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THE ARGUS.
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Tuesday, May 12,1 914.
Tha Chicago newspapers have again
discovered that gunmen are abroad in
their city, unmolested by the police.
A norma! waistline is promised in
the fall styles for women. We are
glad that something is to be normal.
The cablegrams say that ex-King
Manuel's wife is again threatening to
leave him. Another change for Gaby's
press agent.
Some men are born great, some
achieve greatness, and some are paged
In New York hotels, observes the Chi
cago Record-Herald-
Now there will be sure enough war
with Mexico. Richard Harding Davis
has been ia Jail in Mexico City, taken
prisoner by Mexican federals.
Common sense was displayed In the
report of the special committee of the
United Mine Workers against a gen
eral strike on account of the Colorado
trouble. Invariably the striker Is the
heaviest loser In a strike.
News that the surgeons among the
wild Bedouins of the Algerian hinter
land have become so skillful that they
readily undertake such delicate oper
ations as trepanning Is not likely to
start a boom for tnat coumry as
health resort.
Even our most earnest reformers
will doubtless consider China' latest
edict against opium smoking a trine
' severe. If the smoker is under 40 he
is ahot. If over that age he la con
damned to oenal servitude. In either
ca.M the object of the law ig attained.
'at least so far as the individual Is con
eerned.
Through the activity of State Repre
sentative John Devine of the Thirty
fifth senatorial district 1.500.000 wall
. eyed, p'ke. propagated at the state
,flsh hatchery at Havana. HI, have just
been placed in Rock river, 300.000 each
at Sterling. Dixon. Pecatonica and
Rockford. If there were a good live
. fishing club here somebody might
bave been interested in getting part of
these for this part of Rock river.
Railroad experts say it will take $65.
000,000 to put the Rock Island road on
its feet and bring Us rolling stock and
properties up to standard condition.
Here in the city from which the great
' rail system got its name we had no
Idea the case was so bad as that, but
we can hardly do less than hope for
the miracle of the return of that $65,
000,000 from the places to which it
was diverted by the financiers who
bave engineered the company's af
fairs.
THE CASE Or MAIGNE.
Secretary of War Garrison will be
generally commended for the stand he
- has taken against retired army offi
cers writing for newspapers on the
Mexican military operations. The sit
uation is somewhat like that of a pro
fessional baseball player reporting
' games, but the army officer, serving as
' war correspondent, is obviously far
more inimical to the cause of Inter
national peace than the baseball player
writer Is to harmony In the league.
The retired army officer is on pay
and under orders of the war depart
ment. He Is still nominally a part of
lhq government's fighting forces. Lieu
tenant Charles M. Maigne, within the
Mexican federal lines In the present
-.state of military operations, laid him
self open to arrest and punishment as
a spy, and furthermore his conduct
might have properly been construed as
an official violation of the agreement
under which hostilities are supposed
to have been suspended.
THOUGHTLESS, NOT VICIOUS
We overheard, reports the Peoria
Journal, a respected business man.
a church man eay the other day: "I
Lope the United States doesn't
V3I
back down without doing some real
"fighting in Mexico. A war would help
our business tremendously." The man
-be 'was talking to replied that he
-thought war would help all business
and that it would be a good thing for
the country.
The point Is not that these two men
shewed grots ignorance of the econ
omic aide of war for war Is always
-waste and its reaction is certain but
that thousands of Mexican and Amer
ican boys and men might be killed and
maimed for the cake of "helping busi
ness." " Both were "average men," kind
enough In their everyday relations.
and certainly not brutal in their attl-j
tude toward other folk. Neither
would fee anything but contempt for
an undertaker who would wreck
train In order to make business for
himself; and the chancea are that they
would both be touched deeply at the
sight of a neighbor boy with a bullet
hole through his body.
The trouble Is that these men take
a Ion- distance view of ethics. If
thev could think for a while of war as
bringing death and sorrow to their
own homes, or sending bullets through
their own bodies, they would hardly
consider war for the fake of "bust
ness' as a desirable thing. We don't
real'.y mean a good many things we
say, becauFe we so seldom get down
to the bottom of things.
