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THE COLONY COURIER
me ItKJuSWDTn 1
WOMAN ftiS
Author of Bhe AMATEUR CRACKSMAN.
PAFFIFS Ftr
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CHAPTER XI—Continued.
—10—
The trusty, ataterly. aenaible voice,
aalf bantering but altogether kind,
genuinely intereated It the least bit
Inquisitive, too, would have gone to a
harder or more hardened heart than
beat on Blanche’s balcony that night.
Yet aa Casalet lighted hla pipe be
looked old enough to be her (atber.
"I'll tell you some time." be putted.
"It's only a case of two beads," said
Blanche. "I know you're bothered,
■nd I should like to help, that's all."
"You couldn’t.”
"How do you know? I believe you’re
going to devote yourBelf to this poor
man—If you can get him off—I mean,
when you do.”
“Well?" he said.
"Surely I could help you there!
Especially If he's 1)1," cried Blanche,
encouraged by his silence. “I'm not
half a bad nurse, really!"
"I'm certain you’re not."
"Does he look very 111?"
She had been trying to avoid the
direct question gs far as possible, but
this one seemdtt so harmless Yet it
was received In a stony silence unlike
any that bud gone before. It was as
though Cazalet neither moved nor
breathed, whereas he had been all
sighs and fidgets just before. His pipe
was out already—that was the one
merit of bush tobacco, It required
constant attention—and he did not
look like lighting It again.
Until tonight they had not men-
tioned Scruton since the motoring-be
gan. That had been a tacit rule of the
road, of wayside talk and Indoor orgy.
But Blanche had always assumed that
Cazalet had been to see him In the
prison; and now he told her that be
never had.
"I can’t face him," he cried under
his breath, "and that's the truth! Let
me get him out of this hole, and I'm
his man forever; but until I do, while
there’s a chance of falling, I simply
can't face the fellow. It Isn’t as If
he’d asked to see me. Why should I
force myself upon him?”
"He hasn’t asked to see you because
he doesn't know what you're doing for
him!” Blanche leaned forward as ea-
gerly as she was speaking, all her re-
pressed feelings coming to their own
In her for Just a moment. “He doesn’t
know because I do believe you
wouldn’t have him told that you'd ar-
rived, lest he should suspect! You
are a brick, Sweep, you really are!”
He was too much of one to sit still
under the name. He sprang up, beat-
ing hlB hands. "Why shouldn't I be—
"Look Here, Blanche! If You Had a
Friend, Wouldn't You Do It?”
to him—to a poor devil who’s been
through all he's been through? Ten
years! Just think of It; no, It's un-
thinkable to you or me. And It all
started In our office; we were to blame
for not keeping our eyes open; things
couldn't have come to such a pass If
we’d done our part, my poor old father
for one—I can't help saying It—and I
myself for another. Talk about con-
tributory negligence! We were neg-
ligent. as well as blind. We didn’t
know a villain when we saw one. and
we let him make another villain un
der our noses; and the second one
was the only one we could see In his
true colors, even then. Do you think
we owe him nothing now? Don't you
think I owe. him something, as the
only man left to pay?"
But Blanche made no attempt to
answer his passionate questions. He
bad let himself go at lust; It relieved
her also In a way, for It was the nutu
ral man back again on her balaony.
But he had set Blanche off thinking on
other lines than he Intended
"I'm thinking of what he must have
felt he owed Mr. Craven and—and
■thet!" she owned.
"t don't bother my head over either
Of them," returned Casalet harshly.
"He was nevar a white man In hla
lifetime, and the was every Inch hla
daughter Ncruto-'e the one I pity—
because I've suffered so much from
that man mytelf."
"Bui >ou don't think ha did Itl"
Blanche was sharp enough to Inter-
rupt.
"No—no—but If he had!"
“Ypu’d still stand by him?”
“I’ve told you so before. I meant
to take him back to Australia with me
—I never told you that—but 1 meant
to take him, and not a soul out there
to know who he was.” He sighed aloud
over the tragic stopper on that plan.
“And #ould you still?'' she aaked.
“If I could get him off."
"Guilty or not guilty?"
"Ilather!"
There was neither shame, pose, nor
hesitation about that. Ulauche went
through Into the room without a word,
but her eyes shone flnely In the lamp-
light. Then she returned with a hook,
and stood half in the balcony, liatued
as In a panel, looking for a place.
"You remind me of ‘The Thousandth
Man,' " she told him as she found It.
"Who was he?"
