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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-09-15

Phoebe Cary alone! Isn't II .
scream?'
Phoebe opened her eyes
wearily. Clare Cameron, with i
new man in tow, smiled down
upon her.
''This is John Pendleton,
Glare ratified on. Used to know
you In another life somewhere.
He's looked all over for you
after calling your apartment and
finding you were in one of q
dozen probable places. Mine,
though no poaching. Met him
at Tech Finals last year one Of
the nice big boys for commence
ment."
Phoebe stared blankly into the
tanned face above her.
My memory, az well as nv
age" she confessed. Since 1
couldn't have been Cleopatra or
Queen Elisabeth, / must have been
Maude Muller. I seem to catch
the aroma Of q meadow sweet
with hay
You're right, the young man
grinned, his smile as cheerful as
q summer day. If i've changed
as much as you have, you
couldn't very well remember.
Your hair was ringlets all over
your head, and you slept in q
hammock stretched between pine
trees. You had a disagreeable
way Of not liking to be walked by
q straw tickling your nose"
Nobody wakes me any more
because I've stopped sleeping"
Phoebe countered.
Suddenly Clare was claimed by
9 gangling youth who jay-Walked
through a dance somewhat after
the manner OF q kangaroo. AS
John PendeIton dropped into "a
chair, Phoebe did rather bungled
job Of yawn suppressing.
Isn't this the life?" she
moaned. How did you ever tear
yourself away from the green
fields and sunsets and all that?''
They're good enough" John
Pendleton- smiled; ''but 4 fellow
needs the bright lights now and
then"
Fancy that" Phoebe sighed.
when there's a hammock under
a tree"
Eyes, but there are pigs and
chickens to feed"
A wee little pig with a curly
tail, all soft and white and pinlxy
pale.'" Phoebe quoted, "and a
lovely white leghorn and chick
ensl Gloriousl''
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4 wish I could remember him,
she said softly.
Hes left you The Plains and
the 5000 conditionally. II you
don't live there, it goes to 4 dis
tant cousin by the name Of John
PendIeton. ("
''No wonder the sunburned hero
looked me up" Phoebe remarked
rather too casually. 'sWelI, I
guess can farm as well as he
can. This Is John Pendleton, and
if you don't mind, I'd like to be
left alone to talk business with
him.
'tJohn Pendletong Deiicia
gasped. Just a bad, lite boy
when I saw you last. =
unchanged perhaps" smiled
the distant kinsmaa. II came
to New York to tell Phoebe that
! have waived any claim to the
place that the viii may give me.
It's hers whether she lives there
or not
How good q your pelicia
''Magnanirnous, . corrobor q tie d
the step-father, breaking the long
silence.
'Bunkr snapped Phoebe. @Now
run along
The parent and step-parent
withdrew obediently, and Phoebe
faced her benefactor.
No gifts from you, Cousin
John, she laughed. "I'm going
down to feed those pale pigs and
white chickens and to rest in
that hammock. / win let you do
something for me, however"
Everything, John PendIeton
offered Complementary.
Just help me learn to farm"
That's doing something for
myself. It's rather lonely at
The Naples since you went away,
wouldn't let myself really hope
that you'd come. q
but you wanted me?"
Lord, child, did I? In all the
years nobody has taken your
place"
"Nosody to wake with a
NOpouy TO claw my eyes Tor
doing 1t. It may be because
I'm so in love with you, Phoebe,
that can't reason well, but I
can't see why it's necessary for
you and me to live on separate
plantations. Can your"
Phoebe lifted eyes that were NO
longer bored and weary.
II certainly can not" she 0aid
az John Pendleton's srmsRvent
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John Pendleton smiled appre-
ciatiyely.
Il like it, and your Esther did, I"
he replied. "Our roots extend
about 200 years into the son Of
the plantations. But how your
mother hated I'll / was 4 young
ster when she left. but / can re-
member vaguely
Amy chance Of your taking me
away from this club before that
night hound I'm with insists on
keeping me In his kennel tin day
break?" Phoebe inquired irrele-
vanity. ..Howling doesn't help"
OF course" John Pendleton
agreed Perhaps we'd better
hurry"
I'm not very keen tonight =
Phoebe continued as she gathered
up her wrap, but I think I re-
member you, John Pendleton.
You're some sort Of kinsman Of
mine, and you live near my faith
er's plantation where lived
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was almost q, sob, Becky turned
her footsteps toward the gaping
jaw Of subway entrance.
1t was stuffy inside. packed
with people pressing against each
other and against the barriers
which held them back from the
onrushing trains. But Becky was
too preoccupied to notice, or, as
usual, resent the shutting crowd.
Her thoughts travelled in an end.
less and bewildering circle in
which Estabrook, the Lord who
might some day be his brother-in.
law, Nan, and Scarlet and Becky,
whirled dizzingly.
The Impulse to tell Estabrook
OF Mans rebellion, Of her secret
escape from vigilance, came and
was driven back with the con.
viction that 1t would be PREACHER
Gus to do so.
Jolting against the men who
were packed about her in the
lurching train, Becky decided on
her course of action. She would
see Scarlet and see Nan, she
would keep watch over both Of
them, and, in that fashion, avert
any possible misfortunes. Her
heart lightened a little; she would
explain to Nan, and Nan would
understand. The shouting OF the
name of her station startled her
out Of her plans.
She made blind dash against
the incoming crowd toward the
door--too late. The door was
half shut when Becky reached it,
and, with a sort of horror she
found herself caught. t. train,
she felt. was moving. An ag-
onizing pain shot through one
leg; Becky opened her mouth to
scream, but silence and darkness
closed over her. @
When she recovered conscious
ness 1t was to the pleasant knowl-
edge that she still lived on the
earthly sphere. Her injuries, 1t
transpired, were less serious than
had been supposed. She was
furiousIy bruised, and the liga.
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NAN AND sCARLETT

