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The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-12-31

Make your resolutions early and keep them late.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-12-31
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MOONS PHASES
Full Moon. Ind; Last Quarter. 10th;
New Moon. 18th; First Quarter, 24th.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-12-31
WEATHER FORECASTS

YESTERDAYS TEMPERATURE IN HARRISBURG
Highest. ~; lowest 81; S a. m, 40; s p. m Sc.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-11-11

Mrs. Fred Mackey left last week
for Nebraska to visit her daughter.
The w. C. L. U. will meet
Thursday, Nov. II, with Mrs. Rob
Jordan.
The Shakespeare Club will meet
with Mrs. Ira Totman next Tuesday,
Nov. II.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Schuerman
of Sextonville, visited Sunday at the
home of A. E. Budahn.
The Cavaliers, eight people,
representing the second number on the
lecture course, gave delightful mus
cial entertainment at Hatch's oper a
house Monday evening.
The ladies of the Congregational
church will have their bazaar next
Wednesday Nov. Is. All ladies hav-
ing articles to contribute are re
quested to bring same to the church
on Tuesday.
Chris Wieland, guardian of Fred
Wieland Will have an auction sale at
the farm known as the U. D. Kinney
place, 81 miles southwest of Hurri-
crne, on Thursday, November 10. See
advertisement on page II.
Mrs. John Kilburg of Lancaster
and Mrs. John Joyce and daughter
Marjorie, of Cassville, have returned
from Monroe. where they have been
visiting their sister, Mrs. John Wise,
who has been sick for a number of
weeks.
. Sam Levin has moved the por-
tion of the Boston Store stock of
goods formerly occupying the east
rooms in Hatch's opera house block,
into the west rooms, and Mr.. Hatch
will remodel the east rooms for oc-
cupancy in the near future by the S.
S. & Shoe Store. ....:..
Baxter Draper, in a big adver-
tisement on page i've of this paper,
announce big special sale on
women's coats and suits, for one
week, beginning next Saturday.
Though error the published dates are
October ID to 81. OF course the
reader will understand that it should
read NOVEMBER Ia to 21. Some
great bargains are offered. :
Friday night was gala event
in Lancaster lodge No. 20 F. & A.
M, the occasion being the conferr ing
of the third degree upon two candi
dates, Rev. w. A.. Munday and
Clarence E. Calvert. There were
more than 100 masons present, in
Guiding nearly forty visiting members
from Cassville, Beetown, Bloom ing
ton, Mt. Hope, Fennimore and Potosi.
The degree work was followed. by a
very enjoyable supper. :ior.~. :.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-11-11

My Dear Mr.. Hatch:-In view of the
fact that Doctor Gunsaulus will be
unable to fill his date in the Lecture
Course, l am pleased to know that you
have been able to procure as a sub
stitute the able and brilliant Senator
Owen of Oklahoma. Personally, shall
prefer Senator Owen to Doctor Gun
saulus. l feel that if the Lecture
Courses could furnish more men of
large public affairs who could discuss
present day problems intelligently,
they would render much greater service
to the people than they now do.
Respectfully,
E. B. GOODSELL.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-11-11
In Praise of Senator Owen

Senator Owen on Lecture Course
Monday night, Nov Is.
The following will exrlain what
some of our people think of him.
| am especially glad that the people
of Lancaster have an opportunity of
hearing such public speaker as Sena-
tor Owen. This engagement merits our
liberal patronage.
R. W. ADAMS.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-11-11

U. S. Senator Robert l.. Owen is
one of the great men of the country
and | am glad tOknow that he is com
ing to Lancaster and that our people
will have the privilege of hearing a
man of National reputation.
c. II. BAXTER.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-11-11

