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PAGE 6 ORLEANS COUNTY MONITOR, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 1915 3 4 And Mow the Deficiency 5 Was Made Good. 3 By EUGENE A. VOGT d Copyright by Frank A. Munsey Co, S o TV7T77T7W?777W7V??V7V? o Don't fool yourself! Not every man who is broke is unworthy of his man hood. - It's just the ether way with the chap worth while, and Jack Ruford was almost as good, decent and clean a fellow as his sweetheart thought he was. Mabel Ainsworth that's the girl with the unerring judgment had a father when Jack failed in business. Mr. Ainsworth instituted proceedings with his daughter, Mabel, who loved Jack, broke or whole, and for reasons known only to the feminine mind did not hesitate to say so. Mr. Ainsworth tried to reason. He was a lawyer in good practice, and his logic was excellent. Mabel re marked that she loved Jack. Her father began to intimate something heavy about filial love, duty, obedience, and so forth. Mabel repeated that she loved Jack. The father sought Jack and talked to the young man in a manner for which Jack would have knocked the talk out of him had he not been Mabel's father. "Look at this!" commanded Ruford and thrust an open letter under the proboscis of his reluctant father-in-law. "Well, what is It all about?' asked Ainsworth after he had read the type written lines. "It's this," replied Jack, more in pity than in ire. "The Wetmore Drug com pany of New York offers me the sole agency for Indiana, Illinois, Missouri and Iowa" "Yes, yes," interrupted Mabel's fa ther, 'with offensive impatience. "Yes, yes sir when you talk to me, Mr. Ainsworth!" corrected Jack stern ly. "Yes, yes!" repeated Ainsworth jyitUout affirming anything in particu lar. "There you go again!" snapped the potential conqueror of the drug trade of four progressive states. "How many times shall I have to tell you that it's 'yes, sir,' to me from you? Please do flou forget that again, my dear Mr. Ainsworth. By the way, bow much money will it take to buy your daugh ter from you, with your aboriginal idj&as of paternal ownership?" "Not an infernal red centl'1 roared Ainsworth, "Nor a, yellow million nor a stack of greenbacks as high a3 this postoffice from you, sir! I'll sir you! Even if you had the ability to make any appreciable part of it, you couldn't have my daughter now for all the money in the world, sir!" "Are you through?" asked Ruford calmly. The lawyer nodded violently. "All right, then," proceeded the young man. "I'm really surprised at you, Mr. Ainsworth. And with your legal attainments too. Mabel is of age. You know that, I know it and she knows it. Listen to me! I can walk down this Main street three blocks, turn into Locust and walk four and a half more, stop at 416, enter, wait four minutes for a certain young lady to put on her hat and coat, walk out, up Locust one and a half blocks, ring a bell, enter house, emerge married. And you know it!" "I know it!" gasped the hapless fa ther. "A man who can do that, Mr. Ains worth," proceeded Jack unfeelingly, "must be handled with care. Let us. then, try kindness." "I always thought. Jack," said the lawyer in his best appealing voice, "that at heart you were a very decent young fellow." "I am," agreed Jack modestly. "My purpose being to get down to a calm discussion of the differences between us, I shall not refer to your wonderful restraint of expression of your good opinion of me." Both men laughed at this sally. "Now, Mr. Ainsworth," proceeded the young man pleasantly, "you are mostly right about me and would be all right if you weren't so infernally vigorous in expressing yourself. I have no right to marry Mabel in my present circumstances, until I have shown mostly for my own satisfac tionthat I can make money enough to support her. Now, I shall be gone a year. "When I come back, if I can show you $5,000 will that soften your heart?" "Jack," replied Mabel's father with deep feeling, "if you ever show me $5,000 of- your own money, honestly earned, and if I don't drop dead at sight of it I'll consent." "Mind you," said Jack as they shook hands on it, "I am doing this thing out of pure magnanimity of soul. You un derstand that, don't you?" "Fully," acknowledged Mr. Ains worth. It was on the three hundred and fif tieth night of his quest that Jack ar rived at his hotel in St. Louis, bub bling over with enthusiasm. He joked with the clerk as he registered with a flourish and staggered the bejlboy who escorted him to his room with a fifty cent tip. After the minion had bowed himself out Jack threw himself on a chair and exultantly opened his suit case. "It's all over, Mabelltar he cried, ad dressing that young lady's photograph, which he had pinned on his salt case's Inner lid." "We've got it! We're got it! The Wetmore Drug company owes me $5,140.50. Those last 'seven orders in Decatur give me $147.30 and make us cross the line, darling. Now for a run home to dear old Pillingsby to see you and get you to name the day." The bellboy entered and obsequiously tendered a telegram on a near silver salver. Jack looked uneasily first at the bearer, then at the message. He tore open the yellow envelope. He stared at the slip of paper he extracted from it, his eyes wide and incredulous. At last he roused himself, smoothed out the sheet and stared at it as though he hoped the very fixity of his gaze would change its tenor. "No," he mumbled hopelessly. "It's no use it's there, it's there! 