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Evening star., 1927-05-22

I'D like to go over there"
"Where?"
"Oh, over there. Id like to take
little boat and go away with you. Not
a big boat. And not anybody else"
And then she said something famil-
lar to his ears: I'D like to see what
is beyond the edge of the world over
there. I'd like to go with YOU"
Would you?" he said. "Oh, would
you?"
He took her down and rang the SER
supposed to be on watch, and 1t was
Jerry who came, collarless, rubbing
sleep from his eyes.
did you ring. sir?"
Yes. Tomorrow-today, l mean
as soon as you can find Olson, tell him
to get the catboat ready. Not the
yacht, you knoW-the catboat--the
little one with two hunks. My daugh-
ter and l are going TO find some
thing"
q II beg pardon-where did you say,
sir?"
"Oh. over there-we don't know
over the edge of the horizon
1T will be fun" his daughter said.
as the door closed.
ut will--if you go back and get
folks have said I'm pretty good sort"
She smiled. Il say so. too
Good night again.
Good night
AS he bent over 10 kiss her lightly
he saw in her eyes all the hope. all
the expectancy of the future burning
bright in an inexhaustible present of
youth and love. AS he bent over her
he saw the years running ahead with
his life carried by hers, with his mind
opening into the eXpanse of hers, with
his heart tuned to her heart.
He closed the door quietly and
leaned back. gazing up at the portrait
on the opposite wall of his room.
my girl" he said to it, 1--WE been
a fool. I didn't know what you were
trying to tell me always. You gave
me our daughter, and it is she who
Is my new dawn of youth"
iCopyright 1927
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lightly, but in the shadow. standing
above her, he scowled. She had set
him a task. She suggested effort,
striving. artfulness, and somehow
that brought a sense Of WEAKNESS.
even with it's alluring challenge. 1t
was like another task of life.
Tonight? Suppose the question
came up tonight: Would you marry
me?"
She dropped her hands beside her
on the marble bench, the rings on
her listless fingers striking against
the stone. 1t was her answer.
You do not know"
mo. honest and cross my heart,
do not know"
He sat down beside her. twisting
the fingers of his one hand In the
grasp of the other. She was to have
been his guide to the renewal OF
youth. She was to have been the
link, the span, the bridge between
something that was dying and would
soon be gone, and all that hunger for
youth and hope and life and full love
that had so long been his and unful-
filed. And now she did not know.
1t surprised him. He never had
Evening star., 1927-05-22

