The Chandler Tribune (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 34, Ed. 1 Friday, November 25, 1910 Page: 3 of 8
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HIS LITTLE
MISTAKE
One evening last week young Wal- j
ton—rather suddenly, it was remem- j
bered later—left the circle gathered
on the chilly veranda of l?.o family
hotel that houses his trunk, and
started for the evening stroll that has
become his habit.
He swung diagonally across the
lawn smoking vigorously and with the
outward appearance of a man possess-
ing no ulterior motive, no subtle de-
sign.
It was nearly dark and the hedges
of the hotel lawn loomed black as he
passed them—so black. Indeed, that
just at the corner of the hedge, turn-
ing upon the sidewalk of the avenue,
Walton stumbled. And at the same
time there arose a weird wail of an-
guish that drew the attention of the
peopled veranda to Walton's dark
figure.
"It's a cat,” Walton muttered to
himself, watching a gleam of yellow
flash under the rays of a street lamp.
“And it’s for all the world like the
Hortons’ cat. Wonder If they’ve
lost it?”
Now, the Hortons had but recently
acquired a Persian cat, orange as to
color, pedigreed for four generations
back, which answered to the fantas-
tic name of Comet. Only the night
before Walton had heard for the twen-
tieth time just how much Mrs. Hor-
ton thought of Comet, how unusual
Comet’s coat was and how he was
never allowed to walk abroad alone,
so positive was his owner that some
lurking thief would carry off her far-
famed pet.
His mind filled with Mrs. Horton’s
present grief and future joy should
he bring to her the lost Comet, Wal-
ton bounded after the cat, calling in
his most seductive tones. Finally he
won the confidence of the wanderer.
Undoubtedly the cat answered to his
name—a fact that Mrs. Horton had
impressed upon Walton. Comet had
never been called "kitty”—that name
forever attached to his short-haired
brethren. It must be Comet—he was
orange, his eyes a deep copper, his
tail a waving plume of orange fur. |
After a few minutes’ maneuvering
Walton was speeding back to the
hotel with a purring bundle In bis
arms. He would telephone the Hor-
tons and then take over the cat and
restore him to the arms of his fond
owner.
“May I ask if you know whose cat
that is, Mr. Walton?” came in sweet-
ly suspicious tones from the top of
the steps, as Walton began to mount
them.
Then for the first time ho realized
that he had been the center of in-
terest for the whole neighborhood for
some moments past. Somewhat con-
fused by this discovery, Walton stam-
mered:
"1 think I do. I am going to tele-
phone—”
"Hut what are you going to do with
the cat?” |
“Oh, keep It in my room till I take
it to my friend’s—”
"And whose is it, do you think?”
Suspicion was filling the air. Wal-
ton felt himself growing more and
more confused and he stammered out
Horton's name before the gathering
crowd.
“But it isn't,” asserted the cool
voice. "I know whose cat it is—give
it to me. It belongs across the street
and I’ll take it over. They would
never forgive me if it were stolen.” j
The cat was lifted from Walton'S
grasp and borne away, while Walton
hurried from the chilling gaze of the
assembled body. He rushed to the
telephone booth with a speed that
added fuel to the fire of suspicion al-
ready blazing brightly.
But Comet was at hime! The cat
was not the Hortons'—an explanation
that Walton made to all who would
listen. '
That is not all of the story. The
next morning on a huge elm that
graces a yard on the same side of the
street as the hotel there appeared a
sign, written in a hurried hand:
CANALS FOR BENEFIT
LESSON FROM EUROPE SHOWS
HOW WATERWAY IMPROVE-
MENT HELPS RAILROADS.
A Wedding That
Could Never Be
By Helen Atherton
HAS A CREATIVE EFFECT
Construction of the Manchester Ship
Canal Shown to Have Resuscitated
Many Dying Towns—Many Give
Similar Experiences.
I.OST
A FT NR PERSIAN KITTEN:
ORANGE COAT AND COPPER
EYES. KINDER WILL RE-
CEIVE REWARD.
