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twowbtsa v amu m iw the acton free press rum snail i4unirnii blyp jfr treat styml ftturg s hornpowered taxicabs n h krou gak km tulni tarry bad yet to go to ita lute mr the baokwaru material enrj he hj to do other column oa isdoff um sejaare daring ohvetfs attendance t the state convention of journalist at the earjual he wu driving the nw- journal ear and the hlesooghy contrap tion disliked to ran slowly la tmsls worse thin it disliked to ran fast tbn there wu no trefflo oats peered i oetmuf elx ears behind the snenpeeed ash truck- he hashed alone carefully however for ha wu abowe an aba an alsrt sensible driver the oaeonlnt cranio wu thlefc and fait for street at this momant um taxleab aoomed up tmhmd and made an attempt at pairing while ha mumpowered bora bellowed aa though the little slxeyllnder ear were a fleet of oraaboond omnnwses oato kmi jomped it than wu any thing on earth that rasped on his ueiiws it wu taneatf taxleab from the col late op town bellowing for right of war left of way and ell the way aa looked up into the rear vision mirror and snort ed jost u i thaaghtl he muttered ttfe that steamheated sap bigtalk good and wall heu be overraid at twomtaan boor he broke off in tremandona guffaws of laughter a woloe yelled that big- tasc stevens thats bartalk who wrote that about me snarled il oslo had been racking his brain far a ardrjaet for vn and off the sqnare he gri he had it even to the title staamheawdapa his diatribe would be en loeal taxloab drivers a long-snr- ferlng email town would read at ita auppar table what oato heel plneh- hltting for oliver had to say about the bellowing variety of taxleab drivers the rjneommg traffic thinned the ash truck turned up a aide street and william stevens cap jauntily on the side of his head his horn bellowing u though be ware carting a millionaire to a life- anddeath financial oonferenoe on which the fate of nations depended wove in and out he was gone with a declining yowl of his vociferous horn his car was empty oato picked up speed secured the book column material from mrs lade on ool- lege avenue and hurried back to the newspaper office he dropped into a chair before a typewriter and began to pound steamheated oafs oato plugged a vltrlolio portable when he was moved by something that lay close to his heart and he waa in a mood to dip the keys in some sour acids he hammered fast and his grin spread it resulted in vague chuckles at his lean middle when he was through he pulled out the sheet read and broke into laughter something amused him great ly you must have discovered you re a humorist commented young needham laboriously gleaning a feu sports items from a dearth of college news walt till you navlgau yaur eyeballs over on and off the square i if this docsn t make chief mcnabb utid mayor sam hicks take the taxi horn nuisance in hand then i vr missed my opixirlun lly while oliver orating about jiu future of journalism in america he carried the stuit douti to tin lino tjpe men himself still chuckltui tile paper camr orf tlu prras about lour o clock tluil afternoon mid llic newsboys took their loads cuto could not forego the jo of following uu bo who made the business section and lis tenlng in at the bunch of laxlcub drivers and barbers who roosted llkt turtles on u log on tin iron ralllmi just around hie first national bank corner they read on and off che squan nrst to see if their names acre mi ntloned usuall they were not oato was just bthuid the tvewabo when he gave the head bartoer the paper scissors read oil and off the square the voice was stevens see who s on and whoa off youre off youte too dumb to be onl said scissors he opened the paper cato darted into the niche of the bank door and made himself flat egalnst the plate glass hart hart hr heard a roar of laughter well read it to us sclssurst boys somrbod s sure giving you all a spiritual barberlng and personam scatplngl read it prune scissors volet drkkled xrf all the peanuthewded gaso- llneanllttag steamheated saps loose in the universe some of our local taxleab drivers get the suspender button if they had ball as much brain poaer as they have horn power theydhave actur enough to know somebody besides themselves buys license tags and pan fas tax you hear a snort and yowl behind you that major you almost isep out of your car thinking a tenton truck m about to climb on you from the rear you look back and what dear chu- lun do you seer why dears you slap your eyeball on an empty tarln and a driver frantically bellowing for your part or the street his part and the part g1ng to on- traffte ha aocane put yen with eat jaw and glsamlng eyes aa tt his aurst wan worth tan douara a haute whan the rest of us know s p oliver himself writes on and off the square said another ehoek ling tm going tt look a p in the eye and ten him where he heads ml naw you wont bigtalk that a just soma more of mar big oliver never wrote that spoke up another is p off making a big speech at aome kind of us snauni minis blow out read about it in thla morning oapitol atarprbe stevens growled wan m and out who dldl it1 show him if he can can me a steamheated aapl who called you a steamheated sapj demanded sejaaote tkld you just read it tt didnt aay a ward about yonl the shoe nmstplneh bigtahe oato keel ettppsd away be had heard all he wanted to know aa he along the street be observed other chants and loiterers before the stores ohivtling over on and off the square by this token onto wu aware that he had public opinion imhftvl him young stevvna nrust have done a good job of detecting or an aeeuraie piece of guessing for the next day when oato was corning