The Syracuse Journal, Volume 4, Number 36, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 4 January 1912 — Page 7

MARY, MAVERICK

By A. MARIA CRAWFORD

There had been no quarrel. As usual Mary had answered his letter Immediately, but no reply had gone to her. Pride kept her from inquiry. Only her mother could read between the lines of her paragraphs in the daily papers and her stories jn the magazines and knew her hurt. It had been a college love affair that later matured in a warm intimate friendship. Bob Heiskell had gone to the southwest and succeeded in building up a great gin business in the cotton belt. Mary Gaines’ letters had kept him in touch with the old home place an&jwith that period of his life •when youth generously squanders her time on dreams. He had never struggled through a business fight without feeling that a part of his conquering strength came from the brave, enthusiastic help that his college mate gave. He could turn at will from the .endless, dun-colored plains to an invigorating breath of the mountains as she saw them every day. There was , a vigorous uplift even in the memory of them. A year of silence went by and then one day the girl was invited to visit in the very town where he lived. She had met the Carrolls at a resort in the mountains where she and her mother were spending a part of the summer. They insisted on taking her home with them for a fortnight’s visit and she had decided to go. * . She did not ask about Heiskell, ever tried to persuade herself that sho hoped he would have moved from there, yet she knew that she was glad when she caught a glimpse of him as she drove from the station. Mrs. Carroll mentioned his name as ran over a list of guests for a dinner she planned to give. “I am going to have about a dozen of our young people for dinner tomor- " l nll nl M * " £*7 ’ 5 ffl 1 Ift ’ I Hl In ' "Z-L, fl| | Illi “Don’t Mention My Name Until They Come.” row night. It must necessarily be informal on such .short notice. I’ll call them on the ’phone.” "Just say that you are giving it for a guest,” begged Mary. “Don’t mention my name until they eqme.” “I”ll humor you because I know you are trying not to frighten them. Most men are . reluctant to meet literary women, but you are so different, so totally unlike our general conception of the type, that once having met you, they will want to know you better, as I did.” "Let me be a maverick for a day or two and enjoy my freedom before you brand me as a writer. The pose is somewhat fatiguing when one is inclined to be frivolous.” “You won’t remain a maverick long if these men out here can help it, but the brand won’t be that of a pen, my dear. Now, I will ring Bob Heiskell. He w’ill turn me down, but he is such a clever fellow that I am going to try him anyway.” When he accepted her invitation and accepted so cordially that his sincerity could not be doubted, Mrs. Carroll turned to her guest wonderingly. “You know we have all speculated about Bob Heiskell for a year. He used to be friendly with everybody, but last year he suddenly changed. Some people declared that he had suffered a heavy financial loss, but I always thought that a girl was responsible for the change.” He had lost money and had not allowed her to help or comfort in any way! In a flash it was all clear to the girl and her heart leaped suddenly. Life Mras good again and new and j Interesting. * “He said that he saw my guest’s back as she drove down the street yesterday and that it haunted him all night because the head and shoulders reminded him of the most attractive girl he had ever known. Now I feel sure that I was right all the time and that he has had a romance. He is*a fine man, Mary, and I would like to have you marry a man out here for my own sake.” When he came through the door, he looked straight at the slender figure In blue beside his hostess and stop-

