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BUT THAT ISN'T ALL
Man Finds BIG Problem in Love
l Man Finds Big Problem in Love

that Deep Harbor was too far from tht
city Harry sold nothing.
Aunt Emmeline came home late foi
dinner one afternoon in March. She
was unusually silent. Harry finally asked
her what was on her mind.
II can't bear to tell you" she said
1.-THE truth is that old Miss Fanshawe
was there this afternoon, so excited she
overbid her hand every time. Wesley
Jones has just had an offer OF $4,000
for her house, and she's been trying tC
sell it all these years for 5000"
Did she say who was buying it?"
Some broker in the city made the
offer to Wesley-Jackson & Chestwick
think she said"
johnson, Chestwick e. Johnson
Harry said aloud. And then to himself
he said: That's the loveliest old place
in Deep Harbor4 acres of lawn, witt
magnificent oaks and elms and lockwood
a hundred years old. And all it needs
is three or four more baths and good
heating plant and perhaps some new
floors If it were in Fairport 1t would
bring $60.00o-why. it's a mansion"
The next thing he knew he was put
ting on his hat and coat.
Where are you going?" Aunt En-
incline asked.
ITO see Miss Fanshawe," he said, as
x X X
IT was a moonlight night-the kind OF
night to cast a glamour over the
bare March trees and the bare March
earth. Tt cast glamour over the ole
Fanshawe place. 1t brought back nj
Harry Farnums faith in Deep Harbor
He went in and persuaded Miss Fam
Shave to refer the New York brokers tt
him. He would get her $4,000 for the
place or let Wesley Jones have the sale
Miss FanshaWe was inclined to prefer
$4,000 sure to $4,000 in the realm of
phantasy. But Harry did it.
He had one awful moment Of doubt
when he was walking home. If he failed
he would never hear the last of it in
Deep Harbor. He had to keep thinking
hard about Mabel Barker to keep him.
self from going back and making an
other and lesser proposition to Miss
Fanshawe. But he managed TO walk
firmly on. And week later he sat
through terrific bombardment with
the man from johnson, ChestWick &
Johnson'6 1t was game of cold bluff
on his part and angry bluff on theirs
But he came out of it with a binder at
$50, 900.
The results of that episode were far
reaching. Deep Hhrbor heard about It.
And Harry's prospective clients decided
ore minute that there was more to that
young Farnum than they had ever sup
posed, and the next time that they had
greatly undervalued the properties they
had listed with him. Deep Harbor real
estate practically doubled In theoretical
value overnight. 1t was rumored that
the man who had paid so outrageous q
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lomatlc officers and foreigners of high
rank.
However, the captain general at the
time did not move to the MALAGA iang
until after the earthquake Of june 3,
1868. which completely destroyed his
stone house residence within the Walled
City. q section of the city of Manila so
called because it is surrounded by strong
walls to forCify the city from attacks of
Moro pirates and foreigners.
Immediately various Improvements
were made on the building. Quarters
for the aides and the servants of the
captain general were constructed ad-
jacent to the palace and within the
palace prem iSes.
The palace was completely overhauled
in 1859, on the occasion of the visit to
Manila of the Duke of Edinburgh, but
just before his arrival an earthquake
broke all the buttresses and main COL
umns of the main buildings. The earth
quake was so strong that 1t not only
Wrenehed from It's foundations the mas
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BIZ WILL ROGERS.

A LII ! know ID Just what I read In
n the papers. Now lets see what
IA has taken place since I COM
4 "a nnuned with you last week.
Tom Hefin lost his encounter
with the Hierarchy" Tom wanted the
Senate TO 90 on record that 1t CON-
denned the action Of the Town Of
Aroekton, Mass, for not paying strict
attention to one Of his addresses. Well,
he could have come nearer getting the
Senate to 90 on reaeord that they SYM
pathi1ed with Brockton. For, Lord, the
Town of Rroekton only had TO listen TO
enc, while the Senate never gets
over EN-.
Well anyhow this longwinded drawn
cut thing afforded the one best line and
laugh that has been pulled in there for
this session. Senator Gillette of Mass
told Tom, THE State of Mass regrets
it. The Town Of Broekton regrets it.
