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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-04-29
Selwood Of Sleepy Cat

"If things should get going Wen
have our hands full looking after
company property"
you'll be going with Dave?"
."I'll be back sometime in the night"
returned Selwood, evasively. you've
nothing to fear, McAlpin.9 If things
start, get the hostlers together.
you've got guns and ammunition"
NIcAlpin. as Selwood walked away,
flung one question after him. Just
the question Selwood did not want to
hear: "What'll you be doing, John?"
Selwood chopped him off. what
ever's to be done!" he answered.
snappishly.
McAlpin scratched his head as he
studied the retreating footsteps Of
his taclturn boss; he had ventured
one question. But he had forty Ques
lions that were burning the tip Of his
tongue. !.
Who would lead the vigiiantes;
how far they intended to go in their
cleanup; when they meant to strike
first and where; whether they could
handle Starbuck and Atkins and their
friends-for whose prowess McAlpln
had sneaklng and canny respect;
just where Selwood would come in in
the fight; what measures he would
take for his own safety; and lastly
what was to become of the big place
on the hill that had cost so much
money-these. queries the Scotsman
revolved rapidly in his mind. until
Selwood, treading the path lightly
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-04-29

The ideal age for marriage is twen-
ty-nine years for the groom and twen-
ty-four for the bride. according to
report in the Journal of Social by
giene. Devlations Of four years on
either side for the groom and of two
years for the bride make little differ
ence, but marriage in which either
party Is nineteen years or younger are
from ten to hundred times as risky
as at the ideal age.
These conclusions were reached
from study of 1000 impartially Sc
lected cases from the domestic rela-
lions court of Philadelphia. The two
most plausible explanations for the
findings are either that premature or
delayed marriage is symptom of
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-04-29

and with the briskness of unreckon.
ing manhood, turned the first corner
and disappeared from view. But fate.
greatest of all gamblers, quite under.
stood how to upset poise Indifferent
to the threats Of men; just as Sci.
wood turned the corner it presented
to him, almost threw into his arms
rounding the corner from the other
way and walking as briskly as he
was-Chrlstie Fyler
She started visibly-as he did in.
visibly. Then in the suddenness of the
encounter Selwood-never quick to ad.
just himself to meeting the woman
whose mere glance could upset him
stiffly, almost Ostentatiously, stepped
aside, touched his hat, and hurried on
a little faster. But after that, with
his heart beating harder, he began to
think and to surmise and to question
himself and, of course, to regret.
Their eyes, in this sudden and unex.
pected way, had met. 1t was only an
instant, but the picture came back
Christie's eyes-sad, at least, until she
woke up and realized that she had
run into Selwood, and then her eyes
had quickly dropped; she had passed
on.
1t was his fault, he told himself.
He had not even hesitated-he might
have given her time to speak. He
cursed his stiffness and contemplate
pride for not having given her even
an opportunity at such time-a
time pregnant with threatening posi-
bilities for them both as we'll as for
Sleepy Cat. He longed for chance
to meet her over again ;sstill. his van
ity would not allow him to turn back.
So-while Christie was reproaching
herself for not making the quick adj
vance she wanted to make and now
felt II had been her place to make
when she saw the only mans face in
the world that meant anything to her
both, unhappy, passed on, little reck
oning Of when and where they should
meet again.
SeINUUu HulLC hAAOW-a lAidt his mis-
sion to Tracy would call for tact. He
sat down on a camp stool beside his
friend, and after a few conventional
passes opened the one subject of his
visit with an abrupt question. "Dave
how much do you figure you've got in
our Sleepy Cat place? Whatever II
is" he continued, as Tracy disclaimed
any equitable interest in the hall that
Selwood had paid for, "Tll trade you
my interest in the Thief River mine
for your interest up at Sleepy Cat"
Tracy was taken aback. "What you
irwin to do?" he asked presently
"Rob me or rob yourself? The mines
worth half a dozen of our Sleepy Cat
outfit"
"Then." said Selwood definitely,
.the halls mine and the mines yours.
Is it a go?'
"Why, if you want it that way, yes
it u.s."
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-04-29
Special Offer
to Victims of
Indigestion
Your Druggist Says Pleasant to Take,
Elixir Must Help Poor Distressed
Stomachs or Money Gladly
Refunded.