ped perfectly stilt Although her own heart was beating stormily at sight of him, the girl nodded graciously and beckoned to him. Recovering himself, he went to her quickly. “Is it really you?” he asked wonderingly. “Really, truly you?” “Really, truly I, Bob, and It’s good to see you again.” “What does this mean?” demanded Mrs. Carroll. “It means that you have given me the happiest surprise of my life. 1 am simply overcome. It’s a dinner, Mary,” he said turning to the girl, "so it will be three long hours before I can talk to you, but I promise you that I am going to talk then.” Mrs. Carroll noted with satisfaction that not a turn of her visitor’s head was lost to Heiskell. He appeared to listen to those about him, but he watched every movement of the girl at the other end of the table. Once when some passage in one of her letters had made him reminiscent and tender, he had written her of his need for her and his devotion to her, saying that she would have to marry him, for she was the only woman in the world who would be able and willing to put up with him. He recalled now she had answered with customary promptness that he must not mistake friendship for love, since no man could love a woman who lived a great distance from him. Letters, she said, were impersonal things and might or might not be indicative of one’s real self. Therefore, she concluded, propinquity was the only reasonable cause for love. Looking across the table at her, Heiskell wondered how he had been able to live kor a whole year without hearing from lher. She had shown no resentment over his apparently silent negligence when she met him and he began to question her attitude. Did she nc longer care? Had he been crowded out of her life by her interest in her work or was there a man who had a right to what he became suddenly aw-are of wanting tremendously? “I wasn’t expecting to see you yesterday,” he said when they had managed to slip away for a little while, “yet after I caught sight, of shoulders that looked like yours, I never thought of anything else in the world but you. I wired you twice last night That sounds strange after a year of silence, doesn’t it, Mary?” “You were always a little peculiar, Bob. I had learned before the yedr of silence never to question.” “Do yob mean that you have never doubted me—never?” He was incredulous at her woman’s faith. “It hurt, Bob, to think that after all these years of friendship, you could fail me, but I never allowed myself to doubt. Always, came the belief that some day you would explain.” “The day has come, and I wonder If you are going to be able to see things from my standpoint! lam suddenly conscious of a great and overwhelming desire to keep your faith in me at any cost.” “Well, tell me your side of the story.” . “The day your letter came, the one I never answered, I went to pieces financially. I wasn’t brave enough tc aeknowledge it to you for fear of disdissipating the faith you held in my ability.” “Oh, Bob, the very time you needed me most, you cast me aside for foolish pride. Then,” she asked timidly, “you learned to do without me? You forgot?” “Never. No man deserves the friendship of a, woman like you; but before this crash came, I even dared to hope that I could be able to make you love me. Lifohad possibilities, the future was ro*with my dreams when an alien hand reached out and dashed my hopes to the ground like a house of cards on the sands. I am afraid that I have grown bitter trying to school myself to do without you. And now, now I know that my loss of money would not have separated us!” “Do you care—for me —now?” asked the girl courageously. “Care? Oh, how I do care!” There was a soft rustle of silk and two hands slipped into his. “When you turn, you will find me where I have always been, waiting for you,” whispered the girl breathlessly. “I*can be poor with you.” “But you don’t have to be poor,” cried the man springifrg up to clasp her in arms that had ached for her; “my luck turned yesterday when you came back into my life. Will you marry me tomorrow?” “I told Mrs. Carroll that I wanted to be a maverick and run free for a while, but I guess I didn’t know how much I wanted to be branded by you when I came.” Value of Time. The average man never wakes v.j to the value of time until he is 40 Then his observation of what otbei men of his own age have done whllq he was loitering through the golden days’ of his life stings him into a realization of what he has wasted. We leave childhood with a reasonable expectation of 40 or 50 years of life. Tc the boy, that period seems almost an eternity. At 25 we feel that there is ample time for joy living before we settle into one life pace. At 30 and 35 we begin to doubt a little whether oui accomplishments are what they should have been, and at 40 we know we are delinquent. From 40 to 50, if there is anything worth while in a man, he is struggling to make amends for his wasted years. Then, if ever, it comes Shim that life is shortening up for m, and that he must crowd his bust ness of this profession IfTie is not tc ibe classed as a failure.—-Gallipolis > Tribune.

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MAKES FUTILE FIGHT

British Naval Officer in Heroic Battle With Waves. Details of the Drowning of Commander Brine of Battleship St. Vincent, Who Was Washed Overboard During Gale. London.—When the battleships St. Vincent, Collingwood, Temeraire and Vanguard arrived at = Bemerehaven, County of Cork, full details were learned of the fate of Commander Frederic G. Brine of the St. Vincent, who was washed overboard v and drowned. On rounding Land’s End at daybreak a short time ago, the battle squadron encountered a wind which was blowing with hurricane force from the southwest, with a mountainous sea, which washed the vessels fore and aft and caused all hatches to be closely battened down. At 6:30 a. m. Commander Brine was informed that the port accommodation ladder, still hanging over the ship’s side, was being broken up by the sea, and he Immediately went on deck to see if it could be secured and brought on board. As he reached the deck a heavy spray struck him on back and, turning to some one standing near by. he laughingly remarked:' “That cold water down the back was not very comfortable.” A minute later a gigantic wave crashed on board just behind where Commander Brine stood and, though he strongly fought for a foothold, his efforts were futile and before the eyes of several members of the ship’s company he was swept right over the lee side of the ship. Then commenced a magnificent but ineffectual fight for life by the unfortunate officer. With lightning alacrity a number of lifebuoys were flung to him, the nearest just missing him by inches as he was borne off by the waves. Though completely at the mercy of the terrific sea Commander Brine managed, after herculean efforts, to divest himself of his coat, boots, and trousers, He next atte.mpted to remove a heavy white sweater, but

Man Who Saw Napoleon, Alive

Until Seventeen Years He Lived In Warsaw, Poland Where He Was Engaged in Business for 70 Years. New York.—There was a wedding at the Hotel Astor at which the twen ty-year-old bride danced with a man who saw Napoleon on the famous march to Moscow, one hundred years ago. This man is Abraham Hanover, of 162 East 110th street. He is 106 years old now, but during the led in the dancing at the wedding, appearing on the floor nearly a dozen times, and performing with his young partners waltzes, two-steps and several varieties of the Boston. With a twinkle of humor in his eyes, the old man declared that his next accomplishment would be to learn the famous turkey trot The wedding was that of Samuel Steinberg, of 600 West 136th street, to Miss Sadie Frankel, of 808 West End avenue. Mr. Hanover is the grandfather of Mr. Steinberg. Until seventeen years ago the centenarian and his wife, who is eightyfive years old, lived in Warsaw, Poland. Then the old man retired from the business in which be had been engaged for seventy years, and came to New York where his seven children had preceded him. “To what do I owe my long life?" be asked today. “Why, to my , wife’s cooking, of course. Nobody else has ever cooked for mj, and nobody else

