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THE ROCK ISLAND AKGUS. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1014.
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Wednesday, January, 21, 1914.
If you're got a senatorial bee, now
I the time to blve It.
The Berlin Jury that acquitted a
man arrested for violent sneezing was
op to scuff.
What a merry crowd of senatorial
candidates Is to grace the primary
. ticket this year!
Up in Wisconsin they are having
the eugenic marriages performed by
a sexton Instead of a minister.
' An Englishman lias paid $3,000 for
a rare flea, which the ordinary run of
humanity will regard as a piece of
doggone extravagance.
That poor word "harmony" Is being
worked to death by republican news
papers In endeavoring to reunite the
g. o. p. ana duii moose iucuuus.
Secretary Bryan's answer to Repre
sentative Bartholin's declaration that
there is more alcohol in grape juice
than in beer, was complete. If there
was. he said. -Mr. Bartholdt would
drink grape Juice.
It Is estimated it wiil cost Uncle
.-am $45,000 a month to feed the 4,200
Mexican prisoners he has in tow. It
la about $10 a month a head; and this
will be sufficient to get those folk a
good deal better than they had In their
own country
- If General Mercado goes back to
Mexico the federals will court martial
him; and the rebels will shoot him
with even less formality. There should
be little difficulty in detaining him
in this country.
Kaiser W'ilbelm Is chopping wood
three hours a day la the palace yard
to reduce h! weight. If the Kaiser
shall keep hi appetite wl'hin re
straint after his exercise, the pre
scription will work. Chopping wood
even a half hour a day three time a
week will take weight off a fat roan
and put It on a thin one.
Theatrical managers in New York
are saying tiiat tlancinr has hurt the
theatre business so that they catot
i maV" money. What with the tnov-
' I . Ml.lUIV, 111" UUlUIIIUVIir, lll
'high price of egrs and the tango.
the theatres are up against It. It re
mains for some enterprising man
ager to advertise dancing between
the art in thn lobbv or furer to
draw the crowd.
The last of the toll roads In New
, England has been abolished at Provi-
this last remnant of an archaic sys
Jm was six miles Ions, situated in
two towns In Bennington county, Ver
mont. Its importance and the magni
tude of the nuisance It created wera
due to the fact that it was the only
pass through the mountains in that
neighborhood on a main highway be
tween New York and New Kncland.
There remains tome toll gates In New
England, but they are associated with
privately-owned bndzes. The automo
bile is credited wih abolishing the
last of the "pay a you enter" high
ways. ANOTHER MASTERLY MES
SAGE. I'residect Wilson's antitrust me.
t ,Kf the third that he has personally
delivered before tb Joint sessions of
on (tress since spuming office les
than a year ago. I l.'ke those on the
tariff and the financial questions the
utterances of a man who ha weighed
wet bis subject and Is master of it.
The presidential at'itude, a further re
demption of pi a' form pledge, follow
naturally the fonnw pursued, recom
mended in tariff and currency legia'av
tlon. In Justification of the course anig
gested by the coverameut and In calm
assuranc aa to what the government
should do and bow it la proposed to
do It, the message is characteristic
There 1 nothing panicky or radical In
It ton. It incites an occasion for
action, la response of the obligation
of Joty to the people, which may be
tflaenargad only a the people' cause
without injury to thoa wbo pursue
the legitimate pursuit of business.
There, most be a dissolution of the
monopolies that restrain trade and op
prss the people. In s determination to
pot Into effect law that will break down
the terrier that bar stood against
the many for the benefit of lb few,
tfce covernaaauit is) to assert Itself in
t&e folfillmeat of a doty to which it Is
la doty bound, while the party of
wh'ch t?! BreMnt 1 the leader la
no less In duty hound to the people f
who hare reponed In It their faith and
confidence.
This ! the sum and substance of
President Wilson' trust attitude. Ho
has laid before congress further pledge
that must be redeemed, and In hi wis
dom he has presented the method by
wh'ch those pledgee may be intelli
gently and forcibly carried into effect.
