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Her Method offKe'e'ping Him

that when the pine tree loved the palm there was more than distance to make one mystery to the other. He was still very much of a mystery to her. but she was determined to solve him. And that first affair of his with Agatha Richland helped her immeasur- ably to do this. =
 For he tired of Agatha Richland in six weeks, and came back to her just as he had gone away.
 Now for the first time in years she was not altogether sure that he would come back. Pearl Heath was unlike any one she had ever seen him care for.
 ing to his vanity. which in such men requires large yard stick.
 I'm not any more sensible than l was when first married him." she
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hair. "Yes, I'm home early" he said. T only sang once."
 Why, Percival!" ss x, 2,s'
 "Once only" His tone was cyclonic. "Do you know what she did. that Heath girl? She played discord in- stead of dissonance and threw me of the key. So much for letting an amateur accompany you"
 "Ah! You were angry?"
 "Of course. was angry. Who wouldn't have been? With that idiot or an Andrews. who fancies he's my rival. grinning at me? She tried to apologize. and her mother" To avoid scene escaped. came back to you"
 You always come back to me-" Anne thought happily. Aloud she said very softly and tenderly: Poor boyi".
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course, she ought to have one, as well as Miss Dawson, Tom told himself. But it would make a bad hole in the bungalow fund. Still he loved Donna dearly and if she really wanted dia- mond he would get her one, and they would have to wait for the bungalow. The little ring with the blue stone didn't seem to appeal to him any long CT.
 In the office Donna sat down at her desk after Miss Dawson had left, and slowly began to open the morning mail with a troubled look in her blue eyes. She told herself that Miss Daw- sons fancee. who was broker, could well afford to give her diamond en- gagement ring. while 1t would be fool ish extravaganza for Tom to buy one. So she resolutely banished the thought of that glittering blue-white stone from her mind and turned her atten- tion to the days work.
 Tom was not so fortunate; and after
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displayed in the show window of the local jewelry store. and he had fond visions of placing it on Donna's hand. But since that heavenly night week ago when, to his stammering words of love and longing, Donna had confessed that she loved him, too, nothing like rings had any place yet in his blissful mind.
 So that morning when Tom stood outside the office of the lumber com- pany, his blissful heart received jolt as he heard Donna's beloved voice ex- claiming in delighted accents. and he got there just in time to catch the look of utter longing with which she was regarding the diamond ring on Miss Dawson's hand. Also. he was just in time to hear the latter's condescend- ing:
 Hope you'll soon have one like it. dearie."
 Tom changed his mind about going
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How do you like it. Doris?" Chris iy asked. smiling
 Its just sweet I wish it were mine"
 Why, do you need wedding dress?" Christy looked up in surprise.
 The girl hid her face on her folded
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YOTHING was left to be done IN now and 1t seemed to Christy
 Thain, as she stood back and surveyed her work. that 1t really all ready held the bride for whom it was intended. The adjustable form which suppored it had something of Delina Rays slight, young contour. It was quite easy to imagine how the dress was going to look oc that wonderful morning now only one day distant !
 The dress was her masterpiece. Nothing remained but to fold it in a box and wait for it to be taken away. Outside the open window which let in the June air, there was step and rustic and girl leaned in over the sill. She was pretty girl, in flimsy. fancy way. like some gay little wayside flower.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-24
No One .ShOWed Up

A YOUNGER columnist should always learn from
"A listening to his elders. AS the second oldest in
Manhattan I've been waiting for group to gather
at my knee but up till it seems they've all had
previous engagements. It has not yet been my good
fortune to meet Mrs. Mahnkey in person, but al
ready I am minded to lift little Of her stuff.
saw by the papers recently that this practice is not
unknown.
What I want to borrow from the journalist Of
the Ozark Hills is a title and even that only for
future use. The lady from Oasis said that her
people deeply resented being referred to as hill
billies' but that they had no objection to the term
ridge runners
The phrase is new to me, and now that that old
rOckin' chair has almost got I'd like to have
lien this tiny segment Of Ozark language. You
see. my farm stands Hunting Ridge, and if can
keep the mortgage and the tax collectors off
for another five years l. too. might become rural
Coumnist, and naturally the weekly piece would be
called The Ridge Runner" 1t would be pleasant,
perhaps. to write just week of kinsfolk trav
cling from afar and attempt to please nobody in
particular but some child or an old old person
And yet there obvious difficulties Children,
on the whole, are just about tough editors.
tried one Of my best puns on little girl of last
week, and Patricia said: 4 don't anything funny
in that" Perhaps she right I may be wrong
in my contention that editors and children haven't
must sense of humOr.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-24

