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THE FULTON COUNTY NEWS. McCONNELLSBURG. PA.
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ss lENBYXITfltify WEBSTER J
CHAPTER XXII.
15
Jimmy Wallace Throws a Bomb.
It wns about eleven months after
Rose hud watched Itodncy walking do
, lectedly away Into the ruin that Jimmy
Walluce threw his bomb.
Every year he inude two profes-
lonal visits to New York; one In au
tumn, one In the spring. In order that
he might have Interesting matters to
write about when the local theatrical
doings hud been exhausted. From
his first spring pilgrimage after
Hose's disappearance he came back
wearing a deep-lying and contented
smile, und a few days later, after n
tulk over the telephone with Rod
ney, he headed a column of gossip
about the theater with the following
paragraph :
"Com On In," as the latent of the New
Tork revues la called, Is much like all the
others. It contains the same procession
of specialty mongers, the same cacophony
of rag-time, the same gangway out Into
the audience which refreshes tired busi
ness men with a thrilling worm's-eye view
( dancing girls' knees au nature). And
up and down this straight and narrow
pathway of the chorus there Is the custo
mary parade of the same haughty beau
ties of Broadway. Only In one Item la
there a deviation from the usual formula:
the costumes. For several years past the
revues at the theater (the Columbian)
have been caparisoned with the decadent
colors and bfznrre designs of the exotic
Mr. Qrenvllle Melton. I knew there had
, been a change for the better as soon as I
saw the first number, for these dresses
have the stimulating quality of a healthy
and vigorous Imagination, as well as a
vivid decorative value. They are exceed
ingly smart, of course, or else they would
never do for a Broadway revue, but they
are also alive, while those of Mr. Melton
were Invarlnbly sickly. Curiously enough
the name of the new costume designer has
a special Interest for Chicago. She is
Doris Duno, who participated In "The
Girl Upstairs" at the Olobe. Miss Dane's
stage experience here was brief, but nev
ertheless her striking success In her new
profession will probably cause the forma
tlon of a large and enthusiastic "I-knew-ber-when"
club.
Jimmy expected to produce an effect
f with It. Hut what he did produce ex
ceeded his wildest anticipations. The
thing came out In the three o'clock
edition, and before he left the office
that afternoon he had received over
the telephone six Invitations to din
ner; three of them for that night.
Be declined the first two on the ground
of an enormous press of work inci
dent to his fresh return from a fort
night in New York. Hut when Violet
Williamson called up and said, with a
reference to a previous engagement that
was shamefully flctltous: "Jimmy, you
haven't forgotten you're dining with us
tonight, have you? It's Just us, so you
needn't dress," he answered:
"Oh, no, I've got It down on my cal
endar all right. Seven-thirty?"
I Violet snickered and suld: "You
wait 1 Or rather, don't wait. Make It
seven."
i Jimmy wus glad to be let off that
extra half hour of waiting. He was
Impatient for the encounter with Vio
leta state of mind most rare with
him. Lie meant to wring all the pleas
ure out of It he could by way of re-
venge for Violet's nttltude toward
Roso after her presence in the Globe
chorus had become known for that
biting contempt which was the typical
attitude of her class.
Violet said, the moment he ap
peared In the drawing room doorway:
"John mude me swear not to let you
tell me a word until he enme In. He's
imply burbling. Hut there's one
thing he won't mind your telling me,
and that's her address. I'm simply per
ishing to write her a note und tell her
how glad we were."
Jimmy made a little gesture of re
gret. He'd have spoken too, but she
didn't give him time.
"You don't mean," she cried, "that
you didn't find out where she lived
while you were right there lu New
York I"
John came In just then, and Violet,
turning to hlra tragically, repeated, "He
doesn't even know where she lives !"
"Oh, I'm a boob, I know," said Jim
ray. "But, as I told tho other five . . ."
Violet frowned as she echoed, , "The
ether five what?"
Jimmy turned to John Williamson
with a perfectly electric grin.
"The other five of Rose Aldrich's
frlends--and yours," he snld, "who
called 130 up this afternoon and Invited
, me to dinner, and asked for her' ad
dress so that they could write her
notes and tell her how glad they
were."
i John said "Whoosh !" all but upset
a chair, and slammed It out of the way
In order to Jubilate properly.
Violet stood looking at them
thoughtfully. A little flush of color
was coming up Into her face.
