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|<| ByJESSIE ETHEL SHER WIN %X
(Copyright, 1919, by the Western News
paper Cnion.)
Miss Eleanor Radcliffe was cher
ished as an institution of Grayville.
She had rented one of the best resi
dences in the town, seemed to have
plenty of money, engaged two servants
and led a quiet routine life, responding
to all Calls for public welfare or .char
ity, but mixing little with the people.
There had been a hint that, serene
faced and cheerful as she was, Miss
ItadclifTe had sought seclusion because
of a disappointment in love. Nobody
knew the details —it was all rumor and
gossip, but it was current that a man
she regarded with affectionate devo
tion had married another. Certainly,
with her fair, expressive face and win
ning manner, sne was worthy of inter
ested attention, nut she in no way en
couraged it and her secret was her
own.
Miss Radcliffe was a great lover of
animal pets. At the first she kept two
beautiful collies, but one was poisoned
and tiie other run over by a wagon. A
handsome high-bred cat was next
adopted, but some one stole the animal
and its successor was short-lived.
"Well, what do you think?" exclaim
ed a neighbor to the next-door resi
dent. "Miss Radcliffe has a new pet —
a baby!"
"For mercy's sake! Whose?"
"Nobody knows. She went away
Monday and came back Wednesday
with the child —a little girl about two
years old."
"There's a mystery here, and ro
mance," was darkly suggested; but
the gossips got no further with their
surmises and curiosity. Miss liad
cliffe engaged a nurse and the little
child became the object of her tender
care. Then Miss liadcliffe was report
ed going to a distance on the train
each week. Finally there was an ex
planation. A visiting relative of a
Mrs. Rose happened to see Miss Rad
cliffe pass the lunise.
"Why, I know that lady!" he de
clared. "She's the one who bought a
place called the Hermitage.
A few weeks later Miss Radcliil'e,
the baby, nurse and the servants left
Grayville for good and took possession
of their new island home. About a
month later the man who had spoken
of the Hermitage revisited Grayville.
"Well, those Radcliffe folks have set
tled down at the Hermitage," he said,
"and just as secret and exclusive as
ever. They've taken in a new mem
ber of the family —-a woman. The doc
tor goes there regularly to attend her
and I hear that she is out of her
mind."
"What a mixup!" was the vigorous
comment.
It was indeed a "mixup" to all save
Miss Radcliffe. What a story she
could have told, if so inclined! What
a heart history, tender, sad, involving
disappointment, sacrifice and the ful
fillment of a duty grandly, unselfishly
and sincerely! Eleanor Radcliffe lmd
mourned when Warren Lee had mar
ried Esther Yaile. Then she had re
moved to Grayville. Later she learned
that the woman he had married had
become a frivolous, wayward woman,
whose extravagance hftd driven him to
use money placed in his trust. He had
been prosecuted and sentenced to a
term In a penal institution. Eleanor
learned that his wife had become in
sane and their little one was left to
the cold charity of the world. A
mighty Impulse had swayed her. She
had gone after the child, and then the
affliction of the -demented wife, too,
appealed to her and she had assumed
a new burden.
For over a year Eleanor Radcliffe
devoted her life to little Leila and her
invalid mother. Gradually the woman
faded away. The only letter Eleanor
had ever written to Lee was waiting
for him t]ie day he was released from
prison. It bade him come to "friends
at the Hermitage." He was electrified
when he was shown into the presence
of h!s first love. His head bent low,
his tears fell as he listened to the
plain, clear story of all that Eleanor
had done for him and his wife and
child. He was too broken down to
speak. Oh. how she must have loved
him. Suddenly the nurse entered the
room.
"Miss Radcliffe," she spoke, in her
trained, subdued way. "Mrs. Lee has
passed away."
To his dead wife and his child El
eanor left the crushed husband and
father. She removed to the town
hotel. Thither at the end of the week
cam* Warren I>ee. He was like a be
ing dumbed by a conception of ths
service of this peerlees being.
"You are to have the Hermitage for
your own and for little Leila." she told
him. "Until you are strong enough
again to face the world, you must al
low me to be your friend."
"And you?" he quavered.
"Will be happy in knowing that
you will nobly redeem the past. I
shall go back to my lonely life, regret
ting little Leila, but oh! infinitely glad
that I have helped you and yours."
He sought her out six months later.
A relative had placed him once more
on his feet financially. Little Leila
was with him. It was while she was
clinging to her "dear aunty," that War
ren asked Elegnor to bless them with
her continual presence* There was
the surety of fidelity and devotion in
the future, and the woman who had
faced duty and sacrifice like a heroine
weakened like a woman and could not
face another parting.
SOME FAMOUS BEST SELLERS
Often, Like "Innocents Abroad," They
Have Been the First Books of
the Authors.
