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Mrs. Mattie Hunter, highly esteemed society matron of New York, who is spending her winter vacation in Havana, Cuba. These beautiful and wistful eyes belong to Carmen Marshall. They help captivate the throngs who attend "Harlem" on Broadway. Alma Sutton, one of Irvin Miller's chorines. "What a girl! What a night!" Eva Metcalf. She has grace, beauty, charm and — oh! well, the proverbial "it" This is Billy Andrews. He is now making "whoopee" in "Harlem," Broadway's latest and classiest Negro production. Sharp, eh! IN THIS ISSUE! Did Negroes Supply Solomon's Gold? (Page 3) Interesting, Entertaining and Instructive Illustrated FEATURE SECTION Washington Tribune Section 2—Saturday, April 13, 1929 Clean, Wholesome and Refreshing A man stands in the foreground, looking up at a group of men seated at a table. The man in the foreground is wearing a suit and has a serious expression. The men at the table are dressed in formal attire and appear to be engaged in a serious discussion. The background features a large window with a view of a building, and the interior is dimly lit with a large lamp on the table. STRUGGLING HEARTS 2 INSTALLMENT XIV WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE: Bigg Ott, gang leader and crook, has contrived to have a murder, committed by himself in the course of a bank robbery, saddled onto David Conway, a young country youth. David has been led to believe that Zola, a beautiful and mysterious cabaret dancer, is to blame for his plight. Zola really is seeking to save him because she is in love with him. The Chocolate Kid, an aviator, who at one time kidnapped Zola for Big Ott and took her to the Nest, a cabin in the forest, owned by Anson Bledsoe, hypocritical enemy of David's, is now aligned with her and Barry Dwane, a weakling dominated by Ott, who is Barry's own father. John Belling, an old derelict, proves The to be Zola's father, a man whom Ott had cheated and wronged in the past. Ott, who has been jailed for a second bank robbery that Zola tipped off to the marshal of David's village, has unwittingly assisted in bringing John Belling and Zola together. Anson Bledsoe, having been wounded at the time of the robbery, although he succeeded in escaping without being recognized, is being cared for by Angle, an unfortunate girl who loves him and whom he has wronged. He leaves her in the cabin with the understanding that he intends to put the blame for her condition on David. Meanwhile the Chocolate Kid, Barry Dwane, Zola and David's parents are all on their way to the cabin—the first three with knowledge of conditions and the intention of bringing things to a culmination. David, in jail, has become hopeless and is about to go on trial for his life. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY— THE LAST INSTALLMENT HE KEY grated in the lock of his cell. David looked up. His brown eyes were hopeless, but their gaze never wavered. "Well, today's your debut day, kid. The judge is HE KEY grated in the lock of his cell. David looked up. His brown eyes were hopeless, but their gaze never wavered. "Well, today's your debut day, kid. The judge is goin' to entertain for you up in court. They's a full house up there waitin' for your comin'-out party. C'mon." The jailer's tone was facetious and his eyes not unkind as he stood waiting for the boy to shrug himself into his coat and follow him out into the long, dismal corridor. "I'll be along up after awhile, Davy. I got a invite, you know. I'm the guest that's goin' to make the presentation speech. We're givin' you a nice, brand-new hemp necktie, you know. It'll be ready a month or so after today's party, I'm sure." Big Ott's malicious tones followed him through the heavy door before it had clanged shut behind him. He stepped out into the front offices leading up to the narrow passage way into the short street between the jail and courtroom. There was no answering laughter to Ott's loud guffaw at his own pleasantries. The other prisoners eyed --- The courtroom was crowded—David glanced over the peering, pushing mob listlessly by ORA BALL MOTEN by ORA BALL MOTEN him, sullenly unresponsive. One big, burly yeggman shouted out his disapproval. "Aw, can the cawin', you big crow! You may be the next one. What's the kid done to you that you got-ta be so keen on helpin' the bulls gore him?" Ott turned his evil little red eyes courtroom was crowded—David glance on the big fellow. They were venomous with vindictive resentment, but at the steady glare of the big fellow's glance they wavered and sank. The big black coward grinned at the other black man placatively, as he replied "Aw, can't nobody in here take a joke? I was just jokin' with that kid. You're all a lot of pretty Sunday school babies—so soft you're afraid of the dark." He followed his words with a forced laugh. His