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WHA GONE BEFORE
. Remember Steddon, a pretty, un-
spohisticated girl, is the daughter of
a kindly but narrow-minded mjnister
in a small mid-western town. Her
father, : .
Rev. Doctor Steddon, violently, op-
posed to what he considers “wordly”
things, accepts motion pictures as
the cause for 'much of the evil of the
present day. Troubled with a cough,
Remember goes to see
Dr. Bretherick, an elderly physi-
cian, who is astonished at the plight
in which he finds her. . Pressed by
the doctor, Remember admits her un-
fortunate affair with -
Elwood Farnaby, a poor boy, son of
the town sot. As Remember and Dr.
Bretherick discuss the problem a
telephone message brings the news
that Elwood has been killed in an ac-
cident. Dr. -Bretherick - accordingly
to go West,
her cough serving as a plausible ex-
cuse; ta write home of meeting and
marrying a pretended suitor— ‘Mr.
Woodville’—and later to write her
parents announcing her ‘“husband’s”
death before the birth of her expected
child. Unable alone to bear her: se-
cret, Remember goes to her mother
with it. J
Her mother agrees with the plan of
the doctor. Mem leaves town. On the
train Mem accidentally meets Tom
Holby, movie star, traveling with
Robina, Teele, leading lady in the
movies, who are the cynosure of all
eyes. The train comes to an abrupt
halt, a disaster having been narrowly
avoided, and the passengers get out
and walk about.
At Tucson Mem meets Dr. Galbraith,
a pastor, who knows her father and
takes an interest in her. She miscalls
Tom Holby “Mr. Woodville” in order
to make her fancied suitor seem more
real. While the Galbraiths are away
she writes them as well gs her parents
that she has married ‘Mr. Woodville,”
and that they are to live in Yuma—
for which place she buys a ticket.
Mem decides to kill off the imagin-
ary husband by saying he died of thirst
in the desert.
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always wanted to get away from
everybody that had ever known her.
She wanted to find some deep, dark
cave. .
Heat and fatigue whipped her into
hysteria. She found energy enough
for one last despurate letter home.
Then she would declare her soul bank-
rupt and face the world free of re-
sponsibilities to the past.
Darling Mamma and Papa:—By
now you have probably ceased to
be surprised at anything I do.
You'll think: I have gone clean
crazy ‘and I guess I have, but as
long as I'm getting better and hap-
pier every day you won't mind.
I've been too busy to write you
all about John as I promised. He
is out here scouting for a famous
mine and is going prospecting for
it right away. It is a famouse lost
mine that got abandoned on ac-
"count of some old litigation and
was nearly forgotten. So he’s on
the hunt for it and we're going’ out
to hunt for it together. It means
losing ourselves in the desert and
the mountains for a long while—
there's no telling how long— but
it will be terribly romantic and
fine for my health and when next
you hear from me I may be so
rich I'll send you a solid gold sew-
ing machine, mamma, and papa a
solid gold pulpit.
Theres no mail delivery where
we're going and no way of reach-
ing us, but don’t worry. If any-
thing happens T'll let you know.
If you don't hear from me for a
long while you’ll know everything’s
all right. You can send your let-
ters to me here and I'll find them
when I get back. Don’t send me
any more money.
So good-bye and’ blessings on
your darling heads. John sends
his love.
Yours loving, loving, loving.
Mem.
To be a chambermaid or a waitress
was a dismal come-down, but, Mem
decided she must accept it! What
right had she to pride?
And so she fared into the desert to
become a “widow”—as she had become
a “wife.” She went there to find ob-
scurity and concealment.
But everything went by contraries,
and from that oasis she was to be
caught up into a fiery chariot, for all
the world to behold as it rolled her
around ‘and round the globe on an
amazing destiny.
* * *
Mem was deposited at the lonely
station of Palm Springs, and fear
smothered her as she watched the
train vanish into the glare. But a
rancher, almost as shy as she, offered
her the hospitality of his wagon. He
said he was going’ past the Randle’s
ranch anyhow, and would leave her
there.
After a time, Mem saw ahead of her
a shimmering lake and trees and a
waterfall.