I
Walton paused before the s'gn to
consider. Another orange cat ’ This
bereft home was not aero- t the
street, where the cat was tab n tho
night before. Could it he that xoross
the street might be found as; e for
the sorrow the giant elm pro limed
—a salve that at the same tim< might
lighten his burden by shifting per-
haps, to the owner of the swer . chill-
ing voice of the night before?
But Walton walked on und being
over gallant, endures in siler -c the
chill that greets him these d; s.
"You see, they didn't adver e for
information,” he tells the 1 "tons,
whose full sympatl Is \nd,
anyway, thcic are too many augo
cats in this neighborhood. 1 a not
looking for more.”
In previous articles It was shown
that the waterways carry goods more
cheaply than railways do or can and
compel the railways to carry for less
than they otherwise would, and then
the claim was made that the Improve-
ment of waterways Is a benefit to the
railways with which they compete.
Several Instances were given to sup-
port this claim and many more might
be given If space allowed, for the
writer, who has studied the subject for
25 years, has found many Instances
of benefit, and not a single Instance
of harm, to railways from the im-
provement of waterways. It Is now In
order to see If we can find a reason
for this rather surprising result.
Waterways, as has been said before,
produce benefits in three principal
ways—by direct saving in the cost of
transportation of goods carried by
water, indirect saving, by the lower-
ing of railway rates through the com-
petition of water routes, and by what
may be called a creative effect. It
is this last named effect which we
are now to consider.
Manchester, England, beforo the con-
struction of the ship canal, was a
dying town. Hundreds of stores and
thousands of dwellings were empty,
factories were closed—some moved
away—and population was decreasing.
With the opening of the canal all this
was changed. Factorless reopened,
new ones were built, tile empty houses
were refilled and thousands of new
ones built to accommodate the popula-
tion that came pouring in. And the
benefits were not con-lined to Manches-
ter alone, but were distributed over
the whole great industrial region, con-
taining over 8,000,000 people, of which
Manchester is the center. It was not
only natural, but inevitable, that the
great increase in population and pros-
perity In Manchester and the surround-
ing region should be reflected in the
business and the profits of the rail-
ways therein.
Liverpool Also Aided.
Liverpool fought desperately to pre-
vent the building of tile canal and the
establishment of the new port of Man-
chester; but instead of being injured
by the cxnal, the business of Liverpool
lias increased faster than before. Dur-
ing tho 13 years before the canal was
opened the Increase in the harbor re-
ceipts at Liverpool was only $310,000;
in the same length of time alter it
was opened the increase was $1,363,-
000. The 6,000,000 tons of traffic at
Manchester have not been stolen from
Liverpool, they have been created by
the canal.
Frankfort, Germany, before the
River Main was improved, was not a
dying city but was decidedly stagnant.
Mannheim and Mayence on tho Rhine,
which had been»improved, were grow-
ing rapidly, while Frankfort was grow-
ing very little. As soon as the canal-
ization of the river was finished, which
was in 1886, th» city began to grow
and has kept on growing ever since.
The population, which was 154,000 in
1885, has increased to 229,00$ in 1895,
to 335,000 in 1905, and is probably
more than 400,000 now. Evidently the
people of Frankfort expect their city
to keep on growing, too. They spent
over $1,500,000 on a harbor when the
1 river was first improved and are
hard at work right now building a
new and much larger harbor at a cost
of $17,600,000. Just as in the case of
Manchester, the benefit was not con-
fined to the city ci Frankfort; the in-
dustrial and commercial life of the
whole region was greatly stimulated.
Mines long closed were reopened, new
: industries were started, und today
| there is an almost continuous succes-
sion of factories lining the hanks of
the river from Frankfort to the
1 Rhine.
Everybody Reaps Benefit.
Hunt the world around and always
and everywhere we iind that the im-
provement of waterways sets cities to
growing, factory wheels to humming,
and commerce to moving in a wider
ami swi.ter stream. Railroads get
more business in big cities than in
small towns, in a densely populated
manufacturing region than in one that
is thinly settled. Waterways, there-
lore, benefit railways—and states and
nations as well—by promoting an. in-
c.'i use In population, In manufactures
and in commerce. Rut for one who
likes to get clear down to the bot-
tom of things there still remains the
'nut-Ion: “Why do waterways in-
cr-e population and create com-
merce and industry?”
