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HE house of the Crandalls In
Wittegar street was one of those
massive brick-and-stone affairs
that looked as if it had been
built and passed on for a few gener-
ations from father to son. And so it
had, except in the case of the Crandall
branch now in occupancy, it had been
a case of from father to daughter.
Martha Crandall had married Deep-
ing Johnson in her father's home and
remained there after her marriage,
and after the death of the elder Cran-
dall,
Martha Crandall Johnson's daughter
Adeline had been born in that same
house, in the same stodgy, high-ceil-
ing, wainscoated bedroom In which
she herself was born.
It was a somber house, heavy wood-
work, wooden pillars between arch-
ways, folding doors, long halls, pler-
glasses, hot-air furnace, push window-
hangings, balcony-fronted china
ots, hatracks, what-nots, great bronze
figures for bric-a-braec, and a bronze
clock with two bronze warriors for the
centerpiece on the parlor mantel.
And yet withal, there was within
this house, the feeling of stability, Its
silent old walls had soaked into their
timbers the emotions of sane, steady-
going folks.
You felt about house of the
Crandalls that the people who Inhabit.
ed it had not ma
night, ¢ to speak. Crandalls, ever
since Crandalls had lived there, had
heen afford the substantial
things of life.
Jdttle Adeline Crandall
grew up in that er nment,
iy as if the somber old house had been
a rose garden. She flitted through its
halls. inced dark
corridors as brilliantly as a butterfly,
caught In strange netherworld
environment.
Her parents, d,
chant of a father and
Martha Crandall,
to be stolid, marveled at the elect
kind of brilliancy of this girl, their
child, They marveled, and it was as
if they warmed their icy fingers
around the luminous flame of her per-
sonality. She was something so alien
to them and yet so incalculably fasci-
nating. She had been born In the chill
autumns of their lives, when Martha
was for and ber husband fifty.
Almost any way you le at her she
wis & phenom creature in
the world you would have expected to
spring from the union ot two such an-
gular souls at Martha and
Deeping Johnson.
Unconscious of the
her young presence in the deep brown
plush of the Crandall-Johnson environ.
ment, Adeline rushed into the flush of
her adolescence,
By this time t
clos-
the
de their money over-
able to
Johnson
iviro as blithe-
She dd: through its
some
her staid, cotton mer-
her mother
who had been reared
rical
ov
ty-two
yoked
enon, the last
‘randall
-
incongruity os
he Crandall-Johnsons
were at the peak of the financial his-
tory of all the Crandalis who had oc-
cupied that house on Wittegar street.
Not only had Martha into a
vaster than ever accumulation of
Crandall’s monies, but Deeping John-
son had practically cornered
the most important cotton markets In
the history of the industry.
When Adeline Crandall Johnson was
seventeen wins heiress to seven
million dollars, More than that, and
with an obselete kind of solemnity of
which they were totally unconscious,
the pe Adeline # d picked out
for her in marriage the son of another
local millionaire. It was one of those
predetermined affairs about which
there had not been much family dis-
cussion. It is doubtful if Adeline her-
self, In those years when she and the
fat young boy were so consciously sent
to dancing school together, was even
conscious of the import of what was
happening.
Certainly she never took Donald
Dugan seriously enough to even resent
him. The fact that at seventeen and
eighteen they were unofficially consid-
ered engaged, glanced off her bright
young conscience with scarcely an im-
pact.
One night, however, in the great
deep brown plush parlor, the young Du.
gan, probably on the crest of his first
flerce wave of adolence, caught her
into his short round arms and kissed
her wetly, patly, roundly, and with pos-
sessiveness on the lips.
Four weeks later Adeline Crandall
Johnson eloped with her music teacher,
It was one of those seven-day-won-
der, local catastrophies. The town
shivered. The town stood aghast,
The newspapers, muted, as if stunned
into semisilénce, carried news of that
marriage as if they were printing the
story of a death,
The house of the Crandall-Johnsons
might be sald to nave shivered to its
very timbers,
For three months the great, solemn,
brown doors were closed to Adeline
and her slender blond husband, Then
solemnly, inevitably and rather terri-
bly, with the news that Adeline was
with child, they swung open, taking
into the silent maw of that house on
Wittegar street, the young figures of
Adeline and Jacques Stendhal,
Promptly It swallowed them.