Congress will stand by the presi
dent, as it did in the tariff and cur
rency bills.
JUSTICE TO THOMPSON.
In the ai-pointment by Judge Olm
sted of a special prosecutor in response
to a petition from the grand Jury in the
circuit court yesterday afternoon,
the people's prosecutor, chosen by the
people, was superseded In powers re
posed in him by the people, by a spe
cial prosecutor of the court s choosing.
The court acted upon the strength of
sweeping declaration prepared in be
half of and approved In signature by the
majority of the present grand Juror,
which in a word et forth that certain
crimes of a grave nature bad been
committed in the county in which
the state's attorney was Interested.
In the absence of specific allega
tions the state's attorney was helpless
to defend himself, although be made a
stout and manly defense of his office
and prerogatives. The state's attorney
held that the action of the court is
without a precedent in the practice of
law In Illinois.
KxDounding of law being out of the
Hn of a newspaper. The Argus is, of
course. In no position to discuss the
somewhat extraordinary procedure,
but it does not hesitate to say that it
has the utmost confidence in State's
Attorney Thompson, and believes h
has endeavored to discharge his duty
fearlessly and faithfully to the people.
Bequeathed with an exceptional burden
of hardship when he entered the office,
he was met at the outset with ob
stacles of a political nature, which
have involved a fight on his part for
his office from the very start- Many
and unpleasant have been the tasks
that have confronted him; tasks not of
his own choosing, but nevertheless
tasks that were ..ncvoidable. and rhen
all the complication that have arises
are cleared away. The Argus believes
It will be shown that he ha been very
wroncfullv accused, both directly and
indirectlv. And that he lias done his
dutv to the full extent that he has
been permitted to see the light.
As far as the special investigation is
concerned, the demand of the people
is that all rumors of whatever sol
nature be cleared and all that is under marketed and that then the profit only
the surface be brought out. The peo- will be subject to an income tax assess
pie are weary of gossip and wild as- ment In other words, all costs will
sertion.
As The Argus said once before In
discussing this matter, the people want
to know. They want to know all, and I
lf there has been w-ong doing they
want to know all who have been guilt y
of it and they want It stopped once and ,
for all.
BACK TO OLD FAITH.
Throughout the breadth of the land
corMi, south, east and west there
seems to be a tendency toward In
creased church attendance, which
1 lending encouragement to the
staunch churchmen and women who
have be?n working for year to e-
ti-blisa Christianity in a thoroughly
heloful and practical form In the
heart i of the American people.
, It is indeed but natural that there
should be azain the forward swing
cf the pendulum, from the backward
stroke which denoted failing Interest
In the churches. An Institution found
ed as firmly a the Christian rejiglon
can weather many vicissitudes, such
as the dearth of church interest in
the past 50 year and emerge more
vigorous, strcnger, more efficient than
ever.
It takes a period of declining in
terest to bring to the front the real
resources of the church. It was a
natural tiling, a perfectly legitimate
period of transition for the church.
It was the time of storm and stress,
when doctrinal traditions, which peo
ple hesitate! to assume, were left by
the wayside .and a greater allegiance
than ever to the fundamental truths
of the faith substituted.
With practical, broad minded
preachers in the pulpit, with a new
spirit animating the churches, it Is
not to be jrreaMy wondered that again
the churches aro being better occupied
without resort to undignified meth
ods, it is true tnat caurches are
learning that the dally press may be!
come an Invaluable aid to them In
presenting to the people the oppor
tunities and activities which they may
enjoy within the church. But this is
thoroughly in accord with the prac
tical character of the church now
aday. It 1 not letting dowD the bar
to undignified action, a It might once
have been thought.
no n m max in cnurcne are as
suming the place that they must
always hold. So it is that people are
being Impelled to attend church and
are grow lag into that faithful loyalty
which ha characterized good and true
church, workers from the beginning of
time.
PERILOUS HUGGING. '
The Embrace of a Kangaroo Dee Net
Leave Pleasant Memories.
