Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 58, Number 4, Jasper, Dubois County, 15 October 1915 — Page 2

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Cynthia's Contract I V ii IÜ: 3! 3fc 8 By HAROLD CARTER ILVi (Copyright. 1915. by W. G. Chapman.) The hotel register had her name Madame Alloni, but the hotel stood two miles from the village, and the moment she had passed the patch of woods that separated its grounds from Meadowdale she became Cynthia Dale again. Insensibly she seemed to ßhake off the cosmopolitan airs that had attracted attention at the hotel the moment she set foot inside it. Her gait grew free, her step assumed jthe elasticity of a girl's. And, in fact, jmt thirty the famous opera singer had resolved to become a girl again, "just (for one day," as she phrased it. Nobody in the little village would Jrecognize in her anyone but the Cynthia Dale who had gone to New York land then to Munich to study music ten years before. But a year later her father had died, a bankrupt; his wife had followed him within three months, and Cynthia had found herself upon the world, helpless. She had never permitted herself to think of those drecdful days of poverty and temptation. Gradually she ,nad won out. For two years she had been one of the most famous of Muz;zini's opera singers. His companies were already famous throughout Eu t rope. Muzzini sue hau never met, Obut he had persuaded her to come to 'America, at a fabulous salary. The icontract had been signed abroad, and jßhe was to meet him in New York in two days' time. I Suddenly homesick, the girl had decided to pay a visit to her native jtown. It had changed little. How severy recollection came back to her las she set foot within its limits. Cy Warner, the blacksmith, was still at his forge. He looked up as fhe styl ishly dressed woman passed him, hes itated, and then beamed on her as rshe stopped to shake hands yith him. "It's Miss Dale," he roared, graspjing her hands gently in his huge, hammer-hardened paws. "Well, I it I am Signor Muzzini," Said Joe. Miss Dale, this is a pleasant surprise. What brings you back? Looking prosperous, ain't you, now?" "Yes, thank you, Vapa Warner," answered Cynthia, and the blacksmith roared with delight. "But 1 guess you're married now." he suggested. ; "Not yet," said Cynthia. ' "Really, now? Well, that's a pity. I'm sorry for someone, Miss Dale." He beamed and smiled after her, 'and sho found the welcome of the little town grateful to her after the holQowness of European cities. "If I jcould really be a girl again!" she .thought. "If I hadn't signed that contract witl: Muzzini, I'd I'd settle down here and and perhaps get married," she ended, with a blush. Somehow Cy's words had reminded her of her earliest sweetheart, Joe Byrnes. How many times she had (promised to marry him when they swung upon the gate together, or, boy and girl, strolled down the lanes, abloom with wild roses. Joo Byrnes, who also hoped to bo a singer, and had never succeeded in anything! Unconsciously nor feet were leading her in the direction of Joe's old home. Suddenly she stood still and gasped in amazement. Leaning thoughtfully over the gate, dressed in stylish clothes, was Joe himself! Their recognition was mutual. Joe lifted his hat, not with the old awkwardness, but with a flourish redolent of fashionable society, j And Cynthia, shaking hands with Joe, found herself positively blushing again, like a schoolgirl. . It was odd. too. but after their first embarrassment wore off, they found themselves chatting in much the old style, as they leaned over the gur.e. Joe had at last succeeded. He waa in business, according to the impression lie gave Cynthia, and he was in a fair way to become a 'rich man. He laughingly admitted that ne had abandoned his musical hopes forever. "No, Miss Dale.' ne said. "I've mixed a good deal with musical people, 'but I had sense enough to see

