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New Britain herald., 1929-07-20
FEAR EXTINCTION
 !. QF HUGE CATARACT
Victoria Falls May Become
 Rapids, Biologists Say

Washington, July 20 P)-South Africa is worried about the Vic toria falls. The annual report of the Rhodesian director of geologi- cal survey states that the future of the falls is in the balance.
 The Victoria falls is one of the three great waterfalls of the world. Niagara, Victoria and Iguazu. in Brazil, are the greatest.
 Nictoria's trouble is Niagara s trouble The wear and tear on a waterfall is terrific. Niagara loses it's lip at an estimated average rate of one foot a year. There has been much concern for fear a new break at Niagara would send most of the water down a single chute, destroy ing the present spectacle. Niagara has been eating back for 30,0O0 years. This is the first century any one has been concerned about it.
 The Zambezi river, after collecting the drainage water of south cen tral Africa, starts for the Indian ocean over the surface of plateau. At Victoria falls it plunges down from the plateau a distance twice the height of Niagara.
 The Zambezie drops into crack in the earth, but it is not swallowed
New Britain herald., 1929-07-20

Trbana, H., July 20 tP>-The ce- lcstial butterfly can be seen nearly overhead in the carly evening sky during July.
 It will not strain the imagination seriously to find this large butterfly with outstretchcd wings outlined by the stars of the constellation Her cuIcs.
 The two stars which locate the body of the butterfly are about half way between the wcll-knoWn semi circle of stars of the northern crown and the brilliant blue star Vega. the brightest star in this part of the sky. They are all nearly in the zenith. It is best to face east to find them.
 Hercules is one of the confgura- tions of stars which the ancients recognized and called by name. But they called it the Kneelcr, and it was at much later time that the constellation was renamed Her cules.
 Why it should have received either name is unknown. The re- somblancc to a butterfly is more satisfactory. This constellation con- tains remarkable cluster of stars.
 A little more than halfway from the head Of the butterfly along the upper edge Of the left wing q sharp eye may catch glimpse of the great cluster in Hercules A tele- scope will serve here to advantage. In a large telescope the cluster is a beautiful sight. appearing like a great starry chrysanthemum
 About 90 of these slobular star clusters arc present in our stellar system. How the stars happened to form into balls in this way is at present mystery. The Hercules cluster is the finest one in the northern hemisphere and one Of the 1 nearest, lis distance is 3G,OO0 | light years.
 Fifty thousand stars in the cluster are bright enough to be visible with 1 powerful telescopes at that great 1 distance: but those in the ccntc, appear so close together that the, 1 can not h" counted separately They ar" all larger and brighter than the sun. \ star in this remote cluster no brighter than the sur could not be seen in the larges telescope in the world.
 Near tho eastern boundary O Hercules. as close to Vega as 10 tn, butterfly figure. is tn" point in th' heavens toward which the sun ant all the planets, including the earth
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the way she talked to me, Treat ing me like I was dirt under her feet" the maid sobbed. And if you knew what she's done, you wouldn't ask me to-"
 "Estelle." Nan reproved her sharply. You must realize can't let you talk this way
 Well, l guess somebody's got to tell you." Estelle retorted. Shes rented that furnished cottage right across the street. and she's going to live there. She told Curtis so right in front of me. She said she wanted to be near. so he could spend all his afternoons with her, And she said
 Please, Estelle," Nan inter- rupted sharply. but automatically.
 She was not conscious of the act of hanging up the receiver, nor of rising from her chair and walking toward the window of her office. But she must have done these things, for after while she heard herself whimpering Somehow. dur ing those first black moments, she had fallen and struck her head against the sharp corner of the ra- diator cover.
 ''I must have tainted" she mar veled duly. Dizzily, with terrific effort. she pulled her body into a sitting position. then dropped her head into her icy, violently trem- bling hands
 It was thus that Kathleen O'Hara, bringing in a freshly typed brief hich Nan had dictated that morn ing. found her employer.
 "Oh, my goodness" Miss O'Hara cried shrilly, dropping the brief and sinking to her knees beside the bow ed little figure on the floor What is the matter. Mrs. Morgan? Has anything happened? Are you sick? ?''
 "Im-all right Nan answered, lifting dazed, blind eyes, Just your hand, Thank you. No, l don't want any water. I'm all right. Please 80 away, Miss O'Hara." When the frightened secretary had closed the door reluctantly be- hind her, Nan, at her desk again, lifted the receiver of her telephone and called a number.
 'Estelle? Mrs. Morgan speaking. If Mrs Iris Morgan has not left the house yet. will you please take down her portrait from above the fireplace and give it to her." She said she wasn't going to take it. She sad she wanted it to stay where it is" Estelle bab- bled. she's gone now, anyway
 Then" Nan said. please tell Big Pat 10 take it to her house across the street-and leave it.'
New Britain herald., 1929-07-20

