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RUT Madge was not trusting soul. Expert
ence had made her wary. She eyed the
cheek with suspicion. Lighting cigarette she
ansNeered:
".fust why you've staged all this fake whoopec,
DIDN'T know. Nor care. You're good egg
and I like you But payment can be stopped on
cheGsEs and If it's all the same to you. III take
minA in cash"
For q moment, with amusement twinkling
frouS his dark, engaging eyes, Ames stood re-
gardsng her.
"Vehat doubling Thomasina you turned
out 10 be! However, if it's gold you want. it's
gold kyou shall have" He picked up his hat.
I'm ..o6 to the bank at once" he said. Just
wait lnere. III be back in tiffy."
On his walk to the bank to cash the check
whica Maggie suspected, Ames congratulated
hims'lf. He was freel without STOPPING to the
dishohor Of honesty; without bruising the fra.
gile Aower Of a woman's pride. he had extri-
Gated himself from a distaSteful ENHANCEMENT.
SpHrned by Susan he was free for Celia. And
delicately, subtly had his coup been
planxSd that neither Susan, to whom he had
been sSound. nor yet Maggie, through whom he
had Non his coveted release, had any suspicion
of 1t.
He congratulated himself on the success Of
his pIan ard held his head little higher as he
reflected that he was the captain of his fate. He
had teen able to look after himself and secure
the pSaze he sought. He had displayed tact and
diplomacy and they had brought success. OF
course his father was being unpleasant, but even
he couldn't make him marry Susan when Susan
herself didn't want to marry him.
PooS Susanl In his new freedom Ames felt
a little sympathy for her. He hoped she hadn't
taken the affair too seriously. He really hoped
that tpe engagement had been merely matter
of form with her, sponsored by family influence,
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a thousand dollars. You see, I've certain private
reasons for wanting to smear this town with
crimson. And though shall not expect as
much of you as kiss your job will be to create
the impression that there's no limit to what
ashland get" he said
Nor was this impression difficult to create
In common with most small towns, Maxwell
had an avid relish for scandal and it was not
long before tongues began to wag. For, i'm
mediately after the Cartwright girl returned
to her home in Virginia, Arnes plunged into q
whirl Of fevered hilarity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-17
II Man s Love
Coils, and in order
to Moo Another
Girl, He Plans a
Dishonest Nay to
End His Engage
tHonorably
WHh Unexpected
Results.

