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sweeter, the flowers richer the laughter gayer. But love of Sylvia her love of Antrobus, her hopes her
 fears, her selfcondemnaton for both fears and hopes made her soul tempestuous.
 Her mother had ordered her dress, perfect in a simplicity of ulle and pearls. But it late before she could bring herself to put it on. And then the sight of those flashing people in their jewels, their colors, their movement, their smiles struck her like the phantasmagoria of strange and foreign parallel She felt in a dream, while she danced, danced listessly, lifelessly Her step-father came and took her out, laughing and making pleasant jests. Once she danced with Antrobus, dance other claimed and took. And then she saw Antro- bus dancing with Sylvia-Sylvia in scarlet crepes caught with punches of -fowers-and she slipped away then. threading groups of dancers, stealing from shadow to shadow till she found the staircase of the west wing, escaping so to her own room, tearing off her tre and her pearls, locking her door, and hiding herself from dear old Mrs Martha.
 If only Sylvia had been named for Uncle Lewis dead wife-and Heaven had given her Sylvia's beauty-how different the world would bel
 She heard the guests departing by and by. If she could go tool She knew not where-out of life it. self. it may be-for what bitter thing had life be- come! Where was that gay young girl of last mer, to whom life sweet and the world beautiful? Lost lost in darkness! This poor wrath was but her shadow.
 The storm had blown itself out in the night; the morning made dazzle of blue sky and sunshine across the wastes of that in their cold white for all the glitter and sparkle, seemed typical of death itself It curdled her blood; she might not love life, but death was abhorrent We'll she must make herself live. There were other people in the world-her mother her kind stepfather-Sylva would miss her caressing and admiring Antrobus would Antrobus remember there had been such person Zoe9 There help for it; she must change the poles. This state of mind worse than foolish. She would find some absorbing occupation and engage herself in what needed all her thought. There shelf of Italian books in the library; she knew little of the language now: she would bury herself in the settlements of old Italian History She had heard Antrobus talking of it-he writing play out of some story belong ing to it. She had wished then that she were not
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You look as if you needed a cup of it, laced with something more fiery yet. You have headache, You disappeared so last night" And then Zoe had risen to find match, had scratched it as she stood leaning over to light the alcoho-lamp under
 the urn, had whrled it about in the air to extinguish it, and had tossed down in a hurry to lower the wick of the lamp that burning blue Antrobus having walked to the window. And suddenly she was conscious of swift and fervid sensation of heat of an intocrable smell of scorching, of a cloud of smoke, and her skirts were blazing up about her "Oh, Antrobus, hep help mer' she cried
 In instant Antrobus had thrown her to the floor and seized rug and rolled her in it. and had thrown himself beside her, smotherng the flames as he could, beating them out furiously, breathlessly "l am burning to deathr' was her first thought "He would do this for any one, was her next one. "Oh. ! am dying-in his srms!" was the last one And then all black and blank And when she knew anything again the fire gone, the rug was gone and Antrobus holding her ii life and soul depended on his grasp, and whispering
 "Oh, my precious love- my precious little love! You are safe; oh thank God If you had died Great God, can't think of itl The terrible moment! How could l. how could have 1vedr'
 She heard him, but she lay still, just for the bliss of hearing And then she felt his heart beating ia great shocks.
 TT didn't know" she whispered
 "And let that miserable money stand between us, Why did you never help me? Little love- why did you hide your heart-why were you SO cold"
 T was warm enough just now.' she answered with gleam of returning mischief. And then she moved and threw her about his shoulders. and cung to him moment hiding her face. "The fire! the fre!" she shuddered. And you saved mel"
 He grew cold with the remembrance. Although but moment or two ago, it already seemed part of another life. the old life left behind them. "I shall know such terror agan!" he exclaimed. That awful pillar of flame"
 "I glad; am glad it camel" she said.
 "It burned away all trouble! I have won you Siegfried Brunhilde. through wall of ire!'
 She slipped from his arms, wrapping about her the cloak, and fled from the room leaving Antrobus to ring for the butler, account for the affair, and have soothing application for his hands But she upstairs she could hardly believe her senses; she sure she had not been dreaming.
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from herself hardly of everyday people. She made sketch of them once-sketchng Sylvia made it legitimate sketch Antrobus; and she thought how beautiful some great Shannon portraits of the two would be- When she into her money she would have that done-if it enough If it were enoughi The little being had idea that by this time Uncle Lewis bequest counted in millions.
 This condition of unconscious satisfaction endured for a long while. Her mother and Sylvia used to look at her in wonderl Was such stupidity pos sible? Such innocence?
 And then, of sudden the music ceased about the house there were no more snatches of song lifting from everywhere no sound of dancing feet, nothing
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that intimated gayety of heart Only pale stless little person dragged herself about and seemed not to care whether she lived died She did not sig nifty. Why should she go down to dinner, she asked herself, in reply to her mothers urgency To see Antrobus walking down the hall with Sylvia, she in her dark blue gauges and cut crystals like goddess in cloud? to sec Antrobus bend and lift ing her hand, kiss the gardcna she held? And then Sylvia tossed her the gardenia if it no other than any common flower. She kept the great sweet blossom till it tarnshed and then pressed it in her prayerbook. Once she lifted it to her lips and took off that kiss herself But mo- mo- it was not for her! And she took the poor faded flower from be- tween the leaves of the service for the dead where she had put it, and laid it the burning coas and cried to it shriveI.
