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fair as I see Will and J At Failure's Climax * By S. B. HACKLEY (Copyright, 1919, by the McClure News paper Syndicate.) , Ills When Maxon Eliot stepped out on the platform to make Ids ringing com mencement speech and Jessamine Far a felt the scrutiny of many pairs of L-yes, friendly, curiims, sympathetic, she held her bead high. Who wouldn't be proud to be the sweetheart of "bril liant promise?" He wasn't the valedictorian. That conceited, red-haired Walton Durrett was that, but Mason's rank was hirfh, and with his brown mop of curly hair, his goodly height and his clear, friend ly eyes, was he not good to look at? That evening after young Eliot had gone out with Judge Farra's eldest daughter, his honor sat a long time in silent thought. For nearly three years Maxon Eliot had been Jessamine's humble worshiper, and Durrett, the self-confident valedictorian, had been her devoted admirer. Durrett was one whom one wxiuid naturally expect to do things, and Eliot was a young man of brilliant promise. The Judge's preference inclined to the latter, hut he or nny other would have to "make good" before he'd give his little girl to him. The Judge sighed thankfully. Jessa mine would always listen to "Father." A little inter when she shyly suggested that at the end of Max's first school year in Marion (he'd been given the prlnclpulship of Marion's (here would be a wedding, the Judge a ly at it. at academy), shook his head. A year is all too short, little girl. I, et him prove himself." Jessamine smiled certainly. if you think best, papa—hut "Two years ■when Max is a university president, we'll laugh about our caution, won't WP?" The Marion school board, at the end very-quietly asked Pro of the year. A fessor Eliot to resign. It was not that he was not liked—his thoughtful con sideration. his gentle courteous man ner, made friends, hut somehow he had failed ns the school's principal. That summer, through the recom mendation of a relative, Eliot secured the editorship of the local paper in the large town of Haiupden. For n year he wrote brilliant editorials, nnd strug gled valiantly to build up the circula tion of the patter, but at the end of the tlie owner asked another man to year take the editorship. Then when Jessamine, with her sls ter and parents, sailed for three yenrs of foreign travel, Max understood that "le was free. When the three years were at an end and he hoard the Farms were coming home, he managed somehow to scrape together enough for a ticket to New W York. His was the first face that Jessamine instant His was the first face that Jessamine recognized on the pier. For an instant her heart bounded nnd despite the old world wisdom she hud gained, she hnd to fight a foolish impulse to lay her head on the shabby decency of his coat and tell him, among other serge things, that failure In business didn't matter. -But Fulton Newhotdt, who for six months hnd followed in their wake, ^ was looking on and presently Eliot was forced to step aside to make way for their other friends. "Strange that Maxon Eliot should have happened to lie in New York the very day that we landed," the judge remarked. Jessamine said nothing. She knew It hadn't "just happened." Max had traveled those 800 miles Just for a sight of her! Well, he'd hud It, and . The day after they reached her home Newholdt, who was their guest, asked her to marry him. Instead of saying, "Yes, please," us she had contemplated, and as she knew would delight her father and mother, she found herself saying very earnest ly, "No, thank you." It was four years before she saw Max again, nnd It was at the county fair. sh •Tve been out West," he told her, "sort of knocking about, hut I'm doing some bookkeeping work for my cousin at the mills. His regular man of 411 now, hnd to ■ stop awhile because health." He spoke cheerfully, but his mouth wore a subdued, conquered expression that was pathetic. "Rob keeps me very busy, but begged off today to run down here on the chance of seeing some of my old college friends," he remarked ; but Jessamine looked into his wistful eyes and translated his words; "On the chance of seeing you, dear, on the chance of seeing yon !" i the red-haired valedli Just then torinn, now a successful lawyer and A politician, stopped to speak to Jessu mine. "Pity about Eliot's ' being a disap pointment." he remarked when Maxon had taken himself off. "All vision and practicability. The wonder Is he hasn't married and dragged some wo man down, too! His kind generally do." no Jessamine's heart grew hot w-|th un reasoning anger, but she laughed. "And you. Sir Knight?" Durrett bowed low. "I'm waiting un til I have a position to offer a woman. "There's a gubernatorial election next year." she advanced tentatively. He smiled In return. "And the hot polloi will, who knows, Fair Ladyr t JÀ The next year Maxon EHot at the | fair told Jessamine he'd got the place as postmaster at Harper several months before. "So," he added, "maybe I can spare the money to run over and see Durrett inaugurated governor In December. His election's a sure thing. Will you be there?" he ended, a trifle, wistfully. "I—I've promised—1 think so!" she answered. Max understood her embarrassment, and tlie look of defeat that had tempo rarily raised itself settled back over Ills fuoe. In November. Durrett was elected of the state. Judge and Mrs. governor Farm prepare«! to give their daughter a very handsome wedding. "Maxon Eliot to he tried hy the Unite<l States court for fraud in the Harper postofflee !'