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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-09-07

A man who couldn't be mangled
by a woman's most incisive arGu.
ments can always DO crushed by her
dead silence.
Copyright. 1870.
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II the difference between friend
ship and love 10 about two weeks"
then the difference between love and
snnui 10 usually-the next two weeks.
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Why Allen Likes
To Be Guest
By LAURA CLAWSON.

A Is: 4: "::::: u.s.; he: :: e: 6;
son dfsa ppeared with n waye of
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Will Purify Politics.
Teach Girls Politics.

Girls should be taught politics In
the schools. They should know as
much about civic conditions as their
brothers and fathers. How Is the
mother to keep In any sort Of COM
panionable relationship with a hus-
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A mans idea OF diplomacy 10 TO do
Just as he chooses and then 20 off
and stay away from q woman until
her Indignation 10 completely forgot
ten in her anxiety to know whether
he 10 dead OF alive.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-09-07

~ YHILE there are a few brill
M liant minds. full OF real old
w fashioned repartee, and
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-09-07
Bachelor Girls
Reflections
BY HELEN ROWLAND.
- HE first consistent optimist was
Ananias.

Don't waste time trying to shatter
. man vanity; be satisfied II you can
just manage to chip 1t a little around
the edges.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-07-21
CHAPTER vi
Synptomatic

For some few minutes the two on
the cabin porch made no attempt to
talk. but when the rumbling thunder
of the ore-car which the elder Mas
singale was pushing ahead of him into
the mine had died away in the sub
terranean distances Brouillard began
again.
Il do get your point of view-some-
times" he said. Civilization, or what
stands for 1t, does have a way of
shrinking into littleness, not to say
cheapness. when one can get the
proper perspective. And your life up
here on Chigringo has given you the
needful detached point of view."
The trouble shadows in the eyes of
the young woman who was sitting In
the fishnet hammock gave place to a
smile Of gentle derision.
do you call that civilization" she
demanded. indicating the struggling
new town spreading itself. maplike. in
the valley below.
Il suppose it is-one form Of 1t. At
least it Is civilization in the making.
Everything has to have some sort of q
beginning"
Miss Massingale acquiesced in a
little uptilt of her perfectly rounded
chin.
Just the same. you don't pretend to
say you are enjoying It," she said in
manifest depreciation.
"Oh. don't know. My work is down
there. A few weeks ago l was right
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(TO BE CONTINUEDD
TribuIations Of q Volunteer.

Richard de Gunpowder was an en-
thusiast. He was SO enthusiastic that
he enlisted in the Harvard Hundreds.
Moreover, he was SO very enthusiastic
that he enlisted twice. Then matters
became confused, for he was assigned
to two different regiments. In some
way, however, he managed to per.
suade his superior officers that he
would rather be wholly and entirely In
one company than partly in two. So
one of his enlisted selves Joined the
other in the same squad. But now he
was absolutely beside himself; every
time he turned around he hit himself
in the back; whenever he was out Of
step he trod on his own heels: every
time he-what should-what could he
do? What would you have done?
But the captain was cleverer than
you. He selected one Of Richards en-
listed selves and made him an officer.
So now Sergeant de Gunpowder once
more has complete command Of him
self.-Harvard Lampoon
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Wa CHAPTER VII A
A Turn in the Trail

For Brouillard It had seemed the
most natural thing in the world to fall
under the spell Of enchantment. He
knew next to nothing of the young
woman's life story; he had not cared
to know. 1t had not occurred to him
to wonder how the daughter of a man
who drilled and shot the holes in his
own mine should have the gifts and
belongings-when she chose to display
them-of a woman of a much wider
world. 1t was enough for him that she
was piquantly attractive in any char
acter and that he found her marvel
ously stimulating and uplifting. On
the days when the devil of moroseness
and irritability possessed and mad
dened him he could climb to the cabin
on high Chigringo and find sanity. It
was a keen Joy to be with her, and up
to the present this had sufficed.
"Egoism Is merely another name for
the expression of a vital need" he
said after the divagating pause. de-
filming the word more for his own sat
isfaction than in selfdefense.
you may put 1t In that way II you
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"a Can't Believe II, Murray. It's ;
Leaf Out of the Book of BedIaml"