“Phat’'s’ Palm Springs, I suppose,”
she said.
“No, ma'am, that’s a mirage—a
'‘maginary ‘mirage. They’s nothin’
there at tall—no 'tmaam.”
And now that Mem had learned her
own eyes could lie to her with con-
vincing vividness, suddenly, as the
road led them within eyeshot of two
vast hills of sand unspotted with
vegetaton, she saw what she was sure
was pure mirage—a scene that must
have come from her memory of a pic-
ture in an old volume of Bible stories.
She would almost have sworn that she
looked into the desert of Araby, for she
seemed to see a train of camels in
trappings, and, perched upon their
billowy humps, tmen in the garb of
Bedouins. The horses seemed to
suffer from the same delusions, and
| terrified by the camels they carried
, skirts.
‘| tried to hold giant falcons in leash.
the wagon into the ditch, and over-
turned it.
Mem found herself gently spilled in
the soft sand, so little injured that her
only thought was for pulling down her
She lay, still, reclining, not in pain, |
but in wonderment, as the wagon slid
on its side, the driver stumbling along]
and still clinging to the lines as if he
The caravan grew restive, too, and
Mem was consumed with perplexity as
she saw one of the animals forced to
its knees not far from her. - The sheik
or whatever he was, tunbled from the
saddle and ran to her. .
A brown: face looked out from the
hood, and from the scarlet lips sur-
rounded by a short beard came a voice
startlingly un-Arabic.
“Miss Steddon!
Steddon!”
She was. so dazed that she could
Miss Remember
only stare into the mysterious face.
The Arab smiled and laughed. “I'm
Tom Holby—a common movie actor
out on location.”
He lifted her from the sand, brushed
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her off, and went for her suitcase,
which had been dumped into the cac-
tus. ;
“Have you come here to be with
parents or friends or relatives?” he
asked.
“No. I am looking for a position as
a chambermaid.”
“My God! You!”
Her eyes amazed at his horror. He
cried again: “You with your beauty!
Oh, ino!”
She had been brought up on a motto,
“Praise to the face is Open disgrace.”
She snubbed him with a fierce toss of
the head.
A man in a pith helmet, dark goggles
and a riding suit drove up and was
complaining:
“Say, Holby, do you realize you're
keeping the whole company waiting in
this ghastly heat?” :
“I beg your pardon, Mr. Folger,”
said Tom, and walked beside the di-
rector. “Just a moment, old man. That
girl is a friend of mine and beautiful
as a peach. She’s just lost her hus-
band and come out to this hell hole
to be a chambermaid! It's too out-
rageous to think of. Give her a chance,
won't you?” 3
The director twisted in his saddle
and stared at Mem with expert eyes,
then laughed at Holby.
“All right,” he said, “I'll take a
chance. Two of the extra women
keeled over this morning from the
heat. T'll have my assistant take her
to the wardrobe woman and get her
fitted out and made up. She can ap-
pear in the famine scene.”
The caravan resumed its plodding
advance, and Holby turned back to say
to Remember:
“I've taken a great liberty. I can’t
servant when there may be a big career
before you in the pictures. There is a
shortage in the company for the big
scene, and you'd be a godsend. To
please me—I mean the director—do
this, won't you?”
“Well, of course, if it would be do-
ing you a favor—" /
“An immense favor!”
bear the thought of your working as a |
‘That's all
nothing to unlearn.
the assistant director.
of you.
Mrs. Kttery, the wardrobe woman,
and Leva Lemaire (who in private
life was Mrs. David Wilkinson) helped
Mem into one of the cars after she had
made explanations and said farewell
to the curious ranchman. While Mrs.
Kittery found a costume for her, Mrs.
Wilkinson, who was an “extra woman,”
took the job of mraking her up.
Watching a scene being taken Robina
Teele on that biggest camel. She's
earning her ‘money today by the sweat
of her whole system. She’s sweet on
Tom Holby and as jealous of him as a
fiend—mighty nice boy—not spoiled a
bit by being advertised as the most
beautiful thing in the world. I was in
a scene with him once; he was just as
‘considerate as if I had been Norma
Talmadge or Pauline Frederick.”
