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The New Life
By JESSIE ETHEL SHERWIN
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(Copyright. 1919, by Western Newspaper Union.j
Bertha Druse purposely put herself
In the way of meeting John Barker
whenever occasion encouraged. She
passed the time of day quite casually
to all appearances, but always man
aged to detain him long enough to ask
him a question in which lay her vivid
interest:
"What do yen hear from Allan?"
At the first Mr. Barker had answered
with a scowl and a carping tirade
against the boy who had run away
from home and had made all sixes and
sevens of his destiny. Some spark of
humane interest in the old man, how
ever, became revivified when he
learned indirectly that Allan had gone i
abroad a volunteer for Uncle Sam.
Then with some pride he told Bertha
that he had received a two-line letter
from Allan. He even showed It to
Bertha : "Dear Old Dad : I have cut
out drinking. It's all fighting now."
And such a glad, rapturous sparkle
came to the eyes of the longing girl,
and such a glorious flush to her fair,
fresh face that Mr. Barker exclaimed:
"Hello! what's this? Surely' you
haven't n*ny after that
young scapegrace!"
"But aren't you glad that Allan has
—has reformed? Oh! dear Mr. Barker,
If he only comes back to the world
and Its old sweet ways!"
"Poetry! Sentiment!" scoffed Mr.
Barker. "I haven't much faith in the
boy," but Bertha fancied there was a
false note to his avowed disbelief.
"He's coming home, Allan is," an
nounced Mr. Barker one day In the
armistice year. "He thinks next
month," and he put out his hand to
steady Bertha, for she acted as though
she was about to faint. She recovered
herself, however, hut her lips moved
tremulously as though In a mute
prayer of gladness and hope.
Allan Barker had made a record for
himself at the front. Not only that,
but he had picked up a small fortune.
He was one of a group which had sur
prised a party of looters among the
enemy who had slaughtered half of the
inhabitants of a little town and had
burned down every house in sicrht.
There had been a sanguinary fight. Aft
er it was all over Allan showed to his
commanding officer a little sack filled
with gold and jewels, which he had
wrested from one of the foe.
"Well," observed this official, "you
had better turn it in."
"To what department?" inquired Al
lan.
"To your own personal safekeeping,"
came the reply. "Its ownership can
not be traced, it is fair jetsam, we've
got too much heavy fighting ahead to
bother with trifles. Call it a trophy of
the conflict and take it home as a
souvenir."
"You bet I'll make good use of ft,"
declared Allan reverently, and lie did.
And when he appeared at his native
town a few months after that, surely
returned warrior never vaunted such
interesting mementoes of his experi
ence abroad! For when he left the
tfain, just at dusk, four neat-appear
ing, happy-faced children, ranging
from four to twelve years, accompa
nied him.
"Allan Barker and family," was the
way he registered the strange group,
and the hotel landlord stared, and his
motherly wife took charge of the lit
tle ones as though they were her own,
when she learned that they were all
that was left of a Belgian peasant
family.
"I've simply adopted the four.
That's inv share. I'm thinking of the
forlorn orphan refugees. I'm lucky
having quite a snug sum to care for
them," advised Allan proudly.
"Oh, isn't it just like you, Allan Bar
ker, and no one else!" enthused the
sympathetic lady. "You were always
good and grand at heart, for all your
wild ways."
"I wonder if dad will echo that sen
timent?" said Allan. "I'm on the look
out for a mother for those little ones,
and I thinfc I know where to go to find
her. Then there's a home needed.
I'm going to report to dad and find
out how he feels about it."
"Well, you've come back, I see," was
the greeting Allan received as he stood
before his father for the first time In
five years.
"The bad penny returned—yes,
dad!" laughed Allan. "See here, you
know you're not sorry, for all that
scowling face you're putting on. Come,
father, shake hands and say so. I've
come to stay, if you'll let me, with my
four little ones."
