The Clinton News Record, 1928-03-01, Page 3A PERFECT PEACH
LoVe, PSinOPf-; ti e Ledgers, is
-She had a, f, •cinating little nose, "I'assure you Mr. 1i
ism, its no
,,7ust,tilrned up'a tt'1f1 at• the tips, in 0 strain
• ,way which seerned, to• give her. mouth 'Don't argue Go home'
more perfect shape ,• As 'she stood be ','lint r 'Premised „to, ceaci'sMiss,
side niy desk in the private oiflco, all, Heather."
the questions I had meant to as?t' her '<Maieh" I 'said Fiolemnly,' . '"Miss
went clean• out of my hemi, So; hi-',,l'Ieather shall not suffer through lack
stead of 'asking if she lc imw holy to 1 of tuition.•. Tare your liat . and coat
enter up a, l'odger•, 1 'Sacci: "Do sit and go home it mace, -I will coach
or' ler Miss II other!•'
1 ,
down," and placed .a chair 3
near my own.For a niorrePt ha seemed inclined
.. � :,.
to continue the arginnent. Then he
"heeo your ;name is ,D tphse,Ile<ath-
er, ' I went on, consulting the ; note thought, better •ol it, got -up, bade- us
Jimmy Marsh, our len 'clerk; head lerk; had good -night, and went away.
able flat, and no relations to support
"Wall?" she l)roatlled,
"Well, you—er--you rove Binns don't
you?"
ii'Ye`tl,of.Patine( -1 det'
given me. I seated myself beside the girl and•.
"Yes, sir;" we _both went over the open ledger.
She 'spoke timidly, but her voice A tiny frown. lined her white fore-
,
was musical head; as she stared at the ,rows of
"Well," I told her, "my name's Bill fig`ui•es froin under -Tier curly black
Lawton. I'm looking after the firm l hishos:'
because my uncle's on the Continent- • ''Better put a straight nose on your
Yor.:a month.- That's why you''re inter- sevens," I advised softly. "Otherwise
viewing me ' , <, • they look rather like nines. This is
"I seo, sir,", she said, with dust the what I,mean." I.laid my hand over
fainher 'lips hers and -guided the pen.
cul'vost smile which uladb,., "Yes, that is a plainer seven," she
curve adorably.
"Yloaso P ii't cull me �
`sir.' ,Now, agreed; and gently •disengaged her
d"hand.
about this job you want, Miss. Heath' Nell; -we' made quite' good' progress
er, Here's the difoculty. My uncles• that evening with the •ledger. , After -
not very. keen about lady 'pborejudiced
dine with me.
s rather Preiudieed' wards I _asked "her .to ,
fact; -he's. t"'ho alized
era; in c She hesitated But;when ehe:re
Still, ifyou're very, eY .r
,against them, S I e the theory
{liat.I. wonted, to di.,cuss
the case.
les-
• ficient, that aright a of boo tke0- ing, . all was well, We
The' large blue oyes:regarded mo 1 n . 'uiet little restaurant I
rather pathetically, dined at q•,
honest; Mr. Law- know, in the light of a Pink -shaded
"To bo perfectlylamp. On second thought, I post -
ton," she said, "I'm not yet very ob; pond ,the book-keeping' discussion.
to
-n t
o e i
hoe g
-T amturned u
Butr P
• lentlette
ireruin a
Next morning N0,
color
t �
ave
of fain tirb shire
'and--and"--a,clients" in De Y
rind "Mr.from one of our cl e
touched her anised to James raising many, impo'r'tant questions. I
Marsh has Premised_.to coach me i1 sent for Jimmy
• you'll give: me 'a trial." "Marsh,' I said briskly, "you must
Ind My tone a'as, rather rn down and see old Bevan at once.
stern. ''Indeed! Now lot me give You I'll - wire and say you're -coming,
a word of advice cn'the brink of your
Here's his letter. You'll have to stay
be tooss career, Mise Heather. Don't the night in Derby, so cut along home
be too ready to accept these offers of and' pack your nag. If it should be
helpfrom male clerks, Men are— to stay away a couple of
_ necessary
er—that. is, thee cls not or -I mean nights de so. I shall understand."
you've got "to be careful. IIe appeared a tilfie taken aback.