Promptly it engulfed them. Prompt.
iy the solemnity of that environment
come
one of
she
rents of
flowea around them In rivers brown
as mud, The young Frenchman who
had married Adeline because to him
she was a flower almost too sweet to
pluck, pulled in the beginning against
the drag of this environment.
But in the end he, too,
succumb,
By the time Adeline's baby girl was
born, the young palr were part and
parcel of the house located on Witte.
gar sireet,
It cannot be sald for Jacques Stend-
hal that he was of the stuff that par-
ents would select as the husband of a
loved daughter. Ie was a frail fel
low, probably in character, too. A con-
stitutional dilettante, unstable by na.
ture, playful, and In a way that was
forever to be adorable to Adeline, de
pendent upon her for decision,
Then, too, he loved her. There was
no doubt of that, This volatile
Frenchman, full of traditions that were
alien to the very life and being of
Adeline, had one quality of stability
that was impeccable,
He loved Adeline.
It was curious, but within that
household, slowly, surely, steadily, as
relentlessly as the progress of a Greek
drama, unspoken plans for the destiny
of Adeline Stendhal began to shape
themselves in the mind of Martha
Crandall and her husband Deeping
Johnson.
This
began to
catastrophe that had come tc
them was not to be borne. This frail,
blond, volatile, young outsider, with
the stage-like name of Jacques Stend
hal, musle teacher, was not to be en
dured within the substantial walls of
the Crandall mansion.
And it must be admitted,
time marched on, Jacques
gave justification to their enormous
resentments against him. He twad-
dled away his After his mar-
riage, his slight Income from the teach-
ing of plano, fell off entirely. It was
nothing for him to spend hours on end
in the narrow strip of
the Crandall house,
girl on his knees.
In vain Adeline, as If she ser
menace that was forming
pleaded with
to either
of plano instruction, or ada
to some form of work
vast cotton organizatie
It was no
purposes, Adel
do-well,
When the baby was three years old,
a phantom of del light If
was one, affairs in t}
gan to sl nselves tows
max. For thirty months
Stendhal had not turned
an earning capacity, the threats, the
aspersions, the abhorrence of his par
ents-in-law notwithstanding.
For thirty months, until
eyes were rimmed with weeping, Ad
eline had Importuned, begged,
And to what end? To the
after these importunings,
for the moment, would prom-
ise, and the wuld end In
of play; the father, the young
their child them
romping In their
through the somber ro
ber mansion,
t the end of the
that as
himself
days.
dani
sed the
between the m,
» his life
own Be hou
him to sta
resume his
use,
ine had
ever
at househ
rd a cli-
Jacques
ape th
her sweet
morseful
SCONE We one
young
mother, between
youth and
It was a fourth year,
however, that the older Crandalis did
succeed in creating a schism. It was
finally borne In upon even Adeline her.
self that life with this play boy was
unendurable: it was not only
the youngster at their knees, to
tinue as his
Just why It was unfai
er stopped to ask
Con.
r. Adeline
herself, except,
the traditions of the
Crandalls and the Johnsons,
must produce. It never
Adeline that the fact
dall-Johnsons had seven
should be more than sufficient
set the congenital shortcomings of
Jacques,
according to all
occurred to
¥
When the little girl was four years
to the day, Adeline consented to the
divorce. Curious, but the reality of
the situation never seemed to come
home to Jacques. He could not take
seriously the fact that this sweet girl
of his life and heart was about to walk
out of them. And yet she did.
One year after Adeline’s incredible
acquiescence to a divorce Jacques
found himself back in his humble stu.
dio as piano teacher, pounding out his
living at the keyboard.
The situation in the Crandall-John-
son house had progressed. With an
acquiescence which seemed to denote
that the stréngth for conflict had
flowed out of her heart, Adeline re.
sumed life according to the dictates
of her parents. Not even the prospect
of their designs for an approaching
marriage with Donald Dugan seemed
to penetrate the icy stolidity that had
encased her since her official separa-
tion from Jacques Stendhal,
Life resumed its even flow, She had
her child, a small beauty, who was
permitted by court agreement, to visit
her father once every month, and
Donald Dugan as eager as ever to
marry her was reconciled to taking the
Httle stepdaughter along with his
marriage contract to Adeline.
Two nights before the wedding Ad-
eline, still In what seemed to be her
fey mantle of reserve, walked out of
the Crandall-Johnson household with
her child In her arms. At ten o'clock
that same night she eloped with
Jacques Stendhal and was remarried
to him in the office of a local magls.
trate,
The Stendhals, there are five of them
by now, are a playful, unstable, hilari-
ous group, There are a pair of solemn
brown doors that remain closed
against them,
The Stendhals, both Jacques and
Adeline, try to feel solemn dbout that.