In a heat that drove the desert In-
dians into the shade and idleness,
dainty actresses and actors invited
sunstroke, and after a time the extras
were called forth from the compara-
tive shelter of the tents to the scene
of action. *
Mem could not believe that this was
she who stumbled across the sand,
twitching her skirts out of the talons
of the cactus, carefully dabbing the
sweat from her face with a handker-
chief already colored like a painter's
brush rag, and jingling, as she walked,
‘with barbaric jewelry.
The mob went forward slowly and
she recognized Tom Holby on a camel.
She hoped that he would not recognize
her, but he studied all the faces and,
being used to disguisesy made her out
and hailed her with the password:
“How are you standing it?”
She called up to him:
“All right, thank you.”
There was vast interest in her from
‘now on. The leading man had singled
out an extra woman for special atten-
tion, and the gossip went round with a
rush as of wings. /
The director divided the extras into
groups, with business assigned to
each.
Close-up of individuals were taken,
the 'most striking types being selected
and coached to express crises of feel-
ing. “You go mad and babble, old
man,” will you? Tear at your throat
and let your tongue hang out?
You, miss. will you fall fall back in
your mother’s arms—you be mother,
will you, miss, and catch her—you are
to die, you know just roll your eyes
back ‘and sigh and sink into a heap.
And you, mother, wring your hands
and beat your breast and wail. You
understand—Oriental stuff, eh? \
: “And I'd like somebody just to look
up to heaven and pray for mercy—
somebody with: big eyes—You, the
young lady over there—will you step
out? Oh, it’s Mrs. Woodville, isn’t it?
I 'met you this morning. Here's your
chance. Do this for me like a good
girl, and give yourself to it. Look up
to heaven; if the sun brings tears to
your eyes all right, but let them come
from your soul, dear, if you can. You
the better. "You: have
Heres Mr. Ellis,
He'll take care
like flies about you, from famine and
hardship.
God, you don’t mean for us to die in
this useless torture, do you, dear God?
“I don’t know anything, you know.”
Take my life and let these others live.
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see, you have seen your people dying.
You look up and say, O,
| Won't you, dear God?” ; :
Mem stood throbbing from head to
foot with embarrassment and with a
strange inrush of alien moods. The
fierce eyes of the director burning
through his dark glasses, the curious
instigation in his voice, the plea, to do |
well for him quickened her magically. |
Folger took her by the arm and mur-
mured: y
“Now, dear! . Let your heart break!
Look around and see your dying
people. That's your father over there
just gasping his life out. Your mother
lies dead back there; you've covered
her poor little body with sand to keep
the jackals from it. Can you do it?
Will you? That's right. Look around
now and let yourself go!”
(Continued Next Week)
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MATHERS OUTSTANDING TAX
COLLECTOR CANDIDATE IN
KINGSTON TOWNSHIP
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~ Down in Kingstos Township all ad-
vance indications point to the election
of Frank G. Mathers for the important
office of tax collector. The feeling
seems to be that office needs a business
/man at its head who can g¢
job right and see the taxes are col-
lected in a business like manner. Mr.
Maathers is well qualified for the of-
fice having lived in Kingston town-
ship for nineteen years and having
bee one of the communities leading
business men during that period.
Mr. Mathers has reared a family
there and has a keen interest in civic
and. community affairs. His work as
for the office and it is with the bus-
iness men and substantial citizens that
he finds his strongest support. Surely
no one known is better in this section
as a man of ability than Frank Math.
ers.
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ELLSWORTH FAMILY HOLDS
REUNION AT MESHOPPEN
fhe tenth annual reunion of tne
| Ellsworth family was held Saturday,
August 31, at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
seventy-five in attendance.
The oldest person present was Uncle
Joe Elsworth of Meshoppen, aged 90
years March 3rd, and the youngest
was Early Robert Richards of Strouds-
burg, age 18 months.
The following were elected as offi-
cers for the following year: President,
Leslie Ellsworth, Meshoppen; vice
president, Edward Ellsworth, King-
ston; secretary; Margaret FE. Patton,
Shavertown, and treasurer, F. L. Ells-
worth, Wilkes-Barre.