Notwithstanding the kangaroo' pop-
sisr reputation ror speed, be is easily
vertakea fa tbe bush by a good bora
(tbey ey) -within bslf a mil. A cs-
psble kangaroo dog a lean. wlft
beast, a cross between a greyhound
and masuir, bred to course and kill
oon run him te bay. Without dogs
it is tae custom to kill with a cndgeL
inis is often accompllabed by the
sportsman from tb back of hi horse.
Iimoanted, however, with tb kanga
roo wsinng alertly ror attack. It J
sometimes a perilon venture to come
to close quarters. A slip, and tb
sportsman find himself at ones) In
desperate situation.
Oce of tb JujnberJ-acfca jrllA whpcB
Capital
BY CLYDE
Congressman from
Special Correspondence of The Arajue.)
Washington. Jan. 19. That the cop
per mine owners of the Calumet region
who are now engaged In fighting a
Btr,K'
eTSC- ploye
legal
. . coppc
strike by their ern
es have no
gal title to the
copper lands, is the
startling averment
being brought up
congressmen who
are agitating an of
ficial investigation
of the labor
troubles.
It is asserted
that the lands were
originally granted
by the government
to a company
which" constructed
the Lake Super
ior ship canal,
which runs from
Houghton, Mich.,
through the nar
row neck of the
peninsula on which
CLYDE H.
TAVCNNER
the copper mines
are located. But. it is declared, the
search of the original records show
that the grant specifically stated that
the canal company was not to be
given land containing minerals.
If this is the case a situation arises
in northern Michigan comparable to
the status of the Southern Pacific rail
road's oil lands In southern California.
Suits aggregating many millions of
dollars have been brought against the
railroad company by prospectors,
under the law that the railroad was
not entitled to take mineral lands from
the government.
It i claimed that the report of Land
Commissioner W. A. J. Sparks in 1S86
The Income Tax
Washington, Jan. 21. Foresters and
lumbermen see in a decision of the
treasury department in regard to the
administration of the income tax a
strong argument for forestry. As
they Interpret the opinion of the
treasury officials they understand that
(no timberlands shall be subject to
the tax until the timber Is cut and
be deducted before the tax is levied
and these will cover the cost of grow-
jng the timber, including the cost of
planting where necessary and of pro-
we rested In the shade of the blackbutt
showed us the scars of an encounter.
lie bad ridden the kangaroo down.
said he, and. being In haste to make
an end of the sport, he bad caught up
the first likely stick his eye could dis
cover and he bad stepped quickly and
confidently in, and be bad struck bard
and accurately. And the next Instant,
caught off the ground, be was strug
gling breast to bresst In the bug of
tbe creature, frightfully aware that be
must escape before the dendly bind
foot bad devastated him.
"My clnb broke." be exclaimed, "and
the boomer got n V
There were long scars on bis back
and shoulders, the which we were not
very sorry to see, for we could not
make out why any man should wish to
kill a kangaroo for sport. Normau
Duncan in llarper's.
Changes By Baptist Pastors.
Duquoin, 111., Jan. 21. The Illinois
Baptist Bulletin contains the following
"The Young Lady
W aaked the young lady across tbe
X- ' s
ty '
J Jde
Comment
H. TAVENNEB
the Fourteenth District.
furnishes complete proof that the title
to the copper lands never legally left
the United SUtes. In this report,
Sparks said:
"Notwithstanding the express ex-
emption in the granting act, upward
of 6S.000 acres which had been desig
nated by the United State as mineral
including some of the most valu
able lands in the copper range of the
uDner peninsula of Michigan, were
certified and approved by this depart
ment for the benefit of the Ship Canal
company."
On the basis of this report. Secre
tary of the Interior Lamar recom
mended the institution of suit to re
cover the copper lands. But these
suit were never begun. Secretary of
Labor Wilson had this early history
In mind when he recently made the
statement that the copper company
has taken $200,000,000 in profits from
an investment of $1,250,000.
