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she told him. "Things like that mean
little to US, Craig. Fame is bad for
people. It gives them mental indi-
gestion." And grinned at herself for
quoting DR.. McCracken.
1t appeared that Mr.. Wyatt wasn't
interested either IN fame or its effect
on the human mind. will you have
dinner with me Wednesday night?
have to run up to New York on
business, but I'll be back then, and I
must see you"
Joyte thought this would be very
nice, and told him so.
She opened the stand after lunch,
and her very first customer-much to
her surprise-was Jones, the big man
who had come through the airplane
crash without injury. He came in
q taxi, and was dressed In a new
suit whose stripes were a shade toe
conspicuous for good taste
He smiled genially. II run off yes
terday without thanking you, lady,
he said, leaning against the counter
I'm sorry"
Joyce smiled. There was something
about this big man she didn't like
but she knew that 1t was foolish tc
feel that way, and so she forced
herself to speak kindly.
I'VE have lots of accidents out this
way" she said lightly. we don!
mind helping people who need it."
He stared at her silently for a mo.
ment, then looked past her.
Il hear that the son Of an ole
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face things. but he couldn't under
stand. She frowned at him.
DO you know who your patient is,
Bill?" she asked, 'the man you op-
Grated on this afternoon?"
He looked at her then. but without
any curiosity Miller, wasn't it?"
Merlowe!" she corrected Grossly.
Curtis Marlowe. He is many times
. millionaire, one Of the richest men
In the country, in fact"
DR.. Bills nod was distracted; his
eyes were blandly uninterested.
He said, He has punk liver"
:. Joyce felt keen desire to shake
IT you went to New York, Bill, he
would show his gratitude. You would
be his regular physician, and he
would send other influential people
to you. You could make / name for
yourself, and lot of mo(ney at the
same time"
DR.. Bill grinned at her.E Anyway
I've had two rich patients IN one week.
I'm getting up in the world" He
gestured in the general direction OF
the bedroom which held his patient
Believe III send this guy a bill for
$50. Think that'd be too much,
Joyce?" He looked worried
Joyce's sigh was practically moan
"Dr. McCracken said he would send
you a check for it," She glared a,
him. You make me sick. Bill Elliot
The man is multim1lionaire. You
saved his life. Your fee should be
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friend Of mine had an accident out
this way a few days ago. Fellow by
the name OF Wyatt"
Joyce regarded him In astonish-
ment. do You mean Craig wyatt?"
She saw his eyes narrow slightly.
Il knew his father we'll" he said
softly, without looking at her. i've
been wanting to meet the son."
He comes out here occasionally"
Joyce said. He'll be here Wednesday
night"
And was sorry instantly that she
had spoken, for she saw q strange
look appear on the big mans face,
pleased, almost gloating look. It
passed so swiftly she couldn't be sure
that she had seen 1t. Yet she felt
definitely uneasy as she watched him
climb back in the taxi and 60 back
toward Washington.
(Copyrisht. 1889
Tomorrow: Joyce is afraid OF the
menace in the strangers eyes and her
fears are justified in the happenings
of the next installment.
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more so today than usual, Joyce7"

More so today than usual, Joyce7"
he inquired politely.
Her nod was very emphatic. You
had chance to go to New York, to
make good money" she said hotly.
"Why didn't you say yes and say it
quickly?"
DR.. Bill was no little astonished.
Leave Batesville? Why, Joyce, what
an ideal"
Joyce shook her head hopelessly
Just big-town doctor with hick-
town fixation." she sighed. Wont
you ever learn, Bill?'
Il might" he said blandly. III
you would devote your life to teaching
me-"
BILL"
But he wasn't to be stopped. it
seemed. He said gravely: I'm afraid
you confuse noise and size with sue
cess. with full life. Doc Thorne
is getting old, though he doesn't
realize 1t yet. Batesville needs me:
New York doesn't. They have plenty
OF good doctors there. Doc Thorne
won't live forever. When ne dies III
be needed here, and it's nice to be
needed"
Joyce shook her head in angry
denial OF his words. No mele words,
she told herself fiercely. could make a
life of poverty and self-denial agree
able to her. She was angry, too be-
cause her heart had stirred at his
words. And there was part of her
mind-over which she had no con-
trol-which indorsed them. She looked
away from him, shaken by conflicting
emotions.
If you would 60 to New York,
Bill" she said softly in a moment.
Everything would be different. I
believe that my feeling for you would
change. It's the thought of vege-
tating here, with no chance for the
nice things in life, that stiles mel"
DR.. Bill was silent, and Joyce
looked at him again, curiously. won-
deringly. She had expected him to
burst forth into paeans of JOY at her
suggestion that her feeling for him
might change. He Was staring at a
worn place, in the rug He might
not have heard for all the emotion
she saw in his face.
He said abruptly. You will change
anyway, Joyce. You've got all this
in your blood
Joyce shifted angrily. Men We're
so strange, she thought. They had
such a time understanding things.
Her thoughts strayed to Craig Wyatt
Even he-as wise as he was in the
ways OF the world-couldn't UNDER
stand her problem. In fact, she
thought irritably. he couldn't even
see that there was problem. Bill
could see it, since he was trained to
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Bedtime Stories
By THORNTON W. BURGESS.
Frights are many and diverse
But unexpected ones are worse.
-Blacky the Grow.

