Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 290, 26 August 1909 — Page 6

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM. AJf D SUN-TEIiEGK AM, THCKSDAI, AUUUffi so, 1UU.

News of Surrounding Towns

HV MILTON. IND. Milton, Ind., Aug. 26 Mrs. Araan da Bowman f Conjiersville, is visltin Mrs. John SaiPPMrs. Louis Klotz and children ol Richmond are at her parents' here. Mrs. Thos. R'oberts and son, Thos.J

Jr., of Chicago, vare visiting with Miss-'troit.

es Mary andtSariih'Rcroerts. j Mrs. Mary Miller and grandson WilSllas Clark hart his auto with hlm-Jbur Dean of New Madison, Ohio., are self and wile tafcen as a picture foH( visiting her brothers W. O. Jones and ioRt cards. hvtraellne nhotoirranberwd Oscar Jones and families.

Tuesday evening. The Rev. and Mrs. C. H. PInnickd were at Cincinnati, yesterday. Miss Rose Hcmecfcer of Indianapolis,came from Brbolcville to visit her relatives, CliarksMueller and daughter. The excursion g'fven by the ladies of the U. B. aid society at New Castle, passed through hei on the Lake Erie & Western yesterday morning. There were six coaches. It was well patronized. Mrs. Elizabeth. Kfrnmel and grandson, also her niece, iMlss Laura Rothermel, spent-yesterday at Muncie with relatives. Miss Selena-Hale.j of Dublin, spent yesterday with Mrs. Albert Newman. Miss Rella Hertwte"ll moved into her new home on Nbrtl street, yesterday. James Napier Whtr bought Mrs. Lee's property Is tiaMlng It remodeled and painted. Frank Doty made .a business trip to Muncie, yesterday. Olin Davis is againsjable to get out on his paper route. Elmer Weaver was at Cincinnati, yesterday. Miss Gussie Miller returned yesterday from a visit with 'Mr. and Mrs. Fnmk AdamB, at Connersville. a Mr. and Mrs. Rob Futterson will f move to Mrs. Hoshour's "tenant house. The Standard Bearers of the M. E. church will have a. social on the lawn at Mrs. Mary St. Clair's, Saturday evening. Mr. and Mrs. R, P. Lindsay and! niece, Mrs. Tucker, attended Chautauqua, yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. John Faucett and daughter, Miss Lula attended the Par-ish-Gillispie family reunion at Glen Miller, yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. Colbert Crownover are visiting their son, Charles Crownover and wife, at Greenville and attending the Fair. The Westons of Connersville, were In town playing the graphophone on the streets, yesterday. Mr. Weston is blind. They were enroute to Ohio. Mr. and! Mrs. W. A. Brasg entertained Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Guyton, of Chicago; Messrs. and Mesdames John Guyton, Will Guyton, Omer Guyton and Joe Bender of Cam'bridge City, and Mrs. George Dowhower, last evening. Mr. and Mrs. Santford Little of east of town, spent yesterday with their son and wife here. Mrs. Brenneman of Straughns. spent yesterday with her sister, Mrs. Mary Griffith. Messrs. and Mesdames Hiram Crook and Lycurgus Beeson were an auto party to New Castle, yesterday. J. T. Manlove is at Petoskey. Robert McDaniel is visiting at In dianapolis and will go to Winchester from there. Mrs. George was a Connersville vis itor yesterday. Mrs. Anna Brown and J. T. Manlove spent yesterday with Mr. and Mrs. J, I. Manlove. Miss Anna Belle Clifford of Dublin, was at G. B. Bryant's yesterday. Mrs. Lee is visiting Mrs. Emily Burris, at Doddridge. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Williams are vis iting their children. Homer Williams and wife, at Indianapolis. Thomas Shannon is visiting his sis ter, Mrs. Oran Bragg' and husband. Mrs. Paul Caldwell and Miss Mary Caldwell have returned from Albert Williams' at Richmond. Miss Nora Campbell reports a fine visit at Richmond. Vernon Hess had a birthday yester day and received many nice cards and a beautiful watch. Miss La Veda Hollmeyer has returned to Eaton. Miss Pauline Clauson, of Cambridge City accompanied her home. Miss Helen Kuhns has returned Trom Lockington. Ohio. Harper Lindsay has returned from Culver University. The school was dismissed on account of scarlet fever. The Rev. Pinnick will preach at Doddridge, Sunday morning and evening. He will preach at Locust Grove Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Curg Conrad who were killed by an interurban car, near Zionsville, Sunday afternoon, were relatives of O. H. Beeson of Milton. Mr. and Mrs. Conrad were enroute to the Zlon Park Assembly and did not see the car bearing down upon them at the crossing. Miss Hat tie Sills was at Richmond, Tuesday. Mrs. Elizabeth Atkinson has re- ; turned from Indianapolis accompanied by her daughter, Mrs. Frank Izor, who is also visiting Mrs. Henry Hussey and Miss Hattie Izor. iter son, Russell Izor is taking his vacation and accompanied his uncle. Earl Atkinson, to New York. They visited Cleveland, Buffalo, and had a boat ride up the Hudson. 1 - Miss Dora Wallace is attending lectures for teachers at Connersville. Thomas Frazier of Pittsburg, Kansas, called on friends here, Tuesday svening. . - HAGERSTOWN, IND. -Hagerstown, Ind., Aug. 26. John M, JVerking will start Sunday for Seattle, Wash., where he will visit the exposiaon. Enroute home Mr. Werking will itop over In Montana, to visit a sister. 3e will be gone a month. i , Mrs. Frank Weaver and son Derril eturned home Tuesday evening from i three weeks visit with her parents tfr. and Mrs. Mace at Sheridan, Ind. The Stewart reunion will be held

