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PAGE 6 ORLEANS COUNTY MONITOR. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1914 , MIS FATHER'S FRIEND t T t !! .' By PERLEY POORE SHEEHAN uopyngni Dy j? ranis a. jviunsey vu. a. ttm a When a man has been pining for the romantic all his life a man who is going on forty and has an economical wife and a steady job, a man who stays home evenings and rolls his own cigarettes when a man like this has been yearning for just one weird, scar let adventure before he is forever too old and he is suddenly confronted with it, what happens? Does he fall for it? Sometimes, and again There was the case of William Q. Johnson! Of course you may argue that his case was exceptional in that William was none other than the son of Bill Johnson. Bill had brought his picturesque ca reer, to a close by getting hanged in Melbourne an interesting man and fa mous in his day throughout the south seas. But William had never been permit ted to know anything about his fa ther's activities. And, as for ships and things, his sainted mother had brought him up to shun them as evil inventions. On the evening of his adventure Johnson came home from the office, as usual, at G:30, dutifully kissed his wife and washed himself hurriedly in prep aration for the waiting soup. He was visibly preoccupied. Presently his wife said to him: "You look worried, dearie. Isn't your k work all right?" "Everything's O. K. he responded, but he relapsed into silence. She didn't question him further. He had these silent spells. Sometimes it was a dispute with his chief at the office, sometimes a stirring of old ambitions, sometimes a goading thought of his small salary. It was never anything worse than that. His habits were exemplary, and his wife knew it. Yet the very thing that now held Johnson tongue tied was something he dared not confess something he could hardly admit to himself without blush ing. It was the memory of a girl! We should state at once that there were extenuating circumstances. Not only was the girl extraordinarily beau tiful, but the way in which she came across William's notice was extraordi nary as well He had seen her just as he was com ing up the steps with his latchkey in his hand. She couldn't have been more than nineteen or twenty. She was slim and dark, and her face was won derfully lovable and alert. For a fraction of a second she had inclined in his direction eyes, face, figure with parted lips, as though about to speak to him. Then something in his attitude he was the most delicate minded of men or some second thought of her own had made her hesitate. The girl passed hurriedly on. Wil liam passed into the house. The oddity of the experience had not Immediately appealed to him. But a minute later as he climbed the stairs and later still when he washed his face and on through supper he recalled the alertness of the way she had looked at him. It gave him a shadowy feeling of uneasiness and regret. He tried over and over again to imagine the words that she might have said had he given her the opportunity. Recollection of the incident returned to him incessantly long after Mrs. Johnson had gone to bed. He was nervous and wide awake. Suddenly amid the little sounds of the deepening night the ticking of the clock, the rumble of a distant trolley car, the stirring of an uneasy window sash there came a soft, distant tap ping at the door. , Johnston started and looked up. It was past 11. For an interval he did not stir. The summons was re peated, a little louder, but still guarded and cautious. Johnson tiptoed to the inner hall, turned up the gas and cautiously open ed the door. He f had pretty good nerves for an office man, still he couldn't suppress a movement of surprise. v Standing there before him, gro tesquely black and misshapen, was a negro dwarf. The visitor didn't attempt to come in. Instead, he immediately plunged into a series of urgent signs that Johnson was to follow. He was obviously in a hurry. Johnson came to a swift resolution, The night had begun adventurously. He would see it through. As best he could he made the dwarf understand that he would come as ioon as he could change his slippers for his shoes. A few minutes later. without having disturbed his wife, he was following the negro silently down the stairs. It was but a few minutes' walk from the placed Johnson lived to a park, facing upon which were the houses of the wealthy. That's the way it is in New York poverty and opulence sep arated by a line as narrow and intan gible as a -meridian. To this park Johnson followed the dwarf, the only clear thought emerg ing from his bewilderment being that his wife might wake up and find him missing. - His guide went fast, with a shuf fling, loose jointed glide that kept him on the verge of a run. Half a blockf arther on the negro scurried up the steps of a brown stone mansion and., assuring himself that Johnson was still at his heels, opened the door and entered. The hall light was dimly burning, and Johnson caught an impression of sumptuous furniture. The