An ocheexPression of the little
fad her -
This was the kind of job I usually.
rer touched her sweet little 'face:' liked to talcs on myself.
`Careful of Mr. Marsh?" she falter -
The day seemed uncommonly Jong,
ed. , but at Iasi came closing -time. Being
"Oh, Jimmy's all right in his way,: now responsible for Timmy's work,. 1
1p ntadmitted,vie . you kuind
and all hs Yisitod the general office and saw
point of view. He's kifid -and all that,. them all out. Daphne' entrenched be -
not a.bit of a wlavhater. You must hind ledgers, hesitated. I pulled up
not go falling inn love .with him, Miss: a stool and joined her.
Heather. That's'what I really mean:' "Do you approve of new sevens?"
I•looked at her in a paternal sort she asked shyly: ^
-. way, but'site only laughed. I studied the. figures with close at-
- "Therm ori will give mea trial, Mr. • .
Y tention,•
L
aveton?" .
Then T'tti sura I e vou't w
-Co go qn ,working hole:'
' ilut 1, ',want to,, and that's enough:
fer 1111n.` IIe's, aiv ttrs ➢icon inolt:
kind
" o I' cad re-
"• + - �
ever aloe
fr g 3
You've known him all that time?"
"Of course!' Oh, but you don't
Ica ow,, Wo thought:lt lvohld• be lath- 1
e• fun not to toll you—' She
broke off, bubbling with laughter. `
"You mean you've Itean eugagcd to �
Jimmy all along?". •
"No; Imean his mother married'
twice."
"Well?" .
"And I'm the baby of the family:"
I fairly leapt from my chair.
"Do you mean;"'•I demanded, trying
to keep my voice steady, . "that Jim-
my is your half-brother?"
•She gave a demure little-; nod. She
hadn't time fog; more, because next
inomont.1110 wasin his arms.
"You ,precious sweet!" I stammer
od, "you will not want this obl", And
I kissed the tip`; of her doar little tilt-
ed nose.—(Answers,)
Bank R Moors.
-$5000
-
®oo,
Dead
• we
Not a Cent
"They certainly are less like nines,"
'P11give '.you •a mouth's trial. "But'vvo less out a little
I admitted.
doper or not you get the job then their noses:?`' This Is what I
;Whether on ourself, Partly tilt to -,
will depend partly he meant' . '
on myuncle. , When '�Cotaos e?back, aid a hand over hers and gnided
I'm no longer' in charge. ;You see?" the pen,
"Quite. Thank you very much in "But I {bought You preferred
deado May I start at once?"straight noses, Mr. Lawton?"
"You may. Mr. Blarsh•ndil'sot.you "Oh, no-o-ol A tip -tilted -nose for
going. Please say, want- to see him
me every time!when he has a moment to spare:" edeathusiasm,'loolcing deep
ep` into her
Again she thanked me Prettily azul big blue eyes,
tripped out of the room. I tried to Down' came the curly lashes, while
concentrate on business, but found it a delicious blush swept her smooth
pssae lt. And a full twenty minutes cheeks. It was just about dinner -time
passed before he'came to see mo. urhen the ledgers were filially posted.