Sundays August 29 at the J. If. Men

miles north of town. , The school board have purchased a Starr piano for the Hagerstown public school to be used in the high school room. Mrs. Henry Keagy, Miss Neva Deardoff and Mr. and Mrs. Joe Teetor, have been spending a few days at DeMich., and other points Mr. and Mrs. M. T. Fox and guest Mrs. Eunice Macy, Henry Keagy and George Keagy, Raymond Deeter, Miss Elizabeth Brown attended Chautauqua at Richmond Tuesday night. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Porter andMrs. Margaret Lontz are entertaining- Mjs. Gebhart of Dayton, Ohio. Several of the neighbors and friends of Mrs. Sallie Weber formed a farewell surprise party on her Tuesday evening at her home on Fancy Hill. Ice cream and cake were served. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Woolard and family, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Replogle and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Wise, Mrs. Mahala Huffman, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Carpenfter and family, Mr. and Mrs. John j'Foutz, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Sells, Mr. and Mrs. John Learell, Mr. and 'Mrs. Oliver Ulrich and baby. Misses PLeona Brown, Thelma Sells. Rena Foutz and Mrs. C. M. Milter and daughters, Frances and Magdolena. Mrs. Eunice Macy of Indianapolis Itwho has been the guest of M. T. Fox ,and wife and othersv for seweral days went to Spiceland Tuesday to make a short visit before returning-home. CENTERVILLE, IND. f Centervllle, Ind., Aug. 26l The Bryan Woman's Cemetery association met at Bryan Chapel on Tuesday af ternoon and completed arrangements to serve lunch at Andnew Kramer's sale of personal propertytto be'held at Bryan on September 2. The Peelle family heldtheJr annual reunion at Jackson park on . Wednes day. Master Cecil Risk iservlsitlng his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Darling at Spiceland. Mrs. Ella Harris of WeJrster was the guest recently of Mr. andlMrs. William Harvey. Mrs. Allen Cotton andi her grand daughter Miss Wilah White, both of Indianapolis arc being entertained by Mr. and Mrs. Lafayette .Jackson and other relatives here. Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Ciilbertson, Mr. and Mrs. Mark A. Stevens, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hort, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hatfield are composing a party of campers near Hiser's Station. The aged Fletcher Medearis of Greensfork is visiting Ms daughter Mrs. Ella Russell of near Richmond. Mr. and Mrs. V. E. Rinte of Coshoc ton, O., are boarding at 'the home of H. H. Peelle. Mr. Rine .is one of the foremen of the Drake and Stranton company. Mrs. John Martindale.of Greensfork is the guest of Mrs. George T. Linting. EATON. OHIO. Eaton, O., Aug. 26. Misses Louella Honan and Nellie Johnson entertain ed a party of about thirty little la dies and boys Tuesday ewening at th? home of Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Honan on North Barron street in honor of Miss Louise Alexander, who wSth her moth er expectes to soon go to Columbus for an indefinite stay. The social event took place on the lawn and proved one of the most