seen
OLD SAWS IN RHYME.
A stone that is rolling will gather no
moss.
What's sauce for the goose, for the
gander is sauce.
Each cloud in the sky has a silvery lin- |
ing i
First capture the hare, before on
you're dining.
Don't leave till to-morrow what now can
be done,
And always make hay while
the sun.
is shining |
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Never count up your chickens before
they are hatched. :
When horses are stolen the barn door is |
latched.
‘of the storm and missed him only
‘by inches. The driver curse
and Baird delivered himself,
of certain scathing comments before
starting again toward home, his us-'
ually equable temper still further
shaken
A year before, the Bairds had
rented one of the tiny two-storied
brick houses still to be
elderly section of New York known |
. A mellow
brea the
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As he struggled within a few
sips of it now, Jane, bareheaded
and coatless, came skimming along
the ice and precipitated herself upon
him, the jmpuct of her small body
almost tumbling him off his precari- |
ous balance.
“Jerry!” she cried. “Oh, Jerry, |
where have you been?
right?” Under a street lamp she
| me.”
of your emotions, I'm not
ed. “If I'd been
stew were concocting, you
have remembered. Tod have
every concei precau
sure nothing was going wrong
“But you're supposed to be a
Ss of a adakie In By. eye.
ghost at in his eye, * i
should have
you had e
a
you know, and I'm moderately
spasm
“They've been happening all day,”
she went on.
“What, for example?” He pulled
a big chair near the fire and drew
her down into his arms. The storm
raging outside, the cheerful warmth
and crackle of the logs, his relief
Are you all that she did not indulge in tears work with him—but there's not a
i chance.”
and recriminations, and hers that
clung to him, scanning his face with Jerry was safe at home, the strength
There are fish in the ocean as good as’
are caught. i
A child ne'er departs from right ways
that are taught.
As a twig is first bent so the tree is
inclined.
For sheep that are shorn God doth tem-
per the wind.
Save not at the spigot and lose at the
bung.
A man born for drowning will never be
hung.
Never borrow nor lend, if you would
keep a friend.
The sword is less mighty than words
that are penned. |
A stitch done in time will save ninety
and nine. . |
Fine feathers, they say, will make birds
that are fine.
A bird in the hand is, in the bushes,
worth two.
Don't ever bite more than you're able to |
chew.
Take care of the pence—of themselves
pounds take care. i
A child will (won't) spoil if the rod you!
should spare. !
The truth is but spoken by children and
fools.
And children are cut when they handle
edged tools.
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There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and
the lip.
A stone wears away by continuous drip.
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A fool and his money will certainly part.
And never fair lady is won by faint
heart.
Whoever sows the wind will a whirlwind '
soon reap.
Don’t buy what's not needed because it
is cheap.
Fools rush in where angels are fearful
to tread,
And o'er us a sword often hangs by a
thread.
In every closet dn skeletons hide.
If wishes were horses a beggar might
ride.
Detroit Free Press. '
EMPTY HOUSE.
Jerome Baird, at thirty-two, was
chief chemist in the laboratories of |
of the C. H. Mueller Company,
manufacturers of printers’ ink and
dyes. And his devotion to the in-
terests of that corporation was such
that Jane, after eighteen months of
marriage, declared that it indicated
a complex and threatened to call in
a psychiatrist unless he abated
somewhat his ardor for work.
He not only drove himself ruth-
lessly, but supplied a sort of moral
momentum that acted as an accel-
erator upon the minds of his as-
sociates in laboratory and factory.
Jane, whose father was an engineer,
said it was like bei married to an
electric generating plant.
However, the dynamos had been
slowed down in November. In-
fluenza, aggravated by fatigue, had
first confined Baird to the house for
six weeks and later had sent him
South to recuperate, with Jane in
attendance, There they stayed near-
ly two months.
In the weeks since their return
this was the fourth evening he had
spent, either at the laboratory or in
conferences lasting until midnight,
trying to familiarize himself with
the problems accumulated during his
absence, and as he emerged from
the subway into a February bliz- sight
zard he realized that he was very
tired.