The Mayor regrets 1t, the police regret
IT, and the Man that threw the bottle
and MISSED you, regrets IT,"
Well farm Relief would get a little
help In between GFundy would try to
get some higher tariff on anything
Manufactured In Pennsylvania. But
Tom would bob up the next day during
lull and say, you've got TO make this
Country safe for United States Senators
to speak in
we'll we finished our Theatrical en-
gagement up in Boston and are moving
over to Philadelphia for q couple OF
weeks, then one week in Detroit and
one more in Pittsburgh and then on
the old Plane and out Where Men are
beginning TO be heard"
We had some laughs in the TheateE
II Boston last week. One night Babe
Ruth vas In and introduced him and
his new Bride, and then sitting near
him was Charles Francis Adams, Our
new and very distinguished Secretary
Of the Navy, a real blue blood. The only
living American that has had two
American Presidents that ne descended
from, John Adams and John Quincy
Adams Tn introduced them u
each other and Babe got up and went
ever and shook hands with Adams.
II was q big laugh and applause. then
told the audience you wouldent think
after having the two men as great a.
these One q Descendant Of two PreSi'
dents and the other the greatest sports
favorite that we ever produced, yor
wouldent think NE possibly could have
a Bigger man here tonight than either
one Of them, in fact, Bigger than botf
Of them put together Well l just wan
TO introduce you to the Giant OF tn
Ringing show, and sure enough there
he was The Circus was 70 have opened
there the next day. He was sitting II
the back of q Box and no one hac
noticed him u was one of the bigges
laughs ever heard IN Theatre Tnes'
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do you really think so, Aunt
Emmy?"
Il know it. I never saw such a
change in a man in my life. don
know how that girl did it-bVt she did
She must be an extraordinary woman y
In the end Aunt EmmelinN got her
way about the $1,000 and Harry began
to learn what real anxiety is.
He spent first four, and then fve,
and then six days q week in the city.
hunting a buyer tor Mrs. Frankfort
Woods 200 acres. He wrote blind aos.
He made propositions to hotel men,
clubs and millionaires. And, in the
first ii weeks of his IL weeks option,
he got just one nibble.
He told himself he was fool to
hope. He told Aunt Emmy she was a
fool to hope.
ITS the most mixed-up situation ]
ever heard Of" he told her. Mrs.
Wood has gone crazy. Because can't
sell her place for $250.000 she's de-
cided it's worth 100000"
Those people-the ones who called
you UP the other day-probably know
that" Aunt Emmeline said.
"They know it well enough" Harry
said. But they know she is short OF
cash, too. II they really want to buy
they are figuring that they can get the
place for less from her than they can
from me, and they may be right.
IF were you" Aunt Emmeline said,
I'D find out who they are"
1T know who they are" Harry as
sured her. They're Meyowitz d Fink
And whoever they're acting for, they're
as cold a pair of buffers as ever played
the real estate game"
x y Il
ON June %, two days before his OPP
~ ton expired, Harry had had no
definite answer from Meyrowttz d. FINK
He sat in the office all the next day
waiting for the telephone TO ring, and
at 5 O'Clock Kitty Van Blarcom called
him UP and asked him II he didn
know that Mabel Barker was back.
H didn't.
why" Kitty said, you must have
noticed that Athena roadster-the black
one with red leather cushions"
He hadn't noticed it.
Anyway, you're coming to the coun-
try club dance tonight"
He hadn't known there WAS coun-
try club dance. He hadn't really slept
of course, I'm coming" he an
sWered.
He went home and dressed. He
couldn't eat his dinner. He was too
nervous. He sat and slIaked one ciga-
rette after another. The thing got
worse and worse. The six months were
up--all but tomorroW---and he had lost.
The thing that happened that night
at the country club could never have
happened II Harry had been himself.
But it happened. He was standing IN
the hall looking at the dancers and
trying 10 catch a glimpse Of Mabel Bar
ker She wasn't dancing, but she was
standing near the stairway talking to
some young man Harry didn't know.
And while he watched another young
man, a particularly ebullient young
man, came dashing across the floor and
threw both arms around Mabel Barker.
Mabel" he yelled.
Jack" she cried, and threw both
arms around his neck.
They kissed
Harry Farnuni, consumed with rage,
turned and walked into the dressing
room. He couldn't doubt the meaning
of those Whole-souled gestures. x
man was Mabel's fance.
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been the residence of governors gener-
al of the Philippines since the last oen-
fury of the Spanish regime, is an old
wooden structure. reinforced with con-
crete, and situated on the banks of the
Pasig River. 1t was formerly a house
of recreation, with bath and gard0ns.
surrounded by a stone wall 1t was
then owned by Don Luis Rocha, who,
on November 16, 1902, sold 1t to Col
Jose Miguel Formento of the Spanish
army for LOO pesos Mexican cur
rency). The new owner later sold it to
the government on January AZ, 1925.
for $500 pesos.
