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1839 —
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V
The Sacrifice
By H. M. EGBERT
(Copyright. 1916, hr W. O. Chapman.)
The day when Leila and Tommy
came Into the life of Jim Peters was
fils reddest of red letter days, lie al
ways saw the scene Just at he hart
*mu U Ujcn. The early anows had be
ffW to Wten the Mil*, ami Peters hmi
dflvefl hi* stoffir down Into the lower
country for the winter pastures.
lie was sitting in bis hnt, thinking
veer tiling*. At thirty, he felt vaguely
that he ought to be doing better for
himself. Not that be wanted to leave
the cattle country for the city. But
life In a two-room *back, where he
cooked his own meals sod made his
own bed, was becoming unlx-arable.
• Most of the settlers of his age were
already married. The settlement was
beginning to prosper. Neat little flow
er beds appeared round the houses snd
the young wives were very gaily
dressed upon occasions, A church had
been built; altogether It was a place
for a young man with two thousand
dollars In the bank to rejoice in.
But Jim had always lived a lonely
life; he did not know how to change
It, Too bashful to make advances to
any of the town girls whom be saw
on hi* rare visits, and with a vague
feeling that he wanted • wife of a spe
cial. hardly defined type, something
above the common run, he was brood
ing In bis chair when there came a tup
ai the door.
It was a timid tap, such as he had
never heard. The men who tapped at
Jlm'a door hammered with hairy fists
until he Opened to them. Jim o|*-ae<i
now, and was aroaml to see a woman
and a hoy outside.
Both were thinly dad and shivering
; from the cold. Nevertheless the worn-
Watched the Car Shoot Down the Hill, j
an did not attempt to enter, hot only !
asked where lodging could be oi>-1
tallied.
She hid Come In on the evening j
, train, ahe said, offered no further ;
explanation, but It was evident that ,
ahe was gently bred. The look of!
w.-sHtte** In her eyes haunted Jim for
days.
Me took her down the bill to a wom
an of the valley. The hospitality of
Ibe West prevailed over suspicion. Tbs
stranger and her son wars given shel
ter.
Nett day Leila Uraytou, a* ahe
called herself, went to work for one
|of the richer settler*. But soon she
was asked to flit a pressing need. The
children were growing up snd. In spit*
of Us advantages, there was no school
in the valley. Hhe became the school
; mistress.
Speculation was rife about her. She
never mixed with the valley people.
■ never talked about her past. And the
j Weat accepts women as well us men
for what they are, and aska no qm-s-
I Ilona.
The day* grew into weeks, into
months. Jim Peters often found occa
sion to saddle bla horse and ride down
Into the valley. He and the boy be
came fast friends. But Leila was as
Indifferent to him as to the other men.
Perhaps Jim would never have
found the opportunity be craved, ol
becoming her friend, but for an acci
dent. The boy wus straying on the
railroad embankment In search of
bird*' eggs. His mother was with him,
but seated a little distance behind the
rise. Jim, watching them Impatiently
from the other side, knew that the af
ternoon train was due.
Becoming uneasy, be hurried across
the valley. Ho was just on the oppo-
I site ridge when he heard the train In
I the distance. The sound, which burst
forth suddenly as the train came out
of the tunnel, startled the boy, perched
on a ledge. He lost his footing and
fell twenty feet, to Ue unconscious
across the metals. At the same time
the mother rose, discovered him and
• screamed.
Jim plunged down the steep embank
ment, seized tlie boy, snatched Mm
I from the metals and cowered with him
against Ike cliff, while the train went
sweeping by, so near that the draft
almost blew him from where he had
plumed himself. Afterward the boy
opened his eyes.
The distracted mother kneeled b*-
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Daily Thounht.
T!i mind w man Is Improved by
lenmlng m.(I reflection. \V< place a
happy life In tranquility of mind. —
Cicero.
"Nothing Doing!”
Office Boy ‘Tie boss kin aeo nocnll-
I era dl.s momlnV Insistent Visitor —
' 'Huy, I'll Rive you a quarter to lake
this card in to Mm." Ofllee Boy—
i "Aw, -bucks! He rives me bigger
wages ',- not Win* U.’’—Boston
SManaaißMnH
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fore Jim with her hands clasped, “huw
<%n I thank you?” she cried. “He is
everything I have, be Is everything in
the world to me.”
“Be my friend," said Jim bolding
out his hand.
That was Jim’s chance. Friendship
ripened. One day he asked her to be
come his wife. Then the strange look
of fear that he knew so well came
into her eyes.
“No, yon must not ask roe that,"
she said. “I shall never marry again.”
