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Atlanta Georgian., 1914-02-27

ed to be disturbed by malice and envy
and hatred and nearly every other bad
passion.
Nevertheless, she was general IA
vorite. for not only was she applaud
ed before she did,anything, but every
thing she said, though it was some
times very silly, was accompanied by
great deal of laughter, and every
thing she sang, though her voice was
no great matter, was followed by a
chorus of applause
Seeing this, and feeling that her
appearance had caused a flutter of
interest in the box behind me, |
laughed and applauded also, in ac-
cordance with the plan had prepared
for myself. of sharing my husbands
pleasures and entering into his life,
although at the bottom of my heart /
really thought the JOY was not very
Joyful or the mirth very merry.
This went on for nearly an hour,
and then a strange thing happened. l
was leaning forward on the velvet
barrier of the box in front of me,
laughing and clapping my hands with
the rest, when all at once l became
aware that the lady had wheeled
about, and. walking down the stage in
the direction of our box, was looking
boldly back at me,
could not at first believe it to be
so, and even now | can not say
whether 1t was something in her face,
or something whispered at my back
which flashed ii upon my mind that
this was the woman my husband
ought to have married, the woman
whose place | had taken, the woman
OF the foolscap document and the let
ters in the purple ribbon.
After that l could play my poor lit
| tie part no longer, and, though | con-
| tiuued TO lean on the yellow velvet of
the barrier in front OF me, l dropped
my eyes as often as that woman was
on the stage, and hoped and prayed
| for the end of the performance.
! 1t came at length with crash of
| Instruments and voices, and a few
minutes afterward my husband and
We're in the cab on our way back to
| the hote'
! l was choking with mingled anger
| and shame-anger at my husband fol-
! permitting me to come to a place in
| which l could be exposed to a public
|
shame at the memory of the pitiful
| scheme for entering into his life
| which had fallen To such a welter OF
| wreck and ruin.
But my husband himself was only
| choking with laughter
! IT was as good as a play" he said
/ too. Did YOU see how she looked al
| anything funnier in the whole course
| of inf life"
| That served him, repeated again
| and again, until we reached the hotel
when he ordered a bottle of wine to
! be sent upstairs, and then shook with
| suppressed laughter as we went up
| in the lift.
! Coming to our floor l turned to-
ward my bedroom, wishing to be
| alone with my outraged feelings. but
| my husband drew me into one of our
! sitting rooms, telling me he had
something 10 say.
He put me to sit in an armchair
/ threw off his overcoat, lit a cigar
cite. as well as he could for the
spurts ana gusts Of his laughter, and
Atlanta Georgian., 1914-02-27
|Daysey Mayme
andHer Folks
By FRANCES L. GARsIDE.

E<T SEE" said Mrs. Lysander John
Appleton. looking up from her
newspaper, that it is a grow
ing custom to have every member or
a family talk into a phonograph that
the record may be used to comfort
the family when that member Has
Gone UP Yonder."
Lysander John grunted, which is a
husbands way of making answer.
at is a pretty CUSTOM" unused his
wife Think what it would mean to
us after you are gone to turn crank
and hear the sound of voice that is
stilled."
Lysander Johns grunt St14s time
was louder and more expressive OF
disgust
you have always been such a good
husband and father; you have such
a noble heart, such great intelligencei
you" a pause, while she leaned over
and patted him fondly on the cheek,
ARE such a handsome man."
This time the grunt expressed
neither disgust nor disapprovaL
LET me have a record made of your
dear voice to comfort us when you
are gone. Let me select something
for you to say which will be charac-
teristic of you as we, your loved ones,
know you best"
There was no grunt this tin1e, but
happy, childlike smile.
1t might be a good idea, Lysander
John admitted, with his wife's hand
fondling him under the chin; he
would send for a man to come up
with a record making machine next
day, and in the meanwhile he would
pick out something to say.
He picked up volume of Tenny-
son. mo, not that" objected his wife.
"Ah, perhaps 1 will find a sentiment
more like me in Byron, or Poe, or
Shakespeare" he said, getting down
their works from the library shelves.
Something noble, grand, heroic, ten
der something that will sound just
like me-"
ut is not in any book" replied his
wife, that you will find the senti
ment that will remind us of you most
vividly. It is written here-on my
heart"
Lysander John looked pleased. No
doubt his ewife was about to recall
some beautiful sentiment that had
originated in his massive brain, some
gem he had sent forth, and then for
gotten, just as the truly great will.
what is it?" he asked.
'It is so like you," replied Mrs. Ap-
pleton, the tears coming to her eyes in
anticipation of the time when her
widowed heart would be thrilled by
bearing her husbands voice again. ut
is this, which you always say when
you give me money:
MAKE THAT GO AS FAR AS
YOU CAM"
Atlanta Georgian., 1914-02-27

