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! An Intermission for Trouble I * By W. S. ROGERS »Copyright.) "Hast? Have 1 ever heen East?" "Well, 1 said the long-lPgged Brill. should remonstrate. I secretly hope If you'd seen me domesticating Ex so. in Jersey once you'd believe in it. cltemerit ? Don't mention it. "The gentle East may be gentle to H them that understand it, but III take my peace and quietude on the buck of cyclone and be satisfied No East for me. an Arizona with that. tirely too -It was In New Jersey, and I was I bad surplus It's en strenuous. ■ waiting for a train, time on my hands amounting to three hours, and not being restricted with remorse or anything. 1 thought I'd nat ■ urally move around through some of the jay precincts next adjacent, and see what there was, if anything, com ing to "So 1 rummaged up a long village [ street, making sinuous reflections and studying the outlook, till 1 came after a while to a tobacco establishment—a layout, you know, where they had mag aziues to sell in the window and a lot ■ of disastrous truck for effete people with weak teeth; and I went in and spoke with the young-looking gazelle Pin iu charge of these preparations, and ■ asked him for something injurious but Rsmoknble, and all the latest news. ] "'Shake hands with a sympathizer,' HHsa.vs I. 'Do you live In New Jersey all ^^^mtlic If s< « 'Say.' he says, as if it was a bright ; fü Inspiration that had just come in to from the shores of nowhere in Particular, 'if you haven't got anything useful to attend to right away, maybe Iv on wouldn't mind holding down this |Hdi version here for a minute or two »-while I go out and see to something. "Would you favor a man like that?' he lint •Ç *i> vs. Well, it sounded reasonable, and I ■couldn't freely object right off quick ERto such a thing as that. I only asked ^Ulilm If he didn't think it might he un trust a perfect stranger with fifty-dollnr outfit on such short no lawful t I;'.T •I "'Well, all right, Willy!' I says. ■IS -didn't come East looking for impromp ■ tu adventures like this, hut of course Hl'in not going to throw down a nire HBlooking young man like you just from BBJinshl'uIncss and unknown scruples. So whenever you're ^Hhil the warpath ready,' I says, 'and 1 11 stay behind, ■ ami ke?p perfect order for you.' "So lie went, and 1 was left there alone with that messy little cargo ^■üf misplaced confidence in the amateur 5^Bpipe mid tobacco Hue. And I wasn t ■^specially afraid of it nor puffed all Hup with rapture on account of the way Hi was suddenly getting on in the world. I "But, then, pretty soon it got different H—and a lantern-jawed cuss in a white R-vest and gold-trimmed nose pinchers, wearing considerable of a big brown looking trunk that they call a grip, was GM§£ responsible for it. It was him that HI started things, nnd says he; " 'I'm the collector.' "I didn't seem to know much nbout I such a thing. '"You are?' I says. K 1 . ' 'What's that? What do you 11 never hoard of you. I make a specialty of collecting?' says I. j "Well, he didn't approve of that way I of coming back nt nil. " 'Don't monkey I' says he. I your accounts ready?' "'Accounts?' snys T. I so. This Is too sudden. I to remember you at all. I say your particular line was?' I says. "That man begun to jerk himself around and look irritated. " T'm not here for conversation.' he Pony up,' he says, 'Ain't T don't think I don't seen What did you says, 'hut money. 'and be a little soon about it, tool' " 'You're a trifle overheated, ain't you?' says I. wrong address? take a mild cigar and walk down the street'and try to forget It?' But lie wouldn't. •"I'm after the money!' he snorts 'The money ! what that is? If you don't i'll spell It. I'm Slier the weekly money,' he 'Or applying to the Hadn't you better Don't you know up. says. " 'Oh. the weekly money I' I says. T hope you'll excuse me, but it's a little too premature and unexpected, have to think some before I can ac Would you mind tak Ill commodate you. ing a ehair for a few minutes while ■we both reflect?' "But he wouldn't do that, urtlier. "He glared at me for about a second, and then he broke loose. T cisn't deal with I'll closk "'Hell?' he says, lunatics. Get out of here! this damn place up ! he says. "I thought he must be pretty badly