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THO PRlNATG Life
|OF HGEGN Or TROY
BY JOHN .GRSklNe
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| Adraste, in her present respondent
mood, to avoid love altogether, and
to distrust all men,"
"Take your choice" said Meme
laos. EITHER you will aid me in
sending that girl to place we agree
on, or I'll have her put out of this
housed"
IT dare you to!" said Helen. Nov,
that's fair challenge. I doubt if
you can get any one 70 execute
your amiable commands. Your men
wouldn't lay finger on that girl.
I defy you to give the order.
wouldn't it be rare justice if
Pyrrhus came along just as the
heroic Menelaos was throwing out
into the street a sick and helpless
girl, about to become a mother!
You could explain it to him after
ward, couldn't you!
"You could say it was belated
but needed house cleaning. The
servants, 20 ucould say, were be-
ginning to behave as badly as the
gentle folk, and since you couldn't
reform your relatives, you had de-
cided to discharge the domestics.
wish Achilles could hear that!"
Every witty, rs sure" said Meme
laos, "but you can't talk me out of
it. Adraste can leave quietly, or if
she insists on staying where she
isn't wanted, I'll have her put out!"
He waited for Helen to speak, but
she said nothing. She looked calm
and much at her ease.
Nov see here, Helen" said Meme
laos, what will you do with Adraste
if she stays? She won't be of any
possible use to you, with baby to
look after, and there's no future for
her when the child grows up"
She'll be companion always
she's one of the best, and like
children" said Helen. She'll be a
daughter in the house when Her
mione marries and leaves us"
"Hermione isn't going to marry
very soon," said Menelaos. "She
won't have Pyrrhus, and won't
have Orestes."
But Hermione will, I think" said
Helen. "She's going to marry Ores
ties. Didn't you know that?"
II didn't and I DON'T" said Meme
laos.
well, she u.s." said Helen. land
you might as well make up your
mind to it, don't. want. 1t any
more than you do, but we can't
stop it."
"she shan't marry Orestesl I've
forbidden It'll"
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

you've done all you could. said
Helen, land she will now do what
she lives. Don't worry about hav-
ing to negotiate with Clytemnestra
I'm sure Hermione will tell us some
day they're already married-or
she'll tell me, I'm to be a grand
mother. I shan't ask you to throw
her out of the house?"
Helen, I'd like to meet you half
way" said Menelaos. You were
right about Orestes, when I still be-
lieved in him. I'll join you in pre-
venting his marriage to Hermione
if you'll arrange with me to get Ad-
raste off somewhere to avoid talk
People like your neighbor Chart
taS-"
I'm this case Charitas won't talk, u
said Helen. you forget she is hid
ing the missing husband AS for
Hermione, 1 meant what I said-we
are powerless. But whether we
are or not, I stand by Adraste. It's
a point of honor I love the girl
and she is in trouble.
/ "Menelaos, if you are cruel to
Adraste shall become your i'm
placable enemy. My family has a
gift for hate-though until now I
never cultivated it,"
st dare say you could emulate
Clytemnestra if you wished" said
MenelaoS.
MY dear husband, II I wished, ]
could surpass her! Clymnestra was
crude and unnecessarily vulgar. But
I shan't become your enemy unless
you force the issue-and only for
a principle, never for a lover. I
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Brain TeaSer
AnSzOeYS

