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( ■■ yi-tt!■ ■*- .fv-vf -*•«• «• v *■ / M lit. '■Mf^'iife'r.|j»»5 iy-. - "‘ - *■'- Hobo,Tramp, Bum- They Are Different Very Distinct Class Lines Drawn Among These Groups. To the average nnn th<- words hobo, -trump and hum are ayrmny mows terms, used to t designate a type of foot-loose. Jiomeless sped men of the <i*rms ftohd They are terms of derogation and opprobrium Not 40! Before railing a hobo a tramp, or either man a hum ne sure you say It with s smile For there are very distinct class line* drawn among these group' of un Skilled and Itinerant workers A hobo Is a-bard worker of the migratory type, tie Is possessed ol s keen sense of nls own Importance and value to the world th-i—would suffer withofN his servicer The wheat Helds ot the Southwest, the tlmherlands In the Northwest, the fruit lands In various parts of the country could not short a profit without the presence of the hobo at strategic moments To displace him In the economlr • scheme ot things would t»e to keep on hand well fed and employed th« whole year around, thousands ot m-'ti whose services are only required a lew weeks or months a year Another^ distinction: The hobo travels on wheels although the ticket office Is ' not always 9 part of his traveling experience. The tramp, on the other hand migrates according to wuim. nr chance. And he walks always Having nowhere In mind ti get. he gets there at his leisure If he works, as he does now and then. It Is because of necessity and not through any sense of personal responsibillt) to society at large. In the mind ol the self-respecting hobo, the tramp Is distinctly an inferior. The bum is looked down upon and dispised. both by the hobo and tramp. The bum travels nowhere does nothing and Is nobody He Is a parasite of the clty[ begging borrow Ing, stealing, loafing. Clip this out and paste It In your book of etiquette. You may need It sometimes to save yourself from one of those embarrassing moments, war.ns the Knickerbocker Press. Copyright by Bea Ame* William*. bq Ben Ames SYNOPSIS At a gathering of cronlea In the vil lage of Liberty, Maine, Jim Saladlne listens to the history of the neighbor ing Hostile Valley—Its past tragedies, Its superb Ashing streams, and, above all, the mysterious, enticing "Huldy,” wife of Will Ferrln. Interested, he drives to the Valley for a day’s fishing, though admitting to himself his chief desire Is to wee the glamorous Huldy Indian Summer Indian summer usually begins some time lu October, but It may not be gin until November. According to the United States weather bureau It Is not a definite period occurring reg ularly each autumn, and is not basel on accurate meteorological da a In dian summer varies greatly in dura tion. It may occur once o r several times during the tall and early win ter, qf It may not occur at all, and If It does It may last a day or two or several weeks. And In son e years there are mote than one of these periods of hazy, tranquil days. Mineral Water Plentiful In some countries mineral water costs more than w-iije, but at Alt- helde In Germany It Is so TfThnfKul that the streets are sprinkled wlta mineral water. Glacier Advance* The glacier at Jacobshawn Green land, is advancing G2 feet o day. Find Out From Your Doctor if the “Pain” Remedy You Take Is Safe. Don’t Entrust Your Own or Your Family’s Well - Being to Unknown Preparations .a' KJ A you take any prepara tion you don’t know all about, for the relief of headaches; or the pains of rheumatism, neuritis or neuralgia, ask your dodor what he thinks about it — in comparison with Genuine Bayer Aspirin. We say this because, before the discovery of Bayer Aspirin, most so-called “pain” remedies were ad vised against by physicians as being bad for the stomach; or, often, for the heart. And the discovery of Bayer Aspirin largely changed medical practice. Countless thousands of people who have taken Bayer Aspirin year in and out without ill effect, have proved that the medical findings about its safety were correct. Heinember this: Genuine Bayer Aspirin is rated among the fastest methods yet didtovered for the relief of headaches and all common pains . , and safe for the average person to take regulaily. »• You can get real Bayer Aspirin at any drug store — simply by never asking for it by the name “aspirin” alone, but always saying BAYER ASPIRIN when you buy. Bayer