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SIXTY THOUSAND SEE
Miss Esther Ross about to christen vessel, nnd Arizona leaving ways.
Sixty thousand enthusiastic Americans were present Saturday at the launching of the world's most power
tul super-dreadnought? the Arizona. The vessel was christened by Miss Esther Ross of Arizona. (
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The Iceberg
Syndicate , ,
c-a 1 1 1 1 1 c 1 1 i i n 1 1 1 1 1 1 n h ii
By James Francis Dwyer
CopyrIghted, Paget Newspaper Ser.)
Tlio '111110 bald-headed man in tho
corner looked around when Fraser
finished his story.
"1'ursults of that kind are a trifle
dangerous," lie said, quietly, "but a
man will wall: on a very thin plank
Jf there is gold nt the other end."
Fraser nodded. He had been re
counting sonic cf his adventures In
connection with a pytlion-huntlng ex
pedition and the little man was tho
llrst to make a comment.
"I never caught pythons," ho con
tinued, "but when I went out snaring
icebergs for the Manhattan iceberg
Snydlcate I struck an experience or
two. Icebergs are Just as slippery as
jhythons "
"Say!" Interrupted Fraser, his faco
coloring slightly as he leaned for
"ward; "you don't think I spun that
yam out of gossamer, do you?"
"No, no," cried tho little man hur
iledly, "your story 13 more convincing
than a gatltng gun. I was just draw
ing j comparison. The python seems
to be a particularly awkward animal
to subjugate, but an iceberg possesses
a degree of cussedness that makes its
pursuit and captura carry tho samo
sensation as your business.
HITE HOUSE BABE,
A
MAMA AND GRANDPA
President Wilson, Mrs. Eleanor Wil
son McAdoo and Miss Ellen Wilson
McAdoo.
I Miss Ellen Wilson McAdoo, aged
about two months,, ,hns had her, pic
ture taken in company' with her
mother and her grandfather, the
pitsident of the United States. The
litt'Uidy is named for the late Mrs.
"Wilson and ia already a prima favor
ite with "grandpa."
GIANT SUPER-DREADNOUGHT LAUNCHED
"I was introduceJ to tho game way '
back in the early eighties, when the
bis ice famine Btruck New York.
Something upset the calendar that
year and summer rushed down upon
Jio country before they had harvested
enough ice to cool champagne for the
'Four Hundred.' Prices hopped like a
hungry grasshopper .when lie. .sights a
green patch In a sand desert, and the
man who could ailord to buy three
ounces of ice a day was Jn the class
that habltato on the top rungs of tho
poverty escapes.
I owned three steam tugs In those
clays, and as I was sitting on the deck
one morning when the mercury was
hitting tho high grrdes without an ef
fort, a long pale-faced felow climbed
over the side and c?me towards mo.
Ho carried a newspaper cutting and a
roll of bills, and he handed them to mo
In that order. The bit of paper said
that a Nova Scotlan skipper had sight
ed an Iceberg 200 miles east of Nan
tucket, but that didn't interest me as
much as tho wad.
" 'What's the currency for?' I ques
tioned. " 'I represent the Manhattan Iceberg
Syndicate,' replied the stranger, 'and I
want you to tow that block of frozen
ocean In as quick as you can get your
hawsers on It.'
"You bet I stared at him. Drinking
lukewarm stuff with the temperature
at nlncty-flve was inculcating a lot of
people with the loco bug in those days,
and I thought I had butted Into a case
In the last stages. I tried to shoot him
off the boat, but ho wouldn't go. I
pointed out to htm that an Iceberg was
as dangerous to meddle with as a
crooked politician, besides being made
of much more perishable material, but
ho wouldn't bo put off. Finally I agreed
to go out In search. of the berg In con
sideration of a cash payment of $1,000
which payment was to be Increased to
52,000 if the job of pulling the ice lump
to the harbor appeared practicable. As
una w.k.1 iuii. 10 my ui.ue .u x icn ,
pretty secure as wo butted out Into .
tho Atlantic.
"We found the berg all right. It was
melting away quicker than the wad
cf a fool guy playing tho ponies, and
I kept praying hard for It to disappear
altogether while that fellow was urg
ing me to go in and clinch with it. Ho
got excited when I contented myself
with viewing tho affair at a safo dis
tance, and" the 'fool wanted to take a
.boat and tie a hawser to a polo that
stuck up out of it at one end.
"That "polo" puzzled me. It kept growr
ing taller as the pieces fell away from
tho main section, and od tho second
day it stood up like tho mainmast of a
windjammer. The berg performed a
few acrobatic feats that would havo
been rather unhealthy for any boat
that had It in tow, and the last one of
these that she did gnvo us a bit of a
shock. Sho split risht down tho cen
ter'and there right before our eye3 was
& Spanish galleon that had, been boxed
up In that lump of ice like a kernel of
a hone chestnut!