negro never tarried, but mount ed to the second floor, traversed a cor ridor to the door of a rear room, paus ed until Johnson had caught up with him, then knocked and threw the door wide open. The room was a-shimmer with light. If Johnson's eyes were dazzled by the sudden brilliancy, his brain was no less confused by what he saw. The most prominent feature of the cham ber was a large, white bed, and on this there lay one of the strangest fig ures he had ever looked upon, not even excepting that of the dwarf who had led him there. He saw a mass of tangled white hair, knotted about by a red silk handker chief, and a drift of white beard. The rest of the face showed brown, like leather, and was set with a pair Of piercing blue eyes. "Come here, where I can look at you," said the man on the bed. Then: "Well, you're Johnson, all right. And I bid him farewell at Pawaianne. "Willie, your father would 'a' been here if he was livin'," the old man continued. "There are debts that no man forgets. I've come for to 'seek you on his account. I've got here none too soon." "I'm sorry you're sick," said Johnson. "Your father died when you was lit tle," the patriarch went on; "other wise you'd know all. about me. I'm Robert II. King, and king I've been, too, these fifty years. But, oh, they're an ungrateful lot! They're an un grateful lot! "I ruled 'em fair, and I ruled 'em square. I lost my right hand, though, when your father went. He'd 'a' put down this revolution. Do you hear? They started a revolution!" Johnson said that he heard. "There's a Malay out there named Possa Sing. He's at the head of this here revolution. He started it because I wouldn't let him have my gal. But I had other plans. I was thinkin' of Red Bill Johnson a full measure of a man he was and how he used to boast about that little boy of his'n back in New York. "It was the last thing that he said when I bid him farewell at Pawaianne 'Be a father to little Willie.' And, by Christopher, I'll do it yet, in spite of that black Malay Possa Sing! "He got too strpng for me I'm not the man I used to be but he ain't too strong for Red Bill Johnson's boy, I found your address in a New York di rectory. I got one from Batavia. and $40 in gold it cost ix:e too. And I rent ed this house for to die in. "I could trust the agents for that, but Tor the rest I couldn't trust them. I had to see you. I've piled up pearls and power for you. Willie. And that ain't a!!." lie paused. "Minnie," lie panted hoarsely. Johnson tamed and half rose impul sively from his chair. The door had opened. Standing there, graceful, slim, shrinking, was the girl of the unspoken message. "Did my father call?" she asked sweetly, with a lisping accent. 'Aye, stand there, Minnie. Do you blame me for refusing to give her to a Malay? "Half breed, but I've raised her like a white man's gal. Them people'd die for her. I crowned her queen before we left. That'll settle Possa Sing. He was crazy for her, more than the rest, but him that gets her gets all. And she's a white man's gal." The old man paused. When he spoke again his great whisper was strangely smaller. "So I brought her with me," he said, "for Red Bill Johnson's boy. There's a scnooner at iuacassar. sail sou7 Dy west for Pantar strait" Those were the last words that Rob ert King, or King Robert, ever spoke. When Johnson emerged sufficiently out of his confusion to focus his eyes on the patriarch he noticed that the latter was staring strangely in the di rection of the door. .. - ' Involuntarily Johnson wheeled and saw standing there a dark youth, whose face was stamped with an ex pression of fierce and joyful ecstasy. The girl had also turned, and there sprang to her lips a sob that was trans formed into a name. It was "Possa Sing!" In his extremity Johnson turned to the girl. "What did he mean?" he whispered. "I am to be your bride," she falter ed. "He made me promise. I started to see you this evening to ask you not to come." She was shaken in a sudden burst of weeping, and her accent got the better of her. "But, ah, saire, even now, not yet, you have promised him nothing!" There are moments of exquisite con sciousness in the lives of all of us when we recognize clearly the parting of the ways. Such a moment Johnson expe rienced now. On one side he saw the flat routine of his civilized mediocrity dull work, advancing years, unlovely poverty, and then king of a tropic isle. romance, "pearls and power." He wavered, he heaved a mighty sigh, and then, recovering his hat from the floor where he had placed it beside his chair, and. looking neither to the right nor left nor unlocking his set jaws for speech, he strode out of the room. The flat was dark and silent when Johnson got home. It smelled somewhat of cold cooking, and his wife, waking from her sleep, called out for him not to forget that In the morning he had to go to work. : LOWELL Robert Crowe of Sheldon has been a guest at J. F. Stephenson's. Archie Wakefield of North Troy was in town several days last week. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Farman visited her parents at West Charleston last week. Mrs. Lizzie Benware of Westfield spent Christmas with her daughter, Mrs. R. A. Sinclair. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Field of Irasburg were guests of her sister, Mrs. Ernest Blanchard, Christmas day. The next regular grange meeting will be Tuesday night, Jan. 5. The installation of officers will take place at this meeting. W. R. Aldrich has had commodious law offices fitted up in the Kittredge block, street floor, Orleans, and is now located there. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Chase and family of North Troy spent Christmas day with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Stebbins. The village school began on the winter term Monday. Miss Gray of Derby is the teacher in the new inter mediate department. Misse3 Marion Stephenson and Bern ice Winget of Brigham academy and Elsie Parker of Newport high school are home for the Christmas vacation. Mr. and, Mrs. Leo Shufelt attended his brother's funeral at North Troy Saturday. Frank was a young man who formerly resided in this place and his many friends sympathize with the family in his early death. "Repairing: the Altar of Jehovah" was the Sunday morning theme at the North church, and "The Dictionary's Sermon" for the children's sermon. Union gospel meetings for the week of nrayer are to begin in the Congre gational church Monday evening, Jan. 4, and continue alternately at the Methodist and Congregational churcnes through the week. The objects of this mission are the deepening of Christian experience, an earnest effort in per sonal work for others, and the extend ing of a loving invitation to all our people to seek the Saviour now and begin a life of faithful consecration to His service. WESTFIELD Miss Eva A. Gilpin spent Christmas at Judge Gilpin's. H. E. Gray is preparing to light his mill with electricity. Chas. Gay of Newport is spending the winter at Robert Murray's. IlifF Bryant has purchased the out put of slabs at the Gray mill. Bryant will sell and deliver to the public. ? Sunday the Rev. M. W. Farman preached in the Congregational church in Coventry for the Rev. M. W. Hale. The Christmas exercises with trees at the church on Christmas eve, passed off very pleasantly. Donald Gray was Santa Claus. Margery JNewton was Mrs Santa Claus and Marion Young was an aneel. Members of the West field parish gave Rev. F. B. Hyde a purse of $23. At the parsonage on Christmas night Homer B. Hitchcock of this town and Miss Sadie E. Kimball of Newport were married by the Pie v. F. B. Hyde, the ring service being used. The happy couple have gone on a wedding trip to New York and JNew Jersey Mr. Hitchcock is our merchant, town clerk and superintendent of our Sunday school. The remains ot Warren t$iley were brought here and buried in the ceme tery Dec. 27, the Bev. F. B. Hyde officiating at the grave. The body was accompanied by the two Clark broth- . 1 THT T 1 ers, wno were nepnews. ivir. aiie was sixty years old, and was acci dentally killed by a train in the rail road yard in Newport last week. lie was the second child and only son of the late Jennison and Mary Streeter Bailey. He was an industrious man and seemed to prefer work in lumber mills. He was never married. He is survived by his sister, Mrs. Nancy C ark of Brownington. The Bailey family formerly lived in this town. WESTMORE Prayer meeting at the parsora?e Friday evening instead of Thursday evening this week. Please try to come. Christmas exercises passed off very pleasantly and successfully. Much credit is due the committee for the whole work. The annual business meeting of the Congregational church for the purpose of electing officers for the year 1915 will be held at the church Jan. 6. The W. B. T. S. class will hold a watch social at M. E. Calkins's Thurs day night, Dec.31. Everyone cordially invited. Ladies please bring sand wiches. Gore, Ga., P. A. Morgan had occasion r cently to use a liver medicine and says Foley Cathartic Tablets: They thoroughl cleansed my system and I felt like a lie man light and free. They are the be medicine I have ever taken for constipati They keep the stomach sweet, liver activ bowels regular." Foley Cathartic Tablet are stimulating in action and neither grip nor sicken. They are wholesome and t hoi oughly cleansing and keep th9 liver activ Stout people like them. Austin's Pharmacy, Orleans, Vt ; W. : McDowell,; Kvansville; J. B. Holton, We Charleston. Hear, Hearl "Hear, hear!" is the house of com mons cheer, the member of parliament being forbidden the use of any other form of applause. But "Hear, hear!" In the house of commons may be made to express a. number of conflicting emotions. Some of the varieties of parliamentary cheering have been noted by the late William White in his "Inner Life of the House of Com mons." "There, is," he writes, "the defiant cheer, more like a yell than a cheer. This is most commonly heard from the conservative side of the house. Then there is the cheer derisive, which is very expres sive, and, again, the cheer confirma tory. - There