* These Words con fronted Jessamine one day when she picked up the paper. "Too had a perfectly innocent fellow gets himself In a place to be technical ly guilty of crime, and liable to the penitentiary," her cousin. Will Payne, remarked, looking over her shoulder at her startled cry. "I've heard about it. Seems a discharged clerk's twisted some papers some way, so the blame falls on the postumster." "Max Eliot's been adjudged guilty, and they're going to send him to prison, Jessy." Payne told her a few ditys later, "unless the President par dons him. Seems his friends are get ting up a petition." Jessamine fled to her room. "A lady wishes you to call to see her at once, sir," a messenger hoy said to Maxon Eliot, two weeks afterward, when he was going to his room at his hotel, after a satisfactory interview with the nation's chief executive. When lie went to the address given a figure in a blue traveling suit ran across the room, and then Jessamine Karra was cliuging to him, crying soft ly, "Oh, Max!—Max. dear!" "Why, Jessy—Jessy !" Astonishment "What is the matter?" "Oh, Max, 1 want you !" she sobbed ; "1 want you !" Mnxon's heart, racing with the wild happiness of her weight against It, overcame him, and In spite of himself, for an instant, his arms went about her and held her tight ; then lie remem bered. "You are going to marry Governor Durrett, Jessy!" "I'm not going to marry Walton Dur rett—unless—unless you don't want me, Max !" "Rut I—" poor Max stammered— "I'm a fnihm in prison hut for the president's kind ness! Surely, Jessy, you don't iinder food wrapped him. I'm disgraced—I'd he the by "1 do !" she Interrupted. "It's taken this to tell me where my henrt's been If they'd sent you to prison, and you'd have let me, I would married you on the prison steps! Kiss me. Max!" Max kissed her, then held lier away these years ! all have from him with n groan. "Oh, love, I can't—I can't let you do It !" But she was not listening. Max," she smiled, "T'm so glad grand mother left me her home and so much her money. It's invested safely—we can live on the Income. You—you don't have to try to make money—you can study nnd writ happy ! If you won't go with me nnd hunt up a minister I'll go home and marry the governor and live miserably ever after." And Mux went. "Oh. of and—and make me 29 C. HOW MUCH RfSK TO ASSUME First Thing to Be Decided on When One Is Contemplating an Investment. The first thing for Investors to de cide Is the amount of risk they enn af ford to take with their funds, says World's Work. This will depend oil the purpose which they had In mind when the funds were accumulated nnd the conditions that will surround If one is laying up on the investment, savings to lake care of himself in his old age, is he not really a trustee of those savings for the old person lie is If he is saving for his family. o he? t is it not the same? Rut If the money is being accumulated with the view of taking advantage of a business op portunity, It Is different. Or If one is in close touch with conditions In a cer tain business, he might be Justified In taking risks in that Held which would tie improper for one Ignorant of condi tions to take, one is justified in taking must he large ly decided by the investor himself, al though others of more experience or training might help, point that should he decided. The degree of risk that It is Ihe first How Lloyd George Keeps Fit. Few men have ever had to hear such a heavy burden as the prime minister lias laid to carry during Ihe last three A general election, a peace months. conference and Industrial trouble— each would have meant an epoch In Ihe pre-war life of a premier, does Lloyd George manage to keep so cheery and fit? this point is thrown by the fact that recently Mr. Lloyd George has several times strolled Into a room oc cupied by his staff and asked if the girl secretaries hnd any amusing novel there. He has picked up some light literature and gone off to read It qui etly for half an hour or so nR a dis- ; traction from more serious affairs.— j How An Interesting light on Edlnburgh Scotsman. Only Real Failure. . I Because a fellow has foiled once or ! twice, or a dozen times, you don't want ro set him down a* a failure tilt he'« dead or loses hi* courage—and that's the same thing—George U. Loriiner. V AUTOMATIC COW GIVES GOOD MILK i rasas m * ■w] til %■: ■ 1.11 fH L - i 1 t ; ; >■ [CT I w - ' •. V L N ifjM Æ - - . : v Cv •> * Éi N ® V ■ ? «(Os & ■ ss < V» t " '• N'V m ?