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THIS ARGUS.
Published dally at 114 Second ava
Bue. Hock IMand. l:L (Entered at tha
poitofn.-a as eecond-clasa tnattsr.)
BY THE J. W. POTTER CO.
TERMS Ten cent per week by car
rier. In Rock Island: IS per year by mall
In ad ranee
Complaints of delivery service shoalJ
ba aidt to the rirc-jlatlnn department,
which should No notified in every
Instance where it la dc aired tJ have
papar discontinue.!, aa carrier have ua
authority In tha prerMsea.
All cornmunleatlona of ara-umentsttra
eharaxter. political or rella-lous. must
real name attached for publica
tion. No auch articles will be printed
over fictitious s!rn tares.
Telephone in all departments. Cen
tral Vnloo. Rock Iilan.1 14S. lltS and
Jit.
) COUNCIL t
Monday. April 6, 1314.
Remember This
Ballot on April 7
Decide now to vote yes" on the
separate annexation ballot which
will be handed to both men and wo
men when they go into the polling
places April 7.
It is Important.
Further tracts of South Rock Island
are asking admittance to the city.
By voting "yes" on all five of these
propositions you will help to ex
tend the city's territory and will as
sist in preparing the way for future
additions.
Vote the democratic ticket.
Vote for annexation and a
Rock Island.
greater
Let It be above all things an hon
est election.
Vote "yes"
propositions.
on a'l the annexation
Stand by the democratic town ticket
nnd get a new deal.
The announcement that wealthy per.
sons suffer most from cancer helps
reconcile a lot of us to our lot.
You've probably noticed that Billy
Sunday, in discussing the success or
his revivals, invariably talks in dollars
and cents.
An Arkansas ranchman has been
haled Into court because lie had 16
wives. He made the simple error of
operating In the wrong state.
Sir Edward Carson now has the
English militant suffragists on his
back. He wi!l likely come to realize
that the Irish of Ulster are well be
haved folks by comparison.
The big interests are again letting
go of the money in an effort to pre
pare the way for the return of the re
publican party to power, as witness
the political advertising being used in
Rock Island In so small a contest as
a township election.
Someone has discovered that the
dinner pall la passing and at once as
signs It to the snobbishness of the
American workmen, when the
chances are that the American work
man is eating hot lunches at conven
ient restaurants and saving hla diges
tion from ruin.
Mrs. Charles W. Morse's net ants
, that she brought from Europe escaped
i In the department of agriculture at
.' Washington, and It required an hour
to recapture them. She ought to be
' compelled to provide a nurse for them
so It will not be so difficult to keep
; track of them In future.
t The Chicago election commissioners
have dealt a severe blow to the soup
? house Influence In polities. At one
session the board lopped off the names
of 1.0C6 floaters. If the good work
' roes on the regular residents of tho
: levee wards In that city may yet see
the day when they will have an crfec-
tlve voice Jn selecting their officials.
EE READY TO VOTE.
!; Siire you know how you are go
' ir.g to vote hforo you get Into the
; rl'scilon booth with your ballot Tuea
; day. You seed not tell anyone what
- you havo made up your mind to do.
for the Australian eysteni guarantees
' secrecy, but having one's Ideas In
'tconcrte form will materially assist In
' fconomy of time and efficiency In
rejrtsterlng the popular wllL
' And do not put off voting till tho
last hour of tho day. Co to tho polls
la the morning. If pcrblble, and the
earlier the better.
1 In nearly every precinct 't la prob-
able that voters will be lined up at
'. the polls all day. Curta'nly a dlspofi-
tlon to delay voting on the part of any
considerable number will mean corifu
; (ion In the closing hours.
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(FREDERICK WEYERIIAEU3ER
Frederick Weyerhaeuser was one of
jthe best of tha many good examples
America has offered of what an lndi
lvldual, working steadily, consistently,
; Intelligently and untiringly ran ac
complish In lifetime. Few have be-
gun their careers at an earlier age
;lhaa lie, few who have attained great
success have had at the wart more slen
der resources and poorer compensa
tion, and possibly none who err lived.
I oNnmrllulnil more In tha accumu
lation of wealth.
Mr. Weyerhaeuser had no hobble"
beyond his business affairs. They wore
all sufficient to him. He cared not at
all for the luxuries to which hl wealth
gave Mm access. The simple, frugal.