"Mersin', Marsh!" I. said dryly. Wo got the same table. She looked
"I've been interviewing that ,young lovelier than ever under the pink
woman you recommended as book-
keeper. She does not pretend to be Next morning I went to the office
very efRgint." with a feeling of relief. Jimmy would
Jimmy is thirty -ileo; though he still bo in Derbyshire.' Then I found
looks young for his age. :His black a letter from him to 507 he was re -
hair lies a silly natural wave, the sort. turning that night. --Well, this meant
of thing .,a girl might admire, He another dinner with Daphne, and per-
sething
even Younger than usual to-.
day. •
"Bliss Heather is a straightforward
girl," he said. "That'd why she told
you the truth. I'll undertake to make,
her, efficient enough by the time the
01d Man comes back" '
• "Seems rather like turning the of.
Texas Solves the Way to
Clean Up a Situation That
Caused
Whole Con-
tinent
Cau
Has
Worry
WORTH TRYING HERE
Dead Bank -Robbers-$5,000 Each
Live Ones—Not A. Cent,
Such are the latest quotations for
bandits in Texas. "No quarter," it
appears: is the slogan In the guerrilla
war there between society and the
oriruinal. Mr. W. M. Massie, presi-
dent of the Texas Bankers Associa-
tion, writing in "Banker's Monthly"
(Fort Worth, Texas) on "Why We
Pad for -lead Bandits,' begins by
quoting a laconic sign which is dis-
played prominently' in every _ one of
the fifteen hundred or more banks in
Texas. Its breezy' but sinister frank-
ness
rankness might evoke a shudder in the
squeamish, but the callousness is
evidently -_ part of the designed
",punch." Here 7s the sign, as' quoted
by Mr. Massie:
African Bush ,
Shrouds Airplanes
MAURITANIATS PROPELLER`
world's fastest ocean liner is undergoing 'a,-thorougihrOverhauling in'
The
the floating dock at Southampton.
6SA
1
said,' in his
•" g and reward As Prof., hrnost Barker
NV
inster charming essay = in. our
lfl� �s� 1 g y
Abb
"9'"columns on WednesdaY, we rise a
i
ey rony Tittle toward the stature of the dead
when we pea' a heartfelt tribute to
One of the spiritual victories of the . their memory.' We' regard the burial
day is counted the burial of the ashes of Thomas Hardy in the Abbey as one
of Thomas Hardy in Westminster Ab• I of the ,spiritual victories of the day."
bey. Also it isf counted an irony
by
which d • taws
the Westmnat0 r Gazette,
a moral from the. ,hovor accorded
Hardy and denied George Meredith..
Thus we read:
"The Dean of Westminster's Prompt
$5,000. REWARD
DEAD BANK ROBBERS WANTED
$5,000 Cash Will Bo Paid or Each
Bank. Robber Killed. While ,Robbing
a Texas Bank.
The Texas Bankers Association of-
fers a standing reward' of $5,000 'for
each dead bank robber, killed while
;In the act of robbing a member bank
in Texas. • No limit as to place of
killing—in the banking douse, as the
1c as
robber or robbers, leave the bank,
they climb into their car, tent or
twenty miles down the road. as they
flee, or while resisting a posse giving
chase. This reward applies to night
attacks as well as daylight hold-ups.
The Association will not give 0110
emit for live robbers. They _rarely
are identified, more rarely convicted,
and most rarely kept in the penitenti-
ary when sent there—all 'of which
operations are troublesome and cost-
ly ,
haps—Could I screw up my cow -
But the Association is prepared to
age? She had given me no reason to Pay for any number of dead bank rob -
hope. But ho who hesitates is lost. bars, lolled while robbing its ,mem-
That evening
em-That'oveuing I entered the general ber banks, at $5,000 apiece.
Wilco with a beating heart. The clerks
•
shoved away their books `briskly. $5,000 in cash. will be paidile for
oriniliing
Then I gave a gasp of dismay. The of any robber
ledgers wore al closed, and one of THIS BANK
g
hell -Doctor Estalishes Ju-
ba. House Neap .:Graves of
Crash: Vlctinris:oil Congos
Where : Instrument
Board Helps Make
agic
ONE'WRECK. WRECK NOW BAR
Cape Town --Old airplanes• do not
always go to the scrapheap in Africa.