He was discouraged, too. The
president of the Mueller Company,
with whom he had been dining, was
an autocrat who conceived that the
way to get the best service from his
employees was to demand the im-
possible and to be consistently dis- |
satisfied with results. He rode
his heads of departments with whip, |
spur, and snaffle, and was of
commendation, holding it to be weak- |
ness in an employer and enervating |
to employees. {
Baird, sensitive, conscientious, un-'
able to give less than his best to.
perpetual urgency and criticism al- |
ways trying and sometimes madden- |
ing. More than once he had been
on the point of resigning his posi-
tion, and was restrained only by his
keen interest in the prob-
lems it offered and his unwillingness |
to subject Jane to the discomfort |
entailed
satisfactory salary, with a possible
period of no salary at all to follow.
Tonight, however, anything looked
more attractive than continued en-
durance of Mueller's carping de-
mands.
The snow, which had been falling
for hours, had turned into sleet that
stung his face, driven by a high
gale. He pulled his hat low over
his eyes, turned up his coat collar,
and started west along a deserted
street.
At the first crossing where swift
air currents eddied and whirling
spirals of sleet blinded him he was
doing acrobatic feats to retain his
footing on the icy pavement, when
a taxicab materialized suddenly out
of his Anexpes
Reluctantly following her into the
in giving up his present in
anxious eyes.
“For Pete's sake!" he ejaculated.
“Of course I'm all right. What's
the matter?” i
“Matter! Do you know what time |
it is? —Half past three!”
“Good lord! I had no idea—But |
you shouldn't be out in this. You'll
catch your death! Come along.”
He took firm hold of her arm, and
they made their way, slipping and
sliding, toward the haven of their
home.
“Where have you been?”
peated.
“With Mueller, of course. I tele-
phoned you I was dining with him,”
he reminded her virtuously.
“But you said he was leaving for
Florida at eleven-something.” {
“Well, he didn't, He's going to-
morrow."
“I see.” By the mysterious alchemy
transmitting emotion, Jane's anxiety,
now that the tension was released,
was rapidly being coverted into in-
dignation, “I suppose you were
discoursing about dyes, as usual?”
“And, as usual, he was absolutely
unreasonable. Two of the Feinburg
men were with us at dinner. They're
a bunch of crooks. Both they and
Hereford are still after Mueller for
those new pastel shades for their
rubber and vulcanite stuff, and he
seems to think I could produce ’em |
overnight if I really used my head a
little. For three cents I'd chuck
the whole game and get a job!
teach rudimentary chemistry in.
some high school!”
Then they gained their own door
and he closed it behind them, shut-
ting out the storm.
“Golly, it's good to get home!
Hello!" His glance was arrested by
an appearance of disorder in the us-
ually tidy hall. Jane's hat, coat,
and purse lay on the table and her
overshoes were set before a chair.
“Been out " |
“No.” She was brushing particles
of ice from her gown, and others
glistened in her short, dark hair, |
“But I thought I mgt go out any
minute—hurri . I got ready.”
“In a storm this? Why." i
“Well—I didn't know.” She achiev-
ed a certain detachment of manner
and the break in her voice might
be attributed to the fact that she
was shivering. “I thought they
might telephone from whatever hos-
pital you'd been taken to.”
“Hospital ?
she re-
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‘off, to stare at her, and discovered
that her face was colorless, t|
for dark circles under her
that she was shaking
cle.
excep
eyes, and |
in every mus-
“Why-—why, dear! Were you |
frightened 7”
“Frightened!” The gray eyes,
blazed at him. “I nearly lost my
mind! I was sure something had
happened this time.”
“But what could happen?” Being
a perfectly normal male, no memory |
of that hairbreadth escape from the
taxicab occurred to him.
She gave him another scornful |
glance before t into the living
room, as she said, over her shoulder:
“You knew where you were, didn't
you? po arena, I'm not clair-
Baird sighed, It was between
Hiren bo fous in the mo!
a long and particularly try- |
ing day and faced another promis-
ing to be y difficult, and now
he was in for a scene with Jane—
‘by no means the first to follow one
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tedly late sessions.
living Toons he was cheered by the
of blazing logs. Jane sat:
Buddies How on the floor. |
" wasn't thoughtfulness. |
two o'clock I was so frantic I yl
'to do something, so I made a fire. Out late becuse sometimes it's
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It helped a little—for a while.”