SCHOOL BOARD AIDS SAVING
"Be thrifty" has long been a pre
cept taught in the public schools, but
the school board of Uttle Rock, Ark.,
has decided to give the children of that
city practical encouragement to carry
it out. To that end, says the Survey,
it has organized itself Into a banking
corporation and has established a pen
ny rrovident fund In the schools.
This was conducted last year by the
United Charities, and in taking over
the Institution the school board added
to its membership a representative of
that organization. Six banks are pay
ing the sa'ary of a manager for the
School Savings association.
During the first week the school chil
dren of Little Rock, a city of 50.000.
deposited $343 and during the second
$510.
OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE
COMPENSATION.
The Kern-McGIllicuddy bill to pro
vide compensation for employes of the
United States suffering accidents or
occupational diseases In the course of
their employment was favorably re
ported by the house Judiciary commit
tee April 21. The bill Is being urged
by the American Association for Labor
Legislation, and is endorsed by num
erous medical labor and civic bodies.
The federal government now employs
more than one-third of a million men
and women, many of them In hazard
ous undertakings, such as river and
harbor work, navy yards and arsenals,
the reclamation and forestry services.
and in the canal zone. Official reports
show that many of these employes are
not properly protected against acci
dents and occupational diseases, and
that the Injured are compensated In
adequately or not at all. One case of
acute lead-poisoning causing a loss of
37 days by a navy yard employe was
refused compensation under the ex
isting law because the inhalation of
lead dust in bis case was a necessary
incident" of his occupation, and there
fore there was "nothing accidental in
the Injury resulting therefrom." a
girl employed to fold heavy paper In
the government printing office con
tracted from continuous strain on her
fingers and wrist a cystic growth which
she was obliged to have surgically re
moved, but compensation was refused
her on the ground that her incapacity
was not aue to injury, but to ex
cessive use." Many similar cases. In
cluding compressed air illness, cou'.d
be cited.
In the matter of accidents, "frac
tures of an arm or leg," reports the
Dureau or labor, "have led to pay
ments In amounts less than $25, the
loss of an eye In amounts varying
between $25 and $50, and In the case
of the loss of a right arm the Injured
workman was entitled to a payment
of less than $50."
The Kern-McGillicuddy bill was
drawn by workmen's compensation ex
perts after careful, study. Its enact
ment would establish for United States
employes scientific standards of in
demnity In accord with those of the
more progressive American states and
European countries.
Bed Time Tales
By Clara Ingram Judson.
The Apple Baby
NCE upon a time there was a, you were there at all," said one
big apple orchard with rows petaL "Why don't you hurry up
and rows of apple trees in it. and stow?"
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When the warm spring came with
the rains and sunshine the trees
were covered with blooms so that
they looked like big masses of fiiow,
colored pink by the setting sun.
After a while some hard winds
came and played around the trees.
mat frightened the apple blossoms,
for they had to hold on so very
tighr to keep from falling off.
"Dear me," exclaimed one blos
som. ater an extra hard breeze had
shaken the tree from top to root, "I
can hardly hold on any longer, what
ever shall we dor"
"I'm sure I don't know," ex
claimed the next blossom. "I don't
believe you can do anything but to
bold on as tight as you can."
So aJ day and all night the pet
als hr!J on tightly and the old winds
romped and shook the tree with all
their might.
When the morning' sunshine came,
the winds stopped playing and took
a nap.
As toon as the blossoms were
sure the wind were sound asleep
they let go their hard bold and held
a meeting to decide what to do
about it.
While they were talking about
how to hold on, a tiny new voice
piped out from the very heart of a
l!osom. "I wish .you wouldn't all
r.on on so iignt, you cnuKC
neck."
my
"Dear me, who are you anyway?" com around let's hop on his back
exclaimed the petals as they looked and fly away and see the world."
around to see who could be talking, "All right, we will." cried the pet
"we can't see where you are." ak, and they all made ready.