 Faint heart won fair lady," she overheard Sylvia saying to their mother. By the time An trobus dares speak, another hero will have taken his place."
 Had Sylvia any heart at all?" thought Zoe. An other hero! If there any who could take the place of Anrobus in Sylva's heart she did not deserve himr
 Her mother insisted presently that Zoe should interest herself in the ball for Syvias birthday She did she directed the envelopes in her dashing hand. "A ridiculous handr she said For such tiny person. Do you think am dwarf, mammal"
 My little dearl How absurdl"
 Il underszed."
 Beside Sylvia, you mean? Mo- you different types. Sylvia is the great lady the wall of the long drawins-room; but you are the dainty marquise in the morning-room-the one with the Cape essa- mine in her hand. They call them gardenias now"
 "Yes He gave to Sylvia"
 "Who did?"
 "Antrobus"
 fIhe one saw her give to youe What became of hf They are nice among laces for while"
 It faded suppose. I threw it in the fire"
 You are a strange girl" said her mother.
 The hrst great storm of the season came on the night of the ball. The wind roared round the gabes one heard the roaring of boughs and their crashing fall, the flashing of sleet, the whistle of gust and eddy, and now and then the strange silence of the snow that enveloped all outside sounds The dis turbancc of the storm caused the music to seem
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"He is mine; he IS minel" her heart sang while another bath and change of raiment made her feel as if she emerged from grub a gorgeous dragon fly. Yet even in these feeting moments of ecstacy she not altogether certain that Antrobus was quite so great and perfect as he had seemed; as though the condescension undid some portion of his perfection though it ought to be not herself but Sylvia, here And it had been she herself, Zoe, he had loved all the time-how stupid of her not to have seen! She always little stupid. But if he not altogether such pattern of perfection, how infinitely dearer all in moment he had be- come! And it was like shout of joy that the words sang themselves over and in her inner sciousness-even although she was quite she should find him waiting for her; "He is mine! am hs!'
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bilitv and so she had said she should divide hers with Sylvia when she was married; of course she would be married sometime; every one was But not nowi lust now she was nothing but bird let loose.
 A joyous little thing sometimes she seemed al most irresponsible at other times she had the WIS dom of the ages But she was very young, her health was perfect she beautiful, the world was wonderful, it was good to sleep, it was good to wake, morning was always glad surprise, night sweet solemnity; it joy to be alive.
 She auttered through house and gardens as if she had wings; everywhere she went she danced rather than walked You might have fancied her in perpetual astonishment at finding any world that had school in it really well worth while. As tor study-had she not had enough of that already. she little dunce? As for thinking-why should any one think who could feel? Life could not be long enough for problems; its span was just to show its 1oveliness; it was all one delightful present. "Oh, how good it is just to breathe in this world of worlds" she would say to Sylvia. when perhaps the sky was boding and the rain falling.
 Today" said Sylvia, lifting her fine eyebrows. "How absurd you are, Zoel One would think there was no trouble earthp'
 "I haven't come it if there is" said Zoe, except of course, in geometry or French verbs
 ''You are not at school now dear"
 "That makes the world twice deightfulp' And then, without knowing it, she thought no world could be anything but delightful in which Mark Antrobus lived The mere fact that he was in it made shine of all sorts of weather
 And you may that although her tempera- ment made her buoyant, Mark Antrobus part of the inner reason of this radiant happiness.
 Antrobus. however, she observed, did not show that Zoe sgnihed especially to him. He had much more to say to Sylvia He was a student, with dream of great poems. It would be natural he in love with Sylvia, who was beauty.
 Do you suppose he is?" said Zoe to her old nurse.
 "Is what." said Mrs. Martha.
 '1n love with Sylvia"
 ~Who."
 "Mr. Antrobus"
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such a dunce Sylvia had known what q. all about We'll, she would know
 She took big cloak her arm, for she would have run on the terrace, where the show cling of the snow and went down to the breakfast room Every one had gone, she found; for few of the guests. Antrobus among them, had stayed over these by invitation, those through the violence of the storm. The butler and the second man had just left the room when Antrobus came in
 q suppose ii one sleeps like the sleepers he must be content to drink his coffee cold" he said to Zoe.
 'I will ring for Colburn. Or, mo- indeed" she ex- claimed "I will light the lamp and in moment it will be hot again. 1 would like some hot coffee myself"
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"Wel-she has the ,makingslof duchess to her." "What are the makngs of asduchesscts Her splen- did hgure?"
 And more than. enough of htf
 But it's like the beautiful old statues
 And some might call her 1hair red" said Mrs Martha.
 "I never saw red that coorlS And when it's down she stands on the tips of it.
 "yVith solid,feet" said the lsrse, loyal to her own darling.
 And her eyes are hke stars at twilight; and her nose I wish nline-' slipping her finger along her own. "tip-tilted like the petal ofia flower"
 "I think he cant heptbeing in love with Sylvia.
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VT is really inconceivable," said her mother, that
 so clever person as Zoe can be so stupid!
 "Ths is certainly her masterpiece sad her
 sister Sylvia.
 And 1 suppose interference would rum
 everything It is not particularly good match- wish we were not fond of Antrobus, with half sigh.
 But we are," said Sylvia, she watched Zoe dancing on the lawn with stray child It had never occurred to Zoe, just from school that she was parsonage of importance. She knew little about the wealth she had inherited from Ter uncle Lewis because she had been named for his wife She had been told that wealth was responsi-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-07-29
OBSERVATIONS