"He's every man who does a thou
sandth part of what you're doing!"
uuid Blanche with confidence. And
then she read, rather shyly and not
too well;
"One man In a thousand,’’ Solomon says.
“Will stick more close than ti brother.
And It's worth while seeking him half
your days
If you And him before the other.
Nine hundred and ninety-nine depend
On what the world sees In you,
Hut the Thousandth Man will stand your
friend
With the whole round world agin you.”
"1 should hope he would," said Caza-
let, “if he's a man at all."
"But tills is the bit for you," said
Blanche;
“His wrong's your wrong, and his right's
your right.
In seuson or out of seuson.
Stand up and hack It In all men's sight—
With that for your only reason!
Nine hundred and ninety-nine can't bids
The shame or mocking or laughter,
But the Thousandth Man will stand by
your side
To the gallows-foot—and ufter!”
The last words were Italics In
Blanche's voice, and It trembled, but
so did Cazalet's as he cried out In bis
formula;
"That's the finest thing I ever heard
in all my life! But it's true, and so
it should be. I don't take any credit
for it."
"Then you're all the more the thou-
sandth man!"
He caught her suddenly by the
shoulders. His rough hands trembled;
his jaw worked. "Look here, Blancho!
If you had a friend, wouldn't you do
the same?"
“Yes, if I'd such a friend as all
that," she faltered.
"You’d stand by his side ‘to the gal-
lows-foot’—If he was swine enough to
let you?"
“1 dare say I might.”
"However bad a thing It was—mur-
der, If you like—and however much
he was mixed up In It—not like poor
Scruton?"
"I'd try to stick to him,” she said
simply. ,
"Then you’re the thousandth wom-
an," said Cazalet. "God bless you,
Blanchle!”
He turned on his heel In the bal-
cony, and a minute later found the
room behind him empty. He entered,
stood thinking, and suddenly began
looking all over for the photograph of
himself, with a beard, which he had
seen there a week before
to see her. the Instant he landed, ot
teemed so overjoyed, and such a boy
again, or made so much of her and
their common memories! He need not
have begun begging her, In a minute,
to go out to Australia, and then never
have mentioned It again; he might
Just as well have told her If he had or
hoped to have a wife to welcome her I
Of course he saw It afterward, him-
self; that was why the whole subject
of Australia bad been dropped so sud-
denly and for good. Most likely be
bad married beneath him; If to, aha
was very sorry, but he might have aaid
that he was married.
Curiously enough, It was over Mar-
tha that she felt least able to forgive
him. Martha would say nothing, but
her unspoken denunciations of Casa-
let would be only less Intolerable than
her unspoken sympathy with Blanche
Martha had been perfectly awful about
the whole thing. And Martha had com-
mitted the Anal outrage of being per-
fectly right, from her Idiotic point of
vlow.
Now nmom? nil these meditations of
a long night, and of a still longer day
in which nobody even troubled to Hrnd
her word of the case ut Kingston, It
would bo too much to say that no
thought of Hilton Toye ever entered
the mind of Blanche. She could not
help liking him; he amused her Ini
ntensely; uud he had proposed to her
twice, and warned her lie would ugalu
She felt the force of his warning, be-
cause Him felt his force of character
M U
OKLAHOMA
CAPITAL NEWS
INCOME TAX TABLE PUTS OKLA-
HOMA HIGH IN RANK OF
WEALTH SHOWING.
OKLAHOMA CITY NEWS EVENTS
What the Elate Officials and Depart-
ments Are Doing—Items of In-
toroot About tho Stato
Government.
CHAPTER XII.
Quid pro Quo.
It was his blessing that had done
It; up to then Bite had controlled her
feelings In a fashion worthy of the
title just bestowed upon her If only
he had stopped ut that, and kept his
blessing to himself! It sounded so
very much nioAc like a knell that
Blanche had begun first to laugh, and
then to make such a fool of hetBeif
(as she herself reiterated) that she
was obliged to run away In the worst
possible order.
But that was not the end of those
four superfluous words of final bene-
diction; before the night was out they
had solved, to Blanche's satisfaction,
the hitherto Impenetrable mystery of
Cazulet's Conduct.
He had done something In Austra-
lia, something that fixed a gulf be-
tween'him nnd her. Blanche did not
mean Bonethlng wrong, much leBg a
crime, least of all any sort of com
pllclty In the great crime which had
been committed while he was on his
way ho'he. But she believed lha
worst hi had done wbb to emulate
his friend, Mr. Potts, nnd to get en
gaged o* perhaps actunlly married to
somebody In the bush.