is also the ob structive cheer, and, lastly, there Is the genuine English, manly, approv ing cheer." And "Hear, hear!? denotes them all. . Rejoicings Upon the New Years Coming of Age By CHARLES LAMB 1 HE Old Year being dead and the New Year coming of age, which I he does by calendar law as soon as the breath Is out of the old gentleman's body, nothing would serve the young spark but he must give a dinner upon the occasion, to which all the Days in the year were invited. The Festivals, whom he de puted as his stewards, were mightily taken with the notion. They had been engaged time out of mind, they said, in providing mirth and good cheer for mortals below, and It was time they should have a taste of their own bounty. It was stiffly debated among them whether the Facts should -be admitted. Some said the ap pearance of such lean, starved guests, with their mortified faces. would pervert the ends of the meet ing. But the ob jection was over ruled by Christ mas Day, who had a design up on Ash Wednes day (as you shall hear) and a mighty desire to see how the old Dominie would behave himself in APBtt FOOL AND THB 1 TTWOfPO his cups. Only the Vigils were requested to come with their lanterns to light the gentlefolk home at night. AH the Days came. Covers were pro vided for 365 guests at the principal table, with an occasional knife and fork at the sideboard for the Twenty ninth of February. Cards of invitation had been issued. The carriers were the Hours, twelve- little merry, whirligig foot pages that went all round and found out the per sons invited, with the exception of Easter Day, Shrove Tuesday and a few such movables, who had lately shifted their quarters. Well, they are all met at last, foul Days, fine Days, all sorts of Days, and a rare din they made of it. There was nothing but "Hail, fellow Day, well met!" Only Lady Day seemed a little scornful. Yet some said Twelfth Day cut her ont, for she came all royal and glittering and Epiphenous. The rest came In green, some in white, but old Lent and his family were not yet out of mourning. Rainy Days came in drip ping and Sunshiny Days laughing. Wed ding Day was here in marriage finery. Pay Day came late, and Doomsday sent word he might be expected. April Fool took upon himself to mar shal the guests, and May Day, with that sweetness peculiar to her, propos ed the health of the host. This being done, the lordly New Year, from the upper end of the table, returned thanks. Ash Wednesday, being now called upon for a song, struck up a carol which Christmas Day had taught him. Shrovetide, Lord Mayor's Day and April Fool next joined in a glee, in which all the Days chimed in. All this while Valentine's Day kept courting Dretty May, who sat next to him, slipping amorous billets doux un der the table till the Dog Days began to be jealous and to bark and rage ex ceedingly. At last the Days called for their cloaks and greatcoats and took their leave. Shortest Day went off in a deep black fog that wrapped the little gentleman all round. Two Vigils so watch men are called in Heaven saw Christmas Day safely home; they had been used to the busi ness before. An other V i g 1 1 a stout, sturdy pa trol, called the Eve of St Chris topher seeing Ash Wednesday VALENTINE AND MAY WENT TOGETHER. In a condition little better than he should be. e'en whipped hini over his shoulders, pickaback fashion, and he went floating home singing On the bat's back do I fly, and a number of old snatches besides. Longest Day set off westward in beau tiful crimson and gold; the rest, some in one fashion, some in another. But Valentine and pretty May took their departure together in one of the. pret tiest silvery twilights a Lovers' Day could wish to set in. WHAT SHALL BE DONE TO INSURE A HAPPY NEW YEAR? The best resolve to make at this reason Is to resolve to make others happy. This not only brings happiness to others, but to ourselves. It does not spring from the selfish desire to please ourselves by pleasing others, but from that,, proper self love which, prompts us to do for others what wo won Id have them do for us. In, giving, pleasure we receive pleasure, and thus the New Tear la made brighter and happier for all. Cowboys. A cowboy, to our modern minds, means a man who herds cattle. Yet the original "cowboys," 1 instead of herding cattle, stole them. The name seems first to have been applied to a band of horsemen, part soldiers and part bandits, who fought on the Brit ish side during the Revolution. West chester county, N. Y., was the scene of their operations, and the most of them were Tories. Because they drove away many cattle on their raids they were called cowboys. Opposed to the cow boys in their raids through the section of New York which lay between the British and American lines were the skinners, a somewhat similar band of marauders, who espoused the conti nental cause. American Boy. Parental Severity. The children of two centuries ago fell on stern times, if one may believe that the spirit of family life was ac curately expressed by an excellent mother of that day