THE DAVIS NEWS
"DOUBLE PERSONALITY"
' SYNOPSIS - Alighting from' a
train at Denver a well-dressed trav-
eler la familiarly accosted by a
man about his own age The trav-
eler ignores the advance A few
minutes later he la greeted aa
''Will” by an elderly lady and gen-
tleman who stop their auto to
Bpeak He Imagines It a case of
mistaken Identity and announces
himself as "Richard Clinton" on
his way to the coast The couple
appear greatly surprised and learn-
ing he Is to be In town until mid-
night the lady Introducing herself
as Mrs Kirkland and her husband
as Doctor Kirkland Invites him to
dinner explaining the action by his
truly remarkable resemblance te s
friend of theirs He accepts At
the Kirkland home he meets a
young lady who greets him as her
fiance She Is Ellen Kirkland and
plain)? Is greatly hurt by his asser-
tion that he Is “Richard Clinton"
CHAPTER I— Continued '
"Miss Kirkland !” he begged “Cnlra
' yourself This — It Is most unfortu-
nate Had you first seen your mother
—had she explained to you— prepared
you”’' -
' “Explained? Prepared ?’
“But I must Insist Miss Kirkland
that I — ” He glanced past her and
' smiled with relief “Here Is your
mother”
The girl darted alopg the porch to
clasp lifer mother’s arm “Mammal"
she appealed “What Is It? Tell met
Will Insists he is not— not himself
' It— It frightens me!”' '
“My dear” soothed Mrs Kirkland
"there Is no reason none whatever
‘ Had you been In your room—” She
smiled at the guest “You will under-
stand Mr Clinton the resemblance
being so absurdly close The child Is
excited — Bot quite herself So great
a shock If you will kindly excuse us
a few minutes”
“I am very sorry” he said “Per-
haps it would be better If I should go”
“Oh I no not Do not got" hyster-
ically cried the girl
“Hush dear” reproved her mother!
"Mr Clinton Is not going He Is to
stay and dine with us” '
“If you really wlqh It” he assented
“Then you'll not go?” exclaimed the
girt
“Of course not Ellen” said her
toother "Come in with me"
CHAPTER II
Bonds
Left alone on the porch the guest
sguin faced the sunset But the daz-
' zling glories of red and gold were al-
ready fading into the gray of twilight
He looked absently at the blackened
bulk of the mountains hli expression
shifting ' between annoyance and
amusement curiosity and apprehen-
sion He was still evidently considering
the situation when a small touring
car came whirring along the stre’et In
the clear twilight It stopped before
' the house and Doctor Kirkland sprang
out with a briskness unusual In a gen-
tleman of his portly figure ' He caine
up to the porch his alert gaze on the
lone guest ' ' ’ “
“What’s this?” he demanded “Don’t'
mean to say you've been left all this
time to entertain yourself?"
“Not all the time” smilingly replied
the guest “On the contrary Miss
Kirkland and I—” His look became
grave “Much to my regret Miss Kirk
land mnfci the same mistake as Mrs
Kirkland and yourself”
"Naturally But If her mother — ”
“She had gone In when Miss Kirk
laud came around the house I regret
that my Insistence on my identity
rather overcameher”
“Not surprising when she la en-
gaged to you Is it?”
“Engaged to me I Ton mean of
course — ”
“To your double to Will Lowrle"
'explained the physician “Do you
need further proof that you are his
double?”
“No more She was still quite posi-
tive I fear after all my attempts to
convince her of the mistake How-
ever Mrs Klrklund came and no
doubt has explained the mistake to
her"
“Very likely" agreed the physician
“I would have goue had they not
very kindly insisted that I must re-
main” x j
“You must”
“It Is very hospitable of you to In-
sist Still I do not wish to cause your
daughter the slightest distress”
“Nothing would distress her more
than’’— the physician considered the
point— "than to have you refuse our
hospitality”
“That being bo I am very glad to
stay I’ve been recalling the fact thut
men even of national prominence have
doubles who are mistaken for them
My resemblance to Mr Lowrle Is not
o strong aa I at first thought”
“Not sat all" replied Doctor "Kirk-
land his shrewd eyes twinkling -
The guest Btepped Into the reception
hall and found himself In a well-furnished
comfortable home The (onms’
were bright with the mellow rafllunce
f Indirect electric lighting The Uttie'
housemaid appeared to take the
stairway to bis room
When he came down he found bis
host and hostess waiting for him in
the drawing room The doctor still
wore his professional frock coat As
he rose to meet his guest the maid an-
nounced dinner Miss Ellen was not
with her parents
Mrs ’ Kirkland chatted familiarly
with Clinton as she led him Into the
dining room She observed him look
at the housemaid with amused expec-
tancy “No” she remarked quick to catch
his thought "Mary will not be call-
ing you Mr Lowrle She was not with
us when you — when Will left”
“And Miss ' Kirkland?” he asked
“Have you convinced her?”