4 CROSS the river in little
N Indiana town of 1000 I talked
long and earnestly with a shrewd
and wise elevator man.
Its greed that's still dominat-
ing all of us, he said slowly. LAS
long as that is true we're going
to continue to behave more like
jungle beasts than human beings.
One-third of the families in our
town are on relief one way or
another. Why, there's farmers
near here who drive into town,
park their cars out of sight, and
then go in and get a load of re-
lief groceries and pack them out.
don't see any chance of
beating Roosevelt unless some
thing unforeseen comes up-and
it'll have to be mighty big"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-24
They Happen Here and There

A ND again in attempting to emulate Mary Eliza
n beth Mahnkey 1 might fall down on the job
through insufficient kindness. gather in reading
he interviews that the Ozark cOlumnist does not go
in for sapping the neighbors around in her para
graphs.
If any exciting crime anything not exactly
right happened in Oasis she explained, Il just let
it 60 and didn't write it up, because those sort of
things happen in any place"
Even if The Ridge Runner appeared only once
q week 1 doubt that could muster up sufficient
kindness to fill the space consistently Blame it
me- if you please blame it on the neighbors here
abOuts, but it would not be easy to refrain from
sometimes adding Just drop of vinegar to the ink
Indeed, wonder whether Mary Elizabeth Mahn-
key was not sometimes moved by precisely that same
temptation. She took down her notes upon sugar
sacks in her husbands general store, which 1 have
no doubt was the busiest spot along the whole main
stem. 1t may be that in the final draft all trace of
acid oberated but if it were possible to peruse
the sacks themselves Ill wager that now and then
little salt added as a neutralzer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-24
CONTEMPT THREATENS
EDITORS WHO PRINT
MURDER TRIAL STORY
BIZ UritCd Press

By United Press
ANGELTON, Tex, July "a. -
Editors of Houston papers, who
have staff correspondents here
covering the murder trial of
Clyde Thompson, courted con-
tempt charges today when they
published accounts of the trial.
Judge M. S. MunSon told re-
porters he would hold them and
their editors in contempt of court
if published accounts of the case
were circulated in the county be-
fore Ed Ebers and Raymond Hall,
co-defendants, are brought to
trial. They are accused of slay-
ing Everett Melvin, a fellow pris-
Oner. Thompson has been con-
victed in three other murder
cases.
Judge Munson said publicity
already given the Thompson case
made it difficult to obtain a jury.
Perhaps the law doesn't give
me the power to prevent publica-
ton of such news accounts" he
said, but I'm certainly going to
try to prevent them"
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Cancel That Order

T WAS mobbed," said Der Kingfsh weakly as con-
Il SCiOusneSS returned Remember the battle of
the gents ROOM boys" Then he added, Cancel that
order Don't remember the battle of the gents room.
Forget it. Call the Legislature and tell them to pass
a law to cancel the battle of the gents ROOM Tell
them to pass law that in Washington that
night and another law that I President of the
United States. Then 1 want another law that jim
Farley made away with these postage stamps 1t it's
the law it's the law and the will of the common peo-
pie, and nobody can get around that"
The general officer commanding teephoned the
Governor to call the Legislature. After hurried
canvass of the saloons the Soons met and made Der
kmgfish President of the United States. Time l
hour minutes 3-5 seconds beating the old record
of the Legislature by nine seconds.
Der Kingfsh seemed pleased by this performance
but promised to do even better in football season.
Come football season." he said. L am going to
call me special session and elect myself all
America full back by law. And I'm going to pass a
law that we SWamped NOtre Dame Stanford Cali
1ornia, Vanderbilt, Tulane, Yale, Princeton and Pitt
by overwhelming scores due to my fearless PLAYING
And 1 am going to pass another law that I
am just pO' man like all the rest of the DO folks
and this here suite where are at is not a sumptu-
Gus suite in an expensive hotel like they say but a
humble cabin with tin roof and dirt floor like
the po' people live in. And 1 am going to pass me
another law that this tWo-inch steak that am eat
ing for breakfast is just nothing but measly little
slab of hog-side like the po' folks eat And I'm
going to pass all them laws in 80 minutes flat or I'm
going to get me new Legislature that will I can
buy and sell Legislators like so many sacks of poa-
toes-remember that"
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He Didn't See That