DIR BEAL that of the $4,000 boys and girls quit
ting the schools this them
started in the line of work they really want to work
ANGELES is building building per-
mis tFl !
you think exempified California
judges convict him loose
baon'? II
HERE we've been keeping mouth chock full of nect
holerng Reciprocity Bill
recip. won't reduce the cost of living!
WIFI! Christian Science thing
u. II
THE Bob White gives his wife the best
call
follow a' y
HOKE SMITH, senatorelect the
that David Hill Hill
of the governorshp by the crowbar of public opinion
IRENE OSGOOD. American novelist gets divorce from her
English husband him almony Woman grad
ualy getting equal rights isn't she?
Loadon justice wig off,
And that's serious!
YORK proposes salary $40 900
reasonable Of
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Workers of the World
BY PETER POWER.

cialist who made many speeches
in this country before the revolu-
|tion began and who fought with
Madero, formed the new national
federation and is directing the or
ganization work in the principal
industrial centers.
Although Madero made many
promises of granting reforms to
the working people, who really
brought about the recent insur-
rection by waging strikes for sew
eral years, the new ruler. polite
ian-like, is forgetting his obliga-
lions. Hence the country has
been torn up with strikes and
much bitterness is being aroused.
Late reports from Mexican la
Dor circles are that Madero is be-
lieved TO have decided to adopt
the coercive policies OF Diaz to
large extent. and that the workers
are preparing for just such an
eventuality. 1t is not improbable
that a new revolution will be pre-
cipitated if Madero refuses to
Tighten the burdens of labor.
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Get onto your Job -Oregon's Tip to Taft
Just a moment.