Violet Vincent. her blonde hair
tucked carelessly under a new
straw hat of glistening jade green,
her face so pale that the rouge
on her cheeks stood out in bril-
liant daubs of orange.
"Whatsamatter?" Becky asked
rather sulkily, for her old antag-
90 still persisted. "D'you want
me?"
Eyes I DO" Violet replied. IT
want to talk to you, Dolling. I've
been trying to catch your eye all
evening"
"Well, I guess your troubles
viii keep till tomorrow. I'm tir-
eder than a six day bicycle racer"
TITS not my troubles" Violet
said in low, shaken voice, as
she carelessly dumped half the
contents OF q bottle Of cheap per-
fume down her neck. It's your
own"
"Wen," said Becky, "this Is
news indeed. Since when did you
take an interest in any troubles
but your OWN"
Violet caught Becky's arm, and
Becky, looking down. caught a
glimpse of something like desper.
alton in the girls eyes. Abrupt
ly her dislike gave way to an
unwilling pity. and she said with
a .shrug: "AlI right, what is it,"
The dressing room was almost
empty. but Violet whispered mys-
teriously: s'Not yet. / fixed 1t with
the night man to let us stay for
an hour after the place Is cleared
It's got to be private"
Becky stared at her. Haven't
been drinking. have you dearie7
This all sounds coo-coo to me"
But the lightness had gone out OF
her words: her premonitions had
-rned with a rush.
The two women were silent.
then, until Violet had completed
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-09-15

his game, doiIing. And I say #
who ought to know If anyone
ought"
Ooh / can't believe it.
After all. he's been pretty decent
to me, Vi'let. He picked me up
when was near starving and gave
me a start. And he didn't get any,
thing for it, either"
We'll, don't kid yourself doIling.
he means to get something. He's
not giving anything away. That's
his long suit picking up
hungry kids. started that way.
too. Ron maynst believe it, but /
was straight once. And then things
got hard, and I took a little outa
pockets now and then. And one
day I picked the wrong pocket, II
you'll excuse the III joke. !
picked Dan Scarlett's, and he.
being wise to the game, caught
my hand on the way out. thought
it was the jug sure, but It was
Mister Scarlett's apartment in
stead, and / wisht to the Lord
now 1t had been the other. His
method is what you might call
simple and effective, if you get
what / mean. He knocked the
devil cuta me first, and then he
fed me, and then he kissed me.
And between the three you can
believe / was ready to take my
orders right there. Well. ! did,
I've done plenty for that baby,
but now he's found something
better. and I'm let out.
Becky rubbed the back Of her
hand across lips that were oddly
dry. Butt can't believe It,
even Of him. she protested.
What do you mean, you did
plenty?p
Again Violet cautiously looked
about.
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haven't gone right down Florida
way by special delivery"
Becky's hands clenched. "oh
!. how could you? How could
your"
You'll find the answer to that
for yourself before long. If vou
try to buck the tide, my LADY,
VioIet's voice was harsh. s'It's
all, in the way of business, and
/ wouldn't be tipping you off
Z now If / wasn't mad clean
through. ScarIett's got plenty
on me. I having done the actual
work, but I haven't anything on
him. So it's easy enough for
him to hand me a walking ticket
when he sees a chance for big
money"
Nan?"
To Be Continued Tomorrow
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-09-15