Advertise in The Herald for results.
The Washington herald., 1914-09-20

The stage was turning out of Fifth
avenue, to cross over to Broadway and
Riverside Drive Forbes was not done
bus. 1t lurched and threw him from
bench to bench. He negotiated with
difficulty the perilous descent, clutched
the hand-rail in time to save himself
from pitching head first to the street,
clambered down the little stairway, with
ludicrous awkwardness, stepped on
solid asphalt with relief, and walked
south.
The press gradually thickened, and
before long it was dense and yiscid, as
if theater audiences were debouching
at every corner.
The stream was still almost entirely
woman; beautiful woman at the side of
beautiful woman, or treading on her
high heels; chains OF womanSind like
strings of beaded pearls, hordes of
women, dressed in infinite variations of
the prevailing mode. They strobe or
dawdled, laughing, smiling. bowling,
whispering, or gazing into the windows
of the shops.
But to Forbes there was an overpow-
ering aeshliness in the display. 1t re-
minded him of the alleged festivals of
Babylon, where all the women piously
offered themselves to every passer-by
and rated their success with heaven by
their prosperity with strangers.
He had dwelt for years among half
clad barbarians, unashamed Igorrotes +;
but these women looked nakeder than
those The more studiously they were
robed the less they had on.
He brooded like a sneering Satan for
a time upon the meaning Of the dress
parade, and then the glory of it over
powered him again. He felt that it
would be a hideous world without its
luxuries. 1t was well, he concluded,
that men should dig for gold, dive for
pearls, climb for aigrets, penetrate the
SHOWS for furs, breed worms for silk,
build looms, and establish shops-all in
order that the she half of the world
should bedeck itself.
The woman of the bird-of-paradise
feather was buried in Forbes mind as
deeply as if a balcony full of matinee
girls had collapsed upon her Forbes
fell in love at first sight hundred and
fifty times on the Avenue. Had he
met any one of that cohort again under
favoring auspices he might have found
in her arms the response he sought. It
might have brought him tragic unrest,
or the sort of home comfort that makes
no history.
Perhaps he did meet some of these
potential sweethearts later; but if he
The Washington herald., 1914-09-20
I-APHRODITE FROM THE SEA FOAM

them was tiny, but quite perfect. She
had the face OF a debutante under the
white hair OF a matron. II her age
were betrayed by her neck, the dog-col-
lar of pearls concealed the ravage. She
sat exceedingly erect and seemed to be
cold and naughty till another splurge
Of slang from the shoplifter provoked
her TO laugh that was like a child's.
The other woman laughed, too,
laughed large and wide. She was
beautiful, too, a Rubens ideal. drawn.
in liberal otundities-cheeks, chin
throat, bust, hips. No cubist could
have painted her, for she was like a
cluster of soap-bubbles. Her face was
a great baby's.
The men were almost invisible, mere
cut-outs in black and white
When the curtain fell on the second
act Forbes saw one of the men in the
box rise and leave along the side aisle.
Forbes knew the man. His name was
Ten Eyck-Murray Ten Eyck
Forbes dreaded 10 repeat that voyage
through the strait between knees and
seat backs; but he had seen at last a
man he knew. And the man he knew
The Washington herald., 1914-09-20

was and how she looked. Meanwhile
he must not forget that number-4SI5o,
N. Y. IoI3-the mystic symbol on her
chariot of translation.
Helpless to pursue her with more
than his gaze, Forbes watched from his
lofty perch how swiftly she fed north
ward He could follow her car as it
thridded the unpolioed traffic by that
dwindling bird-of-paradise plume. that
sphinxic riddle of feathery question
mark.
The plume went very respectfully
across the Plaza, for policemen were
there on fixed post; but, once beyond,
the feather diminished into nothingless
with the uncanny speed of shooting
star.
She was gone. And now he wonder
ed whittier she sped, and why. To
what tryst was she fastening at such
dreadful pace, with such rash desire?
He felt almost a jealousy, at least an
envy, of the one who waited at the
rendezvous. He was almost afraid to
follow farther lest his curiosity be more
than sated
His irresolution was solved for him.
The Washington herald., 1914-09-20

who pose as statues at the vaudevilles.
Inside their outer wraps women were
draping their forms. Ii was saner so,
and decenter, too, perhaps.
And yet Forbes stared at this woman
as Adam must have stared at Eve when
the scales we're off his eyes. Even her
hair was almost all her own, and it was
coiled and parted with simple grace.
Her head-dress was something bizarre
not tiara OF diamonds, but a black
crest with a pearl or two studding it
the iridescent breast Of a Tyre bird it
was, though he did not know. A cord
OF pearls was flung around her throat.
At the peak of each shoulder her gown
began, but the two elements did not
conjoin till just in time above the
breast, and just little too late at the
back.
Forbes was so startled that he felt
all the chagrin of one who is caught
staring at a woman just returned from
the surf in wet bathing suit. He
shifted his eyes from her. When he
looked back she had vanished into the
crimson cavern of the box.
The other women followed her, and
The Washington herald., 1914-09-20