Somehow they cannot.
Plan Prevention
of Soil Erosion
Nationwide Fight Against
Evil Is Now Taking
Definite Form.
(Prepared by the United States Department
of Agriculture. )-WNU Service,
The United States Department of
Agriculture's nationwide campaign
against soil erosion is now taking defi-
nite form in the practical erosion-pre-
vention work of the first regional
erosion stations which have been es-
tablished In widely separated areas
from the Atlantic to the Pacific, says
Dr. Henry G. Knight, chief of the bu-
reau of chemistry and soils, Doctor
Knight.has just returned to Washing-
ton from inspection of the bureau's
work In erosion prevention, sure
vey, and soil fertility In the Middle
West, Northwest, and Pacific Coast
states,
soil
Farmers Interested.
Doctor Knight visited the erosion
stations of the department at Bethany,
Mo., and at Pullman, Wash., where the
necessary equipment has been installed
and where sheet erosion or run-off is
being measured on experimental plots,
Plans for field are under
way at the station recently lished
in Page county, Iowa. He found that
the farmers are keenly interested In
the practical work.of the par-
ticularly in the terracing of cultivated
fields, long a successful erosion-pre-
vention measure in parts of the South,
but which is new to the western and
middle western farmers.
The need of soll erosion prevention,
ays Doctor Knight, forcibly
brought to the attention of Utah farm.
ers by a recent cloundburst which cut
great inke shore
of Salt Lak
operations
estab
stations,
has heen
canyons in the old
acreage
with del
erosion
of range
cover
he say The destruct
interest In erosion prevent
Sugar Bect Visld
r Knight visited ¢t
experiment sts
Wyoming, Utah,
in North
ral
1kota and
that in-
fave 1
South Dakota. He reports
1 use of :
Nebraska,
Dakotas. The
ago,
now recom
Directors of
Doctor Knight,
siderable Increa acreage of
Crops next Kens
influx of farm
turned to the land
dustrial depression He
as the result of the
rers who have re
because of the In-
cited the case
of & single township of North Dakota
in which 50
returned
men from one factory have
to farms.
Substitution of "Ground
Wheat for Corn or Milo
Substitution of
ground corn, mil
fng mash ground or
whole for hominy feed,
hop or ground barley in certain
feeds was approved by the Tex
lege feed conference board In
at the A. and M. Colle Texans re
cently. This action was taken by
gon of the general Interest at
time in the feeding
rations on account of its relatively
low price as compared with
other grains, it was announced
Substitutions pproved for dairy
feeds were 1s follows: “1. Nine
teen per cent protein dairy feed with
Hmestone—grotund or rolled whole
whent may be substituted for hominy
feed,
ground whent
lo or kafir In the lay.
and of
wheat
as col
gession
Te of
rem.
this
use of wheat In
listed &
amo
the mixture, provided not more than
one of these ingredients shall be re
duced to less than 5 per cent. 2. Car
bohydrate supplement with limestone
for cows-—ground or rolled whole
wheat may be substituted for finely
ground milo heads, hominy feed or
ground barley in amounts not to ex.
ceed 20 per cent of the mixture, pro-
vided not more than one of these in.
gredients shall be reduced to less than
B per cent.”
Annuals and Biennials
of Weeds Hard to Kill
An Immense quantity of seed is
produced hy some weeds, especially
by annuals and biennials, the resuilt-
ing pollution of the soil requiring
years of cleaning, even if no more
plants are allowed to go to seed.
Many species have vigorous peren
nial root systems (thisties, dandelions,
ete.) which renew growth until repeat.
ed destruction of the tops at every
fresh appearance, starves them.
Yery often weeds persist for the
simple reuson that farmers will keep
on reseeding thelr land with erop
seeds containing weed seeds, rather
than pay a little more for pure seed.
Legume Inoculants
slecent tests at the experiment sta-
tion at Geneva, N. Y,, indicate a wide
variation in the quality of legume inoc-
ulants on the market, Some samples
of this material were found to be
worthless while many others were sat.
isfactory. In the selection of com
mercial materials for this purpose an
investigation of the quality is desir
able. It is also highly desirable to
have the date stamped on the package
since inoculating materials lose their
value with age.