II was thinking that all you said
about seeking harbor was rathe i'm.
mature" he went on, trying to sum-
mon his skilled mastery of persons.
II hesitated, because somehow it
seemed to me that you should con-
slider that in 10 years / will be an old
man, while you will still have ripe
young love. wondered what would
say to you then. 1 wondered how
could do the courageous thing and
give you up then. / was thinking
of YOU"
If, in her reply, she had hurled
anger at him. it would have been diff.
ferent and, for him, better. Instead
she suddenly took his hand in a
friendly way, as one who understands,
and led him toward the marble seat
Standing before him there. she put
her palms upon his shoulders.
Would he reach out and draw her
to him? Perhaps not. Better to near
what she would say. She appeared
now so far away from him in spirit.
Listen to me, Alfred. old fellow"
She was going OF In the tones which
Young Stinpson called "Muriel's coun.
try club voice. Listen to me.
There's no use putting it on consid.
Grafton for me. You know, as well as
I do, what the matter is"
"And what?" he asked fearfully, as
IL premonition was upon him.
"Why are you such a liar?" she
said. you'd never have given a
thought to my future, if tonight had
been 10 years ago"
He eroaned, almost inaudibly.
"Why, you must realize, Alfred Bas.
com, that youth-your youth-has
gone"
He stared up at her painfully. .
I've can't discuss that, can we?"
she inquired. Its rather awkward,
and I'm not heartless-Im going to
stroll off back to the bridge tables,
alone"
"Oh, all right" he managed to say.
Here's your cigarette. My last.
Keep it,"
mo"
She leaned down and kissed him
lightly on the cheek.
Suppose, as they say, l can't live
without you?" he asked.
She laughed. She said almost ten.
derly: "Oh, then. come for me again.
Perhaps I'm wrong"
Perhaps"
IOOO-I1lSut
He watched her go, a wrath of
white among the darkening trees. The
band played a faint two-step which
came to these woods, rising and fall
ing, as If registering the undulations
Of the gentle night wind. Over there
they were dancing-young girls, flush
ed with the joy Of movement or
whispered word. Soft arms. the thrill
Of touch of hands, perhaps kiss for
goodnight; the present warm, vital
reality with the dreams of the future.
breathless expectancy. hope, promise
youth. And his had gone!
He buried his bowed head in the cup
Of his upturned palms.
1T can't be true" he said. in a gut
tural voice. Youth! Youth"
Il x X
LIE was not used to defeat. After
they had gone, he remembered
| vaguely. as one who has been in
drunken uncertainty. that he had said
| good-ni to his guests with rather
more brilliance of converse ton than
was usually attributed to him.
A dreadful sense of loneliness came
over him. He was defeated. He was
| out OF the game for good. Life had
come and gone before he knew. II
had slipped away; 1t had run out be,
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weary, facing the monotony of weary
loneliness? Well, youth had gone.
TN his own room. he stood looking
l. about in the cold, dim haze Of
morning at all the familiar possessions.
like man who has come to bid them
farewell. But there was to be no
farewell to these things, for these
were things he would live with to the
end.
And so to bed" he quoted wearily.
But, as he pulled his evening coat
from one shoulder, he stopped sud.
denly. He had heard a voice, faint.
vague voice. He looked up, half.
frightened at that cool and smiling
portrait of his wife. 1t had spoken!
He thought for a moment of a
miracle--that the portrait had spoken
to him!
AS he stood looking at it, half
frightened. he heard the voice again,
light, pleasant of tone--his daughter.
Yes, his daughter, there in the next
room The servants had left the door
ajar, or perhaps the wind of that
night had blown it open. She was
dreaming. She was whispering in
troubled sleep.
He pulled his coat on again, and,
going to the door, he crept in on
tiptoe. Surely his daughter was not
i'll!
He knew, as he bent over her
French painted bed, that she was not
i'll. Her head was resting on her
slender arm; her hair was spread out
over the white pillow; her lips were
parted in smile, and her closed eye.
lids were quite marvellous in their
unworn beauty, with the long lashes
spread upon her satin cheeks. This
was moment of awe for Bascom.
He was awed by her beauty. He was
awed, it seemed, by her very presence
and existence.
He walked quietly across the rug
toward the long window which led to
the stone balcony outside her room,
and there he stood -fookipo ar the sea
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of it was due TO his place in the world
rich, distinguished.
After dinner he was confident that
she would come to stroll with him, but
he did not quite understand why. hav.
ing promised to do and having seen
the reckoning shadows on the paths
between the trees, she fingered to
hear dull story told by old Mrs.
Mortimer. Perhaps she, too. felt that
there was to be reckoning on this
night.
Once she had Joined him. however.
sh went forth by his side with a
brisk step. At the Casino, across the
bay. the band was playing, and the
stimulus of the music came drifting
romantically across the black waters.
He walked on. his jaw set firmly. as
il this were a grim business. but he
leaned toward her once so that the
touch of her hair would brush his
cheek and he could breathe in her
fragrance.
ITS nice to be alone with you," she
said. empha sizing the niceness and
him, with the touches of charm char.
lcteristic of her.
"Why?"
Because it is SO comfortable. You
give me the sense, Alfred-of-of per.
manence."
Give you?" He meant that, with
of no consequence.
Understanding him fully, she said:
YES"
Bascom threw his cigarette away;
it was distra ction, after all. Imme.
diately she threw her own into the
grass. where it burned red for q mo.
ment.
"Permanence?" he asked, reflective.
ly. What do you want of perma-
nence?"
She turned to stare at him in utter
SURPRISE, the moon was full upon
her face. He could see every flutter
OF expression.
1t was quite characteristic OF her
not to answer for many moments
while they walked on. Then she said,
as they entered into the cloistered pine
grove:
Don't you know that / hunger for
permanence? Can't you believe l am
like a vessel that, having sailed
through sunshine and tempest, now
turns toward a harbor?'
He stood thinking. He had not
contemplated having pity for her.
There had been conviction in her
voice. and guaranty Of sincere, deep
in the sudden tired droop Of
her head.
"Well?" he said.
This was an invitation to confession.
She was making surrender, and he
knew it.
X X j; !:
stTHERE is no real romance she
said bitterly. Il have sought
for 1t. Sometimes have sought for
1t desperately and wildly. But the
fires are always Of straw-quick
ashes. Perhaps l have cheated myself
by impatience, by haste, by seizing
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Had to Be Found.