They: find queer, .resting places and
act as reminders of famous flights-. little as:$10 to Quebec,' or $25 to
A Vickers bn:tithe ill which Broome Jaw, almost e the centre to
and oc c I the Deminten,
London to 'Cape' Town eight'yea,rs ago The cost of au assisted Passage
Crashed c Tabora sin he jungle
Australia is $82'50 1n the case of sin-.
great machine lay in the jungle until gle men over •19, and 955 each adult
some settlers . found •tihomeelyes in in the -case of families, children under:
need of a club building, They made twelve travelling free,
the fuselage into a` neat saloon bar', Jm ell igRiDirection'
while the undamaged wings. formed
a` cool: veranda. In the ease of families, however,'it
Then there was: the Silver Queen, is necessary to' secure "nomination" -
flown by the South African airmen; by .some friend o -r relative already
Man Ryneveld and -Brand,- from -Cairo living inthe 'newcountr•Y, and this" Is
to Rhodesia. She- Was, smashed up impossible •to all, but a few, For the
l in forced aiiiiing ,near Rule -rest, all those who are not e1&perlenc-
�Uad Y a
wayo, s Today tile' potrol'.tanks are ed farm workers have at present no
being used;'liy'a farmer a's grain bfris alternative except to pay full fares,
for Isis poultry., : The broken,propel-, which in the ase' of Australia
a the farm ' gateway, amount to. $181' for each person.
ler decorate
while tho';iudder.and tail -Planes hang Until:1hia state of affairs is alter -
as histoaic relics in the drill hall at ed, and a really comprehensive:
migrating fa
m.
for m1 g
rueiut
Introduced gt
Bulawayo soba
,Epix Cllut
But Settlers With Farilllie*';
Must- Be'-�He1ped;: of
They Can'tt Answer.
the Call
'a"rd' told that 1028 11 'going to
be a record year for. emmigration, and
all the signs point' to a big rush of
would-be ,settlers to oar Overseas Do-
minions during:the next six months.:
Under the Government schemes
now existing it I yossiblo: for men'
who aro medically tit and prepared
to accept work on the land to secure.
an assisted passage to Canada for as,
in d U 1 erell were trying to fly from Moo..e
to
Tanganyika. The
The Daily Chronicle (London) de-
murs mildly:
feel some
re man
"There a
Y who will
twingeofregret
t that Westminster has
been chosen in preference to a place
which seemed to them still fitter to
willingness to sanction the burial of , receive' his remains.: That place •ie
Thomas Hardy in the Abbey is not : Stinsford, in Dorset, near the graves
without its elements' of irony, though '} of his parents and grandparents, in
it meets the mind of the nation, and the parish where he was born. Did
also makes a breach in the theological 'he not himself write in his will: 'I
wall which has in the past made the: desire to be burled In Stinsford
test of orthodox' Christian faitli a Church'? But all- will respect the de-
cision of his wife and executor, who
are moat likely to know what Hardy
would have decided had a -decision
Tested with him,"
whimsy of Deans. It restores the idea 1
that the Abbey is the proper shrine',
for men of ali.sides of great achieve-
ment.' In these latter days Rally's
fame was so massive that a refusal
on the part of the Dean would naver
raised a storm which would have re- PARIS TO GET POWER
verberated through the land and play FRO FAR -AWAY RIVER
ed its part in the dissatisfaction with _—
mere ecclesiasticism which was be•
Some ottier'Dean however, might have �i3OvernlTlent"to Harness Dor-
hind the rejection of the Prayer Book,.
donne==,Expects 90,000,
vetoed the public demand;' and it Is
instructive to recall that George Mere-
dith,. 'Hardy's neareat'fellow novelist
and poet, wa's excluded from the Ab-
bey in 1909, when -the desire to have
hitii,buried there was indorsed by the.