You can be so distressed with gas
and fullness from poor digestion or
dyspepsia that you think your heart
is going to stop beating.
Your stomach may be so distended
that your breathing Is short and gaspy.
You are dizzy and pray for quick
relief-what's to be done.
Just one tablespoonful Of Dare's
Mentha Pepsin and speedily the gas
disappears, the pressing on the heart
ceases and you can breathe deep and
naturally.
Oh! What blessed relief; but why
not get rid of such attacks altogether?
Why have them at all?
Especially when any druggist any
where guarantees Dare's Mentha Pep
sin, pleasant elixir, to help you or
money back
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-04-29

indigestion developed. 1t was a great
effort for me to raise my arms while
working on my customers.
Between nervousness and pain,
sleep was out of the question. / rolled
from side to side all night, and could
not rest easily in any position. My
appetite disappeared, too, and I had
to force myself to swallow q little food.
Even that would lie like lump in my
stomach for hours. / tried almost every
known medicine in those ten years;
nothing helped me till / started on
Tanlac. Since then my headaches and
stomach troubles have disappeared and
the rheumatism has ceased to bother
me. Pm new man altogether"
Tanlac is natures own tonic and
body, builder, made from roots, banks
and herbs. If you are rundown and
in poor shape, build back with the help
of Tanlac. Your druggist has it. Over
20 million bottles sold.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-04-29

"Oio you ever SLACK lnose 6ootsr
off and black those boots l won't
speak to you again. Honestly, BILL"
she asked in pleading tones. "did you
ever black those boots?"
Pardaloe grinned; every time
Christie said BILL" he melted like a
roll of butter. Christie, when I was
in the army had t. black my boots
every day. swore If ever got out
I'd never black pair Of boots again
in my life-'n', by cracky, L KEEP my
word, too"
"But, Bill, wouldn't you break your
word-just 6nce-for me?"
Pardaloe looked at his dust-covered
f0otings, shifted his cud, and coun-
tered craftily. "What difference
would it make to you?"
'Why"-Christie. nonplussed for an
instant, looked up innocently-"it
would cheer me up so, Bill-Tm
blue - And Christie laughed.
Say, Christie" asked Pardaloe
taking a piece Of plug tobacco from
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-04-29
Sitting Parrots Tongue

SIT is widespread superstition that
to enable parrot to talk Gin imita-
ton of human SPECIFY it is necessary
to split the tongue" says Alexander
Wetmore in the Scientific Magazine.
"fhis, however, has no foundation in
fact, and when practiced only infilcts
an unnecessary cruelty. Birds make
sounds in little organ known as the
syrinx at the lower end of the trachea
or windpipe, and as the tongue has
little to do with the process, splitting
1t has no connection whatever with
the ability to initiate sounds"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-04-29
Diuorceword Bound

Texas Qulnan, the New York night
club hostess, said to an interviewer
the other night:
whenever new divorce scandal
crops up think Of a conversation
once overheard between two women.
MY husband said the first wom-
an, just dotes on sardines and all
kinds Of canned goods
eyes said the second woman. I'm
q bum cook, too"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-04-29
Observation-Disclosures" Observation-Disclosures
Early Marriage Not Best for Happiness

permanent character traits that are
unfavorable to success in family life,
or that the boy or girl under twenty
one has not sufficiently broad expe-
rience to select mate with whom
successful home can be established.
If immaturity rather than perma-
nent instability is the cause. postpone
ment Of marriage and educational
guidance may do much to eliminate
domestic disaster. D.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-04-29
CHAPTER X
PardaIoe Turns Diplomat.

