' AND DAD ♦ By C. B. BROOKS. John Morley threw down his paper. He sat looking moodily through the half-closed door, just catching a glimpse of the knitters within —■one making a sweater, another a pair of socks, the third a helmet, all fer the boys. He took up his paper and reread the paragraph that told what dad's bit in the war consisted of —the one who stayed at home caring for the younger children, while mother goes to the Red Cross rooms to work, and the money he gave the girls to aid the sufferers of the stricken countries, and after all not ooe show of appreciation or praise does a father get. He was not sup posml to cherish tender memories of his boy as a child and man. "Hm !" grunted Mr. Morley, "doesn't a dad sacrifice his son and feel the loss of companionship? Doesn't he share in the proud possession of a soldier boy?" Now, John Morley was quite a fre quent visitor at the tire station, where his friend, Tim Bourne, chief, was al ways glad to welcome him. This eve ning found Morley at his old retreat. Even there he could not escape an array of sweaters and socks. "How did you learn?" he asked. "My daughter Grace showed us," proudly admitted Bourne. "Looks queer to see men knitting. I've never noticed it so much before — fascinating by the looks," yielded Mor ley. "'Tis," laconically agreed the chief, struggling with a stitch half escaping his clumsy fingers. "She —comes — nearly every—evening," he added, hesitatingly, so engrossed was he in his struggle with the truant stitch. "Coming tonight?" asked Morley, his voice half tremulous from the most as tounding idea working in his brain. "Ye-es," answered Bourne, triune, phantly catching the stitch back on th c i needle. It was with hands trembling wftli pride and fear that Morley took h;s first lesson from pretty, good-natured Grace Bourne. How the man worked and perspired over the arduous task ! "I'm coming again. I won't give it up. I want to make, a sweater for my boy Bill, 'over there,'" Morley cofflifid ed to his young teacher. "Why, I'm making one for Will; so we'll bo/.h be making a William sweat er; how funny!" laughed the girl. "Your brother?" asked Morley, .mis chievously. "N —no —a friend," blushed Grace. "I see," answered her pupil, staring audaciously at the ring sparkling on the young teacher's finger. Late that night his opinion of the young teacher was set forth in glowing terms in a letter to his son., Bill. The letter ended with these words: " and Bill, don't get entan gled in any love affairs over there, for I have found a perfect sample ©f a wife. Nc, you can't have this one, for a sparkling ring tells roe she is mort gaged to another fellow. Remember, I said sample, so she's not for sale. Remember my advice. "YOUR OLD DAD." There came an evening when Dad entered the room a conqueror, witii head held high. He opened a square bundle, majestically, and held aloft a sweater an<J a pair of socks. "Hm!" triumphed Dad; "perhaps dads are some use in this war;" &nc he pointed to the articles. "What —do-—you—mean, John," be gan Mrs. Morley. "Why, Dad Morley, you—you never —" Blanche gasped, then paused tc amazement. "Yes I did. you think fathers are mere puppe&s; that they have no patriotism? These are for Bill. Grace Bourne showed me at the fire station." Dad began rubbing his hands together. "As if you ha/1 to go outside to learn," pouted Eth«L "Why didn't yoe ask usr?" Dad shook his he*id and then said, jokingly : "A prophei io his own coun try, you know." "It is iiiot true hene, you dear old dad," and Ethel, notwithstanding her yarn-ensu&rled feet, sprang to her fa ther and hugged him tight. Mrs. Moriey quietly put a paper into her husband's hand. "Telegram ! Bill's coming home!" Dad's face fall a little. "Sorry, Dadexclaimed Blanche. "N—no; sort of disappointed about sending the sweater and soefcs. Thafs all. Bless the boy! I can't wait." "Perhaps he may need a sweater in America," saucily suggested Ethel. "I hopft he won't rave about aay girl over there, for I want to recommend one like my ideal —Grace Bourne. What are you laughing at?" He turned to Ethel* who was un snarling her ball of yarn. She sat there giggling. "Now Bill is coming I can tell the secret. Bill is engaged to as nice a girl as your ideal, Dad." "Don't believe it. He couldn't find one like