eously hot. 1t seemed so crudely un-
necessary to start pigeon-plucking
match at this distance from Wall
street."
But now," she queried-"now. sup
pose, you have become reconciled?"
Il am growing more philosophical.
let US say. There are just about so
many pigeons to be plucked, anyway:
they'd mott IL they weren't plucked.
And it may as well be done here as
on the stock exchange, when you come
to think of 1t"
Il like you least when you talk that
way" said the young woman in the
hammock, with open-eyed frankness.
do you do it as other men do?-just
to hear how it sounds?"
Brouillard. sitting on the top step
Of the porch. leaned his head against
the porch post and laughed.
You know too much-a lot too
much for a person of your tender
years." he asserted. Which names
one more of the charming collection
of contradictions which your father or
mother or somebody had the temerity
to label Amy sweetest and most
seraphic of diminutives."
"If you don't like my name" she
began, and then she went OF at an.
other tangent. please tell me why |
am a collection of contradictions
Brouillard's gaze went past the
shapely little figure in the string ham
mock to lose itself in the far Timan.
yoni distances.
you are bundle of surprises" he
said, letting the musing thought slir
into speech. What can you possibly
know about my thoughts?"
She made a funny little grimace al
him. 1T was contradictions a mo
ment ago and now it is surprises.
Which reminds me, you haven't told
me why am collection"
| "Oh, l can catalogue them II yor
push me to it. One minute you are
the Madonna lady that l can't recall
calm. reposeful. truthful, and all that
you know-so truthful that those child
like eyes of yours would make a slut
tering imbecile Of the man who shoult
come to you with lie in his mouth.
"And the next minute?"
The next minute you are q witch
laughing at the mans little weak
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nesses, putting your finger on them as
accurately as II you could read his
soul, holding them up to your ridicule
and-what's much worse-to his own.
At such times your insight. or what.
ever you choose to call 1t. is enough
to give q man a fit of seeing things.
Her laugh was like a schoolgirls.
light-hearted. ringing. deliciously unre-
strained.
What a pictured" she commented.
And then: Il can draw better one
Of you. Monsieur Victor de Brouil-
lard"
do It," he dared.
Every well. then: Once upon time
it was a good while ago, I'm afraid
you were a very upright young man
You would cheerfully have died for
principle in those days, and you would
have allowed the enemy to cut you up
into cunning little inch cubes before
you would have admitted that any pig
con was ever made to be plucked."
He was smiling mirthlessly. with the
black mustaches taking the sardontc
upcurve.
Then what happened?"
"One Of two things. or maybe both
of them. You were pushed out into
the life race with some sort Of q
handicap. don't know what it was
or is. Is that true?"
He nodded gravely. 1T is all true
enough. You haven't added anything
more than a graceful little touch here
and there. Who has been telling you
all these things about me? Not
Grizzy?"
mo. not Murray Grislow; 1t was the
man you think you know best in all
the worldwide is also probably the
one you know the least-yourself"
Good heavens! Am l really such q
transparent egoist as all that?"
"All men are egoists," she answered
calmly. In some the ego is sound
and clear-eyed and strong; in others
it is weak-in the same way that pas
sion is weak; It will sacrifice all 1t has
or hopes to have in some sudden fury
of self-assertion."
She sat up and put her hands to heI
hair. and he was free to look away
down upon the great ditch where the
endless chain of concrete buckets
added to the deep and widespread
foundations of the dam. Across the
river a group of hidden sawmills sang
their raucous song. In the middle dis
lance the camp-town city spread
it's roughly indicated streets over the
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-07-21
SYNOPSIS.

Brouillard, chief engineer of the Niquoia
Irrigation dam, goes out from camp to
investigate a strange light and finds an
automobile party camped at the canyon
portal. He meets ]. Wesley Cartwright
and his daughter, Genevieve, of the auto
party and explains the reclamation work
to them. Cartwright sees in the project
q big chance to make money. Brouillard
Is impervious to hints from the financier.
who tells Genevieve that the engineer
XVIII come down and hook himself IL the
bait is well covered" Cartwright organ
lies a company and obtains government
contracts to furnish power and material
for the dam construction. A busy city
springs up about the site. Steve Massin-
gale threatens to start a gold rush II
Brouillard does not influence President
Ford to build a railroad branch to the
place. thus opening an easy market for
the ore from the Little Susan" mine.
Brouillard and the company's promoter
clash
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-07-21

ashamed of the momentary lapse into
savagery. was once more scowling
down at the pages of his notebook.
when the door opened and Quinlan,
the operator. came in with a commu-
nication fresh from the Washington
wire. The message was an indirect
reply to Hosford's telegraphed appeal
to the higher powers. Brouillard read
it, stuck it upon the file. and took a
roll of blueprints from the bottom
drawer of his desk.
Here are the drawings for your
power installation, Mr.. Hosford," he
said. handing the roll to the man in
the chair. And little later he went
out to smoke a pipe in the open air,
leaving the message of inquiry he had
intended to send unwritten.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-07-21
Activities Of Women.