Many best sellers have been the
first books of their authors. Mark
Twain, then an impecunious newspa
| per man with little more than a local
: reputation for journalistic practical j
jokes, persuaded the publishers of a •
1 western paper to pay his expenses on
the widely exploited excursion of the
Quaker City. The letters which were
the result of this journey grew into
I the book "The Innocents Abroad" and
the name of Mark Twain became an
American household word.
Archibald Clavering Gui.ter, who had
been a mining and civil engineer and
l broker on the San Francisco ex
change, possessed a manuscript that
no established publisher could be in
duced to touch. So he issued it at
his own expense and in a very short
time the question of the hour became
' Have you read 'Mr. Barnes of New
' York?'"
The pastor of a church in a small
town on the Hudson river visited Chi
cago just after the great fire, saw in .
the catastrophe the background of a
novel with a strong religious appeal,
and in the course of a few months
awoke to find himself famous as the
author of "Barriers Burned Away."
An impetuous southern woman, the
author of one or two books that had
been lost in the turmoil of the great
civil struggle, went to New York at
i the close of the war with the manu
script of a novel and a year or two
later the traveler in southern states
was progressing on land by St. Elmo
coaches, on water by St. Elmo steam
boats, staying in St. Elmo hotels, j
smoking St. Elmo cigars and drinking
St. Elmo punch.
It was a very different matter with
! Frances Hodgson Burnett's "Little
; Lord Fauntleroy," says the Bookman.
That book was the work, not of a
novice, but of a writer Avho knew her
metier, who had years before won a
j reputation for imagination and good
workmanship and who had already
produced eight books of conceded
quality.
French Youth to Learn Chess.
A quaint petition has just been pre
sented to the French Minister of Pub
lic Instruction. At the famous cafe
de la Regence there meet dally and
nightly groups of chess players who
have formed themselves into an as
sociation known as the Chess Federa
tion of tlie Cafe de la Regence. Here
the most important class champion
ships in Paris are decided. The com
mittee of the association have just
approached the minister with the re
quest that a series of chess manuals,
which they themselvves have select
ed, shall be distributed with other
books as prizes at the end of the ,
1 school term to the pupils of the va- 1
rious lyc-ees. . The chess players are
anxious that a knowledge of their fa
vorite game should penetrate among
the younger generation, conscious as
they are of the importance of chess
in building up character and forming
the mind. The minister has grant
ed the request, and France may ex
pect to see grow up among them a
generation of chess devotees, just as 1
it is now nurturing a generation of
football players.—Paris Correspond
ent London Giobe.
Cracker Lunches.
New York city alone lias nearly
750,000 children attending the public
schools. What a splendid opportunity
to provide this vast army of healthy
i youngsters with a wholesome and ap
petizing cracker lunch, done up in a
| neat package and still cheap enough
to be within the reach of even the
poorer parents.
We once saw one of these cracker
lunches as got up by a large biscuit
concern in Germany. The paper box
contained six delicious crackers with
a marmalade filling, and there was an
empty compartment for a nice red
apple or a couple of plums, which of
course were added by the mother of
the child. These school lunches, ex- I
elusive of the fruit, were sold at 5
pfennings, or about 1% cents. —Ba-
ker's Weekly.
The Air-Sacs of Pigeons.
The air-sacs of the pigeon constitute
a system of interstices the value of
which lies in their absence of weight
and resistance.
Flying is possible only to a body of
high mechanical efficiency divested
of all superfluous material. The orig
inal reptiles, which by evolution be
came birds, were divested of super
fluous material, and the body spaces
thus obtained were filled with air
sacs. The body wall, adapting itself
ito the mechanical requirements, be
came a hollow cylinder serving as a
support for the organs of movement,
the mobility of whose parts was as
sured by the surrounding air-sacs. The
air cavities in the bones of other birds
are similarly explained.—Harper's
Weekly.
Her Specialty.
"I thought you said George had
married a good manager."
"He did."
"I called on her yesterday and the
house was in terrible disorder. It
looked as if everything had been left
to take care of itself."
"But you should see her managing
George."
Superior.
"They're very superior people,
aren't they?"
"Very. They play nothing but
grand opera records on their phono-
I graph."
Concerning Sox Weed.
The manufa-t rinir of boxes arid
crates in tlie Cnited S'ato consinu.-s
one-tenth of our output of lumber
every year. In some cases, says the
American Forestry Magazine, the odor
of a wood adds to the value of the ar
ticle shipped in the package.