"You are looking too far away, Just then the wind awoke and
replied the tiny voice. "I'm the new rushed up to the tree to shake it.
baby apple and I m tucked right But the petals were ready. They
down between you." all let go and sailed on the wind
So the petals looked carefully and. je a big cloud over the orchard
sure enough right down between ancj fields.
them was a tiny, tiny green apple, And the tiny green apple, left a!!
not much bigger than a pin head! alone, heaved a big sigh and started
"You're to little we didn't know growing.
Tomorrow Tht Woman in the Moon.
Capital Comment
BY CLYDE H. TAVENNER
Congressman from tha Fourteenth Dlatrtct,
(Special Correspondence of The Arg-us.)
Washington, D. C May 10. Rep
resentative Warren Worth Bailey of
Pennsylvania has introduced a bill pro
viding for the ex-
tension of the free
delivery mail serv
ice to all towns in
the United States
with a population
exceeding 1.000
which are not en
titled under exist
ing laws to such
delivery. The bill
carries with it an
appropriation of
$10,000,000, to be
come Immediately
available on the
passage of the act.
Mr. Bailey takes
the ground that the
present postal ser
vice is anomalous,
in that while resi
TAVCNNER
dents of the cities
and of the rural
districts are given free delivery serv
ice, residents of something over 6.000
communities with an average popula
tion of 3,000 are compelled to visit the
postofflees to deposit or to receive
mail. He believes that this is an in
justice to the residents of towns and
villages and he proposes by his bill to
cure this.
City delivery service Is now In oper
ation in 1,709 towns and cities, serving
approximately a population of 47,000.-
000 at a cost of $38,000,000. Experi
mental village delivery is in opera
tion In 114 communities at a cost of
$90,000. Officials of the postofflce de
partment estimate that there are 6,604
communities with an average popula
tion of 2.000, where there is no carrier
delivery service. Estimating that it
would require an average of two car
riers at $600 per annum to serve each
of these communities, should delivery
service be established, the cost would
be $7,924,800 per annum.
"I do not mind admitting that I have
a double motive in proposing this bill,"
said Mr. Bailey. "Primarily of course
THE ETIQUETTE
Chicago Tribune.)
Perhaps the people of no nation love
their flag more devoutly than do Amer
icana love "Old Glory." The "stars and
stripes,' floating in the breeze never
fails to awaken a thrill in an Ameri
can's heart, and nothing so arouses
his patriotism as the report that the
colors he has been taught from in
fancy to revere has been trampled up
on by a foreign nation.
But it must be admitted that the
American people fail to give enough
attention at times to the flying of our
flag. For instance, oa the day that the
United States captured the port of Vera
Cruz only 13 flags could be seen from
the roof of the Tribune building when
a count was taken, and this included
"The Tribune's" flag and '.hree on pub
lic buildings.
jnere were a good many more
American flags in Vera Cruz that day,
and under them men of our army and
navy were dying," said "The Tribune"
in an editorial. "Whether that is war
or not. the flag is on the firing line
with brave men, our men, round it. The
flag should be flying here at home. In
recognition of that fact and in honor
of the men who are staking their lives
for the honor of the flag. Every roof
should fly the colors, and windows
should display it. This is not jingo
ism. Whatever our theories of Mexi-
"I'm trying to." responded the lit
tie apple, sturdily, "but when the
wind blows and you all hold so tight
to me I can't grow at all."
"We never thought of that. What
shall wc do about it?" .
The fetals all lei go and sailed on th
utnd over lite orchard and fields.
"I'll tell you a plan." said one
venturesome petal.