ACSttittC1 OF vOIUCUs
British Columbia has woman factory
inspectors.
There are suffrage leagues in every
part Of Canada.
Mattresses Of Toronto. Canada, have
organized a union.
Several Brooklyn women are taking
up Red Cross work in preparation of
their being called upon in case this
country goes to war.
Mary Pickford, probably the highest
salaried moving picture actress In the
world. is going to appear on the speak
ing stage.
Miss Jessie P. Campbell, daughter
of former Governor Campbell of Ohio,
is going to France to act as a nurse
in the army.
Lady Paget has raiced by means of
entertainments and bazaars nearly
100000 since the great war began.
which she has applied to the needs of
the war sufferers in Belgium, France.
Italy and Serbia.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-07-21
Friendship.

BY friendship l mean the greatest
love, and the greatest usefulness. and
the most open communication, and
the noblest sufferings. and the most
exemplary faithfulness. and the Sc
verest truth, and the heartiest coun-
sci, and the greatest union Of minds
of which brave men and women are
capable.-Jeremy Taylor.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-07-21
"But Tell Me, What Would You D,
With Your Pot Of Rainbow GoId?"

valley level, the tall chimney stacks
Of the new cement plant were rising,
and from the quarries beyond the
plant the dull thunder of the blasts
drifted up.
This was not Brouillard's first visit
to the cabin on the Massingale claim
by many. In the earliest stages Of the
valley activities Smith, the Buckskin
cattleman, had been Amy Massingale's
escort to the reclamation camp-"just
couple O. lockers" in Smiths phrase
and the unconventional attitudes
had done the rest From that day for
ward the young woman had Hospitality
opened her door to Brouillard and his
assistants, and any member of the
corps. from Leshington the morose,
who commonly came to sit in solemn
silence on the porch step. to Griffith,
who had lost his youthful heart to
Miss Massingale on his first visit, was
welcome.
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Do you think that Amy will
conduct a little filtration with
the despised Hosford, In order
to aid her father, II she finds
out that Hosford can bring the
railroad to Niquoia or keep Il
away?
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-07-21
Mean.

Mean.
Il inherited q great name from my
ancestors" he boasted.
TOO bad they couldn't will you the
ability to keep It," was the unkind re-
tort.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-07-21

u you were In love with a
girl and q beast Of a man, who
had the power to get you fired
from your Job, made a smirking
remark about her to you, would
you smash him in the jaw and
kick him out Of your office
even IL the act caused an in
definite postponement Of your
wedding?
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-07-21
Why Boys Hate Cats.

Tracing back the hatred OF boys
for cats. it may be supposed that 1t
originated in the cats treatment OF a
captured mouse. A boy likes faiy
play and hates duplicity.-St- Louis
Globe-Democrat.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-07-21
Coal Deposits In Nigeria.

Nigeria has been added to the lands
in which valuable deposits of coal
have been discovered in recent years
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-07-21
A Good Foil.

A Good Foil.
"She gets plenty of invitations to
house parties and the like"
Yes. and she is so homely that
every girl who sees her wants her to
come and spend q week o. two"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-07-21
For AiIing Plants.

