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THE GAS STATION ? . ?*, ? ? . a ? f FREE AIR ogrp's GAS 118 f OIL 25 FREE AIR I 1 ? The gasoline pumping station Is tbe very keynote of the American ?cone. 2 ? The United States Is rpally a large body of people entirely sur rounded by gas stations. 3 ? There are more gns stations In tt.e country than there are churches, ?choofsLJind libraries. 4 ? Ami. they have decidedly better locations.^v 5 ? Once uptHL a time there was quite a distance Thuggee n them. Yon could walk two or three blocks and | not see one. I 0 ? This seems Incredible, but It Is true. 7 ? But roday they are thicker than frankfurter stands and waffle restau rants. Which Is plenty thick. 8 ? It looks like a prent plot by the oil Interests to eliminate all old-fash ioned residences, especially the cor ner sites. ? The minute a gasoline baron hears of u tine old American home with spacious lawns in a nice resi dential district with birdies and | posies all around it, he becomes [ seized with a maniacal determination to tear It down and replace it with n Spanish mosque with six pumps, free air and a rest room. 10 ? Why he behaves this way Is hard to understand. It can't be from mercenary Incentives, because there are more gas stations now than there are automobiles. 11 ? Iiu t there are signs that the tide is turning. The other day a couple of American home loverj bought up a gasoline station, tore ir down and erected a colonial home stead on It with lilac bushes around It f-.nd with Iron deer on t lie lawn. A TRUE GHOST STORY By Mary Roberts Rinchart "In 1022, after the death of I'.ois Penrose, my family took occupancy of his apartment In Washington. From our tlrst night there a strange phenomenon pervaded the place," re lated Mary Roberts Uinehart famous novelist. "The distraction was only to end with my mother's death. "The account of the phenomenon has been told before, and I am tell ing It now, not because 1 believe la *ny physical manifestation of sur vival alter death, but because I know one cannot sny that because he or she cannot see a thing, it does not exist. "Perhaps the disturbances were warning us of danger to my mother; perhaps some child, Incarnate, was playing around our rooms. Whatever It was some strange phenomenon dlT e:tlst. "The scene was set there, of course, for the rumor of a glu?st. "Immediately after Senator Pen rose's death the colored maids wer^ mating that the dead man was walk ing. On our first night In the apart ment, after we had turned off our lights, there was a rush of some Ming through the room. The effect was as if a large black curtain had been drawn swiftly across us. Doc tor IUnehart sat up In bed. "What on earth was that?" he asked. "We turned on the lights, but* everything was as it should be. The windows were open, but there was nu wind, and the narrow curtains Were held lint to the wall by heavy bands that could not blow under any circumstances. "The next morning brought an un usual incident. We had no servants gftve Marie, the personal maid for my mother and myself. At seven the next rooming Marie entered with my coffee. I reproved her for coming ?ftrly. "'Hut you rang, madam. Hang twice.' "Hater Marie complained repeated ly of my ringing the bell which con nected my room with hers, when I did not ring. One day I myself heard the ball ringing In her room, when I was In the study opposite her room. We called In an electrician to examine tor a short circuit; there was none. "After that we accepted the bell, and In tine heenme accustomed to It. Hut other queer happenings took place; eurlous and unexplalnable noises and stirrings disturbed not only Marie, but myself, two mints who came to visit us. and my sons. "My eldest Ron. who came home for ? visit was unwarned of the situa tion. Just before his nrrlvnl the hall floor had been painted, and the furnl tnro hnd been set back for the first t'mw. i "The following morning ho called mo, and I found him In the hall staring at something. lie had come . in late, and gone to sleep at once. J to ho awakened with a feeling of in , tense cold and a sense of terror he 1 could not explain. Following that, j as he lay there, outside his door in ! the hall, a heavy piece of furniture had apparently commenced to move, and for an hour it had cieakod and moved without stopping. We ex I a mined the floor and found on the I freshly painted surface a series of j new scorings around a heavy leather chair. These scorings were very deep. "A few days later we were all out ? of