KIND OF PERSON 8 B By FANNIE HURST I WAS BAS TAS BAS BAS BF BAS # PAF TAZ BA, ’ 8B Ue Bees Leste eR et (® by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) (WNU Bervice.) HE chronic restlessness which beset the soul of Agnes Lynn was largely due to the fact that she was continually being made aware, by appreciative friends, that she was too big a person for her small role. Her role was that of primary teach- er in the two-room «ural schoolhouse nestled in a rather lovely valley that separated, by miles, two thriving vil lages. For four years Agnes Lynn, who had been graduated from Normal school In the capital city of the state, had held this position as one of the two teachers in the little old, prover: blally red, schoolhouse that stood be- neath a pair of twin oaks and was backed by a beautiful rise of Penn- sylvanis mountains. The second teacher was a poetic-faced, middle- aged man named Roger Nash who had a bad limp due to what some people feared was a tubercular bone condi- tion. jut that was gossip. Except for the insistence from her local friends, as well as those in one or another of the two adjoining vil lages, to say nothing of those In the city where she had been educated, Agnes could have found it in her heart to relax to the quiet, rural beauties of her life as school teacher in this green and placid valley. And yet she knew that she owed it to her- self, her friends and her future, to put to more significant use the fine and virile brain with which she was so undoubtedly endowed. It took all of her will power to fight against the Inertia Induced by the tranquil years in the tranquil wal- ley. The children who trouped dally into her classroom were clean-faced, clean-hearted little youngsters, prod- ucts of a wholesome agricultural en- vironment, eager to be friends with her. The pleasant companionship of Roger Nash, frail, visionary, passive, was of sufficient intellectual stimula- tion to ward off tedium. Her room at the farmhouse where boarded was a lovely old rare, spic-and-span she one of early American urniture, cleanliness view of apple or- chard, mountain stream and rich countryside that never ceased to de- light her. As a matter of fact, an apple tree actually leaned in at her window to awaken her That was why, throughout the years she spent In the valley, Agnes had to fight against the sweetish kind of In ertia that enveloped her. Life was so pleasant here, so deeply tranquil, each day filled with a fresh simplicity. And yet In her heart she realized how meager the sphere, how unworthy of her abilities, how spiritually and men- tally lazy of her to remain. Teach: ing limited her talents, Throughout her college career Agnes had exhibited a talent for executive work. Her chance came when the prin cipal of the Normal school from which she had graduated wrote an offer to recommend her for the position of executive secretary to the vice presi dent of a Chicago mortgage and trust company. There was simply no withstanding he lure of this It meant not only the tripling of her salary, but it offered her contacts that could lead to big achievements in the business world. There did not seem much rea- son for Agnes to hesitate. And what hesitating she did was too private to confide to even the best of her friends. She would not have dared to admit it. Opportunity? had rapped long and insistently at Agnes’ door. Chicago, Insofar as its resemblance to the life she left In the valley was concerned, might have been a city, not In another state, but on another planet. Not even her life as a stu dent In the capital city of her state had prepared her for the degree of intensity, the complicated arduous ness that awaited her. Life was like a gale that caught her from the mo- ment she stepped off the train and kept her swirling and twirllng at high tempo. The demands of her position also kept her keyed to a degree of intensity that was as astonishing as it was ex. hilarating. For the first few months of the new environment, bewildered ns she was In many respects, Agnes realized that she owed it to herself to have ventured forth into these active flelds of enterprise. Gone were the old fears of Intellecual lassitude, mental decline and physical smug- ness, The city had her In Its tempo. She rose in her fairly comfortable boarding house room that had for its vista the window of another boarding house room precigely like hers, she dressed In haste, she breakfasted In haste at a cafeteria, she met her em- ployer In the tense, terse, impersonal mood of the city, she performed her tasks with a mechanical and speeded up rectitude, she lunched In a busi ness women's club to the rattle of disiies and the roar of the elevated railroad, she met her employer for an afternoon of more of the speed of routine, she dined In a table d’hote tearoom with the evening paper propped up against: the sugar bowl, She sought out the movles, the theater or the company of a male or female ’ offer, colleague In her office for her eve ning's entertainment. There was a man, There naturally would be in the life of an attractive, up-and-going girl like Agnes. He was salesmanager for the Chicago branch of an enormous automobile concern. A hale, hearty fellow, with concrete ambitions, tried and true. Lilianthal was headed for wealth. He wanted power, position, ‘money. He