The lady smiled the least bit forced-
ly “Have no fear Ellen now knows
the truth”
“That Is good I can understand
how It must have seemed to her 1
wonder If you can realize my embar-
rassment? Think of a young lady mis-
taking one for her fiance I”
"Good joke that” put In the physi-
cian "How many kisses?”
“Karl!” reproved his wife
They entered the dining room the
lady Indignant her husband chuckling
and the guest a trifle constrained
Ellen stood at the far aide of the oval
table arranging the lilies In the center
She was pale and her eyelids were
slightly swollen When she looked up
and saw Clinton across from her she
did not blush If anything she became
still more pale He was quick to ob-
serve her appearance
“I am very sorry Miss Kirkland”
he murmured “It must have been
quite a shock” '
“Tou qjust not blnme yourself” she
replied ' “It was simply that I did not
understand Now you see I am quite
over my — excitement” She smiled un-
certainly r at her father “Between
courses papa can give me a sedative
suggestion” j
“Do you really use suggestion in
your practice?” Clinton Inquired of
the physician- as they seated them-
selves “Suggestion — little else” replied
Doctor Kirkland “Tou must bear In
mind my specialty Not but what In
time the entire profession will be
using suggestion as promiscuously as
the Christian Scientists”
“How the Scientists would be scan-
dalized If they heard you 1" said Mrs
Kirkland “The slightest Intimation
that their treatment Is related in any
wny to suggestion — "
“There Is no matter therefore ev-
erything Is immaterial therefore It Is
Immaterial what they think" solemnly
reasoned the physician
“Isn't It?” queried Clinton
“It Is not Immaterial" his host flatly
contradicted himself “What they
think — what anyone thinks — is exceed-
He Eyed HI Guest With Intense
' Keenness
Ingly material ‘As a man thlnketh In
his heart so Is he’ For Instance you
think1 you are a certain personality
named Richard Clinton”
“I not only think It I know it"
“Do you know yourself? Do you
know what you really are? Does any-
one know what he or she really Is?”
“I at least have aome Idea who 1
am" replied Clinton smiling
“Some Idea ? Tou mean a small Idea
an extremely small Idea Every day
there are millions of pictures myriads
of sounds being stored away In your
subconscious mind Of how many of
these were you aware at the time and
bow many can you now recall? Only
a tow a pitiful cupful out of the
ocean- Conscious man Is a glowwdhn
crawling over the vast dark leld of
his subconscious mind”
"You refer I presume to the odd
cases known as double personality’’-
remarked Clinton ' Ijnust confess
I hardly believe them poselhle" -“On
the contrary" asserted' Doctor
Kirkland ‘such cases are far more
numerous than is commonly known
As I Informed you everybody Is
strictly speaking more or less Insane”
“There he goes again I” put -In Mrs
Kirkland "We're all not quite our-
BelveS !”
"Some are much less so than others”
added her husband “A few are not
themselves at all By the way Mr
Clinton— to change the subject— I am
Interested In a small' psychological ex-
periment It Is to have one state
Without pausing to think the Ideas
suggested to him by a given word
Would you have any objections to my
testing you?"
“None whatever” '
Mrs Kirkland and Ellep exchanged
swift glances
The physician smiled blandly "Then
If you’ll answer quickly the Ideas sug-
gested by — bonds” ’ ”
As he spoke the word he eyed his
guest with Intense keenness The
ladles luvolutarily leuned forward to
catch the answer Clinton smiled and
responded without a trace of hesi-
tancy "Bonds — cash bank accounts
trip to California — ”
"Enough thank you” interrupted
the physician his eyes twinkling with
complacent self-satlsf action
“If there is any other word you wish
to try I shall be pleused to answer”
said the guest
“No that was the only one My real
purpose in using It was to fish In your
subconsciousness”
“And you caught — ”
“Merely a confirmation of certain
optical impressions”
“May I ask why you spoke ol
bonds?”
