens, R. H. Deming, H, A. Timbrell, Peter Crona. w. II. Judd, T. H. Judd, F. W. Schultz. Adolph Carlson, Howard Russell, J. F. DiNonno, C. J. Dehm, Mrs. J. NJ. Purney, r. J. Pajewski. c. II. Max on, J. C.. Johnson, NJ. II. Horwitz, o. F. Curtis, r. G. Hausmann. John Hubert, R. L, Sengle. Nathan Der son, c. T. Rowland, A. P. Marsh. J. c, Andrews, w. M. Greenstein. Mrs. K. H. Walther, Joseph Mlynarski, Fred Wrinkle, J. S. Recor, Michael Haber, Fred M. Holmes, A. r. Cor bin. E. Nj. Humphrey, F, A. Krause. Alfred Levitt, John B. Minor. J. W. Mills, Fred o. Rackliffe, M. A. Sexton, M, D. Saxc, J. R. Woods, Joseph c. Woods, William Zeigler, Walter R. Fall1, Stanley A. Kar- pinski, Thure Bengtson, John G. Buckley and Thomas J. Cabelus.
New Britain herald., 1926-09-11
RIVERA REGIME IS
 VOTED ON TODAY
Spanish People Having PIebis-
 'Cite on Dictatorship

Madrid. Sept. il LPl-Three years
 ago today Spa, came under mili- tary dictatorship.
 Today all Spanish citizens men and women over IS years of age within or without the kingdom, are
 being given an opportunity in a plebiscite to endorse the work and achievements of the Primo De Rivera government.
 Abstention from voting will indi- cate disapproval.
 The voters also may express their opinion on the establishment of a national assembly, such a body
 would take the place of the cortes, dissolved by roual decree when Primo De Rivera took power.
 While the government disclaims taking any part in the referendum and has urged the plebiscite boards to permit absolute freedom of the ballot, the patriotic union-Primo De Rivera's own party-is in actual charge, assisted by the provincial and municipal authorities. Spanish consuls abroad ave the task of per- uniting Spanisl residents in foreign countries to inscrib their names on the referendum lists.
 The voting will last three days The names on the list will be counted daily and made public. ..
New Britain herald., 1926-09-11
PONCK WILL ATTEMPT TO
 MAKE ALTITUDE RECORD
Plans Next Week to Try for Height and Speed With Maximum
 Useful Load.

Mineola, N. r., Sept. Il GP - Captain Rene Fonck, French ace, will attempt next week to estab- fish an official worlds record for altitude and speed with maximum useful load in the Sikorsky air. plane in which he hopes to make a nonstop flight from New York to Paris. Igor Sikorsky, designer and builder of the plane, an- nounces.
 MT. Sikorsky made the announce ment when Fonck landed at Roose- welt field at 6:05 o'clock last eve- ming on his return flight from Washington. Captain Fonck left Washington at 2:45 o'clock yester- day afternoon, with 13 others in the. plane, two of them, command CT and Mrs. Paul Cassard, being guests.
 The altitude flight will be the only important one the plane will make before it takes off for it's transatlantic hop, 1t was an- nounced, and the plane's total load will be about 10000 pounds. The exact date for the aultitude and speed record attempt has not been decided on. The flight will be under the jurisdiction of officials of the national aeronautic association.
New Britain herald., 1926-09-11
WOMAN FOR PRESIDENT
 NOT so VERY REMOTE
At Least This Is the Opinion of Prominent Suffrage Leader
 in Missouri

Joplin. Mo, Sept. II P -- "The possibility of a woman being nomi- mated for president by the demo- cratic party is not as remote as many people imagine, but neither is 1t likely to be as imminent as our charming visitor seems to de- sire This was the comment of Mrs. Emily Newell Blair, vice chairman of the democratic ma tional committee on talk by Lady Nancy Astor in which she said the democrats should nominate woman in 1928.
 Tt was quite logical" she said, flor Lady Astor 10 expect the democratic party, as the party hospitable to new ideas, to be friendly to the idea of nominating a woman for the presidency.
 ''She probably remembers that the only women now nominated to the senate have been presented by the democratic party, that the only women governors have been demo- CrdlS, that tue oillS women Judges of the state supreme court and the only woman mayor of a large city are democrats. She probably will be some democratic woman of out standing brilliance. whom the democratic party would honor it. self by presenting to the electorate for it's suffrage, notably Governor Nellie Ross or Judge Florence AL len.
 Accustomed to a Queen Vic toria. she probably is not as start led by the idea of woman presi- dent as many of our 100 per cent. would be.
 But she knows as well as the rest of us that when woman is to the presidency by the democratic party, 1t will not be because she is woman but be- cause she Is the person two thirds of a democratic convention desire"
New Britain herald., 1926-09-11
City Items