interesting and pleasant gatherings indulged in by young folks ever held in Eaton. Lfght refreshments of cream, cake and- punch were served and the evening given over to social pastimes. The Sabbath school class of Mrs, Rev. R. A. Smith of the United Breth sen church perpetrated a successful surprise on her Tuesday evening at the parsonage home. The dozen young ladies of the class conceived the event as a farewell to their teacher. Rev. and Mrs. Smith will leave soon for the Hoosier state, where he will engage in ministerial work. very pleasant time was had by all Light refreshments were served. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Johnson have re turned after a pleasant visit with rel atives at Knox and Lake Maxinkuckee, Ind. Mrs.' Ollie Filbert of Dayton, has been spending a few days with Mr, and Mrs. James A. Longnecker. uuo Hines oi iticnmona was an Eaton business visitor Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Conley of Cin cinnatl are here for a visit with Mrs Conley's father, T. J. Wilkinson and other friends. Mrs. J. S. Fisher is visiting her pa rents. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Oldfather at Lewisburg. James Sharkey today assumed the position as local agent for the Ohio Electric Railway company, succecdin Joe Mundhenk, who resigned to take up the study of wireless telegraphy in the United States navy. The business of the United States express company formerly handled by Mr. Mundhenk has been taken over by C. A. Bennett. resident of Eaton years ago. spent a few days of last week in Eaton re newing old acquaintances and enjoy ing the scenes of his boyhood after hi3 long absence. ; Mr. Whiting has but recently secured a patent on paint which will be manufactured in Springfield by a corporation recently formed. The paint which is the result of Mr. Whiting's genius promises to revolutionize the business In th United States as soon as the manu facture of it is under way. The paint is absolutely fire proof and is guaran teed to wear for ten years. Eaton friends of Mr. Whiting are pleased to learn of his achievment J. W Alkire has returned to Eaton after an extended visit with friends In Indianapolis. Mr. and Mrs. I. B. Honan are spending several days with relatives and friends in Richmond, Milton and other towns in Indiana.

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CAMBRIDGE CITY. IND. Cambridge City, Ind., Aug. 26. Mr.

and Mrs. Harry Simmons of Indianapolis, are the guests of Virginia Barnett and family. Charles Lembarger is in Burney, at tending the Annual Baptist Association. Miss Elizabeth Morris returned yes terday from an extended trip through the West. Miss Ida Walker of West Elkton, O., has taken a position with the American Casket Company. Miss Elizabeth Donovan has re turned to Yorktown after a visit with Andrew Kneise and family. John Jackson was in Indianapolis, Tuesday, on a business trip. Master Orville Cassldy is spending a few days with his grandparents. Mr, and Mrs. John Cassldy, of Rushville. The descendants of Philip Miller will hold a reunion at the old home stead, north of Dublin, Saturday, Sept 4 th. Mrs. Will Williams of Richmond, was called here Wednesday morning