Mrs Kirkland Interposed "I fear
that you would hardly be Interested
In the matter”
“Why mamma” said -Ellen “how
could he be other than Interested?”
“Perhnps perhaps” qualified her fa-
ther He lookeif at the guest with a
shrewd glance “It Is rather a private
matter Mr Clinton”
“Then of course— Pardon my curi-
osity” “We can trust 'you not to repeat
what I tell you Shortly before Will—
Mr Lowrle — accepted my advice to
go to the sanitarium he was sent to
Pueblo to negotiate for an Issue of
bonds The parties whom he repre-
sented - were allotted one hundred
thousand dollars of the issue and the
bonds In that amount were delivered
over to him Soon afterward Charlie
Beram who had run down to Pueblo
In his touring car came upon Will sit-
ting In the station grounds He had
missed his train Charlie took him In
suitcase and all and brought him to
Denver Late that evening he came
home with his suitcase but without
the bonds He had not turned them
la at the bank and he could not re-
member what he had done with them
Except for a vague recollection of
riding with Charlie and of wandering
through City pnrk he could remember
nothing since early that morning The
bonds have not yet been found”
' “Has he never recalled what lie did
with them?” 1
“Not to our knowledge Worry over
their loss Induced such alarming psy-
chological conditions that the great
specialist In charge of the sanitarium
prescribed an absolute change He
has been temporarily cut oft from ev-
erything related to his life here The
last report received by me was that
he had ben sent abroad In the care
of one of the staff Since then we
have heard nothing”
“There Is the savlng ‘No news Is
good news” remarked Clinton
"It only we could believe that!’’
sighed Mrs Klrklund “Do you won-
der that I was delighted when I saw
you there at the depot looking so
strong and well?”
“Mistaking me for this unfortunate
Mr Lowrle” sympathetically replied
Clinton
The physician had drawn out his
watch' ”1 must return to the sanita-
rium If you can keep Mr Clinton
entertained I shall be back soon —
seven-thirty or eight”
He was up and away with his usuul
briskness
A few minutes Inter they left the
table and went in to whnt Mrs Kirk-
land aptly termed the living room
With a matter-of-course hearing Ellen
at once seated herself at the piano
and began to scorch In her music cab-
inet Mrs Kirkland excused herself
to Clinton and went out a side door-
way Owing to tho twisted corner of
a rug the door did not close fast A
draft swung It ajar as Clinton drew
back farther from the girl and seated
himself on the chair at the fur side of
the doorway
He lenned back at ease and quietly
took In the tastbful unpretentiousness
of his surroundings Ellen continued
her search through the thick piles of
music In the cabinet She hod made
three or four selections and was look-
ing foe others when the muffledibro-
ken murmur of a woman's voice came
to Clinton through the narrow opening
of the door He was not In a position
to see through the crack but there
could be no doubt that Mrs Kirkland
wss at a telephone aeras distance
away probably at Us end of a narrow
passage
Only disjointed fragments of her
talk were audible:
“Amy alone? How
shall I tell you I this afternoon
dined ho no 1
looks splendid but not W11L
Not the slightest remembrance
qust not despair Tes I’m cer
tain if anyone can cure him
be prepared believes himself
Clinton — ”
As he realized that he was listening
to talk that had reference to himself
the-young man thrust out his hand to
close the door The sound attracted
the attention of Ellen She looked
about at the guest the corners of her
perfect mouth drooping
She bent over the keybonrd and be-
gan to play something soft and low
that ran Into eerie minor notes He
stood at the corner of the piano gaz-
ing down at her with a look of frank
enjoyment She- was undoubtedly
beautiful and she played well
When she looked up her eyes were
suffused with tears but there wns ea-
ger expectancy In her glance In his
eyes was only the politely reserved ad-
miration of a stranger Her lips be-
The Face in the Miniature Wae Hie
Own
gan to quiver A tear overflowed nnd
ran down her white cheek She
bowed forward with her face In her
bands sobbing' in an uncontrollable
outburst of grief
He wns overcome with consterna-
tion “Miss Kirkland! I — wlmt can I
Imve done? Believe me I would not
for anything — ”
“It’s — It’s n-not what you've done!”
she sobbed “It's what y-you’ve not
done!”
“What I’ve not done?” he asked “If
only you’ll tell me!”
