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a daifty tea-service at a golden n-haired
girl with wide. laughing. blue eyes who
sat opposite to him.
The girls laugh. low and mellow
why. fatherl" she exclaimed. II
had no idea you cared In the least Tor
that sort Of thing!"
"Dont!" said Mr.. Garth shortly. mot
as q general rule. I'm not sure do at
all. suppose 1t adds something to the
sum total of human knowledge. and
Rand seems tremendously serious about
1t. as though the Bank Of England
would collapse II he didn't carry on, but
l can't say I could ever work up mllcf
enthusiasm over prowling around aitel
fossils and digging up prehistoric eggs
and studying the habits OF man-eatlng
head-hunters at first hand"
And yet" said the girl shyly. "you
have seen quite lot of him Of late and
helped to make a fuss over him--you'vC
even invited him out. here this after
noon: and we're giving, believe, g
rather formal dinner for him tomorrow
night"
"Huh!" said the multimillionaire.
quite another matter, Marion-quite
another matter! The mans famous, OF
course. Known everywhere-singapore
to London"
But you don't like q man well
enough to accept the sort Of invitation
we are talking about. merely because
he happens to be famous. do you?"
DO you?" countered her father
bluntly.
Marion laughed and shook her head
II don't know him well enough to say
whether like him or not, II that's
what you mean." she retorted. But .
certainly should not like him Just be-
cause he had contributed some admit.
tedly valuable papers to the leading
scientific journals. 1t means at least
six weeks or two months"
We'll, I'm rather keen to CO." said
Mr.. Humphrey Garth with sudden de-
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cision. "At least, he's an interesting
beggar and he doesn't fling those pre-
historic eggs Of his at your head every
time you speak to him. Modest with
his achievements even to the point OF
reticence, I'd say-I like that. They say
he's got an amazing place. a regular
museum, up there on that island OF
his. And then, another thing--the date
just suits me. Two weeks from now
Shall be ripe for little holiday
need 1t, by Jove! And week or 10
days at sea will be just what l want
In fact, I was thinking Of proposing {:
cruise somewhere with no definite OBJ
jective In mind"
Marion got up from her chair, step
ped quickly around the table and laiC
her hands on her fathers shoulders
To Marion her father was her all
there were but two of them, and she
had never known her mother.
"I'd love to go father" she said sim
ply. 1T will be wonderful adventure
up amongst those strange wild islands
that nobody ever visits--I've always
wanted to see them"
Mr.. Humphrey Garth screwed his
head around. glanced little quizzically
at his daughter and then, drawing her
face down to his. kissed her.
"Of course. you'd just love to go
because I want to CO." he smiled. II
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him If he kept 1t out of the sunlight
that was the main thing. Peter puts 1t
III his pocket.
The sun grew hotter.
The boat drifted ON through the
hours
Another dawn came . the pitiless
Peter lay in the bottom Of the boat
motionless-his face hidden in his out
flung arms.
CHAPTER Nv.
In Which Reward Is Offered.
TT was said of Humphrey Garth that
he could command more ready
money. and on shorter notice, than
i any other man in the Common
wealth of Australia. At 60 he was
q grim faced, shaggy eyebrowed man
with thick gray hair. He had made his
fortune mostly III wool" but his in
tercsts with the years had widened-
vastly Big things. Steel. Shipbuilding,
far-flung financial enterprises--even in
London. Humphrey Garth of Sydney
was man of power. He lived layishly
he spent lavishly. He possessed su-
perb home and estate just on the out
skirts of Sydney: he maintained mag
niflcent ocean-going yacht. He was
widely known: and like all men Of his
station in life. who are subject to pub
lie appraisal. that appraisal ran freely
up and down the scale: and. from being
a good old sort" to some who might for
reasons hold to that opinion. he was, tc
others, tor reasons held equally as valid.
tricky. Slrewd and ruthless money
grabber. whose soul. If he ever had one,
had long since surrendered itself to the
god of gold. Mr.. Humphrey Garth. how
ever, was in the habit of saying with a
rather grim smile that he didn't give
a damn what anybody thought about
him.
He was sitting now on the veranda OF
his house in Sydney. and staring across
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don't know whether to believe you or
not. But I'll take you at your word and
call 1t settled"
"Since 1t must be omewhere"--Ma-
rion hummed her paraphrase gayly-
ut might as we'll be there"
Exactly" laughed Mr.. Humphrey
Garth of Sydney boyishly "And there
Is Herman Rand now, II I'm not mis-
taken"
From where they were sitting In the
corner OF the great house the view ex-
tended in one direction out over that
incompatible harbor that is all sgd
ney's own. and In the far distance the
Heads" could be family discerned: In
land the eye met magnificent grove OF
trees, and a cool, winding avenue that
led up to the house. 1t was along this
avenue that a motor car was now rap
idly approaching.
"Yes. that's Mr.. Rand" said Marion
as the car swept around to the from!
entrance and she caught a glimpse OF
It's occupant
She rang for more tea.
The tea and the visitor arrived almost
simultaneously. Marion found herself
appraising the man from a new and
critical point OF view. Her fathers de-
cision transformed Mr.. Rand from &
quite casual acquaintance into per-
sonage with whom a certain degree OF
intimacy must hereafter inevitably
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The letters will be Judged by a com.
mittee of prominent men and women.
three of whom are women, especially
qualified by their knowledge and expe.
rience, to pass on this subject.
The rules for the contest and the list
of prizes arc given below.
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Continued In Tomorrow's Starr
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he looked decidedly healthy--a man
who obviously lived his life in the
open. his face bronzed, and
I'm afraid I'm little late" said
Rand apologetically as he shook hands
with Marion and her father.
"On the contrary" said Mr.. Hum
phrey Garth pleasantly. you arrived at
exactly the psychological moment. w
had just decided that the opportunit.
OF paying you visit UP In that quec
part of the world of yours was far tor
allurIng to lose
Really" exclaimed Rand heartily
You coming, then? Both OF you
Well, am delighted! was hoping
you would-but knew it was rather q
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exist. One did not accept an invitation
as house guest on lonely island for
an indefinite period without being
thrown a good deal into close contact
with ones host. She watched him now
as he came forward along the veranda
toward them. He was tall, very dark,
quick and 1.-the in his movements;
man, she judged, of perhaps 38 or there
abouts and by no means bad looking
that Is, she decided. II one didn't pick
his features to pieces. II one did that,
OF course, the lips we're little too long
and thin and the jaw was terribly hard
ana the eyes were too small and too
close together. But then. of course, one
could pick anyone to pieces. Certainlv
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Yes: It's true-the world progresses.
All you have to do nowadays to
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Then rub 1t thoroughly on the Of
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Then read the evening newspapers
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The chances are that your misbe-
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the high fences you used TO leap
when you were youngster.
And in the morning. says one
who has tried this discovery, you'll
feel so happy that you'll want to
jump into your sportiest clothes and
walk briskly down the street Just to
show the neighbors that you are not
as old as they think you are"
Evening star., 1928-03-01