The building and its premises were
neglected until a royal order from
the King of Spain was decreed on Au-
gust 81, 1847, providing that the prop
erty should be improved for the uss
of the captain general (as the governor
general was then KNOWN for his resi-
dence and where he could entertain
commanding officers Of the fleets, Dip
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! Thirty-five hundred year is a good
| salary for explaining.
And Harry would never have done
anything about it. If it hadn't been
for the girl from the West. He would
never have kicked for more money. He
with the futility of kicking. He was
too good at explaining kicks away.
Besides, he was too content. He had
a small apartment. He spent his week
ends with his Aunt Emmeline in Deep
Harbor. He had a little four-cylinder
roadster in which he ratified over to
the Deep Harbor Country Club to play
nine holes of golf or to attend Satur-
dav night dance. He wanted nothing
more.
The girl from the West came on just
after Christmas that year to visit Kitty
van Blarcom. They had gone to the
same finishing school, or something.
Harry met her at dinner Friday night.
She left Sunday afternoon. In that brief
interval Harry became a changed man.
He told Aunt Emmeline Sunday night
that he was leaving Wicksted a. Wick
ershanl
But I thought that you had prac-
tically life job there" she protested.
Harry was in the kitchen, helping her
get Sunday night supper.
Yes he said, II thought so, too"
But thought they liked you, Harry
Aunt EInmeline continued. II thought
you had made good and that they knew
it. I thought they appreciate you"
Harry was slicing wafer-thin slices Of
ham, the way his Aunt Enmeline liked
ham to be sliced
Il bslieve they do" he said briefly.
But I'm leaving them Just the same.
I'm going to start q real estate ONCE
in Deep HaFbor."
Aunt Emneline almost dropped the
plate of bread she had picked up to
carry into the dining room.
Something's happened" she said.
Harry laughed Yes" he said. I've
fallen in love with girl named Mabel
Barker. AS things are, / haven't
chance in the world to get her. She's
sailing for Paris tomorrow, to be gone
six months or so. When she comes back,
it'll be q case of make or break But
I figure I've got that six months in
which to make good"
Aunt Enmeline took the plate Of
bread into the dining room. She was
thoughtfully silent until they sat down
to supper. Then she talked.
II think you're foolish to give up
good Job, in which you've done well, to
start . business of your own. This town
is full of real estate agents now, and
not one of them Is making any more
money than you are. You've fallen in
love, and you feel humble in conse-
quence. But there's no reason why you
shouldn't get any girl you've q mind to.
Women always have liked you. Lots Of
them have told me what good talker
you are"
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THERE used to be theory tina
love conquers all. The young
man who drank fell In love aIae
4 straightway reformed. The
ahown q trace of ambition fell in love
and became active, energetic and ag'
gressive.
Cynics have hummed this theory
until 1t Is sadly bent. And modern
science backs them up. Any psycholo-
giSt will tell you that people do not
change their fundamental attitudes
after they are four or five years Old
Young women no longer believe in the
magical powers Of love. Indeed, this
may be the real difference between the
girl Of the period and her grandma; her
The modern girl says: Once q qua,
always q dud"
Nevertheless, there is the case Of
Harry Farnum.
Harry belonged to q family that had
lived in Deep Harbor since the begin
ming. He was q tall, good-looking, we'll
built and mannerly young man. But ne
vas lazy. He was so lazy that he would
rather listen than talk. He was so lazy
that they finally sent him home from
Yale. He loafed around home until
his father died leaving him an income
Of slightly more than 500 a month
and letter of advice His father wrote
II regret to say that fear for your
future. ! am leaving the house in
which the Farnuns have always lived
to your Aunt Emmeline. I feel sure
that she will be glad to have you keep
your room in It, I am leaving you
life interest in certain property. ! have
done my best to tie 1t UP so that you
cannot sell il or lose it or hypothecate
It, This so that you will not actually
starve. For the rest I advise you to
find some way of using your remarkable
talent for explaining things. 1t has
often seemed to me that you could
explain anything. I don't suppose that
anybody will pay you much for it. But,
aside from your aniable and agreeable
manner, IL is the only gift you possess
y
HARRY went to the city and began
= = to work, few months later, for
the real estate Arm of Wicksted a.