ELLA and Susani Susan and Celia!
One slender, swift-moving, star
n eyed. The other-well-the girl
to whom Peter Ames was all but
formally engaged.
Susan he had known always. But Celia, she
whose hair had the tawny glints of Autumn,
he had met in his home town Of Maxwell
few months after his return from the Cont
mental travel on which he had embarked when
he was graduated from Yale.
"And that-the fact that I was engaged to
Susan before met Celia-was the first irony"
he explained.
With this irony AmeS himself had had little
to do. His father, pompous old autocrat,
who exercised a despotic control over his family
as well as 5000 acres of cotton-growing land,
. had seen to that.
mot a marriage, but an alliance Is what
we want for the boy" he had announced, his
arrogant, humorless gaze fixing itself on Susan
Eaton, whose fathers acreage had shown the
amazing versatility of spouting oil as well as
Sprouting corn.
Thus early for all the world like medieval
barons, the head of the house of Eaton and
the tycoon of the dynasty Of Ames had agreed
upon the marriage of Peter and Susan.
A ND to Peter, who had flown kites with
Susan and been taught from infancy to
accord his father the respect that a subaitern
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'FOF WOntn OF your SOCtety ~ pay
you a thousand dollars. PVe certain pri-
DGte reasons for wanting to smear this
tO1UI Nth crimson"
pays his chief. the prospect was not disagree
able. Indeed, he grew up with the idea, &C
cepting this arrangement for his future as
unquestioningly as he did the tradition that an
Ames should go to Yale.
From Yale and his European travel Ames
emerged, dark lean ardent with the sinews of
. sportsman and the polish Of a beau. Nice
chap! In fact, dashing fellow who was i'm
mediately hailed congenial by the gay "oir'
set which had invaded and enlivened, enriched
and enlarged the borders of Maxwell, once
drowsy town.
OF this set, which the aristocrats of Max
well more tolerated than welcomed, Tom and
Gay Painter were leaders, and 1t was beneath
their hospitable roof that Peter first saw the
Cartwright girl.
It was late ON a Summers afternoon when
he met her. She and Gay Painter, whose house
guest she was were sitting on q swing in the
red-tiled patio when Ames and the oil magnate
Eauntered in from a set of tennis.
pANTER, who was jovial and had a crude
- idea of w.t. introduced them. He juggled
the cocktail shaker in one hand while he prod
Died Ames in the ribs with the other.
''Here he is, Celia" he announced. Peter
Ames himself. Entirely eligible. Money in
the bank and muscles in his legs. Free, some
what sunburned and well over 81. He's the
beggar whose snapshot caught your fancy.
You know, the dark that thieving old
gypsy predicted was going to make mincemeat
of your life"
At this badinage, Ames, who was far from tie
experienced philanderer that Painter liked To
picture him, felt a flush creeping up beneath his
coat Of tan. The girl, however, did not share his
ill-ease. Accustomed TO her hosts noisy mirth,
she met this sample Of 1t with smile that
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STRETCHING out her hand, she held it face
upward to Peters gaze. "She was quite
startling. She told me all sorts Of things about
my wooIly past. She said"-with an obliuue
twinkling glance-"that soon q mana very
dark and slender man-would walk into my
life"
With q curious sense of elation Ames sat
down beside her. Lightly supporting the wrist
OF the hand she outheld he bent over the tell
tale palm Noting how clear and jasmine white
her skin was against the sun bronze of his own,
he quickened. Recklessly, with a headinesS-an
exhilaration that was not the effect of the gen.
erous dividends that Painter was declaring:
We'll here am" he said.
That was the beginning of it.
In the imprOmptu gayety-the hours of bridge
and dancing that foIlowed-Ames was so acutely
aware Of her that he found his ears straining
to catch every note of her voice-his eyes turn
ing to watch every movement of her tawny,
hssome body.
Il love you-I love you" Over and over,
as his seeking gaze met hers, his mind kept say
ing II love you"
FOR suddenly he knew that this girl with
the gray-green eyes and sweetly ardent
lips, was like wine to him. For him all the
light OF life lay in this girls keeping.
Having met her, touched her having read
the promise OF her lips, having seen the sun
glow Of her hair, he knew that he could never
marry Susan.
And yet, Of course, he had to marry Susan.
Between them was that long taken for granted
engagement and the fact that under the archaic
chivalry OF his code, it was not honorable to
be honest when it came to affections that had
cooled.
With his slightly hooking air of having
drained LIES cup and found it tasteless, Ames
explained this paradox.
A gentleman, he said might act but must
not speak his indifference. If an engagement
were to be severed, tradition demanded that
the lady be accorded the questionable satisfac-
ton Of initiating the break. Thus, he continued
to the man Of honor who found himself labor
ing under the onus Of an unwelcome attach
ment, there was but one course open, and that
was to prove himself thorough cad.
Upon this course, Ames did not at once de-
termine. As o matter of fact, he had had no
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-17

EVERYWHERE you went you saw Peter
Ames. and with him always was Maggie
Collins with her bracelets and her laughter and
her damningly poSsessive air
Thus boldly, as If she were a crimson flower
worn against black label, he Haunted her.
One saw them at race meets and regattas.
One glimpse6 them Skimming the boulevardS in
Ames crouclling boat-like car. At night they
appeared on dance roofs gathered their
friends together for noisy cocktail bouts in the
bachelor fiat which Ames had leased as . setting
for his profiigacy.
And it was here that Susans father, beak-
noSed old reactionary, came to denounce him az
last.
your conduct Is an outrage sir" he thJn-
dered. zone expects a young man to SOW few
wild oats, but you have carried your affair with
this notorious Collins woman to indecent limits.
Your infatuation is an open scandal. There 10
no excuse and no forgiveness.
Needless to say, sir, your engagement to my
daughter, Susan, is at an end"
At this successful elimination of his plans,
Ames was elated. So jubilant, indeed, that when
Madge came in an hour later she found him
beaming with joy:
"The curtain is about to ring down on our
little comedy, Madge, old girl"
Making a sweeping bow, he drew q check
from his pocket and extended it to her In .
flourish. you'll never know what q service
you've done me. 1t gives me unbounded pleas
ure to present you with thousand iron men,"
he said.
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quirked the vivid corners of her mouth and lent
q glimmering merriment to her eyes, disturb
ingly green-gray eyes that were thickly fringed
by black lashes
"Idiot!" she said. Then to Ames, in soft.
throaty tones that brought an odd stir to Peters
senses, "when you've known him as long as
have youu be used to his poisonous humor."
From the tea wagon, where he was very busy
mixing sugar and orange juice and gin, Painter
doomed:
Nov, Cecy, don't deny that fortune telling
hooey you and Gay fell for yesterday afternoon"
She laughed. She had a charming laugh,
Ames thought. Her hair was shot through with
coppery CLEANS and at the base of her throat
there was q small, satiny hollow.
"Oh, I don't. Yesterday Gay and / went
superstitious. We motored out to the gypsy
caravan that's camping on the edge Of the city.
woman was there-a bent, old thing, with
beady eyes and q hooked nose and incredibly
long. red earrings. We gave her SIS and she read
our palms"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-01-25
Chinese Telegraphy