afflicted by that time, and when he shove by the shoulder and going to throw me out in the me a was street, it seemed to me he showed en tirely too much self-confidence for a newcomer and 1 couldn't put up with it. "I couldn't quite catch myself cater ing to any such stranger-than-fictlon little arrangement so sudden, picked up that Pinchers by the collar and the seat of his trousers and waltz ed him back to the hind end of our studio, where there was a branch of fice, a poker booth or something, and chucked him out of sight and locked the door. So I ^^îadn't scarcely turned around w^Tniy face to the atreet before an other grievance came romping In— « gray-halred party In a sack coat, bris tling all over with dangerous-looking symptoms and swinging s htg <*>«». "He came like an earthquake, and he met me half way, making jabs at the air with his elbows, thumping the door and dancing around there like a | ! warm hen with Its head off. " 'Scoundrel " lie says, my daughter?' "That was what he wanted to know: where was his daughter? 'Where t I " 'Well, holy smoke !' I says. 'Are the Jersey lunacy mills broke out?' tried to mnke room for him, but he He ranted after me i wouldn't have it. gnd shook his supply of furniture pret ty promiscuously close up under my nose. " 'I'm here In time!' he says, glad I'm here In time. Wretch !' he says. 'Where Is she?' " 'Ex—cuse me, please.' I says, never knew you had a daughter. I'm just a peaceabl " 'Hah-h !' there?' Ing fracas with the door panel, and it wiiked up Ills susceptibilities and gave 1dm a clew. "'Villain!'-he says. 'Release her!* And he bolted hack like a cyclone to T'm *1 be says. 'Is she In He bem'd the Pinchers mak the scene of the music. "I couldn't stop him, and I didn't He just rushed back and grab The key was in the try to. bed at things, lock and he give it a twist and threw the door open and fell In. "I was about six inches behind him by that time, and I gave him an extra sitove as he went through, nnd he skewed plumb into the arms of the other geezer, and ttien I slammed the door shut again and locked It and had 'em both. '"Two of a kind,' I thought, and 1 hoped they wouldn't kill each other. But I allowed they was likely from the same popular academy somewhere in the neighborhood, and would unjppr stund one another's ways nnd get But if not, and there was hair along. pulling, 1 didn't see liow I could help it. "And the next happy thing that flooded the situation was a girl—a Christian young lady looking all half wild and stage flighty—and she came vibrating In, in a blood-and-thunder style, and held me up In the middle of the floor. I by 48 In ping to look at me or take breath or 'Oh, Harold!' she says. anything. 'Papa lias discovered everything!* "'What!' I says, moving backward 'Papa has diseov I was about ready from that female, ered everything!' to jump through the wjndow by that time, but I didn't have a chance. "She pulled up like n house afire when she got a better look at me. "'Oh, heavens!' sl.ie says. "Where's Mr. (lordon?' " 'Never heard of him !' snys I. " 'Oh. oh, goodness !' she says, and ttien she wheeled around again and bolted. 'What "'Great castigation!' says I. next, I wonder?' "I was accumulating new ideas ev ery minute, it seemed to me, and I thought New Jersey wasn't so detri mental slow after all, when It once got up on its hind feet nnd moving. "The sanitarium Inmates seemed to have cooled down a little for a min ute—comparing notes, or somethin}?, for the next violent outbreak— and I wondered if I hadn't suddenly bette! cut loose from that social rendezvoul while } had time, and start for home, X felt a kind of a quick longing fof Arizona, where life wasn't quite so con tinuously mixed. "Anyhow I wished that young youth would hurry back and see whnt he'd fell heir to—I wns afraid maybe my luck wouldn't hold out if I had to go It much longer alone—and I lit another weak cigar nnd went out on the side walk to look for him. "Well, he was coming, nnd the girl with him, hotli in n sensational hurry, nnd looking scared half way out of their seven senses. " 'Say !' he blurts out, falling all over me when he got in' reaching dis tance. 'Say, lias there heen an old man here, an old man with a cane?' " 'Walt a minute. Wait one mo ment, please!' says I. an all-around stew Is this, anyhow?' "'What?' he says. 