up main street here came the taxleab with its exrulpsge of horns en signs and telephone number and with a prolonged beudw from the time stevens saw and recognised the newspaper car until he swept ahead the ta driver shrilled his horn at oato the gesture both amused and irritated cato neel he grinned but the grin faded frankly he did not like it he had not gone more than a block before he met another of the fleet of taxlcabs headed out of town toward the campus this time it was rawson and did he bellow at oato rawson emptied a broadside that made the echoes rumble against the austere big houses on main street that ass the beginning every time cato met or was overtaken by a taxi- cab he waa given the same chorus he discovered blmslr in en emotional stew the chief ingredient of which was anger small solace could be derived from the fact that he was in general right in his i contention about the business he could not drive around town without being bawled at from before and behind the drivers gave him mirthless grins too which were all the way from mean to vindictive the steamheated saps were hot on his trail and if made cato angrter dally he verged on the edge of falling vic tim in tile next fev days to his anger he got hold of himself directly noaever he hud u lot of driving to do for the tuper collecting at che nxit of the month he aus on tile streets neurlj all tru tlrm he utstl sa that u the drtv ra ever liorned of his onnevonce he was doomed he sat ui the car eyes stralgh uhiud v ran not on the rcurvlston mlr ror every time a toxical appeared from either direction he made hlnuu if rigid and ignored the salutations which grev ti ore and more raucous s p oliver returned from the conven hon he was feellruf prettv good over the impression he had made needham said cuto s mudt u killing too ell inquired the boss hov tliaf hr s fetllng the tuperheart from teum heaud sapc taxidrivers in uihir ttords haviii t you read his on and off the square n lrad me to it needhom hu cato stood sherptslilv lear showed oliver the issue conlainlns the diatribe s p read guflaaed then suddenly pounded the desk 1th his first j you re fine guy to leave the reepon- slbllltles of a column on look whsr yuu cooked up behind my skirts what do you mean young fellow i needham snickered dam worry i ehlef the drivers know who cooked it up s p laughed then ofceh with me so long as you take the responsibility he reread tlie piece and chuckled deeply i no matter how severe the chief tried to look cato had the gratified feeling that in his heart oliver appreciated the scath ing humor and recognised the need of something usx- this being written per haps it wu the weapon of sarcasm and ndjcule that he did not exactly approve the chief jxunaair wu not a tl person he wu honest and fearless but there wu nothing sour or bitter in him that more than anything else rebuked cato during the next day or two the drivers pestered cato unmsrctniny he had a nation they went out of their way to bellow at him it wu maddening oato gritted his teeth and tried to bear it llhongh his nerves were beeomlng ao mwhon edge he began to fear he would crack of them all young stevens wu the worst oato hungered to go to the ehlef of police and make a complaint the thought of this weakness shamed him the situation crystallised itself mto the question which is the greater the pen or th taxl honk a spell of rainy weather set in one afternoon during a alow dismal drlxtle that made the pavement sticky and treaeheroue oato wu heading for the office on his last round for the day suddenly here came a taxldab at the moment there were three or four ears moving toward the aquare cato nixed bigtalk stevens even before stevens began to sound his horn tpjwrrrrrrrrr tor the apace of a breath oato became almost blind with anger the bellowing wu ao utterly childish of stevens the taxleab swerved right back of oatovcar with the intention of cutting out ptpeaa then u most accidents occur things began to happen a truck wu heading down the other traffic lane bad stevens not been ao intent upon tooting his horn he could easily have eeen the ctsmbrous vehicle despite the murk and the gloom the track in all are you asked oato horkvwly give me your hand- oato and lots sec if i ami she gave a nervous wue laugh u oato assisted her out she wesnot nor wu stevens nor the truck driver boms bellowed ohlef mckabb pushed through the crowd the ambulance siren screamed the truck driver appeared lorjldnr pretty strbdned he and stevens began to revile each other laying the fault on the other shoulders then both of them looked at oato end abruptly hushed when mrs oliver discovered she wu not killed or even injured more than being a bit ahaken she walled tnave to catch the fivethirty train carol the newaournal flivver la over in colonel loeknowa yard with the motor rammed back under the front seat ifra oliver reported oato aadly ohlef mcnabb said courteously the police car is at your eerviee mrs oliver be fished out her grip rxxadocubd her to the police ear and aent her on her way then returned demanding of oato and young stevens wen whole respon sible for an thla mess come clean now look what a pileup here get that truck out of the street i the truck driver faded directly bis motor roared the traffic bellowed it took five minutes to clear the street then oato eorvens and the truck driver found themsetvea detained just u mr stevens fixing the taxleab driver dark ly this it aome of your warkl h i didnt know you are a goad driver rd lay it all on you youre a smartaleck but youre a good driver what got into you stevens moistened his lips but he said no word after a covert glare a catb neel well wen