her over there," persisted Mor ley. Ethel giggled again. "He didn't have to try, for he got her over here. • It's —it's —" tantalized the girl. ' Who is it, you tease?" queried her father. "It's —it's Grace Bourne herself. If you'd only had eyes and —why, where's Dad gone?" "To the fire station to find his future daughter, no doubt," laughed Blanche. And that's what Dad was doing. (Copyright, 1919, by the MeClure Newspa per Syndicate,) NEW YORK MADE RAT TIGHT Phrase Means That Enemy Agents and Spies Were Driven From Great United States Port. "The port of New York Is rat tight." This Is the phrase in,'the ver nacular of the sea which, is going around the world to quarter of the globe since the t customs- intelli gence bureau was organized in New York g year ago. Paraphrased in the speech of the -average American it means that it fcas been impossible for ari alien enemy or spy, any arti cle of contraband, or any secret me» saj?b or forbidden information that might (jhe cause of the enemy, to come or go out of this port without feeing detected by the vigilant eyes •>f Uncle Sam's guardians, a New York Pittsburgh -dispatch states. .More th? n 75 per cent of the im mense volume of munition shipments sent from the United States to Europe; passed through the port of New York, which has been the most important war port in the world. Moreover, it has been the main gateway through which travelers have passed either <n going to allied or neutral countries or coming from such countries to the Unitr i States. Because of this vol ume of travel and traffic New York ha<- been the spot from which enemy acr~ its have worked most assiduously To send in'onation and supplies to • '7: Mv countries. At <l it ir. because of these conditions that it has required :r ire force, more determination and 1 mstunt scrutiny to afford the protec tion which the vast interest.-; centering here have received. The best evidence that these con ditions have been adequately met i« found in 'he rafltto of seamen quotel above; 4 Xe~v Yorh is rac tight." 11 sums succinctly the fill*, measure ot value which has been rendered to allied nations by an agency of the gov ernment which iias worked so quietly here that many citizens even hnve n >t known of its existence. This agencj is the customs intelligence bureau, or ganized at the 'beginning of last year by the collector of the port. Up to the time that America entered the great world war persons desiring t<] travel abroad found no trouble in leav ing the United States. But with the opening of the war the customs branch of the government became an agency ot grave importance. And th* work they have accomplished without any question has saved many lives an<] millions -©f dollars. Glacier Climbing in U. S. Thanks to the "See-America-flr«t' movement and 'the difficulties of Euro pean travel due to the war, man; Ameri-caaas are 'finding out that the} can have *ll the thrills of seeing am climbing glaciers without paying th* Swiss iriTitteepePS and guides a stif toll. Right here in the' United State* easily accessible i)ut little known gla ciers show the awe-inspiring crevasse! and wonderful Changing colors tha one who has ever had first-hand ex perience with these slow moving river; of ice can never forget. Among the national parks easily ac cessible by railroad, that furnish th< sport of glacier Climbing, -are Glaciei park and Ttainier national park. I is Alaska, however, that offers the d< luxe glacier sightseeing. r xhis llttU known land not oniy has the largesi glaciers—big enough to make Switzer land's pride look insignificant—bu also the most easiiy accessible. Ii fact, during ihe summer season th< excursion steamers -run right up t< the face of the glaciers that descenc to salt -water, and thread their way ir among the bergs that 4iave broken off One of the sights along the seacoast is that of the iceman hitching his gasoline launch to a -baby berg anc towing it to a convenient place to cut out his supply.