Aspirin \ ^ Ferrin “Old Marin’? Pierce and her nlneteen-year-old granddaughter Jenny live In the ^Valley. Since childhood Jenny has deeply loved young Will Ferrln, older than ahe, and who re gards her as still » child. Will leaves to take employment In nearby Augusta. His fathef’s death brings Will back to the Valley, but he returns to Au gusta, still unconscious of Jenny’s' womanhood, _ and love. Neighbors of the Pierces are- Bart and Amy Carey, brother and sister. Bart, unmarried and something of a ne’er-do-well, Is at tracted by Jenny. The girl repulses him' deAnitely. Learning that Will is coming home, Jenny, exulting, sets his long-empty house “to rights,” and has dinner ready for him. He comes— bringing his wife,—Hu44y, The glrlis world~ collapses.® Huldy becomes the subject of unfavorable gossip in the Valley. Entering his home unlocked for. Will finds seemingly damning evidence of his wife’s unfaithfulness ns a man he knows Is Seth Humph reys breaks from the house. Will over takes him and chokes him to death, although Humphreys shatters his leg with a bullet. At Marm Pierce’s house the leg is amputated. Jenny goes to break the news to Huldy and finds her with Bart Carey. Huldy makes a mock of Jenny’s sympathy, declaring she has no use for “half a man,” and Is leaving. Will is legally exonerated, and with a home-made artificial leg “carries on,” hiring a helper, Zeke Dace. Months later Huldy comes back. CHAPTER V—Continued —9— Huldy stood, leaning Indolently ngiilnst the jiimb of the door, smiling at them all. “He don’t have to hurry. I might decide to stay,” she said softly. “I like handsome men," said Huldy.. drawling. “And even If he don’t like me. he’s handsome as they come!" Zeke’s eyes were hlack with anger. She laughed at his rage, and she said In soft tones: “Y’ou tan see he don’t like me. Will, I’ll have to make him like me before I go.” Zeke cried, In choking exasperation: "You’ve got one man outside! How m.Tny . . .” Huldy looked over her shoulder, then hack to Zeke again. “Y’ou go out and toll him he can go,” she said. “Tell him I’m through with him!" And when he hesitated: “He’s Just a little man," she urged, derisively cajoling. “You’ve no call to be afraid!” Zeke appealed to W1U with a glance; and Will spoke wearily. “Go ahead, Zeke," he said, submitting. "This here’s Huldy’s home, If she’s a mind to stay.” Huldy took off her hat and laid It aside; she touched her hair with her hands. Jenny stood up and moved toward the door; but Huldy said soft ly: “Don’t you go! There’s room enough for the both of us. I don’t want your Will!” Will protested heavily: “Huldy. If you stay here, you’ll have to mend your ways!” Huldy was suddenly vicious, dan gerous. “Don’t talk to me!" she re torted. “After fetching her In here the minute 1 was gone. F aim to stay; and If you try to boss me around, I’ll howl her name up and down the V’alley till people hold their noses when they see her! Yon better mend your own ways, Will Ferrln!’’ Zeke touched Will’s arm. “Let me throw her out, Will.” he protested. “Don’t you go and take her In.” “I have to, Zeke,” Will confessed. Zeke stared at the other man, hot, scornful, furious. “All right,’’ he said then contemptuously. “If yo’re that kind. I’m quitting! You’ll have to get on without me!” But Huldy moved slowly to Zeke’s side. “Don’t you quit," she said, and touched his hand. “You’ll be glad you stayed.” Zeke seemed choking; he said at last, grudgingly: “I’ll finish out the week. I reckon." - And Huldy smiled contentedly; but Jenny could bear no more. -^Moving slowly, she went out through the shed and toe barn and down the orchard path/to the brook; she came through the <reep woods home. As she opened the kitchen door, Marm Pierce looked up Inquiringly. And then, In quick alarm at what she saw, she rose to her feet; but there was no need of a question. Jen ny spoke. “Huldy’s back," she said through trembling lips. “She’s come home!” Marm Pierce exclaimed. In quick re assurance:, "Don’t you grieve, Jenny! She’ll nev'e’if stay!” Jenny shook her head, almost smil ing, pitifully. “She didn’t aim to. She Just c<ime to fetch her clothes." she said. “But she saw Zeke Dace. And— now she’s going to stay!” From Huldy’s return until Jim Sala dlne came at last to Hostile Y’alley, two years Intervened; and during this period, though her heart was his for ever, Jenny saw Will not at all. In the country