But despite the fact that the finan
cial wizards of that day were able to
take an empire of mineral wealth in
return for a comparatively small In
vestment in the way of constructing a
ship canal, they were even unwilling
to make a good Job of the latter. All
the evidence seems to show that the
canal work was slighted It was orig
inally intended to give the company
two years in which to complete the
canal, but this period was extended
from time to time until it was eight
years. Prof. Gustavus Meyers in his
history of The Great American For
tunes, says that "the Portage Lake
Canal was only a worthless ditch and
a complete fraud."
Senator Plumb, of Kansas, In 18S6.
introduced a bill to take the copper
lands away from the Canal company,
but this bill perished in a pigeonhole.
Recognizes Forestry
tecting the growing crop from fire and
other depredation.
This decision was based upon a re
quest for Information made by P. S.
Ridsdale, secretary of the American
Forestry association. He asked if
there would be a tax on the value
of the tlmberland. In reply, the treas
ury department said that "the gain
from the cuting and disposal of stump
age is realized in the year during
which the timber is cut and disposed
of, and that the amount received in
excess of the cost of such timber is
profit, and should be so accounted for
as income for that year."
announcements of changes of pastor
ates :
Rev. Jesse Hyde of St. Louis be
comes pastor of the First Baptist
church at Flora,
Rev. Charles w. Brown resigns at
Loci a to enter school in Chicago.
Rev. Clarence Hodge of Marshall,
Me., accepts a call to return to the
pastorate at McLeansboro, 111., and is
granted an extended vacation to take
a trip to Palestine.
Rev. W. P. Beevy becomes pastor at
Urbana.
Rev. Charles B. Althoff of Louisville,
K, accepts a call to the pastorate of
Lorimer Memorial church in Chicago.
Rev. J. Harv y Gunn resigns the
pastorate of Cl.atsworth church to en
ter the University of Chicago.
Rev. George E. Gibbs closes pastor
ate at Cordova after three years.
Rev. T. M. Torter resigns work at
Farmersville and Zenobia to engage
in undenominational work in Chicago.
The Bulletin Is the official organ of
the Illinois Baptist convention.
Across the Way
-war H wba wr ws.da.flMl wirn -hmr-
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HENRY HOWIAND
Woman Is nearer the savag-e state than
man. - Her only function Is to bear chil
dren. Professor Sarcent -of Harvard.
She Is nothing; but a woman with, a voice-
that's soft and sweet.
M&kine; sacred all she touches, e'en the-
dust beneath her feet.
With a laugh that's sweetest music and a
sla-h that's sweeter yet.
With a look that makes you wonder and.
remember and forget
Just a woman who Is pure.
With a faith serene and sure
Who has made you somewhat better since)
the moment when you met.
She Is nothing but a woman, of a lower
type than man.
Her development restricted, fashioned oir
a poorer plan:
Learning little as the ages and the aeons
roll away.
Made to serve a single purpose and r
main unthinking clay;
Just a woman In whose eyes
All that's true and tender lies.
Just a woman claiming graces as angels
.only may.
Ehe Is nothing but a woman who when
days of trouble come
When the friends of fairer moments turn
their faces and are dumb
Hover near with tender glances and with
words that soothe and cheer
Just a woman, hoping bravely when your
weakly yield to fear;
Just a woman clinging fast
To the love that, at the last.
Sha.ll become your sweet salvation, as the
farther shores appear.
Found Out.
"I spe." he said, "that young John
D. Rockefeller's Sunday school class
has decided that a man ought not to
marry on less than $1,100 a year."
"What is your own opinion?" she
asked.
"Well. I'm Inclined td think two
people ought to 'be able to get along
on $1,000 a year."
"So you get $20 a week, do you?"
tiot a Forcible Illustration.
"Do you know," asked the abstainer,,
"that the money which the American
people spend for drink in a single
year would be sufficient to build a
stone tower 40 feet in diameter and
a mile high?"
