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An eight- ce, needs twen- Later on the fluid per pound amount of fluid ed baby is best ng him before the whole day; ted for the bot- ke up any de- nt water often ying, upset and esn’t, give him her's Castoria. s of babies and , cholera, diar- nd bowels, con- , loss of sleep, ling physicians effective, It is ecipe is on the s of mothers in over thirty g use. It regu- akes him sleep him to get full food; so he in- » should, With book on Moth- t in gold. ion, Look for H. Fletcher on be sure to get ty-cent bottles - THE GHOST AND | THE GIRL . (© by D. J. Walsh.) HAT a ghost was responsible for “Old Man” Jensen's moral reformation- everybody in the little isolated mountain com- munity knew, The ghost’'s appearance had done more than merely put Max Jensen on bis good behavior, It caused Jensen to cancel his mortgage on the Widow Mears’ farm. It resulted in the “Old Man's” halting further objections to the marriage of his son, Max, junior, to the widow's only daughter Elsie. There are only two persons in the community who have never taken the ghost story seriously. They are young Max and his mother, “You can take your choice of mar- ryin’ the Mears girl and going some- where else to make your livin’ or you can quit her and stay home.” “I can’t see why you should despise Elsie just because her mother is poor,” said the young man. Max junior, just back from three years at an agricul- tural college, was the pride of an illit- erate and superstitious but wealthy father. “Before 1 met your mother I was courtin’ Mrs. Mears and she turned me down when she knowed I'd be the richest man in the township. She married Mears. That got me. Mears and me used to be big pals and we broke up, too. “I got a chance now to show the old girl where she slipped. I've held a mortgage on the Mears place some five years now. “The mortgage falls due Monday and Monday 1 get the. Mears farm and the widow and her daughter will be paupers. 1 can’t have my son mar- ryin’ a pauper or her mother gloatin’ over what a good catch the girl made.” Young Max knew he would have to act quickly. Borrowing money to give the girl was out of the question. The widow would never accept a gift. Mrs. Mears and her daughter had farmed their little plot near the Jensen place these ten years since Mears died. They grew constantly poorer, but they had a great deal of pride. The son changed the subject. “Pop, 1 want to run down to the county seat over Sunday,” he declared. “All right,” said the old man, knowing he would be better off not to have the boy around when he made the con- templated foreclosure on the Mears farm Monday. In the city Max visited a friend who owned an airplane. He told his plans. Monty Perkins, owner of the plane, listened with interest. “Sure I'll help you with the scheme if you're positive the landing places are good.” “It will take us only a little while Saturday night. You can get back by midnight. But we'd better fly out to- night when no one can see us.” That night Perkins and young Max returned to the latter's community by air, landing easily in the pasture Max had mentionéd. “For once I'm glad pop has all his old-fangled ideas about ghosts,” said Max. “Then we ought to get by if he doesn’t try to shoot at us,” said Per- kins. “Don’t worry, these fellows down here only shoot when they think the guy is a special government agent,” replied Max. Late the next day “Old Man” Jen- sen, driving a rather dilapidated au- tomobile of the common garden va- riety, started from his farm to the village ten miles distant. “Let's get ready,” Max suggested. There was a small strip of woodland along the road the “Old Man” had to travel. The grove, like the pasture just behind it, was on the Mears prop- erty five miles from the Jensen place. Opening a large bundle, young Max took out of it a complete outfit of clothes. With the aid of a mirror he dressed himself until he looked just like a picture of a man he had placed before the mirror. “I'll bet I'm a dead ringer for old man Mears now,” he commented as he rubbed some phosphorus paint over his face and hands and applied a mus- tache and a goatee. Taking a pickax In his hand, he walked over to where Perkins was sitting. “I'm going over through the grove by the roadside. Pop will be coming back home now. It's almost dark and the moon ie coming up. He'll see me at work and stop and talk. Then he'll probably try a quick getaway. His old buggy can’t make over ten miles up the hill. [I'll run right back here then. You be in the machine and we'll be ready to hop off the minute you see me,” said Max. “Just so long as he doesn’t hear our motor,” said Perkins, “No