Industrious hablta of his early life he
kept with him to the end and they
were the chief sources of his physical
and mental strength.
Nor did the possession of riches af
foet him in his relations with his fel
lows. He was always approachable,
and ho Judged men by what they were
rather than by the clothes they wore
or the size of their bank accounts.
DANGERS OP ATHLETICS.
Inasmuch as the fundamental aim of
athletics Is, or at any rate ought to be.
health, it Is not unreasonable to ask' In
what degree each type of game or
sport approaches this ideal of contrib
uting to a sound body and the enjoy
ment of Its physical resources. It wil:
probably be found difficult to compare
the health-giving virtues of tennis and
cricket, of skating and basketball, of
rowing and tug-of-war. The factors
of enjoyment, of the special participa
tion of definite organs of the body, of
opportunity, season, environment, etc..
are too complicated to permit a very
critical analysis. But Dr. Bartsch of
Heidelberg has wisely suggested that
it may become feasible to correlate the
dangers attending the various athletic
sports and to furnish a sort of "scale"
whereby one could determine the
relative likelihood of damage or In
jury to be encountered In the promi
nent athletic pastimes. This Is not
unlike the condition In Industrial oc
cupations, for many of which the Inci
dence of accident and harm is known.
If the statistics of accidents in athlet
ics, and the personal harm known to
result all ,too often, could be gathered
In eome way for purposes of public
contrast, the physician and physical
culture teacher could advise more in
telligently regarding the desirability of
participation. We believe, however,
says The Journal of the American
Medical association, that the greatest
advantage of this suggestion would
lie in the reforms which the facts thus
elicited would inevitably promote. A
few well-attested data regarding the
undoubted dangers of crew races, of
football and some other much-vaunted
sports might serve to direct public at
tention to the abuses of athleatics. The
promoters are then usually quick to re
spond. .
OUR DAILY BREAD.
The wide-spread propaganda for the
purity of the food and drug products
of this country has resulted in the
necessary attempt to standardize all
articles which enter into these cate
gories. In the case of certain famil
iar materials like sugar and coffee this
has not Involved any formidable diffi
culties. The question asto what con
stitutes mince pie. on the other hand,
has aroused storms of claims and
counterclaims on behalf of the recipes
of different regions and generations.
Like numerous other illustrations
which might be cited, this experience
has served to call attention to the
really great diversity of our food con
coctions and the pardonable laxness
in the use of current terms that ap
pear in the American menu.
It might be expected that so com
mon an article of diet as Dread would
exhibit some uniformity of composi
tion. Yet the chemist of the Connecti
cut agricultural experiment station re
ports that COO loaves of bread, repre
senting the product of 79 Connecticut,
one Springfield, Mass.. and three New
York bakeries "showed wide varia
tions in all their Ingredients." For ex
ample, the moisture content ranged
from 27 to 40 per cent., so that In some
Instances the bread contained exces
sive amounts of water. The fat pres
ent also showed a wide range, from
0.03 to 4.37 per cent. These differ
ences are largely due to the methods
of the bakers. In some cases only
flour, yeast and salt are used, while
in others milk, butter, lard and sugar,
either alone or in combination, are em
ployed. The variations in fat are also
due in part to the fact that in the
process of baking a part of the fat Is
destroyed. In om samples the
amount of fat found Is much lower
than could have resulted from the use
of any brand of flour.
A comparison of the variations In a
five-cent loaf if bread la interesting in
other directions also. The actual
amount of dry matter per loaf In the
Corr.;-ctlcut samples ranged from 7.9
to 21.7 ounces; the average weight. of
the loaf In nine cities ranged from
12.9 to 15.2 ounces. The cheapness of
the three and four-cent loaves indi
cated a real saving, as far aa quality
Is concerned,- because the decrease
in price was greater than the decrease
la weight. As the price of a loaf of
bread has remained stable, at five
cents, while the cost of the Ingred
ients has Increased, changes la the real
cost of the nutrients of bread must bo
sought In the changes of eize or com
position of the loaf. According to In
vestigations made In New Jersey in
1895, loaves costing four and five cents
weighed from 12.7 to 21.8 ounces, av
erage 16.4 ounces. In 1895 In New
Jersey 68 per cent of the five-cent
lowves weighed over 16 ounces, and 3
per cent over 1S ounces, while In 1912
In Connecticut only 7 per cent weighed
over 16 ounces, and only 16 per cent
over 15 ounces. Assuming similar
conditions In these two states, the
average weight of the five-cent loaf has
shrunk since 1S95 from 16.4 to 14
ounces, or 15 per cent. When aJJ-fTas
been said, observes The Journal of the
American Medical Association, the
fctudent of nutrition will doubtless still
remaric mat oreau is ciieap ai . any
price.