shouting for pure joy, into the sun.
set?"
II am young" she said. II have
all that. 1t could be used by some
one. think. l would not be dull or
inert. But there is the call for a
mooring, just the same"
"a homer" he said. That's what
the girls on the park benches say.
believe--a home"
'Oh, ! have a deep regard for the
dignity Of those girls. l understand
now how right and simple and direct
they are. They want protection. a
understand them. Alfred. Yes. I
do-now. i used to say never
would marry. Why should /? I
have had such good time. So much
sense of power. / could keep on for
many years, but that's it--a home.
I will not marry a young man. They
bore me. They all bore me. They
are so stupid. I've outgrown young
men. And older men make such dod.
dering fathers for children. by the
time the children have grown up.
Fathers should be young fathers. Give
me another light"
The zone of radiance from the
match appeared to have her lips for
BILE lips, moist, warm, alluring. They
represented the urge of youth: they
suggested the spellbound and blind
and eternal hunger Of youth.
Got ?" he asked.
She replied by parting her lips. and
the smoke curled out into the NOON
light.
Good" he said.
"Come on" she invited him. Let's
not fence, Alfred. After all, we better
not. You are too seasoned. and l am
too naturally wise and worldly. /
could fascinate you as a woman can
fascinate any mani could talk
about you. But with you it's no
longer a game. None Of my tricks.
Let's talk about US"
Then. here" he said, pointing. "A
few steps yonder'
THE moonlight fell in barred radi-
= ance. whose carpet was inter-
rupted by the shadow Of the straight
trunks of the pines. 1t covered the
carpet of fragrant needles and fell
upon a marble seat-a place where
ghosts might come to sit and listen
to the night long swishing song Of the
wind in the evergreen trees. She sat
there and held her knee in the clasp
Of her hands a carved goddess with a
cigarette dropping from her lips in an
air of abandon.
You would not love me?" he said.
not doubling his power.
How do know. before I've tried?"
she said. There need be no dishon-
esty between us. How do l know.
until you-"
She stopped, and Baston felt some-
thing grow cold within.
But she went on: How do I know,
until l have tried? How will know,
until YOU have made little love-the
kind that burns for US now-grow into
a volcanic chaos?"
You have that volcanic chaos
somewhere up your sleeve" he said
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ore. it is interesting to know that
mass of iron is there"
DR.. Heyl, in increasing the accu-
racy of the weight of the earth. has
annexed another scientific achieve.
ment to an already formidable list.
In 1907 he was awarded the Boyden
premium of $1,000 by the franklin
Evening star., 1927-05-22
He Found Out.

He indignantly: Flow did l order
my eggs"
Waitress: well. you weren't any
too polite about it,
Evening star., 1927-05-22
A Tail.