"Would it?" asked the man with the
spongy nose, "but wbo wants a Billy
old stone tower like that?"
LOOKING AT IT PHILOSOPHICAL
LY. "Say, Bink," said Jimmy the safe
cracker, "I'm gettin' sick of dis kind
of a life. I wish
I could git into
something else."
"Aw, wot's de
matter wit you?"
mi partner re-
piled. "Come on,
now, and cut out
dat kind of talk.
Alnt yon ever found out dat nobody'
satisfied wit de business dey're in?"
Discarded.
She gave him her youth and her beauty.
She gave him ner innocent heart;
She deemed It her glorious duty
To be bis Inferior part;
In alckses she ministered to him.
Their children she clasped to her breast
As only God knows men she knew him.
She was worthy of htm at hi best.
His name became hers, and she bore It
Aa something too sacred to shame;
He gave her hi ring and she wore It
With a faithfulness proof against blame;.'
But, aged by ber laJors and Jaded.
And robbed of her faith and ber pride.
tThe Is paid to permit a degraded.
Rouged elroa to thrust her aside.
Wasted Talent.
"Mr. Wvppsey friend think she
would bare made a great actresa If ah
had adopted the stage a a profes
sion."
"Well, they may be right. She eem
to be very clever a a mimic."
"Yes, and she hasn't a solitary mole
between the nape of her seek and ih
mall of her back."
Chines Politics.
"Do you think the Chinese will be
able to govern themselves?" asked the
reformer.
"No," replied the professional poli
tician, "tbey haven't any chance in
the world. Their fathers and grand
fathers never voted, so bow are they
going to find out whicb parties tbey
belong tor
Took a Job Let.
"Jut on kiss," martnured tb book
keeper,
Tb pretty stenographer pointed to
placard.
"No tJoods at Retail." It stated.
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The Daily Story
ABEL'S REBELLION BY CLARISSA MACKIE.
Copyrighted. 191. by Associated Literary Bureau.
Abel Durham bad. lived for year at
Miss Pollock's boarding bouse and had
patiently eaten the dishes that were
set before him till one Sunday morn
ing he revolted at the usual corned
beef bash or bacon and eggs. He de
clined to est ber breakfast and sought
Miss Tollock and gave notice that be
would leave. He gave, among other
reasons for bis doing so, that be was
about to be married.
Anastasia Pollock's head went up
proudly. Fire came to her blue eyes.
"Biddy," she said smoothly, "ask Mrs.
Jasper if she will have some more
corned beef bash!"
e e e e e
Abel Durha'm pattered down th
brownstone steps of bis boarding place
and wandered aimlessly to the corner,
where he waited for a car. His eye
glanced slyly back at Miss Pollock's
comfortable abode, and be stifled a
pigh as be thought of its many good
qualities, its homelike atmosphere and
its home cooked food, and to one who
had been a dweller in boarding bouses
during twenty years of city life. Miss
Pollock's house was a pleasant refuge.
But the monotony of the daily meals
jarred upon him.
Each day in the week brought its
allotted bill of fare, and there was no
wavering from this rule. As her moth
er had ordered so Miss Anastasia car
ried on the house when the mantle fell
upon her delicate shoulders.
This rebellion of Abel Durham was
the outcome of several years of hope
ful waiting for a change. Jfow he had
not only given up his pleasant front
room with the open fireplace, but be
had told Miss Pollock be was to be
married. How to make good this last
reckless statement was puzzling the
usually tranquil mind of the bachelor.
Abel Durham had not courted a girl
for twenty years, not since he had left
Telfleet village to enter business life
in the great city.
"I will do it. I've got to make
good," said Abel, with a sickly smtle,
as he boarded his car and rode to the
railroad station. He bought a ticket
for Telfleet and took bis place In the
stuffy, cindery coach that the railroad
company considered good enough for
the little single track Telfleet branch.
"Whoooo-eeee-e-e-e-e!" shrieked the
engine as it wound away among the
hills toward Telfleet.
