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By B. A. BENEDICT
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grily, “if you are my boss. I'm
the girl you're going to marry,
and I should be treated with
more-——more respect.”
“Nuts!” gald Jerry Alcus,
“Listen, Baby, what are you: a
cream puff? Will you spoil or some-
thing if you're yelled at? Now, file
this bunch of letters and act human.
I'm too busy to argne’
“Oh,” said Cleo, “is that so!”
She tossed her titian head haughtily,
or what she thought was haughtlly,
and stood up.
The pile of letters which had been
lying in her lap fell to the floor and
skimmed about In every direction,
Ignoring them, in fact, tramping on
them, Cleo marched to the coat rack,
pulled her hat saucily over one eye
and wrinkled her nose at Jerry Alcus.
“In that case, Mr. Alcus, you can
take your job and your marriage pro
posal and—and run up a tree!"
She had reached the elevator and
was about ‘to step aboard when Jerry
caught up with her,
“Listen,”
that, You know 1 love vou ind 1
don't think
want me to let my hnsiness ta pot
just to make a molly-cotldie out
you."
“All I want,” said Cleo st
to be treated with respect,
yelled at. However,” she added, “it's
too late now.”
#1 DON'T care,” said Cleo, an
he said, “you don’t mean
you're erazy enonigh to
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this over.
Trustingly, he left her and went hack
igain at his departing
stepped into the elevator.
and one east, and summoned a taxi
Ten minutes later she entered the
lobby of the Capitan hotel
A young man wearing spats and ear
rying a walking stick, came rushing
across the lobby. His eyes glowed.
“It was awfully sweet of yon to
come, Frankly, I was a little afraid
you wouldn't.”
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“All | Want” Said Cleo, Stiffi
Be Treated With Respect.”
“You were! After | promised?”
“Oh, I say. I dida’t mean to offend
I mean, I was afraid something might
detain you."
“Are you taking me to a nch at the
Capitan? Cleo asked.
“Wonld you like to go there? They
say the food Is good and they have
music.”
Seated across from Larry Metealf at
a little secluded table in the Capitan
luncheon room, Cleo felt perfectly hap
py.
It was extremely satisfying to be
the object of so much attention, of be
ing catered to.
Comparing Larry to Jerry Alcus, she
felt like laughing. Not by the wildest
stretch of the imagination could she
pieture Jerry insisting to the head:
waiter that their table be placed out
of the draft, or helping her to remove
her jacket, or making tentative sng.
gestions for her luncheon. Rather,
Jerry would be concerned with his own
personal comfort.
Cleo looked across at Larry fondly,
It would be marvelous, she thought,
being married to a man who was for
ever being careful of you.
It was the sort of thing that made
a girl love a man and want to make
him happy.
She must be careful not to discour
age Larry in his efforts to please,
After lunch, Larry called a taxi,
made sure the window was not down
too far on her side, teniatively sug.
gested a drive in the park, agreed with
every remark she made about the
weather, scenery, business conditions
and general political outlook.
An hour later he deposited her at her
apartment and asked if he might call
that evening.
“Or do youn think youll
tired? he asked.
“I'd love to go out,” Cleo said
about eight.”
Waiting for Larry that night, Cleo
thought about him and regretted the
fact that she had met him only two
days ago.
It was grand knowing some one like
Larry,
Larry arrived at eight sharp.
They attended & theaters
Later they had supper,
At one o'clock they arrived back In
Cleo’s apartment.
At the door Cleo yawned. Instantly
Larry's face grew worried,
“You're tired,” he sald.
“I'l run along. Forgive me for
keeping you up so late”
“Why, I'm not one bit’ tired,”
said.
“There's no need to hurry. Come In
and I'll mix a cocktail”
be too
“Call
Larry smiled and shook his head,
“You're very kind. I'd feel guilty
atwut it. I know you have to get up
early in the morning.”
Cleo opened her mouth to argue the
point, and closed it again, A moment
later Larry was gone,
She sat down and yawned once more,
Well, perhaps she was tired.
seemed easy to relax.
Somewhat of a strain trying to keep
up with his many attentions. . . .
She thought of Jerry.