are speeding together at the rate Of , miles a second. In a single year we have travelled. straight ahead, nearly toward Vega. a distance four times the distance from the earth to the sun.
 Although we are moving so rapid ly toward Vega, this bright star looks no brighter from year to year. If the distance we go in year is represented by the diameter of a period on this page, the distance from the earth 10 Vega on thi scale is more than a quarter of a mile. We have long way to travel; and when we finally arrive in that vicinity Vega will have moved far away.
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bedroom door.

bedroom door.
 The next morning Nan was not surprised to sec Iris Morgan on her own porch. obviously awaiting her former husbands appearance. Brazenly, in defiance of neishbors who might witness the scene, Iris beckoned 10 Morgan, imperiously. He paused uncertainty on the step. his hand tightening convulsively upon Mans shoulder; then, as her eyes lifted to meet his, they en- countered such a tragic, humble plea for guidance or permission. perhaps, that she nodded mutely. She was about to turn back into the house, as Morgan started across the street, when the thought of the neighbors whom Iris scorned to | consider stopped her, If any com munity gossip was watching from behind curtain. let her also re- port that John Curtis Morgan's wife had sanctioned that interview to take place across the street. As she forced herself to look on, she was rewarded for the effort it cost her to stay by seeing Morgan firmly and definitely refuse his former wifes invitation 10 enter the house. Whatever was said between them and the interview was brief, due obviously to Morgan's impatience to be gone-was said on the porch. 'oi n t1,y tremulous cadences of Iris voice.
 After a very few minutes the man turned his back upon that voice and it's passionate pleas; turned toward tke little figure waiting. erect and smiling.
 "Goodby again, Nan-and thank 1 you," he said in low voice. I'll i put this house on the market today, but there is no need for us to wait until it is sold We can be quite comfortable at a hotel for few days, until we find suitable 1 house,
 Relief so exquisite that it squeezed happy tears out of her eyes swept over Mans heart. He had not failed her, God bless him. Now she must not fail him.
 What? Sell this place. when I've just had so much fun redccorat- ing? Not if I have anything to say about it. John.' Her voice was caily indignant, hut her steady eyes said something very different: We mustn't run. John. We can't win this fight by running away from it."
 And it was what her eyes said that he answered. "Thank you, Nan" Then. not looking at her: "I have given my permission. Nan, for Curtis to visit hiS-mohter every afternoon. l-could not re- fuse. He is-alI she has left"
 '1 have not kept him from her" Nan answered evenly.
 "I know" he agreed quickly. "And-thank you again, Nan. Now I've got to make |; dash for the courthouse, We're lunching to- gethcr, aren't Wcr Fine, Goodby, dear. and-don't worry"
 During the week that followed Nan had many occasions to recall his futile advice. Don't worryn' And every time she remembered, her lips twisted in that new, cyn- ical. bitter smile that set so oddly upon their young softncss
 CONTINUED MONDAY)
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up. There is no amphitheater for the enjoyment of the spectacle as at Niagara. Visitors to Victoria walk out through the Rain forest, jungle sprayed by mist, and peer through the veil hoping to see the falls and the 4O0-foot gorge.
 The crack in the rock into which the river pours is 6.225 feet long and so narrow, the National Geo. graphic society declares, that an average golfer could drive a golf ball from the edge of the Rain for est cliff to the lip of the falls. All the waters of this great river find way out of the trench through a marrow pass 100 feet wide.
 Just above the Victoria falls the Zambezi is quiet, placid river about one mile wide. moving calmly and peacefully, unaware of the thunderous chaos just ahead. Only at the western a nd eastern catar- act on either end does the water speed up.
 It IS the western cataract which worries the Rhodesian director of geological survey. This cataract is separated from the main falls by Boaruka or Cataract island. In the face of this island is a Assure which during flood time, has it's own small waterfall chewing away at the black rock.
 If this Assure develops within some hundreds Of years the Zam- bezi is going to fall into a new trench. Then the lip of the present falls, including Livinstone island, will become the Rain forest.
 But if the western cataract works faster than the Boaruka Assure. Victoria falls may become rapids.
New Britain herald., 1929-07-20
DRESS TOO DRAB