Complicated.
"Ton most atop worrying and take a
holiday," said the suave practitioner.
"My dear doctor," replied the Irrlta
Lie patient, " I could get my affairs
into a shape that woold permit me to
take a holiday I'd be ao relieved that 1
wouldn't need one." London Opinion.
Capital .
BY CLYDE
Congressman from
SDolal Correspondence of Tha Aran".)
Washington. D. C. April 4. The
proposition whether the federal gov
ernment will attempt to promon cuu
labor in this nation
by forbidding the
product of child
labor factories to
pass In Interstate
commerce, is ap
parently coming to
an Issue before the
present congress.
The bill introduced
In the house by
Representative A.
Mitchell Palmer,
of Pennsylvania,
and In the senate
by Senator Owen,
of Oklahoma. . is
now being consid
ered by commit
tees, and there la
every reason to be
lieve that the
house committee
on labor will bring
CLYDE M.
.TAVENNER
the bill out with a favorable report.
Should this measure get before the
house the country will see what
weight can be put on the oft repeated
charge that the democrats will do noth
ing to prevent child labor because of
the members from the south where
children are employed In the co'.ton
mills.
The indication are. however, that if
the house, with Its southern demo
crats, ever gets a whack at the Insti
tution of child labor it will adopt a
prohibiting bill with a whoop. Most
of the southerners do not contend that
they cannot compete with northern
cotton mills when adults are employ1
FX
HIGH SCHOOL BOYS IN THE SHOPS
Real industrial training that pre
pares for real jobs is described in a
bulletin on the co-operative plan at
Fitchburg, Mass., Issued by the United
States bureau of education. Boys in
the Fitchburg high school, who attend
alternate weeks in school and shop,
are made to feel that their vocational
training Is serious business. Here are
some of the directions given to each
"co-op" student when he starts as an
apprentice.
"Remember that the object of work
is production. Your foreman meas
ures you by the quantity and quality
of your work. Social position does not
enter. In the shop you are not a high
school boy, you are a apprentice.
Wear clothes accordingly. If you get
the mistaken idea that any work given
you is beneath the dignity of a high
school boy. just remember you are an
apprentice and get 100 per cent busy.
"It la your business to get along
smoothly with the workmen and fore
man; and theirs to get along with
you.
"Do not expect any personal atten
tion from the superintendent. He will
probably Ignore you entirely, but he
knows whether or not you are making
good, and In most cases, hla idea of
you depends upon your ability to
please your foreman. Don't be a kick
THE STAR'S
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NE night, when the sun had set.
the sky shone with a rosy gold
and little white clouds drifted :
here and there. f 4
. High up in the heavens a little
star winked and blinked and rubbed
his eyes. .
i "Oh, dear," he exclaimed, " is It
time for me to go to work?" "
t A kind little cloud near by an
swered back, "Yes, it's time for you
to get to work and shine for the
sun has gone away and the darkness
is coming. The people on earth are
already looking up to see if you are
snining." r-
"Oh. dear," grumbled the star,
"and I'm to slerpy, couldn't I jusi
!.-;p tonight and shine some otHer
n:ghtr"
i "The very idea, no indeed," ex
claimed the moon, who hung like at
slim golden crescent in the sky,
."every star must shine every night
cr cle the earth people "would be in
darkness "
i ".I'll tell you a good plan," said
the kind little cloud, anxious to help
if oossible. "I'll stav riclit in front
of you for a few minutes and you
can finish your nap before you begin
shining for the night."
i So the cloud gathered up her frills
and stood squarely in front of the
atar stood just as still as she could!
V Down on the earth on the steps
oi a nig porcn, two nine cnuaren sat
watcning ior stars.
"I think it's time for them now,"
"said the oldest, "the sun has been
tone some time."
"i thought I saw cne right up
there a minute ago," added the
-funger, "but it was dim and sleepy
and now a cloud has covered it up.
"Let's watch, maybe the cloud
will go away."
So together they watched and
waited.