AS an antidote for fungous diseases
as well as scalicide. lime mixed with
a little sulphur and stirred into the
soil about plants is excellent. This
should be used frequently and when
the soil is rather dry.
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as he had taken Matte home.

as he had taken Matte home.
Wallace saw Anne a few minutes
before he went to his rooms, and
tried to persuade her to go to
bed. but she declared she could
not without seeing the papers
containing the critics notices Of
the play. She was SO near hy-
sterics that finally he desisted
and left her to Minna, who was to
stay all night.
Minna, good soul. tried in her
turn to keep the papers from
Anne until morning, but with the
first call on the street Anne in
sisted upon having them up.
They we're all alike-praise for
the play, blame for the star. But
one went further than that. The
Recorder critic-the most feared
and hated in the whole United
States. smart-aleck with the
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CHAPTER TX.
Failure,

80 the great night 10 here!"
DR.. Wallace said.
Anne nodded. Her eyes were
almost too bright, and there was
a feverish splash of color in either
cheek.
"You are feeling all right? Fit
for it," he asked.
ooh, yes. Yes, think So" she
said, vaguely.
Anne had telegraphed Wallace
OF the change in the opening
date. and he had answered
promptly that he would be on
hand.
Back on the stage, there was
uncanny orderliness and serenity
the hush before the storm. Wal
lace left her at her dressing room
door.
The room was good-sized, dain-
tily furnished, and all but lined
with mirrors. Just now 1t was
full of the smell of flowers, and
there was Minna, In her big
white apron, busy setting out the
dressing table with freshly clean
ed and polished toilet articles.
There's some boxes come.
Flowers, guess" she said, her
face glowing. And see all the
letters and telegrams!"
Boxes first"
They opened them together
Minna exclaiming with admira-
ton. There was a great sheaf OF
roses from Wallace, another from
Matte and John, and three OF
four others, but Anne was . trifle
surprised and disappointed to find
none from Harland.
Rather chilled and hurt, she be-
gan dressing. She had just slip
ped on the simple white gown OF
the first act, when Inslee knocked
at the door. He was In search OF
the author. =
II though he'd be In here. He
came back fifteen or twenty min
utes ago." he said. "All ready?
Now give 1t to 'em from the start.
Your first scene sets the pace, re-
member" He shook hands, has
lilly but heartily, and was gone.
The overture had begun, and
the first act people we're nearly
all assembled and waiting In the
wings. Il was the last minute
The guns, SO to speak. were
trained and the fuses lit.
Anne took 1t all In with one un-
derstanding glance that set her
heart pounding. Then her eyes
were drawn to two figures just
emerging from the hall that led
to the company's dressing rooms.
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humor of q street urchin and a
vicious pen-gave the finishing
touch to the whole dismal and
heart-breaking batch.
The Victory" had pleased him.
Also the cast, and Elsie seemed
to have taken his fancy particu-
larly. His commentator was
not the sort a dignified writer
would have given, but in his
scathing sentences concerning
Anne's failure, he suggested Elsie
for her place.
Continued in Our Next Issue.)
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once" she said; and Ellis second
ed her meaningly. AS quick al
you can get 1t to him, my boy!
Elsie tried breathlessly to pu
in a word. but for once Harlant
did not listen.
I'LL mail il the first chance
| get" he promised.
To make doubly sure, Anne
sent off copy herself from tn,
next town, and then she settled
back comfortably. knowing In
slee would do the rest. What
she could not know was that he
would leave New York Friday
morning too early to go to his
office, and so would miss his
mail. Late that afternoon, he
re oined the company, and came
at once with Harland to hei
room.
He had great news. The cur
rent attraction having failed
hopelessly, the Mohawk theater
had been offered him a week
earlier than his contract provid-
ed, and on terms too tempting to
resist. 1.-The Victory" was to
open there on the following Mon
day, practically only two days
later.
Ibid you get my note?" Anne
asked.
He shook his head blankly, and
she took the clipping from her
bag and handed 1t to him without
word. His puzzled frown deep
ened into a scowl OF anger and
anxiety as he read.
"Uh-hum. $50 that's what
allied the first act. And &c took
a tank reporter to show JUS. y
He looked up, his blue eyes
steely. well. hope you're sat
isfied-you two. You COINED me
into engaging that girl when
was too sick to know better"
Not II" Anne's voice was high
and thin with agitation. Never
was afraid of this. l tried tc
prevent 1t! I" &. s4
Miss Houghton!" Harland ex.
claimed.
"Oh, fight that out later!" In.
slice interrupted CURLY. only
take this from NEWELL have a
different ingenue Tuesday night.
But Monday night? The-the
opening?" Anne stammered.
1T will have to go as 1t is.
won't risk a change. There isn't
time to find new woman and re-
hearse her"
mo! No, I won't play with
Elsie! It's suicide"
Rot! You've got to-"
Il won't do it," she repeat
ed family.
ooh, yes, you will" He spoke
sternly, and yet with a sort OF
compromising kindness. you'll
make the best of 1t, just as we
will. One bad minute isn't going
to queer the whole piece, you
know. And, besides. Anne, it's
Monday night-or never" he
added, significantly.
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A NOVEL A WEEK.
Next Week
THE SECRET OF THE REEF
BY Harold BindlOss.