Father Johns Medicine is now be.
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During its 20 years Of success in
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large undertaking. and I had my fears.
can't tell you how glad I am I've
got to go over to Auckland, as I told
you the other day. and then and my
bit OF schooner will strike straight for
home, and III be there in time TO vel
come you"
why not send the schooner on from
Auckland, and come back here your
self and go up with us ON the yacht?"
suggested Mr.. Garth.
CONTINUED In Tonorrow's Star.)
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strength il is known as the Great.
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Doctors have known the value of
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and have used it freely in their
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The original prescription for
Father Johns Medicine, from which
it is still prepared, contained cod
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and this is the reason why Father
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The Dominican Sisters Of St. Dom.
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I'VE have found out that there is
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the body; it does a world Of good"
Evening star., 1928-03-01

Twenty centers for the supply Of
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the district In India where the malaria
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Evening star., 1928-03-01

Joint-Ease they call this scientific
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l. Letters must not he more than 200 words
In length.
,. Letters must he written In ink or on type.
writer and ON one side of sheet only.
}. Letters must bc plainly and lcgihly signed
with full name and address of sender.
4. Letters must not he written In verse.
5. Every woman over eighteen wears Is eligible
to compete-rxccpt employees Of the Rice
Bakery and their relatives
4. Letters entered In the contest cannot be ac~
kaowlcdgcd ar returned.
I. Contestants agree To Accept the verdict of
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-23

Of II persons who have applied at
the Marylebone Police Court for licenses
under the new money-lenders' act IN
England, IS we're women.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-23

Because of the housing shortage in
Germany nearly 100000 young married
couples are living with their parents
inslaW
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-23