RLACKY THE CROW had sat tight
all through the snowstorm. He
had snug retreat. It was midway up
a big hemlock. He was in close to the
trunk. which was big enough to afford
him complete protection on that side.
Big, broad branches hung low over
him, constantly hanging lower with
the increasing weight of the snow on
them. This made it very snug and
comfortable there for Blacky. Even
though rough Brother North Wind
blew nightly he couldn't make Blacky
uncomfortable, for he couldn't get at
him. No enemies were prowling in
such weather. Even had they been
Blacky was so we'll hidden that none
would have seen him. But for one
thing, hunger, he would have had no
complaint to make.
But Blacky was hungry. He was
hungry when he had been driven to
that retreat at the beginning of the
storm. OF course, the longer he had
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DR.. Bills face was very red; he was
trembling, but 1t didn't matter now.
Joyce looked down at the patients
face. and realized that it was a famil-
lar one. Marlowe! She frowned a
little over that name, shaking her head.
Surely it couldn't be Curtis Marlowe,
the multi-millionaire.
DR.. McCracken was looking at her.
1T wouldn't be advisable to move Mr..
Marlowe for few days. Will you take
care of him until he is fit to be
moved?"
Joyce nodded, smiling. You'd better
send two nurses from Baltimore or
Washington. IL have a stand on the
pike. I can't afford to neglect that"
The surgeon was frowning. Stand,
eh?" He seemed to be deeply puzzled
He said "huh!" and Joyce knew that
she was flushing. He declared, You
ought to be a doctors wife, or nurse
It's in your blood"
He wheeled on Bill. Want a Job
in New York-a good Job with good
pay and big future?"
DR.. Bill said. NO" without any
hesitation, and Joyce was furious with
him suddenly.
DR.. McCracken said, Don't blame
you. Every small town needs a man
like you, good physician, good sur
geon. Fame is bad for doctor. Gives
him mental Indigestion"
Joyce thought angrily. "They for
get all about the doctors wife. Fame
and big income-wouldn't be bad for
her!"
She turned about and went into
the living room, and saw that her
father was setting the pilots broken
arm. The big man, who called him.
self Jones, was watching him. but his
eyes raised to her as she approached.
"How's the old MANI" Jones asked.
Joyce glanced at him. deciding again
that she liked neither him nor his
strangely penetrating eyes
Hes doing nicely" she said briefly,
and was unpleasantly conscious of his
eyes on her as she crossed the room.
She went to the spare bedroom. where
Craig Wyatt has rested after his accl-
dent.
IF this keeps up," she thought as
she moved busily about the room I'VE
might as we'll fix this room up with
all the hospital grimcracks."
And found the thought not unpleas-
ing. realizing suddenly that this had
been happy day, filled with things
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10th Son Named Oakley"

BOSWELL, Ind. (Pl.-Mr. and Mrs.
William Flynn have named their
tenth son Oakley.
There's nothing odd about that ex-
cppt that all nine of the lads brothers
also have names beginning with 90:
Oral, Ode, Othie, OWE, Orval, Otis,
Oscar, Oliver and Omer.
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6LACKY EDGED A LITTLE E
NEARER TO THE NEST.