Just moment
full food, and all have to do
to the door and going
matter how flush be- have food better than
Or. If fresh vegetables in garden, that cost
nothing but the pulling buy vegetables from
the itinerant Toga Matsu
You bet
should Pacific prices coal
the of the Pacific beds
their their back door?
There is has discovered it. It's
this:
The
private exploitation,
that's worth than half that the freight
grab.
Well, to tell the boss of the coal fields to
his She going politely Taft
the coal fields,
of coathe
She going tell Taft that she is tired of dirty
politics Scandals bein cked lied robbed
it's getting benefit of what be-
giant communication
demanding that Alaska coal
supplies working plan, to boot the
fields
Golfers
the fixed by interstate commits
sion let the initial be by bonds offered public sub
delivery provide sinking fund bonds; let
Some people calling Oregon "rabdly
progressive"
n
plain, business. Isn't ?From
Daily News.
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ALL LABOR LAWS "UN-
REASONABLE" TO SOME.

The nine-hour law for women
workers in Ohio is being attacked
In the courts by foes of labor on
the ground that 1t Is In conflict
with the U. 8. constitution and is
unreasonable
The eight-hour law for working
women in Washington is being
tested in the courts along the same
lines.
The ten-hour law for women in
Illinois is also being denounced
by labor market manipulators as
unreasonable and will be fought
in the courts.
All such laws are "unreason-
able to those possessed of the
notion that they have the same
claim on women workers that they
have on work horses.
LABOR FEDERATION IN
MEXICO EXPECTS TROUBLE.
Mexico. now has a Federation of
Labor. Antonio Villarreal, a So
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Most 4nYfb,n9
Vacation IdIeS.

Vacation Idles.
We found fine vacation spot; 1t
just exactly suited us
The girls were fair and shapely
and their bathing suits ex-
iguous.
IT'S a bad season for fruit.
Even the watermelons look seedy.
On July 26, 1898, Spain sued
for peace through the French am
bassador at Washington.
The JuIaiat.
A hammock slung upon an Arctic
floe,
A group of icebergs sailing to and
fro.
And thou beside me peltins me
with snow
If that amt paradise, I'd like to
know!
Springfield Union.
A lackey standing DER me swat
ting flies
From early morn until the day
light dies,
Another through the night to slap
the skeet-
All, that, methinks, were Paradise
complete.
New York Globe.
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|SPOILEDFRUIT ON THE BENCH

Woodrow Wilson got so tired of being asked how
he stood recall of judges that he lost his temper
when only half through the west, but said he opposed
the reform Now he has gone to Kentucky to address
the State Bar association, and this is what he said
about ''The Lawyer in Politics.
''He seldom thinks of himself as the advocate of
society.
"He moves in the atmosphere of private instead
Of public service
"He is absorbed now more than ever before into
the great industrial organism
"1t is growing increasingly difficult to supply the
bench with disinterested unspoiled lawyers.
SIT is matter of grave concern to the nation that
there to be judges but lawyers
der these influences" CTrusts and corporations.)
Well, well! You going Yourself, aren't
you, Woodrow? But if we get no judges save the
spoiled fruit of the corporations, can't recall
them you say?
Oh yes we can! Watch u.s. Woodrow
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the famous mine
under the con-
federate strong
hold at Peters
burg, Va. Every
Il IL | o n general
was told just
what he was to
do. But the best
laid plans do not
always work out
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party yesterday?
Well, then read:
women invart-
ably have a less
keen sense Of
honor than men.
In the big things
women are as
much to be
trusted as men,
perhaps, but not
in the number
less fine points. ="
That was Booth
Tarkin gton, the
well known lit
erary product of
Indiana talking.
Booth is cele-
brating the 42d
29th of July
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Behold the Mob