"You two men," she said, "are try
ing to, act as if I weren't In this ; as If
I weren't Just as glad as you are, and
hadn't as good a right to be. John
here," this was to Jimmy, "has been
gloating ever since he came home with
the paper. And you . . . Did you mean
' me by that snippy little thing you said
about the 'I-knew-her-when club?' Well,
you'll get .v.our punishment.- There's
dinner 1 But you won't be allowed to
eat. You'll have to begin at the begin
ning and tell us all about her."
Jimmy, his effect produced, his long
meditated vengeance completed by the
flare of color he'd seen come up In
Violet's cheeks, settled down seriously
to the telling of his tale, stopping oc
casionally to bolt a little food Just be-
. fore his plate was snatched away from
him, but otherwise without intermls-
' lion.
ne'd suspected nothing nbout the
tcstumes on that opening night of
"Corns Oa In," uetll a railzation of
how amazingly good they were made
him search his program. The line
"Costumes by Dane" hud lighted up in
his mind a wild surmise of the truth,
though he admitted it hud seemed al
most too good to be true. Because the
costumes were really wonderful,
i He cost ubout, he suld, for some way
of finding out who Dune really wus.
And, having learned that Culbruith
was putting on the show at the Casino
he looked hlra up.
Galbrallh proved a mine of Infor
mation no, he was more like one of
those oil wells technically known as a
gusher. He simply spouted facts about
Rose, and couldn't be stopped) She
was his own discovery. He'd seen her
possibilities when she designed and
executed those twelve costumes for the
sextette In "The Girl Upstairs." He'd
brought her down to New York to act
us his assistant. She worked for Gal-
bralth the greater part of last season
Jimmy hail never known of anybody
having Just that sort of Job before,
Galbraith, busy with two or three pro
ductions at once, had put over a lot
of the work of conducting rehearsals
on her shoulders. He'd get a number
started, having figured out the muueu
vers the chorus were to go through,
the steps they'd use, and so on, and
Rose would actually take his pluce;
would be In complete charge of tho re-
heursul as the director's represento
tlve.
The costuming lust season had been
a side issue, at the beginning at least,
but she'd done part of the costumes
for one of his productions, and they
were so strikingly successful that Abe
Shumun had snatched her away from
him.
"The funny thing is the way she
does them," Jimmy suld. "Everybody
else who designs costumes Just draws
them : dinky little water colored plntcs,
and the plutes are sent out to a com
pany like the Star Costume company
und they execute them. But Rose can't
draw a bit. She got a mannequin not
an ordinary dressmuker's form, but a
regular pulnter's mannequin with legs
und made her costumes on the thing;
or at least cut but a sort of pattern of
them in cloth. But somehow or other,
the designing of them and the execu
tion are more mixed up together by
Roso's method than by the orthodox
one. She wanted to get some women
In to sew for her, and see the whole
job through herself; deliver tho cos
tumes complete, nnd get paid for them.
But It seems that the Shumans, on the
side, owned the Star company and
raked off. a big profit on the costumes
that way. I don't know all the details.
I don't know that Galbraith did. But
anyhow, the first thing anybody knew,
Rose had financed herself. She got
one of those rich young bachelor wom
en in New York to go into the thing
with her, and organized a company,
and made Abe Shuman an offer on all
the costumes for 'Come On In.' Gal
braith thinks that Abe Shuman
thought she was sure to lose a lot of
money on It and go broke, and that
then he could put her to work at a
salary, so he gave her the Job. But
she didn't lose. She evidently raado
a chunk out of it, and her reputation
at the same time." '
Violet was Immensely thrilled by
this recital. "Won't she be perfectly
wonderful," she excluimed, "for the
Junior league show, when she comes
back 1"
Jimmy found an enormous satisfac
tion in saying: "Oh, she'll be too ex
pensive for you. She's a regular rob
ber, she says."
"She 8uysl" cried Violet "Do you
mean you've talked with her?"
"Do you think I'd have come back
from New York without?" said Jimmy.
"Galbraith told me to drop in at the
Casino that same afternoon. Some of
the costumes were to be tried on, and
'Miss Dane' would be there.
"Well, and she came. I almost fell
over her out there In the dark, because
of course the auditorium wasn't light
ed at all. I'll admit she rather took
my breath, just glancing up at me,
and then peering to make out who I
was, and then her face going all alight
with that smile of hers. I didn't know
whut to call her, nnd was stammering
over a mixture of Miss Dane and Mrs.