eyes shifted from face to face of the occupants of the cells across the way. There was no answering mirth. Ott was unpopular. The courtroom was crowded. David glanced over the peering, pushing mob listlessly as he took his seat behind his counsel inside of the rail. One friendly face alone in the whole strong smiled encouragingly at him. It was the face of young Ellen Garston, wife of big, hard-working Hurd, who had moved with his young wife into the city from Etingford less than a year before. "You're young and friendly lookin', Ellen; you go down there to that courthouse and smile friendly at that boy when he's a-bein tried there among his enemies. That boy ain't guilty!" So had spoken old Aunt Ailsie Smothers at the breakfast table that morning where she sat with the two young people as their beloved guest for the summer. DAVID GETS SYMPATHY "All right, honey," he smiled back; "if Aunt Ailsie thinks so, you go on down there. She ain't often wrong, and I don't believe Dave would kill anybody. They say his dad's so down on him he won't have nothin' to do with it, and I expect his mother can't get in if the old man is set on it." He nodded brightly at the little old woman as she shook her palsied head in pleased appreciation at his agreement with her. "I wonder if maybe I wouldn't better take that packet of papers Miz Conway left here when she was in ILLUSTRATED FEATURE SECTION that day to see Dave? She said that cabaret dancer wrote them out and left 'em there with her, all sealed up, when she disappeared so sudden like after teilin' her she had come to help Dave. When she came back she said Dave told her them papers was more likely to hinder him than help him, so she left them and told me to tear 'em up or keep 'em, just as I seen fit. She didn't want nothin' more to do with them. She wouldn't even look at 'em, cause Dave told her not to." Ellen looked at her husband questioningly. 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DAVID'S FATHER APPEARS Of these last Jason Conway, grimfaced and powerful, was the first. Behind him, his face drawn down in a lugubrious mask of assumed sympathy, came Anson Bledsoe. At sight of the two men the mask (Continued on page 8) HOW TO KEEP WELL There are two processes continually taking place in your body. One is the building up of your BONE, BLOOD, NERVE and TISSUE, the other is the carrying off of the waste matter and impurities. For every ounce of food you eat or liquid you drink, there is almost an ounce of waste matter that should be eliminated by the way of your KIDNEYS and BOWELS. If your LIVER and KIDNEYS fail to do their duty, portions of this waste matter remain in your stomach and intestines where they ferment, sour and decay, causing INDIGESTION, SOUR STOMACH, KIDNEY TROUBLE, etc. These impurities are also taken up by your blood and carried to all parts of your system, causing a general run-down condition and IMPURE BLOOD. 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All mail orders are filled same day received and sent by insured parcel post. None Genuine Spicer's Without This Signature GET THE GENUINE AND GET RESULTS APRIL 19, 1929 ILLUSTRATED FEATURE SECTION DID NEGROES supply SOLOMON'S GOLD? April 13, 1929 DID N supp SOLO GO By HEBA JANNATH HERE WAS OPHIR—the renowned source of King Solomon's gold supply? That is the question that still puzzles the archaeologist and Bible student. Where was this land of 2 fabulous wealth, three years away by travel (I. Kings, x., 22), from which came the purest gold of all the world? Gold that was used to fill the coffers of the mightiest king of Israel and to adorn the interior of the great temple must of course be of the purest and finest. Theodore Bent and Rider Haggard (who wrote a novel about it) were sure that the location of Ophir was southeast Africa. Now, Professor Leo Frobenius, noted student of African culture, is to visit southern Rhodesia, Southeast Africa, to definitely find the answer to this puzzling question. Three times already Zimbabwe, the ancient ruined city of Mashonaland, has stirred the imagination of the western world. And with explorations again on the way it brooks well to rival in interest and importance the ruins of Carthage, of Ingkor-Vat and of Paphos. MYSTERIOUS CITY What does history say of Zimbabwe? Only a few paltry pebbles of knowledge have escaped to us from the ever-flowing obliterating sands of the ages. Zimbabwe is as mysterious today as it was four hundred years ago when Europe first became aware of its existence. Our facts are these: In 1498, six years after the discovery of America by the Spaniards under Columbus, the Portugese discovered S. E. Africa. At this time Portugal and Spain were the great seafaring nations of the West. They were as important in their day as England and America are today. Fired by the stories of Prester John, who