then. standing back to the fireplace,
with one hand in his pocket and his
coat tail over his arm, he told me
the cause of his merriment.
Il don't mind telling you that was
Lena" he said. "The good-looking
girl in the scarlet dress and the big
diamonds. she spotted me the mo-
ment she stepped on to the stage.
Must have guessed who you were,
too. Did yo usee how she looked at
you? Thought l had brought you
there to walk over her. I'm sure she
did"
There was another guest of laugh
ter and then
shed been going about saying I
had married an old trump for the
sake of her fortune, and when she
saw that you could wipe her off the
face of the earth without a gown
that was worth wearing, she was
ready to die with fury"
There was another gust of laugh
ter through the smoke that was
squirting from his mouth and then
And you, too, my dear Laughing
and applauding! She thought you
were trying to crow over her! on her
own particular barn door. too! Upon
my soul, it was too amusing. I
wonder she didn't throw something
at you. She's like that when she's
in her tantrums."
The waiter came in with the wine
and my husband poured out a glass
for me.
Have a drink No? Well, here's
to your health, my dear. |
paf I
mas too funny for anything Why,
what else do you think she's been
saying? She's been saying I'll come
back to her yet. Yes. I'll give him
six months to come crawling back to
me, she said to EastCliff and Vivian
| and some of the other fellows at the
club. Wonder if she thinks so now?
l wonder?"
He threw away his cigarette, drank
another glass of the wine. came close
up to me and said in lower tone.
which made my skin creep as with
cold
Whether she's right or wrong de-
pends on you, though"
"On me-"
why yes, of course. That's only
natural one may have all the good
| will in the world, but a mans man,
you know
] felt my lius quivering with anger.
| and in an effort to control myself |
rose to go, but my husband drew me
back into my chair and sat on the
arm of il.
Don't go yet BY the way, dear,
! I've never thanked YOU for the beau
tiful flowers with which you decorated
my room this morning. Charming,
But l always knew YOU would soon
come round to it
Come round to what?" I said, but
1t was just as if somebody else were
speaking
you know, OF course YOU know.
| When that simple old priest proposed
| that ridiculous compact, | agreed, but
| | knew quite well that it would soon
] break down. Not on my side. though.
! Why should il? A man can afford TO
wait But | felt sure you would soon
! tire of your resistance And you have
haven't you? oh. I'm not blind. I've
| seen what's been going on. though
| I've said nothing about it,"
To Be Continued Tomorrow.
Atlanta Georgian., 1914-02-27
Easily Done.

Horace was a very enthusiastic
hockey player, and his enthusiasm, a 5
often happens, had developed in an
extraordinary way since he had been
elected captain of the team.
One afternoon he was talking to his
sisters best friend, Lucy, and holding
forth on the merits of various players
and the prospects of the season in
general.
by the way" he said, ''do you re-
tea with us last Sunday?"
You mean Bob Johnson, don't you?
Yes: l remember him"
We'll, he's going to be our best man
soon!"
"Oh, Horace! How sweet of you to
think of proposing like that!" an
swered she, as her head dropped on
his shoulder
Atlanta Georgian., 1914-02-27
IO-DA I > lINO AI@IJhlJA4f L.
My Honeymoon
FORTY SECOND CHAPTER.

n NEVERTHELESS next day
IN found myself taking my hus-
hands side against myself.
Atlanta Georgian., 1914-02-27
WHO SUPPORTS YOU?

Dear Miss Fairfax:
| am a young man of is and
have stepfather. He expects
me to stay in the house in the
evenings. After working all day,
l think | should have some liber-
ty. My grandfather was to take
me to Atlantic City, and my step
father said / could not go. | rode
over on my bicycle and told my
grandfather l could not go. When
my stepfather found out | had
been over to tell my grandfather
he forbid me using my wheel
again. / could name many cases
where he has made life unbear-
able for me in the past nine
years, and it is almost impossi-
ple to endure it much longer.
l told him 1 was gcing to go away
and he said to go ahead.
REMINGTON.
If you, at IS, are dependent o.
your stepfather, he has the right :,
expect obedience from you. Take m,
advice, go away. Perhaps the eff
fort you will have to make to sup
port yourself will give you better un
derstanding of his motives and .
him
Atlanta Georgian., 1914-02-27