as Sn the city, It Is pos sible to go for years without glimpsing your next-door neighbor. Jenny and ier grandmother lived off the traveled id; and even If that had not been the case, Will, when he had occasion to go Into the outside world, took the road up the ridge from his house, and in the opposite direction. Jenny her self might venture Into the woods down the Valley, toward the. brook; hot Will, sinfie he had now. but one good leg, never came to the stream to fish, and Jenny never crossed the brook. So their paths did not Inter- sect. * Accident might have brought them face to face; but neither the girl nor Will would design an encounter. Jen ny Loved him deeply and completely; and the very fact that they did not see one another served in some fashion to Intensify the girl’s devotion. This love of hers for Will, springing out of the years of her childhood, growing Jn stature and In depth as she became a woman, seemed to feed on denial. Lacking the man himself, she kept his remembered image In her heart and was wistfully contented so. Sometimes Marm Pierce wished Jen ny might find happiness elsewhere; but Jenny was not unhappy, and the older woman came by and by to under stand. Certain it was the girl wore no mask of grief; she was nowadays a woman, glowing wl^h a deep radiance. Life and maturity became her well. And It sometimes seemed to the older woman that Jenny’s love for Will must communicate Itself to him In silent ways; and at first she blajpetf him for that he did not throw Huldy headlong out of his home and his life, so that he might turn to Jenny; and she spoke this thought to Jenny. But the girl shook her head. “Not Will,” she said. “He’s not the kind to. Long as she lives, he’ll stand by her.” Marm Pierce Indignantly Insisted: “There’s nothing so dumb as a good man that’s got mixed up with a had woman; and I’ve a mind to go tell Will go." Jenny smiled wisely. “You’ll not,” she said. “You never will.” And Marm Pierce, perceiving In the girl a wisdom greater than her ju»m, never did. In the weeks after Huldy’s return, Amy Carey fell more and more into the habit of coming through the woods to see the old woman and the girl who dwelt here in this house divided. Win Haven’s side of the house fell nowa days more and more Into disrepair. The roof was broken, the shutthrs hung by one hinge and banged In the. wind, the door timbers were rotted and crumbling. It would not be long, un less measures of repair were taken, till that half of the house sagged weakly downward Into a collapsed ruin. Marm Pierce shut tier eyes to this sure eventuality; yet the matter presented practical problems too. Sometimes when rain drove through the roof on the other side, It seeped through baseboard or through plaster to damage Marm Pierce’s own part of the house, and made a nuisance there. Once Jenny proposed taking tar paper and like material to proof the other side of the walls against moisture; but the old woman would not consent “I wouldn’t give Win the satisfac tiori,’’ she declared. When Amy came to stop a while with these two, in the warm kitchen, she could not fall to remark the in creasing disrepair; and she urged Marm Pierce to take measures of pre vention. “You’ll have to," she said. “Because Win won’t never do anything. He was to our house the other night, and talked about it; and he ’lows to be ’round when his side of the house falls, and to watch and see the trouble It makes for you. Brags that If you try to mend anything he’ll take a shotgun to you.” “He around again, Is he?" Marm Pierce demanded tartly. “I didn’t know but he’d died in a gutter some- wheres before now.” “He comes to our place right along,” Amy assured them. ‘There’s a new steam mill putting In down brook be low here, opposite where Seth’s mill used to be. They come in from Lib erty village. Win, he’s working there. He comes up and him and Bart set and drink and brag.” She added huski ly: “Win, he’s shining up to Huldy, too.” “That did fooll” Marm Pierce ex claimed. “You can’t go to blame him,” Amy said ruefully. “Seems like ahe takes a kind of satisfaction In fretting a man, and getting him haired up, and laughing at him after." And site said slowly: “But I don’t know as she’s bothering with anyone, only Zeke. now." Jenny caught some accent In the girl’s tone. Her perceptions were per haps quickened by her own love for Will; but Marm Pierce, in this matter