"Your what I"
"Let me tell you a story," and Allan
did. It Involved the heroic resolve of
a down-and-outer reformed, new-born
courage, the impulse of bravery, the
final determination of a worthy soul
to indeed redeem the wasted past and
provide for the broken lives of four
little homeless waifs. And at its end
John Barker broke down and buried
his face in his hands and cried like a
little child.
"Yes, it's home for all of you," he
said. "Home! What won't it seem aft
er these lonely years! And you must
find a mother for them, Allan."
"I've planned to arrange that," ob
served Allan, glancing at his watch as
casually as though bent on some
trivial errand. "I'll see Bertha and let
you know what she says," and the
news he brought hack an hour later
convinced John Barker that the future
was to be a golden one for all con
cerned.
"EDUCATION" OF LONG AGO
College Man, Five Hundred Centuries
Past, Differed Somewhst From
His Prototype Today.
Oxford University is composed of
twenty-one colleges. Among the lar-
gest of these is the one that, although
it has stood for 500 years. Is still
called "New." It was built r, hundred
years before the discovery of Amer
ica by William de Wykeham .nd was
an expression of the most advanced
ideas of education entertained in his
day. So far as the architecture and
plan of the building are concerned,
the five centuries that have since
elapsed have uggested but little that
is better. English .nd American col
lege builders still follow de Wyke
ham's model.
The undergraduate in de Wyke
ham's 'ime, in order to obtain his B.
A. degree, studied the logic of Por
phyry and Boethius, something of
Aristotle, and enough of arithmetic to
enable him to And Easter. Three
years more were usually spent in
studying geometry, astronomy and
astrology.
He lived in college. His allowance
of money was one shilling a week.
His breakfast was a piece of bread
and a pot of beer at dawn. His din
ner was eaten at 10 in the morning.
He was given one 3uit of clothes
yearly. Three times a year each stu
dent was required secretly to tell the
masters of the misbehavior of his fel
lows, who then received "competent
castigation." - •
The rules laid down by de Wyke
ham prohibited visits to taverns er
"spectacles," the keeping of dogs, the
playing of chess and other "noxious
and illicit sports, shooting with ar
rows or other missiles, dancing, run
nine. wrestling, or other incautious
and inordinate amusements."
The only recreation permitted was
the assembling around the fire on win
ter nights to indulge in "singing, or
the reading of pooms and chronicles
of the realm and of the wonders of
the world."
The college was summoned to din
ner by two poor scholars, who ran
around the quadrangles shouting in
bad Latin and French, "Tempus est
vocandi a manger, O seigneurs!" The
"seigneurs" were obliged to eat in
absolute silence.
The True business Man.
Your true business man is no nar
row accumulator of riches, no piler up
of bonds and clipper of coupons. " He
is a promoter of all that goes to make
peaceful relations between men and
empires. He strives not wholly for
his own selfish ends, but for public
ones. He believes in his nation and
strives to do something for the com
munity where he lives. He takes an
interest in everything that is of in
terest to that community, knowing
that his efforts are sure to bring their
suitable reward.
To a business man of Boston Pier
r>ont Morgan said not long before hia
death: "My aim is to help build up
our country and make our securities
so sound that the people of foreign
countries will feel compelled to invest
their money in them."
Said Wendell Phillips of a noted
Boston merchant, whose funeral ora
tion he pronounced:
"It was not what he gave away that
marked him. Others give liberally—
our merchants have open hands. Pie
not only believed the universe was
sunny; he brought sunshine with him
when he came. His hand was
stretched out to spread the ideas
which bear seed for the future, whose
value few see, whose influence many
dread." —Boston Globe.
Island Cote for Man Birds.
Kaiser Wilhelm has hit upon a plan
to turn a tiny island in the North Sea
into a rendezvous for Germany's great
airship fleet. Heligoland is one of the
most curious islands in the world. It
belonged to Great Britain 20 years
ago, but was given to Germany in
exchange for Zanzibar.
The towering cliffs of this island
are largely artificial. It was discov
ered that the heavy seas were honey
combing them and the island threat
ened to be entirely swept away.