And, seeing Jim’s distress, she added:
“I will tell yon the troth. I am a
runaway wife. I cannot speak Hi of
ray husband now. I could have born*
with his inadeilttes, with his abuse,
but—l did not want my boy to grow
up to be tike him."
It was weeks afterward that she
him all. Her husband was
in OWS*MM|PMn
foOndthat she could endure life wbtt
him no longer she had run away,
penniless, save for her railroad ticket.
He bad one redeeming quality; he
loved his son. On this account she
knew that he would leave no stone
unturned to Bod them.
Jim went away, sorrowing. He
knew now that she could never be
his. For she shrank instinctively, he
felt without asking, from the pub
licity of divorce. Besides, to seek
divorce would be to put her husband
on her trail. She wanted to let the
years roll between them, creating an
ever widening barrier, until she felt
that the pest could never stretch out
Its grisly hand upon her.
Ho the roontba changed Into years.
It was nearly three years since
coming when something happened
which Jim bad always known to be
inevitable.
It was morning, and be was on the
high pastures with bis cattle when
he saw her running toward him, with
the boy, scrambling up the steep hill
side. Mbs reached him; her face wag
white with fear.
“He has found me I" she gasped.
“O, save me I Help me!”
Up the road came the toot of an
auto horn. Jim sow the ear climb
the grode like a heavy locomotive.
The car stopped. A man leaped
out, a men In the prime of life, ab
surdly strong, absurdly healthy, with
the bluster, and yet the sense of pnw.
cr. that sometimes setmupanics the
successful msn.
lie leaped to the grdand and ad
vanced upon the woman, Ipdllug. Jim
barred his path. \
“My wife." be said.
”1 know.” answered Jim.
“See here, young msn. Ton don’t
perhaps understand. I am here to
claim my own. my legal own. my
wife and child. She has nothing to
fsnr from me. I have sever laid my
ft* See Ufanrl out “|
“You may have a legal right,” said
Jim, "but you ain’t going to take her.*’
The man laughed, whipped off his
coat, and displayed a pair of muscular
arms. “Her loverr* be sneered.
"Ood witness, there has never been
love between us.” answerad Jim.
The woman sprang between them.
"Jim. he is right,” she said. "Now
be has found me, I mast go with him.l
Jim, amased at the change of atti
tude. stood absolutely mute. The mas
nodded.
“Good for you," he said. “Leila
the past Is past. You’ll never heat
of It from me. It’s only for the boy’*
sake I want you back. And I guest
—youll be happier than you were."
Mechanically the girl entered th
ento. They lifted the boy Inside. Tb
horn tooted. They were gone. And
Jim stared foolishly after them.
How strong the bonds between hu
band and wife) She was gone out oi
his life. He had never dreamed ol
such a thing. But why bad she gone
with him. when he was ready to figbl
for her?
Jim did not understand women,
their changes, their sense of duty
coming in so oddly at critical mo
menta. Like a man in a dream he
watched the car shoot down the hlil.
It was going very fast. The brake
was damuitcd by the rough road. In
fact, but Jim did not know that. All
he thought was that it wu going very
fast toward the cutting. And sud
denly there came the roar of the train
leaving the tunnel.
The auto shot forward. It was now
evidently beyond control. Jim begun
to run.
But be was much too far away tc
be of any help. Aa be ran be saw
the dreadful picture: the train rac
ing along the narrow cutting, the auto
caught and overturned; the desperate
efforts of the occupant* to free them
selves. . . ,
Then he saw the man stagger to
his feet, lift the boy in his anus and
toss him to the farther bank. The
train waa almost upon him, a blast ug
snorting monster with flaming breath.
But he caught up the woman in his
arms and flung her clear of the
metals; and the next Instant the train
was upon him, bearing him down,
grinding out his life beneath its
wheels, tearing the decapitated body
along the way and passing onward.
Jim was sick with horror when he
reached the scene, to find that the
woman and the boy stili lived. He
kneeled before Leila, trying to shield
tier from the knowledge of what had
happened. Then, picking her up, he
carried her to the top of the embank
ment. And the look on her face told
him that she knew.
So mixed was life, so mixed the
qualities for good and evil In all.
Tills man she bated bad given his life
for tier. Borne gate in Jim’s brain
went down at that moment, and he
knew that life mast be faced very
soberly thenceforward—even with
her.
Tree That >e Unique.
On pints Island, in one of the lakes
m Klllnrncy, Ireland, Is s plane tree
! ■! hns the reputation of being the
■ n’y tree of Its kind in Ireland.
Some Consolation.
"It’s tough when you have to pay
forty-live cents a pound for beef
■teak," grumbled the head of the
lianse. “Yes, but It’s tougher, dad,
when you pay eighteen," relumed the
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ORIGIN OF KHAKI. EXPLAINED
Dun-Colored Cloth So Widely Used for
Uniforms Was Discovered
by Accident.