had visited Ethiopia, (the modern Abyssinia), King Henry of Portugal sent his sailors- south through the Red Sea. Although this route had been well known to the Ancient world, to both the Arabians and Phoenixians during their powerful epochs, it was a region of fabulous darkness, the literal end of the world, to Europe of the Middle Ages. Only a few daring souls like Columbus and King Henry could imagine that the world was round and not flat, and that sailors setting out upon unknown seas would not fall over the "Edge of the Earth" into "Misty Abysses," but would eventually, by circling the globe, return to home port. Humanity, it seems, does not continually progress upward in a straight line but rather advances in the form of a spiral, base ignorance often succeeding periods of great enlightenment. Aristotle and the scholars and navigators of the Greek Empire three hundred years before Christ knew that the world was round, long before this is probable that the Arabians knew it, but Europe martyred its scholars for saying so fifteen hundred years later. Zimbabwe likewise proves that man often "walks backwards" in his progress! PORTUGESE VISITED ZIMBABWE In 1560 when Father Silveira pushed his way inland from Goa, the new Portugese settlement on the South East African coast, Zimbabwe was a great and flourishing city, the capital of Monomotapa. Silveira describes this "Black Empire" glowingly in a letter to the pope of Rome. From his descriptions it is a land of vast wealth lying between the Zambesi river on the North and the Limpopo river on the south, and might even extend to the Cape of Good Hope. Anyway, we gather that this Empire of the Blacks was larger than European France is today, larger, perhaps, than our state of Texas and literally dotted with inexhaustible gold mines. A country indeed to whet the commercial greed of the Portugese! At first, it appears, the Great Black King of Monomotapa receives the Christian emissary with pleasure and hospitability. His courtesy for the stranger extends even to allowing himself to be christened "Sebastian" by him and giving him a house to set us his Holy Cross in. The Pagan monarchs were always famed for their liberality in matters of the soul; one or two new gods never did any harm to their already over-flowing Pantheon. It took but a little while, however, for the Monarch to discover that Silveira's visit was not entirely for the purpose of conversion. As usual the flag was trying to follow the cross. A Mohamedan at the court (for the Mohamedans had known Zimbabwe long before the Christians), perhaps jealous of his rival's religious success with the Monarch, aided Silveira's downfall by calling him a wizard. If we are to believe the miraculous tales solemnly recorded to the vatican about Silveira speaking with wild beasts and being succorded by them, he was a wizard and deserved to lose his head as a dangerous subject. WHITES CAPTURED CITY The next we hear of Zimbabwe the Portugese are marching, (the regular soldiers reinforced by enemy tribes of Monomotapa), fifteen thousand and strong against the Empire of the Blacks. At Mocapa the Portugese, having superior firearms rout the Black Monarch and march to Zimbabwe, the capital. Here, Manura, uncle of the defeated monarch is crowned Christian King of Monomotapa. This, however, was only an empty gesture on the part of the Portugese who had no real power in Africa at this time. This is proved by the fact that the Portugese retired to their coast settlement shortly afterwards and left Monomotapa again in the hands of the natives. It is also proved by the fact that the ten missionaries who later set out to teach the Holy Scriptures to the people of the New Christian Monarch were never heard of again. Monomotapa, as far as Europe is concerned, ceases to exist. Two and a half centuries later, in 1871, Zimbabwe again flashes across the horizon of Europe. Herr Mauch, a German explorer, brings it again into the limelight. But what a different Zimbabwe! No longer is it the great capital of a great empire. Now, it is a mute array of crumbling stone buildings! Time again has triumphed over man. Wild beasts silently prowl through the vast chambers that once rang with the laughter of men. Monkeys gambol over the altars of the dead Gods of Zimbabwe. And the towers along the great stone wall that is thirteen feet thick at the top and twenty at the base, and more than thirty feet high, are filled with nesting birds. Zimbabwe, like ancient ```markdown ``` Tyre and Babylon, sleeps—and does not talk in its sleep. TAKEN BY ZULUS? What happened to Zimbabwe? The savants of Europe in 1891 conclude that Zimbabwe was taken by the neighboring Zulus and gradually fell into decay. It is more probable that terrible wars aided by an earthquake were its downfall. The ruins bespeak the hand of nature rather than that of man