The following committees were ap-
pointed: y
Committee
on entertainment—Ed-
.|ward Ellsworth and George Ellsworth, |
Wilkes-Barre.
Marriage, birth and death commit-
tee—Mrs. Walter Atwood, Binghamton;
Mrs. Edward Ellsworth and Mrs. Aleck
Neely.
The next reunion will be held Satur-
day, August 30, 1930, at Fernbrook
a business man has well qualified him |
| Leslie Ellsworth of Meshoppen, with |
Park.
Elsie A. Parsons, Mr. and Mrs. Walter
E. Atwood, Binghamton; Mr. and Mrs.
C.
Frances Courtright, Bloomfield, N. J.;
Mrs. Harriet Cole, Mrs. Clarence Bun-
nell
Stewart Ellsworth, Kenneth Ellsworth,
worth, Mr. and Mrs. Earl J. Ellsworth,
South Montrose; Mr. ana Mrs. Russell
Achuff, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Patton,
arguerite Patton, Esther, Thomas and
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Jeanne
Guy Woolbert, Almon E., Carl Lo War-
[ren R. and Ben G. Woolbert, Trucks-
Richard, Jr., and Earl Robe
Stroudsburg; Mr. and Mrs.
Wharen and son Robert; Dr. and M
E. M. Ellsworth and son Robert, M
and Mrs. Edward Ellsworth, Em
Stroh and daughter Elizabeth of King-
ston; Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Ellsworti,
B. Courtright, ‘Eleanor F. and M.
Mr.
and daughter, and Mrs.
| Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Ellsworth, Olive, | Mrs. Gideon Miller and daughter Jean,
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Clarence and Catherine Ellsworth,| Brace, Mr. and Mrs. €. H. Ellsworth,
Meshoppen; Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Ells- (of Dallas; Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Ells.
worth, Leonard Ellsworth, Mr. and Mr;
George Ellsworth, Helen Ellsworth,
and Mrs. Charles Ellsworth, Lillian
Ellsworth, of Wilkes-Barre; Mr. an
Appleton, Shavertown; Mrs.
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SEPTEMBER 18, 19, 20, 21 i Ir E B ] C
WYOMING COUNTY FAIR
All is in Readiness for the Largest and Most Attractive
Fair-ever held. The Exhibits, for which Cash Premiums
are offered, will be complete.
EVERYTHING OF INTEREST WHICH IS PRODUCED IN WYOMING COUNTY CAN BE SEEN ON
DISPLAY AT THIS BIG PRODUCTS SHOW.
More Free Attractions Than Ever!
WORLD FAMED HELKVISTS
featuring their spectacular Double Fire Dive high up
from the top of a lofty ladder. These daring divers
plunge earthward like burning comets, alighting in a
small tank that is a veritable furnace of fire and
DIAMOND CITY BAND
of Wilkes-Barre, with a vocal soloist
FERFORMING DOG SHOW
that will give you the finest of animal stunts’
MAYOR H. A. MACKEY
of Philadelphia, will speak on Friday at 1:30 |
CAPTAIN DANIEL E. FOX
of Troop C. New York State Police, Sidney, N. Y.,
will be here Friday and Saturday with his men and
horses, and will give exhibition of daring horse-
BROOKLYN ROYAL GIANTS
A fast colored Base Ball team of Brooklyn, will op-
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‘BASE BALL GAMES DAILY
With real players in hot contests.
BATTERY B, 109th FIELD ARTILLERY will give
many fine demonstrations Wednesday afternoon.
A FINE SPEED PROGRAM
will satisfy all. The steppers will be there every day—
Sure to show you the fastest racing possible. The
track is one of the best.
A WONDERFUL MIDWAY
Shows and Rides from Reithoffer’s Circus
AIRPLANE STUNTS
Thrilling stunts in the air—Passenger Rides
FINE EXHIBITS
The display of cattle and other farm stock will be
better than ever this year.
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
Dallas vs. Hurlock’s Creek Beaumont vs. West
Wyoming,
SPECIAL—SHEEP DEMONSTRATION ;
Dr. Turner will show practical methods of Sheep
Parasite Control.
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