the apartment which was locked. When we returned we found to our amazement the pandanus plant sit- j ting neatly upright on the living . room floor, minus its crock, and some J thirty feet from where It belonged. j "One night we gave a dinner. The next day the papers ran a tale that the I'dnrose apartment was haunted, and that the dead Senator was ring ing his hell. Whereupon a state ment came from the senate ofllce building, that the boll from his pri vate ofllce had rung for some time after his death, two idiort sharp penis. Also a page from the senate later told me that the boys would not go into his ofllce If they could help it, that there was a ghost In It. "I have never laid any of the dis turbances to the so-called earth bound spirit of Mr. Penrose. But we have never found an explana tion. We even had a special tjpe of Ynle lock on the entrance door lf> our apartment. I myself chocked on such things ns the ringing of the bedroom bell, and that repeatedly. "Suddenly, dreadfully, the matter terminated In my mother's death. Tor fourteen years she had been paralyz' d, and bad never attempted to get into her bath without help; It was considered an Impossibility for her to do it. "One night Marie turned ojx the hot water, and then was called away. And in the few moments of absence my mother did the supposedly Im possible, got into the scalding water In tho tnb, there to die from It." Coovrlltht. ? WNU Rprvlc?. ZYowr own druggist It wtfiorT to cheorfutfy rtfund your wonoy on tho spot If you are kg* rollm4 by Croowultlon^ Crocheted Rugs in Quilt Designs Dj- GRANDMOTHER CLARK During the pnst years patchwork quilts have been the big article of Interest to the home needleworker and now we have the crocheted rug In quilt designs. The beauty of these rugs can only be appreciated after you have seen one of them. Crocheted rugs have the best wearing proper ties. The rug above Illustrated is the "Flower Garden" rug, which you will recognize as having received Its name from the "Flower Garden" quilt. Size of rug Is 30 Inches and made from 2 lbs. of rag strips. Each block Is made separately and when the seven are finished they are slip stitched together. The colors to be used depends upon the materlnl you may have on hand or enn dye to col ors desired. Use contrasting colors for the different rows and the brighter the colors the more sunshine the rug brings to the home. Our book No. 24 on crocheted rag rugs In quilt designs contains 20 rugs shown in colors with Instructions. Write our rug Dept. and send 1.r>c for tills jt>ook. Address Home Craft Co. Dept. <\ 10th & St. Louis Ave., St. Louis, Mo. MercolizedWax $kin Young ar? freed MercollMd Wax ? . particles of ?fled akin defect* sach fui blaeV' ly n* directed. ? ar? freed and all &is;S?w jKBSSSBE YZ&g&Ztil, Saxofo, Stamps Show Public Parks Post Office Department Is Picturing the Beauties to Be Found in the National Playgrounds. Washington. ? Scones from two more of the nation's playgrounds found places on UnW?d States post age stamps In September when the Post Ofllce department released the four and eight-cent Issues of its na tional park series. On September IS. the eight-cent Zlon park* (Utah) stamp* Joined Its fellows already re leased for their twofold purpose of carrying mall and proclaiming the beauties of America's out-of-doors. The gray-green stamp had in Its cen ter a reproduction of ''The Great White Throne" ? towering teirrplelike rock formation found In the park. A week later, a four-cent sticker of autumn brown color, representing Mesa Verde National park of Col orado, to<*k its place In the upper right-hand corner of part of the na tion's mall. On Its face stands, in h central design, the camera's story of "CI i ft Palace," an awesome ruin of the now vanished cliff dwellers. Yellowstone Best Known National Park. "If your knowledge of geografihy Is good," says a bulletin from the Wash ington headquarters of the National Geographical society, "you probably will know, In which stares eight of the ten parks are located; but only If your knowledge Is much bettor than average will you be able cor rectly to place them all. "Yellowstone has been familiar to Americans since It became the coun try's lirst national park In 1872. Yet every year thousands of visitors turn homeward from its gates unaware that its area Includes parts of Mon tana and Idaho as well as Wyoming. "Inquiries as fo the situations of i ho Grand canyon (Arizona), Mount Rainier (Washington) and Yosemlte (California) can be answered by most persons