in the final destruction, for stones seemed to have been hurled from great heights. But before savants asked what happened to Zimbabwe and tried to answer it, they asked who built Zimbabwe and tried to answer that. Rider Haggard and Theodore Bent and others concluded that it must have been originally built by Phoenician traders more than a thousand years before Christ. That it must have been the original Ophir of King Solomon's days. The basis of their reasoning was that the city was very ancient and evidently built by people who were in a high stage of civilization. This city, built on a great hill surrounded on three sides by granite cliffs which gave it a natural protection, and on the only accessible side was provided with a wall of massive proportions and cunning workmanship—the wall was so constructed that one man at a time only could enter the gates of the city—must have been the creation of whites from the civilized world surrounding the Mediterranean. And they say, since the Phoenicians were the greatest travelers, of antiquity, it must have been founded by them. PHOENICIANS NEVER MENTIONED IT But if this is so, why didn't the Phoenicians speak of it? Why didn't it become famous like Carthage and Tyre and Paphos, the other great cities founded by the Phoenicians? Why were they silent only about this one? This one which produced, according to these same authorities, almost unlimited gold. Surely so rich a city could not have supplied gold to the Mediterranean countries for a thousand years and never been mentioned or its location given. They also base their reasoning upon the similarity of the religious images unearthed at Zimbabwe and those found on other Phoenician sites. Images that are phallic in design and bespeak a worship of the generative powers, and of the sun. But it is now known, with the modern excavations at Pompeli, and in Persia, Egypt and Mexico and Central America, that worship of the sun and the generative powers was not the exclusive product of one people. Monoliths, little different from those found at Zimbabwe, are scattered all over the world wherever man had trod. Moreover, Zimbabwe is an inland city, far from the coast. Phoenicians have never been known to erect a city off the coast. The city is too solidly built and fortified to have been a mere gold station on the way to the coast. Its workmanship is such that it bespeaks a great knowledge of architecture and refinement of taste. It is built on a foundation of granite which it would have taken an army of workers through long years of labor to lay. And the buildings are made of small blocks of stone, slightly larger than a brick, so fitted together that mortar was not necessary. The walls of the temple and the monoliths are profusely carved with the images of birds. The Phoenicians would scarcely have gone to all of this trouble for a mere gold station which they never thought enough of to mention. And the vessels of gold, unearthed there are carved with the delicacy and ingenuity of the best modern gold-smiths. NOT ANCIENT OPHIR No, Zimbabwe is not the ancient Ophir. Ophir sent not only gold to Solomon, but peacocks and sandalwood as well, and there are no peacocks or sandlewood in Africa. Ophir was probably some port on the Malabar coast in India, the home of peafowl and sandlewood, which also produced gold. The modern explorer with more knowledge of the past, and of the habits of man than was at the disposal of the savants of the 70's and 90's, and with better facilities for unearthing and comparing the ruins of a dead city, will probably not depend so much upon the scant references in the Bible for solving this mystery. America and Europe eagerly await the results of the Frobenius expedition. For if Zimbabwe proves after all to be of purely African origin many conclusions hitherto held about the people of Africa will have to be dropped. It may even be that Africa had an architecture and a culture hidden away in its jungles that equaled that of the Greeks and the Romans. THE END The Harrison Street Baptist church was organized at Petersburg, Va., in 1776; and another Baptist church at Williamsburg, Va., in 1785. The first African Baptist church was established in Savannah, Ga., in 1785, with the Second Baptist church in that city following fourteen years later. There was founded a mixed Baptist church in the Mound Bayou, Miss., district in 1805 by Joseph Willis, a free Negro, born in South Carolina in 1762. Your Handwriting Reveals Your Possibilities!! No. 8—A GOOD SALESMAN By M. N. BUNKER, D. C. S. SOMEONE has said that a salesman is the man who makes a success out of life. This is largely true. The preacher who re-else where it is necessary to inspire life, insurance, or clothing, or food. He may be inspiring you in the schoolroom to get a better education, to make more out of your life, but if you have these qualities, then you are very fortunate. It mean not in your duty Don't Be Too Serious in Love Don't Be Too Serious in Love Have you a puzzling love affair on which you need friendly advice? Write to Julia Jerome, care of this newspaper. If you wish a personal reply please send a stamped, self-addressed envelope. 