chance; his bus will drown our sound and after he sees me he'll only be thinking of a getaway.” Night had just fallen. “Old Man” Jensen was driving slowly homeward. As he neared- the wood lot on the Mears farm he saw a figure working inside the fence. “What the heck?” he mused to him- self, driving his car nearer to the side of the road where the man was work- ing. “Hello, stranger,” called Jensen cheerily. “I didn’t know old lady Mears had a hired man.” The stranger failed to look up, but kept grubhing at a stump with his pickax, working silently. “Funny-lookin’ cuss,” mused the old man to himself when he noticed- by the light of the rising full moon that the man was wearing attire common to the mountain folk of fifty years before. “Oh, stranger, I say, be ye old lady Mears’ hired man?” he almost shout- ingly asked, thinking that perhaps the man was deaf, The figure on the other Side of the | fence drew himself up to full length. Jensen's face paled. Frantically he looked up and down the road for an- other possible traveler, while his foot madly sought the accelerator of his | car, With a jerk the car swerved into | the road. The motor died. Jensen sprang out to “crank.” Seeing before him the living image of his former neighbor, Dan Mears, had given him a jolt. The face glow- ing with phosphorus had done the rest. “I ain’t monkeying with any ghosts, I ain't,” he stuttered to himself as he clambered back. into the car and started for home as fast as the lum- bering vehicle of 1914 vintage would 20. “The ‘old man’ didn't wait to keep up the conversation when he saw my face,” exclaimed young Max exult- ingly as he came running up to the airplane, : “That’s good,” said Perkins as his pal climbed into the rear seat of the plane. A moment later the machine was in the air. Then for two minutes it circled aloft only to settle down along the roadside in another pasture almost opposite the Jensen home, Here again the machine was hidden by a small grove of trees. Young Max climbed out of the plane, ran through the grove, climbed over the fence and started walking down the road toward the Mears farm. He wasn’t a moment too soon. Trying frantically to get more than | i T BANKER IS SENT TO PRISON FOR oe KILLING FRIEND Former Wealthy Financier and Pioneer South Dako- tan Now Occupies Cell. Sioux .alls, 8. D.—From the posl- tion of one .f the leading bankers of | South Dakota, with considerable per- (sonal wealth at his command, to a ‘cell in the state penitentiary in Sioux | Falls, mark: the change in the for- tunes of George H. Randall, aged | sixty-seven, He was one of the pio- neer residents of what now is Soutn Dakota and during the height of his career as business man and banker he numbered his friends by the hundreds. He must serve a term of four years in prison for second-degree manslaugh- ter, having been convicted of adminis- HE PATTON COURIER Press Staves Off Deadly Boredom by Giving Suspense to Life By DR. THADDEUS L. BOLTON, Temple University. EWSPAPERS are indispensable to the happiness and well-being of mankind, for they supply the stimulus to animation without which the life of the average citizen would become unbearably monotonous. It is difficult to know how we would get along if murders, disasters, instances of banditry, descriptions of crimes and con- flagrations were not brought to us. Suspense—the alternation between hope. and depression—is after all something that our natures demand, and here is where the newspaper comes into our routine lives as a saving grace, snatching us from this dreaded lingering death by boredom. Shooting the chutes and riding on the scenic railway in the amuse- ment park supply the necessary prods to children. The modern news- paper performs this function for the adult of higher mental level. What does a horse race in England amount to without its spills? Would boxing bouts be considered worth while by the fans if blood | tering poison to Ole Peterson Moen, seventy-one-year-old rancher and city preperty owner at Rapid City, Just east of the Black hills, so he could gain possession of the $35,000 estate of the dead man. Randall recently lost out* in his attempt to obtain a new trial, and was immediately lodged in the state penitentiary. Sensational Case. The case has been one of the most sensational in the criminal history of South Dakota. Moen died in convul- offered for probate a will purported to have been executed by Moen, in which the dead man’s estate was bequeathed to Randall. OtherS had expected to inherit the property of Moen, who was without relatives in this country, and brought about an investigation which resulted ten miles an hour out of his car on | the up grade “Old Man” the pedestrian approaching him, Thinking here was a kindred Spirit, | the old man stopped the car and waited for the stranger to come up. When the man was within ten feet of the car he stepped directly in front | halted and pointed | of the headlight, his finger upward. It was the figure Jensen had left behind in the Mears woodlot. His ear wouldn't start. With a yell the old man sprang out, dashed across the road, over the fence on his own land and in a few moments, almost ex- hausted, he sank down on his own doorstep. A little later Mrs. Jensen found him | sitting there, “I didn’t hear the car,” she com- mented. “Nope, the engine died and 1 walked | Have the hired man go up the hill. to get it. I'm too tired.” “Max, something odd happened this evening,” said his wife. “When I was making supper a man came to the | door and asked for a drink of water, He almost frightened me. out this way to look for some land he owned. Said it was going to change hands In a few days and he was cal- culatin’ to make -his home on the place when it changed. Said he was goin’ to live with the new owner. He didn’t say where the land was nor nothin’, thanked me for the water and went right on.” “He—he what?” asked Jensen, fail- ing to notice a semblance of a smile in his wife's eyes. “Oh, nothing,” remarked his wife. “Better come in; supper is ready.” Meanwhile Max junior and Perkins returned to the city by air, and spent a pleasant Sunday together, after which young Max started back for his father’s farm—this time on the train. Monday morning came. Bright and early “Old Man” Jensen found him- self rapping ut the door of the Widow Mears’ home. “Come after the mortgage payment, ain’t ye?’ che asked. “I wonder if 1 could have a few days’ time. I could maybe sell the cow to get enough money to meet the interest and get a new renewal.” " “You can't have any more time, Mandy, I'm tired of waiting. I've waited too long,” said Jensen. “My wife and I had a long talk about this mortgage Saturday night. Yoar man and me was good friends. You and 1 was, too, once. Besides my Max and your Elsie have a pretty stiff case. I don’t want to see my son’s future wife turned out of her on home. Here is your old mortgage. Burn it up. Ye don't owe me noth- in.” “Oh, Max, how can 1 ever thank you?’ gasped the widow, tears of joy streaming down her cheeks. “Don’t,” was the one-word comment of the community’s richest farmer as he turned on his heel and walked down the road. “Anyhow,” he mused to himself, “that ought to down Dan's ghost for a while. Maybe it was my disposition that made me see what I did. Maybe it wae a real ghost. Anyhow, the wife is right. She says it don’t pay to monkey with things as concerns the dead and, besides, most folks would have thought 1 was too hard on Man- dy if I'd a done what I was going to do. Besides, as the wife says, my folks didn’t want me to marry her either, yet we've had a pretty good time these years.” At home that morning young Max came into the kitchen where his moth- er was working. “Elsie sure liked the ring I gave her this morning,” he told Mrs. Jensen. “I'll bet she did ” said the farm wife as she stuffed the remalns of what was once a theatrical costume into the kitchen stove and then directed her son’s attention to the table on which lay a card announcing that Max Jen sen had signed s wmporatwe pledge, Jensen saw | He looked | Itke a twin brother to old Dan Mears. | “Funny thing, too, he said he was To a Cell in the State Penitentiary. of having killed the old man by placing poison in medicine which he was tak- ing for a physical ailment. Chemists examined the stomach of Moen and found sufficient strychnine to have caused his death. Their tes- timony had a great deal to do with the conviction of Randall when the case against him was tried. It was shown | at the trial that Randall was a fre- quent caller on Moen at the boarding house where he lived, and had every opportunity to place the poison in his medicine without detection. Suicide Defense. It was urged in Randall's behalf at committed suicide. While the evidence against the ac- cused was purely circumstantial, it was deemed sufficient by the jury to return a verdict of guiity. The term of four years to which he was sentenced was the maximum which could be imposed under state statutes for second-degree manslaughter. In addition to having been engaged in the banking business for many years at Canova, S. D., Randall served as county treasurer of McCook county and in other positions of trust. During recent years his once large fortune had gradually melted ways, until at the time he was arrest- ed on the poisoning charge, it was said, he was badly in need of money. If his dire need of cash prompted him to hasten Moen’s death so he could ob- tain possession of the estate and sev- on deposit in banks. Their First Chance Brownsville, Texas.