NEARER TO THE NEST.
to stay there the hungrier he became.
Crows are just like other folks in this
respect. The storm didn't end until
the next forenoon. Blacky was one
of the first to be out to look for food.
He knew that there was small chance
that he would find a meal in the
Green Forest, 50 he decided to head
straight for the nearest farmyard. He
long ago learned that almost always
something that a hungry Crow can
eat, such as it is. can be found around
the homes of Men.
AS he flew above the treetops he
could see long distance In every di-
rection. for Blacky's eyes are keen.
Way oil to one side he happened to
notice one of his old nests. Hooty
the Great Horned Owl and Mrs. Hooty
had taken possession of it last year.
He wondered If they would use it
again this year. He didn't see either
OF them so he decided to have a look
at the old nest It wasn't much out
OF his way anyway.
He flew toward the old nest There
was little enough of it to be seen, for
1t was covered and piled high with
snow. 1t looked like a huge SNOWFALL
lodged high in the tree. He chuckled
as he alighted on a branch close to
the nest and bit above it so that
he could look down on it.
1T doesn't look much like a nest
now, but in its day it was one of the
best nests that Mrs. Blacky and ever
mad" thought he. Il wonder if those
Owls will use it again this year. If so
suppose they will take possession
soon now, for they are early nesters.
must keep an eye on it just to find
out. 1t is a good place to keep away
from when they are about. I don't
like 'em. never did. I never
will /"
Blacky didn't finish. Had his eyes
deceived him or had he seen a little
movement in the snow piled up on
that nest? Could it be, could it pos
sibly be that some one had climbed
up there and made a nest in that old
nest?
Blacky edged little nearer to the
nest. Yes, sir, beyond doubt there
was something alive down under the
snow in that nest. Blackys eyes
cleaned. He edged still nearer to a
position from which he could instantly
pounce on Mouse, if Mouse it should
prove to be, and somehow he was sure
that it was Mouse. although he never
had known Mouse to climb more
than q few feet above the ground.
But he could think Of no one else
unless-perhaps it was a Red Squirrel.
Why hadn't he thought of that before?
The snow stirred again and then
suddenly was thrown aside in a cloud,
and an apparition rose before him and
4 pair of round yellow eyes glared at
Blacky. For just a second Blacky
couldn't move. Then with q scream
Of sheer fright he threw himself back
ward and took to his wings. How he
new! Never had he known a worse
fright. That apparition was Mrs.
Hooty, who had been buried in snow
while she faithfully kept her two pre-
cious eggs safe and warm. Blacky no
longer wondered what Mr.. and Mrs.
Hooty would do about bat nest
tcopsrisht. 1889
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CHAPTER VII.

SAhA V1As
~ R. McCRACKEN frowned at
the patient. pursing his lips.
He nodded suddenly, and
~ looked at Bill.
Pretty good job" he said softly.
pretty good, nothing" Joyce hared
at him. 1T was perfect"
"Joyce!" Dr. Bill was Mortified. This
was lese-ma jeste-or worse! People
didn't address DR.. Dougal McCra cken
In that fashion. His pretty good job
had made Bills heart throb with a
delicious pain, had made his years OF
preparatory training and his four al
most feeless years in Batesville worth
while. 1t gave significance and mean
Ing to his work and ambitions
DR.. McCracken's scowl trembled into
q delightful smile; his beard fairly
bristled with mirth. Then he bent
over the patient again, Dr. Bill watched
the surgeons face anxiously. breath
lessly. DR.. McCracken nodded, raising
his head
Mr.. Marlowe has a good chance to
pull through" he declared He smiled
at Joyce. Thanks to your magic" He
frowned at Bill, though his eyes were
twinkling. Your work helped a little
too, young man." and winked at Joyce
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I@iN ELLIOT MD
. BY JOHN CAPnOE !