Vhe Memoirs of

BY ROBERT HBERIOC

"May." "I said, "you look as if you bad a gun trained on me. Fire away. only make it something new. I am tired of that old matter about th Judge. Most everybody has forgotten all about that except you and Sarah." "It's something new. fast enough. Van, but it isn't any better," she re torted. "Couldn't you find any on else to do your dirty work but your own brother?" "What's the matter now?" "Show htm the article. Will." Will unbuttoned his coat and reached for his inner pocket. From it be hauled out a bulky newspaper, which be handed me. It was a copy of the Sunday Texas World, aad a front page article was heavily penciled. "That's too much, Van," he protested solemnly, banding me the paper. "Read it" "Yes. read It all!" May added. The three were silent while I ran through the article. It was the usual exaggerated sort of newspaper stuff purporting to describe the means used to secure a piece of railroad legislation in which I and some New York men were Interested. The sting lay In the last paragraph: "It is commonly understood that the lobby which has been working for the past winter in the interest of this rotten bill is maintained by a group of powerful capitalists dominated by the head of a large Chicago packing com"ThaVt too much, Van," he protested solemnly, handing me the paper. pany. This gentleman, who suddenly shot Into publicity the past winter as the result of an unusually brazen attempt to corrupt a Chicago Judge, has opened his office not three blocks from the state capitol and has put his brother In charge of the corruptiouist forces. The deserving legislators of our state may soon expect to reap a rich harvest!" A few more generalities wound op the article. I folded the paper and banded it back to Will. No one said a word for a few moments, and then Will observed: "That isn't pleasant reading for an honorable man." "I don't see bow it should trouble you. Will. You are down there to look aftc our interests in a legitimate way enough. If you don't like the job, though. I can get another man to take your place." "Van." May interrupted, "don't try to squirm. You know that's true what's wrltteu there. You didn't ask Will to use the bribe money because you knew he wouldn't, do anything dishonorable. But you let him take the blame and sent some one else with the money no doubt. What was that partner of Mr. Slocum's sent down there for?" "Will" I turned to my brother "let us settle this by ourselves. It's a man's business, and the women won't help us." "No, Van," May replied. "I guess we women are as much concerned as anybody. Where there's a question of my hosband'a honor It's my business too. I stay." "Well, then, stay! And try to understand. This bill the paper rips up Is all right. We most bare It to pot onr road through te the gulf, and If It wer aoWor thfe money the Pacific

by the death of the infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Kuster. Mrs. Stella Lossey of Indianapolis, has been employed by the Falls Sisters, as trimmer, the coming season. The W. R. C. of this place will hold a picnic at the Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home of Knightstown. Friday in honor of Mrs. Thomas Francis, who will move to Indianapolis in the very near future. Claud Kitterman made a business trip to Cincinnati, Tuesday.