1 ve alwava
wanted to explore the end of the
orchard. The next time the wind
I want to equalize the benefits of the
mall service. I believe that patrons
of the postofflce in town and villages
are as fully entitled to the best facili
ties which the service can afford as
patrons of the postofflees In the cities
and the rural districts. There is no
function of the government more lm
portant to the welfare of the people
than that of the postofflce, facilitating
communication and making for free
dom of exchange. This is the first con
slderation, but there Is a second con
sideration, hardly less important. If
$10,000,000 of the available revenue be
appropriated for bringing the postal
service closer to some millions of our
people, that amount will not be avail
able for wasteful expenditure on war
ships and fortifications, on big guns
and militaristic exploitation. I have
called frequent attention to the pledge
of economy which the democrats made
in their Baltimore platform and I am
not forgetting that pledge now. I am
not an advocate of parsimony, do not
believe in cheeseparing, aa far as the
next from wishing to impair any of the
serviceable activities of the govern
ment, except as they may intrench upon
the rights and duties of the states. I
am therefore quite consistent in the
proposition to increase the efficiency
of the postal service, especially as I
believe that this Increased efficiency
will result ultimately. If not at once, in
a corresponding increase in the postal
revenue. Certainly the extension of
free delivery to the country districts
has greatly augmented he postal reve
nue from those districts; and no one
will question that free delivery serv
ice has enormously stimulated the use
of the mails by the residents of our
cities. ' That the same facilities ex
tended to the towns and villages of the
country will have a like effect is hard
ly to be doubted."
It is the intention of Mr. Bailey to
make every effort to have this bill
favorably reported and he believes
that the residents of towns and vil
lages all over the United States will
take an interest in his proposition and
lend him their support.
OF THE FLAG
can policy, whether we are for peace
or war, this is the time to remind us
that we are Americans, and that in the
face of international perils or respon
sibilities all Americans are one."
.There la a question among many,
no doubt, as to just when and how
the flag should be displayed. The fixed
occasions are as follows: It should
be displayed at full staff on Lincoln's
birthday, Feb. 12; Washington's birth
day, Feb. 22; battle of Lexington an
niversary, April 19; Memorial day,
May 30; Flag day, June 14; battle of
Bunker hill anniversary,' June 17; la
dependence day, July 4; battle of Sara
toga anniversary, Oct. 17; surrenderor
Yorktown anniversary, Oct. 19; evac
uation day, Nov. 25. On Memorial day
the flag should fly at half staff from
sunrise to noon and at full staff from
noon to sunset
The military ceremony observed to
show proper respect for the American
flag requires that the flag shall not
be hoisted before sunrise, nor be al
lowed to remain up after sunset. At
"retreat." at sunset, civilian spectators
should stand at "attention" and un
cover during the playing of "The Star
Spangled Banner." Military specta
tors are required by regulation to
stand at "attention1' and give the mili
tary salute. During the playing of
the national hymn at "retreat" the flag
should be lowered, but not then al
lowed to touch the ground. When the
national colors is passing in parade or
in review the spectators should, if
walking, halt, and, If sitting, arise and
stand at "attention" and uncover.
When the flag is flown at half staff
as a sign of mourning it should be
hoisted to full staff at the conclusion
of the funeral. In placing the flag at
half staff, it should first be hoisted to
the top of the staff and then lowered
to position.
The national salute Is one gun for
every state. The international salute
Is, under the law. of nations, 21 guns,
Legislation to preserve the Ameri
can flag from desecration, mutilation,
or improper use has been enacted by
31 states and three territories, as fol
lows: Arizona, 1S99; California, 1899;
Colorado, 1901; Connecticut, 1905:
Delaware. 1903; Idaho, 1905; Illinois,
1899; Indiana, 1901; Iowa, 1900; Kan
sas, 1901; Maine, 1899 ; Maryland,
1902; Masachueetts, 1899; Michigan.
lsoi; Minnesota, 1S99; Missouri. 1903:
Montana, 1905; Nebraska, 1903; New
Hampshire, 1899; New Jersey, 1904;
New York. 1905; New Mexico. 1903:
North Dakota, 1905; Ohio. 1902; Ore
gon. 1901; Pennsylvania, 1897; Porto
Rico, 1904; Rhode Island. 1903: South
Dakota. 1901; Utah. 1903; Vermont.
189S; Washington 1904; Wisconsin,
iiu; Wyoming, 1905.
The statutes of the United States
rorbids the use of the flag In registered
trade-marks.
Census Reports Take Tim.
Each United States census report rep.
resents a compilation of statistics for
the entire country, and much time Is
required to make an actual canvass
and to publish the results. For exam
pie. in the census ot manufacturers
uniform reports must be secured from
more than 270.000 establishments and
in the census of agriculture from more
than 6,000,000 farms. In collecting sta
tistics from manufacturers, farmers.
electric light and power plants, electric
railways and other Interests It Is neces
sary to allow a sufficient time to fill
out the schedule so as not to Interfere
with the conduct of private business.