The German government spent mil
lions of dollars in pouring cement into
these crevices and preserving this
strategic point. In addition, it was
formidably armed and the utmost se
crecy is maintained as to the strength
of its fortifications.
Visitors are not permitted to land
except in the 3tuffy little town at the
base. They are forbidden to scale
the bluffs whereon the armaments
bristle and where gigantic stores of
powder are maintained for the impe
rial fleet.
This island is said to be prepared
to withstand a siege of three ye&ra.
Liked the Prospects.
Harold is a pretty wise youngster,
and already, although still quite young,
has developed a strong financial in
stinct. The other day he surprised his
family by announcing his intention to
enter the ministry in due season.
"Why, sonny," inquired his father,
"I thought you were strong for the
dollars? There's no money in religion,
you know."
"Oh, but I think you must be mis
taken, papa," cried Harold. "That's
why Tm going to be a preacher—'cause
I read in the paper that the United
States pays our minister to Austria
$17,500 a year!"
New Derivative.
"Mrs. Fangle is a homeopathist,
isn't she?" remarked an old lady, dur
ing a call on a neighbor.
"No, I don't think she is," was the
reply. "She's very seHoin at home
when I call.''
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I CUPID-CLAIRVOYANT jj
I By EVA GOLDBERG. |
The routine of Betty Hamilton's daily
program brought her outside the door
precisely at eight each morning. She
delighted in the brisk, stimulating ex
ercise, an appetizing prelude to the
day's labor, and enjoyed watching the
eight o'clock procession of workers
whose faces had become familiar
through such regular meeting.
Howard Morse, a newly established
lawyer and a stranger in the city, was
another fresh-air enthusiast, who pre
ferred walking to street car conges
tion. For several mornings he had ob
served Betty as she crossed Gage ave
nue. There was something in her man
ner that invited acquaintance. It
must have been this very something
that prompted him to single her out
of the many as one whom he cared to
know. And he craved an introduc
tion !
Strangely, too, with the natural cu
riosity that besets a newcomer in the
neighborhood. Betty wondered, as they
exchanged glances, who he might be
and was anxious to meet him. Sort
of mutual telepathy!
• ***••*
The Young Ladies' Aid, of which
Miss Hamilton was social director, was
running a novelty bazaar to raise
funds for the entertainment of return
ing soldiers and sailors. Betty had
often amused the members with her
pet hobby of telling fortunes. Thus
on this festive occasion she occupied
a little booth and charged admission
for her advice on affairs of the heart.
Whatever possessed Howard Morse
to stroll into the bazaar, he himself
knew not. Maybe, surrounded by gay
ety and excitement, he could shake off
that lonesome feeling. Yet should he
seek the real truth, maybe he would
encounter that captivating blue-eyed
little lady. He sauntered into the
dance hall —if she were here surely it
would be proper to ask her to dance,
an opportune moment for acquaint
ance ! But 110, she was not among
the merry gliders. "Most likely she
was not fond of dancing," lie thought.
He would quickly change his mind if
he know now, in that stuffy little booth,
she longed to escape and keep time
with the gay music.
The young attorney was not senti
mental enough to patronize fortune
tellers. lla<l anyone ever suggested
such a means of fathoming one's
heart, he would have laughed in mock
ery. But, upon passing the oriental
quarters, he decided to visit there if
only for the sake of amusement. He
would try his luck.
She affected a decided accent:
"You are not long in this city," she
began in a tone that almost fright
ened.
He nodded.
In her interest she found It hard to
concentrate. The silence perplexed
him.
"Young man," she resumed, "I fear
—I fear—"
"Any trouble ahead?" he interrupt
ed nervously.
"I fear you are in love." This she
told to all whose case it generally
fitted.
"You've guessed it right," he smiled,
pounding the small table.
What a delightful voice he had! She
must tactfully urge him on to further
conversation.