New Onion Diseases
Quite Destructive
Ailment Causes Bulbs to Dry
and Rot Eventually.
(Prepared by the United States Department
of Agriculture. )-——WNU Bervic
Two new onion diseases, one from
Europe and the other a newcomer to
the onlon Industry, have appeared in
this country in recent years. J. C.
Walker of the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture describes these
diseases In a recently revised edition
of Farmers’ Bulleton 1060.F, Onion
Diseases and thelr Control, just pub-
lished by the department,
Growers in northwestern Oregon and
near Norfolk, Va., and Louisville, Ky.,
have become familiar with yellowing
and wilting of onion tops In the
days of spring or fall as the first signs
of white rot. The is known
throughout Europe for its destructive.
ness, It eventually bulbs
to shrink and dry, so that they are un
fit for consumption,
Yellow dwarf, the name
disease, In itself describes the effect
it has on an onion crop, This disease
causes greatest damage to crops grown
from sets or seeds, Yellow dwarf oc.
curred in Measant Valley, Jowa, as
early as 1927, when plant disease pe.
cialists first bes familiar with It.
Since then the disease has spread toa
few other states
Among the other
in this bulletin are smut, mildew,
mold, purple blotch, pink root,
rium rot, rust, dodder, root knot,
neck rot, soft rot, black mold and
The last four of these pri.
marily damage onions in storage and
in transit to market.
cool
disease
causes the
» of the other
tine
disbages described
leaf
fusa-
smudge.
The other dis.
eases appear in the field I
Bulletin 1000.F
those writing the office of
tion, United Siat
riculture, Washing
armers’
free to
Inforn
partment of
ight Care of Calves
Vea ans Imj roved ( C ow
A good
rood
COW.
1 ™ eh
are spoiled in the
recalled to a
ern province where
dairy
one breed had bee
decades, gave a writer {1
Her! 1
breeding In bree
The cows all she
«] type and refineme
hut we saw precious few
from a production standpoir
were all undersized and stun
had been spoiled in
wns sandy country, hom
and there
imported feed
h away we visited a
ir Ww ith a splendid nerd of the
des that
and looked
oned the comp
and
ity we had
seemed that
Was pure
was
to buy
an 00 miles
sume
iooked like pure
100TSR
arison hetween
1% 2 wil
Hike big prod
the cows of the com
visited He laughed
every cow In his stable
chased as a calf or was de
cows purchased in that
Good feeding from
difference. We
tA - st
NiGGIe Wes
nity.
rmers in the
need what fr
erih cross”
by Select ion of Land
Barley scab is carried over the win
ter in cornstalks, agd at
ley plant at heading and grows until
crop Is ripe. Rain and
weather are necessary during
heading period for the scab to develop
according to R. G. Shands, University
of Wisconsin.
Selection of land
is important, ag the
creeks or rivers
disease to more fogs a
atmosphere than is common on
land.
than barley that stands upright. Don’t
cut the barley until fully ripened.
Barley should be sown only on land
tacks the bar
the
the
for the barles
land t
geems to have
hat lies near
due
thoroughly.
A
Keep the weeds down If you wish to
conserve the soil water supply.
- - »
Sweet clover will sometimes send Its
roots to a depth of four feet within a
year of being planted.
- - »
Plant soybeans if the clover or al
falfa fails. This crop may be seeded
up until late June with good results in
a normal year,
* » -
Rape, because of its high protein
content, 18 a desirable crop to he sown
with corn that is to be used for hog-
ging-off or sheeping-down,
- - *
Weed control is sometimes rendered
difficult because neighbors neglect to
do their share, and the careful farmer
suffers with the rest. Co-operation is
needed,
. " »
Soybeans require the same seedbed
and cultural practices as corn, They
should be planted In rows, like corn
or beans, with hills 20 inches apart
and two plants to the hill,
¢ «. » »
An onionlike plant that grows wild
along the Mediterranean coast pro-
duces the safest rat poison yet known,
It 1s ealled red squill and does not seri.
ously endanger other anima’ life,
DUBIOUS RECOMMENDATION
While In Switzerland a traveler was
make an ascent,
thought he might as well
inquiries about
accompany him,
was the
parties
“1 should say so.”
ost two
off without as much
himself.”
has come
Would Take a Train
An Englishwoman walked into the
ce at Chicago and asked for
to New York.
“Do you want to go by
asked the clerk.
