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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-05
CHAPTER TX

Then one evening, just as she and the Bents arrived home from the wotkaday world, Dr. Eden Harris telephoned.
 q want,' he said, "a beautiful companion for dinner"
 Judith was delighted to hear that banteri1,-g voice. Well she said. 'Let me think moment. Perhaps I can make a suggestion"
 "On second thought" said Harris. ''I1l make one. It's you. I'll be around in an hour"
 He took Judith to new reStau- rant in town. A delightful little place called Johns Rendezvous, with a grooming table of Swedish "smorgasbord" to be dealt with be- fore they had ordered the entree. But before the entree arrived there was a telephone message for Dr. Eden Harris. He returned from it with disappointment darkening his usually pleasant face.
 I'm sorry, Judith. Emergency case. I might be able to return in an hour-and might not make it until morning. Would you rather I took you home?"
 Judith's murmured regret gave no real indication of how deep her dis appointment really was. For weeks she had been practically alone with her thoughts. Those had been weeks whose monotony was broken only by the occasional visits of the Bents; and even those visits had be- come unwelcome, for they only re- minded her of Steve Fowler.
 Since the night she had met Dr. Eden Harris she had recalled him often, remembered his sympathetic manner, but remembering best of all his gaiety. His telephoned in- vitation tonight had been like ray of sunlight breaking through dull gray skies. And now he was being called away on an emgency case.
 "I'll stay here, if you don't mind" Judith told him, smiling. I'm sure you wouldn't want to take the time to drop me off at the apartment. And I find I'm hungry, tool"
 Eden Harris smiled. "You know, the more I see of you the more I'm convinced you'd make perfect wife for doctor" He patted her hand. 'I'n really run back if can make 1t. In any event I'll call you here within an hour" He took up his hat and coat, and added. And of course we'll try again .. Soon."
 "Of course Judith said, and watched him hurry from the res taurant.
 She had eaten many a dinner alone, but none had seemed more lonely than this one. Fortunately the food was excellent, but with every bite Judith wished that this evening Harris could have been spared from a call. She was just finishing her dessert when wait CT brought 8 telephone, plugged 1t into the wall of the booth.
 For you, Miss"
 It was Harris. I'm awfully sorry, Judith. But I'm stuck-and prob- ably until dawn. I'll phone you again soon, if I may"
 "Oh, I'm sorry, Doctor Harris. I'd hoped you might be able to come back"
 Slowly she replaced the instru- ment in its cradle, stared at it inadvertently as if somehow it were responsible for the spoiled evening. It was just as she was leaving the restaurant tha she ran into Mrs. Jerry Macdonald, the young wife of one of the junior executives in the office where she worked.
 sHel-lo there, Miss Howard!" Judith extended her hand gaily.
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Where's Steve?" Once Steve and Judith had gone to dinner at the Macdonalds, and Mrs. Macdonald was still firmly convinced that they were to be married.
 Steve had to work tonight" " Judith f1bbed.
 I'm so sorry we didn't get here earlier" Mrs. Macdonald told her. You might have joined US. Jerry's making a telephone call, but he'll be here in moment, and you could have cup of coffee and cigaret with us."
 Anxious to get away before Mac donald returned, Judith pleaded that she must get back to her apartment.
 Mrs. Macdonald smiled. "I sup pose Steve is going to join you later. I'm awfully glad to know he's doing so well. saw him the other day in that new car of his! And l think it's wonderful he should get in on that new city contract, don't you?"
 "Y-yes," Judith faltered. T really must be getting along. I'm sorry I can't accept your invitation" Be- hind the effusive woman she glimpsed Jerry Macdonald pushing his way through the crowd. With a departing smile for Mrs. Macdonald, she hurriedly fled.
 On the street car Judith'S mind was filled with bewildering and con- f1icting thoughts. She had heard nothing of Steve's getting in on" a new city contract-but then, she reminded herself, there was no real reason now that she should have heard of it. And the news of the car she resented. Steve's little road ster had done we'll enough, and it was odd that he should purchase a new one. Or possibly, angered at Judith's attitude, he had spent his savings on new automobile.