Pardaloe Turns Diplomat.
General Roper waited only till he
was able to travel to go west with
his location engineers. He said very
little to Wentworth before he started !;
only that when he came back he
would have q talk with Selwood.
Wentworth himself spent the week
between Sleepy Cat and Thief River,
disturbed only and surprised by Sell
woods resignation as superintendent
Of the freighting line. 1t required all
Of Wentworth's and Carpy's powers of
persuasion to induce him to hold on
till an acceptable successor could be
found. Neither Doctor Carpy, despite
his blunt common sense, nor Went
worth, the long-headed master of from
tier transportation, was capable Of
analyzing the mystery Of the change
that had come over Selwood. They
wrongly surmised that his settled
moodiness was due to the fresh out
break Of his grievance against his
grandfather; had they been as close
to Selwood as Bill Pardaloe was, and
as good an observer. they would have
known that less than a hundred
pounds of Sleepy Cat femininity had
wrecked his good nature, his opti-
mism, and his peace of mind.
When they saw him finish, with H.
bations of wine, the recital of his
family wrongs, they did not realize
that he would likewise have been glad
to drown all recollection of the last
scene he ever expected to have with
Christie Fyler. Bill PardaIoe, watch
ing Selwood unobserved, knew better
than to ask questions, but he himself
had soft spot in his heart for
Christie, and though his duties no
longer took him to the store, where
FLYERS business was dwindling, Bill
made 1t point to drop around at
times and see what he could see and
hear what he could hear.
He always lounged into the store
In the same manner-with the fingers
of one long. ungainly hand resting on
the heft of his bowie knife, stuck at
his hip, and with his arms free for
action. Invariably, too, with his head
poked inquiringly forward-which set
his long nose well ahead of his centre
Of gravity. with the corners of his
mouth pulled down to suit his pessi-
mistic mood, and with his small, pierre
ing eyes wide open with suspicious
gloom.
Such a man would hardly be expect
ed to make much of hit with
Christie Fyler. Yet Bill Pardaloe
came to stand higher in her favor
than any frontiersman in Sleepy Cat.
Honesty underlay his crudeness, his
great strength inspired respect, and
Christie, with woman's instinct
budded on a girls heart, liked him.
A fortnight had gone by since
Christie dismissed Selwood, when Par
daloe, puzzled by the gamblers beha-
(vior and looking for some explanation,
dropped in on Christie.
X She was in the middle Of the store
with a feather buster in her hand
when he arrested her attention. He
did not know why her greeting was
SO very cordial that morning; but
next to seeing the man she wanted
to see and did not want to see, she
was delighted to welcome Bill-to see
him was closest to seeing Selwood,
anyway.
She laughed heartily at the condi-
ton of his boots. BILL" she ex-
claimed, "if you don't take some time
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-04-29
Good Money in Whaling

The Vastfold district of Norway,
where many of the old Vikings had
their homes, is still the recruiting re-
gion for one of the most romantic
callings of modern times-whale hunt
ing. Leaving their small farms in the
care Of wives and children, the men
set out for south Georgia and the
Ross sea in September and return at
the beginning Of the following sum.
mer. The Norwegian whale-hunting
fleet numbers about 20 ships and en-
ploys 1000 men.
The work is very hard, but is ex-
traordinarily well paid, every man re-
ceiving a royalty from the catch.
Some men average $4,000 year, and
the ablest, after years of good serv-
ice, is trusted with the harpooning.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-04-29

Sore eyes. blood-shot eyes. watery eyes.
applications of Roman Eye Balsam. Adv.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-04-29

When friends meet ceremony often
goes up in smoke.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-04-29

IT could hardly
raise myhandtomy
head" said Mr..
Brill, in tellingof his
experience. "Rheu-
matisn caused ter
rible pains in my
back and shoulders
that nearly crippled
me, and to make
matters worse,
stomach troubleand
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-04-29
Not the Place for That

Ted-"What did you think Of the
gamer" Rod-"I didn't, l just yelled"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-04-29

Diplomats never lose their tempers.
That is the reason they are diplomats.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-04-29
Baltimore Barber
Routs Rheumatism

Herman p. Brill, 2439 Fleet Street,
almost crippled for ten years, recoU-
ers perfect health and feels fine. Gioes
fullcredIto TdnLac for marvellous aid
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-23
R ado Factory