not so wise, said sharply: “Zeke’s as big a fool as any of them. -I ’lowed he had more sense than that.” “Zeke’s all right," Amy said, In hum ble defense. “Only he. . . Her eyes filled with slow tears. “He used to come down and aet with me,” she con fessed. “Always Joking and laughing, he was. Zeke’s a hand to make a Joke out of things. But I ain’t seen him lately.” . So Marm Pierce understood, and her lips set In anger. “I’d like to give that hussy a piece of my mlndl” ahe cried rmpotently. Amy whispered: “Sometimes I’m scared 1” She shivered uneasily. “Dun- no what I’m scared of, either. But tlfe men that have seen her, sometimes they come down to our'place; and they’re half crazy, kind of. Bart, he hates the sight of her. ' He cant' say anything hard enough of her. He’s always beeu v a good friend to Will, and to have her treat .Will so frets Bart awfuh—And- Win Haven, he’ll come down and cuss and rave and rant about her, like he wanted to twist her neck. But Zeke, he don’t ever come down!” “Nor Will?” Jenny guessed. ‘‘Will, he stays up there,” Amy as sented. “Him and Zeke.” The girl shuddered. T dunno what’s going to come of It," she admitted, fearfully. And she said: “Bart talks about licking Zeke. He says Somebody'd ought to, long as Will can’t do It him self.” Marm Pierce asked sharply: “Can’t Will take a gun to him, or a cart stave? If he had any gumptidn In him. . \ “Will’s got gumption enough,” Amy assured them. She looked at Jenny. “Bart told me, here about a week ago, he was up there, and Huldy said some thing about you, Jehny. Will, most times, he’s gentle to her; but Bart says Will he got up at that and he says to her: ‘Huldy,’ he says. ‘You keep your tongue off Jenny or I’ll rip it out of your mouth!’ " Jenny felt a fierce surge of pride and happiness; tmt she hid her eyes, “I Might Decide to Stay," She Sal4^ Softly. + so that these others might not see. Marm Pierce exclaimed In a deep ex asperation : T sh’d think as much! Whal'd she say to that?” “She shut her mouth!" Amy report ed. “Bart said she kind of laughed, blit she did hush up! He said Will was enough to terrify a body<the way he looked at her." And she reflected: “Will, if he does get mad, It don’t pay to fool with him.” There were other days when Am> came thus to be with them. They were remote from the Ferrin farm; but Amy was not. From Will's place down to Carey bridge was a scant quarter mile; so Amy had almost dally word of what passed on the hill, and her deep trouble increased. “It’s like a sore place, up there," she said one day. “Like a sore that’s bound to spread If you don’t scrub it out, and burn it out" And she cried: “There’s times I’d like tol Even Bart, he ain’t the same, with that woman on his mind all the time/’- She shook her head. “Seems like they all hate Huldy,” she confessed. “Bart, and Will, like that time when she talked about you, and Win Haven when she goads him; and Bart says even Zeke, when she's meaner than usual, he gets mad at her. But they can’t seem to stay away from her. I’m scared. Mis’ Pierce. It wouldn’t surprise me a mite if a crowd of them went up there some day and rode her right out of the Valley!” * “Good enough for her I” the old worn an declared. “I wlsh’t they would 1” But this did not happen, and after a time Bart was forced to cease his visits to Will’s farm. One day Amy came running breathlessly through the woods to fetch Marm Pierce. “Bart’s hurt awful 1” she cried. “Zeke heat him pretty near to death. You’ve got to come and take care of him.” “Hurt how?” the old woman ques tioned, already preparing to obey this summon?. "They had a ug,.t,” Amy panted. “I was in the house, and 1 'heard them, and run out. and they was at It, down by the bridge, fighting and rolling around in the ditch, and getting up and scrabbling at each other and going down agai;• And she isped: “I tried to do something, bu they rolled Into me and knocked m > down.” Her garments were soiled v'ith the mud of the road. “They kep’ at It, apPe of all 1 could do, till Zeke, he bad the best of It Backed off finally and left Bart laying thep- 4 the road. . . Ma n Pierce had collected at ran dom certain salvea and ointments which she thought might be of use. Jenny said: “I’ll carry them, Granny!" “You stay where you be," the old woman retorted decisively. “Keep out of this. If I need you. I’ll let you know. Amy, where’s Bart now?” T got him as