Trans-Atlantic telephony Is promis
ed for the near future.
k
OUtt
HENRY" HOWLAND
I'd like to be among;
the few
Who. .needing- rest,
may be at ease:
I mean those lucky
people who
May turn from
duty when .they
please
The ones who, feel
Ins weariness.
May knock off
early for the day
And have no fear
that pitiless
Taskmasters will
reduce their pay.
I'd like to have the
right to let
Some other who
was under me
Remain at work to
stew and frpf
While I went raving-
carelessly;
I'd like to hold an office which
Might be left to another's care,
While I sought pleasure with the rich ;
Or sat at blissful ease somewhere. j
But I have noticed that the men
Who have the privilege I lack.
Who may depart, not caring when
Their interests shall call them back 1
I've noticed that those who possess
This privilege, which seems sublime. ,
Are overcome with wearlaess i
About three-quarters of the time. j
CANDID OPINION.
If the average man thought aa much
of his reputation aa the average wom
an thinks of her complexion, rascality,
would soon go out of fashion.
It frequently happens that a woman
worries a great deal over the question
of calling on another woman who
doesn't care In the laast whether ehe
calls or not
It seems to be impossible to get
egotism and the sense of humor to
agree to be companions.
Fine feathers may not make fiae
birds, but it is rather difficult to be
enthusiastic over a plucked chicken.
Lack of neatly fitting clothes does
not make the statesman.
For Borne reason a girl always
thinks every fellow who proposes to
ber ia a hero.
What He Might Say.
"What," cried the speaker, who had
worked himself up to a fine frenzy,
"what,- gentlemen, I ask you, would
Thomas Jefferson say if he could drop
In here today? What would the fa
ther of Democracy say if he was here
at this moment to "
"I think." yelled a little man, who
at in the rear end of the ball, "he
would say you , ought to get acquaint
ed with the subjunctive mood."
UNDISMAYED.
"And what,"
asked the anxious
girl, "did father
eay?"
"He denied my
petition." replied
the handsome
young attorney,
"but, never mind.
sweetheart, I shall at once appeal on
a writ of error, and carry the case up
to your mother."
Poor Kind of Sport.
"I can't understand," she said afukt
she had witnessed the opening game,
why people think baseball is in
teresting." "That." he replied, "ia because you
don't understand the fine points of
the game."
"But how can there be any fun In
watching a game where nobody has
to be carried out all covered with
blood and where there is no danger
that the place will be pulled by the
police?"
Her Grief.
"What's the matter, darling? You
look as If some great sorrow bad come
to you."
"Mrs. Watterson came over to see
the baby this morning and she in
Blsted that he looked the very image
of you."
He Couldn't Help It,
"I bave to laugh every time I seo
that man."
"He can't help his looks."
"I know; but his wife thinks every
other woman is trying to lure him
away from her."
Imagination.
"That poet has a wonderful Imagina
tion, hasn't he?"
"I should say he had. I'll bet he
could develop a case of hay fever by
merely looking at a painted stalk ot
ragweed in a painted field."
A Tribute.
I know a lovely chaperon
For whom my love arrows dav or dav?
She has a soft and wlnnlnr tone.
Ana always looks tha other way.
i
Her Chances.
"How many chances out of a hun
dred do you think a pretty girl has
of getting married?"
"A million. If she wants them."
A Fish Story.
In a school for colored children the
pupils were asked to construct a sen
tence containing the word "amphib
ious." Quick as a flush one boy Kave
the following:
"Most fish stories am fibions." De
troit Free Press.
The Daily Story
Her Return By Willard Blake man.
Copyrighted. 1914, by Associated Literary Bureau.
May Penrose when "be w married
bad been somewhat spoiled by the
number of her suitors, each one of
whom was ready to promise that be
would kotow to her through life If
she would be his wife. For that rea
son none of ber Intimate friend could
understand why she finally married a
man twenty years her senior and who,
so far as could be learned, promised
nothing except what was included la
the marriage service.