There, wus no reason why be should
not; there never had been any sort
or kind of understanding between her-
self and him; It was only aa lifelong
friends that they had written to each
other, and that only once a year. Life
long friendships are traditionally fatal
to romanca. They had both been
free aa air; and If he was free no
longar, aha had absolutely no cause
for complaint, avan if aba was fool
enough to feal It
All this aha aaw quits clearly in bar
vary honsat heart And yet. he might
have told hart ha naad not have down
..Jo
iff
lit
Party Thousand Motor Licensee.
Licenses Issued.
Automobile ................36,475
Motorcycle ..... 1,450
Tractor ................... 807
| Dealers' 1.000
Total ...................39,732
Registered In 1915.........27,000
An astonishing gain In the number
of automobiles In Oklahoma is indi-
cated by preliminary figures an-
nounced by the state highway depart-
ment. Approximately 40,000 Ucenaei
have been Issued, an Increaae ot about
13,000 over the number Issued the last
flscal year. Thirteen thousand dollars
in delinquent tax fees hava been col-
lected.
The registration In Oklahoma City
Is about 3,300, an Increase of 1,000 over
Oklahoma City.—Verification of the lHHt y®»r, and thia total includes corn-
statement made recently that Okla- paratlvely few delinquents,
honta would lead all the states In per- Oklahoma county has the most ma-
centage of Increase on income tax pay-j chines; Tulsa county Is next and Till-
moms was furnished by Hubert L. i man, Grant. Gnrlield and Muskogee
Bolen, collector of Internal revenue. I* follow in order. The motor tax collec-
the IlgiiroB which woiy compiled by i tlonn amount to $100,000. The dolln-
Mr. Bolen from official reports, the quents, in order to get now licenses,
gain over last year was 207 per cent. !>ud to pay also for the license they
This is more than 100 per cent more had failed to procure,
than any other district. The highway department has about
For the collection year which closed caught up with Its work, and Mr. Sot, |
June 31, Oklahoma paid $51,104.28 nays that after August 1 there will j
more I linn Kansas, Nebraska, Arizona be no excuse for tho operation of a ;
and Arkansas combined. It was pro- car, motoreye'o or tractor without a'
dieted some time ago by Mr. Bolen tag, except In the case of a new urn-
that Kansas would pay more corpora- chine.
tion lax than Oklahoma, hut when nil1 Use of Tot)acco instate Grows,
the returns wote In It was lound that More cigars, clgurels and pipe to-
Oklahoma had exceeded tho Sunflower blu.,.0 W(,rp *mokod In Oklahoma dur-
state hi the matter of corporation tax hm lhe (incil| yoar „,ullnB July 31,
hy s>—~.4<H). Arkansas was le.t lar he- „n,| nl0V(, ping, scrap and tine cut
hind lit the matter of corporation tax (,|lewo(| |||Hn during the previous cor-
hy $1’!)2,000. Oklahoma increased her r,,B,)0!Uj|nK poriod.
cotporallon Income lax 49 pet cent -phis prosperity Horn Is contributed
ovei last jer.r. by Hubert L. Bolen, collector of lu-
Fourteen states paid more Income I lernul revenue Tor the district of Okla-
tux than Oklahoma They were; Cali- |)pnin who „nys ,lm, B, least 500 more
j fornia, Connecticut. Illnols, Maryland, l(,l)lu.Co dealers paid special taxes into
Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota. hlf( ()fflrp t(sis veiu. ,itan last.
Missouri, New Jersey. New York, f)nly ,vvp1vo physicians, dentists
Ohio, Pennsylvania. Texas nnd Wis- Mm, veterlntiriunH subject to lhe
cousin 1 his places Oklahoma fit- narcotic provision of the "war tax" act
teenth among the forty eight stales, havp not pHi(1 thelr 1axi,H, ho says.
Where in 1915 she was twenty-eighth. Th,,S(1 wl„ g|Ven thirty days of
Texas Is the only southern stale that Krace provided they have been ill or
paid more Income lax than Ok ahoma. avvny f|.on) their business and make
The personal income lux collected In application for leniency. Other-
the various districts for 1915 vand 1918 w,Be „ penaIly of r,0 per cent will bo
TNI NUN fVAlITT ItWIM MMMNt
NEW^fQME
NNT HlB NNNIN AMI NTNIN NANII
Writ* (or fra* booklet "Point* to bo con*M*r*d b«4oH
purchasing a Sawing Machina.” Loam tha facta.