Before he realized it, he was con
fiding in her, unconscious of the fact
that he was actually doing the telling
of his own fortune. "And I never even
spoke to the girl," he continued, "but
I'm smitten —never believed in this
love-at-flrst-sight business either —
guess I've fallen though.
"Only yesterday I found out her
name, when somebody walked over to
greet her. Betty—Betty Hamilton;
that's it. Now how am I going to
meet her?"
When she discovered herself to be
the object of his conversation, Betty
was tempted to reveal her Identity
then and there; but no, she must not
betray the madaine's origin. What a
strange predicament! Now for quick
thought!
"Well," she suggested, "to show that
I can help you out somewhat, you
might call at my office tomorrow eve
ning, and I'll arrange an introduction;
80 Main street is the address."
He paid the fee and walked out, feel
ing silly to have aired his private af
fairs to some unknown woman. Just
the same, he would venture to call the
next evening.
Mrs. Hamilton answered the door
bell. "Is Madame Sphinx in, pleaset
Is this her office? I saw no sign." The
young man was beginning to feel em
barrassed at sight of the kind-faced
woman's roguish smile. After all, h®
might be making a fool of himself.
He was ushered into the living room
where Betty received him.
"Good evening, Mr. Morse," she vol
unteered.
"Er—er," he fumbled for words.
"She hasn't told you anything about
it, has she? The madame —"
"I haven't heard a word from a
soul," she assured him.
He was so innocent in his remarks
that guilty Betty could not refrain
from disclosing the secret to her in
terested, puzzled ilsteaer.
He drew a long breath, sighed part
ly out of amazement, partly out of
pleasure. Grasping the dainty hand
he confessed: "Well, that's one on
me, but the outcome is worth it."
Suffice It to say that the eight o'clock
procession is now minus OD? of its
happy faces, whose form of exercise
has evolved to household duties.
(Copyright, 1919. by the MeClure Newi
p«f>er Syndicate.)
"MAN'S BEST FRIEND"
DOGS EMPLOYED AS GUARDS BY
GREEK ARMY.
They Replace Railway Sentries and In
Paris Render Valuable Aid
to the Police —Are Above
Bribery.
After several attempts had been
made to damage the railways used for
the transportation of Greek trcops
Into Turkish territory, dogs were em
ployed to guard the lines, the Greek
government being unable to spare sol
diers for the purpose. The results
were excellent. At Larissa in particu
lar the entire railroad line was effica- 1
clously protected by dogs.
So much interest has been aroused
in Europe by this new use for dogs
and the success of the experiment
that reports have been officially asked
for by the various European military
authorities concerning the special
training of the dogs.
For several years perfectly trained
police dogs have been found Invalu
able in Paris, and they have been as
signed to important duties. All along
the banks of the Seine dogs watch for
accidents. If a careless passenger or
an unwary boatman falls off one of
the many boats and barges plying
constantly up and down the Seine,
one of the big, beautiful Newfound
land river guards bounds into the wa
ter to the rescue, barking to give the
alarm and after swimming with the
limp body to the shore. Even the
bridges are closely watched by the
dogs, for from the Seine bridges many
despairing men and women leap into
the river, hoping thus to end their
misery.
It is. now believed that countless
| railway -recks due to deliberate de
i sign during labor troubles could be
prevented if railroad sections were
| policed by dogs. Their efficacy in this
i duty has been unquestionably proved
in the Bnlkan war.
Dogs are now used to escort pris
oners to and from jail in Paris. They
will courageously attack their enemy
even when fired upon, as a notorious
bandit found to his cost during a re
cent struggle to escape while being
conveyed to trial. This is a result
obtained by careful training.
How to defend his master is an
other important, lesson taught the po
lice dog. The dog must snarl and bite
as soon as an attempt to hold up his
master is made. In this the police
dog is developing marvelous qualities.
Guarding property is another of the
police dog's duties, and in this also
he has proved himself an adept. Ar
ticles left in his care are safe and
faithfully watched.