Some said that ber mother made the
match between May and Herbert Fen
wick, realizing that her daughter was
wayward and would need a cool bead
and a strong will to keep the connubial
peace. But there Is no doubt that May
was perfectly satisfied to marry Mr.
Fenwick, and it Is quite probable that
she had become a trifle tired of having
her own way with the other suitors.
May'a mother, having a quiet way
with her and an abundance of common
sense, had always exercised a healthy
"GO A WAT SHE GASPED.
influence over her daughter. After the
marriage this was kept up, not to the
disadvantage of the young wife and
her husband, but to prevent breaks
that would have occurred had it not
been for the mother-in-law's persuasive
powers with her daughter. But when
the couple bad been married five years
Mrs. Fenrose died, and May was de
prived of her mother's restraining in
fluence. Then came the crisis of the
wife's completing the passage from the
partial guidance of a tactful mother to
the sole influence of ber husband. It
proved a crisis indeed.
It would be impossible to state the
exact rock on which the couple split,
for a number of differences occurred.
which culminated in the wife's an
nouncement, with great dignity, that
after the treatment she had received
she could not maintain ber self respect
and remain in the same house with her
husband. Mrs. Penrose's house bad
been closed after her death, and her
daughter determined to remove there.
When ber husband went to his office
one morning she packed what articles
she needed, and when he came home
in the evening be found the bouse de
serted.
Mrs. Fenwick did not go away in a
huff. She had been thinking the mat
ter over for some time and decided
that life was not worth living tied to
a man with whom she did not get on.
Doubtless there was a way for ber to
get on with him, but she had not
found it.
For a week Mrs. Fenwick occupied
herself in putting her abode to rights.
After her mother's death she bad in
tended to weed out the accumulation
of articles whose value had passed
away with those who bad treasured
them. Old schoolbooks. children's story
books, packages of letters, even her
own dolls, were got rid of. The work
of selecting what should be destroyed
brought before her a dead past and a
corresponding, loneliness. It was a
work not calculated to re-enforce her
resolution in separating herself from
the only being who still belonged to
her and whom, in spite of their disa
greements, she loved. However, she
kept at ber work till It was nearly fin
ished, when one day she needed an ar
ticle that she bad left at the residence
from which she had depprted.
She would have written her husband
to send it to her, but could not direct,
him exactly where to find It. A search
would be necessary, and she knew by
experience that be was no hand for
such a purpose. There seemed to be
no way open to her but to go and get
what she wanted. At least she con-'
vinced herself that there was no other
way. but the truth is she desired to
visit the borne in which she bad pass
ed, despite connubial quarrels, many
happy hours. Had not ber resolutiou
forbidden she would bare liked to go
when she would have a chance of flu-d
ing her husband there.
She chose the middle of the afteft
noon for ber visit. She had ta&un a
latchkey with ber when she left,
though wby she desired to let herself
into a bouse she had resolved to leave
forever does not appear. But when she
put it into the keyhole she found that
the door bad been locked. She winced
at being locked out of ber borne and
unwillingly rang the bell. Expecting
to see the maid she bad left there, she
was disappointed to see n stranger.
I am Mrs. Fenwick," she said. "I
am going upstairs." And she endeav
ored to brush past the servant, a strong
girl, who placed herself In ber way.
Go lutu the parlor." said the domes
tic, "and I'll call the mistress."
The mistress! A pang shot through
Mrs. Fenwick's heart. She was no
longer mistress there, and. still wrse.
another was.' Unwilling to make i
scene, she went into the parlor and
awaited the coming of the mUtres&
In a few minutes a young woman of
between thirty and tbirry-flve, j
pea ran re remarkably attractive, enter
ed and Indicated that she was readj
to listen to the visitor's reasons fo
being there.
"I am Mrs. Fenwick. I bare tjo,
to get something I left behind when I
went away from here."
"Is it anything that I can brinjyonv
"You:" with rising cboler. "Ofcourit
not. I shall get it myself."
"You must consider, madam,"
the lady, "that I am responsible for
what is in this bouse, and I bare on;,
your word that you are Mrs. FentrUk.
