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Bellefonte, Pa., May 7, 1915.
MATTER OF TEMPER.
[By Louise Driscoll.]
(Copyright.)
Elsworth pushed the little electric
button and turned to look again about
the neighborhood.
brownstone houses
either side of the way, little pointed
bay windows displaying a variety of
cheap net or Nottingham lace cur-
tains. The street had never been
fashionable. Numerous ash barrels
stood quite frankly on the sidewalk
and the mistress of the house, as a
rule, answered the bell.
A maid admitted Elsworth, regard-
ing him with the indiffgrence born of
long service in a lodging house.
«Madam will be right down,” she
said, and left him standing in the
narrow parlor.
He recognized some of the furni-
ture. There was a rocking chair he
had chosen himself. He felt a little
pain creep into his throat as he looked
at it. It was as though the inani-
mate thing had risen to strike him.
And there was the piano.
A long line of !
stretched on
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| hate you now,” she assured him. “Im
So Rose had kept the piano. |
showed the effect of having been
moved more times than was good for
it.
There was an air of disorder in the
room, little wads of dust lay on the
floor against the wall, where the rug
didn’t meet the baseboard. The table
was overlaid with a light cloud of
dust.
An impulse to run away seized him,
a new fear joining the old repug-
nance; but he conquered both and
rose to greet her, looking quiet, only
his eyes were tense.
Rose had come in carelessly. She
supposed he was looking for rooms.
“Well, of all things!” she said, and
sat down suddenly; and then: “I sup- |
pose you're looking for rooms? Ain't!
it funny?”
Elsworth found his voice.
no,” he said. He found it was not easy
to tell her the truth. “You see—I was
looking for you.
“Why, |
I met Sara Walton |
in London last month. She told me |
about you. All you had been doing
these last years.
The time you were
on the stage—in the store—keeping |
boarders—"’
She interrupted him.
think I was living on what you sent,
did you?” she inquired tartly.
«I gent all I could,” he protested,
“and as long as I knew how to reach
you; but after Desborough died 1
couldn’t find out where you were. 1
have more money now. My last book
really paid—you find it hard to believe
that?” he smiled for the first time.
She refused to meet his jest.
“J got along,” she said sullenly.
He felt very awkward. Rose hadn't
changed. He laughed uneasily.
“We made rather a mess of things,
Rose,” he said.
She flashed another look at him
without making any answer, so he
spoke again:
“Jt was rather a shock to meet Sara
as I did. She brought it all back to
me so vividly. She set me wondering
how much of it could have been
helped. I know I was wrong a good
deal of the time. I want to be fair
about that.” :
“You haven't changed a bit,” she de:
clared hotly. “You just sit there and
talk; and you'll sit there and talk all
night, if I'll let you.”
Elsworth was slightly offended. It
was all ridiculously like the past they
had both dropped.
“I only wanted to make the thing
clear,” he told her; “if we could talk
it over quietly, we might both feel
better.”
Rose shook herself impatiently
“What's the use of talking it over?”
she exclaimed. “Who wants to talk it
over? I've got along all right and you
look as though you had. People are
good to me—I'm that kind. You got
notice of the divorce, didn’t you?”
“Yes—yes,” he said, “from Dakota.
Yes. To tell you the truth—I confess
—J didn’t pay much attention to it.
I’ve never thought of marrying again,
and I was so busy with my book—"
Rose sniffed audibly. “I can believe
that,” she remarked with some as-
perity.
“Perhaps I gave too much attention
to my work,” he confessed. “I can see
that now. At first it was with the idea
of making more money—you always
needed money, Rose.” He was very
uncomfortable. “What ground did you
give for divorce?” he asked with a
new curiosity as he reviewed their
life together. ‘
“Nonsupport and extreme cruelty,”
replied Rose glibly.
He laughed involuntarily, and Rose
stiffened perceptibly, half insulted.
Then he rose and paced the little
parlor; twice and three times he went
before he stopped in front of her
chair.
“Of course that’s all nonsense,” he
said. “You know that as well as I do.
1 gave you more than I could afford,
and you didn’t know what cruelty was.
1 probably did spend too much time
over my work. You needed a lot of
things I never thought of. I don’t
blame you for being dissatisfied. 1
was so tired of quarrels and worried
with debts that I wasn’t really sorry
when I found, you'd gone. We may
as well be honest about that. I just
went into my work a little harder and
left the country before long.
«[ gent you money through Desbor-
ough as long as I could. After he died
I couldn't seem to reach you.”
“Oh, I got along,” she said, “I al
ways do. I'm the kind people look out
for. I got paid pretty well in the
chorus because I'm pretty, and they
| shabby street.
“You didn’t |
‘ put me in the front row. But I couldn’t ,
| ¥ne next show. Then I went in Opper-
ute he came back to her.
learn to dance, so I couldn’t get in
sham’s and sold lace for a while till
they put me in the millinery to show
off hats. Then I had a friend who had
a boarding house and she wanted me
to come with ler, so I did and stayed
until she died. We did pretty good,
but since then I’ve only kept lodgers
because I wasn’t going to bother to
try to suit people with meals.”