 She had feeling that both V1r- ginia and Bob were aware of Steve's fortunes but had not mentioned them. Judith smiled bitterly to her. self. Tt looks as if I took my stand 6 little too soon," she thought iron ically. Even though he's had a piece of luck and could marry me now, I'll probably never hear from him again. And it's what deserve"
 In the days that followed she said nothing to the Bents about the news intimated by Mrs. Macdonald. But through the newspaper she learned that the city was putting in a vast new water system north of town, and she concluded that 1t was in this deal that Steve must have fig ured. One of the leading manu- factures of his firm was patented pipe, and for 8 long time Steve had been working to get it approved by the city engineering department. Apparently he had at last succeeded.
 She found herself waiting for @ telephone call from Steve, telling her of his good fortune. To whom else would he tell it, if not to her? After all, this had been his big ma bition during the four years they had been together. At least a hum dred times she had heard Steve Fowler say, If only I could make the engineering department in this town see the advantages and saving in our patented pipel I'm sure there's going to be a big replace ment job in the north end-and if I could put that job across it would mean bonus. It might even mean my old salary"
 Then one evening, after Judith had washed and put away the few dinner dishes she found necessary for 8 lone meal, there was rap at the door. It wasn't the knock of
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aintin gs he never completed are considered masterpieces.
 In tribute Co D a Vinci's thoughts of flight, Italy in 1885 is- sued a set of air. mail stamps on one of which the great master is shown.
 EEA Service. Incl Great Conposer
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TN inc Louvre. in Paris, hangs A the famous Mona Lisa, DOT. trait of a woman whose mysteri. ously smiling lips and devilish eyes have mystifed the art world 1 In the refectory of the Santa Ma. ria della Grazia cathedral in Mi. Ian hangs another great painting.
 depicting "The Last Supper" Both
 masterpieces are the work of a man who believed himself a bet. ter mechanic than artist-Leos nardo da Vinci.
 This genius, who lived from
 l452 10 15l9, had an abundance of brilliant ideas. but few ever came to completion. Besides the two great paintings, his famed works included remarkable equestrian statue, which was de. otroyed later. He is believed to have drawn the first design for an airplane. He invented various en- zines of war. and other mechani- cal devices. Even his sketches of
Evening star., 1936-04-19
Dividend Changes

NEW YORK, April 18.-Favorable
dividend changes in the last week
totaled %, against 19 in the previous
week, according to the Standard Sta
tistics Co. of New York. Unfavorable
changes numbered 3, against ! the
week before. Details of changes:
Favorable.
Increased-Mississippi Power 81
Light Sc cum pf, Signal Royalties
Glass A, Pitney-Bowes Postage Meter.
Hecla Mining, Standard Screw. Chi
cago Yellow Cab.
Merchants g. Manufac-
turers Fire Insurance Co.
Extra-Phillips Petroleum, Mime
apolis Honeywell Regulator. Powdrell
& Alexander, First Management
Foundation, Income Foundation Fund,
New York Fire Insurance, Second
Management Foundation, Bronxville
TT. Co. IN. ".
al-Knickerbocker Insurance,
Hinde g. Dauch Paper, King Oil, j..
j. Newberry SO pf series A, Republic
Investors Fund SO pfd B. Globe &
Republic Insurance philadelphia /,
Peerless Weighing 8, Vending Machine
So non-cum pfd, Geo. Weston Ltd.
So pfd.
Unfavorable.
Reduced-Haverill Electric. Elmira
g. Williamsport r. r. com, Elmira &
Williamsport r. r. pfd.
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at 1000 to 1850, common and medium
grades at 900 to 900, culls down to
500. Weighty calves Of common and
medium grade were salable at $50 to
TOO.
The hog market on Friday was:
Good and choice. 100 to 210 pound
weights, l1.40 to 11.60. the latter price
top. Most desirable 22o to $50 pound
weights cleared at 1866 to 11.30.
Heavy weights down to 9.85.