Consul General Mason, now In Paris,
but :or some years at Frankfort, says:
'German statesmanship was among
t> first to foresee that the time
would come, when, railways having
reached their maximum extension and
1 efflclei • . there would remain a vast
Purchase Supplies in Quar 'dy.
Rids for supplies for the mi’tary In
the Philippines are asked for .n such surplus ol coarse, raw materials—coal.
quantities as 6,300,000 pounds of
frozen fresh beef, 200.000 pounds of
frozen fresh mutton, 464,000 i >unds of
rice, 116,000 pounds of sug r, 8,232
cans of assorted jams, 30,000 pounds
of butter, 2,400 cakes of coa u 35,000
one-ounce bags of smoking ’obacoo,
6,000 half pints of "fizz" water,, and so
on. Military suppllss we admltU4
duty free.
ores, timber, stone, and crude metals
—which could be economically carried
long distances only by water trans-
portation. and that in a fully de-
veloped national system the proper
role of railroads would he to carry
passengers und the higher classes of
merchandise manufactured from the
raw staples that the waterway* had
brought to their door*”
The announcement had been in the
morning paper, hut she had had a
long and busy day with shopping,
calls and afternoon parties. And so
the litWe paragraph had escaped her
/ notice. Now, as she came down into
the drawing room to await her moth-
er preparatory to starting for a ball,
she idly took up tho paper.
It stared her in the face. She read
It and smiled to herself; It seemed
something that she had often read be-
fore . . . and then she reread it
. . . and knew It was impossible
. . . and knew that it was true.
A marriage had been arranged .
. . She had often seen it in her
dreams, the well-known name, the
regiment, the son of . . . but the
girl's name, that had never appeared
in the dream fancies ... no one
she had ever heard of before. . . .
Was she still living, or had she
gone out of the world, this very
strange world, altogether? Could peo-
ple and things be turning in the same
brilliant social kaleidoscope when this
—the unexpected—had happened?
Conid such things be?
And then the girl smiled at herself
again, smiled as her mother came
into the room, pleasant, dignified, be-
jeweled, looking with complacent
eyes at the daughter who had never
failed to do her credit. The bells of
the waiting electric brougham sound-
ed below, and the girl still smiled—
smiled all that evening as she danced
to the echo of flv^ words beating
time in her heart and brain, while
she listened to the comments on the
engagement, and met with splendid
composure the inquisitive eyes that
asked questions and received no an-
swer from a bravely smiling young
face that told them nothing. Yes, tho
world was still going on merrily .'
. . even though a marriage had
been arranged. . . .
| And now she must wTrite to him. It
was four months since she had sent
him a timid little note at Christmas, a
letter which, to the eyes that could;
read it, contained another letter writ- >
ten between the conventional lines. It
had been answered in the same—!
they had not met since—and now
was writing to congratulate him.
“Dear . . . this isn't true. They
may say so, that you are going to
marry some one else, a girl called
Daisy, whom 1 have never hoard of,
but, until you tell me so yourself, I
won't believe it. Oh, I know it's in
the papers, but they don't count, do
they? You and I know. . . .
“You haven't quite forgotten last
July? I don't think you have, any
more than I have myself, up in Scot-
land, that day in the glen, you and I.
. . . We had always been such
friends . . . coming down over the
stepping stones—how wet and slippery
they were!—I knew you for some-
thing more. Oh, didn't you guess? I
felt, yes, I felt that you cared, and
you never said a word, Is It my
money, my hateful money, that stands
between us? Surely God never meant
a girl to have the millions that I shall
have (and you know it) all her own!
j Was that the barrier? It can’t be
that you didn’t—don’t—care. I shall
never believe that until you tell mo
so yourself . . . not through the
| papers.
“Do those three weeks all count for
■ nothing? Three weeks nearly a year
j ago. Months in which I have lived,
| and suffered, and waited—for this.
I Months out of my life which I give to
you. Jack . . . and then you hurl
j this at me. Wouldn't it have been
kinder not to let me think ... I
! expect that it was my fault. Well, I
can only wish you luck* quite the best
of luck, even with some one else.
| Good-by, Jack, write and tell me if
you can that It Isn't true.