"You should have seon that long fel
low when the old Noah's arm came in
to view. He tore round the tug like a
maduiun, offering the crow f fiO a day if
they were gamo to pull up along sido
the berg In tho small boats and as It
was as calm as a mill pond three of
them consented.
"'What aro you going to do?' I ask
ed as he clambered ovor the sldo. 'Do
you think you can launch tho old
poppy-show?'
"Ho lowored two axes Into tho boat,
nnd then ho turned round to mo. 'You
just romember tho terms of our con
tract,' ho said, quietly. 'I have put it
down in writing that all icebergs wo
find aro my property. If I'm not much.
mistaken this boat is ono that com
prised the Spanish Armada that Invad
ed England In tho fifteenth century.
Tho defeated fleet triod to get away
round tho north of Scotland, but they
wore all wrecked, and as tills ono is
now ray proporty I think you'll have a
load of gold to tug to Now York in
otead of frozen 'water,'"
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The, little bald-headed man remained
quiet for a few minutes and Fraser
grew impatient. "How dM It end?"
he asked. ,
"How?" repeated the little man lrit-.
ably. "Don't you know that Proi
dence builds tie nest of the blind
'ird? That lunatic that paid me
thousand dollars thinking ho could
drag Icebergs In out of the Atlantic
and sell them al 10 coats a pound in
New York City salvaged ?o,000 our.
of that frozen-up treasure chest, and
I the only piece that I got out of tho
haul Is this little chunk of gold I wear
on my job!"
He lifted the end of his chin and
showed a Spanish doubloon that bore
the hea-! of King Philip who had fitted
o;.' his stately Armada when Queen
Elizabeth ruled over England.
Fraser was the first to break the
silence. "Say," ho murmured, "do you
think there are any more of those
gondolas up there in cold storage?"
But the little man didn't answer. A
stout lady had signaled to him from
the hotel lobby, and he was hurrying
towards her as fast as his short legs
would take him.
The Potato Crop
Harry Godfrey has a granddaughter
In the 3-year-old class. She has Idea3
all her own about thinss out of doors.
A while ago granddad planted a patch
of potatoes In his garden. Miss Three
Year Old observed the proceedings
with Interest. Presently darkness came
on and she was missing from the fam
ily hearth. A search immediately was
Instituted. They found her sitting be
side a row of potatoes.
"Why, what are you. doing hero?"
granddaddy Inquired a bit peevishly.
"Waiting for the potatoes to come
up," was the reply. '
"Well, you come on "Into the houso
You've scared us half to death."
Unwillingly she took grandad's hand
and started toward the home. Sudden-
, Bne brok(J , nn(j ran back tQ u,e
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potato row. Pointing her finger at is
as' If in command, -he said:
Paw Knows Everything
Willie Paw, what is tho difference
between the words firmness and obsti
nacy? Paw It's a matter of sex, my son.
A man can be firm, but a woman is ob
stinate. Maw Willie, my boy, you go out
and shovel the snow off the front pave
ment. HOLDS TIME IS RIPE
FOR U. S. TO MEDIATE
Senator Newland.
That tho time is now ripe for the
United States to mediate in the Eu
ropean war; that President Wilson is
the ideal man for this task, and that
the first proposal of terms should
come from Germany, since on the
continent of Europe that nation at
present has the advantage, is the
opinion of Senator Francis E. New
lands of Nevada.
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WILL GODF KEY'S g
LA'ST LEAP. I
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- ,U was a sultry afternoon In tho mld
dlo of August. The hot nlr, which had
a' slight haze, hung like a transparent
curtain of light and heat. Tho couch
on which Will Godfrey had lain ever
since his hunting accident in the
spring had a view of a llower garden
richly decked with scarlet and gold,
and beyond It of tho sun-scorcued
park where oaks, elms, and chestnuts
spread groat branches, clad In the tint
less foliage of late summer. The deer
wore huddled togother In tho shade;
there was little sign of stirring life,
all Nature seemed asleep.
Tho doctor was silting near Will.
His eyeB at tho pieseui moment were
o full of soi row that ho dared not
raise them, 'lueie had been a consul
tation that morning with a great Lon
,don surgeon, utid the result 0,:r-
posed to be favotable life mic
Ibly be prolonged under ceru
dltlons.
Will was a man of almost j
build. He luolied like Ouliu
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nn tit
ull
low. Goliath diug by Indies moictiu
of by one swltt suoke Uoui his own
sword.
"How long will this go on, doctor?"
he said, abruptly, looking at his friend
with great wistful eyes.
Tho doctor did not speak for a mo
ment. He raised his eyes, but not to
bis patient's face; they wandered round
the room, tno walls of which were full
of pictures of hunting scenes.
"How long will this go on?" he re
peated, insistently.
"It may be lor months even years.