Fellow are answers to the NOW
You Ask One" questions on page g.
l. Captain Roald Amundsen has
been at both poles.
2. Amundsen reached the south
pole in 1911.
3. Captain Scott reached SO de-
erees south latitude in 1902, and ten
years later reached the pole.
4. Admiral Charles Wilkes first
saw the Antarctic continent in 1910.
1 5. Sir Ernest Shackleton reached
S8 degrees latitude in 1909.
{. 6. Alfred B. Nobel, Swedish scien-
EEist, inventor of dynamite, founded
/ the Nobel prizes.
Il 7. Nobel prizes are awarded for
major achievements of each year in
B physics, chemistry, medicine, htera-
!, ture and peace.
| 8. James Smithson, an English
+! man, bequeathed his fortune to the
United States in 1926 'for the in
|, crease of knowledge among men, !"
FSthus founding the Smithsonian IN
YEtitution.
(. 9. Alanson B. Houghton Is q. s.
lYAmbassador to England.
/ 10. The world record for type
writing speed is 1856 words a minute.
u II. Sixteen railroads and thirteen
sfnterurban lines.
Vi IL. A little more than IA miles.
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want to keep the debate on high
plane"
81 hope I may be able to discern
the difference when you stick the
knife into me-" said Menelaos.
Meanwhile, I'll take my chance.
Adraste is to go; that's understood.
You and I are to be mortal enc
mics; that's understood also. Do
you mind telling me just how the
war between us is to begin?"
There are several possible ways
said Helen. you might kill me-
consider Troy merely postponed.
That would be rather neat; Aga
memnon's brother getting even with
ClytemneStra's sister! Or you might
carry out your threat and tell your
men to put Adraste on the street. If
they disobey, you might carry her
out yourself. I advise the first
course"
"And I dare say, in your present
resigned mood, you'll wait for the
fatal blow to fall
Eyes," said Helen, unless Pyrrhus
arrives first"
"Ah, that's it, is it? What will he
do for your"
81 suppose that depends on what
I ask him to do, and that, of course,
depends on what you decide to do.
..... oh, Menelaos, what's the use
of this half-hearted quarreling? You
are kind man, and naturally easy
going.
you won't do anything unkind
to Adraste, I know perfectly well,
and I understand the embarrass-
ment her plight causes you. I'm
sorry! If I let such things bother
me, 1 should be embarrassed too, for
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PASTOR COMES
i TO DEFENSE OF
GOV. JACKSON
Text Misquoted, He Insists;
! Voices Great Praise for
H. Indiana Executive.

"What shall it profit man, etc.,
was not the text of Governor Ed
jackson the Sunday night he spoke
at the Methodist Episcopal church
in Osawatomie, Kan, before a
Times staff correspondent Showed
him a photograph of the famous
D. G. Stephenson check for $4,000,
it was learned today.
What the Governor really spoke
upon was, Greater things than
these shall We do"
The Times was corrected upon
this point, involved in staff CORE
spondent's dispatch from OsaWa-
tonne, by the Rev. j. B. Vernon,
pastor of the church, in a letter
ITO the editor.
Phrase Merely Quoted
/ The phrase, "What shall it profit
ia man." merely was quoted incl
Mentally by the Governor and was
not the text, the pastor said.
! The pastors letter:
Z ST am writing to acknowledge re-
Nceipt of several copies of your pa
Y per, in which you refer to Governor
4 .Jackson's visit to Osawatomie, Kan,
and especially to his sermon at our
Ichurch (the Methodist Episcopalo
4 Governor Jackson did deliver a
$Se,Iing message at our church on
4 the evening of July 10 and our peo-
Y nle received it as coming from an
! honest heart and they have not mad
lsoccasion to change their opinion.
IA Felt 1t Was Honor
/ "we all felt 1t great honor to
have the Governor Of a great state
q like Indiana, elected by a majority
;nf the votes of that State, speak to
us and deliver a Christian message
such AS Governor Jackson did on
the above date.
{ "One error I beg leave to correct,
wiz: his text. You quote him as
ashaving used the words in Mark 1886,
sF7or what shall it profit man. etc.
He did quote the passage, but ms
Fext was taken from John 14:12, and
reads, Greater things than these
shall We do He quoted freely from
the Bible, showing that he was at
beast familiar with 1T.
"You mention the fact that Kan
sas is familiar with Governors who
are evangelists. Yes, we did nave
one and are not ashamed OF him.
We believe he did not hurt our
State, at least by upholding rellglo~
ideals and Christian principles
eve already have invited your
Governor to speak to us again
whenever you can spare MIN 10
come our way"
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The Characters

