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wholly disappeared when Chatterer
| started for that corncrib. This morn
ing it was broad daylight.
IT don't know whether to 60 over
there or not" thought Chatterer. "Of
course, don't have to. I've got plenty
to eat. I suppose it wouldn't do me
any harm to keep away from there for
one day"
He had just about made up his mind
that this is what he would do, but fool
ishly ran over to Farmer Browns door,
yard. There were no signs of anybody
about. No one was up in Farmer
Browns house. At least, that Is what
Chatterer thought. He looked over at
the clothespost, from which a clothes
line led over to corner Of the corn
crib. That was his bridge, you know.
that he reached the corncrib. He just
couldn't resist the temptation. He
darted across the yard, climbed the
clothespoSt and Scampered along the
clothesline over to the corncrib.
Now, it so happened that Farmer
Browns Boy was getting up a little
extra early that morning. He looked
out Of the window just as Chatterer
was half way across the clothesline. He
saw Chatterer and instantly he UNDER
stood how it was that Chatterer could
aloud.
80 that's the way you do it, you
scamp!" he exclaimed. II guess you de.
serve all the corn you've had. It GER
tainly was stupid Of me not to think
Of that clotheSline. Here I've looked at
it every day and never once thought
that you might be using it for bridge.
Well, you'd better make the most of
today, for tomorrow morning thereU be
no bridge there. I certainly am glad to
have solved the mystery Of how you
were getting into that corncrib Like
most mysteries, it is no mystery at all
now that understand it."
Meanwhile Chatterer was busily at
work inside the corncrib, without the
least suspicion that his secret had been
found out. So when later Farmer
Browns Boy came to get the corn to
feed the hens, Chatterer watched him
from a hiding place and his eyes
snapped and he was filled with salts
faction because he was so smart and
was fooling Farmer Browns Boy. He
didn't even wonder what it was that
Farmer Browns Boy was chuckling
about.
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gotten. If he thinks he can keep me
out Of that corncrib he is mistaken
greatly mistaken"
OF course, Farmer Browns Boy soon
discovered that he couldn't catch Chat
terer. So then he decided to try an
other plan. He would find out how
Chatterer got int othat corncrib and
then stop him. So he began getting
up a little earlier in the morning in
order to watch, but for several days
he didn't get up early enough. Then
came a morning when Chatterer over
slept. Usually he was over at the corn
crib at the very beginning Of daylight.
Usually the Black Shadows had not yet
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Chatter the Red Squirrel was very
much pleased with himself. He had
outwitted Farmer Browns Boy-not
once or twice-but several times. He
was having lot of fun.
Farmer Browns Boy may be smart,
but l am smarter" boosted Chatterer
to himself. II wonder why he should
have thought he could catch me in
that trap He knows well enough that
I know all about traps of that kind. I
suppose he thought I would have for
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So. Mentally inert.
10. Suffix denoting act, process or be-
ing; or result, state or rank.
II. Wrath
70. Bewails.
70. In different games, the homes, or
goals.
IA. Alkaline solution obtained from
wood ashes.
rs. Bends.
/. Ingredient of oil obtained from dis
tilling bone and other animal
I matters.
2. Held by lease.
8. Crazy.
4. Raw minerals.
5. Paramour.
6 Where Abraham was born.
g. To carry account from journal to
ledger.
8. Crystal gaZers.
TO- Applied paint by small touches.
IL. Kind of johnny-cake.
H. Affirmative
49, Desire
IT, Warnings.
10. A rake.
81. Point or gist, as Of story.
"a. Clusters OF sporangia forming dots
26 Stew.
| 20. Knew: archaic.
| 81. Glided
| 80. Out of the way.
"a. Bronze or copper.
| SO. Ventilates.
38. Box in which are carried toilet
articles.
40. Solemn promise.
Al. Period.
AZ. Uncommon things.
43. Implements for washing floors.
A. Bring to naught.
40. Lows.
81. Make an effort.
SO. Solid obtained from ashes of sea-
weed. In solution used as anti
septic.
81. Allotrophic forms Of oxygen.
SIS. Boundaries.
81. Up to the time of.
SO. Frame to hold picture upright.
81. Asquint.
81. Uncanny.
"a. Theatrical supernumerary: coll.
Sc. Wooden vessel.
81. Wild, crazy: Scot.
SO. Box in which sacrament is kept:
var.
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Across.
/. Variety of brass made to initiate
gold
Z. Periods of prosperity.
10. Watering resort in Belgium.
10. More lucid.
IA. Hind.
Is. Play.
is. With three horses harnessed to a
vehicle tandem.
II. Resembling a goose
10. An emmett.
20. Fine particles of stone
%. Use of word in sense different from
that belonging to it properly
%. Strives.
rs. Without sensation
81. Dine lightly.
20. Make pecuniary provision for.
80. Hoots
80. Island in Mediterranean.
IS. Long, narrow inlet
81. River in Egypt.
80. Observe
40. Appearances of truth.
As. Mans name.
IS. jog
AZ. Plague constantly.
48. Heat slightly.
SO. Narrow neck of land running into
water.
81 Expression peculiar to itself in
grammatical construction.
Sc. Acknowledgment of debt; coll
So. Painful.
so. Mire.
81. Make amends.
SO. Young hawk.
IS. Small point.
sc. Tornadoes.
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Chatterer Is Late.