The National Education Association.
at 1901 Sixteenth street, has just learned
something about trees it never knew
before and may take steps to change
the sign on the ancient stump of a
giant tree that is one of the spots of
interest along lower Sixteenth street.
Col. John r. White. superintendent of
the Sequoia and Gen. Grant National
Parks of the National Park Service of
the Interior Department in California.
recently paused before the headquarters
of the National Education Association
at the sight of the giant tree stump
Col. White is an ardent lover of trees
for he lives out in the country where
they grow large enough to ride three
horses through at the same time or
drive an automobile along a fallen
trunk.
why" he unused, here they call this
redwood, and it is a California big
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-23

corporation. Extensive enlargement OF
the Autun plant is proposed. it is
understood. The Autun mills specializeS
in the manufacture of laundry netting,
velours for upholstering, etc.
1t is the oldest textile plant in this
section of the State, having been found
ed in 1888 and the spindles were active
so years before extensive textile eXpan-
sion began in the Piedmont Carolinas
Australia has banned the importation
of police dogs
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-23
FOUR ARE ARRAIGNED
AFTER NARCOTIC RAID
Commissioner Turnage Holds Col
ored Men for Grand
Jury.

Four colored men arrested by head
quarters detectives and Federal mar
cotic agents in a raid FRIDAY were held
for the action of the Federal grand
jury following a hearing before United
States Commissioner Turnage yester-
day.
All are charged with violations of
the Harrison narcotic act. William
Buchanan, 26 years old, 300 block of
M street southwest, and Clarence Jones,
Is years old, 1900 block First street
southwest, were placed under bond OF
$4,000 and Charles E. Driver, IS years
1900 block Third street southwest, and
George Haynes, 25 years old, 200 block
B-and-a-half street southwest, were
held under bond of 81 800.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-23
WARDMAN ACQUIRES
ATLANTIC BUILDING
Bra1ove Takes Other Realty in
Exchange for F Street
Structure.

Transfer of the Atlantic Building, a
nine-story Office structure at $50 F
street, by Harry M, Bralove, real estate
operator, to Harry Wardman, Washing
ton realtor and builder, was announced
Yesterday by Mr.. Bralove.
Mr.. Bralove had just acquired the
property from the former, owners, the
Atlantic Building Co., and disposed of
it to the Wardman organization, taking
in exchange the business property at
8lO-14 Tenth street and other miscel-
laneous parcels of land.
The upper floors of the Atlantic
Building are occupied by offices of the
Forestry Division of the Department OF
Agriculture.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-23
BOY DIES IN AIR CRASH.
Two Others Probably Fatally HUI
in Kansas Accident.

CINNAMON, Kans.. September :
(P).-Sonny Davis, Cimmaron hig
school boy, was killed and two 9TH
persons injured. both probably fatal
when an airplane in which they WEI
flying crashed here yesterday.
Bud Huffman, this city. suffered
broken neck and internal injuries. 7
L. Ware, Lowell. Mich, pilot, receiv
internal injuries.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-23
TEXTILE PLANT SOLD.
Oldest South Carolina Mill Bought
by Philadelphia Concern.

ANDERSON, S. c., September %
R).-Sale of the Pendleton Manufacture
ing Co. properties of Autun, S. c., to
the La France Textile Industries, Inc.
of Philadelphia, at sum reported to
be in excess of 100000 was announced
today by officials of the Pennsylvania
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-23
AMBASSADOR Teller
TO GREET DELEGATES
Those to Attend Mexican Highway
Congress to Be Guests at
Dinner Here.

Official delegates to the Second
Mexican Highway Congress will be
rendered a banquet at the Willard
Hotel tomorrow night by the American
Road Builders Association, with AM
bassador Manuel Teller of Mexico as
guest of honor. The Ambassador will
e2dend an official welcome to the dele
gates who will attend the congress at
Mexico City october to 6. They will
leave Washington Tuesday on a special
train for the Southern republic.
Other guests at the banquet will be:
DR.. L. S. Rowe. director general of the
PAM American Union; William A. Reid
foreign trade adviser of the Pan
American Union; Thomas H. Mac
Donald, chief of the Bureau of Public
Reads of the Department of Agricul-
tufe, and r. Keith Compton, c. M.
Babcock. S. F. Beatty and F. A. Reimer,
members of the executive committee of
thf American Road Builders Associa-
tiqn
Charles M. Upham, secretary-director
ofsthe association, will explain the pur-
pose of the forthcoming congress.
Because of the housing shortage in
Germany nearly 100000 young married
couples are living with their narpntS-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-23
Association Learns Its Ancient Giant
Redwood" Isn't Thai Kind of Tree