I'p in the sky, the little cloud
aid, "Time to wake up now I must
go."
"Yes, I'm waking up." said the
'star sleepily, "I'll be ready in a sec
end." So he brushed the sleepiness from
his eyes and began to shine very
brightly.
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Comment
H. TAVENNER
the Fourteenth District.
ed In both cases. The objection In
that when states attempt to prohibit
child labor singly there are sure to be
great discriminations in business
against the states which are pioneers
in this movement
A general federal law would end
tills objection. It would put all states
on the same footing at once.
The Palmer Owen bill Is regarded as
an admirable one by the leaders In the
movement to abolish child labor. In
many respects the law simply applies
nationally the restrictions which many
states have already adopted. In ordi
nary manufacturing occupations the
bill prohibits the employment of chil
dren under 14 years of age. Forty
states have similar laws. It prohibits
the employment of children under 16
years of age In mines and quarries.
FlUeen states have a similar prohibi
tion. It prohibits the employment of chil
dren for more than eight hours a day.
Eighteen leading industrial states have
taken this position. It prohibits night
work for children. So do 33 states.
State by state legislation does not
solve what Is now generally conceded
to be an evil. In testifying before the
senate committee Mrs. Florence Kelly,
of the Consumers' league, said:
"It is over 30 years since I enlisted
in the effort to get better legislation
for the protection of children. I be
lieve there are more children under 16
years old working today in dangerous
occupations than there were when I
began.- because our manufacturing In
dustries have increased stupendously
and our state legislation has halted.
There has been no unity In our pro
gress." er and don't continually bother your
foreman foreigner wages.
"Never try to conceal defective
work. Take your full measure of
blame, and do not make the same mis
take twice.
"Watch, in a quiet way, what things
are being done around you, and don't
be afraid to ask sensible questions. A
good ru'e Is to think over a question
twice before asking. A reputation Tor
having "horse sense" means that you
are making good.
"Foremen and workmen will take
pleasure In showing you, if you show
yourself genuinely appreciative of lit
tle attentions. If they tell you- some
thing you already know, don't spoil
their pleasure by telling them you
already know, but let it be impressed
on your mind all the deeper; for the
conversation may lead to something
which is entirely new to you.
"The fool act of one co-op hurts ev
ery co-op. See that your actions In
and out of the shop do not bring dis
credit on the co-op course."
Representatives of the United States
bureau' of education and others who
have observed the work say that the
spirit of these directions Is carried out
everywhere in the Fitchburg plan. Vo
cational training of the Fitchburg type
is an opportunity for worth-while
w-ork, not an easy way of dodging the
grind of academic studies.
SECRET.
And the ."cloud began to move
away.
"Remember" exclaimed the moon.
"don't tell our secret tonight!'
"Oh no, I won't, answered the
star, "I'll just wink and blink and
their dreams they had learned tin
secret the stars wouldn't tell.
, .
laugh with the earth people, but I'll
not them our secrctl Oh no, in-
de"-
J.ust tI,en "e cloud melted away
,.c , ' J. " "'"i.
See! there it is," exclaimed the
younger child, "there's the star I
thought I saw, only it's shining
brighter now. Look, it's winking
and nodding to us as if it could tell
us something."
"I think it's laughing as if it
could tell us something, but isn't
going to. Let's watch and sec!"
So they watched and waited.
The sky grew darker. v
Then more stars shone out each
winking and blinking with the fun
of having a secret!
Pretty soon one star glanced down
and there on the steps of a big porch,
she saw two children fast asleep.
And the children were smiling, for
in their dreams they had learned the
serret the stars wouldn't tell!
J amorrau' .-1
Colonial Story.
Ingram Judaon.
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HENRY" HOWLAND
lost CK
arms
Ah. you had a win
some fv,
Geraidine;
All your ways wera
full of (Trace,
Geraidine;
The blue that tlnta
the skies
Waa reflected In
your eyes.
And you charmed
me with your
algha,
Geraidine.
Just to alt and g-aze
at you.
Geraidine.
Waa the sweetest
Joy I knew,
Geraidine;
When you spoke my
senses fled.
When you smiled I
lost my head;
Oeraldlne.
Testerday you went
to tide.
Geraldlna,
With your chauffeur by your aide,
Geraidine:
Through the foolrsh wish to race
Tou have lost your winsome face,
It la up the road some place,
Geraldlna.
