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be substantiated by the constantly chang
ing costumes Of Miss Nelson whom she
took little trip with Chandler through
the White mountains. Alighting at .
wayside hotel for luncheon, tbs said.
she'd be attired in q creation Of sartorial
art. and when the next stop was made
she'd be wearing a totally different but
Just as charming costume.
This was before the Million Dollar
Kid" shook the dust of Boston from his
feet and his tires and raced over to Lon
don and Paris. Miss Nelson sailed for
trip abroad about the same time.
However, there is no record of q mar
riage. Waywardly playing. the heart Of
man evidently swayed in another direc-
tion before it could be tackled down more
or less permanently.
1t was during the Grace LaRue regime
that Chandler Inherited the second in
stallment Of his fortune-one million
round shiny dollars from his grand
mother, Mrs. BENJAMIN F. Martin. Of
Manchester, ~ H. This helped along.
of course. though he wasn't hard up.
When Chandler had Just reached the
age where BARRIERS treated his beard with
respect. his father, who was president
of the Amoskeag bank in Manchester.
died and left large slathers of wealth.
The first thing that Byron did, says the
tale. was to go to the bank and with
draw $4,000. After which he tripped
gayly down the steps waving a package
Of bank bills and shouting Now for
JOY"
According to the story told by Mrs.
Fannie NJ. Martin Chandler. Byron's
mother. lie has been the misunderstood
and temperamentsl son of a self-made
man.
He wasn't brought up right" she
explained. We pampered him because
he was the favorite. Benjamin. the old
est son. was of different type; re-
served and forbidding
His father rose to the presidency Of
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the bank through sheer ability. He
wanted Byron to become a banker, too,
but nothing ever came Of it,
Anyway, Byron, then In his usual
married condition, met Miss LaRue,
actress and divorced wife Of Charles H.
Burke. He attached himself to her and
married her after the quondam Mrs.
Chandler obtained a divorce. They ap-
peared first in Auburndale in August.
1909. saying they were married. De-
tails were refused. They made a flying
leap for Europe and went through the
startled capitals of that continent like
a pair of comets run amuck. obtaining
for themselves "Oh's!" and "Ah's!" and
front page newspaper notices.
They returned to America, still tread
ing the spectacular way. Other trips
abroad followed. Finally in January,
1914. while they were in London, they
separated. Mrs. Grace LaRue Chandler
came home and began suit for separation
and alimony on ground of cruelty, habit
ual drunkenness and failure to do any
work more strenuous than writing
checks
Byron replied. He averred that he
was the victim of Misrepresentation.
Never. never. cried he. had he beaten up
noblemen, ran after chorus girls, created
riots In Paris, thrown away automobiles
and played the spendthrift. He was
something of a hard-working and model
young man he declared. However a
heartless court ordered him to pay ali
mony at the rate Of fifty dollars a week
every week, and five hundred dollars
counsel fees, however irksome 1t might
be.
Woe who dependeth on heart of man!
-
Chambers first wayward bending was
back in 1902 when he met Miss Grace
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sleep. And after that he liked best 10
make mischief"
If you were a boy or girl studying
geography and your teacher assigned
you a lesson that started of like the
paragraph above and IL, as you read on,
you learned how the boy was changed
into an elf and travelled all over Sweden
on the back of a wild goose named
Goosey- -Gander, the chances are that you
would not have to make any excuse
for failing in your lesson.
At any rate the school authorities OF
Sweden feel this way. They have not
only adopted this novel geography as a
school text book but all the school chill
dren few years ago held a big cclebra-
tion in honor of the fiftieth birthday of
its author, none other than Selma Lager
lof herself.
She was poor school teacher for
many. many years before she attained
her present eminence and material COM
forts. 1t was in 1909 that her first great
recognition came to her in the shape of
the Nobel prize for literatUre-a medal
and about 900 in cash.
She had done other things, however
besides writing unique biographies that
were classed as among the greatest
literary accomplishments of the times.
For the last twenty years she has been
writing books and short stories that
have been puzzling the critics because
they were SO different from anything
they had ever read before.
Now they have made up their minds
that the main difference lies in their
being SO much better.
At the time Selma Lagerlof was
awarded the Nobel prize the whole world
asked why the English, American.
French ,and German writer's whose
names were on everyone's tongues should
have been passed over and a Swedish
author Of whom most Americans had
never heard was selected for the honor.
Selma Lagerlof's determination not to
follow in the footsteps Of other writer's.
and the infinite pains she takes with her
work are given as the answers. In the
eight years following her first success
she wrote only two books and seven
or eight volumes would contain all her
works
II Selma Lagerlof. who in her school
days was the despair of her teachers be-
cause her style of writing was SO child
ish, could have seen the literary honors