MENELAOS. her husband while she stayed
| at home.
HERMIoNE. her daughter and severest
critic.
ORESTES. her nephew-young enough to
be reformer: old enough to have am
| ETEONEUS, gate-keeper by calling; phil
t osopher by instinct: moralist by observa-
ADRASTE, handmaioen and friend to
Helen: scandal to most everybody else.
CHARITAS, the lady next door.
DAMASTOR. a boy who Strayed from the
family doorstep.
II wish hadn't asked Pyrrhus!"
said Menelaos. do you think it's
too late now to postpone the visit?"
Can the messenger reach him
before he starts-or shortly after?"
said Helen. "It wouldn't do to turn
him back at your very door. If
you could get word that your
brother is dead, and that my sister
killed him, Pyrrhus won't want to
come, anyway, and he'll be glad
to understand why we can't have
him at present"
It'll do that" said Menelaos. 1T
never wanted him, and it's not too
late if the messenger hurries. :.
There's another thing, Helen. I
hear that one of your girls in the
house has been misbehaving.
None of them, so far as I know"
said Helen.
Eyes, what's her name-Adraste
is in trouble"
IF you call it misbehaving, said
Helen. Trouble is the more accu-
rate word. A very respectable young
man in the neighborhood has been
making love to her."
"Damastor, isn't it? You told me
something about the affair a while
ago."
Eyes" said Helen, it's Damastor."
"a very decent sort of boy, I've
always thought. didn't imagine
he'd do anything improper"
He wouldn't, in a direct way, but
he has plenty of what you might
call negative meanness. He made
love to Adraste, as I say, and per-
Suaded her that they were soul
mates, With VOWS of eternal faith
fitness, and promises to marry her
"a very old story. He meant it
all-he's not a bad boy. But his
mother has sent him out of harms
way, as she puts it, and he has
allowed himself to be sent. -In.plain
words, AdraSte is deserted"
"You mean she has been living
with him?"
"She will have a child very soon.
I'm trying to cheer her up all 7 can.
She's little more than q child her
self; I wish she had been spared this
early cruelty"
Before it's too late we'll send the
girl to some place where the child
can be born without involving U.S."
said Menelaos. "Afterward I'll pro-
vide for its support so long as they
stay away. Have you any place to
suggest?"
None" said Helen. "And it's not
necessary. This is really the most
convenient place I know"
IT don't think you understand
me-" said Menelaos. II said that
the child should not be born in
this house. It will do Hermione no
good to become accustomed to such
events in supposedly well-ordered
home.
"She Is full Of rather advanced
Ideas already, and her environment
should be more normal rather than
less So"
"If Hermione were to talk with
Adraste now" said Helen, "she
would see in the poor girl no en-
couragen1ent to vice, no possible in
ducement toward indiscreet con-
duct.
"She might even learn from
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people will say my bad example led
her to do wrong.
"As things have turned out, I'm
sorry asked you to have Pyrrhus;
you invited him because wanted
it, and now I own it was mistake
on my part. But wouldn't you say
all this is a small matter, in COM
parison with what you and I have
on our hearts?
when I think of my sister, of
our girlhood, of what she has done,
Adraste's predicament seems far
from the worst of tragedies. Mean
ness and treachery are the tragic
things, aren't they? And seeing life
out of proportion.
Lets be friends, dear husband!
Why should it be unpleasant to re-
member that once we were lovers?"
Ito Be Continued
-.-N-A \
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Ito Be Continued
Copyright. 1925. by the Bobbs-Mernll Coz
Evening star., 1927-12-02
URGED
.hs
FOR SENATE POST
Ikurch OF Advent Rector In.
dorSed for Position
r
- of Chaplain.

Rev. William Sydney Shacklette.
rector of the Church of the Advent.
gHeCONd and u streets. who wears the
So1aressional Medal of Honor. was
endorsed for appointment as chaplain
pI the United states Senate. to sue.
geeed the late DR.. J. j. Muir, at a
neeting of the Presidents Own Gar.
s11son, No. 104. Army and Navy Union,
ID the District Building last night.
aSomination of officers for the coming
Near9wHs held.
DR.. Shacklette, who served as a
5Aospital steward In the Hospital
orps.s United States Navy, won the
Gongressional medal for meritorious
conduct at the time Of the explosion
6aboard the u. S. s. Bennington at
San Diego, Calf, in July, 1905.
Afterward he was librarian for the
surgeon general of the Navy and at
stlle same time studied medicine at
George Washington University. He
aafterward abandoned the study of
nedicine, due to i'll health. He served
at Camp Lee and the Norfolk naval
base during the World War.
a. The announced plan of Mayor
Thompson of Chicago to stage flag
decorated, garbage.can parade next
Sumnler evoked warm discussion, but
n resolution condemning the use of
Sfhe American flag for this purpose
was tabled pending investigation of
The matter by committee which was
Evening star., 1927-12-02