INDEED, there are those who contend that too
Il great amount of news and comment and edi-
torial opinion in the daily press of America is set
down sacks of sugar. Some think that into the
life OF every newspaper man woman the time
comes when he should cry out. Now have story.
Bring me a pencil and an old lemon crate
And so on second thought I rather think that 1
will not bend my ambitions to becoming the con-
duCtor of The Ridge Runner" With sufficient
effort I might be able to fake portion of the
sweetness and the light which is natural with the
lady from the Ozarks. But 1 could not follow her
example. No, when made my overhasty decision I
had failed to notice one short paragraph in the in
terview.
L Just write for the love of it." she said. They
gave the little paper in exchange and stamps and
stationery ="
Copyright.
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1t is expected to show up some
messy situations in which the
RFC loaned money to the rail-
roads with almost no warrant.
e. Assistant Secretary Woodring
of the War Department delayed
eight days in answering a question
as to whether a buck private, who
had served 90 years in the Army,
could secure a pension if found
physically unfit at that time
which is one year before retire
ment-and then replied that the
War Department could not an
swer the question. The answer is
No.
Copyright. 1885. by United Featur
Syndicate. Incl
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Your Health
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN-

INTEREST in the Dionne quintuplets has spread
even to the insurance Statisticans. These expert
figure manipulators have been trying to estimate the
Quins chances for reasonably long life
The insurance companies want to know how long
you will live that they will be able to place
proper premium on your insurance each month AS a
result. they accumulate figures showing how long
any ordinary person may be expected to live after
reaching any given age
For instance child born in the United States in
1885 might reasonably have expected to live to be
IS years OF age while child born in 1885 may eX-
pect to live to be about so years of age.
After reaching so years of age, the average nor
nal human being may reasonably expect to live to
be 705 years of age. Not many persons live to be
100 years old has been found that out of 100000
persons only 80 live to be leo years age.
DUT the case of the quins is entirely different In
1.-The first place there has never before been an
authenticated case in which quintupetS all lived to
celebrate their first birthday The Dionne quntuplets
are the first on record.
Statsticians for a large insurance company have
figured that. by living 10 be year old this group
NOf five baby girls has successfully overcome the
risks that equivalent to those incurred by one
woman living to be 81 years of age.
The chance of one girl baby Of being year old is
a little more than % per cent. The chance of five
girl babies living to be year old is only IS per cent
OF course the Dionne quntupletS we're born pre-
maturey and, because of their number, we're all
greatly underweight. There is hardly an instance on
record in which five premature babies, weighing
little these babies did, have all survived to year
of age whether all were from one mother or from
five different mothers.
A result Of excellent care during the first year
n of their lives and the fact that they have
reached 1 year Of age with the physique or normal
1-year-old babies, each of the quintuplets now has
expectation of living to 65 years of age.
However. if one figures the life of the five, the
five taken together have a life expectancy of SO
years of age.
OF course they going to be well taken Of
during the rest Of their lives. They going to be
guarded much possible from infectious diseases
ana other hazards That frequently attack children.
So probably the life expectancy of the group is
quite far beyond 80 years of age which would be the
life expectancy Of the group if they were just ordi-
nary children taken care of in the ordinary way
among the most interesting OF the figures de-
Veloped by the statisticians is indicating that
one OF the five who will live the longest will prob
aoy reach 50 years Of age These figures of course
are based on averages.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-24
100000 FLOOD STUDY
URGED ON ROOSEVELT