Aldrlch, when she laughed and held
out a hand to me and said she didn't
remember whether I'd ever culled her
Rose or not, but she'd like to hear
someone call her that, and wouldn't
I begin?"
Jimmy explained there hadn't been
any chance to talk much. "The cos
tumes began coming up on the stage
Just then (on chorus girls, of course),
and she was up over the runway In a"
minute, talking them over with Gal
braith. When she'd finished, she came
down to me again for a minute, but it
was hardly longer than that really.
She suld she wished she might see rae
again, but that she couldn't ask me
to come to the studio, because It was
a perfect bedlam, and that there was
no use asking me to come to her apart
ment, because she was never there
herself these days, except for about
seven hours a night of the hardest
kind of sleep. If I could stay uround
till her rush was over . . . But then,
of course, she knew I couldn't."
"And you never thought of asking
her," Violet walled, "where the apart
ment was, so that the rest of us, If
we were in New York, could look her
up, or write to her from here?"
"No," Jimmy said. "I never thought
of asking for her address. But It's the
easiest thing In the world to get. Call
up RoAiey, U3 knows."
"What makes you think ho knows?"
Violet duinuuded.
"Well, for one thing," said Jimmy,
"when Rose was asking for news of
all of you, she said: 'I heur from Rod
ney regularly. Only he doesn't tell
me much gossip.'"
"Hears from him!" gasped Violet.
"Regulurly I" She was staring at Jim
my In a dazed sort of way. "Welt,
does she write to him? Has she made
It up with him? Is she coming back?"
"I suppose you can Just bear me
unking her all those questions? Casu
ally, in the aisle of a theater, while
she was getting reudy for a running
Jump Into a tuxl?"
The color came up Into Violet's fuce
again. There was a maddening sort of
Jubilant jocularity about these men,
the looks and almost winks they ex
changed, the distinctly saucy quality
of the things they said to her.
"Of course," she said coolly, "If Rose
hud told me thut she heard from Rod
uey regularly, although' he didn't send
her much of the gossip, I shouldn't
have had to ask her those questions.
I'd have known from the way she
looked and the way her voice sounded,
whether she was writing to Rodney or
not, and whether she meant to come
buck to hlra or not; whether sho was
reudy to make it up if he was nil
that Any womun who knew her at
all would. Only a mun, perfectly In-
fatuuted, grinning . . . See If you can't
tell what she looked like and how she
said It."
Jimmy, meek again, attempted tho
task.
"Well," he said, "sho didn't look me
In tho eye nnd register deep mean
ings or anything like that I don't
know where she looked. As far as the
Inflection of her voice went, It was
Just as casual as If she'd been telling
me what tfhe'd had for lunch. But the
quality of her voice Just rlchened up
a b't, as If the words tasted good to
her. And she smiled, just barely, as
If she knew I'd be staggered nnd didn't
care. There you are I Now Interpret
unto mo this dream, oh, Joseph."
Violet's eyes were shining. "Why,
It's as plain," she said. "Can't you see
that she's Just waiting for hlra; that
she'll come like a shot the minute he
sa ys the word? And there he Is eat
lng his heart out for her, and in his
rage charging poor John perfectly ter
rific prices for his legal services, when
all he's got to do Is to say 'please,' In
order to be happy."
CHAPTER XXIII.
Rodney Gets a Clear View of Himself.
It was Rose herself who began this
correspondence with Rodney, within a
month of her arrival In New York.
If Roduey had done an unthinkable
thing; If he had kept copies of his let
ters to Rose, along with her answers,
"You Two Men ... Are Tryina
to Act as If I Weren't In on This."
In a chronological file, he would have
made the discovery thut the stiffness
of those letters had gradually worn
away and that they were now a good
deal nvro than mere pm forma bulle
tins. There had crept Into them, so
subtly and so gently that between one
of them and the next no striking dif
ference was to be observed, a friend
liness, quite cool, but wonderfully firm.
She was frankly jubilant over the suc
cess of her costumes In "Come On In,"
and she Inclosed with her letter a com
plete set of newspaper reviews of the
piece. '
It was a week later that she wrote:
"I met James Randolph coming up
Broadway yesterday afternoon, about
Ave o'clock. He's changed, somehow,
since I saw him last; as brilliant as
ever, but rather lurid. Do you sup
pose things are going bndly between
him and Eleanor? He told me he hadn't
seen you forever. Why don't you drop
In on him?"