Prime Minister of the Day, Lord Ox-
ford.
"There is something seriously lack-
ing in the administration of our
Cathedrals which leaves the Deans—
who are usually chosen, as Disraeli
said in one of his inspired flippencies,
because of their dogma—the deciding
voice in these matters. Meredith was
just as entitled as Hardy to.burial in
the Abbey. He preached the same
artistic theology that 'In tragic life,
Got wot, no villein need be, we are be-
trayed by what- is -false within.' His
nature poems, like }reran's, are per- session.600,000,000 kilowatts, which it is
haps the chief part of his philosophic
work, full of 'hard weather' and de- proposed to -obtain, 400,000,000 'will be
picting man as of the vary essence of brought to Paris and the sale of olec-
the soil to which his body returns. tris current i5 calculated to produce
00,000,000 francs a year•.
Part of the work on the water -pow-
er development is being done by.; us-
ing German materials delivered as
reparations payment.
Natives Venerate Instruments ilfos--not in driblets, but in hundreds
after the war the Belgians in ,—UI') rate of migration from t
started, an air marl setwice country; still below the ' 1914 figure.
bethe Congo will.not increase very rapidly or do
All theen Ichines and reckStanedYvilIn ch to assist the twin taslts, both.
mu s
d. In
were wrecked. h'nea
vel
machines Allnem-
u
1 important,
ofreducing,
a little -riverside village along'the vitally p ,
Congo recently a visitor saw the ployment .here 'and populating the
raves of two of the aviators, marked Empire's empty, acres overseas. '
g Australia is still an almost empty
with propellers. There was.c -doe- with only one per cent.
,house close:by whore the witch -dao- Continent,
for made magic with queer charms. of her potential land- resources under
The place of honor was .devoted' `to cultivation. There aro enormoual
the instrument board of the old plane, possibilities there for the right type
the. altimeter, pressure gauges and of settler.
ass
comp. being regarded' as ' worthy A step in the right direction is the
new families scheme; under *Welt 01 veneration by these Congo
savages, some hundreds of soldiers, now serve
Airplanes were used by the French ing,thoir last monthsCanada
datupanidis .
during the invasion of the German will be settled in C
colony of Togo -land in West Africa in charge next May. '
1914. . The conquest was :soon. com-. Work Guaranteed d i
plate, and several machines were left mese /risen , are being trains s,
lying about in sheds at coast ports. farm Mork at Ghlsledou, Wiltshire,
After the star- a young French trader and will proceed in parties' of fifty or
found one of times, machines on his sixty, with their wives and families,
firm's premises. The swings, were to' Calgary; Prince Albert,' Regina, and
warped' during the tropicalal summers, other centres, whore they will be
and the engine was rusty. But the able to continue the comradeship be -
trader had been an airman, and he gun. in the Army. Further, they will
overhauled the old "bus" secretly. be guaranteed constant work during
To the astonishment 'of ,every one, ,the five' years that they will remain
the antiquated ugo:ohiue—a rickety in the British- Army reserve.
Bleriot monoplane—=teas ,teen i n . If such an. offer. ' were made ' to
afternoon staggering about the spy civillanss it is safe to say that 100,000
over the town. The old engine gave British families would rush to take
out after 0 short time, and the airman advantage of the .scheme,
landed neatly among the palm trees The stumbling -block to the exist -
in the garden of the Governor, That lug emigration schemes for civilians
.machine made no more flights, Iles in the fact that two out of every `-
The lane Found on Roof taros men who want to begin life
'afresrly in the Dominions am married
T -war no • doubt explained the
Presence of an abandoned, broken- and have -children. At present such
down airplane in the remote desert men are not accepted without nomin-
of South West Africa, found by t110 ation by someone already
settled in
camel police patrol recently, .Some the Dominion to which they want to
wanclering band of awe-struck Bu511 go, and who will guarantee them a
then hall evidently conte across it pre- home and work until they are estab;
viosuly, for when the sand had been lashed,
cleared away it was seen that the ma. For tho "New Poor"
chine had been ringed in with stones Attothor reform which is badly need -
and boulders, Placed there in definite
the ed is the introduction of some scheme
strange, dead "si•us. ' They evidently regarded
lire bird" as sacred.