His moral training forms as much
of a police dog's education as his pro
fessional lesson. He is taught to be
honest and faithful and not to accept;
a bribe. The latter is important be
cause poisoned meat is often offered
to these dogs. The police dog soon
learns to eat nothing but what his
. master serves him. and is an example
to many men in his resistance to
temptation.
Saving More MiH'ons.
Millions of dollars will be saved the
government by the use of a newly de
vised stamp-printing machine. The
apparatus is scheduled to turn out a
mile of poetage stamps every five min
utes. It was designed by Benjamin
R. Stickney. There will be a saving
of 57 per cent in the production cost
of stamps.
This new machine, which prints,
gums, dries, perforates, and either
cuts into sheets or winds into coils
12,000 stamps in one minute, will save
the government 6everal million dol
lars in the cost of stamps alone in
the course of a few years. The bu
reau of engraving and printing now
turns out 40,000,000 stamps daily, but
with the use of the new machine and
because of the increased demand, it
will be able to manufacture many
more millions a day.
The Drummer's Tender Heart.
The commercial traveler had Just
finished a story of a disastrous fire.
"And what did you do when you
heard of it on your journey?" inquired
his friend.
"Oh, I sent the governor a long
telegram of sympathy. He likes that
kind of thing. Cost me half a crown."
"Half a crown," exclaimed the other
incredulously.
"Oh, I charged it to my expenses,
of course," explained the traveler.
Kindly feeling and thoughtful econ
omy could go no further.
Probably.
Jonee (Just introduced) —I suppose
you don't remember me, but I was
once a witness against your side in
a certain trial and I remember that
you cross examined me with the great
est courtesy.
The Lawyer—ls that so? Perhaps
your testimony was not material.—
Puck.
Wise Baw Refuted.
Mrs. Vastlee Rich (sentimentally)—
Longfellow says, "We can not buy
with gold the old associations."
Vastlee Rich —Don't you believe it,
my dear. When I was in politics I
found that cash would purchase the
anoientest organization on earth—
Life.
.
He Knew Better.
First Urchin —Dey say pickin' up a
pin brings luck.
Second Urchin —Nothin' to It! I
picked up pins in a bollin' alley fer
tree weeks an' den got fired.
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Fateful Days.
Certain days have been marked onea
in some persons' lives. Nearly all the
chief events of Thomas a Bec-kefs
career, including his murder and the
translation of his body—occurred on a
Tuesday. Henry VIII and his three
children —Edward, Mary and Eliza
beth—expired upon the same day of
the week —Thursday.
Co-op?ration !mae>-?tive.
Why not consider the helplessneai
of a man who thinks he can do every
thing al»"ne? How much headway can
one ir.ffn make In cutting down a for
est and building a city? There musl
be co-operation with other men.
His Ruling Thought.
One hears a great deal about the
absent-minded professor, but it would
be hard to find one more absent-mind
ed than the dentist who said soothing
ly, as he applied a tool to his automo
bile, under which he lay: "Now, this
is going to hurt just a little."
Dai'y
*":*<• ?,n nearer when we
stoop than wi. . e soar. —Words
worth.
Disapproves Old Adage.
In spite of the old adage to the con
trary, some things done by halves are
done most satisfactorily, as for exam
ple the much-used Quinsigamond
bridge at Worcester, Mass. Here traf
fic suffered a minimum of Interruption
by completing and putting Into use
one longitudinal half of the new
ture before the other half was built.
Hadn't Got to That.
Philanthropic Person —"Have yon
never striven my friend, to attain a
higher life?" Mundane Marmaduke—
"Well, mister, we ain't got past corned
beef an' beer yet, but whether well
ever reach champagne and chicken I
can't bloomin' well say."—Sydney BaK
letin.
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Bright Silver.
Silver will be found brighter if
wiped directly from clean, hot, slight
ly soapy wii'i r. Silver may be boiled
in a bricrfct :ilumlnum pan with several
small pieces of zinc or in a special sil
ver pan with salt and soda. These
. methods clean the silver and It can be
polished afterward.