Dixon Evening Leader (Newspaper) - January 14, 1918, Dixon, Illinois AGE EVENING JANUARY 14. 1918 OF THE and Sam Collaborate Founding a Secret Society By BOOTH 1917, Wheeler ii boy sot Not only timi Uncw that he was a boy set IJo would think obout It for ten or twenty minutes at a C and ho could not look at himself Tin 0 mirror and remain wholly without What that emotion ho have been unable to put Into but it hlin to understand there was a noble him which other boys did not mother had been the first to discover that was n boy set In did not know It until one when he to overhear his mother telling his aunts abont It. he had always that ho was the best boy In town ' and he Intended to be a minister when ' he grew but ho had never before fr the full extent of his from that fraught he bad nn almost sense of his and Sam Williams the other boys of the neighborhood were conscious that there was different and spiritual about though this of theirs may have been a little it was none the less That Is to they knew that was a boy set but they did not know that they knew It. air and manner at all times to them that the thing was their mothers absorbed appreciation of Georgi e's from the very fount of for Mrs. Bassett's conversation was of little the radiance of his character became the topic of bis actual day more nioro And having laid fuse and having kept it constantly the grown people nothing to to catastrophe befell as a consequence of Sam deciding to a shack in bis Sam Iwid somehow n vasty piano box and a quantity of and the colored Herman and he expounded to them his building plans and offered them and In the institution he purposed to Acceptance was straightway the assembly a union of nil of and ten days saw the shack not but Anybody could by that that It was Intended for a was a door on leather It but It was a There was a fi glass at It could be out as There was a of though that was merely the cooking was dono out of doors In an which boys There were pictures pasted on the Interior banging from a was a portrait of which he down from the attic as he It any use on earth up There were two lame from and along one wall ran a low and feeble structure Intended to serve as a bench or This would come in Sam if any of the parly Was Something Different and Spiritual About comment during of strained In many no that altogether the fact to be stated of is that he escaped the as long as he as It may no violence done him upon the Incidental occasion of a tar into which he was drawn by an obvious eccentricity on the part of he was not popular with his but It was an idea that lii all games he was pushed presently began to be more and being and satisfactory than even tlie shack bly the In in i The outward of which leaders bis It might have been in tile were slighted as worse creased solemnity and or a as a meeting of the It would serve to seat all the In a with development of the the builders became something more than no one could who the of a secret order or as a measure of exclusive ness and to keep ilic sacred and all his opinions considering the tlie Caucasian and in n few ceremonial fairly and It the public As an Instance difficult to deny that his boy Mrs. showed creditable moderation to glance from a their treatment of That they o'clock moderate up to a certain attention arrested by what even then they did not lie a the door was nothing and Herman and about It at The thing stood In attitudes of rigid upon though they shoulder to while and it was facing was did not understand delivering sort of could more | read from a their Innocence of bled of this very and yet he lifted from the ground a long of the grown people who later In liTIo sTic what does over an his brow till it became of u blank and marble are those wordn on your gave her a mystic rose to his and left tiie room with and a she was But Sura's older brother was this year completing his education at a Mrs. was not altogether Ignorant of the obligations of secrecy Imposed upon some Ho was to silent Instead of summoning him back for further she wailed ho out of hearing and then begun action was in obedience to one of the rules at his own a law of tho Penrod advocated It From Margaret be bad heard accounts of her friends In college and thus had learned much that ought to be On the other Herman subscribed to It with expressing a decided opinion that If he and were questioned upon the at home and adopted the of conduct required by the new It would be well for them to not only from the room In which the questioning took place but from the and at stay lie being advantage In this nnd surely an Ideal for was not so lie voted with and carrying the rules were adopted at every meeting It cannot be said that all of them In addition by Ham and Herman and Verman had Ideas of their founded upon at Both their parents belonged to secret their father to the lodge stated by and their mother to the Order of these and found no In material for what to be known as the and It was the he was reading to tho members when Mrs. Williams happened to observe the raising of the emblem of the contained the a key to tlie secret or code by Penrod for use In uncertain and passwords for to the also Instructions for a brother mendier In