The boastful are quite apt to find
A timber tongue doth dull the mind.
old Mother Nature.
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BANDITS Who SLEW
OFFICER AT LARGE
Trio Killed Vigilante While
Fleeing From SIS Hold-up
and Kidnap Farmer.
~ the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MAQUOKETA, Iowa, August 9.-Three
bandits who robbed a drug store Of SIS
escaped and killed a vigilante and later
kidnapped farmer, communicating his
automobile, still were at large today,
sought by Iowa and Illinois authorities.
The trio late last night released the
kidnapped farmer, Robert Moore, so, Of
Upton, Iowa, who told authorities here
he believed the bandits had rented
another automobile at East Dubuque,
IL. where he was freed.
Early yesterday the robbers held up
employees of the Lage Drug Store in
Davenport, Iowa, obtaining but SIS.
The word was passed along to be on
the lookout for their car.
r. G.. Sproat, 81, a Cedar County
vigilante. who with two companions
ambushed the escaping car near Tip
ton, was shot three times in the back
and killed
The killers continued, but a short
time later overturned their car in the
mud near Moore'S farm. They ap-
pealed for help. saying one Of them was
injured and asking that he drive them
to hospital. Moore agreed and soon
after found himself a kidnap victim.
He was held more than IL hours while
his abductorS drove along by-roadS all
day.
Gov. John Hammill of Iowa author
lied a reward of $500 for the arrest
and conviction of the slayers, pointing
out that three other Iowa officers have
been slain recently.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-10
GRAY'S CHURCHYARD
BROADCASTS STAGED
Gramophone Brings Great Organ
Concerts to Folk at
Stoke Poges.

STOKE POGEs, England GA
gramophone record now broadcasts
chimes over the churchyard where the
poet Gray heard the curfew toll "the
knell of parting day."
Before the evening service an electri-
cally operated gramophone is placed in
the belfry and instead of the bells OF
Stoke Poges Church the countryside
hears the chimes of York Minister, st.
Margaret's, Westminster and Big Ben. ="
Later the loud speakers in the belfry
are disconnected, and the gramophone
plays within the church records of or
gan music and excellent choirs.
If this new idea gains support the
tiniest churches in the land will be able
to hear world-famous choirs and organ
lists at their services.
The ancient yew tree in the Stoke
Poges churchyard under which Gray is
said to have sat when he composed the
first draft of his immortal elegy still
stands opposite the church door. The
old tree has been patched in the middle
with cement, and its branches are held
up with splints and supports Of wire.
But 1t is alive, and the foliage is now
green.
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ATTACKER is EXECUTED

