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The San Francisco call., 1908-03-15
The San Francisco Sunday Call

the plans Of and her husband and sne dSse
mined thvvart Il don't see why she shOuiun-
go she said. 1T lovely afternoon me Wals
will do her good Lucy Ayres is real nice girl anu
of Rose wantstto see girls of her own age now
and NJ,
1T is sunday He felt and looked IKE
hypocrite he spoke but the distress III faoiaO7'
gaze much for him -,
Sylvia shifted sunday. said She GOOD lanu
what has come you. Henry Whitman? IL mas oesn
I could do TO get you to go TO meeting tn
and all of sudden you turn arVulu
wicked for girl TO run In ana ssS
another young girl Sunday afternoon. sylvia snined
again very distinctly then Rose entered the room
Her looked from one to another from
under her black What is the matterE she asked
Sylvia patted the shoulder. Nothing is the
matter" said she. Run along and have good tirne
but you ha home by o'clock There IS a
praise meeting tonight and I guess Wen all want 10
gone and Sylvia had left the room
the men looked at each other Horace was ashy
pale IIenry's face showed alarm and astOnishmen'
What is it, he whispered.
Come in the grove and have smoke. said
Horace with look toward the door through wh'ch
Sylvia had
Henry nodded. He gathered up his pipe and tobacco
from the table and the two men saunered out OF ,ue
house into the But even there not much was
Both smoked in silence. sitting the bench
before Horace opened his lips in response 10 Henry
I don't know what it is I don't know that il
is ANYTHING. and that is the worst Of it, he said
gloomy. and I can't way to telling any
mortal what little do know that leads to fear that
actually knew beyond any doubt that there vas.
He stopped abruptly and blew ring Of smoke from
Something queer about my wife lately" said
Henry in low voice.
That's just II. feel something YOU do It may
when Women talk as Women ars INTENDED 5y an over
ruling providence TO talk know where they are at.
but when woman doesn't talk men know where they
amt
my there been SO much talk that
seem TO be in fog Of it and can't see blessed thing
sufficiently straight to know whether IT is big enough
to bother about little enough to let alone but can't
repeat the talk; could" said Horace
I'm my there amt talk enough" said Henry
II ain't in fog; I'm in pitch darkness"
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Sally be about sail for Paris buy her
trousseau She is going to Dicky Van snyde in
the autumn-whatever she in him. So l doubt il
either of them could do anything about maid for
I won't bother at all now, but going to let
you wait upon 1 going to help you
Sylvia took Roses little hands aud looked
i guess you can't much with hands like
yours said she admirngly and with odd tone OF
resentment, if she indignant - the
gestion lfe's demanding service from this dainty
little creature, for whom she ready immediate
herself
However. Rose had in vein persistence. She
insisted caring her room, and
insisted upon wiping dishes dustng.. she
did it all very badly, but Sylvia found the oldest
amusement in chidng her her mistakes and in
ting them right herself She would not have been
nearly well pleased had Rose been handy about the
house. evening Henry caught Sylvia wIping over
all the dishes which Rose had wiped and which were
still damp, the while she fairly doubled up with
suppressed What in creation ails you sylvan
asked Henry
She extended toward him plate on whiel the water
in drops. "Just this plate child
thinks she has wiped she chuckled.
You women do beat the Dutch" said Henry.
However. Rose did prove herself adept one
respect. She had sewed much she Ia A.
ventve genius in dress, when she up
needle she it deftly. When Sylvia
her aspirations concerning the pink which she
among Abrahama's possessions. Rose did
not laugh ALL but she looked her thoughtfully.
Don't you think be suitable if ] had it
made with black lace?' asked Sylvia vistfully.
Henry thinks it is young me, but"
Not black Rose said decisively The UP
attic beside the dnery. Rose took
old barege of ashes of laid
fold of the barege the pink silk, she looked
radantly Sylvia. 1T viii perfectly love ely
gown you you the pink for pettcoat" said
'and the gown made OF this delicious old
stuff
The pink pettcoat" gasped Sylvia.
1T is the only way" said Rose, you must have
gray gloves and bonnet gray with just one pale
pink in it. Don't you understand? Then you
and there is pink in your cheeks. will lovely
in 1t. There must be very high collar and some
soft creamy lace, because there is still yellow
left in your hair. Rose delightedly Sylvia
and the dressmaker and the gown accord
ing Roses directions Sylvia wore the first
time that Sunday when she walked from with
Lucinda Hart and found Rose and Horace sitting in
the After Rose had replied Sylvia's advice
that she should into the house she looked he1
with the pride Of proprietorship. Doesn't look
simply lovely?" she asked Horace.
'she certainly does" replied young man. H,
really gazed admirngly the older woman, made
under the glimmerng shadows the oaks, charm.
ing nocturne of elderly womancod. The pink or
her cheeks seemed enhanced by the pink seen dml1
through the ashen simmer of her gown: the cream,
lace harmonized with her yellow-gray hair. was
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THE,
SYNOPSIS