Abel Durham looked out of the win
dow and noted the familiar landmarks
as the train rumbled through villages,
over bridges or skirted the river bank
in Its progress. Suddenly a large
mountain overshadowed them.
"Telfleet mountain," murmured Abel
without joy in bis tones.
Since be had left tbe home of his
boyhood all his family had moved to
the far west, so that Abel was not
going home to any near relatives. Per
haps there were distant cousins, but
it might be they were dead or had
forgotten him. ,
Abel Durham was bound on a sin
gular errand.
He was going back to Telfleet to try
to resurrect one of bis old romances
He had told Miss Pollock he was to
be married, and married he must be.
His busy life had left no room Jor sen
timent, and so he perforce must fall
back upon the half finished romances
of his young manhood. There was
pretty Amy Cox. She had given him
a pink rose when he left Telfleet and
told him she would wait for him a
hundred years if necessary!
Somehow Abel had forgotten all
about Amy In the rush of business.
They had corresponded for awhile,
and now he couldn't remember who
bad been the first to stop writing.
"Telfleet!" called the brakeman.
The station stage backed down, and
the driver yelled to him: "Stage! AU
-yup!"
Abel climbed into tbe long, swaying
vehicle and rattled around in its
emptiness as the big white horses bore
them through the village streets at a
helter skelter pace.
"Where you want to go?" called the
driver from a corner of his mouth.
"Philander Cox's place," replied
Abel, turning red.
"Up mountain way," muttered the
man as if for his own information.
The stage whirled perilously around
the corner by the postofflce and rat
tled along the road that ran by the
river bank. At last they began to
climb the mountain toward a white
house perched among the oaks.
"Whoa ytin;!" called the driver, and
Abel paid his fare and dismounted.
The stage rattled down the mountain,
and Abel went into the yard 'of the
familiar place.
The same boxwood bordered the
paths, and the same roses bloomed,
and the same bees tumbled in and out
of the blossoms. He felt a bov once
more as he settled his necktie and
started toward the house.
A pretty girl sitting on the stens of
the house arose as be approached.
Abel Durham stood with his hat in
his hand, his eyes staring at this rein
carnation of Amy Cox's youth. How
had Amy contrived to remain so youth-
ruir tie was suddenly conscious of
the bald spot on bis bead and of th
crowsfeet about hi line eye. At Mlsj
Pollock's table and among his buninest
associate be never thought of hi age.
in the face of Amy's perpetual youth.
he felt like Rip Van Winkle.
"Amy. I don't believe you remember
me." He smiled tentatively at her.
The girl smiled vaguely and edged
toward the front door. "Ma!" she
called.
4Well?" cried an impatient voice
from within.
"Here's here' an old gentleman to
ee somebody," she ended crudely and
then fled in tbe direction of tbe gate,
where a young man In a red necktie
was suddenly waiting to take ber to
drive in a shining new buggy.
'Old gentleman!" Abel Durham turn-
ed crimson at the opprobrious fem
The front door opened and a fa(5M
little? woman came out drying Z
hands on ber gingham apron. She H
obviously Just concluded wsshinj ft!
Sunday dinner dishes, and she
into tbe nearest rocking chair Tit,
weary sigh, removing her j,ro
tossing It aside all in oDe swift J
ture.
"Howdy dor she queried without K.
terest as she surveyed Abe.'s Immtr.
late figure. "Won t you sit dows ,
fepell? Fa's over to Wcstwood todjr
I guess you're the new preacher W
North Telfleet, ain't you?"
Abel Durham stared at her. xb1
faded little gray haired woman vj,
the mother of the girl he had taken tot
Amy. So this must be Amy. Aar
must be married! A chill feeling took
possession of Lis well ordered bein
and he suddenly thought of his room
Miss Tollock's, and a great fear assjfi.
ed him that Miss Anastasia mipht nnt
the room to some one else before lienv
turned.
"I'm not the new preacher,' he ss'
with a sickly smile. "I'm Abel Ing.
ham. Don't yon remember me?"