and a rather alarming sketch of the things to bo done during the Initiation of a last was for the benefit of Master Roderick on the Saturday following the He himself In Sam's not for no previous of the of the for general of sport nnd At of tlie he expressed anticipations of adding some suggestions Improving architectural Being from and even from In the vicinity of the sacred he demanded an whereupon be was to withdraw to the yard for a and held meeting In the was and to undergo the was not the only new member lhat A short time after had been taken Into the shack for the reading of the and other little Maurice Levy entered tho gate and strolled round to the looking for Sam. He was surprised and delighted to tho promising like entertained fair hopes for the door of the shack was a board covered the but a of voices came from stole close and a crack he see the of a and he heard tho voice of Penrod 1111 do you all said the voice of somewhat many lingers you see your see Roddy could with this thing over my and laying down my time has announced in solemn timo a broad Hat Implement was thereupon applied to complained the said Penrod nnd Hitts must now say the Say what I and If you you because you'll say solemnly said keep the revealing Roddy and lying face down upon the floor of the but Maurice had only a fugitive glimpse of this pathetic figure before was Four boys flung Indignantly upon him nnd bore him to he you Haven't you got from within the Roddy added his own me can't he got to see what's on out haven't I I'm not to lay hero all day I you think Pm made hush Penrod Is a nice he deeply kind of a do you expect this here's Maurice Levy gone nnd seen part of the said in a voice of equal nnd I bet lie was out too half didn't do any harm to your old did I Just as soon be I ain't 80 if what difference will it make If I did hear a with this which seemed obtained silence from every one except and It was decided to Maurice to rise arid retire to the front The brother then withdrew within tlie elected Maurice to tho and completed the initiation of Mr. After Maurice was and the ordeal with though the newest tingling with ids own to make certain of the endowed with full Maurice and Roddy accepted the obligations and of the order with Both Interested themselves Immediately In Improvements for the and made excursions to their homes to obtain Roddy returned with a pair of lensless mother-of-pearl opera n contribution which to the creation of a new called the It was his duty to climb upon the back fence once every fifteen minutes nnd search tiie horizon for Intruders or that hasn't got any around This post concerned In the matter able to look at It In that light here was a characteristic working of those reactions which produce what Is called injustice of because the grown people warped from one end a or hearing an and Herman and their placed the other end of the In hole in with tiie for the whole andj fluttering above tlie He were really It was 1 then his own nnd from grown people that Gergle Bassett I the four boys repeated It was to Mrs. but slie was aide to make that he was a boy set the effect upon him was what alienated his Then these alienated friends were brought odious comparisons on the part of grown to a condition of mind wherein Ibey suffered dumb like a low whenever they heard name Inscription the It consisted of the peculiar done In black paint upon u muslin and to be In need of a recurred to her later that when she happened to And alone with Sam In the the Roddy keep the secrets in nnd violate and Roddy cried no fair got to say Just what I was henrd Uie and even If you do get it got to hit you every and because that's of the Now go on and say swear to keep the secrets In and violate and solemnly Maurice was tired of no party to nnd ho to hammer upon tho Snm he In I know lots about Lemme Was His Duty to Climb the Back Fence and Search the Horizon for at that It was found necessary to provide for rotation in and to shorten the interval from minutes to an but much briefer determined prln by between the in and bis Maurice Levy contributed a vice so and so necessary to the prevention of Interruption during that and Sam won dored why they bad not thought of It themselves long It consisted of feet of garden hose in fair One end of It wiis Introduced into the shack through n and the other secured by round the faucet of a hydrant in the If members of the order were assailed by thirst during an Important or In tho course of nn it would not be for them all to leave the could nnd when be had turned on the water at the hydrant the in the shack could without leaving their It was that the section of could be used as a and though It did prove necessary to explain by shouting outside the tube what one had said Into still there a general feeling that It provided another means of secrecy and nn safeguard against Is true that during the half hour Im mediately following the installation this there was a little violence among the brothers lug a question of Roddy and wished to use the tube talk and Penrod wished to use It drink AS a consequence of of the latter tha shack habitation are three of dogs uiM have no and can Egyptian dog and the SAVED and Herman and