Henry whitman an his wife Sylvia, midoie age"
connie moor and working, living in the Ne" eng
Iaud village of East unexpectedly into
,hs property of SyIvias cousin, Abrahama White
kbrsb.m,s will cuts sisters child, Rose
Y-1-,ch.r an crphnp living Wit rich people In New
York The property of big house, standing
on 90 ground, and annual income OF SOU In
stocks Just before Sylvia catches the un-
dertaler's daughter Flora Barnes, shipping thin
braid of .Ilx out that drapes the corpse
She had been robbfnE in order to
cuvnulnfe material for silk dress for herself
0tber characters Horace Allen school
s.acber who had boarded Whftmans In their
dsr. Of poverty with them fn their pros
pe-tty and Albion presides at the little
Village wine and the drinks that cheer
and inebriate.
Lucinda Hart, a timid young woman, keeps the ho-
tel Miss FsrreI therein object of suspicion
becsuse of great beauty, her advanced yenrs
She "a school teacher westIand. One morning
Miss FarreI murdered in bed Lucinda Hart is
.u.rceted Of giving her poisoned arrested
together with Hannah Simmons who s supposed TO he
her accompIice. Now Miss Farrel, IT turns out was
the person who Rose Fletcher, having
secretly settled her. but given all
the credit 10 the people. Consequently Rose
Fletcher summoned funeral On her arrival
.be captures whitman family. though they look
with misgfvIng city clothes and city
usupers The against Lucinda Hnrt and Hannah
simmons pressed. Because of the departure
for Europe people whom she had been IiV-
ing Rose Fletcher decides remain with thc whit
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CHAPTER XVI
Life In East westlsnd

- TT now for sylvia came time Of CONFINEMENT
N apparently beyond anything which had ever
L j come into her life. She fairly reveed in her
- possession Of Rose. and the girl in her turn
seemed TO reciprocate
Although the life in East Westland was utterly at
variance the life she had known she settled down
to It readily with sundry bitches Of adjust
snen For instance could not rid herself at first
Of the conviction that she have, she always
had, maid
Il don't know how go work" she said to Sylvia
one day. "Of must have maid, but wonder
II had better advertise write of friends
Tsettv Morrison NAV know OF some one or Sally Mac
Lean Betty and Sally always TO be able TO find
ways out Of difhculues. Perhaps had better write
them Maybe it would be safer than TO advertise"
sylvia and Rose sitting together in the south
room that Sylvia looked patheticaliy and
vistfuiy at girl What do you want maid for?'
she asked timidly.
Rose stared. What for? Why. what I always
want maid for; 10 my wardrobe and assist
me in dressing undressing. brush my hair, and
everything" ended Rose comprehensively.
Sylvia continued o regard her with that wistful,
pathetic look 7 can sew your dresses and
darn your stockings and button dresses and
brush your hair Just well anybody she said
Rose ran over TO her and went down her knees
beside her You dear" said, didn't have
enough do now"
This is = very convenient house TO do work in
said sylvia have my washing and ironing
done I've got time or my I like braid
on and darn stockings; always did nothing at
ali to fasten up your waists the back; YOU know
that"
You dear said Rose again. She nestled fair
head against Sylyiss slim knees. Sylvia thrilled She
touched blond hair timidly with her bony
fingers But have always a maid Rose per-
sisted. in somewhat puzzled Rose could hardly
conceive Of continued existence without maid She
had managed very well for few days. but con-
template life without altogether seemed like con-
tempating the possibility of living without comb
and hair brush.
sylviss took a crafty expression Well
she. you have maid, write your friends
.and another leaf in the dining table,
Rose raised her head and her. Another
leaf in the dining table?" vaguely.
Yes I don't think there's than -four
without another leaf"
my. maid would at the table with us
= "would She be willing to eat in the kitchen cold
victuals after had hnshed7"
Rose looked exceedingly puzzled NO she would
not al least maid ] had would have" she ad
mitted.
where she going eat then? Would she wal
tn after we were through and eat in the dinns
room?"
7 don't believe she would like that either"
Where she going eat?" demanded Sylvia in
exoraby.
Rose gazed her
she could have little in here or in the par
lor" said Sylvia.
Rose laughed. "oh that would never do - said she
'of there dining room at Mrs
Viltons and there always is hotel you know
thought of tha1v
She has got to eat somewhere: where is she COINS
to eat?" asked Sylvia. pressing the question.
got up kissed her. oh well won,
bother about for a while anyway" said size Now
think Of it, Betty is to be of Newport by nov
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- Ut now for Sylvia a time Of conteniment
. apparently beyond anything which had ever
\ come into her life She fairly reveled in her
- -,o.ssssinn Of Rose and the girl IN her turn
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AID TO YOUNG men
BOSTON SCHOOL RESULT OF OLD
FRANKLIN GIFT.
Big Technical School Built from Fund
Accumulated from $4,000 Left by
Noted American in Will 118
Years Ago.