Light lights scaling l40 to 16o
pounds brought l1.30a11.50. most
slaughter pigs weighing 120 to lao
pounds making 11.00a11.35. Good
packing sows cashed at 9.0oa9.50; good
stags at TBS down. Soft and oily
hogs were sold subject to kill, with
discounts of 1.00a2.00 per hundred
weight
Good and choice grade Spring
lambs cashed at 1880 to 1900; some
good grade clipped lambs making $50
on a couple of sessions, while choice
clippers were quoted up to 975. Few
wooled lambs of good and choice
grade were thought to be salable
around 11.50 to ITS. Small scat
tering of slaughter ewes cashed at
$50 to $50.
Grain Market.
Closing prices were No. 2 red Win
ter. garlicky. spot, domestic, 1.04;
April delivery, 1.04. Corn, No. 2, yell
low. domestic. 20; Western billing at
premium over this price. Cob corn
New, 800 per barrel; nominal because
Of irregular quality. Oats-No. 2,
white. domestic, as to weight and
location. 41a53: No. 3. 40a52. Rye
No. 2, 70a75; barley, No. 2, 2.55a60.
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ter General James A. Farley. 1t would
serve to commemorate the Spalding-
Whitman centennial, planned in
homage to the pioneer settlers of the
Pacific Northwest.
A stamp to pay tribute to Patrick
Henry is being urged by R. N. Will
kinson, Huntington, w. Va. The prof.
ect has been approved by the Vir-
ginia Legislature and is said to
have been commended to the atten-
ton of President Roosevelt.
Chester L. Lankford has discovered
curious variety in the Texas issue.
Close examination of the forty-seventh
stamp. second from the left in the
bottom row of the upper left pane,
plate 1887, shows cap on the left
figure 49,"
The Boulder Dam stamp has been
precanceled for the following post
Offices: Berkeley. Calf. Odebolt,
Iowa; Franklin. N H; Newport, N. H;
Durham, N. c.; Weissport, Pa; Swan
ton, Vt; Bedford. Va; Templeton,
Mass, and Lebanon, Ind.
OF the dat-bed edition of the Moth
er's day stamp only 15.433,2oO copies
were printed.
Hartford, Conn, and Tulsa, Okla,
are the first two cities to have pre-
Cancelled 2-cent electric eye stamps.
The Louisiana Purchase Exposition
set, mint condition, recently brought
$7.25 at auction in New York.
Columbian envelopes, first distrib
uted March IA, 1898, were issued in
the following quantities: 1-cent, g.
899,7O0 2-cent, 97,863,242: scent
825, ,375, and 10-cent, 243, 300.
C. Robert Kay. in an Associated
Press dispatch from New York, re-
ports: THE United States airmail
issues of 1880, prepared for fight
of the Graf Zeppelin from Germany.
are advancing in price so swiftly that
the stamp trade is in turmoil.
Prices for the three stamps, with
face value of IS cents, $1.30 and $3.50,
are now being quoted on a day-to-day
basis. The latest retail price lists
give no prices for these volatile stamps
except the notation: Prices on re-
quest
"In the Fall of 1884 the set, un-
used or used. could be purchased for
as low as $12.50 1t advanced sue
ceSsively to $14, SIT, $40 and $22.50
the level at which it was obtainable
in the Fall of 1885. The upward
surge recently carried it to $27.50.
when it reached that level, dealers
found it practically unobtainable. They
were amazed to find one leading dealer
advertising to buy the set for S27.50,
the same price for which he was selling
it a month previously. That was the
'pay-off.' Nobody can predict its
course from now on.
Speculative buying by wealthy COL
1ectors is given as major factor in
the advance. The set is attractive to
them because they need only few
stamps to represent large investment,
whereas the ordinary run of specu-
lators with small capital must concen-
trate on purchases of bulky job lots
Of cheap stamps"
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while the latter, in grayiSh-blue,
shows Gen. Antonio Duverge.
1T is the understanding of col
lecting experts" says the Associated
Press, that all money coming from
the stamps will be used to build up
a fund in the national treasury for
the erection of national library and
archives building.