The woman sat tip and peered down
at him from Amy Cox's beautiful b!w
eyes. "Abel Durbani!" she gasped at
last. "To think of your catching
like this! I'd never have known yo
you've grown so fat!"
"Fat?" echoed Abel helplessly.
She laughed with amusement "Don't
you know it? My, don't you remember
how thin you used to be? Tbe borg
used to call you 'Skinny Durham. " I
remember once Jake Fenlow called yog
that and you struck out at him and
you had an awful fight Ton liciei
him. too. although you wns such i
skinny little fellow! Yon couldn't lick
bim now; you're too fat!" laughed Amr.
"I couldn't, eh? What has beconw
of Jake Fc-nlow?" demanded Abel
fiercely.
"I married him," said Amy calmly.
There was a long silence.
"I've got to be going," said Abel nd
denly. "I. was just looking around tbe
mountain, and I thought I'd drop la
and see you."
"Glad to see you. Come In when
ever you're passing by," invited Sin.
Fenlow ambiguously. "Jamie, what
are you up to in there?" She dartH
Inside the house, and Abel Durban
took advantage of her absence to o
part.
He hurried down the mountain road,
panting and pufflng with the unaccus
tomed exertion. He overtook the fals
ing new buggy and noted with a sick
ening recollection of bis own lost youth
that the young man in the red necktie
had bis arm around pretty Amy's slen
der waist He heard the girl giggle as
he rushed past them in a cloud of dust
raised by his own hurried feet
Along by the river bank he overtook
the stage making its lazy way toward
the station, and he buried himself In
its musty depths with a sigh of relief.
All the way back to the city his mind
was busy with plans for the future,
so that when in the quiet of the Sot
day evening he presented himself it
Miss Anastasia Tollock s parlor door
be was not only immaculately garbed,
but bis mind was set in order as we!
Anastasia was reading by tbe lifW
of a pink shaded lamp, and s plat
shawl was thrown about her shoulder),
lending a fictitious glow to her pi
cheeks. Her fair hair was slighrty
loosened and softened the sharp o
lines drawn by relentless time.
For a moment Abel Durham watcra
her, a queer little feeling of wanHn?
to protect Anastasia from the stomu
of life disturbing his heart. Rem
Miss Pollock from this boarding home
atmosphere, place her in a cbannlnf
borne, let her rest and rest again why..
Anastasia would be handsome! B
longed to do it. and the desire had bed
born in him way back there o
mountain, when he bad realized? rfctt
It was too late to take up tbe broken
threads of youth. The threads of i
middle age were interwoven with tie
threads of Anastasia Pollock's life. To
gether they would make a fabric
gray and silver, with the rosy tbras
of romance running through!
"Ob. Mr. Durham!" fluttered Ana''
sia as be closed the door and cam for
ward. ..
"I can't go away, Miss Pollock,"
Abel firmly.
"You said you were going to be '
lied," murmured Anastasia. . "I
pose you'll want to bring the
here?" i
Abel shook his head.
"I shall never marry any on',,
yon will have me. Miss Tollock. AM
tasia. I should say." he said. "1 w
yon don't mind if I call you Ana-
sia?"
It toot th howUdered AnastaM
half hour to understand that Abell
bam really meant what he
than h Hmnnnrl hop tired hd ,Ga
said that Abel might call her nytMn'
he liked. .
"111 call you wife, then," Mia
boldly as he kissed her cheek.
And It Is a significant fact tht
Durham never will permit olslB
corned beef bash at tbeir coy bre"'
fast table.
Jan. 21 in American
History.
1734-John Fitch, steamboat
competitor of Kobert Fu'W
at Windsor. Conn.; died l98-.
1S23 John G. E. Heckwelder.
ary to Indians, died; b01""1.',
1910 The national guard of rf
eral states became a permM'
junct of the regular a"0
lUhment by the operation
Dick law. -
Higher rViv
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That isn't much of ap
Henry. Georg tells m I' t J
feet" Kansas adjournal.
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