far as the house,” Amy explained. “But he can’t hardly move, ma'am. He’s all' cut and bloody and sick. . . “ JeniiY, cgL-inelled by ijie older wom an’s Insistence, stayed behind, with her thought* for company. Her thoughts as tiwavi centered first on Will. This matter, on the surface, con cerned Huldy and him whom she loved. So she wafted In a sort of I’esperation for her grandmother’s re turn. The day was in late September, with lowering clouds and a long threat of rain which became toward dusk an actuality; a thin unpleasant drizzle that would be worse. Marm Pierce returned at first dark, and she flirted fhe moisture off her shawl, the flying drops hissing on the hot stove. - Her Jeet were wet. She changed Into dry stockings and shoes, and Jenny tended her without questions for a while. Not till the old womaff was warm and dry again, and the kettle boiling, and sup per under way,,did Jenny ask: “Bart hurt bad, is he?" “Nought to mention,” Alarm Pierce assured ^ber. “Took a licking, that’s all. Bunged eye, and his mouth is all cut, and a couple of teeth loosened up, and 1 wouldn’t wonder if lie hadn’t got a rib cracked. Zeke handled him, certain.” , 1 She chuckled. “Good thing for him, ’ she reflected. “Burt’s been needing to have his comb trimqied for a long time.” “Why?” Jenny protested, puzzled by this. “1 hate a strutting man, or a sneak ing one,” Alarm Pierce said obscurely. "Or a liar!" “Mart’s kind of big and bold," Jenny assented. “But he’s aiway9 been right friendly, and 1 never kuowed him to lie!” “Oh, Bart’s all right," the older woman said indifferently. Tf a body likes him.” She added irascibly: "The thing is, that woman at Will's, she gets all the men with their combs up and looking for a tight; and Bart, he's as bad as the rest of them." “He don't go up there only to see Will,” Jenny urged, defensively. And she asked: "How come him and Zeke to fight?” Alarm Pierce started to speak, hesi tated for a moment, then said almost cas.ually : “WelL Bart said hia.waa.~ga~ ing down brook fishing, and he come by the foot of the path that leads up to Will's place, and decided to stop by and see Will. So he climbed up, and there was Huldy on a ledge at the head of the path; and lie said Zeke come along and ordered him off the place, and he didn't want no trouble, so he sets out for home. “But wlieu he got to the bridge, Zeke had come down the road and cut him off; and they had words, and then they went at It.’’ She concluded: “And Zeke kind of out-argued him. That's all." Jenny bud a sudden vivid memory of a day when she too hud surprised Huldy on that high ledge, lying nuked as a pagan in the sun’s embrace, and she wondered; but she only said slow ly: "Will’s going to feel bad. He wouldn’t want anything (hat'd make talk about Huldy.” .*• Marm Pierce smiled. "Child, child, yo're bound to think about Will.” “Bart hadn't ought to have fit with Zeke,” Jenny urged, s “Guess he's realized that his own self by now,” Alarm Pierce assented. “Looked to me he'd bit off too big a chunk when he tackled Zeke at all.’’ “Bad off, is he?’" Marm Pierce hesitated, shook her head. “No, not to speak of,” she said. "Only—in a mighty bad humor. He was snarling and barking at Amy when I come away." -And she said slowly, half to herself: T was a mind to fetch Amy homo here, to stay the night with us.” “Why?” Jenny asked, puzzled. The older woman shook her head. T dunno. I didn’t like the way Bart acted. Looked to me be might—take his spleen out on her.” - .X And she .said: “A man that’s been licked good and proper, he ain’t satis fied till he’s got even for It, on some body. It doq’t matter who.” And a moment later she added, ob scurely: “And a man that can’t get good. beef, he’ll eat salt pork If he’s hirngry enough!” But she would uot tell Jenny \ what , was In her mind. (TO BE CONTiyVED) SEND FM IMS OFT! DIONNE ‘QUINTS' BIRTHDAY BOWL Mother’• Oat* lOctohalp caoar Mp*cial pottag* and handling chargm*. (15c in Cagada^ Sand to Thm Quaker Oat* Co., Box L, Chicago, IIL • This offer is made to cele brate the selection of Quaker Oats as the cereal for the Dionne Quintuplets, even be fore their first birthday. You 1 will love this souvenir. A beautiful design in lifetime chromium, 6" in diameter, use ful for serving many things. Send now to address above. i IN VITAMIN B FOR KEEPING FIT ... 1c WOITN OF . 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