“You don’t even remember It — our
favorite!” she cried
“You mean — surely you cannot ex-
pect me to remember something I
never — It's not possible you still be-
lieve that I am not myself”
“But It’s — It's you who deny It you
who—” She 'ooked up at him her
tear-streaming eyes full of pitiful en-
treaty “Oh Will I won’t you please
try to remember who you are?”
“Miss Kirkland pray be culm 1 as-
sure you that I am Richard Clinton
I can easily prove that I — ”
“Look I” she Interrupted holding up
her slender left hand on which spar
kled tho diamond of a single ring
“Try to think 1 You must remember
you cannot have forgotten about—”
A rosy blush swept down over her pale
face — “about when you put It there
dear 1”
About her slender neck was a fine
gold chain from which an oval locket
hung pendant on her heaving bosom
She caught up the locket and touched
the spring The jeweled front of the
loeket opened Within was a minia-
ture painting
“Who is this — tell me who Is this?”
she asked
To see the miniature It wns neces-
sary tlint he should bend down close
to the blushing girl His own faee
(lushed with embarrassment but he
seated himself on the end of the bench
nnd lenned over with Ills square jaw
beside her rounded white shoulder
Had he looked only at the girl It
would not have been surprlsiug
As It chanced however the young
man glnnced first at the miniature At
once the Incredulity of Ills expression
gave place to surprise nnd perplexity
He leaned over for a closer look his
cheek only a few Inches from the
cheek of the girl Except for a cer-
tain pinched look about the nose the
absence of the mustache nnd a mnrked
thinness of jaw nnd cheek the face
in the miniature wns his own— It was
Ills fuce as It might look In HI health
The young mn'n drew back his face
clearly expressive of his astonishment
“It Is a — most remurknble resem-
blance Miss Kirkland I no longer
wonder that you were deceived at the
first and this continued delusion on
your part can no doubt he accounted
for by the Intensity of that first Im-
pression” "You still refuse to bellevel” she
cried "You do not recognize your
own picture I Can nothing muke yoe
remember?”
Another rutty girl thinks
Clinton it Will
(TO BB CONTINUED)
Pigeons ure nowhere more abundant
than In the East Indies
IMPROVED
ROADS
NOVEL ROAD-MAKING DEVICE
Southerner Has Patented an Unusual
Drag Which Is Said to Be
Quito Effective
For removing Inequalities from dirt
highways a southern Inventor has de-
vised and' patented an unusual road
drag which Is declured to be very ef-
fective The forward parF of the con-
trivance Includes three transverse
beams fastened together with two lat-
eral timbers In the first two cross-
pieces are set spikes the points of
which protrude from the wood while
the front side of the third beam Is
faced with metal The rear portion
The SpKed Forward Part of the Drag
- Loosens the Road Soil and the Fol-
lowing Rear Portion Packe It to a
Smooth Surface Thue Finishing the
Surface In One Operation
of the device which Is attached to
the' front section with chains consists
of two side timbers nailed to four
henvy planks with their fora'rtrd
edges turned upward and lapped
When the appliance Is pulled over a
road the earth Is loosened by the
spikes then smoothed and packed by
the remainder of the machine thus
finishing the surface In one operation
— Popular Mechanics Magazine
NUMBER ALL ENGLISH ROADS
Properly Organized and Uniform Sys-
tem of Sign Posting to Be Used
in Great Britain
The national road scheme will be
ready by the autumn-
The scheme consists of the classifi-
cation of all main nnd secondary
roads In Great Britain together with
a properly organized and uniform sys-
tem of sign posting Roads will bear
distinctive numbers so that the trav-
eler need only ascertain the official
number of the road say from Nor-
wich to Birmingham to be able to
travel from one town to the other
without a map
The experiments conducted under In-
structions of the ministry of transport
to determine the most suitable nmte-
! rial for a uniform road dressing have
been successful and a standard sur-
I face has been practically selected For
the present this surface will be ap-
i plied only to the arterial and not to
the secondary roads
By Janunry 1 the new national road
scheme will be in readiness to be put
Into Immediate operation — Daily Mull
London
LARGER CAPACITY OF ROADS
Must Be Doubled to Meet Augmenting
Requirements of Transportation
Next Year
We are confronted with the problem
of increasing the capacity of our
highways This must be doubled to
mqet the augmenting requirements of
the next year or two Engineers are
wondering along what line tills In-
crease shall be provided One sugges-
tion Is to double the width of the
roads nnd Increase first cost nnd main-
tenance 100 per cent The most reason-