It was quite true that Rodney had
seen very little of the Randolphs
since Rose went away. When It came
to confronting his friends, In the
knowledge that they knew that Rose
had left him for the Globe chorus, he
found that James Randolph was one
he didn't care to face. He knew too
much. He'd be too Infernally curious,
too full of surmises, eager for experi
ments. But Rose'i letter put a different face
on the matter. The fact that she'd
put him, partly at least, In possession
of what she had observed and what
she guessed, gave him a sort of shield
against the doctor. So one evening
about nine o'clock he slipped out and
walked around to the nor house which
Bertie Willis had built for Eleanor.
Rodney reflected, as he stood at the
door after ringing the bell, that his
own house was quite meek and conven
tional alongside this. Bertie had gone
his limit
The grin which his reflection afford
ed hlra was still on Rodney's lips when,
a servant having opened the door, he
found himself fuce to face with the
architect. Bertie, top-coated and hat
In band, was waiting for Eleanor, who
was coming down the stairs followed
by a maid with her cacplage-coat He
returned Rodney's nod pretly stlfTly, ns
waa natural enough, since Rodneyl
grin had distinctly brightened up ut
Night of him.
Eleanor snld, rather negligently;
"Hello, Rod. We're Just dushlng off to
the Puluce to see a perfectly exquisite
little duncer Bertie s discovered down
there. She comes on at half past nine,
so we ve got to fly. Want to come?"
"No," Rodney said. "I came over to
lee Jim. Is he at home?"
The maid was holding out the coat
for Eleanor's arms. But Eleanor, at
Rodney's question, Just stood for a
second quite still. She wasn't looking
at anybody, but the expression In her
eyes was sullen. "Yes, he's at home,"
she suld at last
"Busy, I suppose," said Rodney.
Her Inflection bad dictated this reply,
"Yes, he's busy," she repeated ab
sently and In a tone still more coldly
hostile, though Rodney perceived that
the hostility was not meant for him.
She looked around at Bertie.
"Wait two minutes," she snld, "If
you don't mind." Then, to Rodney,
"Come along." And she led the way
up the lustrous, velvety teakwood
stair.
He followed her. But, arrived at
the drawing room floor, he stopped,
"Look here," he laid. "If Jim'i busy
II
"Oh, don't be too dense, Rodneyl".
sho said. , "A man has to be 'busy'
when he's known to be In the house
and won't entertain his wife's guests,
Go up, sing out who you are, and go
right in." She gave him a nod and
a hard little smile, and went down
stulrs again to Bertie.
Rodney found tho door Eleanor had
Indicated, knocked smartly, on It, and
sang out at the sumo time, "This Is
Rodney Aldrlch. May I come In?"
"Come In, of course," Randolph
called. "I'm glad to see you," he add
ed, coming to meet his guest "but do
you mind telling me how you got In
here? Some poor wretch will lose
his Job, you know, If Eleanor finds
out about this. When I'm In this
room, sacred to reflection and re
search, It's a first-class crime to let
me be disturbed." It didn't need his
sardonic grin to point the satire of his
words.
Rodney said curtly: "Eleanor sent
me up herself. I didn't much want to
come, to tell the truth, when I heard
you were busy."
"Eleanor 1" her husband repeated, "I
thought she'd gone out with her poo
dle."
Rodney said, with unconcealed dls
taste: "They were on the point of go
ing out when I came In. That's bow
Eleanor happened to see me."
With a visible effort Randolph re
covered a more normal manner. "I'm
glud It happened that way," he said,
"Get yourself a drink. 'You'll find any
thing you want over there, I guess, nnd
something to smoke; then we'll sit
down and have an old-fashioned talk."
The source of drinks he Indicated
was a well-stocked collarette at the
other side of the room. But Rodney's
eye fell first on a decanter and siphon
on the table, within reach of the chair
Randolph had been sitting In.
"I don't believe I want anything more
to drink Just now," Rodney said. And,
as he followed Rodney's glance, Ran
dolph ullowed himself another sardonic
grin.
The preliminaries were gone through
rather eluborately; chairs drawn up
and adjusted, ash-trays put within
reach; cigars got going satisfactorily.
But the talk they were supposed to
prepare the way for, didn't at once be
gin. Randolph took another stlfllsh drink
and settled back Into a dull, sullen ab
straction. Finally, for tho suke of say
ing something, Rodney remarked:
"This Is a wonderful room, isn't it?"
Randolph roused himself. "Never
been In here before?" he asked. "Well
then, here's two more rooms you must
see."