Wickefshsnl. He soon made a niche
for himself. Wieksted a. Wickershana
had the management Of several enor-
nous apartment buildings-the sort Of
apartments that rent for from ten
thousand 10 nifty thousand q year 1t
Is an axiom of apartment management
that the more the tenant pays the more
he kicks. wicksted & WicheHsham had
their share of kicks from tenants they
could not sfferd to offend. Harry
dYifted into the position of kick re-
ceive-. In the v'icksted g. Wicker
sham observe. thu Harry could ex-
plain anything. He rose to q salary Of
$500 o yer. Tut there was little
chance that he would ever rise higher.
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| "They mean that I'm a good listener
Aunt Emmy-it's they who do the talk
ing" , .4
what q relief it must be to them! Mos
men are always talking about them
selves and what they're going to do
And. if a woman wants to please them
she has to listen. You really do seem
to enjoy listening, Harry, and womer
like you for it."
Yes" Harry said, "they do seem tt
like to talk to me. But they fall fol
the other ehaps-the ones who make
them listen"
Didn't you get on with this girl
Harry?"
Yes" Harry admitted, 81 did. I got
on so we'll that-Well, it was like this
Here was the girl I've been dreaming
about all my life. She has everything
she's pretty and she's full of life ane
she's-she's real. She took me right on
my feet. never rushed girl SO hard IN
my life. And l know she liked me
But what'll happen when she wakes ur
and finds that I've got pifiing job ane
no prospects and nobody takes me Seri-
ously? want to marry her. And In,
going to be where / can marry her OF
break my neck trying"
Money isn't everything" Aunt En-.
incline said.
NO" Harry replied Though, If you
think I'm going to ask a girl WHOSE
father is a millionaire, and who has al
ways had everything. to live in two
room nat, you're mistaken. But 1t goes
deeper than that. Her father made his
money. He's go-getter. All the men
she knows are that sort. I'm going ia
be one, too. I've got to be-"
You sound different" Aunt Emine-
line said. You sound as If you meant
it,"
II do Harry said.
y X
A ND he did mean 1t. He went into
n the city the next day and arranged
to quit his job on a weeks notice, He
rented the vacant Offices over the drug
store; had q sign painted; hired little
Rosie O'BFien, just out of business col
lege, to answer the telephone, and
started out in his little car to comb the
village and the countryside for places
he could list for sale.
Fortunately, he knew nearly every
body. People liked him and trusted
him, but they made it clear they ex-
pected nothing from him. They were
willing to list their property with him.
What difference did it make?
Harry began to advertise in the CLASH
fed column of the papers. He spent
hours In framing brief but alluring de-
Seriptions of old colonial houses with
three fireplaees, Dutch oven and lilac
in the dooryard. He spent other hours
taking lockers about in Aunt Emmeline's
sedan. They admired the countryside
they got enthusiastic over some of the
old houses, but they went away, saying
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sive stone gate of the palace, but s.3o
twisted its arch.
X + X
A MOTHER overhauling was necessary.
1t took four years. 1875 to 1879. TO
complete the work A new wing was
added to the right front Of thu build
ing. facing the entrance. to balance the
front facing the Pasig River.
But it seemed rs II the old building
was never to be completely repaired, for
soon another earthquake shook the pal
ace and destroyed the old portions Of
the main building. Further alterations
and extensions were made.
The visit Of Prince oscar Of Sweden
necessitated Identification OF the palace
and Its gardens. During the Spanish
regime preparations for the visitor Of
royalty always included general over
hauling Of the palace. the building Of
new additions or the making Of come
alterations.
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Adamses and Lodges. and Lowells, they
are just about the whole thing in the
way Of Tradition up there.
Well / see where We have offered
some plan at a Disarmament Confer
ence over in Geneva and everybody Is
all excited about 1t. So 1 suppose we
will be kidded into entering into another
sinking. We are Just about to live down
the humiliation of that last one in ~,
told the Secretary Of our Navy right
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from the stage, that / wished we had
the biggest Navy in the World, the
biggest Army. and by all means the
biggest Aeroplane force, but have it
understood with the taxpayers that they
are only to be used on the home
grounds.
Now how In the world will you tell
me Is there a better way to prevent
war than that, Be ready for 1t and stay
at home. When they know they cant
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He turned and walked out of the
dressing room and banged into the
ebullient young man who had kissed
Mabel.
"Whupw the ebullient young mar
said genially enough. why don't you
look where you're going?"
Il don't like your looks" Harry Far
mum said.
The ebullient young man grinned. He
assumed that Harry was drunk.
There, there, old beam" he said, "gc
home and sleep it Off"
Put up your hands!" Harry yelled.