—Fred Telford, in iPopu 'Gar Mechanics Magazine, N*me K. Shall the man or the woman wh<y.op erates a tractor be icnown -as a traefcor ater, a tractorist or a tractioneer* That is a question -ati answer to which Is desired by large numbers of sfru dentv at the tractor -schools now beins established in varietis parts of the United States. Tr&etor operation? Jave been carried OR in a -somewhat hit-or-miss fashion th-as far, but now the Industry is being stabilized and permanent terms of expression are needed. Farming, in £ts relation to tractors, has apparently been set for ward a £OT>d ten years by the war. Tractor production fras outstripped tht? training of operators. Every farm bov was brought up to manage a horse, bu* this big steel beast must be handled in quite a different way. State tractor schools provide a short cut for turning out tnctor operators, whatever tl*oy are to be caEed. —Christian Science Monitor. Superior Knowledge. A young man was walking through a wood with a gun over his shoulder and his bag full c.f game which he had shot. He was not satisfied with what he had, and was looking for mere, when an excitfrd man with a large tin badge on which was in scribed the one word "Sheriff" came running up to him and demanded: "Haven't you seen the signs which I put up on the trees in this woods?" "Oh, yes, I saw them," answered the young man: "they said 'No Hunting.' but I found some." A New Viewpoint. "Your boy appears to enjoy work '.ng around the place." "Yep," replied Farmer Corntosse!; "the fact that he was willin' to get our an' fight for it lias sort o' woke Josh up + o hov uiueb . - really appreciated | ;us home." | THE TRAMP « By FRANCES BRIDGES. Marjorie Goldwyn, busily baking it - lasses cookies and singing in a lusty voice, did not hear a step on the porch. Her work and solo were interrupted by a slight rap on the door, and on reaching it she was dumfounded to be hold a. tramp. Now, if there was anything or any body Marjorie disliked, It was a tramp, because she was afraid of them. Yet tkis one seemed different; certainly •fee had a two weeks' growth ef beard and his hair needed to be cut, his clothes were in a dreadful condition, and there were almost no shoes. But he had a wonderful smile and dark brown eyes which sparkled with laugh ter. After the first shock she did not know whether to shut and bolt the door or ask him his business. "How do you do?" began the tramp. "Will you give me a piece of bread and a glass of water, please? I haven't had a mouthful since last night, and it is now twelve o'clock. 1 ' Marjorie hesitated a moment and then said: "Ye —s, ; es; but you stay on the porch." "Certainly," he replied, throwing his —tp upon the poi*ch floor and seat ing himself on the op step. £&e carefully lecked the door, not noticing a smile which flitted over her visitor's face, and proceeded to pre pare a rather substantial meal in place of bread and water. While he ate she remained inside the door an J watched. "That tasted mighty good," he said as he finished eating; "and now T will begin to saw the ever-ready woodpile." "There isn't any woodpile, but yoa are perfectly welcome to the lunch." "But I want to pay you in som« way," he persisted. "Can't I feed the chickens or wash dishes or anything?" "No, no," aeswered Marjorie rather sharply and growing perceptibly nervous. "I wish I could," he answered -smil ingly picking up his cap, "but pei'haps 1 will be able to later." • , As soon at he had gone, Marjorie locked all the doors, lowered all the shades and sat huddled up in a corner. About a month after the tramp inci dent, Marjorie went down to the pas ture to get oome violets. She had picked a big branch and started toward home when she saw wriggling through the grass, a huge black rattlesnake. She tried to scream but could stake nc sound; her feet seemed glued to th* ground:; her head began to whirl as th* reptile crawled nearer, and tfoen she fainted. When Marjofcie opened her eyes, hei i father was bending over her. She was ! at home, with a strange young man leaning on the mantel at the other «klc | of the room. '*Oh father," she cried, "I was sc afraid." MOf course you were, dear, but this young man, Mr. Tom Pierce, short thai rattler just in time." "Shot him," queried Marjorie. "Yes," said the young man, "I had : been gunning and was taking a cut through the fields to reach the main road ; and I,noticed you appeared frightened. When I came near enough ! I saw the -snake and shot him as you fainted." Marjorie thanked him, wondering at the same time where she had seen him before. This started a friendship which be' fore