Harry Hall has returned after a ten t days' outing, at Daney, Ind. Miss Virginia Falls spent Tuesday in Indianapolis. Mrs. Jesse Cornell of Indianapolis, the Great Pocahontas of the degree of Pocahontas, will visit in this place this week. Roy Copeland, traveling salesman for a Cincinnati house, is spending a few days at his home in this city. M. L. Bowmaster was the guest of Judge and Mrs. W. O. Barnard, at New Castle, Tuesday. Miss Ella Collins of New Castle, has returned after a visit with Cambridge City friends. 3 Western road, which owns the state, is putting up against "us we shouldn't have any trouble. They want to keep as out, and Strauss and his crowd want to keep us out, too, so that they can have all the pie to themselves. I have been working at this thing for years in order that we can get an outlet to the seaboard, untouched by our rivals. They think to block ns just at the end, but I guess they will find out they are mistaken when the line-up comes next month. That's all." "Do you think that explanation is satisfactory? Of course. Van, you want the bill passed." May said ironically. "What does it mean what has Van been doing?" Sarah asked for the first time. Bitting op and looking from one to another in a puzzled way. None of us answered, and finally Will said: "I guess, Van, you and I don't see things quite the same way. I know you wouldn't ask me to do what you thought was bad, but all the same there's too much that's true In that piece In the paper, and I don't want to have it said there's things going on down there that aren't right and May feels I feel myself that it ain't right We don't think the same way, you and I. So we had better part now, before we have any bad feeling." "All right! Did you come over here tonight to tell me that?" "No, Van," May put In hastily, her voice trembling with feeling. "That wasn't all. Will and I came to ask you to give up the sort of business you are doing down there. We want you to turn back Into the right road before it is too late. If you don't land In the penitentiary, Van Harrington, your money will do you no good. It will taste bad all your life!" We were all pretty well stirred op by this time. I was weary of meeting these charges of dishonesty on all sides. This last was too much to have my family accuse me of a crime when I did not feel guilty, not for a minute! "I don't see why you should say that May!" Sarah suddenly bridled. "After all, it's only the newspapers, and no one believes them today." This unexpected defense from Sarah aroused May afresh. "Oh, he don't deny it! He can't First it was a judge he bought a judge and paid for him, and be never came out and denied it! Now it's worse even than that It's the people of a wtfole state he's trying to boy through their representatives." "Who are there for sale?" I laughed. "Does that make it any better? She turned on me. "Seems to me. Van, you don't know any longer the difference between black and whiter "We've got a perfect right to build that road, and build It we will. That's all there is to that matter!" And so we argued for hours. May and I doing most of the talking, for 1 wanted her to understand just how the matter lay. No business In this large. jioder:i world could be done on her plan of life. That beautiful scheme of things which the fathers of our country drew up in the stagecoach days had proved itself inadequate in a short century. We had to get along with it the best we could. Bat we men who did the work of the world, who developed the country, who were the life and force of the times, could not be held back by the swaddling clothes of any political or moral theory. Results we must have good results, and we worked with the tools we found at band. "It's no use your saying any more!" May exclaimed at last "I understand just what you mean. Van Harrington. It's the same way it was with the judge's peaches. You wanted 'en, and you took 'em! What you want yon think is good for every one. especially for Van Harrington. And yon are so wise and strong yon think yon can break through all laws because laws are made for small people, like Will and me. and you and your kind are Napoleons. Yon talk as if you were a part of God's destiny. And I say" her her voice broke for a moment "I say. Van. you are the devil's instrument! You and those like you and there are a good many of them are Just plain big rascals, only the law can't get hold of you. Her lips trembled and at the end broke into that little ironical smile which I knew so well, the smile she had when I need to get into some boyish scrape, and she was looking through me for the troth. But for all her hot words I knew she bad kindly feelings for m somewhere m her

been following our talk as w as sho could, fired op at her accusations. "I think. May," she remonstrated with all her dignity, "that you cannot say any more such things in my busband's bouse." "Yes." I added, "we have had too much talk all around. You can't change my character any more than yoo can make wheat grow In Arizona or sugar can In Dakota. And I don't want to change your views either. May." For though she made m pretty angry, I admired the way she stood to her guns. She was a fighter. And Wtfl must act as she decided. Whoever traveled with her would have to travel by her star. "Yes," ray brother replied, "if a gone too far now to change. Words don't do any good. Com, wife, let us go." "I am sorry for Sarah," May said, taking Sarah's bands in hers. "She suffers for you. Van. and she will suffer for this all her life. But I am sorrier for you. Van, for you have gone too far to suffer." Thereupon she swept out of the room, her little figure swelling with dignity, and Will followed her as the