HUNTSVILLE, Tex, August 9 Dr.
Rainey Williams, 38-year-old Port Ar
thur colored man, whom mobs made
three attempts to lynch for alleged at
tacks on white women, was electro
cuted at the State Penitentiary here al
12:097 am. yesterday.
He was the first man ever electro
cuted in Texas for an attack upon q
colored woman. At his trial July 2
in Port Arthur, however, two white
girls identified him as their attacker,
Williams was whisked away from 3
Port Arthur mob, and later officers
guarded his life against two mobs that
stormed the Beaumont Jail, where he
was taken for safety.
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MOTHER TRIES TO KILL
CHILDREN AND HERSELF
Girl overpowers Parent to Save
Her-Three Youngsters to Live
Despite Wrist Cuts.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LITTLE ROCK. Ark, August s.-Mrs
George Waller, formerly a prominent
clubwoman of this city, slashed three
of her children with razor and Their
attempted to commit suicide with the
same instrument at her home here yes
terday.
The elder daughter overpowered hei
before she succeeded In wounding her
self seriously.
The children-George IS; Emily, II
and James, 6-were attacked as they
slept. They were cut on the wrists, but
at the hospital where they were taker
for treatment doctors said their wounds
were not serious.
Authorities believe Mrs. Waller went
insane after worrying over financial af-
fairs
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Rockefeller Hills Hit by Drought

TARRYTOWN. N. Y, August (Fl.-
The drought has hit the Rockefeller
estate. The 5000, o0O-gallon reservoir
at Pocantico Hills is almost dry, and
among curtailment measures the large
fountain in front of the mansion has
been shut off. The estate uses more
than 100000 gallons of water day.
Permission to tap the Tarrytown mu-
nicipaI system has been granted.
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Looks Ahead to Diamond Wedding.

OSTIA, italy, August o CP.-Signor
and Signora Perfetti have free air
plane ride coming. They celebrated
their golden wedding anniversary by
taking a jaunt in a hydroplane to
Palermo, Sicily, and have been prem
ised a free ride on their diamond ami
versary by Minister of Aviation Balbo.
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here today, but no matter which
wins, it win not be horses. In the
event a horse outruns q man, the Joe
key will collect the prize money.
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Wealthy Retired Importer Dies.

OAKLAND, Calf, August 9 P).-
Philip Shepheard Teller, SO, wealthy
retired importer and for three years
member of the United States Shipping
Board, died yesterday at Alameda.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-05
Household Methods
BY BETSY cALLIsTER.
Kitchen Sinks.

If you are so fortunate as not to
have to wash your own dishes the
chances are that you have no idea OF
how many hours day the maid Of all
work or the cook or the cooks helper
or the housewife herself has to spend
over the kitchen sink. She stands there
washing dishes and pots and pans. She
stands there usually when washing and
preparing vegetables And dozens of
times q day besides she steps to the
kitchen sink to HI! the tea kettle with
water, to wash her own hands, to put
refuse in the container at the side of
the sink or for some other common
place duty. When you realize how
much time is spent about the sink you
understand how important it is to have
1t as convenient and efficient as possible.
What about the light at your sink?
It may be that you are planning to
have the electrician arrange a better
light over your dressing table or beside
the piano or by your husbands desk
in his study. Did it ever occur to you
to notice what sort of light there is
over your kitchen sink?
This Is especially important during
Winter months, when dishes have to
be washed after fading of the light of
day.
It Is very important, too, to have the
height of the sink right for the one
who has to use it most often.
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Today in
Washington History

March s, IS57-The Sun Fire Com
pany of Alexandria, Va, was the VIC
tim of a ''vilIainous hoax today. The
members of the company arrived In this
CITY. breathless and excited, with their
fire apparatus this afternoon, prepared
to aid in extinguishing a great FIRE"
that was supposed to be raging some
where in washington. No IRE could
be found.
An INQUIRY was started at once to
ascertain the cause of their sudden ar
rival 1t appears that the vice presi-
don't If the sun Fire Company received
. message over the electric telegraph
wire TODAY purporting to come from
Robert Doyle, esq, president of the
FRANKLIN Fire Company of Washing
ton. Here Is the message:
IN Dufey-Bring the Sun hose rite
up. r. Doll, president Franklin"
Believing the occasion was urgent
and that the fire apparatus of Alex
andria was needed to help put out q
great conflagration in this Federal me-
tropolis, the members of the Sun Co.
made unusual exertions to get under
way. Some of them even closed their
places of business, so that they could
devote the rest of the day to fire-fight-
ing in this city.
What the members of the Sun Co.
said when they discovered that some
practical joker had sent that message
over the electric telegraph wire need
not be repeated here. The words can
we'll be imagined.
The immense number of visitors who
came to the city to see the inauguration
of President Buchanan yesterday for
the most part remained over until to-
day The hotels are still filled.
Although it was generally known that
important public business was certain
to occupy the attention of the new
President today, the Executive Mansion
was eagerly besieged early in the FORE
noon by crowds of visitors, who wanted
to catch close view of Mr. Buchanan
and, If possible, to shake his hand be-
fore departing for their homes.
AS usual, there was a great rush of
business in the closing hours of Con-
gress yesterday, and it was not until
today that all the results could be
checked up. 1t was discovered today
that, although both Houses in the last
hours had passed the bill to extend the
Capitol grounds, no money was appro-
priated to carry out the project, so that
it will have to await another session OF
Congress-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-05
OUR CHILDREN
BIZ ANGELO PATRI.
Binding Children.