THE NEW HOME 8EWINQ MACHINE C0..0RAN6E.NA8t
*4na»
The boro cun head tiff all effort to
forget that he is a bore.
Sometimes It Is easy, and sometimes
It is Impossible to raise money ou ■
boud of sympathy.
REA0 THIS FROM A
PROMINENT RAILROAD MAN
Mr. John W. Huger. Fuel Inspector of
the N. C. & St. L. Hy., living at 3006
Carlisle, Nashville, Term., write*: "During
tlu> tall of 1JH I had the grippe for aix
weeks nnd had three doctor*. One bottle
of Lung-Vita did me more good then all
of the medicine they had given me. Last
winter my little hoy hail the whooping
cough urn! we thought he would never he
well nguiu. We tried everything we could
think of, with no remiltH until we utted
Lung-Vita. After using this medicine he
is well and Imrdy it nil has never been both-
t ’ i ll anv more V- v -thl not n» wi'h-
out it in our home." ITse Lung-Vita for
consumption, asthma, cough*, croup, cold*,
nail whooping cough. If vour dealer doe*
not have it send $1.75 for n thirty-day
treatment today. Nashville Medicine Co.,
Dept. C, Nashville, Tcnn. Adv.
In I In- United Stales 2,000,000 chil-
dren. ton to fifteen years of age, are
employed In gainful oeeuputlous.
)
Pnglners have found that the use
of zinc in hollers prevents foaui and
the deposit of settle.
RED, ROUGH, SORE HANDS
May Be Soothed and Healed by Use
of Cutloura. Trial Free.
was as follows:
‘‘I Guest I’m Not Fit to Speak to You,"
He Said.
and will. She literally felt these
forces, as actual emanations from the
strongest personality that l^ad ever
impinged upon her own.
In the day of reaction, such consld
eratlons were bound to steal In as
single spies, each with a certain con-
solation. not altogether Innocent of
comparisons. But the battalion of
Toye’s virtues only marched on-
Blanche when Martha came to her. on
the little green rug of a lawn behind
the house, to say that Mr. Toye him-
self hud called and was In the draw-
ing-room.
Blanche stole up paBt the door, and
quickly made herself smarter than she
had ever done by day for Walter Caza-
let; at least she put on a “dreBsy"
blouse, her calling skirt (which al-
ways looked new), and did what she
could to her hair. All this was only
because Mr. Toye always came down
as If It were Mayfair, and It was rotten
to make people feel awkward If you
could help It. ' So in sailed Blanche.
In her very best for the light of day,
to be followed ae soon as possible by
the silver tea-pot, though she hud jUBt
had tea herself. And there stood Hil-
ton Toye, chin blue and collar black,
hie trousers all knees and creaseB. ex-
actly as he had jumped out of the boat-
train,
“I guess I’m not fit to speak to you,”
he said, “but that’s Just what I've
come to do—for the third time!”
"Oh, Mr. Toye!" cried Blanche,
really frightened by the face that
made his meaning clear. It relaxed
a little as she shrank Involuntarily,
but the compassion In his eyes and
mouth did not lessen their steady de-
termination.
“I didn’t hove time to make myBelf
presentable," he explulned. "I thought
you wouldn’t have me waste a moment
If you understood tho situation I
want you to promise to marry me
right now!”
Blanche began to breathe again.
Evidently he was on the eve of yet an
other of his Journeys, probably back
to America, and he wanted to go over
engaged; at first she had thought he
had bad news to break to her, but thl$
was no worse than she hud heard be-
fore. Only It was more difficult to
cope with hint; everything was differ-
ent, and he so much more pressing
and precipitate. She had never mot
this llllton Toye before. Yes; she
was distinctly frightened by him But
In a minute she had ceased to bo
frightened of herself; she knew her
own mind once more, and spoke It
much as he hod spoken his, quite com-
passionately, but Just as tersely *o
the point.
"One moment." he Interrupted "I
said nothing about my feelings, be
cause they're a kind of stale proposl
tlon by this time; but for form’* aake
I may state there's no change there,
except In the only direction l(gueaa a
person's feelings are liable to change
toward you, Mlsa Blanche! I’m a worse
case than ever, If that make* any dif-
ference.”
Blanche shook her yellow head.
"Nothing can," she said. "There must
be no possible mistake about It this
time, because 1 want you to ha serf
good and never ask me again,
(TO MM CONTINUMD.)