“I'm so " He looked down |
at her miserably, truly distressed be- |
cause she had suffered, and at the
same time annoyed that her com- |
mon sense had not intervened to)
save them both this unnecessary and
unreasonable strain. {
“You're always sorry—afterward.
I wish I were a chemical!”
“Wha-at ?"
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“If T were only something chemi-
of tion and be tren create new
any task, found this attitude of ounce reven er a
Y A - ? |difficult chemical problem, than be |
cal, you'd remember
not to mess thi up this way.”
“ButI had no idea I'd be so late,”
he said, a trifie testily. ‘“Musller
was grouchier than usual, and T had
to mollify him a little—By the way,
} nave a new idea for that Javen-
“There's a perfectly good telephone
the house.”
“What? Oh!”
back to the question in hand with
an effort.
bed and asleep, and I didn't want to
waken you.” ;
Jane arose amd looked him in the
eye, tipping back her head to do so.
Their friends called them “the long
and the short of it.”
“Jerry, you mever remembered me
at all. Honestly now, did one
thought of me eress your mind af-
ter Jou telephoned at five o'clock ”
“N-po. But I never thought of
the time either. The Feinburg men,
Muyeller— That reminds me,” he
reached for his metebook, “YT mustn't
forget tomorrow to—"
““That's my point,” she interrupt- | don't like that Feinburg bunch, and to a chair.
| they
coo
the day until Katie gets back, but
‘she'll
‘she can get her husbands's break-
fast in the morning. That's all right.
‘collided——it was snowing
tle
‘up by ten o'clock you immediately
wel
He pulled himself
“I thought you'd be in| you,
of their love for each other, and the
serene happiness of the little house
rea in to touch their :
all combined to steady them both.
“Tell me about it.”
“Well, first there was Katie."
Katie was their maid. “Her sister
telephoned that their father had
been hurt—something fell on him in
the machine shop-—and they thought
‘he was dying. Katie went all to
pieces, and Ihad to pack her suit-
case and get her off for Brooklyn.
“And you've been alone here all
this time?" To Baird, whose female
relatives were timid, this was un-
thinkable and sufficient excuse for
any aberration.
“Oh, I didn't mind that. I sent
for Bridget.” This was a woman
who she employed as waitress when
gave dinner parties, “She can
a little, and she'll come in by
have to go home nights so
It's the only thing that has gone all
right all day-—-until you came home.”
This he punctuated for her with a
kiss.
“What else happened?”
“Oh, well" Jerry's face, like
her own, was haggard, there were
hollows under his brown eyes, and
she had no intention of burdening
him at that hour with her annoy-
ances. “The worst was a bad accl-
dent at the corner and ambulances
around. A cab anda truck
hard and’
they couldn't see far—and two or
three people were hurt. There must
have been a lot of accidents today,
for the ambulance has gone tearing
past every few minutes.”
He chuckled and gave her a lit-
squeeze. “So when I didn’t show
saw me stretched in an ambulance,
in my own gore.”
“No, IT went to bed. I didn't be-
gin to worry until I woke about one |
and you weren't here. I thought
Mr. Mueller had taken a train be- sofa was denuded. The strip of old
fore midnight, and—well, half past
three, Jerry—on a night like this!"
“But, you little nut!" rritation
had ven e to an ind t |
m e amusément, "You n
have known I was talking dyes!”
“To yourself? I supposed you had’
started home, and an migh
happen in this storm. You might
What in the name fall and hit yourhead againstsome- of water that had once been
thing, or break a bone. You might
be run down by a taxi—or a truck.
I walked the floor and thought of
| —everything!"”
Baird had a swift vision of what
might have happened had that cab
at the corner been traveling on a
line ten inches farther west. Still,
the point was that it had not struck
him. Accidents might be numerous,
but their proportion to the narrow
esca) from them was small, and
he ys escaped. Most persons did.