The fight that followed was not the
kind that you pay $40 to see. 1t was
the sort you hope to see when you pay
$40. When IL members of the Deer
Harbor Country Club had pried then
apart they were covered with blood
The ebullient young mans nose was
well on one side of his face and Harry
had a~black eye that is still legend ir
Deep Harbor.
Harry FRrnum realized the next
morning that he couldn't go to the
ofiice-rot with that eye. He called ul
Rosie O'Brien and told her firmly thai
if the Meyrowitz g. Fink people calico
up she was TO tell them he had gone
fishing. If they insisted she was to try
to locate him.
Late in the afternoon the telephone
rang.
This is Rosie. I'm talking from tn:
drug store. They're here. You'd better
come quick, Mr. Farnurn."
MEYROWITZ and Fink were Sitting
A'A in his ONCE waiting for him wher
he got there, dressed in old clothes anc
carrying his fishing-rod. They Offered
him $240 900 for the Wood place. Harr!
Farnun shook his head. Both Meyrowit.
and Fink got up and walked out Of thu
office. Harry let them 60. They wen
clear down to the street before the!
came back.
"AII right" Meyrowitz said. we GIVE
you S250,00o"
When the papers we're all made ou
and the certified check for the binder
was in his pocket, Harry sat GoMr
YEARLY. MeyroWitz and Fink left.
Rosie" Harry Farnum said. "lool
out of the window and see If you Car
see a beautiful Athena roadster parked
TITS parked down the block" Rosie
said.
He got up and went downstairs snc
climbed into his little four-cylin' 81
roadster and waited till Mabel Barker
came out of the post Office and startec
cff. He started after her. He los
ground on the hill going out Of the vii
lage. But half mile farther on. where
you turn of toward the FanShaWe place
he was only 10 yards behind.
Mabel turned sharply Of the State
road and up the steep little hill towarc
the Fanshawe place The little four
cylinder roadster chugged after her
Mabel was a quarter of q mile ahead
when the little roadster reached tbs
top of that hill. But Harry stepped or
the gas. AS they ran past the Fanshawt
house he wasn't 10 feet behind the
Athena's rear bumper. Which was the
moment Mabel chose TO step on the
brake. The Athena had brakes on al
four wheels. 1t stopped suddenly and
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THIRTEEN MIILLION people TO-
900 miles away from the White
House are awaiting feverishly but
l. fervently the name of the next
occupant of their Malaeanang
Palace, and wishing that he be a man,
not only worthy successor to Henry
L. Stimson, the present Secretary of
State, but also a gentleman sympathetic
with the house he is going to occupy.
The MalaCanang Palace, the Official
residence of the governor general of the
Philippine Islands. embodies the tradi-
tons and spirit of the Filipino people.
The common people approach its gates
with the reverence Of one entering a sa-
cred shrine.
The governor general, living in a
palace, as he does, is actually king. He
receives all the adulations due to roy
atty. The more liberal and benevolent
he is, the more kingly he becomes to
the common people.
The Malacanang Palace, which has
Smyrna times., 1929-12-04

young social set. There were six
teen guests and the bride to be re
ceived many lovely gifts.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Hayes (net
Miss Elizabeth FergusonD, return
ed from New York on Wednesday
and spent Thanksgiving in Dover
They will go to their home in Phil
adelphia.
Dr.. and Mrs. Joseph S. McDan
ieI and son, Bill spent Thanl1sgiv
ing with another son, Sites Nc.
Daniel, who is a student at Fish
burse Military Academy, Waynes
boro, Va.
Mrs. S. Warren Hall and Mrs
Charles y. Lloyd have left for Bal
timore, Md, to be the guests OF
Mrs. Charles NJ. Wharton. Mrs
Hall continued her trip to West
minister, Md, for a several days
visit with her son, Scott Hall, g
member of the faculty of Western
Maryland College Mrs. Hall re.
turned home Wednesday, accom-
panied by her son who spent
Thanksgiving with his parents
After q several days visit with
Mrs. Wharton, Mrs. Lloyd left
Wednesday to spend the holiday
with her sister, Mrs. E. B. Shrivel
at her home at Overlook, Pa.
Junior Wise, of Washington and
Lee University, Lexington. Va. ,anc
Franklin Wise Of Lehigr- Univers-
ity, Bethlehem, Pa, have been
spending the Thanksgiving holiday
with their parents, Mr.. and Mrs
James w. Wise. The Wises also
had as their guests for Thanksgiv-
ing, Mr.. and Mrs. j. Owen Knots
and three children, of Denton, Md