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When I hear yon slfh today,
- Geraldlna.
I but turn my head away,
Geraldlna. .
There's a bandage where yon
WOT
Buch a chaining- smile before
Tou have pearly teeth no more,
Geraidine.
CANDID OPINION.
The scientists have discovered that
laziness Is a disease, but they will
never find out how lazy people can be
induced to take anything for it.
In these days the woman who can go
Into the kitchen and get up a meal
herself is no heroine to her servant.
If one has enough enthusiasm he
can do almost anything. The trouble
Is to work up the enthusiasm.
The woman who has little feet that
look well bare Is always hoping some
friend of hers will give a costume ball.
Fashionable women still permit their
little daughters to play with dolls.
This doubtless is because there are no
dummy doggies on the market.
LUCKY RIP.
did
Rip Van Winkle
sleep so long?"
"Well, one rea
son, I suppose,
was that his wife
wasn't there to
wake him up
every few min
utes and tell him
she was sure
there were burglars In the house."
The Ones We Cannot Please.
The robin that sings In the morning glow
A song Is full of plee
May txj fretting- some sad soul here be
low With the song that is sweet to me:
The roisterer who. care free, last night
Went reveling late and long-.
May rail at the robin that gives delight
To me with his matin song.
But little, I think, does the robin care
For the hate of the one who lies
With a heavy heart on his bed up there
And rubs at his bloodshot eyes.
And why should you. as you strive away,
Be chilled by the sneering fewT
We can't pleas all with the things we
say
Or the things that we sing or do.
The Other Way of Uooking at It.
"I suppose," said the benevolent vis
itor to the bright-looking patient,
"that there are rrmny people id this
asylum who really ought not to be
here."
"Well, there may be a . few, but
think of the crowds outside who ought
to be here with you and me."
Ambition.
The room at the top will never
Cause the man who loafs to fret.
As long- us there's more at the bottom
And it's easier to get.
Some Boy Are So Dull.
"I propose," said the ambitious
young man, "to girdle the earth."
"Oh!" she Innocently exclaimed,
"why do you begin on such a big
thing?"
But he Juet sat there and twirled hla
hat. the foolish fellow.
His Faux Pas.
"Do you believe there. Is any truth
In signs?" he asked.
"Oh. yes. firmly." she answered,
pointing to the one that said "Dell
clous Ice cream soda, ten cents a
glass."
Caught.
"Oh, colonel," exclaimed the beau
tiful grass widow, "I never dreamed
when you brought me out here that
you cared for me. But really I would
love you even if you had no right to
be called anything but 'Mr.' "
Letting Them Down Easy.
"I womder why sho decided to get
married In EuropeT"
"She had such a large circle of.
friends over here that she didnt wish
to Invite."
"What whs tbe worst money panic
you ever saw?" asked ono financier of
another.
"The worst money pnnlc I ever
saw." was the reply, "was when a
fifty cent piece rolled uuder the seat
of u street car nnd seven different wo
men claimed it." Exchange.
"Pa. why
Kill
The Daily Story
Disenchanted By Esther Vand eveer,
Copyrighted, 1914. by Associated Literary Bureau.
There were four of ns youngsters In
Wbeatfleld about tbe same age and In
timate friends. Helen Porter and I
were bosom friends, and .Tim Mac A Jes
ter and Edwnrd Dudley were insepa
rable. These two young men used to
come -to see Helen nnd me a lwnya to
gether till a time came when we paired
off, Jim and 1 unking one couple. ed
and Helen tbe other. .
I don't know a better way to make
mctches than for two girls, cbums.
and two fellows, chums, to form
nuartet for spending their leisure
hours. Almost always one of tbe
couples will get to lovemnklng. and
the other will catch the Infection. Jlua
and I caught It from Ned and nelcn
I think it was their example that aet
Jim and me to thinking about mar
riage. At nny rate. Jim began to grow
spoony, and I, thinking that I waa not
likely to do better, encouragea mm
In due time he proposed, nnd I accept
ed him. At this time Ned and Helen
had been engaged several montba and
bad fixed their wedding day. But be
fore It came round Helen was taken
ill. and it was put off. Helen recovered,
and another day was fixed, but thla
time Ned fell sick, and there waa an
other postponement.