■ a ; To fight the high cost of milk, the department of markets of New York. invention, is producing "Grade A" milk at ten cents a quart, little difference In the tnste of the real milk and this milk and the It Is wude up of powdered milk, water and sweet through an There is food value is the same, butter. WAR INVENTIONS COMING TO LIGHT Many Interesting Achievements Are Now Being Made Public. SEAL OF SILENCE BROKEN System of Sending and Receiving Wireless Telephone Messages at Same Time and a Barrage Re ceiver Among Novelties. New York.—As the seal placed upon the activities of America's Inventors by the war is broken, news of mnny In teresting achievements unknown to the public during the conflict are being brought to light, and receiving wireless telephone mes st tiîh same time, as Is done In A system of sending sages wire lines; a "barrage receiver," which shuts out the sound of all wireless vi bration except those which the opera tor wishes to hear, and u system of rapid and nccunite photography of wireless message became known to the public for the first time recently, al though government naval stations.have been experimenting with them for some time. Engineers of the General Electric at Schenectndy are responsl company ble for each of the inventions. Ernst F. \V. Alexanderson, consulting en gineer of the company, told of the de- | velopment of the barrage receiver and wireless telephouy Ideas at a meeting of the Institute of Radio Engineers at 29 West Thirty-ninth street recently. C. A. Hoxle of Schenectady, another General Electric company engineer, is the Inventor of the wireless photo graphic apparatus. Doctor Alexunderson told the engl up ir!r(rCrCrCrùfttrùr(rCrCrtrCrCrCrCT-ùtrCr-CrCrt Kaiser's Youngest Son Hopes to Live in U. S. I'. «■ * Geneva.—The former I'rlneo t ■ j Joachim of the Holietizollem J; hopes to emigrate to his of is family America after peace is signed, according to report. i Joachim, who Is the youngest [ ! of the former German em l son peror, has arrived here from Rerlln, nnd expresses his Inten tlon of remaining In Switzerland ** >, until after the pence settlement. •» The Hohenzollerns have Just Ï bought a large estate near Lu J gano, where the former emper S or eventually hopes to reside In op is In al % exile. HUN HIDES FOUR YEARS Konrad Detzler, a German army glneer who had been hiding In the New Guinea Jungle since the beginning of back to civilization en Guinea, This was a risky act, for the bushmen ; prefer human flesh above all other j kinds. When an Australian force oc cupied Kaiser Wilhelmland Detzler the war, lias come tnd now is In an internment camp In Dctzler's story is on a par Australia. with other romantic Incidents of the It affected the South sea. war as Detzler holds a captain's commission. When the war began he vj-as surveying the boundary line between the then Kaiser Wilhelmland, or German New Guinea, and I'upua, or British New He decamped Into the hush. overlooked. was I For more than four years Detzler ! Rved In the bush near Misrnls. had a shotgun, but It was not long he t fore he ran out of cartridges, rtn-re j after ho lived on yams, taro and kau In variety of sweet potato) in common ' with the natives, and upon birds and He neers that obviously some system of simultaneous sending and receiving would have to bo Invented before wire less telephony would ever become com mercially practicable. Switching from one apparatus to another to send and receive would be annoying nnd delay ing. For Instance, the user of the tele phone on tills side of the Atlantic says: "Hello" Into the mouthpiece. Then he lias to switch to another apparatus to catch tlie answer from Europe. And perhaps his friend overseas Is doing the same thing, and the attempt at conversation develops Into n sort of hide-and-seek game. There was also the problem of bringing the wireless telephone to the homo of the user. If one has to truvel to Washington or New Brunswick to use the wireless tel ephone it is scarcely a saver of time or money. Doctor Alexanderson has devised a system of separate sending and re ceiving antennae, the sending and re ceiving stations Interconnected hy a wire line and further connected to tho exchange of tlie local telephone sys tem, so that all Mrs. Jones lias to do when she wants to find out what Mr. Jones is doing In Paris tonight Is to to lier telephone anil ask, not for toil operator, but for the wireless op go 125 MEN ARE MADE BLIND | * * ! ! Yankee Soldiers Lose Sight in Battles in Europe. No Cases on Record in Which Soldier« Lost Both Arms and Both Legs. 120 were hut Washington.