The first one, opening from the study,
explained Its purposo at a glance, with
a desk and typewriter, and filing cabi
nets around the walls. "Rubber floor,"
Randolph pointed out, "felt celling; ab
solutely sound-proof. Here's where
my stenographer sits all day, ready
like a fireman. And this," ho conclud
ed, leading (he way to the other room,
"is tho holy of holies."
It had a rubber floor, too, and, Rod
ney supposed, a felt celling. But Us
only furniture was one chair and a
canvas cot
"Sound-proof too," suld Randolph.
"But sounding boards or something In
o'l the walls. I press this button, start
a dictaphone, and tulk In any direc
tion, anywhere. It's all taken down.
Here's where I'm supposed to think,
make discoveries and things. I tried It
for a while."
They went back Into the study.
"Clever beasts, though poodles," he
remarked, as he nodded Rodney to his
chair and poured himself another
drink. "Learn their tricks very nicely.
But good heavens, Aldrlch, think of
hlra as a man 1 Think what our Amer
ican married women are up against,
when they want somebody to play off
against their husbands and have to fall
back on tired little beasts like that
Eleanor doesn't mean anything. She's
trying to make me jealous. That's her
newest experiment But It's downright
pitiful, I say."
Rodney got up out of his chair. It
wasn't a possible conversation. "I'll
be running along, I think," he said.
'Tve a lot of proof to correct tonight,
and you've got work of your own, I
expect"
"Sit down again," said Randolph
sharply. "I'm Just getting drunk. But
that can wait I'm going to talk. I've
got to talk. And If you go, I swear
I'll call up Eleanor's butler and talk
to hlra. You'll keep it to yourself.
anyway." He added, as Rodney hesi
tated, "I want to tell you about Roso.
I saw her In New York, you know."
Rodney sat down again. "Yes," he
said, "so sho wrote. Tell me how she
looked. She's been working tremen
dously hard, and I'm a little afraid
she's overdoing It."
"She looks," Randolph said very de
liberately, "a thousand years old." He
laughed at tho sharp contraction of
Rodney's brows. "Oh, not like that I
She's as beautiful as ever. Her skin's
still got that b'loora on It, and she still
flushes up when she smiles. She's lost
Ave pounds, perhaps, but that's Just
condition.. And vitality I But a thou
sand years old. Just the same."
Td like to know what you mean by
that," suld Rodney.
"Why, look here," Randolph said.
Tou know what a kid she was when
you married her. Schoolgirl I I used
to tell her things and she'd listen, all
eyes holding her breath 1 Until I felt
almost as wise as she thought I was.
She was always game, even then. If
she started a thing, she saw It through.
If she said, Tell It to me straight'
why, she took It whatever It .might
be, standing up. She wasn't afraid of
anything. Courage of Innocence. Be
cause she didn't know. Well, she'a
courageous now, because she knows,
She understands I tell you every
thing.
"Why. look here! We all but ran
Into each other on the corner, there,
of Broadway and Forty-second street;
shook hands, said bowdy-do. If I had
a spare half-hour, would I come and
have tea with her here at the Knicker
bocker? She'd nodded at two or three
passing peoplo while we stood there.
And then somebody said, 'Hello, Dane,'
and stopped. A miserable, shabby,
shivering little painted thing. Rose
said 'Hello' and asked' how she was
getting along. Was she working now?
She said no; did Rose know of any
thing? Rose said, 'Give me your ad
dress, nnd If I can find anything I'll
let you know. The horrible little beast
told her where she lived and went
away. Rose didn't say anything to me,
except that she was somebody who'd
been out In a road company with her.
But there was a look In her eyes ... I
Oh, she knew everything. Knew
what the kid was headed for. Knew
there was nothing to be done about It
Sho had no flutters about It didn't
pull a long face, didn't, as I told you,
say a word. But there wus a look In
her eyes, somehow, that understood
and faced everything. And then we
went In and had our tea.
"I had a thousand curiosities about
her. I'd have found out anything I
could. But it was she who did the end
ing out. Beyond inquiring ubout you,
how lately I'd seen you, and so on, she
hardly asked a question; but pretty
soon I saw that she understood me.
Sho knew what was the matter with
me; knew what I'd made of myself.
And she didn't even despise me 1
"I came back here to kick this
thing to pieces, give myself a fresh
start. And when I got here, I hadn't
the sand. I got drunk Instead." He
poured himself another long drink nnd
sipped slowly.