A knock sounded on the door,
She opened It, and there stood Jerry.
way Into the room, “who was that bird
I just saw
he up here? With yon?
you're running around with him?
“Jerry Alcus, you walk straight out
of here!"
“Pipe down. Kid, and mix me a
drink, I've got a bone to pick with
you. What's the Idea of running out
on me this noon?”
“When 1 left you this noon, 1 never
intenuod to see yon again”
“That's all right, baby, If you mean
it. I heen looking for you everywhere.
Now, let's have it out. Are you seri-
ous?
Strangely, Cleo no longer felt tired.
And strangely, too, she felt perfectly
relaxed.
There was nothing strained about
the atmosphere,
Jerry sat sprawled In a chair and
lit a clgareite,
fle hadn't offered her a cigarette
and be hadn't remained standing until
she sat down. lle went on:
“You know I love your, | think we
about that
on
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drink?
Clen's eyes hiazed,
“Please leave this apart at once!”
“0. K.”" baby. Give me my ring.
nd I'it go”
“Ring? Cleo ecanght her breath,
ked down at the third finger
hard, It was a little ring,
ad meant so much. She slipped
he handed it to him, without
! np. Bat instead of taking it
grasped. her hand and pulled her
into his arms,
“Is this good by. kid"
“Oh, Jerry, do yon want It to he?”
Jerry didn’t answer,
He Kissed her and pulled her down
on his lap
“lot's talk it over baby”
They talke
gan to ct Nhe admitted she had
made a mistake going out with Larry.
He was gickeningly attentive, le gave
and presently Cleo be
her a pain. She didn't want to be
molly-coddlied all her life,
Jerry yawned
Cleo looked at him tenderly.
“You'd beter go home, dear, and get
some sleep. You must be tired”
“OO. K., said Jerry. “1 guess | am.
You had me going for a while” He
stood np and crossed to the door,
“Don’t you ever pull one like that
again, i can't stand 1.”
(Meo laughed
“Yon great, "
She Kissed him. “It's
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molly-coddling
big babs love yon
to be fun
Crows on Electric Wires
Put Out City's Lights
Much trouble has been experienced
all over the world by birds ecaunsing
long ago a flock of crows, perching on
the electric power cables of the city
of Hello, In Korea, put ont ail the
lights, brought the tramway to a
standstill, stopped the work of a num-
ber of factories and closed the cin
emas, says Pearson's Weekly
When man took to stretching skeins
of telegraph wires across the . great
open spaces of Australia, where nes*.
ing sites for birds are few and far be-
tween, numbers of magpies welcomed
them with delight and built their large
untidy nests of twigs in the wires, thas
setting up short circuits. The author.
ities had to attach brackets to the
poles, away from the wires, with arti-
ficial nests built in them. The mag.
ples gratefully accepted these ready.
made residences, and left the wires
alone,
In Britain, birds are often killed by
flying on to live wires. Large num-
bers of valuable racing pigeons have
been killed by colliding with the cables
of the national electricity grid. In
Middlesex, 27 were picked up dead
around one pylon on a single day. A
marked improvement was made near
Aberdare by placing corks along the
earthwire. In Cornwall and other re-
gions around our consts corks on the
telegraph wires save thousands of bird
migrants’ lives—and the expense of
mending hundreds of wires broken by
geese and other heavy fowl,
Suez Canal Has No Locks
The Suez canal Is built at sea level
and has no locks, Port Sald is at the
Mediterranean end and was named for
Sald Pasha. He was the Egyptian
viceroy at the time the canal was
built. Port Sald was erected on a low,
sandy coast. [ts harbor is muddied by
the waters of an arm of the Nile
From Suez, at the southern end of the
canal,
sula, one of which is sald to be the
Mount Sinal of the Bible, ean be seen,
Red sea by the children of Israel may
have taken place near the southern end
of what Is now the canal,
Laws of Falling Bodies
The laws of falling bodies, when
applied to the earth and all the other
heavenly bodies, have proved them
selves absolutely infallible—and there
is no mystery in that field which they
cannot explain, Gravitation was
found to be the force which holds the
whole universe together. But even mt
that, nobody yet knows what this
force is.