Mary had a little dog
With pedigree quite tony;
It tried to cross the street one day
Honk, honk, Bologna.
Evening star., 1927-05-22
Investigator at the Bureau of Standards
Achieves Great Task of Weighing Earth

ME weight Of the. earth Is g..
sos 900, 900, 900 900 ,000, 900 tons.
These staggering figures are
announced-with the sun.
Evening star., 1927-05-22

U'T'HERE is no real romance" she
= said bitterly II have sought
for 1t. Sometimes I have sought for
1t desperately and wildly. But the
fires are always Of straw-quick
ashes. Perhaps l have cheated myself
by impatience, by haste, by seizing
Evening star., 1927-05-22

TN the dining room long French win.
dows, opened to the soft, balmy
air Of the evening. welcomed the night
perfumes from his garden.
Filled with a sense of well being. Of
safety, comfort and assurance, he
looked down the table to Muriel, who
was smiling in a friendly manner at
him as she pretended to listen to the
youthful Senator who talked onto one
of her marvellous shoulders. He re.
membered that he had promised to
say good might to his daughter. but
she would not notice. 1t was nothing!
lie sat back comfortably, contented,
sxpectant.
lie knew his power. No doubt part
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weary, facing the monotony of weary
Well, youth had gone.
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Hell EN- IS,
S Z T FOR
CAM PAIGN
Former Champion Sets
Worlds Tennis Title
as Her Goal.

BIZ United Press
BERKELEY, Cal, May HELEN
Wills is ready to try her comeback
in the tennis world With the,
worlds amateur championship as her
goal, the former American champion
has mapped out a strenuous cam.
paign that will take her through the
leading spring and summer tourna.
ments Of England and the United
States.
Miss Wills left Friday for New
York, from where she will sail for
England a week from today.
In England she will play in several
tournaments before entering the i'm.
porant Wimbledon matches which
begin June 90.
Miss Wills hopes to be accorded
the worlds amateur championships
by winning the Wimbledon matches
and by regaining her American title
AFTER her foreign invasion is over.
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L0CKHART SETS RECORD

BIZ Times SpeciuI
ATLANTIC CITY. y. j., May r.
frank Lockhart, auto race driver OF
the Pacific coast and winner OF last
years Indianapolis Speedway classic.
thursday established record for
board tracks when he wheeled his
car around the Atlantic City course
at 1929 miles an hour.
val Haresnape, secretary OF the
contest board of the American An.
tomobile Association, and Oslo A.
Porter official timer, were present
Lockhart used 91.5 cubic.inch mo.
tor the same he will use in Satur.
days 2OO-mile race here. He will
drive the same car in the 5OO.mIle
event in indianapolis May so.
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TODAY'S SELECTIONS
REAUIAH PARK


Rig Mosouito Irish Princess ~. Miss Lou.
Cheating Cheaters. General Glnockle Pc
ter Brush. a. co,d p,ol-
P PuMw' Gang Mshatina Welty.
Mrs. NJ. Hunter entry, Herbertus, Opt
mist
Impossible De7onite, Little Archer.
Hardin an-Lord Meise. Mr.. Blltmore.
AKRON.
Lou Shank, Verbena. Caplinger.
Subtle Nerp LiP Trt i Ma'l Tnnder Seth
Irish Pat. Lally, Perhaps,
Deputy, Antonia, Lady Glasses.
Brownie Smile. Gaffney, Turnberry.
LOUISVILLE.
Gibbons. Oh Suzanna. Mount Beacon.
Whisk Arrow. ]. n. Camden entry
! Frsstwe fI Tall Grass Battle Field
Carriage. Tore, Colored Servant.
s ssatr tf ae S9S Fd Bit ae Win en'rS hs
6" Joseph j E. widener entry. Rolled Stock
King CORN H. Rejuvenation. Lancer.
PINILICO.
Jolly Rogers, Hunsky. Gunboat.
Royal PennaIft. Rogan, All Callao.
Peter Fiz Broken Vows. Lactarius.
Inquisitor, Birdwood Congress =,
Eddie Ricltenbacker. King O'Neill III, Ice.
Blondin,e Edisto, Joy Smoke.
Chink. Long Joe, Forehead.
JAMAICA.
-McAuliffe. Kit Carson. Jack of Clubs.
Arial, Iron Crown, Effie.
Sweepster, Lachen Bonnie Maginn.
Greentree Stable entry, Silver Fox. Moth
er's Son.
Aversion Wild Aster. Flying Al.
Celidon, Sweepster, Sunsard.-
AURORA.
Red Skin, Wildrake. Tromping Today.
Bathilda Seth, Tom p Bronx
Aromatic. Elevate Dreana Lee.
The Huguenot. Rival. Paula Shay.
sun Altos, Devon, Balboa.
Chief Tierney, Lexington Maid. Mary
Contrary.
Prince Til Til. Spanish Star. Battle On
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X. o. LEAGUE NOTES.