DHoEBE CARY, in q white
chiffon and flaming scarf,
propped her elbows squarely
upon the cold silver beside her
plate ana surveyed the crowd at
the night club with sincere dis
satisfaction. The same high
haals, the same men. the same
arettes, the same girls, time
alter time. Life had ceased to
n the least exciting.
youth tugged at her arm.
ComeI on, Phoebe, let's trot
the jazz. /"
Please, Wick, for once don't
be yourself. I've danced my feet
into locomotor ataxia. I'd like
- see one of those things I've
egen advertised tor people to
sleep on.
oh. listen to my girl friend
posing as q fragile flower. Snap
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her toilette. BY that time the
dressing room was deserted and
Violet. having looked In the wings
outside to make sure that. they
were alone flung herself back
into a chair and began with an
air OF great self-consciousness:
Becky, ] know you never liked
me, and / never wasted much
love for you, either. But you'l
long ago to lay off tN's fellow
Estabroolx."
Becky. indignantly+"You mind
your own business. What do you
know about John Estabrook?"
Plenty" returned Violet in a
shaken voice. ''And plenty more
about Dan Scarlet and Esta-
brooks sister"
Becky dropped back into her
chair. gasping. "Oh for heavens
sake. what's happened?"
Enough and more. Listen,
Becky McCloskey. / never double
crossed any one in my life. believe
It or not. But I'm fed up now.
I've done Dan Scarlett's dirty
work for too long. And now to be
given the air for q pink.faced
ninny : it's too much, that's
what 1t is - too damned much"
II don't know what you're talk
ing about"
mo, you wouldn't. doIling.
You're just another innocent
yourself, barring the fact you
think yourself so wise. What you
don't know about Dan Scarlet
would make q bigger book'n the
Bible, and that's no joke"
But Nan Estabrook L
should think she'd be
Becky stopped, appalled, by her
own suspicious.
Violet looked around, made sure
OF their solitude. 'sBlacknaail,s
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ments of one leg were somewhat
torn. but the doctor promised
that he would have her up in a
week.
She lay, physically and men,
Estabrook called with books,
baskets of fruit, and words of
tender consolation. Nan sent
flowers. Scarlet, with subtle
irony, did the same, but kept as
siduously away. At last, In sheer
exhaustion, Becky curbed Ter wild
fancies, and lulled her worries to
rest.
Fortunately she was too good
to lose, and after 10 days re-
turned to her old place in the
Revue. But the fear that during
those 10 days irreparable harm
had been done was justified on
short notice.
CHAPTER ~
Becky did her best on the night
of her return to the Revue, but
while she skipped, kicked, and
TITLED out the lucious words Of
she May be Mamma to Papa,
But She'll Always be Baby to
Me-" a sharp sense Of oppressive
prenominition weighed on her
mind.
She chose to lay it to wearf-
ness: her leg still ached intoler.
ably. and she was relieved almost
to the point of tears when the
curtain fell for the last time and
the shuttle of feet toward the
exits was drowned by the rush
backstage. The doctors orders
were to return to bed Immediately
after the show. and as Estabrook
was busy displaying the charms
of Broadway after dark to the Wis
ting Lord Travers. she was hurry
mig out alone when someone
caught hold Of her arm.
She turned impatiently to face
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-09-15
The knowledge Test For
Readers Of The Times

One is correct Choose it.
l. Backgammon is vilan--game -yilage-chld.
z An ode is poem-weight-oa history.
3 a magpie is girzfood-brd- flower.
4. A walrus is a mountSin-bird- stcrm- animal
3. A yew is clown--horse- tree-scene.
Who wrote:
6. Orphan Island
Z. Tam O'Shanter.
s. Confessions Of an English Opium Eater.
8. Typhoon.
10. Markhem
Match correctly:
III. covey oxen
IL. flock hess
13. swarm whales
Ia. school wolves
is. pack nartridres
10. drove.
see ComorrOws paper to verify your results.
Answers to yesterdays test
Belgium; England 8, Ireand Frances 5, Minnesota;
Canal Zone; 9 Corsica; In of the Lord Achilles;
10 Boston, H. Sun parlOr; 2 Nine 49, Awkwardness H. King
dom; 10, Gyave 16, Ships.
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The Broadway Adventure of a Girl
With a Good Voice Who Sought
Eagerly For a Real Job
What Has Happened So Far:

Beck McCIOsey young gOOdloOng trying way
alone IN New York. meets Dan Scarlet who lives his wits He
her profits Becky has made ideal Of John EstabrO
Joins Broadway chorus He upbraids her for not picking out
the studio Of Boris AbeIard close friend EabOok Becky
interests him stands
him
shabby
Becky shows with him. get
stabook will her. Becky greatly worried cOnesses
devoted friend that
Of
urges gently EabrOok takes Becky to home
girls be friends The day they accident
Scarlet walks to their table
NOU Go On With The Story
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Furs Imported from. China

N of furs declared the American
consulate Harbn China to the United States
during 1925 Squirrel SKINS alone showed increase Of about
100000 skins for 1925 1924.
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This Day in Our History

JAMES Kenmore COOPER Of the greatest early American
novelss born September $780, He 81 books
about half Of them One of his best known works he
Last Of the Mohicans"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-30

Great, Britain's commercial needs, ac-
cumulates information which Ameri-
| can manufacturers and business men
cherish and treasure. These data aid
| Is distributing our exports to the most
! profitable markets. Firms which have
| new and novel products to offer can
| ascertain the extent of the British
! appetite for such by government aid.
| Fifteen hundred American visitors
most Of them American business rep
| resentatiVes touring abroad visited
| the London office of the department
| last year. That office compiled and
| prepared more than 400 reports of
marketing and trade conditions in
Great Britain during the last IL
| months with the view of promoting
| the sale Of American products.
| The Paris trade commissioner aided
Americans in the contamination of
many French contracts" IT kept
| American business advised concern
| ing. the pending commercial treaty be-
| tween France and Germany. Tab
was kept on projected changes in the
French tariff. Disputes arising from
trade mark abuses were adjusted.
Trade surveys included reports on
candle and parafiin markets, sales of
American automobiles, manufacture
and sale or toilet preparations IN
France, naval-stores industry, French
metallurgical industry, and wage and
labor conditions in France.
American exporters were also adj
vscd about efficient selling methods
and satisfactory terms off, payment
Commercial attaches at Rome, Mad
rid, Brussels. The Hague, Berlin, Ham
burg, Vienna. Prague. Warsaw, Copen-
hagen, Stockholm, Helsngfors, Ath-
ems Alexandria. Johannesburg and
many other foreign lands served as
lieutenants of American business
abroad
What does the world want? Golf
clubs and garlic seed, tennis shoes
and sausage grinders cattle tails hair
and alligator skins, sewing machines
and locomotiYes-these are but a few
of the many importable commodities
which 35 foreign countries have re-
Gently purchased from manufacturers
and dealers of the United States
Agricultural machinery, spare parts
for motor cars, motor cycles, floor
polish, flashlights cash registers,
electric refrigerators, sandpaper,
canned goods, bicycles, haberdashery,
musical instruments and many other
articles fill the holds of American
vessels which journey regularly to the
ports of the seven seas.
Romance and remarkable history
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-30

commissioners and agents Of the De
partment of Commerce. AS Sleuths
of new markets, they trek the high
ways and channels of commemorative
main-traveled courses and the little
used yways-seeking purchasers for
made-in-America goods. Carrying the
merchantable output of American fac
tories and stores to every inhabited
latitude and longitude is a shipping
feat which could keep the world S
navies occupied during their idle
hours.
One hundred and ten reporting Off
GERS in 30 different foreign countries
take care of American commerce
abroad. They also are clearing houses
for trade information from neighbor-
ing countries. More than 400 consul
lar offices also assist the Department
of Commerce in it's surveys of com
mercial conditions and trade oppor-
tunities overseas. Government trade
explorers travel more than 10000
miles annually in quest of new mar
kets for American products
The London office, by personal Wis
its to British commercial and industrial
centers. by surveys of English trade
conditions, and by constant study of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-30