"Civil
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
PEAK of a civil war In the United
States and the average American
immediately thinks of the battles
fought between the men in blue
and the men in gray from 18061
to 1865. But this great conflict,
which found 19 northern common-
wealths pitting thelr man-power
and thelr wealth against that of
11 southern states, was not the
only “war between the states” in our history,
Just a hundred years ago two northern states
were having a lively little civil war all of their
own In which there were “ralds” and “invasions”
by armed forces and in which bloodshed was avert.
ed only by the Intervention of the President of
the United States. That was the “Toledo war”
of 1535 between Michigan and Ohio,
This “war” had its origin away back in 1755
when John Mitchell, an English physician and
scientist, published In London a great map of
America In eight large sheets, This map was
accepted as the determining the
boundaries from that time until after the treaty
of peace which ended the Revolution, Mitchell's
idea of the lay of the land in the Old Northwest
was rather hazy, so there were a number of
errors In his map. Some of these were fortunate
for the United States, for they enabled the new
land thao it would
have obtained If the map had been correct. Bat
it was one of these errors which led ev
to the “Toledo war”
baxis for
nation to lay claim to more
entually
Mitchell made the mistake of charting
foot of Lake Michigan in latitude 41 deg
<0 minutes, instead of 41 degrees,
His map was used as a guide in 1787 when con-
gress adopted an ordinance for the government
of the Northwest Territory, including the pres.
Indiana, liinols,
provided that
ent states of Ohio
and Wisconsin,
two of the five ate thould le
nce
“north of an
east and west line drawn throogh the southern
bend or extreme of Lake Michigan” The pre-
amble of the ordinance also siated that its arti
cles should “forever remain unalterable unless
by common consent.”
In 1802 congress authorized the people of Ohlo
to form a state government for entrance into the
Union Accordingly a convention was held to
draw up a constitution, A trapper told the dele-
GOV. ROBERT LUCAS
gates that the actual foot of Lake Michigan was
some distance south of the point shown on
Mitchell's map. Ro the canny Buckeyes, de-
termined to get all that was eoming to them,
stipulated that if the east and west line laid
down by congress should fall so far south as
to miss Lake Erle, Ohio would then claim all
territory to the northermost cape of Miama bay.
In 1805 congress created the territory of Michi.
gan and fixed its southern boundary as provided
by the Ordinance of 1787. The result was that
the new territory claimed a strip of land some
five or six miles wide across the entire southern
side of Lake Erie, Including the port of Toledo.
“But,” retorted the Buckeyes, “that’s our land.
We Iald claim to it three years ago and we in-
tend to have It" So there was an acrid dispute
which dragged along unsettied for 30 years.
In 1885 Michigan was about to become a state
and sought to enforce its claim on the Lake Erie
strip. By that time Ohio had its Miami and Erle
canal system under construction and wanted an
outlet for it In Toledo, Stevens T. Mason, terri.
torial governor of Michigan, denounced this "Ohlo
steal” and the people of his state backed him up
in his determination to assert Michigan's claim
to the Lake Erie strip. In March, 1835, he rushed
an thousand Michigan militiamen into Toledo, re-
solved to hold it against the Buckeyes at all
CoRts,
At the same time Gov. Robert Lucas of Ohlo
called out his militia and marched to Perrys
burg with 600 of them to protect the Ohio sur
line—far enough north to include Toledo. More
gave it the name of Lucas In honor of their
governor,
When the Michigan militia forcibly ejected the
Ohlo surveyors, it was up to Lucas to assert
not only military but Judicial sovereignty over
this region. He began issuing commissions to
colinty officers and at midnight one night, while
the Michigan defenders of Toledo slept, a group
of Buckeyes stole into the town with law books
and judicial papers and hurriedly went through
the formalities of “holding court.” Having done
this, they raced thelr horses back to the protec
tion of the Ohio troops,
Michigan's retort to such actions was to cateh
mid imprison govery inhabitant of the disputed
wrritory who accepted a commission from Gov:
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ernor Lucas or otherwise indicated allegiance to
Ohio. One of them was a frontier notable, Ma}.