“MAJOR1E."
But this was the letter she sent:
“Dear Capt. Atherton: I am writing
to wish you all good luck. Don't both-
er to answer this, as I am sure you
are bored to death with congrutuia-
I tlons. Yours sincerely,
I “MAJORIE MANNERING.”
1 “Little girl, little princess, what are
you thinking of me, T wonder, If you
: are thinking at all? You have s- en
the announcement In the papers, and
your gray - yes will stare at It, and
you will smile, that brave lil-le smile
of yours I know so well, and probably
go off and dance nt somebody’s hall
. . . and forget all about it. Not
to-night, 1 think, Marjorie, will you
forget.
“And all tho time you are asking
yourself, what docs it ail meant
. . I ask myself that question,
too . . . did you care, or was I
mistaken? You did not let me see.
| I thought so, hut If I had been sure—
'< Well, God knows how hard it is for a
man without a penny to speak to the
daughter of a multi millionaire. Ah,
those three weeks . . . that eve-
ning in the Glen . . . nnd those
wet stepping stones. I wonder if you
remember? ... or do women for-
get? I care for Dalby, yes, bon- tly
care, but deep down in my heart is
buried my love for you. I dare not
think how easy it would be to resur-
rect it. I think I must put 'Re-sur-
gam’ over it. Forgive me, little girl,
, if there is anything to forgive . . .
j and good-by. JACK."
But this was the letter he sent:
“Dear Miss Mannering: Thank you
so much for your charming letter. It
is so nice to get one's friend's good
wishes, and perhaps I appreciate
them more than you think. Your*
■lncercly,
"JOHN ATHERTON"
IMPROVEMENT OF NATION’S WA-
TERWAYS OF INTEREST TO
EVERY CITIZEN.
VITAL FACTS ARE PRESENTED
Cost of Getting Grain to Market Mate-
rially Reduced Through Shipment
by Water—Benefit* Distributed All
Over the Country.
You may not know It—you probably
don’t—but It la a matter of Importance
to you whether the waterways of the
United States are Improved or not—
and this is true no matter who you
are, what your business is, or what
part of the country you live in. It
may be that you are a farmer and you
tell me that it Is nonsense to say
that It can make any difference to
you whether the waterways of tho
country are Improved or not, because
you live away out west, miles away
from any river which is navigable now
or ever will be.
Well, 1 admit that it Is not as easy
to see as the grain elevator down at j
your railway station, but the benefit i
Is there Just the same—a real, sure- j
enough, doilarsi-and cents benefit. Wa-
terways have already been of tremen-
dous advantage to the farmers of the
country and their further lnlpfove-
mlnt will put more money Into your
pockets and those of your neighbors,
Take grain for an Illustration. A
large part of the grain raised In the
country is shipped away from tho
place whore It is grown, some for use
In the eastern states and some for ex-
port to Europe. Under those condi-
tions the price of grain is not fixed
at the nearest railway station. Your
wheat, for instance, is worth just what
It will bring in Liverpool—less the
cost of getting it there. You can see I
nt once that it makes a whole lot of
difference to you how much it costs 1
to send your grain to New York or
Liverpool—and there’s where the
waterway comes In.
Where Economy Comes In.
In 1908 tho average cost of carrying
wheat from Chicago to Buffalo by lake
was one cent a bushel, while tho cost
by rail to New York was 11.7 cents—
almost twelve times as much, although
the distance Is the same. But grain
which is to go all the way by water
must be transferred to canal boats at
Buffalo. Little canal boats drawn by
niuies cannot carry stuff as cheaply
as big ships driven by steam, so the
through rate by water was six cents
a bushel, a little over half as much
as by rail. For the twenty years end-
ing with 1908 the water rate, on tho
average, was lower than the rail rate
by 6.2 cents a bushel. On the ship-
ments from Lake Superior tilts differ-
ence was greater still, since Duluth is
less than 100 miles farther from New
York than Chicago is by water and
nearly 500 miles farther by rail, hut
no comparative rates are published. j
The beneficial effects of the water-
way, through lowered cost of transpor-
tation. are not confined to the grain
shipped from cities on the lakes, but
extend to practically all the grain
produced. The total production of
the five principal cereals—wheat,
corn, oats, barley and rye—during tho
past 40 years, was over 120,0O0.000,000
bushels. If tho average addition to
the value of this vast volume of grain
was five cents a bushel, and that
goems a moderate figure In view oP;
the facts stated above, the total Is
more than $6,000,000,000—nearly all of
which has gone Into tho pockets of tho
farmers.