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Lately I became so angry that I stopped speaking to him. That drove him to drink. Then I thought it would be better if I left town, and I did so. He stopped drinking, but as soon as I returned he began again and says he is going to drink himself to death. How can St.Jo just as he fills you with the desire to accomplish, he is a salesman. MAY BE TEACHER You may already have these traits of character. You may be naturally fitted to lead and inspire other people. You may have in your nature the qualities that will help you make a great name for yourself in the pulpit, or the schoolroom, or any place Serious in Love air on which you need friendly ad- of this newspaper. If you wish a ped, self-addressed envelope. I break him of teasing and yet save him, for I really love him?—Serious Girl." I think it is you and not your lover who is at fault, S. G. It is because you are too serious, perhaps, that his tasing upsets you so. I believe that seriousness is much overrated in love. It is possible to be sincere without being serious. Serious people are usually too self-concentrated, and they make not only themselves but others unhappy by it. Learn to laugh at yourself; it is the best tonic in the world. After all, none of us are very important and life is very fleet. So it is only wisdom to take ourselves lightly and to laugh at everything as much as possible. This does not mean that you have to be frivolous or silly or malicious in your merriment. Be tolerant and impersonal in your laughter. Make up with your sweetheart, and when he starts teasing you again. seph's Louis Armstrong is The King of Trumpet Players. ILLUSTRATED FEATURE SECTION else where it is necessary to inspire and influence the people around you. If you have these qualities, then you are very fortunate. It means that you have real talent for making something out of your life, if you only use what you have naturally. SALESMANSHIP SIGNS Your handwriting shows whether you have these traits. Look at the way you cross your t's. Do you make long, swinging strokes such as are shown in this specimen? If so, then you have one important trait for a salesman. You are enthusiastic; when you believe in anything you believe in it whole-heartedly. You are the kind of person to put your whole heart and interest into a thing. This is the kind of man who touches give him back as good as he sends. It will not only save him from drink, but save you from over-seriousness. In 1862 General David Hunter, commanding in South Carolina, issued an order for recruiting a Negro regiment, which was complete in a few months. the hearts and minds of people about him. Do you make big loops to your y's and g's? If you do, this means that you see things in a big way, and what your imagination and your enthusiasm are both helping you. A man or woman who makes these big loops, and who shows much enthusiasm is almost certain to make a success, unless they permit some serious fault to slip into their nature. Next week we shall take up some of these faults—things that you need to watch, but in the meantime you should write a letter in ink. Send it along at once for a personal free analysis to be mailed to you. Simply comply with the instructions given here. YOU MAY HAVE A PERSONAL A Message to Underweight Men and Women The one supremely good health building tonic that is also the one great weight producer known to modern science the country over is McCoy's Tablets. Take them for a few weeks and the hollows in your cheeks, your neck and chest should soon fill out and whether you be man or woman you may have an attractive figure and plenty of "get there" energy in just a short time. Many times the increase in weight is astonishing—one exceedingly thin woman gained 10 pounds in 22 days. 