B, F. Stickney, a venerable and wealthy citizen
who had been Indian agent at Fort Wayne, Ind.
during the War of 1812, In order to annoy hin
and force him to give bonds for his release, thus
acknowledging the jurisdiction of Michigan, they
threw him into the same cell with a dirty, rag-
ged old Frenchman who had been imprisoned
for debt. jut Stickney outguessed them, He
gave the Frenchman enough money to pay his
debt and thus secured the freedom of the vermin
infested debtor and gained the sole occhipancy
of the cell.
Next the Ohlo legislature In special session
appropriated $300,000 and authorized its fighting
governor to borrow $300.000 more to maintain
Ohlo's jurisdiction over the Lake Erle strip. The
Ohlo adjutant general reported to Lucas that
10,000 militia were ready to march and drive the
Michiganders out of Lucas county where fights
between the rival factions were occurring almost
dally. Although there had been no fatalities as
yet, the gituation became so serious that Presi-
dent Andrew Jackson felt it advisable to step
in and have both states declare a truce until
congress could settle the dispute,
In congress Illinois and Indiana lined up solid-
ly behind Ohlo and its cause was further alded
in August, 1885, when Governor Mason was re-
moved from office for displaying too much war-
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like temperament. The fina
promise which was
thes bringing the “war” to »
Ohio's boundary claims, inclnding
the city of Toledo.
the loss of this importa
gave her what Is now Known
Peninsula,
Michigan didn’t think much of her new terri
tory at first but when rich deposits of copper
and Iron ore were discovered in the Upper Penin
land con.
ater, be
sula, she was glad enough to have the
taining all this natural wealth Yenrs
cause of the acquisition of the region, Michigan
became involved with anoiber state in another
boundary dispute,
In 1021 a resolution was offered in the Wis
consin legis
per Peninsula to secede from Michiga
inthre Inviting the people
nhich it is separated by water, and
part of the Badger state, to which it is Joined
by land. The resolution was rejected but repre.
sentatives from the peninsula followed it up
with a proposal that they be permitted to form
8 separate state to be called Superior.
Next the Michigan legisiature appointed a
committee to investigate the question of the
boundary line between Wisconsin and the Upper
Peninsula, and appropriated £10000 for its ex.
penses. It was asserted that surveyors chose
the wrong fork of the Montreal river when they
ran their lines and that 360 square miles of
territory, locluding the town of Hurley, Wis,
“the richest village in the world,” really belonged
to Michigan. When Gov. John J, Blaine of Wis-
consin declined to arbitrate the question, the
committee recommended to Governor Sleeper of
Michigan that he bring suit to recover these 360
square miles for the Wolverine state, However,
nothing came of this proposed “civil war” which
was to have been fought out by lawyers instead
of armed men,
The same error in the Mitchell map which
caused the “Toledo war” was destined to affect
also the boundary relationships between Wis
consin and Illinois, although it never precipitated
a crisis as it did in the case of Michigan and
Ohle. Back in 1818, when Illinois was about to
become a state, Nathaniel Pope, her delegate in
congress, argued for a northern boundary, where
the Englishman's map showed the foot of Lake
PRESIDENT ANDREW JACKSON
Michigan to be, instead of the bend where It
actually is, He declared that the direction ol
the new state's commerce would be determined
by its waterways and, If Illinois were shut off
from the lake, that commerce would follow the
streams which flowed into the Ohio and Missle
sippl rivers, thus affiliating its Interests with
those of the South, Foresceing the possibility
of “an attempted dismemberment of the Unlon”
he predicted that “Illinois will cast ber lot with
thé southern states. On the other hand, to fix
the northemn boundary of Illinois upon such a
parallel of latitude as would give to the state
territorial jurisdiction over (he southwestern
shores of Lake Michigan, would be to unite the
incipient commonwenith to the states of Indiana,
Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York in a bound of
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common interest wellnigh Indigsoluble, By the
adoption of such a line illinois may become nt
some future time the keystone to the perpetuity
of the Union”
Pope's prophecy was more accurate than he
could possibly have realized at the time. For
congress heeded hig plea and gave the new stale
the site of the future city of Chicago and a strip