with her. He gets $95 a month
and l get $50, and 1 am the last
daughter left at home.
INDECISION.
1t would Indicate a greater spirit of
fairness to the man if you had settled
this point before your engagement
was three years old.
If you love each other, love that
has stood a long test, you will never
be happy if you do not marry him,
and when a man and wife love each
other all problems of relatives settle
themselves.
Atlanta Georgian., 1914-02-27

mination to make my husband forget
the loss of his mistress that had no
fear of his familiarities and no mis-
givings about his mistakes.
All that was to come later, with a
fresh access of revulsion and disgust.
Atlanta Georgian., 1914-02-27
FORTY THIRD CHAPTER.

T HAD seen enough of London by
this time to know that the dresses
which had been made for me at
home We're by no means the mode,
but after l had Put on the best-fitting
of my simple quakerlike costumes
with string of the family pearls
about my neck and another about my
head, not all the teaching of the good
women of the convent could prevent
me from thinking that my husband
and his friends would have no reason
to be ashamed of me.
We were a party of six in all,
whereof | was the only woman and
we occupied a large box on the first
tier near the stage, position of
prominence which caused me Ger
tain embarrassment when, as hap
pened at one moment of indeiinable
misery. the opera glasses of the peo-
pie in the dress circle stalls were
turned in our direction.
can not say that the theater inn
pressed me. Certainly the building it
self did not do SO. although it was
beautifully decorated in white and
gold, for / had seen the churches of
Rome, and in my eyes they were much
more gorgeous.
Neither did the audience impress
me, for though / had never before
seen so many well-dressed people in
one place, | thought too many of the
men, when past middle life, seemed
fat and overfed, and too many of the
women, with their plump arms and
bare shoulders. looked as if they
| thought of nothing but what to eat
/ n nd NssN IN Ia
Atlanta Georgian., 1914-02-27
o Advice to LoveIorn o
Dr. DE ADDICT rArpEAY
CERTAINLY NOT.
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.


Dear Miss Fairfax:
l am 1S, and at a party at a
friends home l met a young man
about the same age. When l was
going home he asked to accom-
pany me. on the way he asked
me to marry him. Should l con-
sent, as this Is the first time / met
him? TROUBLED.
A proposal on such a snort aC-
is not complimentary to
you. Tell him you are not to be mar
ried off hand like that that the love
of every|self respecting girl is some
thing to be worked for, waited for and
won
Atlanta Georgian., 1914-02-27
YOU HAVE WAITED LONG.

Dear MISS Fairfax:
l am % and have been keeping
company with a young man four
years my senior for six years.
We haze been engaged three
years and he is urging me to
marry him. I love him better
than anyone else and l know he
loves me. but he lives with a sis
ter who has an invalid husband,
Atlanta Georgian., 1914-02-27

To Be Continued Tomorrow.
Atlanta Georgian., 1914-02-27

t<T SEE" said Mrs. Lysander John
Appleton, looking up from her
newspaper. that it is a grow
Atlanta Georgian., 1914-02-27
Thought Her Beautiful.

Nor did the performers impress me-
for. though when the curtain rose,
disclosing the stage full of people,
chiefly girls, in delicate and beautiful.
toilets, l thought | Rad never before
seen so many lovely and happy faces.
After a while, when the faces fell into
repose. l thought tley We're not really
lovely and not really happy but hard
and strained and painful, as If life had
been very cruel.
And. above all. I was not impressed
by the play, for | thought in my ig-
norance OF such productions, that l
had never heard anything SO frivol-
Gus and foolish. and more than once
found myself wondering whether my
good nuns, If they could have been
present. would not have concluded
that the whole company had taken
leave of their senses.
There was, however one thing
which did impress me, and that was
the leading actor. II was a woman,
and when she first came on the stage
1 thought | had never in my life seen
anybody SO beautiful. with her lovely
soft round figure, her black eyes, her
red lips, her pearly white teeth, and a
smile so sunny that it had the effect
Of making everybody in the audience
smile with her
But the strange thing was-l could
not account for it-that after few
minutes | thought her extremely
ugly and repellant, for her face seem
Atlanta Georgian., 1914-02-27
The WonanTh
GaveSt Me
Rv HALL GAME.