This information would tend to
indicate that the stamps. while avail
able for regular postage, would be
used primarily as means of collect
ing the library fund Thus. they differ
to a certain extent from semi-postals,
where a certain fixed sum above the
amount to pay postage goes for varied
purposes
Spain's group Of regular postage
stamps, marking the fortieth anniver-
sary of the Press Association of Madrid
has been augmented by Is airmail
denominations.
This increases the issue total to 81
items. The airmails, like the regular
postage, are made up of photographs
and designs significant of the news
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Chicago Grain
by the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, April 18.-Indications
of rapid increase Of irreparable crop
damage Southwest and West, to-
gether with European political devel-
opments construed as ominous, swept
wheat 2l2 cents upward today.
In rush Of speculative purchasing
the seasons high price record for Sep
tember wheat delivery was shattered.
Ofiicial predictions pointed to rising
temperatures In Kansas and Nebraska,
and made worse from a crop stand
point the prospect that widespread
drought would remain unabated during
at least the first half o. next week.
Significance also was attached to
word that although good-sized wheat
crop Is expected in Italy this season,
Italy Is now buying afloat stocks.
Wheat closed strong, at virtually
the days top prices. 13s-2h cents
above yesterdays finish; May, 81 oil 3s-
5s; July. 937s-94; corn, 13s-15s up;
May, 6313 $3.50; oats, l4-3a advanced,
ard provisions unchanged to a rise of
II cents.
Fot only did speculative demand
broaden instead of subsiding as wheat
values scared, but active call for wheat
to be shipped out of Chicago at once
was notable stimulating factor Total
purchases of this character for the
week were more than 100000 bushels.
Continued entire lack of moisture re-
lief in drought-stricken areas thrust
the market aloft from the outset, and
at no time was there any important
reaction.
Eclipsing of the dollar-a -bushel
standard for wheat in Chicago took
place in short order, the market 60
ing to $l.0l34 for May contracts. New
crop deliveries rose even faster than
May, and reached their apex just be-
fore dealings were stopped by the clos
ing bell. Particular attention was
given to an unofficial estimate cur
rent that six States-Kansas, Okla
homa, Texas. Colorado, New Mexico
and Nebraska-will produce only l99,-
100000 bushels of wheat this season.
compared with the Governments
April forecast of 265 5.0OO,O ,OOO
Corn, oats, rye and provisions bor-
rowed strength from wheat. Corn
shipping business was active.
Closing indemnities: Wheat-May
9834 to SO, l031z to 103%; July 9034
to SOS. 9612 to e65s; September 8912
94a. Corn-May 62H. CAS-; July
6l34, 633s; September 81, .625s.
Grain range at principal market!
| today.
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BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT.

The Star has the privilege to an
nounce that the American Express
Co., 6 Haymarket, London, will serv-
ice covers for collectors in the United
States who desire such accommoda-
ton in connection with the maiden
voyage of the S. S. Queen Mary, SAIL
ing from Southampton for New York
May 27.
Arrangements for this courtesy have
been made by D. P. Aub, district man.
ager of the American Express IN
Washington, who says: 1T Is a
pleasure to be of assistance to the
philatelic public in this instance
Covers must be self-addressed,
stuffed and sealed, ready to mail; then
forwarded to the London office as
above with five cents per envelope IN
American Express money order or
international postal coupon.
The five-cent charge is for 2lad
British postage stamp; no handling
fee is requested.
Closing date will be May %, and
covers received in London after that
time cannot be serviced for the first
voyage of the new queen of the sea.
The special souvenir sheet for the
third International Philatelic Exhibi-
ton was first suggested by Arthur E.
Owen. 1t was his recommendation
that four different stamps be shown
the Connecticut, Michigan, Texas and
San Diego issues.
Scheduled for release May as
feature of the opening of the eXposi-
tion, the novelty sheet will bear plate
No. 2l557. First-day distribution is
limited to the branch philatelic agency
to be set up at Grand Central Palace.
The design shown herewith has been
suggested for the oregon Territory
stamp recently authorized by Postmas-
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money of the United States and for
eign countries. Visitors welcome.

money of the United States and for
eign countries. Visitors welcome.
The Washington Philatelic Society
will meet at the Hotel Carlton, Six
teenth street. Wednesday evening at 8.