—The entire vot. ing strength of Point Isabel, Texas, 308 souls, answered a blanket sum- mons for a grand jury investigation of the first and only municipal elec- tion ever held in the one hundred- year-old seacoast town. Of Course Paris.—“Taxicab” English in 20 les. sons for $2.40 is now being taught Paris chauffeurs, results guaranteed. “Tip” is one of the first words they learn, Dog Brings Help Logansport, Ind.—A faithful family dog led Mrs. Ed Metz to the wood lot, where her husband was found dying He had suffered a stroke of paralysis while at work alone. sions on September 19, 1927, and with- | in a short time thereafter Randall — | in the arrest of Randall on the charge | the time of the trial that Moen had* away | through poor investments and in other | he really was guilty of the crime of | which he was convicted it is thought | eral thousand dollars which Moen had | { did not flow freely? . What does it matter to the spectator whether a conflagration causes | 81, 000,000 damage, if only the spectacle has been grand and filled with thrills? We cannot possibly attend all the Riess fires, earthquakes, un- successful transatlantic flights and other occurrences of the kind in person. The modefn newspaper does this for us, and thus saves our con- sciousness from “innocuous desuetude.” Invineible Forces at Work Making for Growth of Internationalism By DR. JOHN RANDALL, Director World Unity Foundation. Popular conceptions of nationalism have been so magnified since the World war as to assume the aspect of a great popular myth. The notion attributes to an international boundary line mystical properties far greater than those it actually possesses. At the beginning of the war the French and the Germans resorted | to every subterfuge to make it appear armed forces of the opposing na- | tion had crossed the boundary first, solely to gain popular support by an appeal to this prejudice. But coincident with the spread of this glorification of nationalism, the world’s nationalism. themselves self-sufficient, but today every nation specializes, terdependent with the others in the intricate economic scheme of the economic forces have been steadily at work making for inter- A hundred years ago most countries might well have styled each is in- world. ' Youths’ Disregard of Moral Standards Due to New Significance By DR. MAX C. OTTO, University of Wisconsin. If modern youth looks lightly upon the moral standards of the older generation, it is because young people suspect their elders of making ‘a | failure of life. Interviews with hundreds of high school and college stu- | dents have revealed the wide prevalence of dishonesty in school work, and | that dishonesty was not considered in the moral category of people. | While the older generation has accepted science with its mind, but not with its heart, youth has taken the new developments of biology and psychology into the fiber of its being, and is trying to make life insignifi- this new world. cant in terms of Hope for the future lies in helping youth in the search for a new form of human existence that shall bring a sense of achievement rather than frustration. the Articles of a Creed By REV. CHARLES FRANCIS POTTER, Detroit. The New Thought in the matter of affirmative re- It is high time we abandoned the religion of fear. cults have much to teach the churches ligion. Laughter is conducive to health. A hearty laugh will cure a cold. Laughing heartily and frequently will get a person in the habit of breath- ing correctly, and correct breathing is the first lesson in health. doleful sermon by a long-faced parson. Laughing should be a part of religion. a sense of humor, 1 know that they are likely matrimony. If I had a creed one of its articles would be, “I believe in salvation by good humor and joyous laughter.” | Into the Youth of Today | By SIR WILFRED GRENFELL, English Missionary. Football _ Yasehall and track men are needed in the Christian church if it is to solve the problem of saving the world. The task is not one for half-hearted believers, in an age when theological questions have lit- tle attraction for the young men who will be leaders tomorrow. Back- | bone and faith—the kind of faith that can be described as reason grown courageous—are the properties needed. Faith is not a fool's credulity. It is Charles Lindbergh is a typical example of the man who had faith in the thing he sought to do. 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