Approval Held Certain for Survey In
New York Area.
By United Press
WASHINGTON. July 24.-Speedy
presidential approval of a 100000
allotment for an army engineering
survey of New York state and Penn
Sylvania flood areas was expected to-
day.
The fund was recommended to
Mr.. Roosevelt yesterday by his
works allotment board. In view of
his announced desire to do every
thing possible to aid the regions af-
fected by recent floods, his approval
was a certainty.
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DRETTY soon the countryman
l. turned and walked out of the
store. When we were by our
selves again, the elder man said
slowly, Think he'd know we
couldn't take a job. Why, they'd
take us off the rolls right away.
We can't afford to do it."
Talk drifted on. Finally the
young man with the black eyes
propounded a question to me,
Just what do you think would
have happened if they hadn't fed
people?" The way his eyes flashed
I saw that it was more than a
question; it was a definite threat.
I walked on across the street
to the garage. Country garages
have taken the place of the old
time livery stables as hang-outs
for the best loafers. The town.
ship supervisor, who owned the
place, was puttering around in the
shop. We sat on the running
board of a car and talked figures.
TN this Elwood Township, of
l. Vermillion County, there we're
exactly 240 homes, housing some
100 souls. PWA was taking care
of 40 families. Six were on direct
township relief. And 81 others
we're on Illinois Emergency Relief,
that twice a month sent a wagon"
with enough groceries and supplies
to last each family. That made
143 families out of total of 240
that were receiving either work
or direct relief from the govern
ment, state, county or township.
Had a funny thing happen
here two days ago." he went on.
Two men drawing their SIS a
week from PWA got drunk and
had a knife fight. The township
had to send them to the hospital
in Danville to get them Sewed up.
Next morning both wives came
to me and demanded money.
finally gave them 81 each. They
were sore because I wouldn't make
it a FLYER each, and when they
went away one of the women said:
Just shut down on relief and
you'll see q real civil war"
THAT next day I drove over to
~ the Wabash River bottom. 1
stopped and talked to two broth
erS farming side by side.
One said: Farmers should give
the real credit for the raise in
prices of their stuff to the drouth.
1 don't see that we've had much
real benefit from the AS. If
we're going to have a processing
tax it should include cattle and
sheep. Course the big prob
lem is just what Henry Wallace
says; whether we're going to pull
down the tariff barriers and trade
with other nations or live within
ourselves. If nations are going
to act like they're doing now, we'll
have to keep on curtailing our
crops or prices will drop to the
cellar again"
His brother held a different
view. Wed have been in an
awful fix without the 3 AS. We've
got to keep it. It's the only way
a farmer will ever get a break.
Sure the farmers are going
to vote for Roosevelt. And you've
got to remember that it wasn't
the Democrats who elected him
before but the Republicans. Well
] do it again, too"
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eyed Legionnaire about IS years
old, with a humorous smile play
ing about his broad mouth, looked
up at me. "What1l happen to our
bonus now?" he queried.
You tell me-" I parted.
We'll, we'll get it somehow or
other" Then he smiled again:
They already beat me out of S18
a month allowance 1 was gettin'."
I asked them to tell me on the
level when they would start their
real pension racket.
A second Legionnaire looked
over at his squint eyed pal and
winked. Sooner we start askin
for it, the sooner we'll git it."
he answered frankly. Everybody
else in the world is takin' all
they can git, so I guess we ex-
soldiers might as well, too"
The three other reliefers chuck
led. 1t was the sort of wise
crack they relished. They were all
smart enough to know at least
how to live by working only six
or eight days a month. If the
two old soldiers among them
could hook on to a regular pen
sion. the other three wouldn't
mind. Taxes didn't bother them.
Il Il
GO it was we fell to talking over
~ the troubles Of America. A lean
young man with swapping black
eyes brought down his chair with
a bang. IT'S machinery that's
KILN everything" he said.
There's millions Of people never
will be able to find work again.
The machine has replaced them
for good"
The others nodded. and in a
moment the young man on relief
went on. Yeah, and these tariff
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-24
EUEnouh
BY
.ESTBROOK PEGLER