He crept into tub of water as hot
as he could endure, and simmered
there, smoking the ache out OF him, and
imagining himself as rich as Hsroun al
RaSchid, instead of poor subaltern in
hard-working little army with only
his pay and small sum that he had
saved, mainly because he had been de-
tailed to regions where there was al
most nothing fit to buy.
The price of his room at the hotel
had staggered him, but he charged it
off to a well-earned holiday and pre-
tended that he was a millionaire. He
rose from the steaming pool and turned
an icy shower on himself with shud-
dering exhilaration. His blood leaped
as at a bugle CALL a reveille to life.
he heard the city shouting up to his
windows, and he began to fling on his
clothes. And then he realized that he
knew nobody among those roaring mil
lions. He cursed his luck and flung in
to his bathrobe. As he knotted the
rope he felt that he might as we'll be
a cowled and cloistered monk in a
desert as his friendless self in this
wilderness of luxury.
Happiness was bound to elude him
as easily as that woman of the white
query-plume eluded him when he in his
ten-cent bus pursued her in her five
thousand-dollar landaulet. All he had
of her was the back of her hat and the
number OF her csr-N. Y. 4I5o8 Or
was it N. Y. S5I4o, or-what the devil
was the number?
He had not brought away even that
Nothing can be lonelier than a room
in even a best hotel when one is lone
some and when ones window looks out
upon crowds. Forbes had pitched his
tent at the Knickerbocker, and his
view was of Longacre Square.
He sat in the dark room in an arm
chair and mufled his bathrobe about
him, watching the electric signs work
ing like solemn acrobats.
Forbes wanted to be among the
crowds again. He could not tolerate
solitude. He resolved to go forth. 1t
inspired him with pride to put on his
evening clothes. While he dressed he
sent his silk hat to be ironed by the
hotel valet. 1t came back an ebon
crown.
He set it on his head, tapped the top
Of it smartly, staggered to the elevator,
bowed to the mstronly floor clerk as to
queen, went down to the main dining
room, and tried to look at least a duke.
He was glad to be in full dress. for
the other people were. The head wait
er greeted him with respect and handed
him bill OF fare with expectation.
The Washington herald., 1914-09-20
terrified him and whose last he did know

the men them They seated themselves
Just as the curtain fell.
And now Forbes ieI at liberty to go
to his own seat. found an usher to pilot
him down the aisle.
\ voice that >houid have reminded
him OF the lardauet. hut did not,
caught his ear and led hi, eyes to the
box. He was not Tar from the late ar
rivals
. They were attracting a deal OF atten-
ton from the audience. and paving II
none. The loudneSS OF their speech and
their Laughter would have ,hocked him
in a crowd Of farmers. Coming from
people OF evident wealth and familiar
ity with town customs. It astounded
him.
He had not yet seen the face OF the
woman OF whom he had seen so much
else. She was talking 10 a man in the
interior OF the hoN. Her back was
turned to the house.
II never occurred 10 Forbes that it
might be the same back he had follow
ed up the Avenue. How could he have
told:
At length the footlights went up. the
curtain went up. The three women
aligned themselves in profile along the
rail as if they we're seated on unseen
horses. The men were mere silhou-
cites in the background.
The bulk OF the audience was in
darkness; but the people in the boxes
were illuminated with a light reflected
from the scenery. and it warmed them
like a dawn glowing upon peaks OF
snow.
And now. at last. Forbes saw the
face he had watched for with such i'm
patience. 1t did not disappoint him. At
first she gave him only the profile; but
that magic light OF Stagecraft was upon
II. and once she turned her head and
cast slow, vague look along the shad-
owy valley OF the audience. She could
not have seen him. but he saw her and
found her so beautiful, so bewitchingly
beautiful and desirable, that he caught
his breath with stitch of pain, an ache
of admiration
Just a moment her eyes dreamed
across the gloom. and she turned back
to watch the stage 1t was like a part
ing after a tryst. Then she broke the
spell with a sudden throe of laughter.
The little shoplifter and blackmailer on
the stage was describing her efforts TO
learn the ways of society; the technique
OF pouring tea and pretending TO like it.
Jared hack to reasonableness by the
shock of laughter, Forbes looked again
to the box to see what manner OF wom-
en- this woman went with. One OF
The Washington herald., 1914-09-20