Grown people are inclined to bind
cnilciren by laws, by labels, by other
unworthy means, in order to set them
on the road to success. It is a very
poor method for such a result The
icceSSful child Is the free child, free
OF ignorance, of fear, of inhibitions of
healthy expression of personality.
mere you go again, john My word,
II you ever did anything without spill
ing whatever was in your path I'm sure
don't know what I'd do. Is there
anything you haven't Knocked over
yet? All I can think of is the grand
piano"
An adolescent boy is very awkward.
He Is conscious of it to his detriment
The more he dwellS on the matter the
more trouble he will find In it. When
somebody tells him that he is expected
to be- a bull in china shop he sinks in
watered thirsty soul yet.
Pig. might have known YOU would
eat all there was in sight. The more
I give you the more you eat And, of
course, you had to take Betty's pencils.
Hadn't enough of your own. You're
born grabber. A pig, If ever there was
one. Piggy is a perfectly good name for
you"
That won't do either. Cali a dog a
as when it was said in the beginning
Names are great force. Give the child
a good name Call him by that name,
emphasize its obligations and drag the
child up to its level. Teach him to call
upon his ancestry, his father and his
grandfather who bore their names well,
in time of trouble, and he will surprise
you with his effort to rise. But call
him below his name and you drag him
down.
And don't, if YOU really want to help
a child make fund Of him before 9th r
people by describing him as a BOBBY
If you paint him as a clown, as
ne'er do WELL as miSfit, you make him
feel failure. No child willingly ac-
ceptS that status. He will fight it with
might and main, and because his
powers, and his weapons are SO feeble,
onStrations. He will strut, he will
swagger, he will pretend. he will COM
init offenses in order to justify himself
in the eyes of those before whom he
was de-manned.
Sarcasm is unfair and dangerous.
Children do not understand it and re-
sent 1t deeply. Talking at a child
angers 1t and rouses deep and dam
gerous determination to get back. Kind
ness, encouragement, gentle liberation,
a flxed faith in goodness and sincerity
Of effort will do more to free a child of
his error than all the unlovely gestures
mistaken people make
Whatever you do or say to a child
should have this idea Swallowed within
it: I do this, TO lift a load from this
child's spirit.
tcopyriEht. 1880
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LITTLE BENNY
By LEE PAPR.

Us fellows was standing in f1,nt of
my house tawking and argewinR. and
our cook Nora opened the fruat win
dow, saying, Don't let those scallywag
friends of yours tramp on my nice eileen
steps, that all got to say to YOU.
And she closed the window ager,
Pudgs saying, q WIZ. are you afraid Of
your cook?
should say not, I sed. You saw
how quick she shut the window again,
dident you, and you know why, don't
you? Because she was scared of what
I was going to say back to her. that's
why, sed, and Pubs sed, Well I bet
you our cook better watch out what
she says to me all rite. 1 bet YOU I
could take all you guys wawking rite
through the kitchen and she wouldent
dast say werd, he Sed.
Us fellows saying, Aw go on, your
oreeming, prove it why don't you, go
on and prove it. And we dared him
and bubble dared him, and he took us
around in the alley and we all went in
his back gate, and his cook looked out
the kitchin door saying, Whats going
on here, where's all this muddy looking
tribe going?
I'm going to take them rite through
the Htchin, Pubs sed, and the cook
sed, Well of all the nervy impudents
wait till get broom and III show
you wich way your going.
And she came running out waving a
broom and we all started to run out
backwards through the gate again, Pubs
saying, Hay, look out what your doing,
who do you think you are, you better
be careful now, I'm warning you, do
you hear?
WITCH by that time we was all ways
out in the alley agen with the gate
shut, including Pubs, us fellows saying,
o no, your not afraid of her, o yes,
your the boss all rite, like fun.
Why what's matter, you herd what
] sed to her dident you? Pubs sed and
We sed, o yes, and we say what you
did, too.
Proving actions speek louder than
verbs even If their both going on at
the same time.
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FOOD PROBLEMS
BY sALLIE MONROE.