The story thus TAR: After years
OF determination not marry unless
it IS to a rich man, Joyce Adair has
met Craig Wyatt, ,Dealthy Wash
tngton society youth. She goes to
one dance With him, and Is thrilled
at the lurury OF his everyday sur
roundings. Her childhood sUeet-
heart, DR.. Bill Elliot, tUarns her
that Craig is merely trifing NTH
her. Seated at Sunday dinner in
the Adair home, DR.. Bill witnesses
an atrplane accident. There are
four ptctims-the pilot, man
named Jones, the eminent DR.. NC
Crdcken and Curtis Mnrlowe, one OF
the country's richest men. Dr.. Bill
performs an operation on Marlo,De.
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lied just two years ago. now boasts
of excellent skiing facilities. They
boast. too. probably the finest hos
pitality, for all they own is open
without charge to any visitor who
happens by and wants to ski.
The club grounds, reached via
Canadian National Railways, are To-
Gated on the slopes of the Whistler
Range. Well up on the slopes
clubhouse has been built. Visitors
can use 1t. Already more than S
miles Of trails have been cut through
the woods. The upper, open slopes
have been marked with flags.
A couple of winters ago the Do
minion championships, on the steep
slopes of 8,275-foot Mount Norquay,
near Banff, were an eye-opener to
the visitors. There was a downhill
course that dropped 5000 feet in a
mile and a half, a new jumping
tower where jumps of $50 feet were
possible, a slalom course at an angle
of from 80 to 40 degrees and other
BREATH taking runs.
Similar skiing conditions and al
ternate trails for the not-so-expert
skier are to be found elsewhere In
the Banf and Lake Louise district
along the main line of the Canadian
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RESORTS.
WEST VIRGINIA.

TOR THE FIRST TIME,
] you can spend . fortnight
holiday at this world. famous
Spa for only So per day!
This extremely low rate is
available to all taking the
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Skis Replace
SnOWshOes
In Canada
Facilities for Sport
Found Along
Rail Lines

QUEBEC, Dec. 10-Canada, land
Of the maple leaf and the snowshoe,
has become overnight the land of
the maple leaf and the ski. All
across the Dominion's breadth, from
Quebec and Montreal to Vancouver
and Victoria, winter sport has come
to mean skiing.
The ski has supplanted the snow
shoe even among the French
Canadians whose attachment to 1t
was ancestral and sentimental. Ski
clubs, Of course, look to the matur-
ing list Of competitive events, but
more important than competitive
skiing is simple pleasure skiing, The
sport has enticed young and old.
Their style may have faults, but
it's plenty of fun nevertheless. In
Eastern Canada the newest fad is
ski-touring, leisurely cross country
trek by families or parties of friends.
They follow the well-marked trails,
stopping for meals at hotels or
farmhouses, where overnight stays
are easily arranged.
Favored by excellent snow condi-
lions and plenty Of open hills and
mountains, Canada has perfect
skiing everywhere except for that
thin strip along the coast Of British
Columbia, which is never visited by
real winter. And even there good
skiing is found within a few miles.
The chief ski terrains are the
Laurentian Mountains of Quebec
and the Canadian Rockies, which
rival anything found in Europe. In
addition to this mountain skiing,
there is fine sport in Ontario and
even on the prairies. Any city of
size has its ski clubs, with Jump and
specially-cut trails.
X \
Popular in Quebec Is that district
lying between Shawbridge, Al miles
north of Montreal, and Mont
Laurier, 1856 miles farther along the
Canadian Pacific Railways Lauren
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Pacific Railway through the Rocky