impatiently demanded the chief of police out with your reason should have had let lights burn- onter and needham drove up and jump ing they were not stevens should ed out wheres my wife yelled a p have been attending to his driving he wu not perhaps oslo never should have dipped his typewriter keys in the vitriol but he had for an these reasons the eomblnatlon for trouble deal and it happened in the twinkling of an eye stevens wu out in the opposite lane before he saw the truck the truck driv er saw the taxleab too late the taxi- cab made a gesture of enmktnsf the truck head on but in a flash stevens must have decided that would not do be shot off far to the left while the truck veered to the left also just u the taxleab started to climb a tree the big ruck scalped off ottos left fender when cato had collected his scattered wits he wu on a nearby lawn his csr reclining against a column of oolonel lucknow s imposing rnanslon the taxleab wu on lawn across the street and a woman wu screaming wildly whew groaned cato and mopped his face he scrambled to his feet the traffic wu stopping the truck was half screes the av nue the woman kept acreanung cato saw stevens trying to crawl out of his battered taxleab finding his bones intact cato curted across the street and helped stevens drag hlmselr through the door which had been yanked from its moorings and now dangled in the turf the street lights flashed an to supplement the lights from the hindered traffic by the gleams of uiumlnatlon oato peered into perhaps the most agonised face he had ever viewed it wu ghastly blood ran from a cut on stevons- cheek the woman hod stop ped screaming cato started once to groan but realls- td tt wu not a groaning time ho knew people were coming from the houses he heard some one yell phone for the am bulance i cato snatched at the rear door and flung it open he heard a huddled woman sniffle cato asked anxiously hurl are you badly hurt he heard the siren of chief mcnabb s police car he took hold of the woman and she turned her face to him horrors she was s p s young wife mrs oliver gasped cato cato she said am i dead oliver on the tram by now oliver aald the chief shaken a bit thats art but he added tt oeald have been a terrible thing now retaining to the thru culprits i want the straight of this stretch your dollar with old companys an thracite by holding fuel bills to a minimum with this longer burning more eco nomical coal and make your home more comfortable more healthful for steady even heat is better heat jt ulavbu xminjm inquire now about mootbn a nth b ache burning equipment j b mackenzie son coml and coke lambcr btiilders sappuv contetustara the solid fuel for solid comfort the truck driver broke in chief this bsxi bird walked right out in front of me blowing his idiotic horn ha had to take to a tree to keep me from flattening him out and i had to sideswipe the newsjournal car to keep from killing somebody thats the way of it it seemed oato neels turn oato spoke quietly u the chief turned with a dry grin to him and aald neel whats jour alibi it waa about half my turn or maybe more i waa where i belonged in the street an right the truck driver wu not at fault at all stevens and i were the ones i wrote that stuff in the on and off the square about taxi drivers when it would have been better i guess not to have been so nuty i ought not to have done that to make the driven eore though they should long since have learned road courtesy stevens and i are the ones an odd hush feu upon the group at this forthright outburst suddenly mc nabb chuckled end clapped oato on the shoulder bon you were right but u you suggest you can both be right and wrong be orjnaldared lm letting you an off since nobodys hurt ofcah stevens any mare horn badowlngt no sir said stevens humbly bow about any more sarcasm real no mora okeh dear out so it cost no more than that to put a op to taxleabdriver disco al though oato neel wu the drat to admit that the lesson could have been desper ately cosily hc dips his portable in vtrrlol no more s should ihan now to combat mosquroba according to the dominion entomolo gist the slender dellcatelybuut insects knowri u mosquitoes are among the worst bloodsucking files which attack man and animals in many parts of can ada frequently harmless midges amau crane flies and similar insects are eon tilled with mosquitoes but the latter can alw li recognised by- the long slender beak or proboscis and the presence of tiny scales on the veins and margins of the wings not only ere moaqultoes source of great annoyance to ht but they also occasion much leas by worrying live stock in some of the worst affected districts a marked drop in raltk production la noted in dairy cows at the commencement of the mosquito season practical dairymen have stated that thla may be u much u 40 per cent other classes of animals lose flesh through loss of blood and worry and in extreme cases death may result especially among young nlmals bren poultry and other birds are affected by these insects the females of moat of the sixty or more species of mosquitoes that are- found in canada are bloodsocxera tad while they vary considerably m thetf ufehtstories tad hsbus all of them re- qube more or less stagnsnt water far the immature stages larvae and pupae to develop it is quite impossible for them to develop m damp grass or in daw on vegetation although this is a eom- monlyheld belief the fact that the larvae and pupae develop only in water and that although they are aquatic they mutt frequently come to the water surface far air makes it possible to destroy them in vut numbers before 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