TIER KINGFISH awoke IN mis- palatial suite at
~ 10 a. m. and yelled FOR his bodyguards to look
under the bed and behind the chairs and search all
hat closets for concealed assassnS. The guards
deployed about the suite with grenades, machine
guns and light fed piece After a thorough in
spection the general officer commanding reported
that all was clear.
With a war-like cry of Hell Huey" Der King
fish hoped out of bed and advanced across The
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-24
SEEK 1886 CONVENTION
Young Democrats Make Plans to
Bring National Meeting Here.

Plans for attending the national
convention of Young Democrats will
be made this afternoon when dis
trict leaders of Indiana meet in the
Spink-Arms hotel. The national
meeting will be held at Milwaukee
Aug. % and "a. The 1886 conven-
ton will be sought for Indianapolis.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-24

Westward travels Frazier Hunt -
Listening to America" and reporting
what he hears for readers of The In
diana polls Times. This is the third OF Il
absorbing articles IN which this noted
author editor journalist writes about
what Americans the country over think
of conditions today under the Ne"
Deal
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-24
WOMAN FACES CHARGE
Operated Gaming Device in Tavern,
City Police Charge.

Miss Frances Pope, Al. of 3427 W
Westinghouse, today faced charges
Of operating gift enterprise fol-
lowing her arrest yesterday at the
w. Westinghouse beer tavern. A
scent jackpot machine was found
in the kitchen of the tavern, &C.
cording to police.
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RY FRAZIER HUNT

Copyright. 1885, NEA Service. Incl
THE five men are teeter-
ing back in their cane
bottom chairs around the
dead stove in the rear end
of J. A. Kern's grocery
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room. IN DONG so ne caught SlSnC
of himself in the mirror and
scowled at his own image. The
effect was so ferocious that Der
Kingfish sprang back with a wild
shrek Of alarm and tainted on the
floor.
At this the guards charged in
again. Six grenades and a few
bursts of machine-gun fire demol-
ished the mirror. but to make as
surance more certain the general of
the guards sent for the field piece.
which was wheeled into position,
and now began to shell the wreck
age of the mirror. After Is minutes
of brisk action the phantom was
judged to be annihilated and tn
yr-nVtyiV,c
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S t o r e in
Ridgefarnn,
Ill. All were
on relief,
but t heir
clothes from
shirts to shoes
a n d overalls
were e a n
and ia irly
new. They'd
got most of
them off the
wa on."
A S qui n t.
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Fabulous Treasure Lies
Buried With Lusitania

n of
years ago?
will certainly Orphr
sends its report to The Indianapolis Times this
The Lustania passengers of them
remely wealthy persons;
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baDy was bonn or somebody got
married or died. then that was
news. And when kinsfolk came
from a long way off I'd mention
all their names and things like that.
II something I could write would
brighten up the columns or make
some one laugh or please some lit
tie child or some old, old person, Id
try 70 do that"
This creed of columning. as re-
ported in the Herald Tribune,
sounds like a good one for Forsyth,
and all points east for that matter.
OF course. among the Broadway
gossip gatherers' competition is
severe and things are speeded up a
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-24
WOMAN GUEST HANGS
SELF IN HOTEL ROOM
Dependency Believed Cause for
Cleveland Resident Suicide,

Cleveland Resident Suicide.
Dependency, caused by i'll health,
is believed to have caused the
suicide by hanging yesterday of Mrs.
Edward R. Alexander, 48, of Cleve-
land, O., in a downtown hotel room.
She was found hanging in a
hotel bathroom by her salesman
husband. Hotel attendants forced
the bathroom door to reach the
body. Resuscitation failed and Cor
oner William E. Arbuckle sent the
body to Shirley Brothers, under
takers. A note was found addressed
to the husband.