"Everybody knows," he sold at last
"that down-and-outs almost Invariably
take to drugs or drink. But I know
why they do."
That remark stung Rodney out of his
long silence. During the whole of Ran
dolph's recttul of his encounter with
Roso he'd never once lifted his eyes
from the gray ash of his cigar. He
didn't want to look at Randolph, Jior
think about him. Just wanted to re
member every word he suld, so that he
could carry the picture awny Intact.
. (TO BE CONTINUED.)
ENGLAND NOW CHEWING GUM
Foreigners for Yean Refused to Adopt
American Product, but Situation
Suddenly Has Changed.
For a great- many years American
chewing gum manufacturers have en
deavored to teach foreign countries to
appreciate their product. The stuff
that wags tho American Jaw has been
udvertlsed assiduously In France, Eng
land and Germany, but with small
success. The non-American couldn t
understand It. no tried to swnllow It,
and when he couldn't he gave It up
as Incomprehensible nonsense. Over
In London, where It was called "Ameri
can Chewing Candy," many shopa
called attention to It but the British
ers passed It by and Vent on buy
lng toffee and lollipops and Turkish
delight
Suddenly, and without warning, the
situation has changed. Remarkable
figures recently published appear to In
dicate that England has Incontinently
become a nation of gum chewers.
Manufacturers report that within six
months they have Increased their
monthly sales from 8,000,000 to io.OOO,-
000 sticks. And the English newspa
pers cannot understand it
The explanation seems simple. It Is
said that the largest amount of chew
ing gum Is used In the army, and the
next largest amount In the navy. Dur
ing the last great advance, It was Is
sued as an army ration. Somehow or
other the soldiers discovered that It
steadied their nerves to have some
thing to chew on In time of stress;
and of course it has the effect of
keeping the parched throat moist. It
Is more than probable that the Cana
dian soldier Imparted this Information
to the English Tommies nnd experi
ence did the rest Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Gray Squirrel a Pest
The American gray squirrel Is likely
to prove a pest In England, as the
experience has been with the Imported
rabbit In Australia, and the English
sparrow and starling In the Unfed
States. Of its Introduction Into Rich
mond park, Sir Frederick Treves re
ports that It has not only driven out
the red squirrel, but It hns spread Into
neighboring gardens, where It Is doing
great damage, especially to the buds
and shoots of young fruit trees, peas
and strawberries. Though Its destruc
tion has been ordered, it may have
scattered so far already that control
will not be easy.
Woman Carpenters In France.
A few women are being employed as
carpenters In France as an experimen
tal measure. They are housed In army
huts built by the contractor for them,
and work vnder a forewoman, who Is
herself directly under a French mana
ger. A housekeeper-cook and a woman
supervisor have been engaged. Their
output and their pay Is about half that
of men. They do lighter work of car
pentry.
Pay Her to Walt
Shoe Salesman But. my deur
Madam, you had better purchase a
pulr while they are oniy twelve dol
lars. The price will soon go to twecty.
Ave dollars.
Complacent Customer Oh, then I
won't tr.ke any Just now. If they go
Hint hieh I'll lust wait for mv sec
ond childhood and then I can go bare-
root
How to Acquire
a Relish for
the Word
By REV. HOWARD W. POPE
Moodr Blbls Institute,
Chicago
TEXT How sweet are thy words unt
my taste! Yea, sweeter than honey to
my mouth. Ps. 119:103.
It Is a well-known fnct that unless
one uses the strength derived from
his food, in luboi
or exercise, he
soon loses his rel
ish for food alto
gether. On the
contrary, vigor
ous exercise as a
rule creates a
hearty appetite.
The sume prlncl
p I e applies to
spiritual things.
Unless we give
out to others the
comfort nnd in
spiration derived
of our daily rend
ing of the Bible,
we soon lose our
interest in it, und find It rather a dull
book.
If you reply : "I do not seem to get
much Inspiration from tho Bible. In
fact, I doubt If I huve gotten a fresh
Idea from It In a week," let me ask
you If you take time to think on what
you rend. Gold has to bo mined, and
diamonds are dug from the depths of
the eurth. In fnct, very few of God's
best gifts can be obtulned without ef
fort. So tho Scriptures must be
searched If one will discover their
hidden treasures, and even truths re
quire prayer and thought before It re
veals Its full beauty nnd strength.