London, July 20.-Prescnt day clergymen dress too much like un- dertakcrs, says Rev. B. G. Bourchier, vicar of St. Jude's "Fcw clergymen cd like reasonable human beings, he says. Their present method Of dressing is "calculatod more than anything else 10 set up an effective barrier between the clergyman and the layman," he says
New Britain herald., 1929-07-20
WHO SAID CIGARETS?

London, July 20.-Dr. Friedrich Bosser, German specialist, will never make his fortune signing his okeh on a certain brand of cigarets. He says to eat more chocolate to grow thin and healthier. He claims, it is said, that chocolate effects a permanent cure of weak hearts, neurasthcnia, neuralgia and nerves.
New Britain herald., 1929-07-20
IFS AN EXTENSIVE ONE

London, July 2o.--lt's few couples who celebrate their radium wedding anniversary it comes in the 10th year Of welded bliss. How ever, John Bailey bought his wife q nice little present recently 10 cclc- bratc their radium anniversary. Both are 90 years old.
New Britain herald., 1929-07-20
CANNON CLOCK

Cleveland. July 2O.-An odd clock that is displayed in local jewelry store here is novel enough, but it would be inConvenient to be caught with it when the sun wasn't shining. It consists of a toy cannon with 8 burning lens mounted so as to strike the powder. When the sun crosses the line at noon, it ignites the pow der and the cannon boons, dcnoting lunch time.
New Britain herald., 1929-07-20
ANDY HAS TALE
 0f TIRES TO TELL
BroadsideS in Mail and How
 They Affect Him
(Contributed)

Dear Mary Ann.
 was kinda disappointed yester- day to find the postman had no mail for me from you. It seems all he ever hands me outside of lnVl- tations to pay my bills is cataloss advertising tire values direct from factory at big saving to buyer, etc. Most of them are from outa >to"h industries although they know l patronize home products. AS to per formance they claim their tires can do everything except read road signs at night, tell traffic cops here to get off, or run so smooth ly that you'll travel 3 miles after your buggy has already run outa gas. One page is usually set, aside for testimonials from buyers con- plete with a line Of banana vinegar that helps to make up the bedtime stories as in the following. Dear Sirs.
 Enclosed find $6.O6 check foc which please send me a 34 by "Knock-kneed" tire fresh from fac tory at a direct saving to me. l have several of your tires on my bus that have been around a great deal. In fact, they're still round. These tires are so smooth riding, even when taking shortcuts over curbstones, that the all talkie, with sound effects, in the rumble seat has nothing to say Gor which l am thankfully and even if she did I'd pay no attention to her.
 Signed. OSCAR NEWELL. Gentlemen,-if any
 In trying to beat an engineer 10 the crossing I misjudged my dis tance or something and was tossed for a further distance than you can cast a fishing line. On snapping outa the daze l was much su1- | prised to find your "knock-kneed' tire wrapped around my neck, which had bounced down the hard tracks (the tire, not my neck) without even going flat. Enclosed find order for 8 more Knock -kneed' tires to take the place of those the cow catcher carried into next town. When l collect the pieces of the flvver and put them together again I'm gonna place Knock -kneeds' all around, providing l can find the chassis and the state gives back my driving license.
 Signature,
 HAP HAZARD.
 Send me at once another g by 31s Knock -kneed Special" post paid, as my last one was a victim of circumstances. While passing A beautiful COW pasture where grown mon in boys pants were hitting a white pill away from them only to change their mind and go after it again, my axle breaks and your Knock -kneed" tire, that had gone 19,000 miles without sign of a nervous breakdown, rolled into all excavation which was surrounding fella trying to get out without us- ing a tep-ladder. When I arrived this irate bozo with a stick that had doorknob like attachment was seeking the tire like Kid" kapla n does all opponent. So tough was the Knock kneed" that the only dam- age done was to his temper and a slight nick on the casing.
 Signed,
 LOTTIE TROUBLE. P. s. l almost forgot to mention the tire went flat. through no fault of workmanship, but I immediately filled il up with the air in that vi- cinity which was blue enough to hoist a dirigible.
 ANDY DALE ~
New Britain herald., 1929-07-20