Pennsy Park is in the usual good shape
seats The plant is located at 200 e.
Maryland st. Parking is free.
Shortstop Osborne jumped the Merits
to join the Ludlow (Ky.) Club. This act
bars him for the season from joining
any of the seventeen X. i. o. League
teams unless the Indianapolis Merits con-
sent.
The Merit roster. with new short
stop to be signed before Sunday consists
Bader, 3D. Clarke, If; Braughton.. CT: Han
sing, ri: Brown and Lucid catch; Voyles
and Noonan, pitch; Gaalema and Quisser,
utility.
X. I. o. League officials have warned
Manager Derringer of the Lawrenceb burg
team to cease tampering with Merit play
ers. Derringer made a move like he was
interested in Shaffer and Braughton.
The Hostess Cakes of Cincy. who bat
tie the. Merits here Sunday, have a line
ne here IT IS: schraffenberg, # schmaltz
and Leslie, p; Ward, utility.
Ben Leslie. formerly with the Indian
apolis Premiers, is on the Hostess hurting
staff
who played with the Norwood (Ohio) Gin
gerales here last Sunday, have been re-
leased.
The fact that last Sundays semi-pro
opening was a tight conflict. staged in
IDA made hit with the crowd.
Many young ball players are applying
to Manager Gaalema for tryouts since he
placed his Merit team in the K l. o. cir
cult
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FL VICTORY
Bulldogs Bunch Hits to
o Down De Paw Nine.

Clarence Christopher. Butler twirl-
er. was in excellent form Friday aft
ernoon and held the DePauw nine
to one run and five scattered blows
while his teammates were punching
hits off Fowler, Tiger mound artist.
in the fifth inning to squeeze or
"a victory, to I.
The Methodists scored their
tally in the opening frame.
game was played at Irwin fc
Score:
Butler - 600 020 00'-2 @ 4
De Pauw -. 100 600 0O0-1 /
Observation-Disclosures and Collyer;
Fowler and Davies.
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tered and which Milton has had
under construction for more than
a yapr
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INTERSECTIONAL CLASHES SHARPEN INTEREST In MAJORS
St-WeSt Tits Expected to
Give Real Line on
Teams.
BY Henry l.. Farrell,