mighty tasks which the department
champions. 1t is a big problem which
Is being handled in an effective man
ner. II involves the reduction of
waste in railway transportation: the
Improvement of inland waterways. so
that bulk commodities can be freight
ed at minimum cost; the increased
electrifiCation of this country and the
control of periodic waves OF unem-
ployment.' Taking some Of the haz-
ards out of American business by pro
viding more reliable and accurate sta
tistiCs is another important item on
the program The Government is do
ing it's utmost to standardiZe specifica-
tions and manufactured articles so as
to curtail losses In production and dlS-
tribution. Many industries and bust
nesses are handicapped because of too
many STYLES. sizes and types OF COM
modities Standardized ton is the eff
fectiVe cure for this condition. The
intermittent employment Of miners,
for example. in the bituminous indus
try is an industrial shortcoming which
technical science seeks to rectify.
Commerce. twin of agriculture, Is
also interested In the development of
cooperative marketing and better ter
minal facilities for farm produce. in
order to plug up current losses In
distribution. Commercial science also
seeks to check losses which emanate
from industrial strife between employ
ers and employed. Then there Is the
matter of improving scientific, indus
trial and economic research, az the
foundation of genuine labor saving de-
vices better processes and sounder
methods.
In its forward march during the
last six years our country as a whole
has marked up new records in the
field of waste reduction. Industry
now strives even to surpass these
marks.
Railroading records reflect certain
of these domestic savings. During
the last five years average weekly car
loadings have increased from 693, 533
to 9s6.475, the number of miles per car
per day from PA to 269, the average
trainload from 656 to 731 tons. This
traffic is being handled with fewer
employees than previously.
The ton-miles handled per employe
jumped approximately % per cent in
three years. Railroad claims have
been carved to one.half their 1921
total by the better packing of boxes,
bales and other shipping containers.
Terminal DELAYS in loading and I'M
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Old Books Inspire Ramblers Thoughts of Ancient Friends

Young Bailey, Mr.. William Guppy of
Kenge & Carboy. Mr.. and Mrs. Par
diggle, charity drive workers; John
Harmon, Eugene Wrayburn. Allan
Woodcourt and John Westloclx gentle
men, old and young Sam Weller. Tip.
Pip and Joe Yargery, Title Barnacie of
the Circulation Office; dear old
Chuffy. Pumblechook, John Chivery.
just off the lock; Arthur Clennam. Mr.
and Mrs. Veneering. with everything
new; the Lammies and Twemlow. in
society; sloppy. Silas Wegg-blast
him. and Fledgeby of Pubsey & Co.
-maledictions on him: with Old Riah
just behind him. Here, too, is the
great authority on the source of the
Hampstead ponds, Mr. Picl<WiCk
Standing at my desk and making
a great blah is John Podsnap, defender
of the Constitution and everything
that ls--a conservative. and y wind
bag. With him is Merdle. another
ea!lar of the earth. Chadbad is ask
tng me for a contribution. Bless me.
what a crowd, By my troth, here are
Inspectors Bucket and Nedgett
Whenever l go to London I put
up at Todgers' Commercial Boarding
House, under the shadow of the Monu-
ment, and then go down to the Six
jolly Fellowship Porters to have Miss
Abbey Peterson and Bob Gliddery
mix me their famous flip. I walk
over to the Marshalsea near the
Church of st, George in Southwark,
looking in at the windows of Mr.. Grip
pies Academy; go down to the Wooden
Midshipman to see Sol ellis and Capt
Cutie, and then drift in TO Pol
Sweedlepipe's bird store over which
Mrs. Camp has her lodgings. If the
weather is good / take the mail or a
seat in a diligence and go down to
the Blue Dragon to drink with Mrs.
I.upin and Mark Tapiey twho il back
from his adventures with democracy
in America, and then If the roads are
good / go over to Chesley Void ana
take a stroll along the Ghost Walk
and perhaps meet Lord and Lady
Dedlock, Mr.. TulkinghoTn, HortenSe
and Lawrence Roythorn.
Joe. my messenger. has Just an
nounCed callers. They are Americans, J
oozing patriotic sweat, declaim1nE
that freedom is an American lnven-
ton, shooting at my spittoon and de-
crying the distinction drawn in effete
monarchieS between the well dressed
and the shabby--distinction that are
not drawn here. The visitors are
Jefferson Brick, whose editorials rattle
the bars of London's Tower; Col. Diver
of the Rowdy Journal, Maj. PawktnSI
Jineral Paddock. Gen. Choke, MIR.
Scadder, real estate boomer of the
City OF Eden, plotted in swamp, and
Mrs. Homini. who contributed td