'Why, it's hei father. We were going to get married, and now—" '"What! Please hold me up for a minute!' I says. 'Married? Whenl Today?' " 'No, "no !' he says, been here?' he says. 'What kind ol 'But has h* y.' I snys, 'go on and get mar Don't Don't hesitate. ick ! ried think. "Don't linger a minute, hut go and get married. " 'Leave everything to me and ske daddle. Don't expunge with excuses lon't turn loose any doubts or ques tion marks, but make a record run for a hurry-up preacher and get tied up!' "'Why—I can't,' he says. That's Just It. The collector for this cigar business here, yon know. The mana ger comes around today, and he's lia ble to be fulling down- here most any minute. I want to resign, too, today,' he say*. " 'Oh—oh. yes, the collector,' says 1, beginning to feel something give a lit tle. 'Of course. I forgot. Well, you can resign later.' I say*, nothing—Just leave him to me. Don't chance It, but skate.' "Welt, he did. He and that palpi tating young female went away to get married and be happy forever after, and left me all alone with some Incan descent reflections. "Only I didn't reflect. I believe 1 sometimes know when to quit. I thought I'd leave New Jersey. And I gently closed up the door of that little cigar emporium, and made a perfect ly straight line for the railway sta tion. My train wa* due In fifty min âtes. and I didn't care to ml** it. Don't mention fast life to me please." a That's I « HOSPITAL SHIP LOYALTY IS NOW A TROOPSHIP > A Yt vmmmm « Si **• ËÉ1I S§*i " «Sic .X, » :<-• - if; - : .. x is? v : ' : ' V . f :yM - it 11 - v * - .. ^ ^ - The hospital ship Loyalty, recently converted into a troopship, was a Rlfl to Great ßrltalu from K loyal Indian potentate, the maharajah of Gwalior, who. aided by other chiefs of India, purchased and maintained the ship at sea for total expense of $'J.500,000. It was formerly the Empress of India, a Canadian Pacific vessel. n ■UvX four years at a WORK ON ROADS TO BE RUSHED # # Construction This Year to Exceed Volume of Any Year In History. LARGER FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE If All the States Take Advantage of Federal Appropriation $343,000,000 Will Be Expended—Freight Rates an Obstacle. Washington.—Many Important steps have been taken to expedite road con struction under the enlarged program recently authorized by congress, and the indications are that a larger vol ume of highway construction will he accomplished this season than In any previous year in the history of the na tion, according to a by David F. Houston, secretary of agriculture. The requisite official machinery, snys the secretary, for executing this program—that Is, the department of agriculture, through the bureau of public roads on the one hand and the 48 state highway departments on the other—Is already In existence, ferenee was held by the secretary on March 1 with the state highway com missioners of the Eastern and middle Western states, nnd all phases of the problem, and especially the Interpre tation of the liberal amendments of the federal aid road act, wore consid ered. The appointment of Thomas H. Mac Donald, chief engineer of the Iowa stnte highway commission, ns engineer In immediate charge of the work of the bureau of public roads under the federal aid road net, has just been an nounced by the secretary, nnd it Is planned that, in the near future, Mr. MacDonald will formally assume the position of director of the bureau of public roads. Freight Rates an Obstacle. It developed at the conference that the present freight rates nre one of the principal obstacles to the nctlve resumption and extension of highway activities. fore the proper officials of the railroad administration on Mnrch 1 by repré sentatives of the department of agri culture and of the state highway offi statement issued A con I of a The situation wns laid be rials. They were given a sympathetic hear ing, nnd the question Is now under ac tive consideration by the railroad nd Secretary Houston also ecretary of ministration, has taken up with the war the question of releasing from the army highway engineers In this coun try nnd abroad, In order that tlieir services may be utilized during the coming road-construction season. The secretary's statement In part Is ol as follows: "During the war it was necessary to rond-eonstruction operations curtail because of the difficulties of securing transportation, materials and the re quisite services, tlon has changed, the worfc will he ac tively resumed and vigorously prose cuted notwithstanding the fact that conditions are still abnormal In some respects, especially with reference to the prices of materials and supplies. Now that the situa h* go MARK HEROES' GRAVES In the American Battle Area.