You are suffering from creeping pa
ralysis, but that is often very slow."
"There Is no hope for recovery, not
even of partial recovery, doctor?" f
"God knows I wish there were:
that's one of the hardest parts of a
doctor's life, the being unable to do
more than patch up a magnificent
frame like yours."
"There was a rabbit once, half
kllled and quivering we knocked It on
the head and put it out of Its pain;
wo didn't leave It In ltsf misery ;;,-we
didn't feed it up to prolong the an
guish. And the very horse which fell
with me, whose legs were -brpken.
was shot, that very hour; "it vw.&snH
lert to linger. Alan is less cruel man
God. Man understands God does
not."
"Hush," said the doctor gently. He
was a man of great reverence ot
though and feeling.
Evelyn Godfrey came In nt that mo
ment, a beautiful woman with a singu
larly young, girlish face and an extra
ordinary expression of vitality. She
was Dale, with a soft, creamy pale
ness and had black eyebrows and
Intensely gray, black-fringed eyes.
She waited till the doctor had gone,
and then knelt down by her husband
and stroked his hand.
"I was thought an idle man, wasn't
I, Lyni" he said, softly, smiling at
her oh, what a sad smile It was!
"but I made a business of sport and
active games; there was no season of
the year when time hung heavy on
my hands. There was hunting In the
winter and early spring, fly fishing in
May, grouse shooting in August, part
ridge and pheasant shooting afterward,
and between whiles golf."
"Dopsn't It hurt you to talk about
It?" said Lyn, with a break In her
voice.
"No it's the only comfort I have.
I never knew I had such a strong im
agination. I shut my eyes and see the
very scenes where I have been so hap
py the golf links, the meet at the
crossroads, the moors, the covers but
sometimes all the pictures run Into
on another like a kaleidoscope."
"Shal I read to you?" said Lyn, gent
ly. "No talk to me. You're a good
woman, Lyn, aien't you?"
"Do you know what I said to the doc
tor?" She shook her head.
"I spoke of a rabbit that had been
wounded to death, whose condition was
hopeless. I said if a man saw that
animal he would Immediately put it out
of Its pain; he would be'thought a
brute if ho didn't. The mere brutes
are better off than men they're not
allowed to live when existence means
torture. And yet the two cases can't
be compared for suffering; the brute
has a certain amount of physical pain,
but that's all; It has no Imagination
to paint pictures of never-to-be-had-agaln
delight, no .highly strung nerves
to increase its agony tenfold."
"But the mere bruto Isn't taken care
of, nursed tenderly," said Lyn.
"That's only a refinement of cruelty
who'n there's no hope, Little woman,"
ho went, on, gravely looking at her
with very kind eyes, "you married a
strong man fond of sport, full of the
joy of living, to whom life meant
health and strength and a roaring good.
Umo; this cripple lying on a stretch
er Is really a stranger to you."
"Ah, don't say that," she cried, Im
ploringly, stretching out her hand.
"It must be true. I'm a stranger to
myself. I can't Imagine myself
chained to this stretcher unable to
move without pain. It's not Will God
trey who is lying hoi e no, Will God
frey Is the man I think about in my
dreams, leaping the ditches on a chill
spring morning, or marching over the
grouse moors with a gun not this
corpso of a man, dead to everything
ho loved,"
"But am I nothing to you?" sobbed
poor Lyn, who felt that her cup of
anguish was indeed full.
"I'm not, bo to say, a good man,"
Will went on dreamily. Churchgolng
bored me, and that's the truth. I went
because you liked It, darling, and be
causo it was the right thing for the
quire at the Hall, example, and all
that; but I was confoundedly bored
I've nothing to cheer mo now.
"If If 1 might even go on dreaming
about the sport; things ore deucedly
real In a dream, Lynl I vow last night
I saw the meet clean and dlstlnct-jtho
bare trees ,and the hedges standing out
against a yellowish sky and I was
coming up with tho rest, tearing,, gal
loping in a mad sort of way and It
was real, Lyn, much more real thnu
this "
At that moment tho two were Inter
rupted by tho cntranco of Prlscllla
Stalnfcrtln Will's aunt, his mother's
sister. She was a tcrrlblo woman.-wlth
a genius for administering splritunl
consolntlon to her relations and friends
at supreme moments in their lives.
With tho best of motives, she mnde
herself extremely objectionable, and la
times of trouble and difficulty wan
avoided like the plague. She 'jad
called very often for the purpose of
seeing Will, but had been refused ad
mission. On the present occasion she
entered tho bedroom uninvited, and
advinccd to th 0..1 h.
lake any
bo table
bportlng
ovel lay
-I f rt it j.tclh
utmiciFr, a yullow-bickt.
n the pillow.