and stick He sauntered to the news
! stand with the gracious statelineSS OF a
czarevitch inCognito, and bought a
( ticket from the theater agent
The boy who twirled the squirrel
cage door told him that the theater was
/ Just down the street. and received a
lavish fee for the information. Forbes
was soon in the lobby, but the first act
| turb the people already seated. he stood
at the back, leaning over the rail. Pres
emily he heard the susurrus OF robes
and turned TO see a small group OF
later comers than himself.
At the head went something that he
! Judged TO be a woman, though all he
saw was a towering head-dress. a heap
OF elaborately coiffed air. wreath OF
mist, an indescribably exquisite opera
cloak shimmering down to an under
cascade OF satin.
This tower OF fabrics went along as
If it were carried on a pole. and Forbes
could see no Semblance OF human shape
or stride inside il. But he Judged that
1t contained a personality. for it paused
to listen to something another pile of
fabrics said to it, and from both came
a snicker-or was it only a frou-trou
of garments? In any case. it angered
the part OF the audience adjacent. The
group went down the side aisle up
few steps to the little space behind the
box.
From where he stood Forbes could
see the usher helping them lay off
their wraps. They showed no anxiety
to catch the remainder of the act. but
stood gossiping while the frantic usher
waited, not daring to reprimand them
yet dreading the noise OF their incur
sion.
Forbes watched one OF the clothes
horses stripped OF its encumbrance5.
From somewhere in the chaos two
long-gloved arms came up; they were
strangely shapely; they made motions
like swans necks dipping into water
lilies A garland of fog came away,
and head on a throat appeared, a bust
set upon a heap of drapery. Then the
opera cloak slipped off into the usher's
hands. And now design emerged,
woman stood revealed. The head and
throat were seen to be attached to a
scroll of shoulders. and a figure like
column rose from the floor-strangely
colunnar it was, and so slender that
there was merely the slightest inslope
of waist, merely the slightest entasis at
the hips.
Just then the costume was hardly
more of a disguise than the gold or
bronze powder smeared on by those
The Washington herald., 1914-09-20

did, he could not remember them and
he did not heed them, for he was by
then involved inextricabIy with the one
he had hunted for and lost.
When he found her he did not re-
member her any more than the others.
She impressed him as a woman of ex-
treme frsgility, yet she was TO test his
strength to its utmost, his endurance,
his courage, his readiness for hazard.
Perhaps it would have been better
for both If they had never come nearer
together than in that shadowy, that
foreshadowing game of hide-and-seek
in the full sun among the throngs.
Perhaps il was better that they should
meet and endure the furnace Of emo
tons and superb experiences in gor-
geous scenes.
But, whether for better or worse,
they did meet, and their souls engaged
in that grapple of mutual help and
harm that we call love.
When he returned to his hotel he was
tourist who has done too much art
gallery. Fifth avenue had been an
abundant Louvre of young mistresses,
not of old masters.
The Washington herald., 1914-09-20