fall took on a deeper meaning. began .Tom one night, *1 have two confessions-to make." "Yes," urged Marjorie. "First, 1 love vjou witii all my heart, and have the first day we met; and Marjorie, do--do yoc love me just a Ufctie? <Gh, do say 'yes,'" pleaded Tom. "Ye*," whispered Marjorie, after hesitatSag & anoment. "But you iiiave made only one confes sion; w&at te the other?" —fearing if might be aboiat another girl. "Oh, yes, Xi&early forgot-fciat. Well, you see, Marjorie, I waa the tramp that day last Jmae; Ssad made a bei with the fellows I oould jough it for a month." "I thougfet 1 had seec you before the day you resetted sae," cried Marjorie. "And you were frightened when I rapped on the does, weren't you,.dear?" "Yes." answered Marjorie. "but how did I know you were to fee my future husband?" Aski the moon most courteously with drew behind a cloud for a few mo menta (Copyright, 1919, by MeClure Newspaj-er Syndicate.) Effects of Fasting. Experiments have shown that in a twenty-six day fast the muscles lose 42 per cent of their weight, the skin 2S per cent, the brain and spinal cord 22 per cent. tJhe blood 48 per cent, the liver 50 per cent, the kidneys 55 per cent, the stomach and intestines 30 per cent, the lungs 29 per cent, the kidneys 55 per cent and heart 16 per cent. The human body in starvation pro cures its supply of energy by the de struction of its stored fat and "pro tein" —the stuff that, when eaten in food, makes muscle and blood. If the deprivation be kept up long enough, it succumbs. Death ensues. Congressional Humor. "Here's another -tory I heard the other day in Washington." 4i Sx>fi •"* "Wh.'t's *he matter?" "Don't y know that the best an ci 5 'tes don't r< .ich Washington until " y have traveled all over the coun try ?" —Birmingham Age-Herald. HAS BROKEN ALL TRADITIONS Present King of Slam Only One of Hi» Royal Line to Refuse to Estab lish Harem. It is a curious fact that while wom en of the lower classes in Siam have always enjoyed the greatest freedom, participating and competing with men in the business and pleasures of life, the ladies of the royal household have been kept in the background, appearing at only the most private social gather ings and never at public or official functions. As all former sovereigns had in their harems the cream of the aristocracy of the country, and, as they inevitably felt a hesitant chivalry about exhibiting their "wives" in pub lic, they barred all women of rank from sight. The sovereign is expected to have in his harem a member of every influential family in the country, for it is considered that in no other way could he be ia such close touch with the people of his kingdom. Po lygamy has, therefore, been considered an obligation of royalty. But, curi ously enough, the present reigning monarch is a bachelor, the first and only bachelor who has sat upon the throne of h;'s fathers in twenty-five hundred years. And thereby hangs a tale, for marriage by a Siamese sov ereign has meant rot the simple taking of one wife, or a dozen, or even a mere hundred, but the wholesale adoption of a th< usand or more. The young king's father and his father's father, and each of the long line of kings pre ceding them, lad many wives. His fa ther tad between seven and eight thousand. And, when the young crown prince returned from his long stay ic Europe—he had passed a third of his life there—he was told by his royal ; fatker the t there had been selected for him £. number of court beauties from wlii-eh he could take his choice of a hundred or two for his harem. Bui j the prince would have nothing to dc with this wholesale acquisition of s husband's holdings. "When i marry,' | he declared to his astonished father ! "it will be to one wife and to no mere and sie shall be the one qaeen of mj ! "heart md the one queen of my rea'rn.' I —Fro n "The Land of the White Ele | phant," by Frederick Dean, in As it ! Magazine. Couldn't Be Discouraged. , There are croakers in every country 1 always boding its ruin. Such a on< I then lived in Philadelphia; a .person o : not?, an elderly uwin, with a wise 100 I | and a very grave manner of speaking, his name was Samuel Mickle. The gentleman, a stranger to me stepped one day at door and aske( me if I was the young man who ha< lately opened a new .printing