Probably the lack of stirring inci-
dent in the life of a woman like
Jane accounted for the occasional
lurid of her imagination—a
sort of compensatory ¢ ps:
jag, he reflected, with no premoni-
tion that this complacent theory was |
soon to be tested. f
He kissed her
still some-
. He what amused, but with a little clear- On 0 sold a night
er perception of what she had been
through and a -|
tion of her res st women
would have wept and raised the
deuce when he did show up, but
Jane had some sense, She certain-
y was a good sport.
‘I'm awfully sorry, darling, and
I'll never do this »
“Until next time,” she replied,
quietly. i
“I'm not promising never to stay:
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necessary; but next time Tl tele-
phone. Now, get this into
head, young woman, and keep it
there. When I am out nights, I'm |
not cavorting about the streets try-
ing to beat the traffic laws. I'm
doing my job. And nothing worse
than sleep is going to ha i
to me. ou might also remem rT, |
when you're f abused, that I'm |
doing it for you!”
A little smile twisted her lips.
“You're doing it because you'd rath-
dye, or solve a
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“Well, I admit I've never felt any |
presidency,”
| strong urge toward the
he laughing. “But that's true,
| dearest. The reason I'm trying
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rare Go make good is that I want |
to give you all you want—and all
you deserve, you bl " i
“Has it ever occu to you,
Jerry, that I'd rather have you-—just
fresh unjaded and r-|
self —than
and
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ever give aE AT So
He gathered her close and there
was no more talk for a while, un-
til she said remorsefully: !
They arose, switched off the lights |
and started
Right and I've got to
'e some- |
how to make time to
see 1!
chemist sa
' impossible, it lets Mueller out with-
‘him home to dinner some night and
spirits, you
‘anything over on him if I can help it.
‘would take the five-o'clock train for
‘the windows were dark, and when
‘Jane neither came to meet him nor
ping hat and coat
ran upstairs, to find the rooms or-
‘accidents were far outnumbered by
‘him now. Frowning, he ran down-
' stairs
dark back yard. But pot a trace
“Jerry dear, go to bed! You're so
tired!”
“That's ht, Tam. And Ive
another of a day co “af
upstairs,
‘Hereford’s in town, teo; but he's ing all over
back to Boston tomorrow |you—"
I discovered tonight that thev're af-' “That's t—Ilaagh! I suppose
ter an exclusive contract for dyes did it to get even with me!
Hereford needs. I may be ablh to “No, I didn’t—truly I didn't,” she
give him a useful tip.” managed to say, between gusts. [1
“You like him, 't you?” telephoned twice; and you weren't
“A lot. Better than he likes me, here.”
I'm afraid. He's wanted some things “When?” ;
Mueller wouldn't bother with, and “Once about a quarter past eleven.
I've had to take the blame more or “Just before I came in”
less, so he has an idea I'm | “And again about one.”
narrow- and stubborn.” | “That must have been while Iwas
| “Mr. Mueller's perfectly hateful! down in the cellar ooking for the
‘He has no right to put you in a remains— i
false position, just because he'scan- Well, why not?" he demanded, for
tankerous himself!” Jane, after gnc astonished state, had}
“Oh, well, that's part of the game. gone off again into spasms :
If the chief a thing is “It looked as if there had been a
all over the i”
“What!” e weakly wiped her
eyes and looked about. “Mercy! I
thought Bridget would come in be-
fore she left and clear that up.”
“How did it get that way? How
did that bowl get broken? who
dragged off that silk thing?” Con-
vulsed again, she made no attempt
to reply to that she went on grimly.
“I'm glad you find it amusing.
‘I've been walking the floor here for
hours—no slighest notion where you
were—thinking of everything that
could have happened-—crazy for fear
you'd been hurt—or worse—and
you-—Jane, it is not funny!”
Gasping in the throes of laughter,
Jane gave a little squeal and wag-
gled a hand at hum, as if this were
more than she could bear. When
she could sufficiently control her
vocal orgens she sat up, wiping
“way tears, to say, through recur-
rent gurgles:
“Don't ycu see, dear, that's what
is so ? When I think of the
hours I've walked the floor wonder-
ing where you were, and what had
happened to you-—and your lofty
superiority about it when you got
here-—-and now-—now you—"
“That's a very different matter.”