Elsworth stood looking at the rock-
ing chair. It seemed to understand
him better than she did. After a min-
“There is one thing, Rose, I've got
to know,” he said. “Sara said—the
childi—was that true? Was there a
child, Rose?” :
Rose’s eyes went wide with a look
that flashed deep into his soul. She
clenched her little hands and opened
them befores he spoke.
“That was soon Over.
dead,” she said.
“When?”
“It was eight months after I left. I
didn’t know till I'd gone. Then it was
too late. I went to a hospital. It was
born dead. It was a girl. 1 didn’t
think I had to tell you.”
“How you must have hated me,” he
said.
Rose moved uneasily.
It was born
“Oh, I don’t
like that. I get over things.”
Elsworth paced the floor and came
back to her again.
“Will you try it again, Rose?” he
said gently. “I was very wrong. ]
wish you'd try it again.”
Rose edged away from him, shrink:
ing. “Oh, no!” she said. “Oh—no—
no!. It’s too late. You're all right
I’m not mad at you. Only—"
The door bell rang briskly three |
times. A sudden change crept inte |
Rose’s manner, a shade of anxiety |
came into her blue eyes. |
“You better go,” she urged. “You're
all right. I'm not your kind. It was |
a mistake always. You'd be sorry. 1|
wish you would go.” |
She pushed him gently out of the
room. It was impossible to mistake |
her sincerity in wishing him to leave
At the door he passed a portly, red
faced man of prosperous appearance
who vouchsafed him a civil nod and
entered as one who knew the place.
Elsworth hardly saw him, but
stood for a minute looking back at the
house before he went on down the
He had no regret for
what he left, but his breath came un:
evenly because he thought he felt a |
little hand laid on his heart. |
The prosperous gentleman gave :
Rose a cordial greeting. “Got a new
lodger?” he inquired.
“No,” said Rose. ‘He’s not going tc
stay. I'm awful sorry I'm not ready
—1I hadn't finished dressing.”
“That's all right,” he said indulgent
ly. “You run along and get ready. I'll
wait. And, say—don’t take any more
lodgers, anyway. We better get mar
ried right away. There ain't no use
waiting as I can see. I don’t want you
working so hard.”
Rose looked at him with real affec
tion. “Youre awful good,” she said.
GOOD RESULTS OF ACCIDENTS
Some of the Most Valuable Discov:
eries Have Been Brought
About by Chance.
How to make starch from corn
(maize) was discovered accidentally
by Thomas Kingsford, a mechanic.
One day he threw a mess of corn
meal mush into the garbage pail. His
wife emptied some lye into the same
pail and in the morning when he emp
tied the pail he was astonished to find
a small quantity of starch at the bot:
tom.
Thomas Bolsover, a Sheffield me
chanic, was mending the handle of a
knife made of copper and silver. He
saw these metals fuse together and
the idea of silver plating was born in
his mind. He laid a thin plate of sil
ver on a heavier one of copper and
heated them till the edge of the silver
began to melt. He took them from the
fire, let them cool slightly, then rolled
and hammered them to the desired
thickness. This was the origin of
“Sheffield plate,” all of which was made
in this way until electroplating was
invented.
Cornelius Dubbel left a bottle of
aqua regia (a mixture of nitric and
muriatic acids) on a shelf. It fell
over; the acid ran down over a win
dow and dropped into a bottle con-
taining an extract of cochineal. This
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turned to a vivid scarlet. Dubbel
found that the acid had dissolved some
of the tin of the window casing and
the combination had produced a new
color. A few experiments added the
most brilliant color to the list of
dyes.
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BIG REDUCTION
SHOES
Men’s $3.50 and $4.00 Working Shoes re-
duced to $2.73. :
Men's $2.50 and $3.00 Working Shoes re-
duced to $1.98
Men’s Mule Skin Shoes, good to wear and
comfortable for the feet, $1.48.
Men’s good heavy Shoes for work, $1.73.
Men’s $3.50 Dress Shoes, now only $2.73.
Boys’ Scout Shoes $1.19.
Ladies’ Rubber Heel Juliets, all styles $1.19.
Old Ladies’ Comfort Shoes, good quality,
at $1.19.
A big lot of Children’s $2.00 Shoes reduced
to $1.19.
Shoes for the Baby—new spring Shoes, all
colors, reduced from $1.00 to 65¢.
New line of Children’s Shoes; Russia, Calf
and Gun Metal, hand sewed, worth $2.00,
now $1.48.
This is an Unusual Sale
for this time of the year, sales are usually put
on at the end of a season, on odds and ends,
but I guarantee these reductions are bonafide
and on New Spring Goods. Come, every
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Hats and Caps.
Shoes. Clothing.
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HERE
$12 and $15
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Money won't match them
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Clothing for . . ... .
Men = Young Men
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But we are especially proud
of the ones we are showing
at ’12 and 15
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