Aside from the dally lessons which
God gives us from our morning read
ing, If we look for them earnestly, and
we may be sure they are adapted to
our needs for that day, we wish to cull
attention to the opportunities for serv
ice which arise from our contact with
peoplo on the way to or from business,
or on the train, or In the performance
of our dally duties. How often at the
tuble conversation drags, and almost
dies for lack of a fresh subject, nnd
yet how seldom anyone ventures to In
troduce a religious topic, even where
tlie majority of the people present are
professing Christians.
Out of the Abundance of the Heart
On the other hand, how refreshing
It is to meet one who Is evidently In
the condition of Peter and John, who
said: "We cannot but speak the
things which we hnve seen and henrd."
A gentleman overtook a stranger and
Invited him to ride. As he approached
him he said to himself: "I wonder
what the man Is thinking about and
what subject of conversation he will
Introduce. Surely It will be one of
three things the weather, the crops
or the election." It was none of these.
His first words after the salutations
were: "How's religion down In your
country?" The question startled the
man a little by Its directness, but it
showed where the other's heart nnd
hopes were, nnd led to n long and
profitable conversation on spiritual
things.
How much might be accomplished
by each of us If our hearts were warm
and glowing with love to Christ, nnd
our minds on the alert to Improve ev
ery opportunity that God sets before
us. Instead of telling a dozen people
tomorrow that It Is a fine day, or that
it looks like rain, suppose we give the
weather a rest and try to talk about
something more profitable. If your
neighbor, opens up the subject of wur,
ask him If he ever noticed that verse
in Psalms where God says, "He mak
eth wars to cease unto the ends of the
earth," or say: "Here is a verse which
has helped me lately. Let me give It
to you." If they open up on the
weather and complain because the duy
Is so cold or wet, meet their com
plaints by saying: "This Is the day
which the Lord hath made; we will
rejoice and be glad In It." Try this
on a dozen people the next rnluy day
that comes, and watch the effect of It.
Or call attention to the promise in
Isaiah 50:10, that as the rain coraeth
down, nnd the snow from heaven, and
returneth not thither until It hns done
Its appointed work, so shall my word
be that goeth out of my mouth; It
shall not return unto me void, but It
shall accomplish thut which I please.
What an opportunity this gives one to
talk on God's overruling Providence,
and the certainty that his purpose will
be fulfilled.
Refreshing In the Word.
If the day be hot and sultry, whut
more refreshing than the verse, "He
shall come down like rain upon the
mown grass; as showers that water
the earth." Ps. 72:0. Whatever the
weather or political conditions may be,
there is always some way of diverting
attention to spiritual things if we will
make a study of the fine art of relig
ious conversation.
And Just as a nursing mother eats
both for herself and her child, so, as
we read the Bible, we should be on
the lookout for truth which we can
pass on to others. And as nurses In
royal families are fed more carefully
and bountifully because they supply
life to the king's children, so we may
be sure God will cause his word to
dwell In us more richly, if he knows
that we will pass it on to others.
Where Can Qod Trust You?
Do we ever ask God to let us do a
great thing for hlra, not as the world
measures but as he estimates? Jubez
prayed to the God of Israel that he
might "enlarge his coast." One can
hardly read the history of the Reform
ation without the feeling that Stuupitz
could huve led that mighty movement If
he hnd been willing to suffer and dure
for God. Staupltz saw the corruption
of the church and pointed out to
Luther the evils that needed correc
tion. But because of his failure to
translate sis vision Into doing, God
passed hi in by and chose Luther. Billy
Sunday said at Now York tho other
day : "You are where you are becatfse
Jesus knows he cannot trust you In a
more responsible place." Sunduy
School Times.
0&
SOLD Situ
FOB IB M
And Filed on Wnst... .
Land. Now Worthing
Lawrence Bros, of Ver. .
wan, are looked upon a. bnVTi
the most progressive f,lrJl8N
e-n rnnnrtn Tt,.... . rn"rtaJ
7 "tve
ups-una-aowns," and
"ad ft.
know
I. K l .
rered. and are now n' . ,lf1
interesting one. Coming 7 H
states mey traveled nvw ".I
Calgary across the ft Zw T H
Red Deer river, ,nP011 M
Hills and on to Rattleford V1
way tneir horses were stolen i
did not dishearten them TM
somejnoncy, with whi.h'th'Tl
more horses. n,i ..... ' ""a
more
When
they
renel.n,! n r:"itt
: , ' ''r"iKh ton,,,:
ferriage over the PnskttffW-V
and this they had to horrj V'
In 1906 that tlmv fli,M - . '
having to sell a sh,)t; ,;
do SO. Fmnk T '!