of territory running 61 miles north from the foot
of the lake and west to the Mississippi. And
this did result in making inois a “keystone to
che perpetuity of the Union”
Had the original boundary, as established by
the ordinance of 1787, prevailed, Chicago would
have been in Wisconsin in that case it is a
question If the city would have become so great
as it has, For the lllinois and Michigan canal
and the lllinols Central rallroad, both of which
contributed 80 much to Chicago's early growth,
were due wholly to the enterprise of the slate
and probably would not ive been built to a
city in an adjoining state,
Having a port on the Great Lakes bound the
commercial interests of lllinols with those of
the North and, despite a large immigration from
the South throughout most of her territory, made
her a “Northern state” in the coming struggle of
1861-65, Moreover, the voles of 14 counties,
formed from the strip of land given to lilinois
by this decision, made Illinois a Republican state
and assured the candidacy of Abraham Lincoln
for President, t als gave her the cily of
Galena, the home o man named lynses 8
Grant,
In later sears this stris sured in a dispute
between inois a: WN TL wause of an
error made running the
boundary line wedge-shaped piece of Ji-
nois Is actually in Wisconsin at one end of the
line and a part of Wisconsin is in lliinols at the
other, Some citizens of lllinois believe that
Beloit, Wis., is in reality in Illinois and during
an lllinocis constitutional convention in 1920 it
was proposed to demand a new survey in order
to justify that clain Ti qaipon Wisconsin re
torted t ago and
all the rich suln he north under the “for-
ever unalterat rdinance of
1787. So the matter was hastil opped,
she would la: laim to Chi
The errors of the Eng + map-maker and the
mistakes f surveyo iting in dispoted
rihhwest, have not
ones, howeye hich have caused
heotween ss » been other
he “Toledo
war,” they have been wa iin the courts rather
than in the field, One of m began in Colonial
times—in 1081, when King Charles of England
granted illam Penn the 20000000 acres that
Pennsylvania. Im-
mediately Penn became involved in a dispute
with Lord Balt his neighbor
to the south, when It was discovered that the
later became the state of
imore of Maryland,
GOV. STEVENS T. MASON
line originally set between the two colonies
passed north of Philadelphia and placed that city
in Maryland, besides excluding Pennsylvania
from Delaware bay. Negotiations to correct this
mistake covered neariy a céntury before an
agreement was finally reached and during that
time there was a long period of litigation in the
English courts.
The Penns won a legal victory there in 1750 and
both sides were directed to proceed within 90
days to lay out and mark the boundary line.
Accordingly commissioners were appointed and
met In New Castle, Del, that fall, #nut again a
dispute arose and the wrangling of the commis.
sioners prevented the surveyors from accomplish.
ing any work. Finally the Penns decided to go
ahead anyway and engaged surveyors who set
to work in December. Before they conld com-
plete their work they lost thelr shelter and sup-
plies by fire and almost perished in the wilder.
ness. The next year the commissioners met
again apd accepted the work of the surveyors,
incomplete thongh it was, and placed stone mark.
ers where they had set their stakes,
Nothing more was done about completing the
survey until 1760 when a pew agreement was
signed by the proprietors of the two colonies,
But the surveyors had done such a poor job that
the Penns and the Calverts sent to England for
two famous mathematicians, Charles Dixon and
Jeremiah Mason, to come over bere and run the
boundary line.
Mason and Dixon started fn 1762 and did not
finish until 1767. But they did their job well for
when a resurvey was made 130 years later with
modern. instruments and modern methods, the
position found for. the northeast corner of Mary.
land differed only 180 feet from the position
which they had established. The original stones
for the five-mile marks on this line were carved
in England from limestone with Lord Baltimore's
coat of arms on one side snd the Penn arms on
the other. The boundary which they established
inter became famons as the “Mason and Dixon
Line,” a mythical dividing line between the North
and - South in the dispute over slavery, one
of the maln Issues in the greatest eivil war in
all history.
This boundary dispute between Maryland and
Pennsylvania was sot unique In American his.
tory, however, For almost every Hugh colony,
at one time or another, was at odds with her
neighbor over their dividing line. Some of the
persisted after they became states
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