“Certainly not,” sald the Eng
woman. “By train”
DEPENDS ON TACKLER
Juffalo?”
ball over
hard his
i nad
: he nage
y often rhirks
ax it st
when
it works,
awful it 8 ph.
A Regular Devil
A bashful youth had been presented
pper and for ten minutes he
sat speechless, growing redder and
embarrassed.
At length the girl sald, sweetly,
“And now let us talk of something
else "Hummel, Hamburg.
nore
Not in the Budget
[rate Pap i What ! You
marry my daughter—why,
make eno
want to
you don’t
ugh to pay the rent!
Dumbissimo-—-Well, Eloise and 1
in't expected you to charge us any
WHAT } MISSILE?
Mrs. Joax--liere's
misses her hushand,
Mr. Joax-—-What
him?
did she
Apparently Placid Stream
The river flcwing on its way
Now bids our cares redouble,
The waterpow'r it may display
Can cause all kinds of trouble.
Learned Better
Marmon-Does your wife still sharp
en pencils with your razor?
Smythe—No, she's learned better
since she started shaving her own eye
brows.
Needed Help!
“Heavens |” exclaimed the preacher,
“what's the ldea of that stream of
profanity I"
“Well,” replied the tough little cad
dy. “after a shot like tha' awful one
you just made somebody had to cuss
and 1 know you didn’t dare to do It
yourself.”
Correction
“Pop, hey, Pop!”
“Don't talk that way, Oswald, Pm
in the grocery business, not a foun
tain clerk.”
Had Reasoned It Out
“What makes you think she doesn’t
like yout"
“She told me she thought there was
a fool in every family.”
“Well, what of that?"
“1 had told her a moment before that
1 was an oinly child,”
Okeh With Her
Migs Fltt—How'd you like to take
a nice tong walk in the park?
Caller (enthusiastically) Oh, fine!
M. Fo~Then don't let me hold you
back.
BOWELS
need watching
Let Dr. Caldwell help whenever your
child is feverish or upset; or has
caught cold.
His simple prescription will make
that bilious, headachy, cross boy or
girl comfortable, happy, well in just
a few hours, It soon restores the
bowels to healthy regularity. It helps
“break-up” a cold by keeping the
bowels free from all that sickening
mucus waste,
You have a famous doctor's word
for this laxative. Dr. Caldwell’s record
of having attended over 3500 births
without Toss of one mother or baby
is believed unique in American
medical history.
Get a bottle of Dr. Caldwell's
Syrup Pepsin from your drugstore
and Fave it ready. Then you won't
have to worry when any member of
your family is headachy, bilious,
or constipated. Syrup Pepsin
18 good for all ages. It sweetens the
bowels; increases appetlile—
digestion more complete.
Jassy
Da. W. B. CALowewL's
SYRUP PEPSIN
A Doctors Family Laxative
Popular College Course
Colleze ct : .
are
In
rresg
HANFORD'S
Balsam of Myrrh
OILS ov
STOPS
No matter how large or sensitive,
CARBOIL immediately stops
throblring pein, ripens and haa
worst boll often overnight.
Carboll toflay from ihe, Su
Soothes pain, heals bolls, sores,
bites, ett. Generous box 50 cents,
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CHILDREN WITH WORMS
NEED HELP QUICKLY
Don’t delay a minute if your
child has worms. They will
destroy his health. If he grits
his teeth, picks his nostrils—
beware! These are worm
symptoms. Disordered stom-
ach 1s another.
Immediately give him Frey's Ver
mifuge. It has been the safe, vege-
table worm medicine for 75 years.
Don't wait! Buy Frey's Vermifuge
at your druggist's today.
Frey’s Vermifuge
Expels Worms
From Bad to Worse
HHubby—You didn't have a rag on
your back when I married you.
Wife-—Yes, but I've plenty of them
now. Pathfinder,
He who says we will have war so
long as we have uniforms is trans-
posing the effect and the cause,
MOTHERHOOD
Norfolk, Va.
-"] am glad to
recommend Dr,
ie Bre s Favor.
HY 1.
It is the ition
medicine 1 have
ever taken. I was
weak and run.
down followin
Hothethood a
did more for me Pe iption
medicine 1 have ever taken"—Mrs,
R. V. Murden, 1622 E. Olney Rd.
Weir Dr. Plores’s Clinte in Dalfale, N.Y
list found in weediclar
rs