... . ,-,-,,
"Since that time w mt
altogether a section n,i . ,T
land. In addition to r,.ml.
mi ro yuiiuurs or n Section,
hnd to sell out now could 'nl
realize nbout Snomvi L
all this since we en mo !,.
crops In this dixtrl.-t nf tiny
33 bushels of wlet ,n fll. .'
oats from 40 to 80 lmsM to'th. J
oiwk in-re pays well. Wp hat,
sheep, 70 cattle and 00 hnrnifjt
a nunincr are registered Ciy,
Similar successes nik-M hi, 1.
the experiences nf humli-,.,1. i.J
ers throughout Western CanaJi J
nnve uone comparatively in ej.r
nouia they not dress !! ...
have comfortable homes, wi-haiid
em equipments, electric lijht, r
neat, pure ventilation, and it
Dlles. hpeaklng of niitnmoMtait
be a revelation to the roadr to 1
thnt during the first hnlf of bit
000 automobile licenses were lai
Alberta, twice as many as in yt.
of 1013. In Saskatchewan, 2MK
censes were Issued up to th fat
May, 1917. In Its mnnthlr
June tho Canadian Rnnk of Coos-
makes special reference to this
and to the general prosperity i a
west in the following:
"Generally speaklnn the vtA
farmer Is, In many respects, In m
better position than hitherto to
crease his production. Two rn
high prices for his products tm
abled him, even with a twrml r
to liquidate a substantial prr
of his liabilities and at theus-.
to buv Improved farm nmrhinm.
prosperity Is reflected In the tel
for du Id nir materials mown
and other enulmnent. It is do i
true that some extrnvaznno li r
denred hv tho nstnnlshlnn deal
motor cars, but It must be mncH
thnt many of these ears will nab
efficiency on the farm nnd tw
both time and lahor."-AHWM
Pan.
They have a new mio oat it F
narrlson culled "pan," and plajrt
an ordinary pie pan, wiys'h'et
apulls News. Such a :in,
correctly, has all the llnatint p
of an airplane, and with a litHr
tlce mny be sailed fast and w
for a distance of l.'XN) (M. T.-
tlnn nnn" Is nn Inn irovement 00
game. nn Is played by any nc
men In a big circle, nnd each m -I
drops the pnn Is out of the fi
CUTICURA KILLS DAMDK.TF
The Cauie of Dry. Thin md h
Hair and Does It Quickly TniiF
Annlnt- annU nf lluudrllff,
Itrlfntlnn with ClltlCUra OiDtBM
low at once by a hot shampoo 1
Cutlcura Soap. If a man,
morning If a woman. When 1
fnp th hnlr comes. Cs K-'l
oAnM nll'w , iha tnlleL
Va onmnlo oneh t)Y DMlI "I" 1
"-j"- . . ru, j
Address postcard, Cutirum r
Boston. Sold everywhere.-"'
Tommy Expl'"
A coiinle of Charleston
were celebrating Bunker
exploding a few torpedo
to the Boston Transcript.
Said
"I don't see how the Germans
up a big ship with one of those t I
"Oh. you girls can't espeot W
Btand nbout such things.' mw '
with a superior air. "Of
. nhnu ant""
torpeuoes mey use . j
times as big and uw'' j
lift them up and drop th
ship."
Mknf popl lmim in - . ,
worm ennot b. l'"i!!d a"?
Thou who hv ut J M
Ttr Vrmlfu, now
Worried.
"I don't know what I'll d" u
has to go to war." (m
"I wouldn't worry so "f - j
you. Perhnps he won't Df ,
"I know, but I J"'' .p.
thought of him verhftv
"That is a fear that nil
to face. Has you son w h
"Dear me, no, not
..j j, tnr fear w ,
wornea 10 uraw .t.,v
v 111 1, united affnyi"1"
"How old is your bar:
"Just sir months old f1
the loveliest boy tnai .
A Teetotal WJ '
m rnnhh-Thls rtiV
the reputation of thecd
dlence went overboard
tea party. i nlet',
Mr. Clubb-res, and
n..i..ilr.na hnve COII
tea parties slnceJ"'1
8 tunc run mi ,,;,icl
, Sold t Drug n4 f aW
ilk MorlM U . .Z
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