Verman Stood In Attitude of Rigid and several as they went home at might easily have been mistaken for survivors ol some marine not every shack Is equipped with and exuberance tlie Everybody agreed that the afternoon had been one of the most successful and important in many The Order of the was doing and yet every brother in that there was one thing that could spoil it. Against that all were united to protect tlie the the opera and the Sam spoke not only for himself but for the entire order when ho In speeding the last parting we got to stick to one thing or we might as well quit I better not come said OF PORPOISE JAW Not Reduce the pipe has been Invented which fills Itself as fast as the tobacco In the bowl is How Twain would have appreciated this modern While Mr. Clemens was a young it is he contrived a consisting of a can of tobacco placed on the to which a long rubber tube was Then he would light the whole can and smoke In Made No little miss was visiting at a home where two elderly women were One had a name easily but the other had an unusual Upon being presented to them the little girl looked pensive for a but she quickly solved her difficulty by are B and taking Lydia E. Vegetable of Thousands of River E. Vegetable me from so I cannot my side hurt ma so I could ap from my and 1 I baia the best in Eau Claire wanted me to bava an bat Compound cured me so I did not need the and I am oil my friends about A. W. Black River is just such experiences as that of Mrs. that has made root and herb remedy a from ocean to Any woman who suiTers from or not rest until she has given it and for special advice write Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine SUn infants and children you can find nothing that Comfort and nurses have used lad endorsed it for more than 25 25c at tlie VInol and other sterM The Comfort Powder Itching Responsible for Correct Operation of Delicate Mechanism Retaining Fluidity at All this hastening age of when even seconds count In business it may sound paradoxical to say that we owe our punctuality and time saving to tiie playful And yet Is the says the Scientific for clocks and the still more dignified chronometer would not run month In nnd month out with regularity but for tho lubricant obtained from Its oil has the unique property of being able to retain Its fluidity summer and and there Is an authentic record of the lubricant doing Its work at a temperature of quite 100 degrees below the freezing A variety of other oils have been tried for the same but all of them have proved far less In a watch or chronometer the oil must stay whore It must not over the mechanism nnd thus steal away from Its proper post of it ought not to run away In the presence of considerable Neither should the oil evaporate or grow exacting requirements are mot In their entirety only by porpoise jaw nnd It is no wonder that the stuff when sells wholesale In the neighborhood of a There are many other mechanisms that are best cared for by using porpoise Jaw for as talking delicate recording tho Evening is one remedy that faiia to stop itching torture and relieve skis irritation and that tho skin dear and can supply you wira which overcomes au skin in most cases give way to 2cmo. minor blemishes disappear Itching usually stops is a antiseptic easy to use and It costs only 35c; an large It will not is not greasy or sticky and i3 positively for sensitive i - Tho E. Rose occasionally for tho information of Evening Leader Clip and post in convenient place for ready Not greatest of our many is to write pieces for and because they arc the only who appreciate things that are done for Grownups that sort of They always find something wrong about it. The reporter doesn't live who can write a piece about a grownup in which the grownups can't find some Hut children overlook and are grateful for the kindly The other day we wrote a piece for the little boy who lives in the big apartment house where everybody else Is Last night we saw the little nnd him If he saw the He said his mamma had rend It to And then he ran up nnd kicked us on the It was the first time he ever had us with so much ns a nnd immediately wo knew we had made a friend for We have written verse by the for hut If they ever were with they kept the fact carefully Kansas City to 2.10 2.35 3.02 3.12 3.28 3.38 3.54 4.02 4.11 Kalb 4.44 0.45 to 7.00 Kalb 9.04 9.36 9.43 9.52 11 stops at Dixon only for passengers for Marshalltown and west of 11 stops at Dixon only for passengers for Marshalltown and west of the a clock refuses to run after being wound owing to the need of Holl a bit of tie it well so it cannot unroll nnd saturate It witli coal Place the roll In the bottom of the well out of the way of the After the fumes of the oil have had time to do their from ten to twelve start the and If noth lag Is broken It will Freeport Forreston Woosung North Dixon 9.58 9.53 9.41 Amboy 9.30 Sublette 9.16 9.07 Mendota 8.56 8.23 6.10 Clinton iv 5.15 Down Frt 41 Down Frt 41 Chicago Aurora Shabbona Paw West Shaws Stones Rock Palls Sterling Bound Read Dly 5.52 5.35 8.40 5.22 1.35 5.02 1.00 4.20 Up 42 Sun A.M. 10.45 7:15, 9:00 and 11:00 A. 12:00 Z ' 6:00, 8:00 nnd 10:45 P. 8:15 and 10:00 A. 12:0' 7:00, 9:25 and