If you really have to set as good 9
table and as nourishing table as pos
sible on the lowest possible amount of
money, you should certainly have soup
at least once day. To be sure, it takes
time and means trouble, but 1t Is worth
while. Housekeepers of boarding schools
and boarding house keepers, who have
to make little money go a long way,
have discovered that there is nothing
like soup to take the edge OF the
appetite.
In any family good soup once or twice
day can be made from what is ordi-
narily thrown away, plus a very little
in the way of soup bones and occa-
sionally bit of soup green. The refuse
and left over from vegetables in most
families, however, will make even this
unnecessary. The cost of soup bones
and soup meat may be almost elimi-
mated If the soup meat is turned to
account in the making of croquettes or
some other sort of minced meat dish.
An English cook says that the secrets
OF good soup making are slow simmer
ing. careful Skimming and judicious
fiavoring. The first and the last most
of us know, but many cooks never think
OF Skimming the soup pot.
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eye when she sang charmingly at Car
mel Myers party few evenings ago,
playing her own accomplishments
adeptly.
Carmel Myers color scheme is the
most effective Of any beauty of the day
white skin and Titan hair; Jade ear
rings and rope of apple-green jade
about her slim, white throat; eyelids
artfully shaded green to emphasize the
green lights in her eyes; sweeping white
satin gown, bare of trimming, and jade
green velvet sandals. She takes your
breath away. She sings also. Is a fin-
ished hostess. entertaining In q sophis-
ticated, smooth fashion.
Hollywood has put the foot down on
the village party. When the colony en-
tertains these days they know right well
whom they wish to have. And the
beaux have been taught to come with
out a galaxy of ladies in their train.
Hitherto no hostess had the faintest
idea of how many would attend q sup
per. Shed invite 20, and perhaps so
would gather around the festive board
Ladies would drop in with fringe OF
admirers, and genties got to the point
where they lugged along a few mem
bers OF the frail sex to show they were
Az ACAAoAAOs
A girl who came with two escorts
found herself eclipsed by q lass who
had quartet of slick young men t.
elbow. 1t was great fun for the guests
But. oh, the hostessl One could always
phone desperate call 10 the gentleman
in the pin-check suit, who would arrive
pronto with first aid to the thirsty
But so hungry young things at party
planned for 20 got to be too thick.
Lewis Stone once entertained, and
found himself surrounded by strange
faces.
Rum gang" said one young man
with wiSp of golden hair along his
upper lip. Who's giving this mix-up
anyway"
II ami" staccatoed Stone.
And the young man melted away.
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MOVIES AND MOVIE PEOPLE
BY MoLLIE MERRICK.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
HOLLYWOOD, March S (NAN.A.).-
Hollywood film stars are pleading guilty
right merrily to tax evasions these days
Eleanor Boardman with little bill of
$4,000 and Marjorie Berger Snugly
tucked away behind bars for a bit in
the interests Of justice!
A long list of players and directors
are mentioned in this connection. Billy
Haines and Dorothy Mackaill we're two
of the first players to be called in the
big cleanup.
Public relations counsels of the vari-
Gus studios have been keeping the
wires hot between the cinema center
and Washington. 1t has been a nervous
time for all. The p. r. C. is called into
goes aStray 1t is his duty to put on
the soft pedal. He works hand in hand
with the suppress" agent The best
work in this line done in Hollywood is
all of the s-hhh! variety.
The village may be the worlds au-
thority on makeup, on face revamp-
ing, on lace pieces which defy detec-
ton and render the bald spot nil per-
fectly. We were the first to bare the
leg. Aviation was taken over whole
heartedly by screen players when civil
ians kept to the ground assiduously.
We scoop the future and bury the
past. But along our Main street are
neat little glass cages with the latest
in false teeth temptingly displayed You
can have your choice OF gums, running
from pale pink to gay cherry color
this last for parties, perhaps. Holly
wood is so gayl
Sharon Lynn, looking like Dresden
cinema figurine in a floor-sWeeping
movie ladies can do more than fill the