Boston--One thousand pounds be
queathed to the city of Boston by
Benjamin Franklin in 1890, and held
in trust for rs years, until it
amounted to over 100000, has been
devoted to the erection of a magnifi-
cent industrial school, the Franklin
Union, in which the young mechanic
may be trained in practical handi-
craft; 100000 was added by Andrew
Carnegie as an endowment fund
I have considered that among
artisans good apprentices are most
likely to make good citizens" So
wrote Benjamin Franklin more than
118 years ago, in setting aside in his
will the sum of Ell 900 for the town
of Boston, to help advance young men
that may be serviceable to their
country" Since 1890 when it was
turned over to Boston, the sum has
grown to generous proportions, and
by means of it the city is now to
open a magnificent structure, the
Franklin Union to it's deserving young
men, in which unexcelled advantages
are offered to become practical in their
chosen pursuits.
Franklin stated in his will that the
principal and interest at the end of
100 years would probably amount to
about S650,000, of which 100000 was
then to be used, and the balance, about
$155,000 allowed to accumulate
for another hundred years. He fig
ured that, at the end of the second
hundred years, the amount would be
about $20,3 900.
In making the bequest, he stated
that it was in recognition of financial
aid given him by his Boston friends
which enabled him to begin business
in Philadelphia, and which was the
foundation of his fortune. That young
men in similar need might have the
advantage of a helping hand, and be
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Franklin Union.

come ''serviceable to their country"
he devised that from the date of its
acceptance small sums of the principal
should be loaned, at five per cent in
teresJ, to young married apprentices
of Boston. The trustees who were
named by him were to be the select
men, with the three ministers of the
eldest Congregational, Episcopalian
and Presbyterian churches.
The legal status of the trust, which
now amounts to over 100000, was
definitely fixed by the courts in 1904,
and board of managers appointed to
control it, and expend the available
fund. This board, created by legisla-
tive act and designated the Franklin
Foundation, is composed of many
OF the foremost citizens of Boston,
lInong them being former Secretary
of State Richard O1ney, and James j.
Storrow, president of the Boston MeT-
chants association and vice-president
IF the chamber of commerce.
The new structure is located in
the geographical heart of the city. 1t
is a fve-story, f1re-proof building of
steel and concrete, with outer walls
of Bedford stone and brick, following
the colonial style of Franklfn's day
Its length of 160 feet, and width of 100
feet gives ample room for the COM
prehensive courses of study to be I'M
dertaken.
The utilitarian features of the build
ing include a lecture hall, with a gal
lery, of a seating capacity of 1000,
laboratories for every branch of me
chanics, IS classrooms, a library, etc,
all equipped with the latest devices.
Instructors selected from the leading
manufacturing industries will train
the pupils in the practical side of me-
chanical drawing, machine details,
which means taking apart and assemb-
ling of all kinds of machinery. mech
anism, or the problems of pulleys,
cams. gears, ETC.; architectural draft
ing from the builders viewpoint; shop
formula and industrial arithmetic;
practical mathematics for carpenters
and builders; industrial chemistry,
with special reference to important
commercial products; steam engines
and boilers, dealing with their con-
struction, use, and heat generation;
industrial electricity; and the common
application of mechanical principles
The courses are open only to those
who are employed during the day.
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LAMENT FOR CHANGED TIMES.
Adoniram Corntop Discourses on Pres
ent-Day Extravagance.