'vill. could sot res:ra:u myself) I
was obliged to come," she said, with
almost piteous earnestness. "You are
my own sister's child. Could I ever for
give myself If I neglected my duty
toward you at such a time? You have
led a selfish pleasuie-sceking life, but
It's not too late to seek for mercy."
Sho paused, and looked at Evelu.
"Where Is you Bible?" she said, sor
rowfully. "I see sporting papers In
profusion, but the one Book which will
give your husband comfort. The river
of death is "very near, Will," she went
on solemnly; "It Hows at the bottom
of the valley. Soon you will be at
the margin. 1 hear the time Is pro
longed in which to prepare for the
crossing. I beseech you, use It well."
"Go away. Aunt Prlscllla," said Eve
lyn, fiercely. "Go away leave him
to me. Will, dou you remember father?"
Will looked at his wife, and his face
lighted up.
"He was a good man, a saint upon
earth. There's no one could throw a
stone at father. I am the youngest and
quite different from all the rest, and
people said I was fust because I liked
hunting and sports of all kfnds, and
some one spoke to father and said that
It! was a scandal that an Evangelical
clergyman's daughter should care for
such things. And father" Evelyn's
voice broke "he took me Into bib
study I was seventeen then and he
made me tell him just how I felt, and
he said I had my grandfather's blood
In my veins. (Grandfather had lived
In the bush, and that was whete fathei
was born.) And lather said ft would
be cruel to stifle all the desires nnd
instincts which Were mine by nature,
and he saved up and bought mo" a
horse, and, as you know, I used to go
to the meets, and it was there I met
you, Will."
She paused a moment out of breath,
trying to choose the right words for
tne many tnougnts wnicu crowueu in.
"I want to try to remember what
father said the very words; they were
something like this: He said he could
understand because he was my father,
and that was why ood understood. He
knows all about us through and
through, and He wishes us to be our
best selves, as we ate. You arc a
sportsman and an outdoor man, and
He cares for you 1 Ue that, and He'll
make you happy In vour own way, not
in some one else's way. And you dou 1
want any teaching about some things.'
After that Will lay quite still with
his eyes half closed. In a few minutes
he was fast ableep, breathing iegularl)
like a child. It was evidently a hap
py slumber. He wu. dt earning, and tht
dream was vivid and Intensely real
His lips were curved In an almost joy
tul smile.
Alter a short interval ho began tc
speak.
"The mare Is fresh today, Evelyn,'
he murmutcd In ins sleep, '"ihls U
our first ride togefciier since my atel
dent. Oh, It's good to be well!"
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"Yes," she answered, In a low, clear
voice, which had tho ring of laughter
in it, "it's good to bo riding togother
again, you nnd I, you on the Block
Princess and I on Star."
' Bdt the radiant look "-vanished, a
shadow crossed her husband's faco like
the wing of a dark cloud.
Ills Aunt Prlscllla's words' we're evi
dently nnuntlng him.
"Tno river," he murmured, In a. dis
tressed tone of voice. "I'm close to it
now."
"Leap It!'1 she cried, suddenly. ",You
can do It, I'm certain. Why, I could do
It, Will!"
Only for an Instant dlu Will hesitate.
Then his expression changed to a Joy
ous ecstasy of resolve.
"By Jove! I'll have to try, Lyn,"
ho whispered, still In his sleep.
Ho raised his head with eager ex
pectancy, his left hand was out
stretched, grasping invisible reins.
His pulse gave ono tremendous
bound. It was tho last. His head fell
quietly back his left hand relaxed its
hold. Ills lips still smiled! It was a
smile, of triumph.
Will Godfrey had leaped! London
Onlooker. '
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Here Is a theory London smoko Is
a tonic. Is the sulphur that finds Its
way via smoky chimneys Into tho air
of London the secret of the London
complexion? Over and ovor again
It Is remarked how much liner Is tho
town than tho country complexion.
Put a London girl besldo a country
girl, and ten chances .to one, tho Lon
don girl's complexion is tho bettor,
Black nnd White. ,
Conversation
"Nobody ought to talk about, any
thing which he doesn't thoroughly un
derstand." .
"Oh, I don't know," replied tho
cheery citizen. "Nobody understands
exactly what tho weather Is or how it
is produced. Yet wo all enjoy talking
about It."
When He Didn't Need It
Mr. Harper was very much bettor,
bo Mrs. Harper allowed the nurse an
evening off. As she herself was to
keep an engagement, she told Bridget
to watch the sick room and gave 'her
several orders which sho impressed
upon the girl's mind were important.
Returning later than she intended, she
heard Mr. Harper moving restlessly,
and after quieting him she sought out
Bridget for information.
"I wonder what makes Mr. Harper
so restless. He was sleeping soundly
when I went out. Do you know any
thing about it, Erldqet?"
"o, mum," said the conscientious
girl, "unless I Isturbed him when I
woke him up to give him his sleeping
powder."
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