—There of total blindness and fewer cases than 4,000 amputations in the Amer ican forces engaged In the war, It Is stated by the bureau of war risk In surance In an announcement com lug the bureau's activity In supplying crippled soldiers and sailors with aril fteliil limbs and In otherwise earing for Not even •ru ■ tlie wounded and disabled, all of the 125 cases of total blindness cited. It Is stated, have yet been de clared as permanent hy the medical of Relative to umpnta ! fleers in charge, tions, denlnl Is made, on tin* authority of Surgeon General Ireland and Col. Charles E. Ranks, chief medical officer of the war risk insurance, that there In which men lost both were any cases arms nnd both legs. There have been more than 500 ar tificial limbs furnished to disabled men % animals which he caught hy means of snares. Several times Ihe Australians search ed for him, blit Detzler managed to He might have stayed elude them. Indefinitely In the Jungle, but mission aries told the 1'npuans of the armistice apd they In turn told him. he surrendered to the nearest Auslra While living throughout Thereupon llan officer. the war at Miamis, Detzler wore only a lava lava (native kilt). The result Is that lie is almost as brown as a ! He now wears a German ! ! - _ 1 Papuan. uniform. YANKS LIKE HUN POLICE LIDS Soldiers Rush German Policemen When They Don Their Pre war Helmet#. Paris.—When German officials In the cities occupied by the Americans orders for policemen to don issued their prews.r uniform* they didn't real tie will Conner* her with Ik ] ' trator. Jones. The invention of the barrage re ceiver come about ns a result of tha contusion into which the wireless ma chinery was thrown during the war. Through her powerful stations at Nan sen and elsewhere Germany was mali ciously flooding the atmosphere with "noise" so that communlca and England very difficult. wireless tions between France «nd America became Germany was completely drowning out the voice of America's allies. The In terallied conference In February, 11*18. sought a way out of the difficulty, and ere brought to nppoals for a solution Doctor Alexanderson Paternot <ff the French mission in this The solution, which wns hy Lieutenant country. adopted hy the French and American governments after its first demonstra tion was called the "barrage receiver," because the word "bnrmge" has the original meaning of stoppage preven tion. fulyl shut out the vibrations scut out from Germany with the object of de stroying the allied iutercoimnuntca Its principle can be compared to that of an instrument which. If ap plied to the ear, would silence ttie shrieking of a steam whistle ten yard» away, while enabling the listener to hear perfectly the spoken word a huo Aslde from Its wnr the barrage receiver has ex The barrage rt'oelver sureew (ion. dred yards off. time use tensive possibilities for peacetime de Through Its use the tiuiu of communications that may 1** velopment. her MB . carried on without disturbing each other may be multiplied greatly. other may be multiplied BUILD MANY NEW VESSELS Million Tons of Stool Ships Ex pected to Be Completed This Year. Four Washington.—Steel ships built 'n American yards tills year are expected to total at least 4,000,000 tons. The output, according to shipping board officials, will exceed hy 700.000 tons the combined construction of both steel and wood bottoms last year, and 1» >cted to make good Chairman Hur. a to expi ley's prediction of n steel merchant marine under the United States ting, comparing favorably with the best merchant vessels afloat, nnd capable of competing with tho merchant navies of nil nations. Tlie great production In steel ton nage tills year will be tho result of the Milieus preparations started under the impetus of war. Making ready for tlie possibility of a prolongation of hos tilities, the shipping board developed building ways hy the score to offset the destruction by submarines. Many new ships were turned out, hut the new yards were unable to demonstrate their capabilities Immediately. As tlie work organized and experience gained, the output has grown steadily with the Rill results becoming uppu ri nu lias been rent only lust now. He May Recover. Detroit—Anthony Horton, negro, re fused to doff his hat when the national anthem was being played before s crowd. Ilio hospital reported. Horton Is slowly recovering. ! ! to dato by the bureau uuder tlie pro visions of the net of congress. "Upon being discharged from war department hospitals as unfit for furth service, ull men disabled ns a ro siilt of injury or disease suffered In line of duty, are entitled to the bene IKh of the war risk Insurance act," the "If their condition or statement says, demands further treatment they are entitled to medical attention 111 one of large number of hospitals now be ing established throughout the coun try, to ho operated by tho public health dltlnn needs no further medlcul utten j lion, he may secure from the bureau of war risk Insurance a monthly coin» a service. "If a man Ih disabled, hut Ills con p<*n>atlnn. "Medical expert« of the bureau make examinations of all who apply for compensation tied rate their physical condition present and potential and de