The transmission and receipt of tel.
egrams in China Is not so easy as IN
western countries, because the Chi
neser laHgHag e-saeks an alphabet asaih
expresses itself by characters ani<
signs that represent words. In conse-
quence, for purposes Of teiegraphins
an exact list has been made of signs
in quantity sufficient for ordinary cor
respondence, and to each one of the
signs d different number Is given
which is transmitted by the Morse
telegraphic system. The code consists
Of $500 ciphers, the whole forming a
pamphlet of 40 pages, each one Of
which contains 10 series of 20 char
acters with its corresponding number.
On receipt Of telegram the operator
looks up in his book the characters
represented by the numbers transmit.
ted by the, apparatus and transcriles
them into legible Chinese.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-01-25
Many Requisites for
Career of Medicine

Whoever is to acquire a competent
knowledge of medicine ought to have
the following advantages: a natural
disposition; instruction; favorable
position for the study; early tuition;
love of labor; leisure. First of all,
natural talent Is required, for when
Nature opposes, everything else is in
vain; but when Nature leads the way
to what is most excellent, instruction
in the art takes place, which the stu
dent must appropriate to himself by
reflection, early becoming a pupil in
a place well adapted for instruction.
He must also bring to the task love
Of labor and perseverance, SO that the
instruction. taking root, may bring
forth proper and abundant fruits -.
Possessing these requisites to the
study of medicine and having acquired
true knowledge of it, we shall thus
in travelling through the cities be es-
teemed physicians not in name but in
reality. But inexperience is bad
treasure y -. the nurse of timid-
ity and audacity. For timidity be-
trays want Of powers, and audacity
want Of skill. -Hippocrates.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-01-25
Roldest Of Birds

There Is no bird perhaps SO in
quisitive, so familiar, so Cheeky" as
the robin, and so it is not surprising
that this bird should so often choose
some discarded article of domestic
use as a suitable receptacle, after
sundry notifications, for its eggs amt
subsequent family. Next to the robin
in point of boldness and familiarity
with man comes the wren. hut the
pair who were so far self-possessetl
as TO convert scarecrOw into de
sirable residence were gifted with
more than ordinary daring. Possibly,
they knew that the old coat was not
hung there over the row of newly
sown peas to scare away such respect
able individuals as themselves. or per-
haps they did not recognize the APP
partition as what II was intended to
represent. @
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-01-25
Didn't Houe Nerue to
Cook the Little Pig

A Cleveland housewife who was en-
pertaining some very special friends
from out of the city, wanted to have
a dinner that would linger in their
memory for some time to come. What
could be nicer, she thought. than
roast sucking pig?
Accordingly the little pig was sent
home from the butchers, unwraM,e,!
and laid on the kitchen table, where
her small son caught sight of 1t and
burst into tears.
"Don't cook that dear little piggie =
he walled, disconsolately.
His mother sent him from the kitch.
en- and picked the pig up to carry L
across the room.
I'm that moment" she reports. my
courage failed me. There was sOil:t--
thing so much like little. baby about
that poor little pig that | SET II down
in hurry. realized then and tller"
that didn't have the nerve to cook II
Like my son, | wiped the tears out ut
my eyes and put the dear little piggit
out of my mind forever. We had rOas,
beef for dinner" d
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-01-25
SatU Much Difference
in Log Structures