Not only that but. granting yoo ar
what you claim. I have no aottiorftj
to permit you to take anything wnicB
has been placed under my care."
All this wns said in the raont
dilatory manner and with an engaging1"
emiie. Jirs. renwicK aia not know
whether to be charmed with the speak
er or inordinately jealous of ber.
"Will you be good enough," she re.
plied, controlling herself with difflcol
ty, "to tell me what position you oc
cupy in this house?"
"I am Mr. Fenwick's housekeeper."
"And you refuse me permission fa
go about the house which Is or has
been my borne and take away taj ar
ticles that belong to me?"
"It is not necessary for me to do
that If you will wait a moment I
will call up Mr. Fenwick and get hit
instructions."
"I'll call him up myself." But there
came an exceeding distaste to ask
her husband to direct bis housekeeper
to permit her to go about in her own
house. "No." she added; "I'll go away
without what I came for. I have not
been accustomed to ask permission ot
any one to go where I please on these
premises, and I'm not going to begin
now."
"But sorely you don't blame Be for
doing what it is my duty to do!"
"Ob. no, I don't blame yon!"
"Won't you have a cup of tea wita
me before going?" asked the ladr,
maintaining the same pleasant man
ner and tone.
"No. I thank you." replied Mrs. Fen
wick disdainfully.
The housekeeper on Mrs. Fenwick's
arrival had stood at the landing on
the second floor and heard what had
passed between the visitor and the
maid. She bad at once gone to tele
phone booth, closed the door and call
ed up Mr. Fenwick at bis office, when
the following brief dialogue occurred:
"Is that you, Herbert?"
"Yes. What ia it, Maud?"
"May is downstairs."
"You don't mean it!"
"Yes. Hadn't you better come? Til
do what I can to keep ber till you ar
rive." - - - - - :."
"All right. Ill take an auto and be
there in ten minutes."
As Mrs. Fenwick declined the cap
of tea offered her she swept out of the
room, but stopped on the threshold.
There was the sound of a latchkey in
the lock, which this time worked, the
door opened, and Mr. Fenwick entered.
But before be could get a glimpse of
bis wife she had retreated into the
room. What was her horror to hear
a smack and "What brings you home
so early?"
"Oh. I got through my work ahead .'
of time today."
Mrs. Fenwick collapsed. She sunt
on a sofa half unconscious, where ber
husband and his housekeeper found
her on entering the room. Fenwick
stood looking down at his wife. n?r
appearance was so pitiable that be ap
proached her and bent over ber with
an anxious look on his face.
"Go away!" he gasped.
"Sweetheart."
"Sweetheart! I had hardly got out
of the house when my place was sap
plied by"
"But, my dear, I roust have some ono
to run the bouse. I telegraphed Maud
to come on."
"Maud!" starting up. "I that
Maud?"
"Yes." said the housekeeper, tnkijiir
the wife in her arms, "I'm Maud, wboru
you have doubtless often heard my
brother speak of. I came to help him
out and as soon as you cauie called niw
from his office. I can t stay with aim
any longer, for my own husband anJ
children need me. So you two m't
stop this nonsense and be good."
She placed ber sister-in-law in tb
arms of her husband and left the room-
There was a happy dinner In the
Fenwick home that evening, which
was provided by the housekeeper. She
announced her intention of departlns
the next morning, but Mrs. KenwitH
vowed she would lock her In If she at
tempted it. She had heard Mand'i
praises sounded so long ami so oftea
without seeing her that now she hw
got her Into her possession she would
not let her go.
The Fnwick matrimonial crisis pass
ed without any further complicaton.
and the tranquillity of the household
was never again disturbed.
May 12 in American
History.
by tU'uerat Benjamin Lincoln to
the British. ,
1SG4 Battle in the "Bloody Ans''
Spottsylvunla. General Hancock
Second corps carried the outer line
of Conf ederate works. Federal loss
7.000 killed and wounded; Confed
erate about 4.000.
Much Easier.
Candidate of Ideals-Wouldn't ya
rather be right than president? Prac
tical Friend-Certainly! It U o mocii
easier to be right-Baltimore. American.
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