Pacific Railway through the Rocky
Mountains. Among the less access
ible but possibly better skiing
grounds are Skoki Valley, which Is
IA miles from Lake Louise by ski
trail via Ptarmigan and Deception
Passes; Sunshine Camp, 8 miles by
motor and 8 miles by ski from
Banff, and Mount Assintboine, which
Is Is miles by ski trail from Banh.
Skiing conditions usually can be
guaranteed In the Banh end Lake
Louise district from the end Of No
We nber until the end OF May. Banf1
is $500 feet up in the Rockies and
Lake Louise 1000 feet higher. Usu-
ally the best skiing is at 5000 to
5000 feet above sea level, and this Is
exactly what skiers find In the
Rockies, especially in the spring
when the sun Is strong enough to
tan and the weather brisk enough
to keep a powder surface on the
snow.
Revelstoke, farther west along the
Canadian Pacific main line in the
Rockies, has a jump of interna-
tional fame, where, in 1926, Nels
Nelson jumped 240 feet. A year or
so later Bob Lymburn jumped 287
feet at the same place.
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towns is Hibbing, sometimes called
the richest small town in the world"
In 1921, this town was the setting
of one of the most vivid dramas ever
enacted in any community-a drama
that saw Hibbing literally trans
formed to a city on wheels. Prospec-
tors had discovered that 16 blocks
of buildings had been standing for
years directly over one of the richest
iron deposits the world has known.
In true Hibbing fashion, a quick de-
cision was made, and the entire town
was moved to new location.
Near Hibbing is the Buffalo Mine,
largest open pit mine in the world.
Travellers who have always pictured
iron mining as being carried on in
the Pickering glow Of dim lights far
under ground. stare in amaZement
at great steam shovels scoop up the
ore. The Buffalo Mine and Hibbing
industry side by side with the city
1t has built.
X X X X
Near Harrodsburg. KY, is an i'm
posing group of buildings that once
formed Old Shakertown, a unique
experiment in communistic living.
The Shakers. although no longer
living in the town itself, still inhabit
many parts of Kentucky. The faith
was founded by Mother Ann" Lee,
an English Quaker who emigrated
to this country in 1747. The Shakers
practice group ownership of proper
ty; their largest colony today being
at New Lebanon, N. Y. Old Shaker
town itself, however, is stepped in
the traditions of the sect, recalling
a day when the Shakers were max
ing distinct contributions to life in
a young America. Surprising as
1t seems. these industrious people
are credited with inventing the
screw propeller, automatic spring,
a sash balance window, turbine
water wheel. revolving harrow, pea
shelter, metal pen point, the common
clothes pin, the first fiat broom, cut
nails, and the circular saw. The
Shakers were mostly farmers and
developed q wide variety of herbs.
In the 1865 and Cos they were selling
from one hundred thousand to three
hundred thousand packages of seeds
a year. That so many things vital
to everyday life should have sprung
from this active little group is al
most unbelievable.
These things, to my way of think
ing, make up the real America. Tour
ing, according to Webster, is travel
ing leisurely through the country
side, familiarizing oneself with the
people, customs, and historical back
ground of the region visited, making
friends. and, as like to phrase it,
collecting pages for my book of
memories" This kind of touring
broadens the traveller immeasurably,
and the almost mythical tales of
past inhabitants furnish topics for
discussion in the years to follow.
Legends, traditions, folklore-all are
but a backdrop of the history of
America. Start your next trip with
the determination to "get &C
quainted" with your neighbors in
America. You will return with many
new pages for your book of mem
cries."
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1t makes the listener glad to be in
this country, even though this one
could possibly be improved little.
Over on the eastern end of His
PAMELA is the busting Dominican
Republic and the city of Guidad
Trujillo; that is something to see,
too. Columbus lived therein fact,
he was Jailed there-and although
it has the oldest church in the New
World, a good deal of it is only a
few years old, and is a splendid job
of construction and landscaping, the
project including a brand-new and
scientific seaport.
Every American should be interest
ed in Puerto Rico and the several
Virgin Islands, because that is the
show the United States is putting on
in the West Indies. Like the other
islands these are incurably tropical
and picturesque, but Uncle Sam is
experimenting with them to produce
something quite different, just as all
the other nations have made their
own possessions and colonies distinct
and peculiar unto themselves. An
English island and French island,
side by side, and with old settled pop
ulations of the same stock, will be as
far apart in customs as their two
mother countries.
A thin, struggling line of many
islands go stepping stone like to
form barrier full of sea passages
between the Caribbean and the
Atlantic at the far end of the West
Indies. They are full of the loveliest
cruise harbors and towns. There is
Guadeloupe and Dominica, Marti-
nique and St. Lucia, St. Vincent and
Grenada. And a bit off at sea, Bar
bados and Tobago, to mention only
a few. Some of the queer smaller
places. the big ship passengers on
schedule can never see. but the call
ports are quaint enough: and per-
haps this faraway string of islands Is
the most charming of all the Carib-
bean archipelago.
It doesn't become q lot warmer
along the southern fringe of the sea,
in the shadow Of the South American
jungles, but Trinidad, La Guaira,
Curacao and the other ports and
harbors down there are more in
tensely tropical and exotic. There
are the high points for that phase
of the voyage and are marvellous
places to buy ones souvenirs. But
not any better than Colon on the
1sthmus. or more exotic, for that
matter.