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that I hadn't any talent myself. But how about you?" he added, looking at her keenly. And somehow Cynthia blurted out the tmth. Joe took her' statements with surprising calmness, though he shook hands with her again cordially. "It's a shame you should have to use a professional name, Miss Dale oh, hang it, Cynthia. May I call you that as I used to do?" he added, reddening. And their talk drifted into still more intimate things. Somehow the illusion persisted perfectly. Cynthia was conscious of being a little girl again, with her first beau. "Cynthia," said Joe, later, "do you know, in spite of the world, and its ups and downs, I've always felt that I'd like to come back to the old place and settle down here again?" "So have I," said Cynthia. "I'll be in a position to do so any time, as soon as I can get rid of my obligations," said Joe. "Listen, Cynthia. Suppose J did come back, and found you here, and oh, Cynthia, dear, you know I haven't changed in all ttiese years." Cynthia let her hand rest in Joe's. "You're dear," she sai'd. "But you're part of the illusion. I've never cared for anybody since I knew you not seriously. But, Joe, I don't think I should feel that when I got back to the big world. Joe, dear, if I were to meet you then well,-1 don't know.' "That's hope enough for me," said Joe, as he left her at the end of the village. Somehow Cynthia had felt that Joe would be out of place at the hotel. On the morrow she returned to a New York, firmly resolved to break away from the life she hated, as soon as the dreaded Muzzini contract closed. At thirty dreams of a happy life, with husband and children, had become more real to her than the applause of the audience and the glamour of the footlights. But when she was back in her apartment in the great city the glamour once more took possession of her. She hardly slept that night. "I don't know," she said to herself the next morning, as she dressed to go to the interview with Muzzini. Muzzini's office was crowded. Even she had to wait, though she was to have the precedence over the crowd of nondescripts that haunted the place. They looked at her with envy, and once again a distaste for this life came over her. She recalled the time when she, too, had begged for interviews with impresarios, and she pictured Muzzini as just such a man as these a pompous, underbred Italian. How she hated her contract! "Signor Muzzini will see Madam Alloni!" announced the office boy. Cynthia followed him into the little room. She looked into the face of Joe! "Joe!" she gasped, and suddenly she understood. ; "I am Signor Muzzini," said Joo. "Ah, Cynthia, if I had known it was you before yesterday! I heard you had gone North, and I went after you, in fear that you were going to break your contract. Cynthia Cynthia, darling, this is going to be your last contract but one. And the last, the very last, will be with me, too!" "The very last," murmured Cynthia, in his arms.

Canalized Emotions. The world seems to be full of what may be called canalized emotions. One is "supposed" to love one's aunt or one's grandfather in a certain definite way, at the risk of being "unnatural." One gets almost a sense of' the quantitative measurement of emotion. Perhaps the greatest tragedy of family life is the use'e&o energy that is expended by the dutiful in keeping these artificial channels open, and the correct amount of current running. It is exactly this that produces most infallibly the rebellion of the younger generation. To hear that one ought to love this or that person; or to hear loyalty spoken of, as the older generation so often speaks of it, as if it consisted in an allegiance to something which one no longer believes in this is what soonest liberates those forces of madness and revolt which bewilder spiritual teachers and guides. It is exactly those dry channels of duty and obligation through which no living waters of emotion flow that it is the ideal of the younger generation to break up. They will have no network of emotional canals which are not brimming, no duties which are not equally loves. Randolph S. Bourne in Atlantic. The Monkey and the Dolphin. A Sailor bound on a long voyage, took with him a Monkey to amuse him while on shipboard. As he sailed off the coast of Greece, a violent tempest arose, in which the ship was wrecked, and he, his Monkey, and all the crew were obliged to swim for their lives. A Dolphin saw the Monkey contending with the waves, and supposing him to be a man (whom he is always said to befriend), came and placed himself under him, to convey him on his back to the shore. When the Dolphin arrived with his burden in sight of land not far from Athens, he demanded of the Monkey if he were an Athenian, who replied that ho was, and that he was descended from one of the most noble families of that city. ,He then inquired if he knew the Piraeus (the famous harbor of Athens). The Monkey, supposing that a man was meant, answered that he knew him very well and that he was an intimate friend. The Dolpnin, indignant at these falsehoods, dipped the Monkey under the water and drowned him. From 'Aesop's Fables.

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Successful Experiments Made by Signal Corps. Marked Increase in Efficiency Obtained by the Use of the Fliers Further Tests to Be Made Along Same Line. A series of remarkably successful and interesting experiments were conducted by the United States signal j corps at the recent maneuvering in Massachusetts in maintaining a wireless aerial by means of box kites and thereby increasing the efficiency of an ordinary field wireless outfit from six to sixteen times. The tests were conducted by Samuel F. Perkins, a maker and flyer of man-lifting kites. Favorable strong and steady winds enabled Mr. Perkins to send up a string of kites to an altitude of 1,600 feet. Messages transmitted from the set of field wireless attached to this kite-supported aerial were received 150 miles away with distinctness, although the ordinary range of the set was only 25 miles. One thing that aided materially in obtaining this result was the fact that the kites flew so steadily that the aerial was always maintained at a constant altitude. Quite as remarkable as the sending power of the wireless was its receiving quality. Messages were received with distinctness from the battleship Georgia while off Newport and from the government station at Arlington, Va., and Bermuda. These experiments were but the first of a long series that will be conducted, and it is the belief of those who are interested in the matter that they will lead to a system by which the range of the ordinary field wireless will be materially increased. United States government and Marconi officials are following the experiments closely. Scientific American. Wanted A Soutnerner. ' He was a good-looking young negro whose clothes gave no indication that he was out of a job. He entered the Enquirer office at the moment the staff was taking the relaxation which follows the consignment of the last edition to the press. Said the young negro: "Kin yo' gemmen tell me whether tha's a suth'en gemman any wah 'round heah?" "What's the matter with a .northern gemman?3' inquired the staff ladder. "Boss," answered the 3roung negro, "Ah jus' got in fum Georgy. A'ni hungry. 'F Ah kin fin' a gemman fum down Souf he'll help me out." Maybe that's a new one. Possibly it's a late and neat way to make a raise. But if the young negro was on the level, and he looked it, the South received its handsomest compliment in these parts in many a day. Buffalo Enquirer. Another "Peach" of a Peach Story. Brown, Bartholomew and Johnson counties all combined make this story. Mr. and Mrs. Elisha Davis live on a farm in the corner made by the three county lines. They have a peach tree on their place that has been acting in an unusual manner, and Mrs. Davis, who visited Columbus, Ind., recently brought along some proof. She had one twig from the tree' on which there were 16 peaches, the combined weight of vhfeh was seven pounds. There was not another peach on the tree, but the one twis did nobly. Just a little distance from this tree there is another that is sending forth its second crop of peaches, and nearly all of the limbs now are full, the peaches being about the size of guinea eggs. On the Davis farm there also is a second crop ot blackberries growing. Indianapolis News. Practicing Economy. When the conversation turned o the subject of economy this little incident was related by Congressman Charles H. Burke of South Dakota: Jenkins was sitting in front of the firehouse in a suburban town when a fellow-commuter came along and unreeled a dissertation on the high cost of living. "Speaking of the high cost of living," responded Jenkins, "everything is economy down our way now. My wife is practicing it to beat the band." "You don't mean it!" exclaimed the other. "In what way is she economizing?" "She is economizing on my shirts," was the rejoinder of Jenkins. She is buying me three for a dollar, so that sue can get a $15 hat Philadelphia Telegraph.