Wallace was sitting on the edge
of his seat, watching her with a
frown of anxiety that grew fast
into alarm.
Back in the wings, Ellis
watched, too. Once and once
only did he open his lips. That
was when Harland. striding up
and down in a white, still fury,
stopped beside him.
Listen to that line--not a
Taught" Harland said, between
his teeth "She killed 1t. Killed
1t deliberately, because she's sore
at me-"
Ellis spoke then, and with flay-
ing directness.
Don't be more a fool than you
have been. It's herself she's kill
ing. Can't you see that? There's
not woman in a million who'd
do what she's doing for you now,
and II she gets through it alive
-"
"Bosh!" Harland jerked away,
unimpressed. But he heard the
same from Inslee, who came rush
ing back" a few seconds later.
But there was no denying that
Anne's first scene had fallen as
flat as a scene we'll could. When
she made her exit, there was not
even ripple Of applause, and she
stood for a moment in the wings.
looking about DULY. She walked
stiffly to her room. Minna drew
her inside and closed the door,
trying to disguise her alarm.
IL can't see. I can't hear the
cues. It's no use to try" Anne
whispered. II think-Minna! I
think I'm dying"
She lurched forward, but the
strong arms caught her and laid
her in a chair. One look into her
face sent Minna flying to the
door.
Help! Quick, help!"
Ellis was the first one there.
He was feeling her wrist and then
her side when Inslee and Harland
ran in.
Whisky! And a doctor!" he
ordered.
AS they wheeled, they met Wal
lace, with Matte just behind. Be-
fore they could speak, he pushed
past, drawing a medicine case
from his pocket.
Dexteriously he raised Anne's
head, poured a drop or two Of
something between the lax,
rouged lips.
They looked at Anne incredu-
lousy, but with a faint, prepos-
ferrous hope quickening their
blood. Her eyes were open now
and fixed on Wallace in bewil-
dered recognition.
Doctor voice was
imperious with depressed impa-
tience-"you'll get her on her
feet in time?"
'.In time for what?"
why. her next entrance. She
goes on again in five minutes"
GO on again?" Wallace rose
slowly and faced them. Don't
move, Anne!" he added, as she
sat up, with a terrified look Of
recollection.
ooh! I remember" she gasped.
"No, NOT She pushed his hand
away and got on her feet instead
lily. 81 haven't made a wait? I've
got time yet? Minna, fix my
hair!"
You're able. You will 60 on?"
Inslee cried; and Harland joined
In entreatingly, ANNE, you will?"
"Of course l will. =" Don't
hinder me, Doctor Jim. Help me,
help me! l must"
"But, Anne!" he begged, far
more agitated than she was.
Listen! It's risking your lifel"
What of it," She brushed by
him, and then paused, struck by
the agony in his eyes. why, I'm
all right now. 1t won't kill me.
And if it should, I'd rather a
thousand times"
"Anne!" Harland, at the door,
and Inslee and Ellis in the wings,
were reckoning. She ran out.
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CHAPTER X.
"Sharper Than q Serpent
Tooth"

Tooth"
Anne went through the play
but when 1t was over there was
no reception in the stars dress.
ing room, no visiting friends to
exclaim over her triumph.
Anne went home with Minna
without even waiting to change
into street clothes, and DR.. Jim
followed her to her hotel as soon
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-07-03
American Association.

EuuuAF : Nrallet-
At St Paul 2-10. Kansas City 80.
At Minneapolis 0-e- Milwaukee 2-12.
At Louisville IS: Indianapolis o.
At Toledo II: Columbus 81.
Saturdays Games.
At Louisville 9; Indianapolis T.
At St Paul 4: Kansas City ,.
At Minneapolis I. Milwaukee o.
At Toledo s; Columbus ;.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-07-03
BOWLING
Industrial League;

Official averages and standings OF the two
irckpin leagues rolling on the Cactus alleys
- hen rnnauncad ss follows.