“Yes!” said Jane. “Tremendous
difference between tweedledum and
tweedledee! Reminds you of the
other ox that got gored, and sauce
for the gander, and-—oh, all those
old saws. Sort of a bromide.”
“I helieve you did do it on pur-
pose.”
“I aidn’'t. But of course,” she
chuckled and twinkled, “I did think
you were a reasoning quantity.”
“Oh, cut it out! I come home at
half past eleven, find the house
empty-—your hat and coat here and
you gone. Broken glass all over the
derly and deserted. Evidently she place—an empty whisky bottle—
had gone out, unless —Was it pos- Well, anyway, it looked as if there
sible that she had not returned had been a riot.
since afternoon? The pavements "I suppose it did.” Jane chuckled
were still coated with ice, and Jane . “I'm awfully sorry, dear,
had a way of diving through street but I was in a hurry, and it never
traffic with a sublime certainty that occurred to me that Bridget wouldn't
she would emerge unscathed. come in here and clean up. We had
No philosophical reflection that ed a table for dinner, and they
‘wouldn't hold it after seven—"
“Who's we?”
“And when I picked up my bag off
that table, the chain must have
caught in a loose thread of the
brocade or something. Anyway, the
| whole came off and the bowl
smashed; but it was late and the
cab was waiting, so I just left it.
After dinner we danced a while,
‘and then we thought maybe you'd
join us--anyway, I wanted to tell
you where I was—so I called up
‘and you weren't here. We dancea
some more, and after a while I
called up again.”
“I thought you'd been kidnapped.”
“I did the kidnapping.” She smiled.
drolly, adding, with an impish gleam,
“And the next time anything like
this happens, I hope you'll remember
that I'm not a child.”
“That will do. Don't rub it in."
Baird dropped wearily intoa corner
of the sofa and passed his fingers
through his hair, “I'm about all in’
now."
“Poor darling! I'm so sorry! I meant
to come home after I telephoned the
last time; but he was hungry, and
things had gone so well I didn’t want
to spoil it, so we stopped to get some-
thing to eat and-—perhaps it took
longer than I thought.”
“It's about half past two.”
“Not really! Oh, Jerry, Iam sorry!
I wouldn't have had you worry that
way for anything!”
“Quite i , he remarked,
“you might tell me who the fascinat-
ing he-male it was with whom you
have been gallivating."
“Oh, didn't I tell you?" Again she
twinkled. “Mr. Hereford.”
“What? Hereford! He said he was
leaving for Boston at five.”
“Well he called up at quarter to
five, and said if you were here and
free he'd put off going until mid-
‘night and come down. I just said you
were usually here before six and I
was sure you'd be glad to see him.”
“I thought maybe he'd stay to din-
‘ner, even if you weren't here, and
| wait until you came, so I rushed out
to get sumptuous food. It took long-
(er than I expected, and when I got
!back he was here, rather bewildered
| because Bridget haa just told him
a customer. But 1
like Herefo There's a rumor that
he and some other people are get-
ting fed up with Mueller's methods,
and Hereford may start a little
plant of his own to take care of
that business. If he does, I'd like tc
“Why not? Why don't you bring
let him see that ycu‘re—well, what
are?”
“We're not on that sort of terms.
But he's straight and clean, and
while in my position I can't say too
much-—-contracts are none of my
business anyway-—I don't intend to
let that dirty Feinburg gang put
Wow, I'm sleepy! And tomorrow
will be another day!"
It was. It proved to be even
more of a day than he had antici-
pated. Not the least of a series of
mischances was missing Hereford,
who called while Baird was out for
a late lunch, and left word that he
Boston.
Doggedly refusing to admit defeat,
late in the afternoon hr called up
the house to tell Jane that he must
spend the evening at the laboratory
experimenting with a new formula.
Bridget, the substitute maid, said
that Mrs. Baird was out, so he gave
the woman his message.
This time he kept his promise. At
half past eleven he opened the door
with his latch key, wondering why
called out, he whistled their special
Could she be ill, Drop-
in the hall, he
Silence.