Unfed Press STAR O0freSD0udeHt
NEW YORK, May 7.-Some real
dope on the pennant chances of the
outstanding clubs in the major
leagues may he Obtained from the
first inter-sectional battles of the
! season.
The strong Eastern American
! League clubs were to open today in
the West and the powerful Western
National League clubs were under
way in the East. Cincinnati invaded
! Boston Friday and won. 1t was the
only game played in the Majors Fri
day.
So far the New York Giants have
been playing around with the Bos-
ton Braves, Philadelphia Phillies
and Brooklyn Robins while the
Western clubs have been knocking
each other off.
West Looks Best
The Braves, Phillies and Robins
may not be push, overs, but they
certainly do not compare in class
with the st. Louis Cardinals, Pitts.
burgb Pirates, Chicago Cubs and the
Cincinnati Reds. The Reds, of
course, are at present a last place
club, but they have enough pitch
ing to bother any team in the league
and it is cinch they will get co.
ing eventually.
John McGraw points out the
Giants have been forced to club
their way, as the pitching staff is
not in condition and will not be un-
Ill warmer weather comes. Nc
Graw and a lot of Eastern house
holders who are looking at the coal
pile are wondering when that warm
er weather is coming.
Cards Have Class
The st. Louis Cardinals, who came
East as first place club, are in a
very favorable position, as they are
getting the best pitching in the
league and the eastern clubs haven't
been looking at much high class
pitching. They also will have the
advantage of meeting the Giants
when the New York club is not 60
ing at its best.
After battling around with the
strong Philadelphia Athletics and
Washington Senators, the New York
Yankees expect to find easier going
in the West. but the Chicago White
Sox. Detroit Tigers and ST. Louis
Browns certainly cannot be classed
as easy marks.
White Sox Surprise
The White Sox, surprise club of
the year, will get it's first real test
against the Yankees. Ray Schalk 8
club has been getting splendid pitch
ing, but it will need every bit of it's
best pitching when it faces the slug
ging Yankees and Athletics.
The intersectional games will help
show what really ails the Cleveland
Indians and the Cincinnati Reds.
The change OF scenery may give
them the push they need.
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| N , Ia N 8
M Owe UP
MIRAGE.
Downs Blues, 1914,
With KoupaI Pitching
Series Ends Sunday.

BH Times Special
KANSAS CITY, Mo, May -
H'erd Schupp appeared TO be Bruno
Eetzels pitching choice today as the
Indians prepared to tangle in the
second Of the series with the *. c.
Blues. The hustling Tribesmen end
their visit here Sunday and then
speed away 10 Milwaukee to open a
round of battles with the Brewers
Monday.
The Indians found the Blues easy
Friday an dwon, 10 to 4, behind good
pitching by Louis Koupal and aided
by n mess of X. c. errors. The
home boys cracked on the heavy
muddy field. but they expected to
come out Of it" this afternoon and
Blue hopes We're high for a victory.
1t was thought Jimmy linn would
do the fiinging today and when
Jimmy opposes the Indians he usu-
ally wins.
The Tribesnen collected fourteen
hits Friday and they looked the part
Of real ball club. In fact the
HOLSTERS have convinced the league
they are going to be pennant con-
tenders all the way.
Betzel's crew has won eight of its
last nine starts and was in a three
way tie for third position in the
A. A. standing today.
Russell and Holke each con-
tributed three hits 20 the Tribe
cause Friday. Wild Matthews got
back into action and got a one.base
knock and a triple.
The Blues filed the sacks i'm the
first inning with none Out-and
didn't score, KOupal frightened and
famed Hauser and Smith lined into
n double play. X. {. fans yelleS
murder OH that one.
Manager Bethel proved a good
mud horse and accepted nine
chances.
When the Indians return home
May is they figure they'll be lead
ing the league.
Toledo got seven hits to thirteen
for the Saints Friday, but the Hens
got seven runs to six for st. Paul.
Toledo punched bingles with Saint
errors and scored all its markers in
sixth.
Minneapolis nosed out Columbus
as Middleton pitched well in the
pinches.
Shannon poled a homer with one
on to help the Colonies down the
Brewers. Danforth and Gearin,
Milwaukee fingers, were batted
hard.
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With Seni-P ros
and Amateurs

ANY team desiring the services of a
Louie Biggs
fast o cty cTb a 9or desi game Sunday The
Giants are holding a Brookside Park per-
nit Write Robert Palmer, 1898 McDou-
Z oc,ocls - ss'- -'e' 49,
Ashland Bulldogs will play the Fern
dales at Ellenberger Park at 3 o'clock Sun
day All players must get in touch with
Lawrence Fogeson, 906 Ashland Ave.
Riley 1864.
Lincoln Highways will drill at Douglas
Park at 3 O'Clock Saturday afternoon. The
at Greenhouse Park Sunday. All, players
report at c. ]. Taylors billiard hall at
noon. For games with the Highways adj
Ave, Webster 6774.