'Wetmore Drug company asking compromise with creditors. Offer 20 cents on dollar.' He repeated it stupidly and with inane comments. His head sank down on the table, and he was lost in utter dejection. Jack Ruford arrived in New York on the second night after the receipt of the crushing telegram. He entered a modest hotel on a side street near Broadway and scowled at the attentive bellboy who relieved him of his suit case.. ' There was nothing for him to do but to think until the rnorrow, when, Jack hoped, the offices of the Wetmore Drug company would be open. He ordered the bellboy to escort him and his bag gage to the room assigned to him. "What kind of . a joint is this, any way?" snarled the distracted young man as the bellboy set the wrong suit case on the table of the room. "This isn't my suit case." "Oh, beg pardon, sir!" apologized the bewildered boy. "Isn't it?' "No, it isn't, isn't it," mocked Jack angrily. "Take the thing away and fetch mine. Marked J. R." The bellboy hastened away with the offending portmanteau, but soon re turned, saying: "Sorry, mister. I brung it to the wrong room. It look ed so much like yours." "Well, then, why the dickens don't you get it?" "That's the trouble," stammered the bellboy. "The lady says for you to come and get it yourself. She won't give it to me, sir." "Won't, hey? She won't, won't she?" demanded Jack furiously. "Take me to it, kid. Pll set her straight in two seconds just exactly two seconds." The dazed boy led the irate guest down one corridor and up another and stopped before a door marked 216. Jack knocked authoritatively, and a feminine voice called "Come in." The young man flung open the door. "Madam," he began, icily stern. "Mad I I" And then this prince of glib talkers suddenly lost the power of articulation, for Mabel Ainsworth slowly turned to face him, confirming the first wild guess, fear and hope which the sight of her figure had inspired. "I think it very careless of you, Jack," began Mabel reproachfully, "to keep your suit case unlocked." "I I" "Oh, it's all right this time." she re assured him. "Thinking it was mine, and as I never lock mine either, I opened it and saw this." She waved her hand toward her pho tograph resting in its conspicuous placp against the inner lid of the suit case. "I suppose," he said gloomily, "thnt all is over, Mabel. I shall have to give you up, darling. Billy Wetmore" "What!" she cried indignantly. "Give me up on account of $G.S0?" "Six dollars and eighty cents! 1 don't understand!" gasped Jack. "Of course you don't. But that )" all we are short on our five thou sand." "I I" stammered her lover. Ther with infinite gentleness: "It's 2i per cent, dear, one-fifth he offers. TTiu'or stand? One-fifth of our five thousand just one thousand, dear, just uiie"- "Oh, no, it isn't," she intei J in- patiently. "You see. papa" "What has he- been doing asked Jack doubtfully, "lie saved the situation for ; himself," she assured him. " n- I told papa very flatly that a of the year I would marry way, money or no money" "Mabel, darling. I can't do "Because you do not love iiir, more, Jack?" she asked orr.el'Y. "You know better than that. Mabel, he replied reproachfully. "Forgive me, dearest," she s? tritely. "I do know it." She 'OD t; ly placed one of her pink fin?;; r.; on 1 Ws busi her conspicuous photograph. "As saying and, please, let us tall; ness, dear papa, being assured thut 1 would marry you anyway, pro--ceded, lawyer-like, to save hi face. Wb?n he learned that you poor, overtrustful boy were letting your monthly earn ings stand with Mr. Wetmore he wrote that gentleman whom, in the first place, he had induced to offer you this place all about why you were working so hard and induced him to Bend your monthly earnings to the Pillingsby National bank, where the money is now deposited in your name. But there is only $4,003.20. and papa's Etrong point as a lawyer always has been technicalities. So I came to New York in some way to get that $6.80. And, oh. Jack my own dear, splendid, faithful Jack we have to get it hon estly or at least legally." One hour later (western time) Mr. William Ainsworth sat in the morris chair in his library, chuckling over the following telegram: . Dear- Papa Jack is here at hotel. Ha just sold me his supply of drug: samples at sacrifice. Six dollars and eighty cents! Please deposit that amount to his credit In Pillingsby National bank and charge my allowance account. We are leaving fotf home on midnight train. , Tell Mary Smith she will be bridesmaid. Jack sends his love. He is looking well. Lovingly. MABEL. (Charges collect.) LOWELL Miss Mildred Tucker has returned to Fitchburg, Mass. Mrs. Harrington of Eden is visiting relatives in town. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Guyette are the parents of a daughter, born-April 16. Mr. andMrs. Almon Clark of Troy visited her parents the last of the week.. Mrs. L. O. Sanborn and Sanborn Watson spent the week-end in North Troy. . C. C. Stannard was in North Troy and Newport on business the first of the week. Mr. and Mrs. Douglass Lester of Barton visited relatives here the first of the week. Mrs. Alice Hitchcock of Troy is assisting Mrs. John Young during Mr. Conant's illness. Howard Grover of Balcersfield visit ed his friend, D. P. Narramore, a few days last week. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Alger of Troy spent Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Abel Sawyer. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Rhodes were in Westfield Wednesday to attend the funeral of Mrs. Ara Miller. L. O. Sanborn and O. O. Gregory were in North Troy Monday to attend the funeral of Byron Parkhurst. Harold McNamara has gone to Orleans where he has employment in a creamery and Ralph Brahana; takes his place in the creamery'here. "Warnings from the Lord" was the Sunday morning theme at the North church, and "Shepherds, Men of Valor and Princes" for the children's ser mon. . e Alec Guyette, age about 65 years, died very suddenly at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Frank Barney, Friday. His wife died several years 8go. He leaves four daughters and one son. Funeral services were held at the Catholic church Monday morning. Rev. Father LeBlanc officiating. If you want one on the Monitor, see page three. WESTFIELD The Rev. M. W.fFarman preached in Coventry Sunday. . ' Mrs. Geo. Goddard ofj Gloverhas been visiting friends in town. "Walter P, Bell visited in Cambridge recently. Byron J Gilman's housed, has been reshingled. " H. E. Gray has finished sawing out his stock of logs. The Ladies' Aid society will hold a social and supper in the church Friday night, tt&k&Sii& Ed. Duso, who rso!d his! farnT to Earle Reed, has purchased a house in Troy village. P Mrs. Sylvester Morey has recovered from pneumonia. Mr. Morey, who was also ill, is better. During the thunder shower-" Sunday night the lightning struck the tower of the Congregational church, but the damage was not great. A few wreeks ago a Greek named Milhael Plunpedies, came to visit at H. E. Gray's and to recuperate from a nasal operation. He and Morris Gray were classmates at Goddard seminary in Barre from which institution they graduated last summer. Soon after his arrival here he was taken ill with ! pneumonia. Jb rom this he recovered but other troubles developed so that he died on Tuesday night, April 20. Funeral services were held at Mr. Cray's residence the following Thurs day afternoon. Chaplain M. W. Far man officiating. Representatives were present from the faculty, student body, and alumni of Goddard seminary, and the body was taken to Fitchburg.Mass., for burial. The deceased would have been 22 years old on the day of the fu neral. The respect and esteem in which his associates held him, show him to have been a young man of high char acter and unusual promise. MRS. ARA J. MILLER. Mrs. Ara J. Miller died of cancer at her home in Westfield village on April 19, aged 62 years, six months. The funeral was held in the church on Wednesday afternoon, the Rev. M. W. Farraan officiating with F. E.Taylor as manager and Fremont Miller, George Watson, Schuyler Stevens and Charles Moulton as bearers. The church was filled with people who came to pay their last tribute of re spect to one who was held in universal esteem for her noble life. The beau tiful floral tributes included pieces from the Newport W. R. C, the local W. C. T. D., the Ladies' Aid society and from many friends. Representa tives were present from the G. A. R. and W. R. C. of Newport. "Mr. Miller being a veteran of Company 1), Sixth Vt. regiment. Friends were present from Enosburg, Lowell, Highgate, Newport, Troy, North Troy and Mans field, Conn. The deceased, whose maiden name was Lovisa F,. Stevens, was born in Enosburg. She married Mr. Miller in 1875. They lived in Westfield until 1888, and then went to Newport where they remained 21 years and then came to Troy and three years ago last fall back to Westfield. She is survived by her husband and two brothers. Fernando and Schuyler Stevens of Enosburg. She had been a member of the M. E. church for 32 years. She was president of the W. C. T. U., a teacher in the Sunday school and active in every good word and work. The burial was in the town cemetery. Mr. Miller has closed his house and gone to Connecticut with his brother, Fremont, to remain for a time. War. War has always been the mint in which the world's history has been coined, and now every day or week or month has a new medal for ns. Oliver Wendell Holmes. "Impossible is the precept. 'Know thyself till It be translated into this partially "possible tme. ' Kno w what thou canst work at. Carlyle. CONFERENCE APPOINTMENTS. j CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE '. South Albany Supplied by I. P. Chasev West Burke and Newark J. Q. Angell. Westfield and Troy To be supplied. The conference is in flourishing condition. Spiritually, numerically and financially the Vermont conference reports gains and for the first 'time in many years Montpelier -seminary, in a sense a charge of the conference, reports a balance instead of a deficit. A plan is on foot for new buildings at the seminary and the completion .of the raising of a large endowment. Conference will meet at Montpelier next year. REPORT OF DIST.SUPT. R. F.LOWE In presenting his fourth annual report. District Superintendent Ralph F. Lowe of St. Johnsbury said that more attention than ever had been given to the weaker churches and that relatively the district had had a good year. He reported the organization of a society in Calais which has secured a church building and bought a bell and other appurtenances. In Bloomfield where the parsonage was burned a year ago, a farmhouse and four acres of land have been bought near the church. Newport is now