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the escapes from them occurred to
a switched on the light
in the living room, and stopped
short, appalled by what he saw:
A small table at the end of the
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brocade usually covering it trailed
from the seat of an adjacent cha'r,
and a glass bowl that had stood on
table was in fragments on the
Jane's hat, gloves, and fur coat
lay on the sofa. On a larger table
across the room was a tray con-
taining a siphon, a silver dish full
ice,
and an empty pint bottle of a shade
associated with potent liquids.
Baird surveyed the scene blank-
ly: The Stripped table, the empty
bottle, the broken bowl--suggesting
a struggle-—Jane's hat and coat—
the mercury outside making a rec-
ord pl wouldn't have gone
out without her fur coat-—She must
be somewhere in the house, insensi-
ble.
Swiftly he searched from cellar
to roof, investigating every closet and
even making a round of the small,
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of trouble did he find, except in that
dismaying living-room.
Besides, she knew he was at the
laboratory--she would have tele-
Phoned him, as she had several
before—and the fur coat here
belied her voluntary
Panicky thoughts of kid-
surged thro his mind.
Jane was so tiny—and so adorable!
An hour at the tel e proved
that none of their acquaintances had
seen or heard from his wife. There-
after a highly developed imagination
had its way with him. He strode
from one to another of Jane's be-
loved rooms in a frenzy of impo-
tence, fear, and Half past
one—two o'clock— t was there
that a man could So? *
happened that he was in e
kitchen when e sounds outside
on; the street door
opened and closed, and he sprang for
the front of the house. In the lit-
tered living-room he came face to
face with Jane and staring
at her as at an a tion—Jane,
rosy, t-eyed,
a long te coat is
absence.
perhaps I gave him an imp i
‘that you had telephoned after he did,
. ! Anyway, he was cold and tired and
“Hello,” she hailed blithely. disappointed, and I knew you wanted '
“Where have you been?” he de- him to like us, so I coaxed him to
manded, hoarse from conflicting stay, and tore around getting him
oan fe aE
“Dancing. I've had such a won- fire. 's reason my coat
derful time!” She came close, turn- Jand hat were here. 1 just shed
her to be kissed. (them on the . € was So.
eo» her Tasusts arms then He | chilled that I let him make a high-
nearly crushed her. ‘ball out of some whisky someone
“Jerry!” she gasped. “Jerry dar- had given him, and he emptied the
ling! t's the matter with you ?*" | bottle into his flask. Then we talk-
t that he released her as quick- ed, and when he found I liked to
ly as he had seized her, swept by dance he asked me to go to dinner
the recollaction of his agonized hours. With him—he's a marvelous dancer,
And Jane had been dancing! Jerry, and a perfect dear!—and said
“I want to know what this We'd telephone you to join us. So
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means!” he announced, all the lord We did. We're great friends now.”
of creation in him ddenl .| “Well, I'll be darned!” said Jerry.
mount. Sy y vara Then, uneasily, “Jane, you didn’t
She gave him an incredulous tell him"
glance. “What on earth-—Jerry, you “I didn’t tell him a thing. He
weren't scared!” | told me. He is going to manufacture |
“Scared? T've been c¢ dyes himself. He sid 3 jos of ice!
“But, you've just come home . | things about you, an around |
self!” yo : you to find out whether you'd consider
the Mueller Company. :
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I've been here for lea 3
the floor—telephon-| ‘Did you—?" ;
town trying to find! ‘No, I didn't. But you'd evident- |
ly been awfully cautious and reserv- |
“But, Jerry—Jerry!” Overcome by ed, and he had an idea vou didn't!
gales of laughter, Jane collapsed in-!like him very well, so T justlet him
see that 1 must have had a very!
“Just come?
hours—w
i
, one thing, dear.
{
riot here—broken glass and things!
i
{you weren't coming home. I—well, Purposes
ression Charg
| ¥y
pleasant impression of him before I
ever saw him, and--well, what an
sensible and attractive
young cou we are, anyway. Then
he canceled his reservation on the
midnight train. Oh, I did tell him
I said you would
surely lunch with him tomorrow.
‘Don't forget!”
Her husband held her off and re-
garded her solemnly.
“Jane ,you're a marvel!”