When Ned Improved his doctor order
ed him to the mountains, where he
would breathe a dry air. He went out
to the Rockies, to be gone a few
mouths, at the end of which time and
on his return the wedding day was to
be fixed for the third time. We all
went to the station to see him off. He
did not wish to go any more than
Helen wished to have him go. Jim
consoled him till tbe train started, and
Helen went home In the carriage with
me, weeping on my shoulder as though
her heart would break.
Ned wrote that be was picking up
marvelously out in tbe mountains, and
when two months bad elapsed he
wrote Helen to brush up her trousseau
for he would be back in a few weeks
for the wedding. Poor Helen came
to me with a lugubrious face about her
trousseau, for the fashions had chang
ed a couple of times since it was first
made. Articles that were cut short
then had since been cut long: those
that had been made scant were now
made full. She had bought several ex
pensive bats, very small, and the fash
Ion had bloomed out to enormous pro
portions. I helped her prepare a new trous
seau; but, alas, it. too. passed out of
fashion in closets and bureau drawers.
Ned, -instead of coming home, wrote
that he had bought a gold mine and
was going to make a fortune. He had
some property and put a portion of it
into his gold mine and felt it necessary
that he should stay where he was till
the property toad been placed on a
paying basis. -
When this next period had pushed
Ned turned his property Into cash ind
put it all into his gold mine, ne wrote
Helen that this was necessary, because
if he didn't he would lose what he bad
already invested.
Helen's trousseau had now been made
over so inauy times tuat it wouia not
bear any more altering, and it was
fortunate she didn't try to bring it
down to date, for Ned was delayed in
getting his mine into shape to leave.
All waa going on. swimmingly when a
considerable flow of water was struck.
A large pump must be ordered, and
when it arrived it was found not to be
large enough. Then there was a labor
strike among the miners. And so it
went on, first this trouble, then that,
till finally all Ned's fortune had gone
down into the big hole In the ground.
Ned wrote Helen telling her what
had happened that he had no income
and would remain where he was till
he "had recovered what he had lost.
He offered to release her from her en
gagement, but so far as he was con
cerned he would never marry any one
else. When he got his affairs in prop
er shape to take a wife, if Helen were
free, he would claim her. Meanwhile
he would not blame her If she married
another.
Helen replied that she felt Jut as
Ned did about it. Her heart had been
given tohini nnd she could not if sh
would give it to another. If at the end
of five. ten. even twenty years be
claimed her he would find ber ready
to give herself to him.
Meanwhile Jim and I were married
and getting on nicely. We regretted
that our companion couple's affair had
not turned out so well. 1 did my best
to cheer Helen, n-nd Jim wrete to en
courage Ned. Rut the case looked
hopeless to us. Ned was n long while
after the collapse of his mine getting
any kind of start, and when he got
one It wasn't enough to marry on. . Sev
eral years passed, and he felt that he
and Helen bad waited so long that be
didn't care to marry without getting
his affaiis into excellent shape,
A dozen years passed, during which 1
Ned Dudley went up and down hill a
number of times, never remaining on
a crest long enough to warrant accord
ing to bis own - Ideas his taklntr a
wife. He kept Helen's picture with
bim and never failed for a single day
to look at it. for It was on his dressing
oae. w!;er he could not help feelnsr t
And Helen CM the same by him. When
they parted she was a beautiful girl
and Ned wns one. of tbe haudsoiuest
young men 1 ever met. 1 was frequent
ly iu Helen's room hud never fulled to
see her lover's picture in a morocco
frame standing ou her dresser.
Twepty years passed . while Helen
was waiting for Ned to get his affairs
iu shape to marry her. Then one day
be made up his mind tbat his income
wns snmVieut for the purpose. She
bad snid that If he came even after
twenty years' absence he would find
ber ready to marry hlin. He would
come t;st Hint take. her buck with him.
When Jim showed me a letter from
Ned unuouncing his romlug we looked
...11.1, itiiAi- .i.-tiirniii. tiia lAt-fr.tt-
coutaiued a reference to the bvautlful i
fare that had n.itienn
upon him from his burean for so m
years. It was my belief that Jsed Jl
thinking of marrying this young gjriu
stend of the faded, middle aged
that she had become. Had be til
with her all this while the cb!Z
would have not been noticeable-
least not shocking. "
J't" "" pt to grow old W.
