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New-York tribune., 1917-04-09
"Wipers q" .
By Arthur S. Draper

best Of conditions; in the Ypres salient u Is
amphbian. Even the heavy frosts OF the WIN
ter are preferred 20 the rains and mud OF '"e
spring and fall. One Of the sad events N tne
life Of a young officer friend Of mine was MS
experience in a front line Ypres salient trench
last November He stood in the mud anu
water until they worried him much more than
the Roche bullet Then he constructed an
elaborate system Of drainage The pipes were
laid and the last Of the water had tnckled
cut. when trench mortar shell landed "chur-
.nlosh" on the trench. lie sent back for more
nipcs and they began again. Same fnale. a
.bird attempt was followed b. similar results.
Fortunately for him. he got leave a, th's
point but all through his furlough nc worried
about that drainage system the Roche per
sisted in wrecking. because the water was
finding its way into his trenches
In the Salient
After seeing what two and half years OF
she'll fire can do to town We had an oppor-
tunity Of watching German batteries hrIng
from tho south side of the triangle. Natural
Is. we could not see the enemy's guns as they
sen. shells hurtling into the Ypres salient
but ~ tho smoke rose along the ridge we
could pick out Hollebeke. Wytschaete, Mes
appearing so regularly i'm the communIques
Just where the German line ran could be toId
bv the smoke balls high above it as British
aviator sailed along making his observations
shrapncl she'll would burst just IN front OF
him. another lust behind One moment nc
would be lost TO view, the next his machine
would appear as If leading flock OF geese
Winning their wav southwark. II was lmpos-
sible 20 realize there we're two men IN ma
chine high in the sky and that below them
there we're two dozen or two hundred otherS
irving to kill them; that 1T was war.
And so it was in the Ipres salient. nc
roar Of the cannon, the whz of the shells the
whistle Of the bullets and the clatter OF ma
chine guns arc disconcertlng. beWilderlhg
uervc-racking. but to see battery az WorH
is inspiring. satisfying. The coolneSs ol t"e
men. their snappy precision thelr hee"IcS'
and hoartincss restore ones confidence. You
fool that il is an exhibition for your oeneht;
not a detail Of war. Even the sight OF a pale
faced Tommy. hugging an arm with myers
unusually red. fails TO convince you tnat mere
is a Casualty" on his way to the held dress
inc station. To the novice think noise IS the
most unbalancing feaure of war; the one thlng
con expect and the most terrifying OF all.
have been on the Somme. in Arras H.
the Dublin rebellion. and now in fpres'
and I must admit an ordinary prizehght
botycon two hoayyweights, who cut ana
s1ashed each other into CORY spectacIes'
thrilled me more with the spirit of hghtIn@
than all I have seen of modern warfare
uitb lis mechanical contriyances Of de-
struction against which man must matcn
his hOdV
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and the letter had nof been discovete1
anyway. He I'D not ssen regret the
bold falseheod he4 chad uttered g the
practical subornation Of perjury so1
which he had been guilty inTdrawing
out and accepting and emphasizing
Shurtliff's testimony.
There had been no inquest over his
fathers death. The autopsy had
showed clearly heart failure. He had
not been compelled to 60 on the witness,
stand and under oath as to that. Al
though, If that had been demanded, he
must needs have gone through with It,
Indeed SO prompt and public had been
his avowals of responsibility that he
had not been seriously questioned
thereon. He had left nothing uncer.
tain. There was nothing concealed.
He had inherited a competence from
his father. It was indeed much more
than he or anyone had expected. He
had realized enough ready money from
the sale Of certain securities for his
present needs. The remainder he
placed in Shurtliff's care and a few
days after the funeral, having settled
everything possible, he took train for
the West.
The whole world was before him.
and he was measurably familiar with
many portions Of It. He could have
buried himself In of-the-way cor.
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"Oh, my Cod" said Meade, 'this is
more than can bear"

"Oh, my Cod" said Meade, 'xhis is
more than I can bear"
II don't want to force you to do any.
thing you don't want to do and you
are not in any mood to discuss these
| things" she said in quick compassion.
"Some day you will come back to me-"
He stretched out his hands toward
her over the grave.
II don't know" he cried. II dare
not hope"
with love like ours" she answered,
"all things are possible"
II can't bind you. You must be free -
he said slowly, turning his head.
"You are breaking my heart, but l
shall live and fight on for love and
you"
"God bless you"
"You are going away?" she asked at
last.
II must break with everything.
must give you your chance Of free
DOM"
"Very WE'LL" said the woman. SHOW
hear me. You can't go so far on this
earth or hide yourself away so cum
n1ngly but that I can find you and
maybe follow you. And I will. Now,
1 must go. I left my car down the
road yonder. Will you go with mel"
The man shook his head and knelt
down before her suddenly and caught
her skirt in his grasp. His arms swept
around her knees. She yielded one
hand to the pressure of his lips and
laid the other upon his head.
r.. Go now" he whispered, 'for Gods
sake. If I look at you must follow"
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CHAPTER x.
The New Rodman.