sweat; also beautiful set of blisters When I
first came on, | wondered why they were wearing
gloves. Now know
The next best thing for bsters is to wrap court
plaster around the fingers, and over the palm and
forget them. Nothing else can be done about them
except to get different job or curse the Job So
l put court-plaster my hand which was numb
with pain by this time, and continued gritting nv
teeth suddenly SO not to cry out when the steel
oang-banged against, not only the palm, but the
whole nervous system The work is very wearyfng
No one ever stayed on this job very much longer
than about week the whole set of workers
would be insane
didn't like the job didn't like the workers
because was too upset to even think coherentIv
On TINS Job it is all tumble of emotions Even the
girls. They quarrel fiercely. Or they brood over
the longnose pliers And over all is a great
WEAKNESS over all is blue-and-white button with
number Number 443. That's me- was not a
person was hand with numbered button It
makes no difference if of pleasant disposition.
can only brood over the longnose pliers. Brood
and brood
And often vision. Clear And white There is
no conference. Only a squeeze, squeeze. squeeze
over wires whose destination or purpose | cant
realize Only this eternal squeezing and visions Of
the revolution
From the loins, from the shoulders of these lads
IN TINS factory and other factories. From the
YOUTH when it is organized for fight
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-23
H. C. SCHWARE.

I BLUFFED my way into this job by telling the
4 boss that | experienced in the line and |
knew more about radio than there was to know
lied so straightforwardy, that he apparently was
satisfied that three years older than usually
say am and he took me on because made a prac-
tice but profit wiring sets for some big corpor-
alton. 1t is true that all previous experience with
radio had been at distance, but when man is
out OF work and needs job, making radios is also
okay. The next morning / in, went to the
boss, and he gave slip to take to the fore
man.
| got pair of longnose pliers and button No
443, which was my official designation in the fac
tory so that must always wear it. l do not mind
it, because when the foremans liver is temporarily
out OF gear he bawls out at that lazy dirty bastard
443 who's gonna get fired if he don't stop talking
My work is simple All day long l bunch my
shoulders over long rude-logged wooden table,
under glazing light, covered with green tin and
suspended not quite above the eyes of the workers.
There are eight young lads at this table, all doing
the same work, all the time. We all have lonpnose
pliers in the right hand, or a pair of shippers. and
all we must do is squeeze. When the squeeze is on
the shippers there is slight bite as the shipper
bites the wire into two deliberate parts. Or if
ITS longnose plier, there is squeeze and
scroogy plush as the parafine is pushed away show
ing clean white line of wire. This is where the
Connection in the set will be made according to the
foreman 1t is all haZy why the workers must do
just this. don't know. The foreman told me 70
cut just ehese wires these lengths, and / cut them
Just SO with never a deviation. I get big tangie
of wire-lengths. pull them apart There are a
million different colors of those wires. The wax
has melted in the hot room and is glistenng under
the fierce light as dew black-green leaf or like
the oil on a new machine in the corner which is
cutting plug-panels to length / am just like that
machine. | do not know why snip these brilliant
wires. | never know Why nor do | care to ask
why. Only know that get eighteen dollars a
week to do so, and l do it just so. Just so. And
all the time must be careful not snip the wrong
wire.
There are eight boys at the next table and at all
the other tables there are girls One dav thew ran
out OF wiring. The foreman was frantic He grab
bed some wire sets from the girls tables and threw
them at us. The work was harder Consequently
the girls are paid less receiving only sixteen dol
lars week From this hard handling of the steel
tools, the hands are constantly full of abrasons.
The net result Of days work is coat II dank
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-23

and hanged and imprisoned there.
Those deserve it, answered Potap
Vanytch, but don't understand what
for my five coppecks had to be spent.
They were spent for the com
munists, who are suffering in the
prisons for the peasantry.
These five coppecks!
But yes, if everybody gives FIVE or
ten coppecks that will make sum
of millions at the end.
A green hue covered the ffS.e Of
Potap Vanytch.
My five coppecks for those!
All, damned woman; all.
In the evening, when Tatjana was
already gone to sleep on the hay loft.
Potap Vanyteh took a heavy stick
and went upstairs to teach her
manners"
Are you here?
Ay-
Where are my five coppecks?
Where are the five coppecks?
hoarsely cried Potap Vanytch.
Thou helps "Those" and lifting
his arm to strike her with the stick.
he stood aghast -.
Something unexpected happened
Tatjana got quickly up and
barefooted ran away, soon disappear
in the dark.
The fifth month and Tatjana al
ready lives at Pelagea Djatloffs.
Potap Vanytch remained alone. Of
Pelagea he speaks not otherwise
than: "Those put the devil into her
head, and pointing to the Apocalypse
he Kisses out:
All this is prophesied there.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-23
The Story of the Five Coppecks Piece