In Spanish cedar boxes furnish an ex
ample. It is widely believed that but
ter Is better If it touches no wood ex
cept ash, and a similar belief prevails
regarding tea, which, it is said, should
be shipped and kept in the Chinese
wood in which the orientals pack it. The
notion in regard to the tea might lose
some of its popularity if it were gen
erally known that the wood of which
the tea boxes are made did not grow
nearer China than several thousand
miles. Some of it comes from Rus
sia. The Chinese paste paper over the
boxes, stamp them with Chinese char
acters, and fill them with tea for for
eign markets.
Human Good-Will.
With all your exuberant srood-will
you haven't altogether got beyond the
theory that the first cave-dweller be
stowed on his neighbor the bone he
himself didn't need, and established
the pheasant relation of benefactor
and beneficiary. It gave him such a
warm feeling in his heart that he nat
urally wanted to make the relation
permanent. First cave-dweller felt a
little disappointed next day when
second cave-dweller, instead of com
ing to him for another bone, preferred
to take his pointed stick and go hunt
ing on his own account. It seemed a
little ungrateful in hiin, and first
cave-dweller felt that it would be no
more than right to arrange legislation
In the cave so that it should not hap
pen again. Christian charity is a beau
tiful thing, but sometimes it gets mixed
up with these ideas of the cave-dwell
ers. —Samuel M. Crothers.
Calling New Jersey "Spain."
Referring to New Jersey as "Spain"
came about in this way: Joseph
Bonaparte, the eldest brother of Na
poleon, came to America and occupied
the place called Point Breeze, at Bor
den town, N. J. He was ex-king of
Spain, but, disclaiming his legal rank,
he lived there for several years under
the title of Comte de Survillierx, en
dearing himself to his neighbors by his
liberality and graciousness of man
ners. He was chosen a member of
many learned and philanthropic insti
tutions, and in ISI7, an act was passed
by the legislature enabling him as an
alien to hold real estate within the
state. Ardent Republicans, as well
as neighbors out of good-natured rail
lery, for this reason called the state
his kingdom of Spain.
Stranger Than Fiction.
Among the advertisements on the
first page of an Austrian rural news
paper appears one tradesman's praise
of the "beautiful fresh bread" he dis
tributes, and another tradesman's ac
claim of the "beautiful Cavendish ba
nanas" he has for sale. After reading
further and finding with relief that at
least one individual deals in "beauti
ful art" in this day of post-postism,
one is naturally led to wonder just
when Lewis Carroll was exercising his
imagination and when he was merely
setting down faithfully what he had
heard when he penned such poems of
praise as that Alice in Wonderland
lyric which concludes:
Soup of the evening,
Beautiful soup.
Machine Shapes Masts.
A machine has been built which will
shape masts up to 100 feet in length
and three feet in diameter. The tim
ber Is set up in the machine and re
volved at a speed of 50 revolutions a
minute, and it is shaped by a cutter
head which is electrically driven at the
rate of 700 revolutions a minute. This
cutter head is mounted on a carriage,
which is moved along the timber
against a rail set to give the proper
profile to the mast. Heretofore this
work has been done by hand and re
quired skilled workmen. At best it
has been a slow and laborious task.
Life Made Beautiful.
"The part of life which we really
live is short," said Seneca. "Exigua
pars est." Perhaps it Is true, as this
wise old pagan has said. And yet it
ought not to be true. All of life should
and can be made beautiful. The best
that Is In us should not assert itself
infrequently, but at all times. The time
we spend in the effort to satisfy our
greed, the time spent In envy of our
neighbors, in anger, in any unworthy
spirit whatever, is assuredly time spent
ill. It is that part of life In which
we really do not live at all.—Los An
geles Times.
Consequence*.
Consequences are unpitylng. Our
deeds carry their terrible conse
quences, quite apart from any fluctua
tions that are hardly ever confined to
ourselves. And It is best for us to fix
our minds on that certainty, instead
of thinking what may be the elements
of excuse for us. Sooner or later what
we really believe will work its way into
action, and what we think and what
we do will one day be in accord. That
is one great danger of unrestrained
thought.
Delivering the New Suit.
Customer (telephoning tailor) —"You
send out the clothes and If they're
O. K. I will send you my check." Tailor
—"\\ on't do it. You send me the
check first and if it is O. K. I will send
rnn tho olnthao " TuHl/a
ivory Mats.
There r.re- but three mats of ivory
in existence. The largest one meas
ures eight by four feet, and although
made in the north of India, has a
Greek design for a border. It is used
only <>n state occasions, like the sign
ing of Important documents. The cost
of this precious mat was almost In
calculable, for more than 6,400 pounds
of pure ivory were used in its con
struction. Only the finest and most
flexible strips of the material could be
used, and the mat is like the finest
woven fabric.
Task for Mamma.