termine tlie percentage of liainlicup which each suffers as a wage earner us a result of his disability. The rat ing given Is carefully considered 111 fix ing tlie compensation, which will tie paid monthly to the man and his do pendents." ize what an attraction boche helmets have for Yankees. German policemen were rushed all along Ihe Rhine hy Americans who couldn't resist the temptutlon to cap ture helmets from tiie heads of live As a consequence of the Germans. I'onslaughts made upon the policemen American officers asked German ofti rials to discontinue the use of helmets. Ordinary caps are far leas attractive than helmets aa largeta for snowballs and peaceful German policemen nr* now able to walk their heats In sufety and quiet, Wa ted Forty Years for Son'« Return. Berwick, I'a. Bovd left here for Heatt.e, Wash., la 1879 his mother expressed the hope that she would live to see him return. Alihough she hnd to live to he eighty six years old, she has enjoyed the fulfillment of her wish; the son re turned a few days ago on bis Ore» When Lawrence visit In forty years. ( United States is 533,800 acres, or 12 The sugar cane area of 1918 in the _ per cent above the acreage of 10("i. ' lajDOi ** scorns t CLEMENCEAU PRAISES SCOUTS On the dny of a march-past of the French boy scouts before President Poincare, the minister of war, Clemenceau (nicknamed "The Tiger"), received an ovation from the scouts. It was evident that the boy scouts particularly took his fancy, and when they had marched past he poured out his congratulations on their smart an pearauce. In a speech of his a few days later on the armistice he pointed out that Just ns the soldiers had up to that moment been the most Important people In the country, all must now look forward to forming an equully strong force of men for Insuring pence ami prosperity that should follow the war. The "poilus de la guerre" must he succeeded by the "poilus de la paix." As lie was the Inspiring lender of the former It Is only natural that he should Have now been asked to be the leader of the French scouts, a posi tion he has Just accepted with the title of chief scout. M. BOY SCOUT LIFE-SAVINQ CREW. ft] Eg t c :Y tsfr& fi £ Cleveland Organization, Under Direo tlon of the American Red Cross. POLICE CHIEF PRAISES SCOUTS. C. ('. Colo, chief of police in Long Bench., Cal., answering a question as to the hoy scout movement in relation to the Juvenile problem In. this city, nt nt ok that during tils four years as a police official there bus not been one ease of trouble caused by a scout. "As to their help to the Pity," he con used them many times The tlliues, "I Imvi to help our police department, last four years I have used the boy scouts on the Fourth of July, using about «1 at a time, picked from the different troops; each hoy Is fur nished a hoy scout police badge. They work In pairs with a patrol leader In charge of each squad. They principal ly look out for lire«, lost articles and lost children. One year they brought In over Ö0 lost children to the beach Molestation. Last year the squad pa trolling tlie pier extinguished three small fires." re s pro war BADEN-POWELL TO SEE 8COUTS. In it cablegram received at the na tional headquarters of the Roy Scouts of America the announcement Is made that Gen. Hlr Rotiert 8. H. Raden I'owell will visit the Boy Heouts of America either In May or Jun such time ns convenient to the organ ization here. Since the Boy Scouts of America have been uskeij hy tlie French gov ernment to take leadership In formu lating tin educational program along scooting lines, much attention Is being drawn to the possibilities of rloser In ternational relations among the great scout brotherhood. One of the matters that the lend ers In this country will discuss with General Biiden-I'owell, the founder of the hoy scouts, Is the furthering of a closer International bond. »t BELGIAN 8COUT8 SEND CABLE. National headquarters has received the following cablegram from the boy scouts of Belgium: "Delivered from Ihe yoke of enemy occupation the Belgian boy scouts hasten to send to their brothers their warmest expressions of greeting. They •hope that the feeling of brotherhood born on the field of battle will con tinue between their country and yours that the ties of friendship may become closer nnd closer between the scouts -if your organization and the Belgian ioy scouts." The report of the fourth year of noting In Belgium shows tremendous forward strides, despite the obstacles placed In Its path by the war. 8COUT8 RID CITY OF MOTHS. In answer to the scout executive's call, the scout troop* of Joplin. Mo„ gathered at headquarters to launch sa offensive against coddling moths. Armed with sack* and poles, the. •pt the moths from tbolr positions, nd at the end of the (lay listened to he moths sizzle In one fire while sting the Ingredients of Liberty rolls on another. The mayor and the city commission hearty supporters of the - roil ers were mmpalgA. J