tree" cycling the venerable wood which
the legend tells was growing before
Christ was born.
AS the colonel served in the Foreign
Legion and pitched camp at Mount
Olympus, in Greece. as well as having
seen service in the Philippines, he fears
naught-not even educating" the edu-
Gators, so in he went and informed the
folk at 1901 Sixteenth street that they
were wrong about the giant stump out
side
Col. White is a lecturer Of note, as
well as being an author, and proposes
to give a lecture this week, free to the
public, in the Interior Department
auditorium.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-14
BUCK FEVER
(Tucson Citizen)


enoughby of Sc to & anmporan
Washington sometimes difficulty
merely up again.
opinion
Indifference the might that
aFoette perhaps feels his that his buaboo
bddn intimately
posthumouy
explanatory that
a
of
the seaes action did not affect it, for matter within
tuition add ii,
The constitution and its traditions danger than
possible threat
from
different
who essentially
opinion, senate all
lis not nsonan with the public
with the
o
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-14

picture
certainly follow the path children moving
wonder if all the country isn't going to the dogs
than century the chances
regardless
Louisiana Purchase
left for the city the number of forme
left suffer of that
benefited
Garfield Cleveland jackson hun
the the farmer have continued live The
pe
problem
Iunpoductve population
will resulting
land the
thing that the the elimination
inefficient well the
population of the cities cities the
Iof the Agricultural Medical college Oklahoma writes:
country in is policy put
pow production
products rapidly population
0 millions
go o
the farm them Two classes
people leaving
smaller condi
on the forcing the inefficient farmer out this is
finally general"
farming suffering
will
still
the the
abandoning marginal farms the
biggest
llate the shining
Natural will always the prevail
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-14

WASHINGTON. - On the tn cory
that everyone really wants to write
his or her congressman or congress-
woman, but that many don't know
just what to write about, here are a
few suggestions-bill before congress: ::
In the House
HUDSPETH, Texas; To construct a
$4,000 fence along a section of the
Texas Mexican border.
ENG ELB r G H T, California: To
name a prominent mountain or peak
after the late Congressman John E.
Raker.
zIHLMAN, Maryland To regulate
the practice of naturopathy in the
District of Columbia.
WURZBACH, Texas: To make the
tariff on onions three cents a pound
M'GREGOR, New York: To permit
the Indians of the six nations born
in Canada to pass and repasS the
borders of the United States.
HUDDLESTON, Alabama: To direct
the department of commerce to pub
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-14

lish the names of families returned at
the second, third and fourth Gems
SuseS. &
OLDFIELD Arkansas; To spend
S1,OO0,O00 a year for three years for
flood control on the Black river.
In the Senate
SHEPPARD, Texas: To promote
pecan culture in southwestern United.
States.
ASHURST, Arizona: To pave In
ternational street at NogaleS, building
sewers and installing IAN ornamental
lighting system" for 100000.
RANSDELL, louisiana To change
the name of Saint Vincent'S Orphan
Asylum Tin Washington to Saint Vim.
cents Home and School.
EDGE, New Jersey: To provide a
5000 fine and up to year in the
hoosegow for anyone stealing an auto
mobile in the Canal Zone.
CAPPER, Kansas: To name the
first Thursday of each october as
national Agricultural day.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-14
Douglas Assets Multiply .

CONTINUALLY climatic
-
community development.
Fox corporation a picture and
unsurpassed lying in around this
comniunit
community the
seter
utilization the attractions
motion picture
industry actual dollars and
the mining smelling industry.
will that
this section than almost
with Also the weather will indicate
Douglas
other southern California point
settled Angeles
pherc peculiarly
better conditions
standing strategic position to invite the
motion this section of the
Demand in Europe signs
angAof submitted cheaper than
Angeles therefore would
attractions of this section of the state
the
corporation
that will showing background will
furnish d to picture
attraction the movie industry exception the rule
until propihous weather.
companies
showing
photographing
Friday that such conditions pertain frequently here
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-14
Modem Youth Intelligent


should considerable
the the Blevne schools
themselves
Considerably
The indicated still
al in
Europe
Ford was selected but John Rockefeller by H.
a
but
something Illuminating youth
the preferences these 682
representing type efficiency
Rockefeller
Tunney, Dempsey Babe Ruth
little doubt
would approximate those BeleiIe
his father capable concving things
while
Sullivan registering
weight
champion
living thinking
coordated physical development
field of aviation in
make believe
preference
conpngy
enule
might permitted
ton will see milion-dolar gates to prize fights