But while the beneficial effect of the
waterways extends to a surprising dls- j
tance, a waterway close by exerts a
very much more direct and powerful
Influence than one a long way off. If
the Great Lakes and the Erie canal I
have increased the value of grain all
over the west, what do you suppose ;
would happen if the Mississippi, Mis-
souri, Arkansas anil Red rivers were
so improved that boats could run ev-
ery day in the year unless hindered .
by ice?
Money Needed for Work.
The National Rivers and Harbors
Congress is working for the improve-
ment of the rivers, harbors and water-
ways In all parts of the United Slates.
Chairman Alexander of the rivers and
harbors committee, says that $339,000,-
000 will complete evt ry projt et which
has been begun nr has he -n recom-
mended by the army engineers. Five
hundred million dollars would prob-
ably flnMi up all of these and all the
new projects which will be surveyed
and adopted within the next few years.
The average annual production of
the five principal C'T‘ t’h, wh ich dur-
ing tho last t*n years lots b ■ n 4,1.71,-
000.000 bushels, hits b 1 n steadily in-
creasing ;";d w !' ] r 1 dev continue
to increase far t :ne time to come.
Tlie complete imi rovement of all
our water* 1
value of every baled of '.Tain pro-
duced !>v at least five Ce ds icy own
opinion is that it would he more than
that.
But let us be on the safe side. Sup-
pose we spend a billion dollars on
wav -way. Instead of a ha’f-billion;
stipiase that the production of grain
remains as it is instead of increasing;
and suppose that tho price of grain is
Increased only 2’a cents a bushel in-
stead of five.
Even so, with production stationary,
the expense doubled and the benefit
cut in half, the whole $1,000,000,000
would be returned In less than ten
years in the increased price of g-aln
•lone.
“All men are unqualifiedly selfish,"
asserted the unengaged girl, who de-
lighted in epigrams. “1 really can't
see how you engaged girls manage
to bo ccntcnt when you realize how
self-centered and ungrateful men
are."
“We are doing pretty well, thank
you," said the girl who wore a new
solitaire, somewhat flippantly.
"As soon as a man has a thing,"
went on the unengaged girl, "he
ceases to care for it. 1 read a story
to day about a man who was so bored
during his honeymoon, though he had
married the girl he had always loved,
that he developed chronic melan
cholia."
'Well, he certainly wasn’t In love,
then," broke In tho girl with the new
solitaire. “I don't seo how you can
say such awful things. 1 know Tom
is more in love with me every day of
his life. He Is so generous, too.
"Yes,” chimed in the girl who was
hemming napkins, "and Burnell also
is most considerate and thoughtful.
He is always thinking of my comfort
and happiness. If it is really the right
girl and the right man, I don’t believe
there is such a thing as tiring or see-
ing too much of each other. 1 know
Burnell was simply delighted when i
proposed going up to a quiet little lake
for our honeymoon Instead of going
east. He said lie would feel that he
had me so much more to himself.”
"Oh, girls, girls,” put in the unen-
gaged girl, with a pitying smile. "1
suppose I shouldn't dispel your sweet
illusions, hut it is truly ridiculous for
you to cling to such foolish ideas and
expectations. The men of to-day
marry in the most practical way and
only alter due deliberation. The soon
er you realize—” *
“Burnell asked me to marry him
after lie had known mo only two
months,” deliiintly flashed the girl who
was hemming napkins. “There surely
wasn’t much deliberation in his case.
1 really think, Helen, you are very un
just."
"But you can sew beautifully, nml
cook wonderfully,” said the unengaged
girl. "1 remember you telling me
what a lovely little housekeeper Bur-
nell thought you."