—Four thousand men of the Americaii expedl forces are now engaged in the I of and search for the of Americans who died in bat tlonary registration graves tie. The work of seeking the resting places of American heroes Is being un dertaken by the section of graves reg istration. which is directing Its et -i to be able to designate the of every American should con authorlze the return of the bod forts so as grave gress le» of the fallen. Tireless seeking for Identification marks the dally task of the men tags of the graves registration section. They set out on their solemn mission equipped with pick, shovel and gas mask. Sometimes they pry down Into the ground for the Identity of the dead warrior, aometlmes lb;* y fer ret Into the recesses of discarded dugout* and sometimes they clear away the brush of the forest to find some trace of the victims of bi.ttle. # "Congress at Us last session not only made available from the federal treas ury large additional sums for road construction, but also made some Im portant amendments to the federal aid road act. These amendments will have the effect of greatly lessening the diffi culties of selecting nnd constructing needed ronds. "The amount of federal funds avail able for road building on March 1 was over $72,000,000, which under the law must he matched by ut least an equal amount from the stetes. More Funds July 1. "On July 1, $95,000,000 more of fed eral funds will become available for general road purposes and $4,000,000 for national forest roads, which, with equal contributions from tho states, will provide nil additional $198,000,000 for federal aid road work, making an aggregate sum of $3-13,800,000 for the calendar year. "In other words, the 1919 program for federal aid rond building Is greater than any previous annual road build lng accomplishments In this country. "The states and their civil subdtvl slons nlso will carry on a large amount of rond work without federal aid. The extent of this is uncertain and will depend upon local labor, Industrial and agricultural conditions. The present Indications nre that approximately $280,000,000 will be spent In this way. "The purpose of the federal aid road law Is to encourage the construction of roads of a substantial nature by the states and to provide adequate safe guards for securing systematic und economical action. Long experience has shown that the best results will be secured if the work Is performed under the supervision of the state high way departments, the method of the control depending upon local condi tions." Is I I GUNMAN IS WAR HERO New York Bad Man Returns With Fine Record. Commanding Officer* Ask That C.IU zenship Be Restored to "Monk" Eastman. Camp Upton, N. Y.—"Monk" East man. gunman, notorious leader of gang who once terrified New York's sters East side, now Is Private William De laney, veteran, buck from France with ■nvlnble war record, lie was hon rnbly discharged from the One Hun dred and Sixth Infantry and within a few days there will lie forwarded to Governor Smith a petition signed by his commanding officers, asking that he he restored to citizenship. "Monk's" life history Is the story of In the old days he .n, ' ' into war, which bus made heroes out of cowards, strong men out of weak, went "Monk." When the Twenty-sev enth division took Its place in Flan a "come back." was an opium addict, burglar, creature of the slums with ever a "gun" on Ids In 1917 he finished a term for hip. burglary nnd in October of that year enlisted, no questions asked. Each cemetery where Americans have been buried is fully platted on maps. The gravi** registration serv ice Is now extending every energy to complete the burying, marking, re cording and classification of the he roic Americans. WAR COST WORLD 260 BILLION Prominent British Economist Sees Pe riod of Great Trade Activity Near. London.