for the "new •Pool —middle class pea
Johannesburg the other day ilio plo who would like to bogin life
In J afresh overseas, Uitt who do not care
tutting framework he of an aid airplane to apply for Government assistance.
ryas found on o one bine roof of a city Great nutubore of those have not
building. No s obvious hove it came the capital to pay full fares• and keep
tltare, 'though it was reIn that it themselves wile finding their feet,
had been taken ftp there in parts and And at present, while a 'Workin; class
visited
assembled. Tho roof had owner been boy of eighteen can travel .to Aug-
visited dor years and tus edthatat tralia for $55 and secure free training
the building had never suspected In farm work on a Government sca-
the airplane was there- tion, with a.guaranteed job when pro
Relent, no organized effort is being
eclat
Solved. made to attract the sound mat
He lay byng the roadside, groaning which exists inmiddle-class homes,
and writhing in pain, A policeman The population of Great Britain is
hastened towards him and inquired still increasing at the roto of 4,000
what was the matter. He could get ed every ay. It is evident that migra-
definite answer. The man muttered tion o rs the best dope of reducing
again and again- ' .e our 'army of unemployed during the
"I oto one too—I el ate one arr. next ten years, Surely the British
The limb of the law soon arrived at Government could offer to provide a
a solution of the problem. gum equal to six months' unemOloY
Hastily
said to at he 't. ed pay to enable mont s' men wits
. ini st re procuring what he thought
Id be a suitable antidote, he ad- would make good settlers to start
won afresh on the empty acres of the Ens.
mTi a res It to the -man. w ire: --"Answers."
The result, ho- - .. 0 'was rather p
i ing Like a shot the man -sat
flee into a kindergarten," I grumbled.! our fellows was shoving them into
No' look she for giving her a trind the strong -room. Daphne had slipped
Now' look hero, bThero understand from her stool and turned towsi�ds
this right away. There's to be no the door: I hurried after her.
itirtation:'
A twinkle of amusement . flickered
In his eye. However, he answered
gravely enough:thin
"I should not dream of such a g,
Mr. 'William."
The days which followed were try-
ing ones for mo. Often I stayed a
bit 'late at the office. On every oc-
easion when at last I. packed up to go
Immo there at the ledger•dssk sat
Jimmy close beside Daphne Heather.
It was iulpossible for me to find fault
"Miss Heather, what about pour—
er—tuition?"
"If you please, Mr. Lawton, T par-
ticularly want to get away to -night."
The blue eyes were pleading.
"BY all means, ,Miss Heather. But
I' any, what about the ,spot of dinner
presently?"
"Thanks, over so much, I'm engaged
to -night, Mr. Lawton.
As she left the office, a horrid sus-
picion gripped me. Jimmy's train
would reach St. Pancras at 0.45. I
because he was always explaining decided to moot hint
some book-keeping cillo when I .ap' I reached the station just on time,
poared. But the strain was awful. my
and—yes, those she was!" he ]ile I
train
at last I determined to pat dolt y hesitated at the barrier t
foot. , rolled up. Jimmy jumped out and
it wan on a Monday, when she'd ran to her. Next moment they were
been at the office a week. 'Whenclog- in 'each other's. arms. I dashed out
ing-time came I stayed on, although of the" station and took the first bus
I had nothing to do. For twenty. mill- home.
ute5 I waited, then jumped up and en- Nest • morning Jimmy reported that,
red the book-koepei"i room. "yes, the Bevan business was O.11. Whoa
to
there they were! • he had finished I told him to send
"Marsh," I exclaimed severely, Daphne along. She came in looking
"this won't do. You:can't burn the as lovely as over, at the of
ds. You're a hard- "You won't want • to stay
candle at both en
working, efficient, reliable managing ,lice much longer?" I suggested,
enough work in a "On, yes,'1, do—if you'll let me?"'
day w tho do quite g 'contradicted.'
day without having the extra strain. of alio
this overtime tuition. -Go home at "But look here," 5 argued. 'Marsh
puce!" earns a good salary, be has a comfort-
$5,000 for each DEAD ROBBER -not
one cent for a hundred live ones.