owners of automobiles have paid taxes
for this year on their vehicles. Accord.
ing to O dispatch from Salisbury, the
commissioners of nine Eastern Shore
counties will discuss the situation
when they hold a joint meeting In
Easton Monday.
Motorists Face Delay.
Failure Of county authorities to
understand the new system has re.
suited in its being almost halted in the
counties and thousands of automobile
owners lacking licenses will be unable
to use their machines for several
weeks after the first of the year, the
dispatch said.
During October Mr.. Baughman's Of
flee sent to all county treasurers cards
for each car owner asking that they
be returned and marked whether taxes
had been paid. When the cards were
returned those that were not marked
paid were returned to the owners with
a letter advising that the taxes be paid
as soon as possible.
The county treasurers were directed
to forward the receipts as soon as the
taxes were paid to Mr.. Baughman's
Office here so that the owner can re-
ceive his license.
Evening star., 1927-12-02
appointed. with DR.. shacklette as

appointed. with Dr. Shacklette as
chairman.
Capt J. H. Bean and A. ]. Renoe
were nominated for the office of COM
mander TO succeed Maj. William L..
Peake, District jailer. who has been
elected to the Office of national COM
mander. Other nominations were
made as follows: c. n. Hess, j. r.
Thornberg and X. o. Spiess. for senior
vice commander; *. 0. Spiess and j.
NJ. d. Kyle, jr.. for Junior vice com.
mander: Rev. J. NJ. Stick and DIR.
Shacklette, for chaplain; J. F. Graef,
paymaster: William Wheatley, officer
of the guard; Charles O'Connell, officer
of the watch; James Mulvey. Lieut.. S.
r. Tillman, Capt. j. III. Bean, c. n.
Hess.~A. A. Picchione. w. +. Franklin,
c. l.. Cox and Thomas Murray, for
membership on the executive council
three to be elected. The election will
be held December Is.
Announcement was made that the
garrison will hold card party in the
hall of the Chestnut Farms Dairy next
Wednesday evening at o'clock.
Evening star., 1927-12-02
w. R. T. COMPANY VALUES
HOLDINGS AT 1868, ,9O0.53
Files With Utilities Board State
ment Covering Its Property, In
cluding Equipment, in Maryland.

A claim to a valuation of $s6s, ,900.59
is made by the Washington Rapid
Transit Co. i'm a report filed today
with the Public Utilities Commission.
OF this amount $31 1.029.61 covers the
companys holdings and equipment in
Maryland.
The commission will undertake to
fix a valuation on the company's prop
erty December II, when public hear
ings will be held at the District Build.
ing on the valuation claim.
Physical property makes up the
largest item in the valuation claim.
This totals $579,943.66. OF which $21,'
444.0S covers property used in Mary
land.
Evening star., 1927-12-02
MARYLAND FACING
AUTO LICENSE JAM
Last Minute Rush to Pay Tax
Before Getting Tags
Threatens Delay.
special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE. Md, December =
Unless the payment Of taxes on auto
mobiles is greatly facilitated during
the next two weeks by city and county
authorities, L. Austin Baughman,
commissioner of motor vehicles. yes
terday said he expected that an un'
precedented crowd of persons seeking
1928 automobile licenses would jam
the doors of his Office during the last
week of this year.
Doubt whether the office would be
able to take care of the last-minute
applications was expressed by Mr..
Baughman.
Difficulties Encountered.
Because of the enactment by the
last Legislature of the law requiring
the payment of taxes on an automo'
bile before the license for the follow.
ing year can be issued, difficulties In
this years preparations to send out
the new license tags have been expert
enced by the Office of Mr.. Baughman,
it was said.
The new statute has changed the old
system of mailing out license tags on
verification of the title and receipt OF
the proper amount to such an extent
that comparatively few licenses have
been mailed out so far this year.
According to reports from various
counties, scarcely so per cent OF the
Evening star., 1927-12-02
HIGHER POLICE PAY ASKED
Representative Blanton to Intro
duce Bill Also for Firemen.

Increase of $500 year in the pay
of Washington police and firemen Is
proposed in bill which Representa-.
tive Blanton, Democrat. of Texas has
ready for introduction as soon as the
House organizes.
He also has prepared bill to pre-
vent traffic officers from giving pref.
erence to street cars when they are
directing traffic. He says that, being
in the pay of the street car companies,
they favor the street cars over all
other traffic. and that he has received
repeated complaints about this. His
bill would make the showing of such
preference cause for dismissal from
the police force.
Evening star., 1927-12-02
REED HITS MELLON
IN CHICAGO TALK.
Attack on SIush Fund System
in Politics Takes in
Samuel insult.
By the Associated Press.