this proved a difficult task, and he literally tore it to shreds. In the meantime the first lifeboat had been slung out on the davits, and the call for volunteers was answered by practically all present. For a long time nothing could be seen of Commander Brine, but at last he was discerned feebly struggling some distance away. Willing hands quickly manned a second lifeboat, which was soon on its way to the spot where the struggling naan was last seen. He was picked up and taken on board, but life was extinct. His magnificent efforts In such a sea had aroused hope and enthusiasm to fever pitch in the hundreds of watchers in the St. Vincent, and the vlisappointment and grief manifested on board when It became known that the recovery of his body had been just too late bore eloquent testimony to the great esteem in which Commander Brine was held.

Finds Poison in a Cigar

Jury Finds Man Guilty of Putting Strychnine in Weed That He Presented to Johannes de Beer. Ladybrand, Africa. —Sentence of a year’s imprisonment and a fine of £250 has been inflicted at the crimi nal sessions here on Charles Maher, who was found guilty of attempting to murder Johaqpies d® Beer by means of a poisoned cigar. The prosecutor, In his evidence, stated that he was sitting in the yard of his house with members of his family and was about to smoke a oigar when the prisoner entered and said: “Johu nie, try this cigar and I will try one of yours.” He accepted the offer, but found that the cigar tasted very bitter He cut off half an inch, but again found it bitter, and did not smoke it any more. After having tea with the accused he returned to his own house, and

ever will. If I die before I am 120 I shall be surprised.” W’ith not a gray hair in his head, and with just a shade of snow in his long beard, with his eyes as bright as when he was twenty, and his muscles just as supple, Mr. Hanover laughed when his ability as a dancing swain was mentioned. “Yes,” went on the centenarian, “1 was a small boy at the time, but I remember seeing Napoleon march through our village on the famous progress to Moscow. He sat very small, and very compactly oa his horse, and looked neither to right or left. We were afraid to go out, but 1 recall my father pointing out the great general. All day and night his soldiers followed behind him past our home.” “You see,” he said, "Mrs, Hanover does all her own housework, -even though she is well along in years. “But now you will have to excuse me, as x want to hang some pictures, and move the piano into the next room. My sincerest wishes that you may live so long as I have.” Rides Steer to Safety. St. Joseph, Mo. —William Hamilton, a cowboy from the Texas panhandle, fell into a corral of wild streets, scrambled to his feet, and drawing a revolver fired full in the face of the oncoming steers and crippled one. Then, as the others stopped short, he seized ode by the horns and rode it until the animal got close enough to the fence for him to leap to safety.

DIVORCED WIFE IS A WIDOW That Is the Ruling of a California Judge, at Least in the Case of Mrs. Eugenia Jones. San Francisco. — Arecent ruling of Superior Judge Thomas F. Graham of this cit£ defines a widow as “a married woman who Has lost her husband either by death or judicial decree.” The ruling received the affirmation of the district court of appeals in a decision giving Mrs. Eugenia Jones, divorced wife of the late Everett Jones, the share of the estate she claimed under the will of Jones’ father, S. L. Jones. It was provided in that will that in the event of the death of Everett Jones before that of Mrs. Eugenia Jones, who then was his wife, a monthly income of S3OO and half the estate should go to her “while she remained his widow.” The couple were divorced later and, shortly before his death Jones remarried. Suit by his former wife to put the father’s will in effect resulted in a legal tangle as to whether Jones’ divorced wife legally could be described as his widow.

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HISTORIC ARMY POST TO GO New Fort in Arizona to Take the Place of Huachuca, Which Will Be Abandoned. Bisbee, Arlz.—The Second squadron, Sixth cavalry, which arrived here supposedly to patrol the international border, returned to Fort Huachuca after completing some roadway maps from Bisbee to the border. Jt became known that the army post at Fort Huachuca Will not be enlarged, but is to be abandoned, it is said that a regimental post Is to be established either at Bisbee or Tucson. The post quartermaster is now considering the matter of a site. El Paso, Tex. —Orders , from the war department were received at Fort Bliss converting the post “from an infantry to a cavalry post. Four troops of cavalry will take the placed the Twenty-third infantry now at the post. The Twenty-third infantry will probably be sent to Fort Benjamin Harrison at Indianapolis. Girls Kill Selves. Vienna. —Two school girls, who were preparing for the examination that gives them entrance Into Vienna university, threw themselves from the window of the school where they were studying and succumbed to their injuries. One of the girls, Wilhelmina Proksch, aged fifteen, was the daughter cf a well known solicitor, and the other, Elise Vllnal, also aged fifteen, was the daughter of a wealthy merchant. Some days ago they were told that there was nu hope of their passing the examination. They were much distressed and decided to die together.

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