Ben was visiting his aunt, who so
far forgot herself as to use a "swear i
word." The youngster was horrified,
and upon arriving home he began to
tell his grandfather about the occur
rence. When he. reached the place in
his story where the "swear" had to
be repeated he stopped and said ap
pealingly: "Mother, won't you say It
just once so grandpa can hear how
aw;'ul Aunt Sue sounded?"
Plodders Have Their Uses.
It is the men who have had vision
who have moved the world forward.
The rest of us are plodders. We are
good plodders and we all do the best
we can. but we are really followers
In the footsteps of others. If we fol
low well, and if we plod patiently and
tirelessly we also may claim our meed
of praise. Also we shall surely be
given our reward. —Exchange.
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Red-Tapeism.
A young detective was enthusiastic
but inexperienced. Rushing into his
chiefs office in great excitement, he
cried, "I've found the murderer! I've
got him cornered so that he can't es
cape!" The chief regarded him with
withering scorn. "Allow me." he said,
"to draw your attention to the fact
that at present we are looking, not for
the murderer, but for clews 1"
On Riches.
I cannot call riches better than the
baggage of virtue. For as the baggage
Is to the army, so is riches to virtue.
It cannot be spared nor left behind,
but it hinders the march; yea. and the
care, of it sometimes loseth or disturb
eth the victory. Of great riches there
Is no real use, except it he in the dis
tribution ; the rest is but conceit. —Ba-
con.
Quite Right, Auntie!
Aunt Nancy listened with horror to
the language of a fat old gentleman
who had been forced to climb six
flights of stairs to his office because i
the elevator wasn't running. "There,"
she said, sagely. "There is an exam- j
pie of what we may expect man
who has had no bringin' up." *
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Life's Turning Point.*
When you get into a tight place,
and everything goes against you, till
it seems as if you couldn't hold on a
minute linger, never give up then,
for that is just the place and time the
tide will turn. Harriet Beeeher
Stowe.
Pity the Manicurist.
Of course you have your little wor
ries and moments of vexation while
going about your daily tasks, but sup
pose you had to listen to all the
flubdub and mushy talk a manicurist j
has to listen to while she goes about
hers? —Macon Telegraph.
Art for Art's Sake.
"The desideratum of things artistic,"
mused the guy with the temperament,
"would be a wedding between the girl
on the front page of a current maga
zine and the fellow on the collar ad
vertisement."
Remember One's Limitations.
In the moral world there is nothing
impossible, if we put a thorough will
to it. Man can do everything with
himself; but he must not attempt to
do too much with others. —Humboldt.
Not Fair Division.
We do not wisely when we vent
complaint and censure. We cry out
for a little pain, when we do but smile
for a great deal of contentment. —
Feltham.
The Largest Butterfly.
The largest butterfly known )• found
In British New Guinea, and there only.
Measured across the wings, specimens
are often from 8 to 11 Inches wide.
Few Chinese-Built Lines.
Of the 15 lines comprising the eye
tem of Chinese government railway!
only one was built by the Chlneee
themselves.
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Chance for a Fat One.
Advertisement "Good opportunity
for a bright woman with a large cor
poration."—Boston Transcript.
Can't Stop Him.
A man will surmount all obstacles
when he shows a natural tendency to
make a fool of himself.
Wales* Last Wolf.
The last wolf in Wales was killed en
Cader Idrls In the year 1768.
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Daily Thought.
Good manners rr > made- u> < ]■
sacrifice. —Emers^"
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Production Wins.
Wealth (Iws not come by the most
diligent saving, but by the most dili
gent producing. Men and nations who
pinch the pennies hardest are neve*
the richest
Size of the Foot.
The foot should he as long as the
ulna, or chief bone of the forearm
that is, from the small head of the bono
to be seen at the wrist to the point ol
the elbow should be the length of ths
foot
How Could Hel
"I'm terribly worried I wrote Jack
fn my last letter to forget that I had
told him I didn't mean to reconsider
my decision not to change inv mind,
and he seems to have misunderstood
me." —Life.
Psychologically Tested.
Psychological tests are being used
by the United States employment Serv
ice in New York to aid in determining
the work for which applicants are beet
fitted.
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Grandmother's Economy.
Another reason why your dear oIA
grandmother #d!dn't think she coal*
afford silk stockings was because ah*
thought she ought to wear six or sere»
petticoats.—Dallas News.
Balute to the Flag.
The salute to the flag la gtvea bp
racing the right hand, palm outward,
until the index finger is even with the
lower edge of the forehead, and
lng at attention.
Use Reason.
You've got to leaven your work with
some planning and thought. A tire
less cooker doesn't do the business ua*-
til heat is applied.
Btef Suet Not Indispensable.
Norway has discovered that beet
suet is not absolutely necessary to the
manufacture of margarine. Cod Wrer
oil herring oil and other fish oils are
j said to be excellent substitute®.