CHICAGO, December 2.--weaIthy
men who use their power for purpose
of corrupting the Government were
attacked by Senator James A. Reed,
Missouri, in speech last night in
which he cited the Ware election and
the Teapot Dome case as examples.
and arraigned Samuel insult, traction
magnate. for his alleged aid in elect.
ing Frank l.. Smith Senator from
Illinois, although he did not name MIR.
insult.
In a speech before the Cook County
Real Estate Board Senator Reed said:
THE citizen Is crowded further and
further from direct participation in
and knowledge of Government affairs.
The feeling Of responsibility Is CORE.
spondingly diminished.
Greater sums of money can now
be raised to carry an election in a
single city than was formerly employ
ed in national campaign, and the
vote, crooked or otherwise, of great
city frequently determines the elec-
tions in a great State. Thus, the dis
honest elections in a single city may
determine a national election and
shape the fate of the republic.
Mellon Is Attacked.
Government thus controlled will in.
evitably produce the bribe giver ana
Evening star., 1927-12-02
Seeks to Change Name.

Wishing to show his gratitude to
Patrick Downey and his wife, Martha
A. Downey. who have cared for him
since he was two months old. Marvin
Hines, 81 years old, a student at the
University of Virginia, has filed a pc.
tition in the District Supreme Court
to change his name to Downey. At.
torney Clyde D. Garrett appears for
the Young man.
Evening star., 1927-12-02

Government thus controlled will in.
evitably produce the bribe giver and
Evening star., 1927-12-02

EXCEPTIONAL! They de.
- serve much higher price.
Rich Chinchillas, plain shades;
and many good.looking, warm
mixtures. All are wool body.
lined. Convertible collars. 2
to 10.
Evening star., 1927-12-02
Hits Oil Investigation.

after he Is seated in the Senate.
whom will he represent?" Reed asked
of Smiths case. did the shrewd in
vestor in public franchises make a
mistake when he invested in a United
States Senator? Is the man who ac-
cepted this stupendous sum of money
free to consider only the interests of
the republic?"
Discussing the Teapot Dome case
and the nomination and election of
President Harding, Reed said that he
personally was convinced that not
one.half of the story of the loot of
the oil lands had been told"
He declared that 1--WE should pass
no law which is now almost universal.
ly believed in" Such laws, he said.
backed by the common sentiment of
the people, could be and would be
enforced.
Evening star., 1927-12-02
he bribe taker, the betrayer and the

the bribe taker, the betrayer and the
thief"
Attacking Secretary of the Treasury
Andrew Mellon for his part in the
Pennsylvania elections, Reed averred
that Mellon put UP $4,000 to the fund
for Senator George Wharton Pepper
and said that at remained, however,
for the Secretary of the Treasury,
from his position in the cabinet. to
give to the picture a final touch of
sanctity when with impious insolence
he declared the gathering Of the slush
fund to have been as justifiable as col.
lecting money for the church Of God"
Referring to the Smith case, Senator
Reed called attention to the money he
said Smith had accepted from "the
head of public service corporations"
Evening star., 1927-12-02
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The Washington times., 1927-12-02
GIRL IS AFTER
| oil MILLIONS

OKMULGEE, Okla, Dec. "A
pretty 21.year,old German girl, who
six years ago worked as maid
at Minnesota summer resorts. is to-
day demanding $1.000,000 as her
share OF a millionaire's estate with
whom she claims to have lived as
his common law wife.
Elizabeth Schumann Is the girls
name. but a number of friends
here recognize her as Betty Nc
Kallip" and testify that she was
the common law wife Of the late
William T. McKallip. prominent
Oklahoma oil magnate and philan-
thropist.
Betty alleges she lived as Nc.
Kallip's wife. and was introduced
to his friends and relatives as such,
for more than five years just prior
to his death.
McKallip died in New York City,
October 81. The oil man died of
stomach cancer, after he had
travelled the world over in search
of a physician who could prolong
his life. He was fifty-seven years
old.
The State laws of Oklahoma pro.
vide that wife is entitled to at
least one-half of her husbands s
estate after his death.
McKallip owned property valued
at more than $2,000,00e including
extensive oil holdings, principally
at Houston. Texas.
The will was filed In the State
of Texas, and relatives of McKallip
are endeavoring to settle the es-
tate there.
Under specific terms of the docu-
ment. as it stands in Texas. Betty
is allowed only q small monthly
allowance