that were in store for her she probably
would have been more astonished than
was the world outside of Sweden. SIM
ply and modestly she herself tells how
she came to write her first book which
might never have seen the light If Iduna,
a Swedish woman's journal, had not
offered big sum for the best story sub
mitted.
Throughout her girlhood. Miss Lager
lof says. she had been haunted by the
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We can't buy 'em like shoes-half dozen
at a time!
Chandler has changed a couple Of
times. He has almost changed several
times. And along in December, says
rumor. he'll be changing again.
The public first clapped its eagle eye
upon Miss Luella Gear when she drove
racing car through Central park and into
a motor driven by another woman. In
the melee of spectators, twisted wneels'
white fox fur and hysteria which fol-
lowed, Miss Gear admitted that she didn't
know mnch about chauffeuring, but the
car belonged to her fiance, said she. and
she therefore could try to drive 1t IL she
wanted to. The mean old policeman
asked the name Of her fiance. Where
upon the hitherto unknown Miss Gear
jumped into more or less national promi-
nence when she replied:
Byron Chandler"
The policeman was not sufficiently i'm
pressed to forget about writing out a
summons in which literary achievement
tors say. That is he hung the causa acti
upon the license to operate an automobile
which the young lady did not have.
The incident might have sizzled and
burned out of the public's ken like fuse
gone wrong but that someone remem-
bered Bryon Chambers futterings in
the summer wind, and called on Miss
Gear to talk 1t over.
The Gear home is on Z. 6Sth St Mr.
Gear is a hardware merchant who doesn't
keep wedding bells in stock Besides his
wife is a suffraget and used to public
speaking. She declared that Chandler
needn't be too sure about wedding her
daughter, though she said they we're
friends all right.
Miss Gear is about as attractive as an
up-to-date New York girl can be-which
is considerably attractive. Seventeen
years have done their best to make her
look twenty-five, but she is just a kid,
eager for a good time.
"Oh, I've known Byron ever SO long"
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Strecher, of Hoboken. N. j., at Bermuda
where they we're spending the winter.
While in the throes Of a whirlwind court
ship, somebody told her family about the
young mans tendency to chorussirlitis
and the long list of breach Of promise
suits which ratified in his wake.
81 should worry what he did as kid"
replied the wooed one. 'Fm going to
marry him whether people like it or not"
And because her family thought lace
trimmed, orange-blossomed wedding was
better than an elopement, they staged the
nuptials in Grace church, New York. The
bridal pair sailed for Europe. Appendi-
citis broke up the honeymoon. The
groom was hurried to Boston for an
operation. After his recovery domestic
happiness didn't seem to be lurking
round and Mrs. Grace Strecher Chandler
applied for a divorce. After a hearing
held by a referee behind closed doors In
New York a divorce was granted in May,
1909. Which ended that period Of sway
ing.
The south wind dies and the north
wind rushes away; comes the east wind.
bringing tears! Love is the beginning
and the end; the making and ending
of marriages. Long ago for this cause,
men and women forsook the world for
each other; now they forsake each other
for the world This is the transition
period when marital relations are filter
ing through the sieve of adjustment,
when extremes are slowly coming within
the limit of reason. OF course it is the
man who can pay money for everything
but q reserved sitting for the heavenly
choir who bargains for wives and separa-
ton from wives-each whim obeying!
Plume in the summer wind-thus
heart Of man!
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she told the inquisitive one. "The we'd
ding you know" giggle. giggle. will
be in December some time-most likely"
Giggle.
Out in the city Chandler, who is ex-
actly twice her age and who mentally
aged as the Sphinx's husband, didn't
want to talk about this last swaying.
Thus heart of man!
Though of course the engagement may
go to pieces on the rocks Of circumstance
same as the reported Chandler-Helma l..
Nelson alliance, announced in May, 1914.
Like a romance of old, when a knight
kidnapped the fair one was the rumored
engagement of the Million Dollar Kid"
to Miss Nelson, a petite and fascinating
Boylston ST., Boston. modiste. The
young gentleman was considerably
hitched up matrimonially at the time.
which sort of halted the affair as 1t
bowled merrily along toward the altar
rail.
On the edge of subway hole which
furnished front yard scenery for Miss
Nelson's shop. their association began.
1t was Ncolored up on the rolling sea
wave, and staged with splashy back
grounding in the gay resorts of the old
world. Some Of 1t unwound in the show
motor with which Chandler dragged
down prizes at Boston automobile exhf-
bitions. The motor was about the size
of a Pullman coach, painted green and
gold, upholstered in Nile green brocade
and French cretonne. 1t was fitted with
shelves for books, a buffet for refresh
ments, and luxurious arm chairs. The
chauffeur was so stationed that q curtain
could be drawn to shut him in separate
room; furthermore it was said. a femi-
nine dressing table could be included in
the appointments of the car.
The dressing table theory seemed to
The Washington herald., 1915-12-05
BY WINIFRED VAN DUZER.