Ahihamti nnd
MlMlHNlppl.l 1 in. 207.07
$ 177.440 18
trkuiiHH*
......... 28.177.09
ii..';* m
’’nllfoinla nnd
Neva dii . 1.27 1.7 47 42
1.40.1,380 ">2
-oloritdo mid
Wyoming 2.8.984.42
3U4.I02 If
Connecticut hiu! 111 toils
Inland ....
1 OKI .344 4*l
2.182.800 8(4
Florida .....
128.500.80
• corgi a ......
.......... 110.08201
180,54(1 16
Illinois .......
........... 2,H7o,«:in »
f., ioo.oho.oi
(ndiuiia ......
........... 245.053.02
410.820 00
IOWM .........
277.008 15
£ angf, • ......
........... 04.075 60
130,808.47
\m i cky
........... 168.101.01
105,112 76
Louisiana .. . .
........... 2011,8111.20
Zlm.34l.3S
Maryland, Delaware and
l»l-trlPt of Columbia . 1,151.540.21
2.711.701 76
MnunachuneilH
........... 2,688.084 52
4,102.878.08
dlrlllgiin . . .
........... 1,583.829 14
1.870.745.68
Idiuncjmtn ... .
........... RSI .040.82
800.557 '0
•'hnourl .....
........ 084.1.'ll). O'J
1 200,728 07
Montana. Idaho
and Utah. 120.727 71
225.728 01
Mebmnku
12H.78R.25
100,200.31
New IlarupFldra,
Mai no a n4
Vermont
.......... 8fi2.R1rt.57
550,570 31
New Jcmey
........... 1,27 k. 100 02
2,010.200.13
New Mexico and Ari/onu 117.(102.OR
04.523.23
Vew York . . . .
...........17.417.58702
30.280.607 61
Nor Hi Cmollna
...... 123.658 (Ml
175,012 0?
North Dakota
nnd South
Dakota .....
58.504 80
Ohio .........
2.404.870 13
Jkliihnmg . . . .
480.415.08
Oregon .......
118,437 30
l*ennsyl?anla
........... 4,642.657.OH
8.312,204 20
Rout!* Carolina
76,250.01
fenneMee . . . .
207.318 37
Te* a a ........
872,450.10
Virginia .....
........... 107.550.27
280.032.12
Washington and
1 Alaaka . 108.570.80
210,167.13
•Ve«t Virginia
........... 189,188.17
182.064.15
•Vtaconaln ... .
........... 272.470 09
650.948 90
assessed against them unless they
Regiment Lacks Ambulance Corps.
A second call to arms was Issued
needed for an ambulance company
which will he organized at once and
sent to the border.
“If the organization receives the
propert encouragement," Adjutant
General Karp said, "the men will be
sent to Fort Sill Immediately, where
pany Is mustered In.”
The war department requires that
the captain of an ambulunce company
must De experienced in military mat-
ters. Four lieutenants must bo physl-
Free Employment Men Confer.
W. G. Ashton, commissioner of la-
bor, held a conference with the men
In charge of the four freo employment
bureaus last week, and mapped out a
campaign for the next year. A new
system for the work was put Into
effect, which will bring Into closer
touch the different bureaus and make
for the betterment of the servece.
The business done by this branch of
the commissioner's work during the
past year was very successful, and as
a result of' the meeting, still better
results are hoped for during the next
year. Flans were outlined with tha
purpose In view of being of greater
service In supplying hands for regular
farm work and also for the harvest
work for the different crops In the
state.
Golfer Struck By Lightning.
Tulsa.—Lightning struck and In-
stantly killed John 10. Harrington, 38
years old, us he was playing golf on
the links at the Tulsa Country Club.
J. F. Flannlgan, who whh with Mr.
Harrington at the lime, was knocked
unconscious for a short time by Ike
holt, and W. L. Connelly, who was
In the party, but standing about 16u
yards distant, was affected. Four cad-
dies who were attending the golfers
were dazed but otherwise unharmed
by the lightning.
State Gets Large Fee.
Increases in the capital stock of the
two Cosdon oil and gas companies of
Oklahomn boosted the receipts of the
office of the secretary of state to $6,-
930, which Is the largest umount tak-
en In in a single day since the first of
the year.
'I ue capital stock of Cosden ft Coit
pany was increased from $4,200,000 to
$7,000,000 and the capital stock of tho
Cosden Oil and Gas Company was In-
creased from $8,500,000 to $12,500,000.
Headquarters of both companies are
maintained at Tulsa.
This Is the second time the cnpltal
stock of the two companies has been
Increased since the first of the year.
Fees paid by these companies alone
since January 1 amount to approxi-
mately $20,000.