—Edgar Orainmond, promi nent British financial writer, entliqjrie* the direct cost of the war to the 'Jlle» at $141 .bOO.OOOJXK) and to the centra! European lower* at $(>8.37.5,000,000. He estimates the total coat of the war, Including Indirect losses, at $260,000, 000 . 000 . He conclude* that the fall In the price of commodities and wages will take place slowly and gradually. The war has enormously Increased JAILER'S WIFE KILLS NEGRO Saves Husband Menaced by Revolvers of Two Prisoners Seeking to Escape. Holly Springs, Miss.—Attracted to the county Jail here by the sounds of shots, Mrs. Vf. U. Jeffries, wife of tho Jailer, found her husband under tiro of two prisoners seeking to escape. She secured Jeffries' revolver from the office and, firing between the bars In the Jail door, fatally wounded one of the men, a negro, and drove the other, white, to his cell, where he sent a bullet Into his brain. Jeffries entered the Jail to lock the prisoners In their cells, closing the door behind him. The two prisoners, each armed, consented him and de manded tlieir release. Although un armed, he refused and tho men began to shoot. Seven shots were fired at him, but owing to the dint light the alnt of tho prisoners wits poor and none of the bullets took effect, arrival of Mrs. Jeffries put an end to the one-sided tmltlo. ► }• ft -, ft £« Tlio War With Microbes Is Next, Says Expert ► <■ ♦ ■ ♦ ■ ♦. Philadelphia.—That the next ft war may he ono of.microbes Is L* ft the prediction of Dr. Isaac Sharpless, president of Haver- ftj ford college. Ho says : "Tho next war Is likely to he ft ij« a biologists' war where the vie- tj< V tory will he attained by that ft army or nation most successful In Inoculating Its adversaries £ with disease germs poured down ft upon them from above. "While this may be too hor- ft rlble even to contemplate now, >J< ft nevertheless It Is a possibility ft and even n probability to be £ ft reckoned with, and certainly It .♦« $ should be most seriously consld- ft ft oreij before we begin to burden $ ourselves with the Inevitable ft A costliness of military training." *5 V ♦ ♦ * « ♦ S r der*, "Monk" wns then*. When the gallant New Yorkers swept forward against the Iilndenburg line—anil cracked It—"Monk" was In the first wave. When comrade* fell nnd stretch er bearer* were needed, "Monk" volun When curried to n British boa tcored. pliai wounded In the head while lead ing a bombing squad Into the face of machine gun*, mount once more the tiring step. These nnd many more nre the fact* recounted In the petition signed by Col. Franklin W. Ward of tho One Hundred and Sixth, by MaJ. J. Scott Buxton and by Cupt. James M. Con roy nnd Lieut. Joseph A- Kerrigan, "Monk'* fought by Ids side on foreign soli. "Monk*' escaped to Immediate superiors, who Fossil Remains Found. Steamboat Springs, Col.—Tho fossil remains of an antediluvian monster, half fish and half reptile, believed to have lived millions of years ago when Hie great Uintah basin was an ocean, have been discovered In tile elnterlte deposits of Indian Canyon by George Stewart. found completely Imbedded between two layers of elaterite and had shiny, jet-black scales of a diamond shape. The snake fish fossil was the power of production In Great Brit ain, nnd lie 1* convinced that thl* at the present time 1» at len*t 50 per cent over the production of 1013. Through all the economic record* of the past, Mr. Grnmmond says, It is possible to trace an advance In the standard of living for the musses con currently with an Increase In the amount of money In circulation and a decline in the purchasing power of money. 'ÆS In trade such u* the world has never known. • Ban on 8noring. Now York.—"Don't sleep out loud during the sermon," Is the printed ad monition distributed to worshiper* of the First Washington Presbyterian church. Rough on Rata. Beloit, Wls.