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Man Returns From Perusal of Modern "Best Sellers." Found His Former Pleasures Heightened by the Contrast Suggestion Offered That Is Well Worth Consideration. Once upon a time there was a man who decided that he was not keeping up with the times. So he took a course in "best sellers." Whenever he saw a blatant advertisement of a new book he hastened to purchase it or obtain it from a circulating library and to compare its real qualities with the assurances of its publisher. For three months he raced with the productivity of presses and binders. And then, weary of spirit, he paused to take an inventory of his mental condition and of his achievement. He found that he had been pacing a treadmill. He was where he was before, and all he had to show for his endeavor were psychological irritation and exhaustion and the sense of time wasted. Seeking surcease from his new disturbing acquaintances, he turned to an old friend, Keats' "Eve of St. Agnes," and discovered that his wanderings were not without avail, the Cincinnati Times-Star observes. The prodigal had returned to former pleas ures heightened by contrast. It was as if he had passed from a parrot store into a dark wood where a lone nightingale was celebrating the spirit of the moonbeam. An idea occurred to this old-fashioned man. Why should not relief be afforded an obsessed reading public by a revival of our more beautiful and more genial classics? The gentle reader, although by this time he may have become less gentle, as a rule follows a lead. He generally does what he is told, and if he were told rather insistently by a coterie of leaders of thought that he would derive more enjoyment and greater peace of mind from old books than from new, perhaps he would extend his hand and permit himself to be led. We have been sailing muddy and turbulent waters these last ten years. Some of us have liked the excitement while others have been afflicted with literary seasickness. But excitement palls and perhaps the time has come when the public would appreciate books like "The Essays of Elia" and "Roundabout Papers" and again perceive the beauties of limpid and placid waters. USE PERISCOPE IN TRENCHES Arrangement Copied From the Submarine Has Been Found of Value to the Soldier. The periscope has been found so valuable in modern trench warfare that it is being used in every case, where, otherwise, a soldier would have to expose himself and risk being killed. The illustration shows an ingenious form of periscope which is now being Used at the front. It consists of a "dummy" rifle butt, which is clipped or tied on to the proper rifle butt, and a periscope which is so adjusted that the firer can look along the rifle sights without in any way showing his head above the surface of the trench. A trigger on the dummy butt is connected by a strong wire to a catch which clips the trigger of the rifle. By means of this ingenious arrangement many hundred ot lives have been saved, for the enemy's snipers have nothing to aim at save a periscope. New Medical Discoveries. Dr. Almoth E. Wright, the Lord Lister of today, is now at work on the battlefields of Europe with even newer discoveries. These include methods whereby wounds already infected with poisons can be rendered "aseptic'' or "antiseptic" without further weakening the victims. When his researches are given to the world, it will be found possible even to save by the knife those timorous persons who now commit suicide by postponing until too late operations in cases of cancer, appendicitis, etc., where blood poisoning has already begun. Far Gone. "Wombat must be very much in love with that girl ot his." "Why so? "He had her at the ball game the other day, and 1 give you my word he watched her as much as he did the game." Cruel. EA man has offered to keep our building clear ot rats and roaches for $150 a year. ' "A young married man, evidently, who intends scattering some of his wife's cooking about'

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