Eyes, stree, Bill, times is changed
since you an me was doin' our court
in" said Adoniram Corntop, with a
note of sadness in his voice, to old
Andy Glover, who had come over to
''set a SPELL"
when we was doin' our courtin',
Andy, gal thought she was bein'
treated right harnsom if Teller
bought her ten cents with O. pep'mints
once in awhile, an if he TUX her to
any doin's in town she didn't expect
him to go down into his jeans to the
tune of a dollar or two fer ice cream
an soda water an candy at fo'ty cents
a paound. My son ST TUX his duckey-
doodle to the band concert in town
yistiday an there want a quarter left
of dollar bill he struck me fer time
he got home. Beats all the way young
folks throw the money away nova
days. l tell We times is changed
nightly since we was boys, an the
Lawd only knows what the end will
be with a Teller layin' out rs cents on
gal in one day."-Puck.
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PUZZLE SOLVED
Coffee. at Bottom of Trouhie

1t takes some people long time to
find out that coffee is hurting them
But when once the fact is clear,
most people try to keep away from
the thing which is followed by ever
increasing detriment to the heart,
stomach and nerves.
Until two years ago was heavy
coffee drinker," writes an H. stock
man. "and had been. all my life. l am
now Sc years old.
About three years ago began to-
have nervous spells and could not
sleep nights, was bothered by indf-
gestfon, bloating, and gas on stomach
affected my heart.
Il spent lots OF money doctoring-
one doctor told me 1 had chronic ca
tarrh of the stomach; another that
had heart disease and was liable TO
die at any time They all dieted me
until l was nearly starved but
seemed to get worse instead of better
Having heard of the good Postum
had done for nervous people, dis
carded coffee altogether and began to
use Postum regularly. / soon got bet
ter, and now, after nearly two years.
I can truthf1lly say / am sound and
we'll
q sleep well at night, do not have
the nervous spells and am not both
cred with indigestion or paipitation- !
weigh 80 pounds more than when
began Postum, and am better every
way than ever was while drinking cof-
fee can't say too much in praise OF
Postum, as Fam sure it saved my life"
there's a Reason"
Name given by Postum Co.. Battle
Greek, Mich. Read .The Road to Well
viI1e,' in pkgs.
Ever read the above letter. A new
| ON. appears from time to time They
are Eenuines true, and full OF human
interest.
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Putting 1t Politely.