in the proud possession of property valued at $30,000. The edifice is prac tically new and the entire property is in excellent condition. Plans have been approved and work will be begun at once on a stone structure to replace Grace church in St. Johnsbury, which was burned in January. South Albany has bought the building fromerly owned by the Wesleyan Methodists and con verted it into a well-adapted vestry. Other material development is noted throughout the district. Not for many years have the people been so responsive to spiritual appeal as during the past few months. At Newport, Newport Center, Craf tsbury. East Concord, Concord, Beecher Falls, St. Johnsbury, Barre and Bloomfield large numbers have united with the church. There probably has been a substantial net gain in the district. Despite the perennial rumor that the Lyndonville camp meeting was to be discontinued, one of the best meetings in recent years was held there last summer. A good number of churches have some endowment. Mr. Lowe said : "It would be a good thing if the trustees in their annual statement had to report the essential facts about invested funds. It might also be well if a complete list were printed every year in. the annual minutes of our con ference." Mr. Lowe urged the exer cise of more care to avoid the possibil ity of fire and the carrying of adequate insurance. About 30 of the 36 charges use the new financial plan, but not more than eight or nine use it so as to include the henevolences in the weekly offering. The plan works well where it is properly handled. Wherever the pastor takes a deep interest it is more likely to succeed. In a certain class of churches that are living at a poor dying rate the people miss the spur of the old-fashioned sermons on missions or benevolences. Another financial difficulty is that the churches to a large degree depend upon many non Christians for support. Such support ers do not care for the weekly system and they usually put off turning in their contributions till a half hour before the preacher starts for confer ence. The entire matter of church and benevolent support will be largely solved when the fundamental subject of Christian stewardship has been lifted from the obscure, petty place where it has been suffered to lie by an untrained or timid ministry and. an untrained laity. The district continues to be well served by the well known deaconess, Alice E. Foster. Since last October she has given her exclusive attention to Woodbury where she has shown good organizing ability. Rev. W. J. Atkinson, a field worker for the board of Sunday schools, has been well received and his work has produced good results. The new graded lessons have been introduced in many schools and in most cases they are well liked. Several junior leagues have been established and all apparently are doing well. The speaker commented upon the rural betterment movement and said that of all men in the world the preacher ought to take a firm and intelligent grasp of the movement, not primarily because it will help his church but because the idealizing, spiritualizing quality that is best seen in the church lives very near the heart of the entire question of rural im provement. During the past winter a number of representative Methodists met Dr. J. B. Hingely at Montpelier and agreed to enter into the united campaign of the year 1915 for the interests of the retired preacher. Five years have passed since the birth of the sustentation society but without endowment yet. Without sustentation it would have been im possible to have done what has already become a permanently enlarged work. ""With the passing of the years, Montpelier seminary has' proven itself to be not a luxury, but a necessity to our wotk. said the speaKer. within a month $10,000 has been added to the endowment and a spirit of optimism prevails. Mr. Lowe thought that evangelism ought to be urged as has not been done in a Jong time and sugested that this was the best time to plan a comprehensive and vigorous campaign for the ensuing year. Every where throughout the" conference this should be known as the year of evan gelistic appeal. A BEAUTIFUL PIANO FOR $200. For the month of April only we shall offer a beautiful new, large size mahogany piano of standard make with most elegant finish, a beautiful tone, all solid brass trimmings, a piano that regularly sells for $350. When I told Mr. Adams, the manager of the piano department, that for the month of April I should advertise this iai ano for $200, he replied that it was a crime to sell such a beautiful piano for $200, so you can imagine it is some bargain. We warrant this piano for ten years and the terms are $10 down and $8 per month.- A catalogue show ing the style of .this piano will be sent to anyone interested in purchasing a piano. Geo. D. Jarvis & Son, Bur lington, VL Real Estate f you want to buy a farm, resi dence, hotel, or real estate of any kind; or if you wish to sell, get in touch with me. I am in the busi ness and I can help you. W. K. ANNIS Albany, Vermont S,'T -." tror 31 sva rt s PVi K .f' I - it-i Si . " -1 1 i tv mm Just order a sacK. ct CI I" am leu ricar you needn't worry f baking day. Bread? s light, fine and white, i and pies? Biscuit? best you ever- tasted! -s, William Tell goes ig when living is so Think of all this. instead of ordering flour order J. G. TURNBULL CO. 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