Four days later Nan Morgan looked back upon that Christmas evening and tried, desperate with need of it's happiness and peace. if moment of it.
 And l sat there. snug as a pussy cat. listening to carols and telling myself that I'd been making a mountain out of a molehill; that there was nothing 10 be afraid Of. Nan reflected bitterly. on the day that she knew that Dr. Black S warning had not been the idle med ding of a he-gossip.
 She was ill her own office, read ing q long, telegraphic report from her husband, filed at the state cap ital, where he was conducting the Bradley defense on it's appeal to the supreme court.
 Her telephone rang. Absently, she reached for the receiver. her eyes still fastened upon the tele- gram.
 Hello. Yes, Estelle. Whats the matter? Quit panting and try to talk plainly. Is it-Curtis??"
 Nom. it's hcr," Estelles urgent, gusty whisper came over the wife. MT Morgan's other wife. l mean" | Mans heart lungcd, was caught in the grip of pain so intense that for a moment there was nothing else in the world but that terrible pain. After bit. when that dread full contraction of the heart muscles had relcntcd somewhat. she became aware that Estelle's gusty whisper was vibrating against her oardrum. "Mr Morgan's other wife" So that was how even the servants thought of John Curtis Morgan-a man with two wives But she must listen. must answer intclligcntly.
 T don't quite understand Es- telle" she said. and was aware that her voice sounded cold and re- proving.
 T said she g hcrc-risht here in this house." IGstelo repeated, with urgent impatience. "I tried tc keep her out till you come home but l couldn't do nothing with her maam. Honest, l couldn't"
 "What does she want?" But why ask? She wanted her home. hol husband her child. Hadn't Dr Black warned her that Iris Nor. gan would stop at nothing?
 She says she wants her owr things" Estclle pantcd, ShC brought two men with her anC shes going all through the house gathering up things she says belong 10 hcr--''
 Mrs. Morgan may have anything that belongs to her." Nan heard hel own voice answering. Naturally she will want her clothes and othe, personal belongings. Please give her all the help she needs"
 "l ain't going 10 help her, after
New Britain herald., 1929-07-20
CHAPTER NLIN


