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By FANNIE HURST I
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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)
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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,
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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,
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