Cabin and log house are synonymous
to most persons today, but in the early
days of Ohio, when such structures
were common for residence purposes.
there was a nice distinction between
the two. 1t is brought out In the jour
nal of Thaddeus Mason Harris,
preacher Of Dorchester, Mass, who, in
search Of health, travelled in the sum-
mer Of 1903 from his home to Mari
eta, Ohio, and published record Of
his travels. He wrote:
THE temporary buildings of the first
settlers In the wilds are called cabins
They are built Of unhewn logs. the in
terstices between which are stopped
with rails, caulked with moss or straw,
and daubed with mud. The roof is
covered with sort of thin slaves split
out of oak or ash, about four feet long
and five inches wide, fastened on by
heavy poles being laid on them.
If the logs are hewed; If the inter-
stices be stopped with stone and neat
ly plastered, and the roof composed of
shingles nicely laid on, 1t is called a
log house.
"a log house has glass windows
and chimney a cabin has commonly
no window at all and only hole at
the top for the smoke to escape" -
Kansas City Times.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-01-25
FRIDAY, JANUARY Is, 1929

While Lieutenant Byrd is electri-
flying the world with news OF his
antarctic exploits, Fridtjof hansen Is
preparing for an expedition to the
North pole in 1880. Although six
ty-six years old DR.. Nansen expects
to be the actual leader of the expe-
dition. His intinates say that Dr..
hansen is as active as he was thirty
five years ago when he and Hjalmar
Johnnesen. made dash on skis
toward the North Pole. The air.
ship Graf Zeppelin is to be used for
the expedition and some fifty per-
sons in all are to be aboard, accord
ing to present plans. They will
survey Franz Josef Land, northeast
of Spitzbergen, try to measure some
ocean depths and then go over to
Nome. From Nome by way OF Port
Barrow and on to. the North Pole,
so the plan just given out reads.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-01-25
COURT OF APPEALS RULES
AGAINST SLOT MACHINES

The Maryland Court of Appeals
has handed down an opinion that
slot machines that return metal
checks as well as CONNECTIONS were
gambling devices, reversing the de-
cision of Judge Eugene O'Dunne, OF
Baltimore, and lifting the injunc-
ton granted by him against the Pc
lice Department of that city, which
prohibited their seizure.
In the opinion of the court, which
was written by Judge w. Mitchell
Digges and concurred in by the en-
tire bench, it was stated that the
controlling factor in the decision
was the evidence that the meta
discs were exchanged for money by
the proprietors of the stores where
the machines were installed.
The fact that the court believed
the checks were substituted for nick
els in procuring telephone calls
was also mentioned.
Even if the discs we're not ex'
changable for money, the opinion
said, the fact that the number o.
CONNECTIONS and discs varied as the
combinations resulting from pull
of the lever varied, would have {
tendency to develop the gambilnf
instinct "that is active or latent II
almost every individual.
The court held that the machines
were manufactured and used TO-
one sort Of gambling or another and
that consequently court Of equity
ought not to protect them with
writ of Injunction against the police
The Cate case halted a drive by
the police. several months ago t.
clean up all the slot machines and
other gambling devices in Baltimore
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-01-25
INFLUENZA PREvENTIvEs AND
CURES ARE FRAUDULENT,
FEDERAL DRUG OFF,
CIAL WARNS

ut Is the intention Of the Food,
Drug and Tnsecticide Administration
to take immediate action under the
food and drugs act against all prep
arations represented by label or by
circular accompanying the package
as preventives or treatments Of in
fuenza, la grippe, pneumonia, and
related Diseases" w. G. Campbell,
Director of Regulatory Work of the
United States Department of Agri-
culture, said to-day.
"There is a widespread and prob
ably fully justified public appre-
tension about influenza and some
manufacturers have not hesitated to
take advantage of this situation by
advertising their preparations in
every available quarter as preyen-
lives or cures for the disease. I'm
fortunately. the food and drugs act
does not reach false advertising
statements appearing in the press,
II in any advertising medium not
included with the package OF the
preparation itself. The food and
drug enforcing authorities are there
tore powerless to check such mis-
leading advertising, serious as the
consequences may be in the case OF
those who are led to depend on such
ineffective products and neglect the
hygenic precautions recommended
by public health authorities such as
isolation, rest, sleep, diet and proper
ventilation.
I'll is fact generally accepted by
medical authorities, based on world
vide medical experience" added
Mr. Campbell, that there is no
known drug or combination Of drugs
which will prevent or cure influenza.
products labeled as effective for this
purpose will unhesitatingly be class
led as misbranded within the mean
ng Of the food and drugs act and
sreated accordingly.
'sIt may not be amiss to add" said
Mr. Campbell, chat manufacturers
ire usually cautious about putting
E1nwarranted claims upon the labels
of their products, knowing that they
-ender themselves liable under the
food and drugs act, and those who
are Inclined to take advertising
claims at face value will frequently
ind that the labels themselves. or
he circulars accompanying the
packages Of the drugs. do not repeat
these claims"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-01-25
Pearl in Every Book