esueS4Ebs 1912, by Hearsts Magazine.
Copyright, 1918. by Hearst Magazine.
Copyright In Great Britain. Copyright
1918. by ]. b. Lippincott Company
Atlanta Georgian., 1914-02-27

4 JOuIQ H'gSell AfiN4li% AAAs A'N-N
bands side against myself
If he had sacrificed anything in or
der to marry me it was my duty to
make 1t UP TO him
I resolved that / should make it up
70 him. would share in his pleas
ures and enter into his life / would
show him that wife was something
other and better than any hired wo-
man in the world. and that when she
cast in her lot with her husband II
was for his own sake only and not
for anv fortune he could spend on
her.
Yes, yes, that's what III do, !
thought. and ! became more solici-
tous of my husbands happiness than
II / had really and truly loved him.
A woman would smile at the efforts
which I made in my inexperience to
make my husband forget his CASTOR
mistress. and indeed some of them
were very childish.
The first was a ridiculous FAILURE.
NV husbands birthday was ap-
preaching AMI I wished to make MN
a present. 1t was difficult to know
what to select for ! knew little or
nothing of his tastes or wants; but
walking one day in a street off OK
ford street l saw, in the window oi
a shop for the sale OF objects Of &C.
clesiastical vertu. among crosses ana
crucihxes and rosaries, little ivory
inkstand and paper holder, which was
surmounted by figure of the Virgin.
can not for the life of me con-
ceive why ] thought this would be
a suitable present for my husband,
except that the face OF Our Lady
was so exquisitely feminine that II
seemed impossible that any man IN
the world should not love her. But
however that might be, | bought her
and carrying her home in cab,
set her on my husbands desk with
out a word. and then stood by, like
the mother of Moses, to watch the
result.
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BOYS LIFE CRUSHED OUT
BY A VICIOUS HORSE

Bottineau, N. D.. July 81, - Willie
McKeen, aged 10, son Of Charles Nc
Keen, was found lying in a side street
with his skull broken and his chest
crushed in. There is considerable
mystery connected with his death. but
1t is believed he was the victim OF a
vicious horse. .,.a
,McKeen and a young lady drove to
Bottineau from their farm home to take
in a show. After the show a storm came
up and while it was storming, McKeen
started out to get his rig which was
tied in front of the Patrons exchange.
That was the last seen Of him alive.
No alarm was felt when he did not
return as esthe storm proved to be
heavy and 1t was believed that he had
put up his horse and gone to a hotel
for shelter for the night. The girl
stayed with friends thinking that Nc
Keen had decided it was too stormy to
venture out. The next morning Nc
Keen's body was found and it vas
then learned that the horse was vici-
GUS and when 1t was found it was
its tie rope, indicating that
the animal had made a break for
liberty, had knocked the young nan
down and probably crushed his life
by trampling on his chest.
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as unsympathetic with business enter
prise on a large scale, champions a
director of the International Harvester
company and a partner of a leading
New York banking house as wholly
worthy of public confidence in posts
OF great financial responsibility under
the government, "It is the obvious
business of craftsmanship at this turn
ing point in our development to rec
ognize ability and character wherever
1t is displayed, and unite every force
for the upbuilding of legitimate BUSH
ness along the new lines which are
now clearly indicated for the future"
1t was we'll said. At the same time,
the high crime Of inconsistency can
not be made to point a fresh
ton. Mr.. Wilson has never attacked
big business because 1t was big. Big
to the conception Of all the great po-
business becomes a menace, according
litical parties and their leaders, only
when 1T breeds private monopoly. Who
cares how big an industrial corpora
ton Is IL 1t does not control an in
dustry with monopolistic purpose, or
have the pwer to control an industry
with such a purpose? This Is the crux
of the situation, although those who so
bitterly complain against the 'war'' OH
business conveniently ignore the real
issue. The mere fact that the presi-
dent al make such a statement as
yesterdays without a particle Of in
consistency reminds one Of what is SUI
per1cial and what is fundamental in
the controversies over law enforce
ment and new legislation in matters OF
the business world.
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EDITORIAL in the springaeld Repu