needle swings to its magnet pausing only long enough to reach for my band snd press it When tb front door shut upon them the house seemed suddenly cold and empty. Sarah had slipped back to the lounge and was staring up at the celling, a tear trickling across her face. 'I suppose May won't ever come back again. And we were planning to take a cottage this summer so that the children could be together." That detail didn't seem to me very Important but it was the one that showed to Sarah the gulf which had opened between us. Sarah's little world by that token had suffered an earthquake. 'Oh." 1 said, trying te comfort her. "like as not this will blow over! May has disapproved of me before this." But in my heart I felt there wasn't much likelihood that this breach would be healed. Knowing May as I did, I had no Idea that she would let Will continue with me, even In another position. No compromise for her. Tomorrow or next day Will , would come Into the office to take hia leave. "I guess. Van. I'll go to bed." It was the first word Sarah had spo ken for half an hour. The tears had dried on her face. She gave me a light kiss and left me. The bouse seemed cold and desolate s if the pleasant kindliness or lire had gone out of it when my brother and his wife had left I made up the fire, lighted a fresh cigar and sat down to think. Somehow years had gone by in that evening. I was heavy with the heaviness of middle life. To take the other road, her road that was what May demanded of me. How little she knew the situation! That would mean immediate ruin for sne and mine, and for those men who had trusted me with their money. The world that I had been building all these years would crumble and vanish like smoke into the void out of which I had made it! Not that May's talk had meaning or sense to It either. Nor do men made as I am alter at the sound of words. We are as we are, and we grow with the power to do that which we must do. May was merely an unreasonable and narrow woman, who saw but one kind of good. In all the forty years of my life there had been no evil as I know eviL No man could say that he had harm from me unless it might be poor Ed Hostetter and for thousands of such workers as live from day to day, depending on men like me to give them their chance to earn bread for their wives and children, I bad made the world better rather than worse. Unthinking thousands lived snd bad chil dren and got what good there was In life because of me and my will. But to the others, the good ones; to Faraon and Dround and May. I was but a common thief, a criminal, who fattened on the evil of the world. What had they done to make life? What was their virtue good for? They took the dainty paths and kept their clothes from the soil of the read. Yes, and what then? A renewed sense of irri tation rose within me. Why should I be Metered like this? Why should I lose my brother and May? Why should Sarah he hart? Because they were too good to do as I had done? So my brother and May went their way. They left me lonely. Per the first time since the day, many years before, when I walked out of the police station alone into the city, the loneliness of life came over me. To morrow in the daylight in the fierce fight of the day, that weakness would go. But tonight there was no band to reach, no voice to speak, from the multitude of the world. One person only of all would know, would place big and little side by side and reckon them rightly would understand the ways I had followed to get my ends. Jane Dround would throw them all a smile of contempt the little ones who weigh and hesitate! There was the soul of the fighter: CHAPTER XXni. I tear of Mr. Drmmd't Intentions A. plea for myrnlf Deepota A. yponuin't heart The tiro in the vorld that are most near Sa mh't emJane defend heruelf To go a tray forever Vote renewed. ENRY to simply furious thinks his name has been involvedand he means to sell every share of stock be holds as soon as the agreement expires." "I knew that be would do Just that!" Mrs. Dround threw back her coat and looked up. with a mischievous smile on her face. She was a very handsome woman these days, not a month older than when I saw her first She had reached that point where nature, having done her best for a woman, pauses before beginning the work of destruction. She hsd com this afternoon to call on Sarah and. having failed to find her at home, was writing a note at her desk when 1 came in from the day's business a little earlier than was my wont "It tent Just that matter of the Injunction. You know, my friend, people here m the eity Henry's friends say that yon are engaged in dangerous enterprises: that - you are a desperate man yourself! Are you?" "Yon know batter than most!" I wared light!-. "But I

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In th fam'lj to last time?" She nodded as I briefly related what