@LUME in the summer wind-thus
- heart of man!
Swaying to the south winds
whisper; swaying to the caress OF
dusky eyes. Waywardly playing!
Bending before the north winds thin,
white breath; to the rushing gale; bend
ing to the fire of eternal cold glinting in
blue eyes. Every way bending!
Plume is the autumn wind, olive
checked, trembling; waving under am
Der eyes, throbbing under grey; strug-
Cling toward the mystery of green eyes;
tangled in copper hair. Thus heart OF
man! Woe who dependeth on heart OF
man!
For the south wind dies under low
hung stars and the north wind rushes
away; rushes away to the narrow circle
which binds, like a marriage band, the
arctic to desolation And the autumn
wind sighs high in the trees and low in
valley and fees on wings of time. Then
comes the east wind, bringing tears. The
east wind, weighted with tears; tears for
the amber eyes, the grey, the blue, the
green!
Plume in the summer wind each whine
sbeying-thus heart of man!
Byron D. Chandler is thinking OF
marrying again. Love, according to
school of philosophers, is necessary 10
the mental and spiritual development OF
mankind; 1t is the basic principle upon
which all circumstances of life are estab-
lished; it is the trellis round which cling
the tendriIs of mans desire for beauty
and comfort and without which he be-
comes a mere neglected weed. creeping
on the ground.
Chandler subscribes to most of this.
In practical life, however, he hasn't been
able to make it stick. About the only
thing he can't seem to buy with his mill
lions is love that might twist itself into
a permanent marriage.
Institutions change. Time was when
men and women married for better or
worse and If affection didn't keep up to
an average of a hundred and. FIVE, clini-
cal measure. 1t was put down to overwork
or the baby's disposition. That, how
ever, was in the days when babies were
rife.
The modern viewpoint tolerates babies
in q forty-room house only and where
there's a separate floor for the nursery.
Be that as it may, the better or worse
thing seems to have 1oated down the tide
Of progress. When marriage has been
worn long enough to spoil the shine, the
man who can afford it buys on the con-
tract and looks round for an option on
new material marriage which can't
be polished over each morning to look
like new or better, isn't marriage, mil
lionaireically considered. So let's have
. change. Our burning regret is that
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SEZAH ZNGERZoH'