was on his way to obtain them. He was al- ready slated for one of the vice presi- dency plums of his firm, Strange that he should have been type of Agnes. obvious about her, you slowly, There about Lllianthal. He was precisely what he seemed to be, In the phrase She dawned upon And yet, buried In him, was the con- sciousness that here in this slender, well-bred girl, was the sort of woman with whom he could proudly his ultimate sdeccess. He visualized her in pearls and good lace, presiding at his table. that, Class! That wns Agnes all over—nothing showy, but class! simple routine of the young business woman became a thing of the past. Instead, the best lakeshore hotel restaurant, night after night with Lillanthal. Opera, Races, rides. And all, bear In mind, strictly within the pale of the rigid social formula of Agnes. Lilianthsl, was known to have had his fling, deference a man of his type will show toward the woman he 4s mate, In fact, if Lilianthal It was in conservatism. be treated as the woman worthy to be- comes his wife, For sixteen months in sidestepping the posal of marriage. It erred at Agnes succeeded impending pro- came one night, banking house which employed services increased her salary by 33% hundred dollars. Agnes was not only justifying the comn- abllity, but was about to make a mar- riage that general success, It was then, while Lilianthal waiting a promised week for his an- swer, that Agnes sat down and stock, It was the allow herself took first time she had dared the time to make mental the state of mind who had inventory of being of this of the valley. irst and to her that she Lilianthal. girl come ou foremost It was ohvions was not In love—with It seemed to her ns she facing herself In her boarding house room, that she was bankrupt In count. less WAYS: sat, there, that she was empty hand ed, empty-hearted. that the new life had something mechanical herself, Good clothes, Good restaurants, Showy companion- ship. And to replace the old joy-of- the-valley that seemed to have flowed out of her, there remained nothing Lilianthal was out of the question, Confidant predictions to trary notwithstanding, Agnes was mils- cast, Everything brought her was and f outside of Good shows. son. Memory of mornings of walking to trouping children, the, valley—sweet school, the a sensitive man called Roger Nash, the simple foods, the simple pastimes, the lovely, tranquil, early American room, became a nostalgia that was al most too much to bear. Agnés had herself, but had to be faced. to be, helieved herself capable of. It Is not garded as a retrogressive step and that is just what Agnes did In return. in the valley. her friends, for her, regarded It, backward. She had not been of the stamina they had hoped. Agnes Is not particularly Inter ested In the psychology of it. She only knows that the valley is sweeter and greener and cleaner than ever and the task of teaching the young is one that fills her with ambition. The days have a tonic for her that nothing else could quite achieve and 80 have the long, stimulatfag hours in the counpany of Roger Nash, the visionary. —— At least that Is how See-Saw “After very patiently telling my pu. pills in English the various uses of ‘saw’ and ‘seen.’” writes Mrs, Don. ald Gridley of Los Angeles, “1 called upon one of them to give sentences using the words correctly, “The little girl thought a few mo- ments and then smilingly gave this an- swer: ““The saw Is very dull, The seen Ig very beautiful.’” Handicapped * ‘ Struggling with a three-year-old ap petite, she had a mouthful of potato and was reaching for her glass of milk, Some one asked her a question and her answer was: “Uh huh” “Is that the way to answer? her mother prompted. “Why,” she replied, gulping down to talk with!” (Prepared by the National Geographle Society. Washi en, b. C) (WNU Bervice.) HE occurrence of a earthquake such as that which recently practically destroyed the city of Napler, New Zealand, sets the world to thinking of and per haps to fearing tremors. It is many people that an earthquake is Hkely to occur at any place. Up to 1008, it Is computed by an eminent scientist, Compte de Ballore, there had been 150,782 recorded earth- quakes. In later years, when more accurate records have been kept, they have averaged about 00 a year. Th is comfort to the dwellers in mast of the world to know that 94 per cent of recorded shocks have occurred in two narrow, well-defined the Mediterranean, to Its eredit, and cum-Pacifie, with 41 the remainder of the h 8 per cent, widely distributed destructive these devastating wrongly assumed by ere belts called with 53 per the one other th per cept ih or rit The United States has been singular ly free from turhance, per being In ghio 5 occu ley south of the Ohi in New York In the West Indies earthquake changed earth A sunike, Inkes were fi vast extent of land was even the course of the Mississippi river was ob. strug for a time Most of. the earthquakes occurring of late years can hardly be with the great ones of history. all of the destruction quakes has been caused by uncon trollable fires. In the stable zones long periods may elapse between shocks, as for instance, In Kingston, Jamaica, 215 years intervened. Exactly what Is an earthquake and what causes It? Superficially the name itself tells