had happened with WUI and May. "And of course Sarah feels pretty I badly." I concluded. "Poor child" she murmured. I wondered what was the matter with her these days. She will feel differently later. But your brother, that la another question." "He and his wife will never feel differently." She tossed aside the pen ahe held and rose to ber feet "Never mind! I know yoo don't mud really, only It Is too bad to bare this annoyance Just now, when you have so much on your shoulders, i wish I could do something! A woman's bands are always tied!" She could say no more, and we sat for some time without further talk. I was thinking what would happen when Mr. Dround's stock was dumped on the market to b snapped op by my enemies. Our company was very near the point of paying dividends, and with a friendly line of railroad giving us sn outlet into the southwest the struggling venture would be in a powerful position. "If he would wait but six months more.'" I broke out at last She shook ber bead. "Where a question of principle is involved" iier lips curved Ironically. "What would you do, tell me, ir n parcel of scamps were holding you np for the benefit of your enemies? Suppose you had a perfect right to do the business you bad In hand. Would you put tall between legs and get out and leave your bone to the other dog?" "If I wanted to starve, yes. I should deserve to." "You and I think surprisingly alike very often." "I always liked despots." she replied. "And, as a matter of fact despots the strong ones have always really done things. They do today only we make a fuss about It and get peachy. No, my friend, don't hesitate. The scrupu lous ones will bow to you in time." "You would have mode something of a man." She bowed her head mockingly. "That Is man's best compliment to poor, weak woman. Bat I am content when I touch the driving hand now and then." After a time she added: "You will find the way. It la not the last ditch far from it A man like yoo cannot be killed with one blow." She had given the warning, done what she could, and now she trusted me to do the rest Her will, her sym pathy, were strong behind me. So when this moment was over, when she went her way and I mine out into the world of cares and struggle, I might carry with me this bit of ber courage. ber sureness. I felt that and I want ed to say it to her, to let her see that it was more herself than her good will or her help that I valued. Bot it was an awkward thing to say. Her hands lay upon the desk be tween us. They were not beautiful hands, merely strong, close knit hands to hold with a grip of death. I looked at them, thinking that in her bands was the sign of her character. She raised ber eyes and gased at me steadi ly for several momenta, "You know how I feel?" I nodded. "Yon don t need a woman sympa thy. But I want yon to know bow 1 feel for my own sake."' "Thank you for it In this l!fe man must stand pretty much alone. win or lose. I hav always found It so except when you and I have talked things over. That hasn't been often. This is a tight place I find myself In now. Bat there's way out or if there Isn't well, I bare played the game better than most" "Even that thought doesn't five happiness," she mused. "I know, because, my friend, I, too, have stood alone all my life." Bhe gave me this confidence simply. as am might "I suppose a woman counts on hap piness," I said awkwardly la response. "But I have never counted much on that There have always been many things to do, aad I have done them. well or ill. I can't say. But I have done them somehow." It was a clumsy answer, bat I could find no proper words for what I felt Such things are not to be said. There followed another of these full silences which counted with this womsn for so much more than words. Again it was she who broke it: "For once, only once, I went to speak out plainly. You sre younger than I, my friend not so much in years as in other things. Enough so that I can look at you as a friend. Yon under stand?" She spoke gently, with a little smile. as if, after all, all this must bo taken between us for a Joke. "From the beginning, when yon and Sarah first came Into our Uvea, I saw the kind of man you were, and I ad mired you. I wanted to help you yes. to help you." "And that you did." "Not really. Perhaps no one could really help you. No one helps or binders. You work out your fate from the Inside, like all the powerful ones. " You do what is in you to do aad nevei question. But I longed for the worn an's satisfaction of being something to too of holding the sponge, as the boys say. But a mere woman poor. weak creature to tied with a short rope. Do you know what that means? So the next best thing, if one can't live oneself, is to live fat another strong one. when yoa are a woman and have reached my age, you know that yon eaa't live for yourself. That chance has gone." "I don't believe ." I protested. "Too are just ready to live." She gave me a smile for my compli ment and shook her head. "No. I don't doceivo myself. Most women do. 1 know when I have reached the end of my chapter. So bare followed you step by step oh. yoa don't knew how closely! And I have sucked In all the Joy of your success, of your power, of you a man! I have lived a man's lbTe." "But yon went awayf I said aecuslnly. "Yea, I went away because that would help it! It was the only thing I could do I could go away." For the first time her voice shook with passtea. I was answered. wJ-havxenjLbsx.to find that

my bands are fled afore than ever. 1 can help yon ao mors. Believe me. that is the hardest thing yet I can help