“Now, young man,” said the wick-
ed Jane, “get this into your head
and it there: When Iam out
late ts, it's all for you.”
To this there was only one
sible reply. Jerry made it fervent-
ly. The American Magazine.
DEAD DOG'S EARS GET
CONSTABLE IN TROUBLE.
Percy Zinn, constable in Shire-
manstown. Cumberland county,
charged with obtaining money from
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
under false pretense, was prosecuted
recently and required to pay a heavy
fine and costs of prosecution, in ad-
dition to receiving a suspended jail
sentence and being forced to resign
his office, acco to the bureau of
animal industry, Fennsylvania De-
partment of Agriculture.
Zin obtained the money from the
Commonwealth inthe following way.
A lady in Shiremanstown had an old
dog which she desired to dispose of.
She asked two boys in the town to
take the dog away, shoot and bury
it. The boys did so and received re-
muneration for their work. Zinn
hearing of this, told one of the boys
that if he, (the boy) would bring an
inch of the tip of each ear of the dead
dog to the constable, the latter in
turn would send these tips to the
bureau of animal industry, Pennsyl-
vania Department of Agriculture
and collect $2 under the Dog Law of
1921. The boy dug up the dog, clip-
ped the ears and brought them to
Zinn. Zinn filied in the regular form,
SW that he himself had Kaw-
fully killed the dog, that the dog was
found running at large, that it ‘was
not killed at the request of the own-
er and that his claim as made, was
legitimate in all respects. He signed
an affidavit which was sworn to be-
fore a notary public.
Some time later, this violation of
the Dog Law was brought to the at-
tention of the bureau of animal in-
dustry, and John B. Nicholas, Jr.
special investigator, was assigned to
prosecute the case. The case was
brought before Justice of the Peace
J. L. Boyer, of Carlisle. Zinn waived
a hearing and entered a plea of guil-
ty before the district attorney.
PRODUCTION OF UNITED
STATES PAPER CURRENCY
The paper used in making United
States paper money is the toughest
linen and is made by a secret process
protected by statute penalizing its
manufacture for cther purposes.
Supplies of blank paper are guarded
as carefully as the finished money,
for if a counterfeiter can obtain this
distinctive paper he has made a good
start toward producing spurious cur-
ency. The plates from which
is printed are made with utmost care.
The public is not permitted to see the
engravers at work, nor does any one
engraver prepare an entire plate. It
usually takes about a year of contin-
|uous work to complete one of the
original plates. The money is never
printed from these originals, but
from duplicates made by a mechan-
ical process. The fine lines on r
money are made upon the o
plates by a geometric machine which
has as many combinations as the
best safe lock, each combination pro-
ducing a different design. Each bill
contains many symbols which tell the
initiated from what plate it was
printed, who engraved the plate and
who printed the bill, It requires
about 20 days to complete the intri-
cate process of gettting a piece of
paper money ready Jor circulation,
during which period it is counted
about 50 times. The average life of
paper money in the United States is
less than two years.
OHIO STATE TO HAVE
CLASSES FOR ALL AGES
When Ohio State Uni
model high school is opened in the
fall of 1932, a child
school at one
it
versity demonstration
elemen pupils, the model h
pos finally the ag
Tr.
Pr ese schools are conducted by
the college of education, Ohio State
University, for Practical a
Expert chers ve
e of the classes, giving the
students the advantages of the latest
model instructions.
Any child may be admitted to any
of these schools upon ap-
plication. No fee is charged but
the number of pupils is limited.
SHE WAS STILL ALIVE.
The census taker approached a
little tumbled down shanty on the
outskirts of Savanah fine. passed
his way througha buach
ninnies who were Rlaying In
ront of the door. He knocked. e
door was opened by a large lady of
color. After the usual preliminary
questions the statistics gatherer
asked—
“What is your husband's occupa-
tion, Liza?"
“He ain't got no occupashun. He's
daid. He done passed away fo-teen
eahs ago.suh,” re the negress.
“Then who do all these little chil-
dren belong to?"
“Days mine, suh.”
“Why, T thought you said your
husband was dead.”
He is, but 'ah ain't.”
- Jack-O-Lantern.
~The Watchman is without a
peer in the newspaper field.