Ing as Women, and quite likely Z
had kept a youthful appearance.
did not fear Helen's being disappoint J
in bim. only bis being disappointed Z
her, for she looked ten years older thai
she was. and her face bad taken 09!
disappointed expression. Her comp-M.
ion was white: her hair was thin tnd
streaked with gray. She was certuw.
not tne woman a man of bis sgewoomd
choose for a wife. He would natnmt. "
prerer one rrom ten to twenty jtin
younger.
Ned did not write her that be wat
coming, ne wished to surprise b.
So in his letter to Jim he asked bin
not to mention the matter to ow.
"Don't you think. Jim." 1 aai'
we had better give him a sight of b
without her knowing it? If be wisb
to go no further it will be better for
both of them that he should be freets
go back west without making himself
known."
"Right you are, my dear." Jim .
plied. "And I'm not sure but that wt
should give Helen a peep at Ned na.
der the same conditions. I saw a mas
from the west the other day wbo
knows Ned very well. He told me tbat
Ned was not a fresh looking man at
all. He was nearly bald, and what
hair was left was white as swrw.
This gives a comparatively young mti
a very old appearance."
"That's fortunate. He won't be n
likely to be disappointed with Helena
looks."
"He won't, eh? He will be blind t
his imperfections, and she will t
blind to hers.
I sigLed, for I feared that Jim spoke
the truth.
When Ned arrived he went straight
to Jim, happy after having waited so"
many years at the prospect of being
united with the love of his youth. Jmt
came home from tbe meeting and told
me tbat Ned looked even older than be
had been described. He bad talked en
thusiastically about Helen's beautiful
features, the curves of ber figure and
all that. Jim had asked bim to dinner,
stating that I would be glad to tell bim
all about Helen, so tbat he might be
the better prepared to meet ber after
their long separation.
It occurred to me to Invite Helen to
the house while Ned was there. I tele
phoned her tbat Jim was to have a
friend with him during the evening
and I would like ber to come over and
sit with me.
When Ned saw me it was plain that
he was a bit shocked at the change
in me. I saw by his expression that
he was thinking whether he would see
the same change In Helen. He had
apparently been disposed to chat witli
me in the way of youngsters, such as
we were when we parted indeed, be
tried, but the effort was a failure.
Where, oh. where was that head of
thick raven hair I had admired so
much? Where the white teetb, tne
slender figure? And life in a rongh
country bad roughened Ned. He waj
bronzed and seemed to have forgotten
the king's English.
After dinner Ned and Jim smoked. I
retiring to another part of the room.
Helen came In, and we could botb
see and hear the men chatting.
"Who is that old boor over tners
with Jim?" asked nelen.
"Do you consider him a boor?" I
asked. ,
"He's both disagreeable looking sod
speaking."
This was my experience with Helen.
Jim's experience with Ned was told
me later. Ned paid no attention to tbe
lady chatting with me until Jim SP0
of her as a friend of mine and a lovelj
woman. Then Ned gave her a glaa
remarking:
"Tbe old lady looks ready to tarn BP
her toes, doesn't she?"
Helen went borne, leaving Ned s0
with us. Jim then told him be baa
been looking on bis ladylove.
looked astounded, disappointed. tt
frightened. .
"Does she know I'm here?" he assea.
"No: we have kept your secret.
"Don't say anything till I tell S
to."
"Mum's the word."
The next day Ned told Jim that
had
received a telegram mat
with his uu"-
IU1U.S imu .- c trait
ness and he must leave for tbe wr
at once. It would not be wise w u
to reuew the affair with bis old ton
when so pressed for time. He woo
make another trip for the P'H'P08
Hut another trip was
never iu-
: . . . .. . .1 ,...
As rx
.ea nau wi rf
sue was si.-imi i" r--
knowing that the man sne n.ia v
nounced an old boor was the moo
bad so long worshiped. She s'ud
Ished ber memory of him as n vU
their youth.
April 6 in American
History.
17S!-The first United States confi
at its first session Wfi
first electoral returns "
that General George
had been elected the first preskleDt
of the United States. toB
lS02-encrnl Albert Sidney
Confederate commander in
west, killed In the attack on Oraa
lines at Shlloh. Teun.: bora
1 SCO First post of the O. A.
ganized at loeatur. 111. ' terJ
ISOlt-Ohseouies at Arlington eegg
to honor the remains ol J"""
who died In Cuba 1r'0w" ,
during tbe Spanish-American tra
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