"Then how about me?" demanded
the girl with the new solitaire, tri-
A CLEVER
WOMAN
Mr. Ellsworth Was Pleased with
Her Sagacity
In the days of their courtship Mr.
and Mrs. Ellsworth often compared
themselves to David Copperfield and
Dora. The fantasy seemed very de-
lightful to Ellsworth then, but It
wasn’t so nice after he got married.
The glamor of uncertainty having worn
off, lie began to wonder why Mrs. Ells-
worth could not display a glimmering
of common sense on rare occasions.
'It's mighty unpleasant for a fel-
low," he growled. "Here I am,
plunged up to my ears in business
schemes that promise to turn out bet-
ter than anything 1 ever touched, yet
not one word of sympathy can I get
In regard to them. I don't want to
talk shop all the time, but if I could
just come home once in a while and go
over my plans and have them listened
to with interest and appreciation it
would make me feel that all this dig-
ging was worth while. But I can’t do
that. No matter how hard I try to
talk sense the only thing I can get out
of you in reply Is, ‘Tra-la-la-la.’ ”
"Well," returned Mrs. Ellsworth
calmly, "what do you expect? You
knew when you married me that I was
a tra-la-la girl mid could never become
anything else."
Ellsworth groaned. Finding that
that sepulchral expression of despair
was going to be his only reply, Mrs.
Ellsworth went on:
"If you want somebody to talk busi-
ness to every night after dinner, I will
invite Martha Bennett to say with us
while she is in New York. She is a
sensible, strong minded girl."
Ellsworth suddenly ceased to sulk.
"Wha is Martha Bennett?” he asked.
“A girl I knew at Smith college. She
really lias a masculine intellect. More-
over, she is of a decidedly practical
turn of mind and is going into busi-
ness for herself. She is coming to
New York to take lessons in broker-
age or Insurance or some other line ot
work that will give her a chance to ex-
ercise hir exceptional mental quali-
ties. I always liked Martha in spite
of her superiority. If you wish it I
will ask her to stay with us until she
gets settled."
Ellsworth hesitated. He did not ex-
actly relish the prospect of a triangu-
lar household; still he recognized the
possibility of cultivating his wife’s
umphantly. 1 can't sew u beunbag,| "‘Ind >>y demonstrating in her pres-
and never cooked a tiring in my life.' ence the immeasurable benefits accru-
Tom knows it. too, and he said onlyi in8 to » man through n sympathetic
last night that 1 was the worst little discussion of Ills uffalrs with a clever
gadabout lie ever saw. Really, dear, woman, and he consented to the tem-
your theories won't hold water.” j I'orary entertainment of Martha Ben-
"Didn’t you know Tom quite awhile, nett,
before he proposed to you?" queried; Ellsworth considered himself very
tho unengaged girl evenly. deep. It was Ills ij^an that he and Mar*
“Well—er—about two years,” fal should speedily become good
tered the girl with the new solitaire, friends. He hoped by means of that
“but he wasn’t in a position to marry friendship to Influence Mrs. Ells-
until recently. 1 am sure, Helen—’’ | worth’s gentle heart with the fires of
•It was due deliberation on Ills part! Jealousy, which would, In turn, arouse
dear,” affirmed the unengaged girl. "1 her to a real or simulated interest in
only wish I could bo as easily satisfied his affairs. To that end he labored
as you girls are with the sentiment the arduously. He wa interested In min-
average man offers, but my finer feel- Ing deals just then. A certain .....n-
lngs simply revolt. 1 feel now I will j Pany was known to ho looking for a
never marry because I can’t rest con
tent with being tho minor part of some
condescending man’s existence. Must*
yon bo going so soon?”
"Wasn’t she horrid!” exclaimed the
girl with the new solitaire, when the j
front door closed behind them a few;
minutes afterward. 'She is just ae ]
jealous as she can be. I’ll tell Tom
every word." Then she turned with
flushed cheeks and shining eyes to her
friend. But listen, dear," she said,
almost tragically. “I wouldn’t ac-
knowledge it to another soul, but the
truth is that Tom did wait a long time
before he asked me. Perhaps Helen
is right."