Smith Business School, day school sl5, night school s5, books and sup- plies free.-adv.
 N1r and Mrs. Thomas J. Doyle of West Main street have returned from q trip to Rhode Island. Their daughter, Alice, has returned to St. Mary's Seminary, Bay View. Rhode Island.
 Day school, two sessions, s17: 8 months in advance, s45. Night school, 8 nights weekly, s6. All books and supplies free. Connecti- cut Business college.-advt.
 Mattabesett Tribe, No. 14, I. o. R. M., will hold a regular meeting next Monday evening in the new quarters, PIT Main street.
 Delicious Sandwiches at Crowell's -advt.
 Mir. and Mrs. Edward Moore of La Porte, Indiana, are visiting Mir. and Mrs. Harry Blews, of Hampton street, for a few days.
 H. J. Zahnleiter. violinist, has re- stunned teaching. Booth Block.-Adv.
New Britain herald., 1926-09-11
PROSECUTOR WILL GET STRONG CASE
Says He Will Turn All Sym-
 pathy From Turner

Portland. Me, Sept. ii LP - James D. Hallen of Falmouth Fore side, a figure in many exploits, ac- cording to the police and the victim on Wednesday. of the fatal revenge of Benjamin H. Turner, who de- clared Hallen fleeced him, was ac- corded brief funeral rites at West brook yesterday afternon. His wife was the only relative present at services in undertaking rooms. Rev. Charles R. Sinden of the Falmouth Foreside Methodist Episcopal church officiated, The body will be taken to Boston for cremation.
 County Attorney Ralph M. h. gails announces that he has paper revealing a part of Turner's past which will end all sympathy for the slayer. He refused to make known it's contents at this time.
 That Turner is the disinherited son of wealthy and prominent h. diana family. with whom he has not communicated for years, was a re- port today that Mir. Angalls would
New Britain herald., 1926-09-11
PRICES UNCERTAIN
 AT SHORT SESSION
IOday'S Stock Market Sees Sales
 Of Low Priced Motors

New York, Sept. II dP - Price movements lacked uniformity at the opening of today's stock market. Selling of the low priced motors was resumed with Yellow Cab and Willys Overland shares pressed for sale in large blocks. U. S. Iron Pipe broke points on the first safe and Atlantic Coast Line yielded one. Warmer Brothers Pictures A resum- ed its sensational advance by open- ing 212 points higher, and American Sugar Refining showed an initial gain of l 1i points.
 With speculative opinion inclined to the theory that the market had been oyerbought, at least temporar- lily, prices quickly turned reaction ary Although Studebaker and Pierce Arrow preferred showed in dependent strength, motors in gen. eral were under pressure as a result of recent price cuts in the industry and the growing feeling that the in tense competition among the big manufacturers would result in the practical elimination of some of the smaller companies. General Motors was selling 2 F points below yester- days final quotation before the end of the first half hour and Mack Trucks extented it's recent decline.
New Britain herald., 1926-09-11
Notice

Taken by virtue of an execution to me directed, and will be sold at public vendue to the highest bidder at the public signpost in the town of New Britain, county of Hartford, and state of Connecticut, fourteen GD days from date, which will be on Saturday, the 18th day of Sep tember. AID. 1926, at g o'clock in the forenoon, eastern standard time, to satisfy said execution and my fees thereon, the following described property. to wit:
 One CD Elcar automobile and one CD Westcott automobile.
 Dated at New Britain, Conn. this 4th day of September. AID. 1926. Attest: FRED TWINKLE,
 Constable,
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trol of the family holdings.

trol of the family holdings.
 The prosecution has not yet con- nected Daugherty or Miller with the alleged bribe. and defense at- torneys have objected to much of Merton's testimony as irrelevent. It was admitted on MT. Buckner's assurance that the connection would be established. In his out line of proposed evidence Mir. Buck ner told of checks that were traced from King to Miller and Daugherty and to the Midland National bank of Washington Court House, Ohio, of which Nal Daugherty, brother of the former attorney general, was president
 Mir. Merton will continue on the stand when the trial Is resumed Monday.