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And she said: Good-bye, Lillian; good-bye, Annie; good-bye, Louise; good-bye, Bettie, and good-bye, world." It frightened me so badly that I got on the train and went to my mother and told her. When I told her I had this dream, she became sad and I regretted that I told her. So I am asking you about it. Please explain this dream to me. Dear Friend: Your dream was a psychic visitation and has no particular meaning, but does reveal the fact that you are endowed with power to see those whom you call dead. Your aunt not having become versed in the law, speaks of the resurrection, which means when we gain wisdom and understanding. She no doubt was unable to tell you goodbye. You were just her messenger. Thousands of people all over the world have psychic visions—nothing to cry about. YOUR DREAMS OFTEN REVEAL YOUR FUTURE AND EXPLAIN YOUR HIDDEN THOUGHTS. LET ALI YOUSSIF MO- HAMMED ADVise YOU! Mrs. Burton Advises Women on Motherhood and Companionship "For several years I was denied the blessing of motherhood," writes Mrs. Margaret Burton of Kansas City. "I was terribly nervous and subject to periods of terrible suffering and melancholia. Now I am the proud mother of a beautiful little dangler and a true companion and inspiration to my husband, believe hundreds of other women would like to know the secret of my happiness, and gladly reveal it and an assured woman who will write me Mrs. Burton offers her advice centrifuge with out charge. She has nothing to sell. Letters should be addressed to Mrs. Margaret Burton. 220 Massachusetts, Kansas City, Mo. Correspondence will be strictly confidential.-Ady April 13. 1929 HELLIE JACKSON was twelve. He was playing baseball at school one day when he sustained a blow that seriously injured his optic nerves. Shellie quit going to I salves and eye waters; doctors treated his eyes. 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Both men had been brought from their prison home in the Folsom penitentiary to give evidence in an- other criminal case in Los Angeles. They were accompanied by two deputy sheriffs—for it, was common knowledge that both of these desperadoes had attempted jail-breaks four times before. Hence everything was done to safeguard against another attempt. Pope was attending to his duties in the prison, cage when he heard the words: "Stick 'em up, all of you!" Instantly alert, Pope wheeled and in a mad burst of courageous trickery, seized the desperate Hawkins by his right arm, endeavoring to turn the point of the gun toward the criminal himself. As Pope grappled with the crazed prisoner, Hawkins fired. The bullet ploughed through Pope's clothing, struck his shoulder-bone, glanced onward and came out at the back of his neck. Anyone who knows anything about shooting knows that deflected bullets take peculiar courses. 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Erdman, professor of farm economics at the University of California, over 4,000- How a Negro Sheriff Prevented the Escape of a Desperate Criminal (Continued from Page 6) the floor—a helpless man, and a beaten one. His confederate sank beside him, both losers in a mad attempt to escape justice. It was then that Pope released his hold. He saw that one of the brave deputies lay at his feet in a pool of blood. Ever courageous, Pope calmly resumed control of the elevator—got it under way—went to the tenth floor—took on the chief jailer and his assistant—proceeded thence to the fourteenth floor, where the jail hospital is located—unloaded the wounded men—had the pools of blood cleaned from the elevator floor, and proceeded jauntily with the elevator service as per schedule. But justice and recognition soon appointed Albert Pope deputy sheriff in the county of Los Angeles. This is his reward for bravery and courage under fire. 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Will this trend cityward continue? Will the American Negroes of 1950 be almost exclusively city dwellers? By 1923 over half of the Negroes will live in cities and fifteen years later there will probably be not more than ten or fifteen per cent of the black folk living and working on the farm. Let us take a few representative cities. In 1900 New York City had a Negro population of 60,666 which grew to 61,709 in 1910, to 152,467 in 1920 and is now estimated to be nearly 250,000. Houston, Texas, had 14,608 Negroes in 1900, 23,929 in 1910, 33,960 in 1920 and is now said to contain well over 50,000. While Atlanta had 62,769 in 1920, the latest estimate places the Negro population at well over 75,000. Kansas City, Mo., now boasts of 50,000 Negroes, whereas it had but 30,719 in 1920. Detroit, the automobile center, had but 5,741 Negroes in 1910, but today they number 86,000. Similarly, Chicago's Negroes jumped from 43,000 in 1910 to 165,000 in 1928. 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I knew all the details of the plot for that bank robbery in which the watchman was killed. Ott boasted to me of having killed him, but—I could not tell that without making the other confession and sending Barry to the gallows and myself to the penitentiary." She ceased and stood very still. The eyes of the four people were dazed, bewildered. Then the lawyer laughed. There was mirth and genuine humor in that laugh. It seemed incongruous, following the grave and tragic tale of the girl before him. "Apple sauce!" he said, and his voice was relieved. "Why, girl, don't you know that tale will only serve to put the honorable Ott entirely out of the way? If it is true—which I doubt—that