the story. It Is no more nor less than a quaking of the earth or a part of it: and theoretically any vibration at all fills the bill, from the tremor caused by a heavy truck passing along the street or a blast In a near-by quarry to the most violent convulsion that slides hills from their bases and opens yawning chasms In the earth. Waves in the Earth, But going beyond the superficial, there Is more that needs to be sald even by way of a bare definition of an earthquake. The quake in so far as man experiences it Is the coming to the surface of waves In the earth. These waves cannot be compared sim- ply to the up-and-down waves of rip- pled water nor to the back-and-forth waves In the air ihat make sound. Even the simplest wave motion is none too easy to understand ; and the waves in the varying earth materials that make themselves known to man as earthquakes are probably the most complex waves that exist. They are at once motions “up-and-down” like sea waves; crosswise like the waves in a flapping flag: back-and-forth like sound waves or the motion In a long coiled spring suspended with a weight bobbing at its end; and in addition may have twists about Imaginary pivot lines In all of the three dimen sions, The earth waves originate In some region down In the earth and start out In every direction. The waves from a pebble dropped Into a pond form growing circles on the surface of the water. Dut the waves in the earth being In a solid, attempt to form epheres that constantly grow outward. Soon, however, because of the differ ence in the rigidity of different rock materials, the form is not a sphere at all but a very irregular curved solid te mend, more nearly that of a potato, perhaps, The two principal types of earth waves, those that travel like the pulsa- tions in a bobbing spring, straight out ; and those that travel like ripples and the waves In a flag, with a sidewise motion, move at different speeds. The pulsing waves are the swifter, and of course the place where they make themselves felt first and most strongly is the surface area straight above thelr starting point. This Is technical- iy the “epicenter™ or “epicentrum.™ The pulsing waves around the eépicen- ter alternately push up the surface of - 1 tea classed Nearly recent from more the earth and everything on it, and let them fall back. When the Waves Combine. The “sldewlise™ immediately and “twisting waves” as well, then operat waves follow first along after the Waves, the two, wit together, The ground in the epicentra aren, therefore, i thrusts and falls ¢ is jerked sidewise and back distances In every direction. At points some distance from epicenter the pulsing surface at a slant and so accentuate “sidewise” waves undulations the effectz of the and create I'he shaking at throws the surface the earth's surface lke niso new epicenter, too, there Into undulatory pond, and ening circles = Waves ripples i these travel in wid These waves are those of but least heaviest vi of grenloes Moti & rapes peed. tions on the siesmogzraphs world second ihe LS for the h cepted pretty genera Hold a thumb in your hand it breaks At the snay, travel to your hands and usunll; dry waves you a quite a painful sensation. Hold an iron bar by end and sirike the other sharply with a ham- mer. Again the vibrations one produce a stinging pain, And If you should strike a small ex. plosive cap with the end of a long rod grasped by the other end, the explo sion would probably bring the same painful tingle to your fingers Breaks Start Most of Them. It is generally believed that earth quake waves flow from a point where one of the three forces illustrated is suddenly released—& break, a or an explosion. Dreaks are credited blow quakes. It is believed that because of slow contraction or shrinking which may result from the cooling of the of pressure from deposited silt, strains are set up below the surface like those in the bending stick, Eventually the strain reaches the breaking point and there is a snapping of the rocks which send violent waves to the surface, causing earthquakes, The blow type of earthquake Is prob. ably less Important. Soch a blow might result from the falling In of a great cavern, but probably would cause only a local shiver. A more Important cause of a blow might be a slipping of one mass of rock over another with a collision at the end of the slide. Such a blow often follows a break, the two acting together, Earthquakes in active volcanic re gions may often result from explo sions of gases far beneath the sur face; though many times there seems to be an Intimate connection between earthquakes and volcanoes, the law regarding them has not been estab- lished. Some remarkable coincidences have been observed in late years, how. ever, The terrible cataclysm of Mount Pelee, which, on May 8, 1902, almost instantly killed 30,000 inhabitants, was preceded by the earthquake which in January and April of the same year wrecked a number of cities In Mexico and Cuatemala. The distance be tween these points Is at least 2,000 miles, showing how deep-seated must have been the disturbances, if, as has been suggested, there was communca- tion between them, The great San Francisco earthquake was preceded only two days by one of the most vio. lent eruptions of Vesuvius recorded In many years, It is also