 Not even Mans QuiXotc con- science could succeed in troubling her seriously when she had time to consider the irresistible impulse which had made her force Iris Nor gan to take her portrait along with her other belongings. She could feel nothing but fierce eXultation that that reminder of Iris Morgan's beauty was gone at last,
 When John Curtis Morgan's sec ond wife returned home that last Friday in December she went from room to room of her husbands S house and viewed, with stony eyes. the havoc wrought by the first wifes pillasing. The linen presses had been ruthlessly ransacked of their finest treasures. Only the plainest, most utiltarian of the sheets. towels, table clothes and napkins remained. Nan shrugged and passed on. Bric-a-brac and tapestry missing from library. drawing room and dining room; pictures gone from almost every wall; great gaps in the book shelves.
 Resolutely. her emotions numbed by a cold anger. Nan forced her self to enter the big bedroom which had once been occupied by Iris and the man who was then her hus- band.
 Nan expected 10 find the room de- nuded. Certainly Iris could claim legitmately that all it's furnish- ings belonged to her. Nividly Nan recalled the occasion of the rooms redecoration an eighth wedding anniversary present from John Cur tis Morgan to his wife. IL had fall en to Mans tot. as Morgan's sec retary, to total the eXorbitant bills and write checks for them. Oh, yes, the contents of this room of all rooms were certainly Iris Morgan's s to do with as she pleased.
 But on the threshold Nan stopped and stared, incredulously at first. then with a dawning comprc- hension which made her childish mouth set in hard. cynical smile. For the loom was exactly as Iris had left it nearly a year ago. The amethyst and blue green taficta drapcs still hung at the windows: the narrow beds of inlaid Chinese teakwood were still dressed in their blue green taffeta spreads, as if de murely awaiting their riehtful occu- i pants.
 l Not even the vanity dressing | table, with it's rich treasure of scent bottles, jars and boxes in amethys ! crystal had been touched.
 50 you've left it ready for you' return Nan mentally addresse( | the other woman. Clever of you Iris. To have transplatcd thi' room from this house to your tenn. { porary home would have been al : acknowledgment of defeat. But tt 1 leave it hero. waiting. Oh yes, clever Of you, 1ris." The browl head ierked up then: the red ligh of battle elowed in eyes that ha' been stony with a cold anger ant contempt. well, Iris" she chal lengcd her unseen rival, '1 thinl it's about time l was clever, too,"
 The result Of that resolution wa a conference the very next day be tween Nan Morgan and one of tn City's most trustworthy interior dec orators. shortly after their marriag Morgan had paid his new wife tn courtesy of adding her namc 10 hi in q joint checking account at tn bank, Now, without compunCtion she prepared to draw upon it al most 10 the extent of it's capacity in an effort to banish the ghost O Iris Morgan from her home and his
 Late on Monday January :, jus 2i hours before Morgan was du
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Morgan stopped stone still and stared Nan felt his arm contract and harden until her own hand tucked within. was almost crushed by the pressure. He did not move or speak until Iris had called gay good-night to hcr caller and van ished within the house. When Rufus Hubbard's iamty stride had carried him 10 the sidewalk the light flash ed off. Then slowly, heavily. Nor gan aScendcd the steps Of his own house.
 1rs' name was not mentioned be- tween Nan and her husband that night, but it was man with sick eyes and deep. new lines in his haggard face that the girl kissed her good night just outside her own
New Britain herald., 1929-07-20

Since 1918, 1,250,0OO houses have been built Tn England, providing homes for five or six million peo- pie.
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room had been re-papered so that no longer over the fireplace was there a dark square to call atten- ton to the fact that Iris Morgan's portrait had been banished. There were new curtains and drapes In both dining room and drawing room and in the latter a really not able collection of beautifully framed etchings, to take the place of the pictures of which Iris had robbed it.
 But it was the first wifes bed room which had undergone the
 most complete change. Gone were the amethyst and blue-green drapes and bed-spreads; gone the amethyst
 rug, the vanity dressing table with
 it's amethyst jars and boxes; gone, too, was every piece of the Chinese lockwood furniture.
 The interior dectorator had
 spoken glowingly of the new mod ernistic furniture, but Nan had told him: No, this is to be our guest room, suitable for man and
 wife of any age. It must be quietly charming and utterly comfortable Completed, it was just that. It
 even looked as if it had been lived in, Nan discovered, as she studied her new guest room with quiet satisfaction. No smallest reminder here of exotic Iris In her files at the office, reposed warehouse re-
 ceipt for all the gaudy trappinss and furnishings which had given place to the new.
 If you win. Iris" Nan men, tally promised her rival, you may have the receipt with my compli-
 ments to better woman than l am.'
 Even as she uttered this bravado to herself. Nan knew that she was simply whistling to keep her cour- age up. It had not been so difficult to be brave. clever and hard while John Curtis Morgan was safely
 away from the spell of the woman across the street. But in A hours he would be home again, and then what?
 The Bradley case, which John Curtis Morgan was defending on an appeal before the state supreme
 court did not go to the jury until | Tuesday noon. The Blackhull case
 was to reopen the next day, after
 an adjournment due to the sudden,
 serious illness of the star witness. | the old butler, Edgars. Nan spent | the whole of Tuesday working on | the Blackhull case, so that her l husband should find everything in
 readiness for the delayed opening on Wednesday.
 At half-past five his telegram
 came. Nan had not yet left the
 office. There was no need now for
 her to rush home to Curtis, for
 the child. obeying his mothers com-
 mand, was spending his afternoons
 in the little house across the street.
 Nan had not dared issue counter order to the child to stay at home.
 If such an order was to be issued, | it must come from the father,