These signs made their first appear-
ance late in November, relates Mr.
Massie, and 'between that time and
January 1 "several things have hap-
pened which:I believe to have been
directly connected with .the offer of
this- reward." Thus:
1. Three. bank robbers have been
killed while in the act of robbing
banks, and two wounded,- one prob-
ably fatally.
2. Only one successful bank robbery
has oceurred during the six weeks the
reward offer has been in effect.
3. The leading members of a well
organized gang, -responsible for , the
above and other bank robberies dur-
ing the past two Years, have been cap-
tured. ''
•4. One bank robber has been sen-
tenced to tho electric chair by a
Texas jut'y, probably the first time
that bank robbery with firearms, in
which MO killing has taken place, has
been seriously regarded as a capital
offense in Texas courts, -though such
has been'the law for years.
MUTT ANID JEFF—Bud Fisher.
000 Francs Yearly From
- Sale of Current
Paris -France,, under .the ,loader-
stip of Andre" Tardieu, Minister of
Public Works, Is working hard in the
development of its natural resources.
Recently an extensive electrifica-
tion of the railroad in the southern
part of the country has been com-
pleted and now a scheme has passed
rho first stage for harnessing the
River Derdonne, in the . centre of
France, to supPtY Paris with, electric
current, ' -
The Senate -passed the necessary
appropriations of 328,000,000 francs
and the bill will be rushed tliiaugh
the Chamber befoi'e,tho olose,of the
Moredith's women rank, too, with
Hardy's, as aniong'tho most wonder-
ful portraits in English fiction and in
the true line of the heroines of Shake-
speare and Scott. There May have
been more, enchantment, and a more
tonic accent, in some' of Meredith's
writings. But both were great Pans
thesists as woll•as great' writers. They
should have had the same national
sepulcher.
"elven ndw Hardy might not have as follows,: Free ctizeus should not
been taken Into the Abbey if he had be hindered from seeking to improve
died in the height of the controversy their condition by emgrating from
over 'Tess' and 'Jude the Obscure'; one countlyy to another, provded their
the most discussed but. not the most transference to the other country does
esteemed of his novels, those being: not constitute an economic danger to
'The Mayor of Casterbridge,' 'The Re- the worker of that country. It should
thin of the Native, and 'The Wood be established with alt possible ac-
Landers'—that glorious book in which curacy what each industry can absorb
you can hoar the sap running in the in the way of. additional hands with'.
trees. Soma who believe Hardy was' out compromising existing conditions
entitled to this tribute, and agree that of industry. As soots as this point
ho should have been offered it, May is passed;•the balance' is broken and
'Briton Foresees Generation That
Will Never Got Out of Bed."Head-lino.
It will differ radically from the pre•
sent younger generation; which never
goes there.
Labor and Immigration
Le monde Ouvrier (Ind.): From the
strictly, labor point of view, the im-
migration questers can be summed up
To HELP PAY MY;;
WA? 'd11Roteti IjAQVARb
'Bovc,NT A -cow
FIND S SE1-t. TKG-
M0-b. `-co sl-uherJrS •
•u•1Ree (waters A't'
Is- CENTS A QUAIL'S,
AtN`T Mutts BuT
lT BUYS Me A
5PI0EAO of
AND CGGS ANT
A SLAB of
!AEGFtc,
iM(STGi2 MVTT.