into it arstocrat who is the
the will
stripping them of the veto
"Traitor! Traitor! Traitor! yelled the conservatives
Traitor to what? Traitor ancient privilege which gives the
hereditary lordsthe first the tterthe
for the nameess matters not that in this home
the privilege of the few against the rights of the
CALLED wheel The people coming down
aristocracy-wu
Or otherwise the will
majority!
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A cooling breeze, straight from a
lager vat,
A sleeveless shirt, broad
brimmed, fragile hat,
A fan, cake of ice, a parasol-
TITS thus that we keep cool, with
great eclat.
David E. Lewis, Newcastle, Pa,
found a girls name written on an
egg. He will marry the girl.
If it had been cold storage
egg, he'd marry her granddaugh-
ter.
Yes" said the college profess
sor, Minerva never married. She
was the goddess of wisdom"
Disaptches say that a military
company was having target prac-
tice at Live Oak, Fla, and "a
bullet missed its mark and struck
Mrs. r. Greene at her home"
That's
Hitting 'em where they live.
King George is to build royal
residence in Ireland. And won't
the windows be great places to
bounce half bricks off of?
A man can't get half as mad
over 81 cigar bill as he can over
$1.25 gas bill.
BY John Howard Payne.
An exile from home, splendor daz-
zles in vain;
oh! give me my lowly thatch d
cottage again!
The birds, singing gaily, that
came at my call
Give me them!-and the peace of
mind dearer than all.
Home, sweet, sweet, sweet home!
There's no place like home!
That Georgia man who got a
$4,000 bequest for giving MP his
lower berth had better look out or
Pullman will be claiming a per-
centage.
DR.. Velure E. Powell of Red
Oak attended the American asso-
citation meeting of the feeble
minded, which was held in vest
ern Pennsylvania institute at
Polk, Pallowa Medical Journal.
Maybe you didn't realize 1t, but
Australia Is about the size OF the
United States, excluding Alaska.
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just as they are calculated and
though it exploded the mine per-
fectly the union army lost all It's
by not doing just what
it should have afterwards. An ex-
tended courtmartial tried to place
the blame, but never located it
any too definitely.
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The Ship and the Compass

Don't conound the ship with the Don't
constitutions
old.
Why should san in little clumsy ship like the MAY
which Pilgrim Fathers
DO when he can the ocean in modern liner like the
'Olympio"2 Absurd!
But the brought both "Mayower" and Olympic
through painless from shore to shore
Declaration Independence the this Republic
If IL, a American
the especially election day.
SCIENTISTS the world beon invited to
contribute build Eddy's Boston,
ma n surprising good OF them responded
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28 Years In Prison; World Looks
To Him Like Some Strange Planet

SALTWATER, Mimi, July 20.
Fred Klingdeil. "A, stood on the
steps of the Minnesota peniten-
tiary at o'clock and looked for
the first time on paved streets,
electric cars, automobiles, arc
lights and the dozens of other mar
velous inventions of the last quar-
ter of century.
He had not been beyond the
gray walls of the prison for %
years and eight months.
Klingdeil was sentenced to
prison for life for killing his
hired man and the attempted
murder of his second wife on his
farm near saltwater, nearly 20
years ago.
He was German born and a
hard worker. He says his first wife
stole a large amount of money he
had saved. He divorced her. He
married again after he had begun
saving again and bought a farm.
He says he discovered his wife in
innate with his hired man. He
killed the man, attempted to kill
the woman and was sentenced to
prison. A mortgage of $500 was
foreclosed and the farm was sold
When Klingdeil returned to
the world he had s440, given him
by the state for his nearly 80
years OF labor. A son-in-law in
Chicago has promised to provide
for his declining years.
He weighs but 80 pounds and
is a scanned and weakened shadow
of his former robust self. His
teeth are gone, he is almost deaf,
yet he is cheerful and hopeful. He
yearns for the comfort and quiet
of his daughters home, a little
suburban cottage rear Chicago,
where there is to be an easy
chair always ready for "the old
man" on the front Torch.
Klingdeil's first day in the
outer world he did not recognize
filled him with awe. He was
frightened at the autos and the
whirHng electric cars, and be-
wildered by the rush of life and
hustle. He was like a child or a
visitor from far planet.
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Did you ever have a clerk look
obviously at a piece of money
you'd handed to him?
And
Didn't you say: ''Oh, that's
good. l wish / had a BARREL
of EN-"
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THE EXCEPTION.

Post-There are as good
fish in the sea as ever were
caught.
Parker-H'm! I guess you
haven't heard Thompson's
latest fish story.