Potap Vanytch had in former times
grocer's shop. He was church alder
man and being acquainted with the
town thieves Ljubka "Kasak" and
Wasjka Moment" he bought from
them stolen goods.
The revolution struck Potap Vany-
tch heavily, deprived him of his
farmhouse with 55 dessatins and cut
off his connection with the thieves.
Potap became nothing, and dread
full hatred settled down in him firmly,
enlighted his eyes with wicked fires
and made beast of him, deprived of
its claws and tusks.
Potap Vanytach had torn nostril
and his soul was torn too.
Newspapers he can't bear and reads
only the holy Scriptures especially
the Apocalypse.
The latter he reads in drawing the
words, looking with malicious eyes
on the hearers: his old .sister-in-Iaw,
the old nun Eudokia and the calatch
baker Eugraph Simonoff.
After reading a page Potap Vanvtch
has for each Saturday an obligatory
page, he lifts his eyes, closes the
Apocalypse and says instructively:
All happened just as it is pro-
phesied here.
Well. :. &.
The old women are signing and
blinkin with their weeping eyes and
the old calatch baker, understanding
nothing at all, mods approvingly-
Just so-quite right.
Potap Vanytch is fond of remem-
bering the past; he always begins his
speech like this:
In the old normal times
de calls normal" times the years
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-23

Look back and see how your life is
spent without use.
But Tatjana was educated in pa
thence and in heavy toll and without
grumbling she carried on her yoke.
as
In September of the last year the
nucleus and the young communists
decided to organize IRA in the vii
lage. A speaker was called from
Sysran.
To the meeting came about two
hundred persons, and it happened that
Tatjana came too.
The speech lasted over an hour.
He explained the whole truth, touch
ing especially on the peasantry.
After the speech a resolution was
passed unanimously:
1t is necessary to render aid to our
brethren!
Pelagea Djatlowa took the secre-
tary's cap and went round:
Sacrifice citizens. 1t is for our
brethren!
Five coppeck and ten coppeck
pieces fell in the cap, all gave. Tat
jana took out her last five coppeck
piece and put it into the cap.
There can't be any secrets in a
village. Even if the cow of Stepanida
gives instead of one pail of milk only
half-all women know of it.
1t thus happened also in this case:
Potap Vanytch was informed i'm
mediately; Tatjana has also given a
five coppeck piece.
Why have you done it, asked Potap.
and his torn nostril seemed to culver.
Because there are such horrors, be-
cause the communists are murdered
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-23
By F. YERMILOFF.

before the war, when he bought
stolen goods from Kasak-Ljubka and
Wasjka- Moment and helped to rob
the peasantry.
The Communists and the Soviet
Power Potap Vanytch never calls
otherwise than chose"
Those" have supplied the coopera-
tive with oil.
Those are again ON a meeting of
the Soviet.
Not long ago Potap Vanytch casu-
ally heard, that Chicherin visited the
French states secretaries in Paris.
Hearing it, he didn't believe:
1t is impossible, that the French
states secretaries have admitted
chose"
I he young communist Vassin
showed him a newspaper. Potap
Vanytch refused to read it.
| don't believe in those newspapers.
But in the evening he said to the
calatch baker Eugraph:
Those have sent to France their
emissaries to sell all Churches.
A dreadful but hopeless hatred was
fondled by Potap Vanytch in his
breast.
The deceased son of Potap Vanytch
was married to Tatjama, the daughter
OF the moneyless Silaskyn. His
widow lives at Potapoffs and works
there like mule.
Often Pelagea Djatlowa, member
OF the local Soviet, where she worked
already the second year, told her:
And why do you work for the torn
nostril?
Why do you feed his hatred with
your blood?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-23
POEsY AND THE MACHINE AGE.

POESY AND THE MACHINE AGE
In olden days the bourgeois miss
was worshipped by the bards like this:
"Milady's hair is twisted gold,
Brlght stars apiece her blue eyes hold.
Mllady's voice tunes all the Spheres
Milady's music charms all ears.
Milady's like the daffodilly.
Fair as the sun, pure as the lily"
But times have changed-the machine ages
here
And newer forms of odes appear:
My sweetie's like flivver car:
Her eyes more bright than dishpans are
Her voice as pleasant as the squeal
Of rivets driven into STEEL
My sweetie's like huge machine.
Fair, pure, refined as gasolene."
BY L ID. TALMADGE