Haw's YOUR
q iUAibT . o F
lMtUc-�
still think it more appropriate that ho.
should have been buried in his native
Wessex, as he expressed a wish to be.
But Hardy's relatives should know
bust whether he would have been will-
ing to accept the homage of a nation-
al burial. It is certainly not likely
that he could have expressed such a
wish in his will. It would not have
been like the titan. Wo think that It
these considerations should be p
aside in View, of the recognition made
by the authorities, with the full in-
dorsement of public opinion, that our
men of letters count as mucli as our
successful statesman, soldiers and
sailors. This is a hard doctrine to get
into the consciousness of the average
man. Yet there never was. an age in
which it was more necessary to chal-
lenge the material estimate of merit
us-reei: vve
GoT A Hosea~
Ycv WY. WATER
Mlt.k: Jf
the surplus labor becomes a menace
not only to the country's workers but
to the immigrant workers themselves,
who are compelled by he force of cir-
cu:nstancos to 'accept lower wages
and aro thus prevented from adoptitlg
our standard of living, becoming
pariahs who cannot be assimilated.
Yorkshire eif0 •(complaining of her
husband's meanness)—"There is al-
ways more dinner cloth. than dinner
in our house." -�
Housewife—"Don't bring m0 any
more of that horrid milk. It's post-
tivoly blue!" Milkman"It ain't' our
fault, lady. It's these long dull even-
ings as makes the COWS depressed."
surer s
Infantile Mortality
to such treatment. On being told, he Three Rivers Nouvellisto (Co
ecame ani rI . ' "Wily, It. is in 1110 P•rovinco of Quebec
that.
What did Leat. -ho yelled. the cradles' aro most visited by dea
car - fool, Lockethat 'smocked
the number of the
car mo down!" We should follow the esamplo of
New Zealand and Australia. Perhaps
ct hero- in the whole world are,
Wasteful destruction of forests in nave active in the struggle•
Wastedo s so
not the best way of cutting down
overhead
up and asked why ho was subjected
ganin n And tile'
against infantile mortality, ,Aug:
system is proved by its restilts.an ie-
u say you have �readfui tralia and New Zealand have
Doctorre they
Y Y alit loss than half. of
fa,ntile mortality pains -ate alley worse at cannot
l " in our province. have we no
tell." that Britain
Dontoi'-"W 1Y not?"but I' cannot example of Great
"Doctor—"Why Patient- I am . also oho11 country with a birth rate
Mer, is
no better an th the birth rate in Prancer
always asleep then.'
m.'
You Can't - Get a Whole Lot For Fifteen Cents These Days.
SAY, Do YOU GXP«i Me
T8 Mos ?owne1eb SVGA1
Ct2Actce---D 'tics Nob A
stkoV Of 'PRE-WAR SLUFF
wl"ctl tT EeR Ftn. TeEN/
c0NTS A, QUART?
•Jvf 1•tiii� / t •--�-
r.
6
50
701 -the population increases that('
each year b,Y.250,000. What is the
reason? Because not only have they,
reduced mortality littleof Dbial ad -nits, bus
especially among.,
intents of the eradl,o,
No Tiine,to Waste '
Yorkshire Evening Post (Cons.) :
In 15 or 20 Sears Canada will look
overseas in vain- for surplus swan.
Power to develop her resources.:
Economists' freely predict a station-
ary, of possibly receding futare world
population, For a few Years yet
European countries in Y i'einaln Part-
ly over -populated with, adults, but
•
Canada's chances to secure more pea-
plc are dwindling steadily day by day.
It requires no great prophetic fore-
sight to' conclude that .the time limit
'within which Canada 1001 solve her
population problem, in tonus of roil -
lions of 11055 01117.1.11S, is coming town
end.
Add to bright ideas Paris liar SO'.
stalled illuminated curbstones, whict1,
are oafaily visible at night(