There are people, 1t seems, who
value things in proportion to the price
that Is put on them; and because the
Bible can be bought for a few pence
or a few shillings, pass it by as, a
common. thing. 'Why should we buy
your cheap little books?'' scornfully
asked man In Burma. The colpor-
teur replied: Eyes, they are cheap,
only two pice copy. but I have seen
the people Of Ceylon buying oysters
at one pice, In the hope Of finding a
pearl. And here-there is pearl in
every book" It was happy answer.
and the colporteur spoke better than
he knew, for the pearl is the best
symbol of beauty born Of pain
Montreal Herald.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-01-25
ECONOMISTS TO REPORT ON
FARM OUTLOOK FOR 1929

a report which will help farmers
% organize their business on the
oasis Of the probable domestic and
foreign demand for farm products
Turing the ensuing year will be pre-
A BY agricultural economists
Zig in Washington. d. G., the
Feek Of January FL.
Representatives of forty-five state
agricultural colleges and extension
|, ervices will meet with economists Of
he United States Department of
agriculture, following which the
Bureau of Agricultural Economics of
he department will issue on Janu-
Try % its annual agricultural out
ook report covering each of the
major agricultural products. The
State colleges will then prepare
state and regional reports for their
respective areas, the object of which
IS to help farmers to. plan to balance
production with the probable de-
mand at harvest time.
Zone of the difficulties with agri-
sulture," according to Nils A. Olsen,
thief. Bureau of Agricultural Eco
lomics, has been the tendency to
make plans on the basis of current
market prices for farm products, in
itead Of on the basis of the probable
demand at harvest time. A world
wide system for gathering economic
Information pertaining to our agri-
sultural products has been set up by
he bureau, and staff of foremost
agricultural economists employed to
interpret the facts for the benefit of
american producers and consum-
|ers.'
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-01-25
Dramatic Criticisn,

To the duke of York's house TO see
the new play called "The Man Is The
Master; where the house was, Il he
ing not one o'clock. very full BY anl
by tiie king came; and we sat just un-
der him. so that burst not turn M,
back all the. play. The most of the
mirth was sorry poor stuffe. of eating
of sack posset and SOLDERING Them
selves. and mirth fit for clGwnes /: il,..
prologue but poor, and the epilogue
little in 1t, but the extraordinariness
Of il. II being sung by Harris and an
other in the form OF the ballet. Ms
wife extraordinary fine today In net
flower tabby suite, bought year or
more ago. Samuel Pepys
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-01-25
Hope to Find Bones
Of Cardinal W0Esey

Leicester abbey, where Cardinal VOL
sey told, the abbot he had "come to
lay his bones" is to undergo trans
formation. For many years the abbey
grounds have been used as farm but
now they are to be laid out as gar
dens and for recreation. Pierre Van
Paassen, writing in the Atlantic Con-
stitution, tells us. Wolsey' body was
laid in an unknown grave, and Il Is
thought that in the excavations neces-
sary to adapt the grounds to their
new use, some trace Of 1t may be
any of the cardinals possessions be-
ing buried with him the search seet1ls
likely to end In failure. One fact
about Wolsey Is probably not widely
known. When he was at the height of
his power he employed an Italian
sculptor to make magnificent sarcpph-
agus beneath which he should lie.
Leicester monks laid him to rest In
plain earth and Henry VIII seques-
trated the sarcophagus with the rest
of the cardinals vast possessions. The
sarcophagus remained government
property and idle until 1906, when 1t
was used to cover the body of Mel
son after his remains, were brought
from Trafalgar. The man who said
that England expected every nmn to
do his duty, and led them In so doing,
rests under the covering prepared for
the man VINO was led away and ruined
by 6verweening ambition.