He ordered more than he Had an ap-
petite for, and tried not to blanch at
the prices.
The room emptied rapidly as the
hour for opera and thearer arrived But
he fingered, not knowing where to go.
He pretended to-be in no hurry. He
had, indeed, more leisure than he en-
joyed. Still he sat smoking and pro-
tracing his coffee, and haughtily play
ing that he was not starving for COM
panionship.
When almost the last couple was
gone he realized that he faced an even
ing Of dismal solitude He realized also
that a number Of kind-thoughted gen.
tlemen had erected large structures for
the entertainment OF lonely people and
had engaged numbers OF gifted persons
to enact stories for their diversion.
He called for his account, paid it
with large bill, and ignored the resi-
due with a ruinous lifting OF the brows
as he accepted light for his exotic
cigar.
He helped to put false ideas in the
hatboy.s head with the price he paid for
the brief storage OF his hat and coat
The Washington herald., 1914-09-20

knew the woman he wanted to know.
By the time he was in the open Ten
Eyck had disappeared He was not ii
the lobby. nor among the men smoking
on the sidewalk or dashing across the
street to one of the cafes where coffee
could not be obtained. Forbes found
him at last in the smoking room below
stairs.
He was putting a cigarette. and met
FORBES eager glance with such blank
indifference that Forbe>' words OF
greeting stopped in his throat.
The two men paced back and forth
on criSscroSsing paths as violently OBJ
livious OF each other as the two tradi-
tional E.ngli>hmen who were cast away
on the same desert island and had new
er been introduced.
1t was not till Murray Ten Eyck
flung down his cigarette and made 10
leave that FORBES mustered courage
enough to speak in his Nirginian voice :
Pardon me. sub, but aren't you Mr.
Muy Ten Eyck:"
Yes" said Ten Eyck-simply that.
and nothing more
Forbes. nonplussed at the abrupt
brevity OF the answer. tried again:
Il reckon you don't remember me-"
Ten Eyck showed a hint OF interest.
If he were a snob he blamed it on his
own weaknesses.
Il seem to, but-well. I'm simply
putrid at names and faces. A man
pulled me out OF the surf at Palm
Beach last winter-I had a cramp. YOU
know. cut him dead two weeks later.
When | knew what had done | wished
he had let me drown. So don't mind
me If | don't remember you. Who are
you? Did you ever save my life?
Where was it we met
1T was in Manila. You we're"
oh, God bless me! You're Harvey
Forbes-well, I'll me-" He reversed
the prayer. "Of course its YOU He
was cordial enough now as he clapped
both hands on Forbes shoulders. But
how was | to know you all dolled up
like this? | used to see YOU in uniform
with cap and bronze buttons and sword
and puttees You we're a lieutenant
then. | ware say you're colonel by
now. what" Forbes shook his head.
MOP Well, you ought to be. You
did save my life out in that God-for-
saken hole. And now you're here!
Well, I'll be-Let's have drink"
NO. thank you!"
"Yes, thank youI" He hurried
The Washington herald., 1914-09-20

Chapter II of this most fascinating
story, in 5ririch LieHt Forbes and the
lo9ciy PerSiS CABOT become better dc-
qnGintcd, slfH appear m this paper merit
Sunday.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1914-11-13
ANY MAN CAN BUY
A FARM.

u have a wi dow u
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which is bringing her
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acre, one third down and
the balance on terms to
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Purchaser can rent part
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or can buy same. This
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EXC URSIONS

Account of New Mexico Educc-
tional Association al Albuquerque,
N. NJ, Nov. 21-25, 1914.
Tickets on sale MY. 20 to %,
1914, at one and one-fifth fare for
the round trip.
Return limit Dec. l, 1914.
One-hAlf of these fares will APP
ply to the sale of tickets to chill
dren between the ages of 6 and p
years.
For further information see
TO EIrod, Agent
KENNA, NEW MEXICO
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Inaa nIoua anIder Wah.

Spiders have = number OF inSsnieus
ways Of alluring and catching their
prey. A writer describes an American
spider which haunts evergreen trees.
and snares its dinner by means Of .
Kind OF ASSOC. The web Of the spider
Is triangular in form. Two corners
OF the triangle are attached to twigs.
but the other corner. which ends in
q single thread, Is held by the spider.
perched on = neighboring twig. Whea
ny strikes the web the spider Ices
ems his hold and the elastic threads
INSTANTLY optAnsiS the victim.
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