1t was evident that the directors
were very nervous. Anxiously they
awaited the coming of the president,
who had summoned them in haste. At
length he appeared, greatly distressed.
Gentlemen" he said, Il am very
sorry to say that it is my duty to i'm
part to you some disagreeable news.
l assure you that this is the saddest
day of my life. 1 would rather have
cut off my right arm than been com
PEELED to send for you on an occasion
of this kind 1t is most"
Whats the natter" one of the
directors impatiently asked.
1.-The cashier has awaited"
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that 1 run up. but 1 can't give you
cash"
This explains Mrs. Sage's generosity
at times and her apparent lack of it at
others when cash was needed and she
could not give and would not explain
why. Her lack of command of money
went to almost incredible extents at
times An old member of the Emma
Willard Alumnae association recalls
an incident at a meeting which took
place at Mrs Sage's home years ago,
with Mrs Sage presiding. The asso-
citation was obliged to count every
penny, and when some committee
member made a request for some post
age stamps to send out in letters there
was discussion as to whether or not
the STAMPS should be sent. The
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d ESIDES this there have been many
ID lesser or indefinite gifts She gave
100000 in a lump to the Margaret Sage
Industrial School for Girls and Boys at
Inwood, L. l., and has promised $4,000
a year endowment. She has pledged
the National Suffrage association
$4,000 a year for the next five years.
She gave $4,000 for a memorial win
dow in the First Presbyterian church
of Syracuse. and various smaller sums
to the Woman's Exchange and the Pas
cal Institute. She financed the legis-
lative movement against racetrack
betting. She gave the relatives of Mr..
Sage $650,000, doubling the requests
left them by him. She tips number
of the Central park laborers five dol
lars every New Years. January 1,
1907, when she tipped 225 of them,
was her largest bestowal of this kind.
The Sage Foundation to Improve
social and living conditions in the
United States has financed, among
other things, the playground and the
anti-tuberculosis movements. June 20
last she gave a lawn party to 900
school children of Sag Harbor and per
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sonaIly superintended the distribu-
ton among them of 1000 bricks or Ice
cream and 500 pounds of cake
Nevertheless, a detective guard
watches her grounds all the time; and
when Sag Harbor celebrated the open
ing of the new school building Tor
which Mrs. Sage gave the money they
assured her that If she would attend
a special guard should be provided Tor
her for the day at the city's expense
A prisoner of wealth, q victim OF sus-
picion, weighed down by Eeevy respon-
sibilities when she asks only few
quiet years at the end of life, the
eighty millions that Russell Sage
shaved to amass have been singularly
unproductive of happiness to the one
person in the world that he cared for.
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W. Oeep, lnlch pie INTO winch
the foot sinks
L am glad said woman who has
known Mrs. Sage for years, that she
could have those velvet carpets before
she died. In all the years of her mar
ried life down at the house at No. SOC
Fifth avenue she had nothing but
ancient Brussels carpet on her parlor
floor. 1t was one she had when she
first went to keeping house, and had
those great, set medallions in it that
they used to use for carpet patterns
40 years ago. The nap was worn off
all over it so that the brown warp
showed through. When it finally got
so bad that it was impossible to use it
longer mating was put down in the
parlor, as it long had been in the rest
of the house. She always used the old
horsehair furniture she had when she
was married, such as one saw in coun-
try parlors 40 years ago, and there
We're great cracks in the parlor walls
of the house at Forty-second street
which went for years without fixing
Mrs. Sage suffered from mortifica-
ton at such things just as much as
any other woman would, and I'm glad
she's able to have the velvet carpets
for a few years before she dies. But
they came too late to give her much
pleasure After they had all been put
down and the furniture was in place
she walked through the house observ-
ing and admiring, and then sat down
and cried. She said not a word in ex-
PLANTATION, but it was easy to under
stand. She was thinking of all the
stinted years when she might have en-
toyed such things, and now she has
xx-f4 oh &c, III 70
much.
There scarcely is day that Mrs
Sage does not weep" continued this
old friend of hers. She simply sits
and cries at the intolerable burden of
having S65, 100000 on her shoulders, at
the burden of distributing that huge
fortune in the way that will do the
most good. She is 80 years old and
has New England conscience. She
wants to do just the right thing with
it all, and it requires an amount of
thought and study and imposes a
feeling of responsibility that is hard
on an old woman who only wants a
quiet corner to spend her few remain
ing years in
MRS. SAGE has aged very much
lt1 since her husbands death She has
grown thin, pale, bent and wrinkled
Aside from the natural grief over Mr..
Sage's death, Mrs. Sage was plunged
almost instantly into a storm of ap-
peals which amounted to a persecu-
ton Her mail for some years before
Mr.. Sage's death had amounted to be
tween 40 and so letters a day 1t
leaped instantly to 900 a day, and the
entire surplus was appeals for money
Within two months after Mr.. Sages
death 1000 letters were carted away
from her house unopened. Two secre
taries work night and day almost to
handle Mrs. Sage's private mail II
she attempted to read ten per cent OF
1t personally she would be able to dc
nothing else.
A a~st she tried conscientiously tc
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A cure

The sinner walked along the rocky
road, his bare feet torn and bleeding
from bruises and wounds. He met
stranger.
Friend, he exclaimed, e have
sinned and done wrong, l must pa
tiently suffer the most extreme agony
to save myself from eternal damna-
ton. Can you tell me some supreme
test of repentance%
Certainly" answered the other,
with an air of experience. Go to
boarding house and live there for q
year"