The dun-colored khaki so widely
used for uniforms was discovered by
an accident. For many years the Brit
ish troops In India wore a cotton cloth
of a greenish-brown, but It always
faded when washed with aoap.
While talking over this defect with
some British officers, a business man
from England said that a fortune
awaited the manufacturer of a cotton
drill that would not fade. One of
the officers, a young man, took the
hint. e
When he got home he employed a
skillful dyer, and the two bege* a sys
tematic search for an olive d|ro that
when used on cotton cloth; wwlt not
yield to aoap or soda. They spent
year* in experiments, but without sac
cuss. and had almost begun to give up
hope.
One day. however, they found among
numerous scraps of dyed cloths on*
that retained its color under the moat
severe tests. The puzzling part of It
waa that this scrap had been taken
from a piece of cloth which bad gone
through the same processes, bat which
had failed when tested. For a long
time the experimenters tried to solve
this riddle. The one bit of cloth men
tioned was the only piece that kept its
color against all attacks.
Finally, by the merest chance, they
hit upon the secret. The dye in which
this scrap had been dipped had re
mained for some time In a metal dfsll
of a peculiar kind. This metal. In com
bination with the chemicals of the dye,
had furnished the very thing needed.
They made the experiment with other
pieces; the dye held, and their for
tunes were made.
WHY NOT IMITATE ANIMALS?
Universal Instinct Teaches Them to
Oo Through Certain Exercises
on First Waking.
All the higher animals go through
certain exercise* on first
There seems a universal Instinct which
leaches that certain stretches, expan
sions and J.rcathlug are necessary at
this time. The movements of animals
on awaking are yawning, deep Breath
ing. expansion and stretching. But
men rarely take such exercises. Aa a
matter of fact, man possibly take*
more time, whines more, and does leas
than any other animal between the
moment of awaking and standing
erect.
Although the stretch baa been care
fully explained by seteoea, few know
the real meaning. The stretch ex-
H , .'lT#r hew
and where pressure of blood Is
eat, are so elongated that the blood
flows more easily from the arteries,
where the pressure is strongest,
through the veins back to the heart,
sod circulation Is equalised and stimu
lated.
The yawn I* similar to the stretch.
The yawn is a stretch of the lungs,
while the stretch Is a yawn of the
muscles, and both express a hangar
for oxygen. The half hour between
waking and rising should he freshened
by thoughts of Joyous things—chuck
ling, laughing, stretching and yawn
ing.—New York Sun.
Guarding the Bank of Franc*.
Thera are plenty of Ingenious huyg
lura In the world, but be would have to
be a very ingenious burglar indeed who
should And away to rob the Bonk of
France. The measures taken for guard
ing the money are of such a nature
that burglary would seem to be Impos
sible,
Every day when the money is put In
to the vaults Id the cellar, and before
the officers leave, masons are In attend
ance whose duty It Is to wall,up the
doors with hydraulic mortar. ' Water
Is then turned on, and kept running
until the cellar la flooded.
A burglar would thus have to work
In a diving suit, and break down a ce
ment wall before he could even begin
to break Into the vaults. When the of
ficers arrive the next morning, the wa- ’
ter la drawn off, the masonry torn
down, and the vault* opened.
Hard Winters of Long Ago.
Why do most people believe that the
winters were more severe and were at
tended by heavier snowfalls in their
childhood days than they are now?
The myth of the "old-fashioned win
ter" is almost universal, and Is another
proof of "counting the hits and not
the misses.” Heavy snow and Intense
cold produce a more lasting impres
sion upon the mind than open, mild
weather. We remember the excep
tional weather of the past, and forget
the normal weather. In some cases a
change of residence accounts for this
belief. Borne parts of the country
have a much heavier snowfall than
others. In auy given locality the
weather conditions are usually uni
form.
Sure Sign.
A minister, while visiting his peo
ple one day in the bush, was asked to
stay for dinner.
Wlilie sitting down on the veranda,
u little boy, about live, came round to
him. and after talking n little while,
said:
“You can’t guess what wo are going
to have for dinner T”
The minister said he would give It
up, after several guesses.
The little boy then said:
“It’s roly-poly puddln’, I know, ’coa
mother’s only got one slocking on.” —
Weekly Telegraph.
Second Thought.
"Kvury man wants to have his say,”
remarked Uncle Ebon, ”nn’ when ho
ge ts his say he’s liable to be sorry ho
ever said aoything.”
National Bird.
Most of the choicer turkeys New
York Cuts at Thanksgiving time hall
from Ohio, Michigan or ladlanu. Mary
land furnishes many of lusclotut:
while Rhode Island birds are compart*

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