a significant fact that the fuming island off the const of Alaska, called Bogoslof No, 3, appeared at al. most the same time. A revenue cut- ter, visiting this Island, was aston. ished to see that the mountain, or hill, some 400 feet high, on the island, had disappeared, a TALES... of the TRIBES By EDITHA L. WATSON The Zuni In that shadowy past which is so long ago that only legend reminds us that it was at all, an Indian people came from the northward and settled in the Zuni valley. Later, from the West came an- other people, and these Joined the first settlers. This was the beginning of the Zuni tribe, which is one of the most Interest- ing tribes of the Pueblos, At the dawn of their recorded his- tory, they were liv- ing in seven cities, which were known of as far Perhaps Indian 1 Ar places with the products of their vii exchange for the the const or the parrot feathers of the South, told of their seven and, as has always been the custoin exaggerated a little. At south us Mexico, journeying to ’ . lors traders, lages to cities, of travelers, any rate, these vague rumors reac hed the ears of Fray Marcos de Niza, who made his famous exploration trip in 1539. He listened to all that the In- dians the way could tell him about “Cibola” (Zuni), and finally saw one of the vilages from a neighbor- ing hill, but instead of entering the settlement, where he might have been disabused of his notions, he returned to Mexico with a great narrative of the magnificent “Kingdom of Cibola.” The Indians the way had as sured him that this was a wealthy country, and that its seven cities were filled with gold and precious stones. Hence, Coronado, the next year sia ed North to explore this unknown land of which so many glowing tales were told, The Pueblos had a way of sending fleet runners, whose speed and endurance were the wonder of the Spaniards. News reached the first Zuni city (Hawikuh), of the com- ing of these strangers from the South, and of their and upon its receipt the Zunlans became that after } Spaniards along _iOong messages by warlike tendencies, with the les in the ihe mesa {Corn Mountaiz invaders, ] that the “Kingdon of Cibola” was & small country con- g seven pueblos, all within fou Coronado found iengues, the largest of which contained M0 houses, and that the Immense treasure of rumor was a sorry myth In fact, he wrote that Fray Marcos had “said the truth in nothing that he reported.” Zun! at this time must have been nt its zenith. There are no records of more than the seven pueblos, and his- tory shows that these dropped into oblivion one by one, until six of them have become uninhabited ruins Forty years after Coronado’s disap pointment, Chamuscado visited the tribe, and In 1583 Espejo went to Zuni. He reported that he found there some of the Mexican Indians who had with Coronado, and that there were but six citles, so that evidently one had been abandoned since Coro- nado’s time. Three Spanish priests established a mission at Hawikoh in 1620, and this was the first mission in the “province of Cibola,” although one had been at- tempted previously. In 1622, the In- dians killed two priests, one who had been sent to them, and one who was passing through Hawil®h on his way to another tribe. Fearful of conse- quences, the Zuni again fled to Taaiy- alone, their refuge in all troubles, and lived there for three years In 10670, an enemy tribe raided the village of Hawikuh, burned the church and killed the missionary. This town was probably not reoccupied after the raid, and by the time of the Pueblo rebellion of 1680, the Zuni were living in three towns, two others beside Hawikuh having been deserted. The rebellion of 1680 was partici- pated In by almost all the Pueblos, the day being set and plans made, and the news spread by runners, The Zuni were as active as the rest, and after killing the missionary who remained among them, they once more hurried to Taalyalone, and made it their home for twelve years, until Diego de Var. gas reconquered the country in 1602, After this, Zuni was one city. It was rebuilt on the ruins of Halona, on the Zuni river, one of the original Seven Cities of Cibola. Even yet, there was unrest among them. Once more a missionary was killed, and once more the mesa strong hold was thelr refuge. However, peace was finally concluded, and from 1718 on there was not much to record in the history of Zuni. For some time it was entirely abandoned by the white people, and became a thoroughly In. dian town again, but In later years the United States government established # school and built extensive Irrigation works, so that the Indians began to become educated In the white man's ways of peace, (® 1931, Western Newspaper Union.) been Aged War Veterans Daniel C, Dakeman was the last pensioner of the Revolutionary war He dled 86 years after the close of the war at the age of one hundred and nine years, eight months and eight days on April 5, 1860. Hiram Cronk was the last surviving pen- gloner of the War of 1812. He died on May 138, 1905, at the age of one hundred and five years and six- teen daye. Owen Thomas Edgar, inst surviving pensioner of the Mex- fean war, dled In tember 8, 1920, Ww ¢ " Washington, Bep Narrow Thoroughfare narrowest States is sald to in St. Augustine, Fla. 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