“She may be," said the other en
gaged girl, a scarlet spot showing on
each cheek. "Burnell told me only
last night that it was such a comfort
to him to know he was marrying such
a capable little wife. Why, It's dread
ful to think he’s so calculating!
capable person to take charge of a
new enterprise, and it was Ellsworth’s
ambition to procure the managerial po-
sition. He was familiar with the de-
tails of the business, and he explai n'd
them to Miss Bennett.
But Mrs. Ellsworth’s mind showed
no sign of quickening. She sat In her
favorite corner of the room, from
which comfortable nook she beamed
with pleasure and affection upon her
husband and their guest. Finally Ells-
worth began to despair of ever ground-
ing his wife in commercial principles,
but he kept on talking to Martha Ben-
nett. He not only talked to her; he
talked about her.
“By Jove!" he said to Mrs. Ells-
worth, “that woman is a gem. Tho fel-
low that gets her will have a help-
mate that is a helpmate, I tell you.”
Mrs. Ellsworth smiled affably. T'n
glad you like Martha," she said.
'Like her?” echoed Ellsworth. “Well,
Rather early the next morning the | I should say I do like her. 1 should be
girl with the new solitaire dropped j ungrateful if I didn’t. She has been
in to see the other engaged girl. an Incalculable help to me. if it hadn’t
"My dear,” she cried the minute her I been for her sympntheic attention X
friend entered the room, "I told Tom could never have got my Ideas into
every word that Helen said. He just: shape for presentation to tho Big Steal
laughed and told me he would have' Mining Company. 1 had a long talk
n: ked me the minute he met me, if he | with these fellows this morning. I
... to marry on." think I made a good Impression. The
"! to hi Burnell, too," said the other! only thing lhat will stand in my way
engaged girl, radiantly. "He said is the salary. They don't want to pay
Helen was just a disturber of the my price. They seem to have found
peace. lie .• aid he didn’t care If 1 some person, a woman, too, by the
couldn't boll water w . -it, ay, whi 1 rred to undertake the
as we si 1 timid ow. Job at a flguri an I they
lie dotsn't w mt . u to sew at all at et : may be pi rsuaded to give her a trial.
riled 1 hurt Th< y were to li ivo a final talk with
my eyes.”
“Come on,” cried tin
now solitaire, vindi *.iv
girl with tho
;iy. “Let’s go
light over to I!.,
what they said."
“No,” demurred
girl, “I promised
away from her, as
toil roe f 1
would b iivvo.”—C
> n’s and toll her
the other engaged
I hi mo 11 to keep
ho said she might
j that J
;o Daily Nows,
Whet He Said to the Editor.
A w< • torn editor lias received the
following letter:
“Pi*m <• send me a few copies of til*
pnpm* which had the obituary and
v :.<s about tho de. th of my child ;
o publi 1 .. li
| do. "i c i; j’ii.g about my ni ro’s mar
Hugo. And 1 \\i h you would inentioi
j in your local columns, 11 it don’t cos.
anything* that 1 have a couple of bull
j calves to sell. S ml me a couple of
' extra cot les of the paper this week
ptlon 1 out, i )
! my paper. Times are too hard U
I waste money on
i Cleveland Leader.
newspaper.”— Mld was;
her this afternoon. They Buy she
seems quit* com intent. That's tho
' \
petticoats i! ”\Te apt to steal the
bread right out of a fellow’s mouth.
“Rut the)
• tly,
“Take you and Martha Rennett,” for
Instance. You haw been mutually
helpful. She was telling me when she
came in this evening hat you -i
been : ng ol She got a
• J-
thing very good. Martha says sha
will he eternally grateful to you.”
Kllsw orth stopp< d whistling. “Got a
job, did she?” he said. “What kind
of a position? Who with?”
“O, you can’t expect me to know
anything about the particulars.
Martha told me all about it, but. of
course, I couldn’t understand. Thu,
only thing 1 can remember is the
name of the Arm. That is the Rig
Steal Mining Company.”
, Ellsworth did not speak for fully
five minutes. The only thing he then
-Well, I’ll be Jiggered.”
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