~ELMA LAGERLoF. the only wom-
an In the world who has ever won
the Nobel prize for literature. who
~ takes years to write and correct
each book she creates. has Just published
Jerusalem" story of Swedish farmers.
blacksmiths. school teachers and parsons
and as a result the literature of the world
is considerably enriched.
1t is a close. true study OF a small
group Of people with their little
comedies, bitter tragedies. and love
stories all done with an exquisite art
Written In war times 1t has no mention
Of the war. 1t tries to give a picture OF
universal human nature swaying between
the poles Of warm. comfortable and time
honored bodily ease. sanctioned by ira
dition and the chill, self-denying, fanati-
cal, disturbing demand of the spirit, set
ting father against son, and wife against
husband.
And 1t is all done in that extraordi-
nary style which has made Selma Lagerlof
the greatest of women writer's Of the day
and the most extraordinary of school
teachers and of writer's Of school books
for children.
"Once there was a boy. He was, let
us say, something like fourteen years
old: long and loose-jointed and tow
headed. He wasn't good for much, that
boy. His chief delight was to eat and
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1915-12-23
CORRESPONDENCE
FROM
NEARBY TOWNS AND COMMUNITIES
By the Tribune's Special Correspondents
LAUREL AND WISER
LAKE

Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Herman
Holtz, Thursday, Dec. 18TH a tel
pound boy.
Rev. +. s. Chappell OF the Wash
II gton Children's Home Society will
occupy the pulpit at the Methodist
Church Sunday in place of the Rev
Sullivan.
The Laurel school will c'ose on
Thursday afternoon for a Two weeks
vacation. The pupils of the grades
under Mr.. Gainor, Mi Violet Par
ker. and Mi - Ruth Duxbury present
an Xmas program Of music, recita-
lions and dialogues in the auditor
ium.
Thomas Doyle suffered a painful
injury while iSGisiing to move Il
Heavily loaded wagon. A plank
broke, the enc striking him in he
face, serior1iy cutting lie lower iip
ond breaking off two upper ,eeth.
Mls. e. A. Richie and HI drsn
are guests at the Dame on home 70
remain daring the ho.id Us.
Rev. Tracey preached his farewell
sermon at Wiser Lake Sunday.
The Students Association VIII
hold a watch party at the Auditor
ium New Years eve. TIE affai
will be in the nature of an cd fas, =
toned social. All are to be dressed
in old fashioned style, or be prepar-
ed to pay fine. A play Wi re
given by the Sophomore. Lunch will
he served and small fee viii De
charged to raise money TO purchas
pictures for the high school rooms.
The benefit social held at Wise,
Lake hall Friday light was a sue
cess both socially and financially
George E Brand auctionei off. ike
boxes and the ladies' served CAKE
and coffee.
Rev. Tracey visited among his old
Pensioners the early part of the
week before leaving Monday for
New York where he has received an
appointment near his old home.
The Methodist Aid society met
with Cady Cameron Thursday after
noon making preparations for The
Christmas tree at the Methodist
Church, Saturday evening, Dec. 25.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1915-12-23
Caruso and the Tax Collector.

| was dressing for "Pagliacci" when
a man walked into my room. tapped me
on the shoulder and said, "Give me
f14O." l looked at him and asked,
what for?" He replied, "Income tax"
was already late and said: Come
again. have not got the money here"
Whereupon. with the rapidity OF con-
jurer. he produced from his pocket
warrant for my arrest. This seemed
to rue to be carrying the Joke too far.
and so asked the manager to be kind
enough to pay the man the money. He
did so at once. and the good income
tax collector replied. And now may
I have a seat to see the shown And
he got 1t. That's London.-Strand
Magazine.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1915-12-23
More Name Than Fame.

The telegraph editor of a Denver
newspaper had often complained Of a
country correspondent who omitted
names in his stories, so he wrote the
man that II he neglected the names in
his next yarn he would be discharged
A few days later the editor got this
dispatch:
Cc-no. Colo, June s.-A severe storm
passed over this section this afternoon,
and lightning struck barbed wire fence
on the ranch of Henry Wilson, killing
three cows. their names being Jessie. Bes-
sic and Mary.
Saturday Evening Post.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1915-12-23
Too Big q Job.

It was In a country store. A one
gallus customer drifted In.
"Gimme a nickel's worth Of asafoeti
da."
The clerk poured some asafoetida In
a paper bag and pushed 1t across the
counter.
"Charge It," drawled the customer.
whats your name 2" asked the clerk.
"Honeyfunkel."
take It," said the clerk. II wouldn't
write asafoetida and Honeyfunkel for
5 cents. "-Everybody's
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1915-12-23

Spirit stopped mid his mad dance OF
joy And am going across the whole
world, and | shall knock SO earnestly
at the heart Of every human being that
no one can fail to open wide the inner
doors to Christmas Spirit" called the
little figure of christmas Joy as he
danced away toward the edge Of the
wood and the cities and towns beyond.
julia Chandler MANI In Buffalo Ex-
press.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1915-12-23
Profit and Loss at Christmas.