something in the tea killed your mother, HE is the criminal, not you innocent kids. Besides the killing of the watchman is enough to send him where he wants to send my client." Without a word John Cutting folded his daughter in his arms. "So that was why you let me go on believing that your mother really left me for that skunk!" he said at last, as he kissed her hair softly. HAPPINESS "Dearly beloved, we are gathered together here in the sight of God, and in the face of this company to join together this man and this woman." The soft light of the candles seemed to glow with a more radiant softness on the faces of the woman and man at the foot of the high white altar. Nancy Conway snuggled her wrinkled fingers into the hard but tender fingers of her husband Jason, and her eyes were bright with happy tears as she whispered: "Our struggling hearts at last have won to peace through great tribulations." David and Zola, with raptured faces, saw nor heard nothing but the priest before them. But John Cutting nodded at the low-spoken words and glanced tenderly at young Barry standing so proudly as best man beside stalwart David. Then his eyes wandered to where Angie sat with her baby in her arms and the Chocolate Kid protectingly by her side. "Struggling hearts," he echoed. "Aye, at last they have found peace." ( THE END ) The Editor's Notes THE STORY OF TWO AMBITIOUS YOUTHS ONCE there were two young fellows who were eager to make their marks in life. They were well-groomed, well-educated and very impressive looking young chaps. One, however, had gotten a little further ahead on the ladder of life than the other. The latter had noticed this and often wondered why his mind was not as broad and active as the former. So he decided to talk over the situation with the more successful one in order to learn the secrets of increasing his abilities and the financial remuneration. The more successful one began his questioning of the other by asking him what and how much did he read. The latter replied that he did not read very much, especially colored publications, because he did not believe that their columns offered any opportunities for bettering the young Negro's individual status. The more successful one became alarmed at ILLUSTRATED FEATURE SECTION STILL A "HIT" Gertrude Saunders, one of America when and wherever her name is her brilliant career as an artist, having way in some of Broad ders, one of America's greatest artists. Forever her name is broadcast. Miss Saul was an artist, having made several appearances in some of Broadway's swiftest shows. THE NEW YORKER Gertrude Saunders, one of America's greatest artists. She is a "hit" when and wherever her name is broadcast. Miss Saunders has had a brilliant career as an artist, having made several appearances on Broadway in some of Broadway's swiftest shows. such a statement from one whose ideals were high and whose ambitions were keen. After he had discovered that the other was really not prejudiced, but had arrived at this conclusion through honest but unenlightened deliberations, he began to relate how reading Negro publications carefully had placed him on the right track for success. "How did you do it?" asked the less successful one. And this is a part of the reply he received: "I read carefully each news item telling of the success of some Negro in some hitherto unexplored field of endeavor. I note carefully his application to and attitude toward his work. If there are any similarities between his situation and mine, I compare them and make whatever improvements on my own methods I can in the light of this comparison. Then, most of all, I read each advertisement, without regard to its size, looking carefully for those opportunities which are offered to the youth who is willing to apply himself wholeheartedly and conscientiously to a job or a position. Then I look for advertisements which will enable me to better my own individual self socially and economically. You would be surprised at the number of small improvements I was able to make on myself by taking advantage of sometimes the very smallest advertisements in Negro publications—advertisements which have helped me to form some of the choicest of business and social contacts." "Well, I don't know about all that," said the less successful one. "I do!" replied the more successful one. And he did, so he kept ahead. ```markdown ``` rica's greatest artists. She is a "hit" broadcast. Miss Saunders has had a made several appearances on Broadway's swiftest shows. AFRAMERICAN FABLES (Continued From Page Nine) treat, carrying a lasting impression of having run afoul an irresistible force. Wise guys who made a practice of existing off somebody else's dough soon found that getting anything spendable from that source was not NEXT to impossible—it was. 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