Nothing so soothing and healing for
red, rough and Irritated hands as CuU-
cura Soap and Cutlcura Ointment
Soak hands on retiring In hot Cutloura
soapsuds. Dry, and gently anoint hands
with Cutlcura Ointment. ▲ one-night
treatment worka wonders.
Free sample each by mall with Book.
Address postcard, Cutlcura, DepL 1%
Boston. Sold everywhere.—Adv.
What Is Coming?
Mr. R. G. Wells Is more Interested,
so ho tolls us In Ills latest book, "What
Is Coming?" In the tomorrow thun In
the today. The past he regards sim-
ply ns materlul for future guessing.
Remembering Ills many successful
foroensts of previous years, this latest
volume, In which he deals with social
conditions after the wur, Is possessed
of grent significance. How are people
going to make up the waste of the
world’s resources, the killing of U
largo majority of the men In nearly
every European country, universal loss
nnd unhappiness? What, In short, U)
In store for the next generation?
Laps.
His prowess ns a walker was the
subject of Jenkins’ boasting one dny.
“One holiday," he said, loudly, "I se-
lected a course measuring four miles
over the country, aud timed myself.
The result was that In one hour I cov-
ered 12 miles In three lups.”
He will ted for the exclamations of
amazement, which did not come. In-
stoiiil, one of Ills listeners remarked In
a bored voice:
"That’s nothing special. I know a
young Indy who once did 00 miles all
In one lap, and she would have re-
turned In the same lup, only I got a
cramp so hudly In the legs I"
Every mun who knows It all seldom
gets a chance to tell It after he gets
married.
Postoffices Dropped.
With the extension of rural mnll
delivery to all parts of the Htate, the
small fourth-class post offices are being
discontinued. Iteportn Indicate that
many offices, once the gathering pluoe
for people of the community, Is hy
official order no more. Offices discon-
tinued last week were Fills, Cherokee
county; Carroll, McIntosh county;
Cisco, McCurtaln county; Cliff, ♦lar-
shall county; Egypt, Johnston county;
Eli, Cherokee county.
4 Counties Agres to Bonds Retirement
Four counties have replied favorab-
ly to the request of the commissioners
of lhe land office that wherever pos-
sible counties should retire bonds In
which state money Is Invested so the
money will become available for farm-
ers. Tho countlos which have agreed
to this nnd the amount of Htate money
they hold nrn Roger Mills, $10,000;
Marshall, $3,000; Pontotoc, $5,000;
Washington, $22,500. Atoka county re-1
piled that It could not retire Its bends,
because they were given ss other so-
our! ties.
Full Cotton Crop Expected.
John M. Whllet district agent for
the Farmers' Co operative Demonstra-
tion Association, stationed at McAles-
ter, has reported to the state board of
agriculture that a full cotton crop Is
expected In eastern Oklahoma, where
the plant Ih showing a splendid
stand. Only one more rain Is need-
ed In 'thut section to produce a glor-
ious cotton condition. There is Home
trouble In the boll weevil district, Mr.
Whlto reported, but the weevil Ih not
spreading and Is not expected to do
any more damage than last year,
much.
Plenty of Work,
July wns a banner month for per-
sons seeking work, according to the
monthly report made hy J. W. Wal-
den, superintendent of the state free
employment bureau. Tho gain In the
number of persons assigned to work
over July, 1915, was 1200 per cent
More calls for help canto In than could
lie grained. Five hundred nnd eighty-
nine employes were wanted, of which
number only 433 could be found.
There were 405 applications for em-
ployment by laborers.
School Census Completed.
Blackwell. — Superintendent A. J.
Lovett of the city schol system has
completed a census of (he school chil-
dren In the city at lhe present time,
and it shows that there are one-third
morn children In Blackwell now than
In January, when the regular census
was taken. At that time there were
927 school children and a population
of 3,400. Now there are almost 1,400
school children, and working from
this, the population of Blackwell at
the present time In between 5,000 and
$.900.
Aa the acorn grow* to
be the mighty oak, bo chil-
dren when rightly nour-
ished, grow to be sturdy
men and women.
Good flavor and the es-
aential nourishing elements
for mental and phyaical de-
velopment of children are
found in the famous food —
Grape-Nuts
Made of whole wheat and
malted barley, thia pure food
supplies all the nutriment of
the grains in a moat easily di-
gested form.
It does the heartgood to see
little folks enjoy Grap^Nuta
and cream.
" There's a Reason ”
Sold by Grocers.
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