Stamps used by German offices in
Africa will be shown. Public invited.
The 1896 exhibition Of the WASH
ington Federation Of Junior Stamp
Collectors opened Tuesday in the
exhibition room of the Philatelic
Agency, Post Office Department
Building, Pennsylvania avenue at
Twelfth street, and will remain avail
able for inspection until Saturday
next.
Mrs. Manning, Mr.. Warren and r.
A. Bickert president washington
Collectors Club, judged the material
offered for display. AS announced by
Alden H. Whitney, secretary OF the
Jury, they gave the following awards:
Glass A, group /, Marion Lancaster
Fred Earnshaw and Eugene Smith;
group 2, Jack Martyr, Carroll Nor
tensen and Fred Earnshaw; group 8,
Eugene Smith, Marion Lancaster ana
Daniel Fusfeld; group 4, William
Frank and Elsie Holtgreve; group D.
Frank Hermann, Marion Lancaster
and Carroll Mortensen; class B, group
/, Robert Bilsborough, Sarah 1nman
and Joseph Shollenberger, jr.; group
2. John Graziani, Harold B. Atkinson,
jr., and Shirley Nichols; group $,
Genevieve Reimer, Sarah Inman ana
Mollie M. Lewis; group 4, Harold b.
Atkinson, jr.; Joseph Shollenberger,
jr., and Mollie M Lewis; group ;,
Irene Sloane, Mollie M. Lewis ana
Sarah Inman.
The Washington Philatelic Society
trophy went to the Roosevelt High
School Stamp Club.
The ''holiest spot" in Montenegro
was chosen for reproduction in the
design of that country's 1896 COM
memoratives. Known as Scott's type
A-3. there were a dozen values iSsuec
to mark the bicentenary Of the Petro-
witch dynasty, and each of the II de-
nominations depicted the Monastery
of the Virgin at Cettinje on the SIDE
of the famous Black Mountain from
which the land received its name.
Legend tells that the religious re
treat was established by the nationa
hero, Ivo, the Black, conqueror o
the Turks and author of Monte
negro'S independence. The chape
contains the tombs of the Petrovitcf
family, but not that of their cele
brated progenitor. His resting place
it is said. is in the heart of the noun
tain itSelf-from which he was ex'
pected to return, should his people
require his help.
But he did not appear in 1921. wher
the country, proudly free for 40(
years, lost its identity in the unior
of its territory with Serbia, Boenis
and Herzegovina to form the king
dom of the Serbs, Croats and Slo'
venes now known as Jugoslavia.
In 1925, reviving a philatelic con-
ception of the earliest days OF the
republic, Poland brought out stamp
(Scott's A-42) in tribute to the ma
tional hero, King John Sobieski. The
design reproduces his monument al
Lemberg and was intended to honor
"a first-class fighting man" whose
very name still has magic significance
to the Polish people.
Sobieski was born in 1929. the sor
of Galician noble. In his youth
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anized agriculture" and the value is
80 cents; brown.
Stamp Collecting says: "Organiza-
ton of a stamp committee composed
of artists, archeologists and other ex-
perts has been decided by the COM
munications ministry as the first
step toward the issuance of a new
set of Japanese postage stamps, re-
placing the present stamps, which
have been in use for nearly 20 years.
Although the new stamps will be
designed to convey the idea of Japan
at a glance, the authorities intend to
avoid continued use of the traditional
France will have a stamp in tribute
to Rouget de Tile, author of THE
Marsenlaise.' and Spain will pay
philatelic homage to Velasquez, IA
nous painter.
Inscribed 'for the national library
and archives" two values of a series
which the Congress of the Dominican
Republic has outlined to contain l3
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Italy, it seems, is about to absorb"
Abyssinia. The stamps of the latter
nation already are rising in value, and
it may be expected that they will soar
to still greater heights. Used copies,
especially, should constitute a wise
investment.
France soon will bring out a stamp
for Alphonse Daudet. famous literary
genius The design will show the
windmill in which he wrote one OF
his most widely celebrated books.
An example of the stamps brought
out for the seventeenth Milan fair,
latest issues of Italy, has been re-