—He surely was rough on the rat*. E. J. Heaver declare* ho has killed 8,000,(J00 indent* la (he lost tight years. «dot», ,SCO\ JT8 SCOUTING KEYNOTE FOR 1919 After 18 months of service to the na tion In the various phases of the "wln tlie-war" program. Is seems to be gen erally agreed that the Hoy Scouts of America have now, us never before, established the movement In the hearts of the people. More than that, the nation, as never before, realises the value and im portance qf the spout training and program In community and national life. The country over, our average num ber of registered scouts equals not quite 6 per cent of the available boys of scout age. If less than 400,000 reg istered scouts can serve and produce results, what might the national gov ernment expect with a million boya on their toes uwnlttng Its commands ! Chief Scout Executive James E. West, In sounding the keynote for 1910, •ays: "It Is our opinion that now, ns never before. Is the time to strongly present the claims of scouting for the support of the community on a comprehensive biihls. We have (hissed the experi mental stage. No matter how com mendable our Intentions may be, we have no right to fall to do our utmost to extend the benefits of the boy scout progrum to a larger proportion of the boys of each community as a whole. Yjpon thoso of us who know what scouting lias done for the boys who hsve been members rests an obligation to do everything within our power to have It reach a greater number of boys." THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA. They're not bis emmsh to fight for Uncls Bum, Nor help him out upon the other side. Hut the splendid part they plnyod In the wur drives tlint were made Is somethin«; which nmy swell their heurts with pride. There's plenty here to do for tho old lied. White und Blue, It's u inan'a job the country has on hand; But lmya run Uenr a part and they'ra will ing bend nnd heart. And they'll hustle—fit to beat the bund. The country shftuld be proud of un asset such us tills. And bark them up by every means ut hand. They nre rendering yeomnn service ut a time when service counts, And their prulses should be sung throughout the hind. —Louis Melius, Hlstsrvllte, W. Vu. SCOUTS PROUD OF WAR WORK The Boy Scouts of America huvo good reason to feel proud of the pa triotic and helpful servleo they have rendered to the government In all of Its wartime activities during the yenr. Never before In tho history of the scout movement have organized hoys been able to demonstrate so thorough ly thelf holpfutuess, The Fourth Lib erty loun lias left behind It a broader und u more comprehensive vision of what scouting In Its truest sensu means to ttie growing hoys of the com munity and to the nation at large, Tliclr effort* In gardening activities, ns messengers of the president In the distribution of nntl-Germiin propa ganda, ns helpers to tho Red Gross, ns locators of hluck walnut, ns gatherers of peach stones, us sellers of Thrift nnd War Saving* stamp* nnd Liberty bond* have demonstrated to the world at largo tho vulue of organized boy hois]. 8COUT ACTIVITY THREATENED. A hill Introduced In the House of Representative* threatens u most In teresting scouting activity. It I* to further regulate radio communication*. The effect of the bill would be to prevent any person not connected with the navy (excepting scientist*) to have anything whatever to do with radio communications. The reasons for this nre not known. Nuvy officer* say that the nnvy needs the radio amateur. The work of tho scouts In discovering Illegal radio outfits during the war Is well known. The first scout who gave his life for our country In the world war wns Luther Weaver of Brooklyn, who as a radio amateur became so proficient tlint he was accepted as an operator •n tho U. H. transport Alcedo. He went down with her. SCOUT ANNIVERSARY IN ALASKA There is q town called Cordova, Alaska, on the Copper river nnd North western railway, which Is the homo of s live-wire troop of scouts. After celebrating the ninth scout an* Olvprsary In approved fashion, they »ent out and erected food shelters for (he birds, contributed half a dollar each toward some destitute Indian* sud took supplies to a needy family. DOINQ8 OF THE BOY SCOUTS. Forty-eight of the fifty-nine boy icout troop* ureter the Jurludlctlon of the Indlanapoll* local council are op erated In connection with churches. One of the loyal supporter* of the 10.000 boy Hcouts In Hlnra I* Governor PanomnaquaranurnkHba of Nagura Pa nom. A war history of Denver boy scouts will be written by member* of th* State Hl*torlcaf »oclety, who have re quested a complete, itemized, statement 4 every scout's war aemlco.