who said, without humorous intent, that her children "loved her as sinners dread death." There is little doubt that parental con trol at that date was as rigorous as this anecdote indicates. It is said that when little Andrew Elliot, afterward lieutenant governor of New York, ob jected to boiled mutton his father, Sir Gilbert Elliot, frowned. "Let Mr. Andrew have boiled mut ton for breakfast," commanded the stern parent, "cold mutton for dinner and cold mutton for supper till he has learned to like it." His Company. Mark Twain, meeting Charles Guth rie, a prominent British lawyer, in Vienna asked him if he smoked. "Sometimes when I am in bad com pany," was the reply. After a pause came a second ques tion, "You're a lawyer, aren't you, Mr. Guthrie?" "I am, Mr. Clemens." "Ah, then, Mr. Guthrie, you must be a very heavy smoker I" Fishbone In the Throat. , To remove a fishbone from the throat swallow a raw egg and follow, if possible, by eating plenty of mash ed potatoes. The egg will carry the bone into the stomach, and the pota toes will prevent it from doing any in jury there. Skeptical. "I have dyspepsia, but you never heard me growl about it." "Never growl about it? Well, then, you haven't got it" Philadelphia Bul letin. Filling the Autocrat. Why should wives complain when husbands read 'the morning paper at the breakfast table since reading mak eth a full man? Little Hock Gazette. : 'i i Yon W!J . .Class 2 .... Class 2, reverse .... lass 5 OUR SUN A VARIABLE STAR. The More Spots It Has Upon It the More Heat We Get. Accurate investigations carried on si multaneously in various parts of the. world through a long series of years have, demonstrated that the sun does not give out constantly the same, amount of heat, but the variation is so great as to amount to 10 degrees on the earth's surface. In other words, our sun is a variable star. It has long been known that other stars vary in the amount of light they send forth, notably Mira in the constellation of Cetus. but it required the most refined investigation with the most elaborate checks to prove that this was the case with the sun. One of the instruments is so delicate that it can measure one millionth part of a degree of heat. It is found that the amount of heat is connected with the spots on the sun, and. curiously enough, more spots more heat. Thus we have one factor in the changes of terrestrial temperature, al though it is only one. Our seasons are caused by the inclination of the earth's equator to the ecliptic, and the heat is greater in summer when the sun's rays fall most directly on the earth. But as the amount of heat varies and as the radiation, reflection, etc., also vary we have a very complex system of weather. It is believed by the Smithsonian in stitution that, eventually we shall be able, through knowledge on the sub ject, to make much more accurate wea ther predictions than at present and for a much longer time in advance. Philadelphia Inquirer. TRUE PRAYER. Many a man prays with his whole being, feels himself thrill ed with the divine currents and going out in inspiration after the eternal, and yet finds words forsake him when he attempts to put his devotion into speech. And yet is not this true prayer? For how can you translate as piration into speech? W. D. Lit tle. F 1 0 MPtvannx i mmi m 11 m inwi fllMlllSWMfflffll Money Here Is An Easy Way to Get It - A Sure way to Have It Join Our Christmas Savings Club which is now Open In Class 2, pay 2C the ist week, 4c the 2nd week, 6c the 3rd week, and so on for 50 weeks and we will mail you a check two weeks before Christ mas for $25.50, with interest at 2 per cent. Of in Class 5, pay 5c the ist week, 10c the 2nd week, 15c the 3rd week, and so on, and we will mail you a check two weeks before Christmas for $63 75, with interest at 2 per cent. You May Reverse the Order of Payment if you wish to do so For instance in Class 2, you may start with $1.00 the ist week and pay 2c every week until the last payment will be 2c. In Class 5, you may start with $2.50 the ist week and pay 5c less every less week until the last payment is 5c. Should you prefer to pay a stated amount each week you can do so by join ing a class in which the smallest amount is paid at the start, and also join the same class with the payments reversed. By so doing the t " of the payments will be the same amount each week. PAYMENTS MUST BE MADE EVERY WEEK OR MAY BE MADE IN ADVANCE EVERYBODY IS WELCOME TO JOIN Call and let us tell you about our plan. MAKE YOUR CHRISTMAS A MERRY ONE You Can Join Any Day During the Month of December Central Savings Bank and Trust Co. When you open an account tear this off and give on this blank Name and Full Address Name . . ... .... .. , Street-.. ........... .... Class 5. reverse Town Put "X" opposite Class or Classes you Letters on Poorly Printed; Stationery Go Into the A. classy looking letter head wins attend lion and puts the recipient into a pleasant frame of mind for the letter underneath. We Print That Kind of Stationery. 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