Old Lady What's the matter with
the little boy?
Elder Broi her-Oh, he's cryin' cos I'm
eatin' my Christmas cake an won't
give him any.
Old I.adr-ls his own cake finished.
then?
Elder Brother - Yes, an he cried
while | was eatin that too.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1915-12-23
THE HOLIDAY SPIRIT;
A CHRISTMAS FANCY
~ RIVEN from the heart Of the
people. Christmas Spirit left
IL the great shops. fed from the


habitat of man until he came to the
quiet little sunlit path that runs
through the deep wood.
When he was yet afar Off the most
perfect Fir Tree In all the forest called
gayly to the Great Oak ut her side.
christmas Is coming.'
"Yes" answered the big oak, but
there is something wrong. See how
he halts at the end Of the path. stoop-
ing as II the load of the worlds sor-
row lay upon his shoulders. See how
he comes now. with all the gladness
gone from his STEP"
It was quite true. Christmas Spirit
came toward the most perfect Fir Tree
IN the wood with tagging step. looking
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1915-12-23

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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-01-01
Price Works IN VI
Interests Of Safety
Devices For Public

Charles w. Price. a former Marshall
town boy, and son of the late A. !.
Price, is mentioned by Ida Tarbell IN
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-01-01

hey, Aaron Daily, ana amp 49,
unknown dsssndants 49, &c. r. Z
ants OF each and III Of aat1 $780, +;
ants, whether sane Or insane I'd
minors and Ill pess0ns un4oe -
disability, also their spcuooA o9eS
viving spousea and any ana ~ 49,
known claimants or any other porSs
sons claiming any right, title o. -
terest in and to lots Nos !, =. a10
4 In block No. 5. In the town OF Ism
gor, Marshall county. Iowa. M lSs7
To the above defendants. unknown de-
fendants, and claimants OF the above
described real estate.
You and each OF you ere hereby notisI
fed that there is now, filed In the Office
Of the clerk OF the district court q
Iowa, in and for Marshall county. the
verified petition OF Jeremiah T. Carter
claiming, that he II the absolute and
unqualified owner In fee simple to lots
Nos. 1, 2. 5 and 4 In block No. s. In
the town OF Bangor. Marshall county.
Iowa. and that he became such owner
by purchase OF said premises from ~.
l.. Lounsbury on June l3. 1890, - ex-
ecutor OF the estate OF Mahlon IA
Adams. deceased. who died seized ana
possessed OF said premises; that ne -
'
have. or make some claim In and 70
said property or parcel or part there
Of. but he AYERS that said claim 10
junior and Inferior to plaintiffs right.
title and ownership and that whatever
claim or right you make To said prem
ises is barred by the statute OF limtt4s
lions.
That the names and residences OF
the unknown defendants and unknown,
claimants above named. are unknown
to the plaintiff and that he has sought
diligently to learn OF Same but has
been aunabie to do 30.
That the plaintiff asks a. relief In
his petition. that his title to said
premises be Quieted and confirmed In
him by decree OF said court and the
omissions in the recording OF fnoefu-
ments NJ set forth in said petition and
the apparent defects in said title, Il
there be any. be corrected by said de-
cree and that you. the defendants. un-s
known defendants and Unknown
claimants and each Of you be 1oeswee
barred from having. claiming or max
my any claim adverse to the plain
tiff's right, title and interest in and 20
said real estate or any part thereof.
Reference Is made to the original Pc
tition now on file to which you are re-
ferred for further Information. No
personal Judgment is asked againss
any defendant herein.
Now unless you appear and make.
defense thereto. at or before the ooc-
ont day OF the next March term OF oaid
court to be begun and held ct Mar,
shalltown. Iowa. the Sth day Of March.
A. d. 1915, your default will be on
tered and deere rendered a. prayed foS
In said petition.
Dated the 3oth day Of Decembsr-sA.
d. 1914.
JEREMIAH T. CARTER,
Plaintiff.
BY HOLT & TANKERSIEY.
His Attorneys. !,