able one is to provide n road of suffi-
cient strength to carry vehicles of
100 per cent greater capacity for a
given width of road as the first cost
of these strengthened roads would be
only 10 to 20 per cept greater per
mile thnn that of present Inadequate
highways says a writer In an ex-
change In view of the fact that' 50
per cent Increase In hauling capacity
gives a reduction of 15 per cent in
transportation costs the latter seems
the wisest thing to do
ATTENTION TO EARTH ROADS
Clean Out Ditches and True Up Crown
by Use of Light Grader — Four
Horses Needed
The majority of enrth roads have
been previously graded and It is nec-
essary to cleun out the ditches and
true up the crown of the road by the
use of the light grader two or three
times a season Tills work requires
four horses
Haul With Less Cost
Not only can a greater quantity of
products be hauled to market with less
norso power on better highways but
there also will be a greuter saving of
wear und tear on the vehicles which
carry the goods
Encourage Producers
The natlonu! system of transporta-
tion and distribution Is so essential
that every possible facility must be
provided to encourage producers of
farm communltlea and merchandise te
increase production
’5
IS OVER
Threshing Shows Increase Over
Expected Yields
The Winnipeg Free Press of a few
days ago contained a cartoon of which
the following is a copy:
yhen Hungry TtwyT1 Urn te BUmt H On Soatbo Jy Bali Ox fumtL
This probably as much as anything
else will give some Idea of the state
of mind of the Western Canada farm-
er as he watches the tally from the
thrashing machine while his wheat is
being carried to the elevator
From all sections of the country
the most optimistic reports are re-
ceived the local and city papers are
filled with reports from twenty to thir-
ty bushels of wheat to the acre while
in some places oats are showing a rec-
ord of as high as 120 bushels to the
acre
Referring to Saskatchewan It Is con-
fidently expected that the wheat yield
will be nearly 125 million bushels
Heavy rains which fell In districts that
did not promise so well In July had
greatly iqiproved the prospects there
jind there Is no question that paying
yields will be produced The yields
In the eastern part of the province
may not show to the advantage that
will those of the western part but
too much cannot be said of this for It
Is the results as they come from the
machine and often these prove happily
deceptive
There Is now every reason to believe
that the wheat crop of the three prai-
rie provinces will approach 250 mil-
lion bushels
Alberta will exceed the 70 million
bushels that had been looked for The
average yield will be considerably
higher than It has been In the province
In any of the last four years -The
Department of Agriculture In a
recent report gave the opinion that It
cannot fall below twenty-two bushels
to the acre and that It might easily
pass the twenty-five bushel mark
Most of the wheat In the province
when the report was written stood
well up to three feet high and on
some fields was still hlpher The re-
port goes on that In pnrts of South-
ern Alberta forty and fifty bushels to
the acre yields will not be uncommon
while there will be a good many yields
of from thirty to thirty-five bushels
to the ncre
In the northwest part of the prov-
ince In the country surrounding Bat-
tleford nnd adjacent to the Canadian
Natlonal'Railway line to Llovdmlnster
and south the crops are excellent and
the yield will be heavy
A larger thnn overage wheat crop
Is being thrashed in Manitoba It has
been estimated that the total yield
of the three provinces will not be less
than 225000000 bushels and It may
be that somewhere between 250000-
000 nnd 300000000 bushels will be the
final figure
I Oats Is a good crop In all three
provinces This crop has also grown
rapidly during the Inst two or three
! weeks Excepting from those fields
which wre sown late for green feed
the yield will be henvy nnd the grain
j excellent Burley nml rye are above
the average There was sufficient help
to harvest the crop— Advertisement
As Told In Greenfield
Back in the dim distant years when
the high cost of living wns not an ever
present problem and some things were
cheap Janies Whitcomb Riley walked'
Into n barber shop ut Greenfield for a
5-cent slmve The proprietor of the
shop wns an old negro
“Well Sam how are you getting
along?” Mr Riley asked
"Mr Jim I hnd a very good day"
Sam replied “If I could make 75
cents between now and quittln’ time
I’d have $1"
Such Is the story as told In Green-
field — Indianapolis News
Of Little Use
“The Indy ain’t got no old clothes
to spnre but she offers us an old
grass rug”
"It will be of but little use to me
I’m no Hawaiian dancer"
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