yon no more! My husband yon dentand? No. yoa need not understand. A woman Is bound back aad across by a thousand threada, wnicn do not always show to th eye. I may yet keep my husband from throwing yon over, but that Is no matter. Th truth is I count no longer to yoa. If the world had been other than ft to. my friend. I should have been by yout side, fighting It out daily for yoa, with you. As It is" She threw up her arras in a gesture of disgust and remained silent brood ing. It was not necessary to complete the words. Nor could I speak. Something very wonderful and predoaa was passing before my eyea for th last time, something that had been Beat was floating off, would never come back. And life waa so made that It waa vain, useless, to try to hold It to cry out to do anything except to be still and feel the loss. My hands fell beside hers upon the polished surface of the desk, and we sat looking Into one another's eyes without fear. She was feeling what I was feeling, but she was looking deeper into fate than I could look, for she waa wiser as a woman than 1 was as a man. Wo were the two in the world most near, and between us there was a gulf that could not be crossed. The years that are to come, my heart said to me then, will be longer than thos that hav "passed. "Listen." she whispered as though she were reading my thoughts. Wo shall never need more than this. member! Nothing more than this, for I should be a hindrance, then, not a help. And that would be the end of me, indeed. You hav year will to work, which is more than any woman could give you. And I hav the thought of you. Now I must go away again. We have to live that way. It makes no difference. You and I think the same thoughts In the same wsy. What separation does a little distance put between you snd me? I shall fol low after you step by step, and when you have mounted to the broad level that comes after accomplishment you will be glad that It has been as I say. not different It Is I that must long, for you need no woman to comfort aad love you." It was flulshed, and we sat in the deepening twilight beyond words. Th truth of what she had spoken filled my mind. There was nothing else for ns two but what we had had. W had com to the top of ourselves to know this, to look it in the face and to pat it aside. The twilight slleuce was broken sharp In two by a cry that rang across the room. We started from our dream together and looked around. Sarah was stspdlng mldwsy In the long room, steadying herself by a hand reached out to a cbalr. I ran to bold her from falling. She grasped my arm and walked on unsteadily toward Jane. "I knew It! I knew It always! ah cried harshly. "Yon tortuous woman yon are taking him from me! Too did it from tb first day! How I hate you!" She dropped into a chair and sobbed. Jane knelt down by her side and. grasping ber hands, spoke to her In low. pleading words:1 "No, child; yon are wrong! Yon wrong him. lie Is not such a man. There is no truth In your cruel words.' "Yes. you hare made blra do dishonorable things. He has acted so his own family have left him. I know It la you!" she sobbed. "He has done what you wonld have him do." "Child, cbildP Jane exclaimed impatiently, shaking gently th hands she held. "What do yon mean by saying such a thing?" "Hasn't be done all those bad things? He never denied It not when be was accused In church before every on. And May said It was true." She looked resentfully at 'Jane through ber tears. The older womsn still smiled at ber and stroked bar bands. "But even If It were true yon mustn't tako th part of his a ecu sera! That isn't for a woman who loves him to do. You must trust blm to the end." Sarah looked at ber and then at ma. 6b pushed Jane from her quickly. "Don't yoa defend him to me! Ton bar stolen him! He lores yon. I saw It once before, and I see it on your face now. I know it!" "Comer I said, taking Sarah by the arm and leading her away. "You don't know what you say." "Yes. I do! You treat mo like a child. Van! Why did yon bare to tako him?" she turned and flamed oat to Jane. "You have always bad vrythlng." "nave I hsd everything? th other womsn questioned slowly, quietly, as if musing to herself. "Everything? Do you know all. child? Let me tell yoa one thing. Once I bad a child a son. One child. And be waa bora blind. He lived, four months. Those were the ouly months 1 think 1 "hav ever lived. Do you think that I hav bad all the Joy?" She was stirred at last, passionate, ironic, and Sarah looked at ber with wondering surprise, with awe. "You grudge me the three or four hours your husband has given m out of the ten years yoa have lived with him. Yon hate me because be baa talked to me as he would talk to himselfas he would talk to yon each day if you could read the first letter of bis mind. And If I lore him? If be loves me? Would yon deny yourself the little I hav taken from you. his life, if it were yours to take and mine to lose? But be content Not one word of what yoa ail tore baa passed between ns or ever wHL Is that anouzh.?" (Continued.) In the beginning of bis career Frederick the Great was much annoyed and laughed at because of his boorish cavalrymen falling off horses like bags of hm. He stopped that tailing off business by ordering shot the first farmer who fell off. DR. L S. CHEN017ETH Dentistq Now on vacation; will be In New q Offices in Murray Theater Bldg e Oct IS. Cor. 10th eTe Main Sts.