house. Be ing answered In the affirmative, he sai< ftoc was sorry for me, because it wai an expensive undertaking, and the ex pense would be lost.; for Philadelphis was a sinking place, ,f&e people already ialf bankrupt, or near being so; all ap pearances to the contrary, such as nev ' buildings and the rise of rente, being t< i his certain knowledge fallacious; foi they were, in fact, among the thingi that would soon ruin <us. And he gave me such a detail of -misfortunes no\A existing, or that were soon to exist that he left me half melancholy. Had I known hiaa before .1 engaged in this business, probably 1 never -should have done it. This man con tinued to live in this decaying place, and to declaim in the same strain, re fusing for many years to buy & house there, because all was going to de struction ; and at last I had the pleas ure of seeing him gire five times as much for one as he might have bought it for when he first began his croaking. —Autobiography of Benjamin Frank ilin. Strategic Advantage. A major, attired in his raincoat, was ■crossing the parade ground one rainy morning when a young medical officer, hastening toward shelter, came past and saluted without slowing down. "Walt there a minute, lieutenant," called the major. "Never salute when at the double time. Strlctry against regulations." With that the major launched orrt upon a long lecture on the significance and value of the salute, while the lieu tenant, now standing stiffly at atten tioo, was drenched to the skin. A few days later the major was af flicted with toothache and sought the services of a dental surgeon. As he reclined in the chair, he thought he detected a .peculiar expression of sat isfaction on the young dentist's face. "Look here," he said suddenly. "Haven't I seen you before?" "Yes, sir," was the answer, "you were speaking to me the other morning about saluting—" "Great Scott!" yelled the major, leaping from the chair and starting for the door, "I've had some close calls in my time, but never anything to com pare with this one." —Judge. Envious Cat. Mrs. Portleight (loftiiy)—Oh, yaw*s, I'm having a town ear manufactured to order. Mrs. Skalpel!—You have my sincer est sympathy, my dear. But honestly, you don't look ten pounds heavier than you did last fall! —Buffalo Express. Fortunately Placed. "Robin Hood was lucky." "In what way?" "He lived early enough to be known by a comparatively respectable title instead of being called a bolshevlkl." The Way. She —Do you think you could man age the rental of a houseboat this summer? He—l don't know how, unless by means of a household sale. 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In the following year the Jour nal Comnwce starred a rival serv ice, wjiieh enaJded it ro print Wash ington news in New York within 48 hours tiff its occurrence. The most norabie express-mail service of all was the "pony express." which carried messages by relays of riders across mountains and deserts and through hostile Indian territory from Sr. Loui to S:;n Francisco, covering UxXJ rnile< in 10 days. Tea Testing. To ascertain wherl r color lncr matter has been added to *en. plaee a quantity • n 1 !r.'e paper and rub vith knife to a fine powder. Now brush the paper with a brush, and if any Prussian blue has been u.ld th« n will be littie streaks on the paper. Ot'.'y T '? ** • r forf«irrartoa f —» Hired Man's Life Saved. James was howl egged and felt ft his duty to whip every hoy that re minded him of the fact. When he vis ited in the country the hired mso laughed and told him he wouldn't stop a pig if he tried. James told his moth er what the man had said, then add ed : "He's pretty hig, and I'm mighty glad he didn't say I was bowlegged.*" Thinking of Strenuous Day*. P.nrher (earried away hv his rent niseenees)—"And when he'd looped th« loop h<* did a nose dive that fairly took your hreath away."—Boston Ev*» ninjr Transcript. Good Rule for Life. We are ruined, not by what w tr really want, hut by what we think wa : therefore, never go abroad In search of your want*; for if they be real want- ihey u;il < ouie in .-»-nrch of you. ll<* that buys what he does not want, will «nr>! want what he cannot buy.—Col ton. Daily Thr»u"<r.?. I is 11. * said. —(ic r - - C.LL.' p.. <;.u
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