Editorial in the Springfield Repub-
lican: The politics of the presidents
public statement on the Warburg-
Jones incident will not escape atten-
ton. Skilful political use or the af-
fair has been made by Mr.. Wilson in
minimizing the impression that he is
not a friend of legitimate business in
terests. To this extent, at least, the
senate opponents of the nominations
of Messrs. Warburg and Jones as
members of the federal reserve board
have played into the presidents hands
by creating an opportunity for him to
seize. He promptly rushes to the de-
Tense of the senate-an amusing stroke
in it's ironical neutrality-suspicious.
the charge that 1t is IAN enemy of
business, big or little" "It (the SEN
ate) knows that the business of the
country has been chiefly promoted in
recent years by enterprises organized
on a great scale and that the vast ma
jority of the me- connected with what.
we a come to call big business are
honest, incorruptible and PATRIOTIC
And more of that sort pegged on the
estimate, the capable, the patriotic
Messrs. Warhurg and Jones.
The word psychological" has been
sadly overworked of late, but every
n will observe just the same that
the presidents statement comes at a
psychological moment Business is
improving, THE corner seems to have
turned at last" cheerfully reports the
Iron Age this week concerning the
steel industry. Steel mills are short
ening teh summer shutdowns in order
to get busy on the new orders now
pouring in. The big crops are vitaliz-
ing the business world. But capital
needs confidence. At just this mo-
ment the president, hitherto regarded
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GAS EXPLODED--TWO
were BADLY BURNED

Darlington, N. D., July 27.-W. E.
Erwin, proprietor Of the cleaning and
pressing establishment in the Gale
house building, was badly burned in a
gas explosion in his place of business.
Jas. williams, colored, who was as
listing Mr.. Erwin, received a worse
burn than did Mr.. Erwin, the boy hav-
ing a very deep burr on his left arm.
MT. Ervins burns, while not deep, are
exceptionally painful and he is burn
ed on both arms, the left arm receiv-
ing the brunt of the flames. and his
face is also quite severely burned. Mr..
Williams burns do not so much
of his body, but his N burn is deeper
and will take longer to heal.
The men were at work cleaning with
gasoline and as the room is not very
well ventilated, the combustible gas
gathered and ignited from the flame
on the gas fiat iron. In an instant the
small room was a mass Of flames and
before the men could ESCAPE both We're
quite badly burned. The builG~ is a
brick structure, and the flames did but
little damage to the building, although
there is a loss of about 500 on cloth
ing that was in the place being clean
ed. The fire alarm vas sounded, but
only the chemical engine was used.
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CHECK PROTECTOR SELLER
CHECK MANIPULATION

Mandan, N. D., July at. W. Nor
rtson of New York city, sojourned
here a little while and now his place
Is vacant. So are a few pocketbooks.
Morrison vas agent for the New
Era check protector and pencil sharp
ener, simple little devices for which.
he claimed to have the sole agency in
this section and a few of which he
sold in Mandan during his several
days stay here two weeks ago.
He stopped at the Inter Ocean and
just before he left had Manager Nc.
Quillan cash a check for SIT. He was
not seen afterward and both the mon
ey for the check and the weeks board
bill are what the pleasure of Mr.. Nor
rison's company cost MI. McQuillan.
A warrant has been sworn out but
the authorities entertain little hope of
locating the man, as there Is every
reason to suspect that he made his
living more off of the checks he could
cash than off of the check protectors
he could sell. Consequently he very
likely took particular pains to cover
up his tracks out of this city. .
Morrison is a medium sized fellow
with gray clothes and light soft hat,
neat in appearance. smooth faced and.
smooth tongued, although very plaus-
ible and congenial appearing. 1t is be-
he went west from here.
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CRUSHED IN WHEN
EVENER BROKE DIED

sherbrooke, y. D., July 27.-Charley
Lee, a young man who had been work.
ing ON the Fordet farm the past sea-
son, met a terrible death. The young
man was bucking hay onto a stack
with a three-horse team when the ev-
ener broke and the n snapped back
with awful force, striking him in the
mouth and crushing the lower portion
of his face and jaws in a terrible man
ner. He was taken to the hospital at
Mayville by auto at once. but died
without regaining consciousness but
for a few minutes.
His home was in Wisconsin and his
death is made more sad because he
was to have been married this week.
His relatives were notified and his
came to Mayville for the body.
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NO CHANGE IN
TAX SCHEDULES

q Bismarck, N. D., July 27.--The state
board of equalization meets in this
city On Tuesday, Aug. 4. 1t is much
changing of schedules, as this, matter
has been pretty we'll sifted out. The
railroads and other large corporations
have been pretty we'll satisfied with
their treatment, and seem to be will
ing to let well enough alone. The av-
erage land valution of the state was
placed around Is per cent last year,
and it is believed that this will be
somewhere near the figure necessary
this year.