with even a casual knowl edge of the geography of America: hut neither the embryo <l27-(KK)-acre Great Smoky Mountains National park of Tennessee and North Caro lina, nor Glacier National park In ?Montana are so well known. Monuments, Mnps, and Mountains Depicted on Stamps. "Between the longitudes of Acadi i National park along the rocky coast of Maine, and Crater Lake National park in southwestern Oregon, lie not only the parks that have been select ed for the stamp scries, hut ten other?, twenty in all within the continental borders of the United States. Two more, the Hawaii National park and Mount McKinley National park of Alaska, complete the list. "Postage stamp geography was not horn with the Issue of this series. The Colosseum, of Home Is depicted on an Italian stamp; a picture of the Arc de Trlomphe Is the central fea ture of a French Issue ; and several nations have placed miniature maps on the fates of their stamps. "In "KMX), Nicaragua pictured her famous volcanic peak, Mount Momo tombo, on a postage stamp. Some commentators on the history of engi neering efforts to construct a canal between the Atlantic and Pacific Why the Sudden Change to Liquid Laxatives ? Doctors have always recognized the value of the laxative whose close can bo measured, and whose action can bo thus regulated to suit individual nded. Tho public, too, is fast returning to the uso of liquid laxatives. People have learned that a properly pre pared liquid laxative brings a more natural movement without any dis comfort at tho time, or after. The dose of n liquid laxative can be varied to suit the needs of the individual. Tho action can thus be regulated. It forms no habit; you need not tako a "double dose" a day or two later. Nor will a mild liquid laxative irritate the kidneys. The wrona cathartic may often do more harm than good. Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin is a Trescription, and is perfectly safe. ts laxative action is based on senna a natural laxative. The bowels will not become dependent on this form of help. Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin is obtainable at all druggists. oceans, assort that the Momotombo stamp, Calling attention to the pres ence of volcanoes in Nicaragua, turned the scales in favor of the Panama route." New Zealandcrs Have Longest Life Expectancy New Zeulanders have a longer life expectancy than the people of anv other country In the world, accord ing to statisticians of a prominent life Insurance company. The average male Infant born In New Zealand can expect to live to the age of sixty-five, while the aver age female Infant can look forward to living within six weeks of sixty eight years, says a statistical bulletin of the life insurance company. The corresponding figures for white babies of the United States are 50.31 for boys and G2.S3 for girls. An exceedingly low mortality for New Zealand babies during the first I year is reported In the bulletin. It Is only 88.35 per 1,000 for males and *25.48 for females. The correspond ing figures for the United States in 1930 were C0.SG and 48.'J1. Raleigh's Last Pipe Shown A pipe, said to have been pre sented by Sir Walter Raleigh to his executioner shortly before he laid Vis head on the block, has attracted much attention while on display In London recently. It Is owned by J. Thompson of Maesyllan, England, who Inherited It from his great grandfather, who, in turn received it from (Jeorge Stephenson, Inventor of the steam engine. The pipe was a mascot on the lloeket. Stephenson's famous engine. It has two stems and is decorated -with carvings-featuring Indian types. Proof Enough ! Then there's a certain Pittsburgh [ business man (why should we give I his name and start a lot of trouble?) | who was arguing the other day that ' a radio in a guy's auto is a grent i thing. "Yeah?" commented a scoffer | ".lust give me one good reason!" "Well," lie said, "the other eveninir when I took my wlfe-to4je and her mother out for a ride I had the radio on, aad neither one said a word for an hour and a half. ? Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. C lean PLUGS for MORE POWER Have Your Spark Plugs f leaned BY THE NEW AC METHOD only 5^ a plug Di rty and Oxide-Coated spark plugs mis-fire intermittently ? rob bing your ca r of power. A thorough plug clean ing will restore that power ? save gas, and assure quick starting. Ynu will find the AC Spark Plug Cleaner at all better dealers, garages, and service stations. 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