liz I1VOtIoIIs
There are no more beautiful valleys
anywhere than those cut by the waters
Of primeval floods through the foothills
OF the great snow-covered Rocky noun
tains. The erosions and washings Of
untold centuries have flung out in front
Of the granite ramparts Of succession
of lower elevations like the bastions of
a fortress. At first scarcely to be dis
tinguished from the main range in
height and ruggedness these ravelins
and escarpments gradually decrease in
altitude and size until they turn into
series Of more or less disconnected.
softly rounded hills, like outflung
earthworks, finally merging themselves
by gradual slopes into the distant
plains overlooked by the great peaks
of the mountains.
The monotony of these pine-clad,
Wind-swept slopes is broken even in
the low hills by out-thrustings of stone,
sometimes the hard igneous rock, the
granite Of the mountains, more fire.
quently the softer red sandstone of a
period later, yet ineffably old. These
Cliffs, buttes, hills and mesas have
been weathered into strange and fam
tastic shapes which diversity the land
scape and add charm to the country.
The narrow canons in which the
snow-bed streams take their rise grad
ually widen as the water follows its
tortuous course down the mountains
through the subsiding ranges and out
among the foothills to the sandy, arid,
windy plains beyond. At the entrance
Of one Of the loveliest Of these broad
and verdant valleys, a short distance
above Its confluence with a narrower,
more rugged ravine through the hills,
lay the thriving little town Of Coro-
nado.
Some twenty miles back from the
town at a place where the valley was
narrowed to a quarter of mile, and
separating it from the paralleling ra-
vine, rose huge sandstone rock called
Spanish Mesa. It's top, some hundreds
Of feet higher than the tree-clad base
of the hills, was mainly level. From
it's high elevation the country could be
seen for many miles, mountains on one
hand, plains on the other. It stood
like an island in sea of verdure. Lit
tie spurs and ridges ran from it. To-
ward the range it descended and con-
tracted into narrow saddle, vulgarly
known as a "hog-back," where the
granite Of the mountains was hidden
under deep covering of grass-grown
earth, which formed the only division
between the valley and the gorge or
raVine, before the land, widening, rose
into the next hill.
The people came from miles away
to see that interesting and curious
mesa, much more striking in its ap-
pearance than Baldwin's knob, the last
foothill below it. Transcontinental
travellers even broke journey to visit
it. The town prospered accordingly,
especially as it was admirably situated
! as place Of departhae for hunters, ex.
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He Debated With Himself Whether It
Would Not Be Better to End 1t
Than to Live,

He Debated With Himself Whether Il
Would Not Be Better to End 1t
Than to Live.
ners Of far countries, in strange CONT
nents. These possibilities did not at
tract him. He wanted to get away
from, out Of touch with, the life he had
led. He wished to go to some place
where he could be practically alone,
where he could have time to recover
his poise, to think things out, to plan
his future, to try to devise means for
rehabilitation, If it were possible. Ha
could do that just as well, perhaps bot-
ter, in America than In any place else!
And there was another reason that
held him to his native land. He would
still tread the same soil, breathe the
same air, with the woman. He did not
desire to put seas between them.
He swore to himself that the free
dom he had offered her, that he had in,
deed forced upon her unwilling and re.
jecting it, should be no empty thing so
far as he was concerned. He would
leave her absolutely untrammeled. He
would not write to her or communi.
cate with her in any way. He would
not even seek her to hear about hex
and Of course as she would not know
whittier he had gone or where he was
she could not communicate with him.
The silence that had fallen between
them should not be broken even for.
ever unless and until All, yea he
could not see any way to complete thAt
unless and until" at first, but perhaps
after while he might.
He knew exactly where he would 20
Dick Winters, another classmate and
devoted friend at Cambridge, had gone
out West shortly after graduation. He
had big cattle ranch miles from q
railroad in young southwestern state.
Winters, like the other member of tho
youthful triumvirate. Rodney, was q
bachelor. He could be absolutely de-
pended upon. He had often begged
Meade to visit him.. The engineeH
would do it now. He knew Winters
would respect his moods, that he would
let him severely alone, that he could
get on horse and ride into the hills
and do what he pleased, think out his
thoughts undisturbed.
To Winters, therefore, he had gone.
He had an idea that his future would
be outside Of engineering. Indeed he
had put all thought of his chosen pro-
fession out Of his mind and heart, at
least so he fancied. Yet spending an
idle forenoon in Chicago waiting for
the departure of the western train, he
found himself irresistibly drawn to the,
great steelframed structures, the sky
scrapers rising gaunt and rigid above
the other buildings of the city.
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CHAPTER discontinued.

"Shurtliff," said the young engineer
after the mound had been heaped up
and covered with sods and strewn with
flowers and the workmen had gone, 81
have left everything I possess in your
charge. You have a power Of attor.
ney to receive and pay out all moneys
to deposit, invest, and carry on my fa.
theirs estate. The Office is to be closed
and the house is to bvsold. My will
In which I leave everything to Miss II
lingworth, is in your hands. You are
empowered to draw from the revenue
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~ Want to Stay Here a Little While
i:s:l.., by Myself"

of the estate your present salary so
long as you live. If anything happens
TO me you will have the will probated
and be governed accordingly"
''Mr. Meade" said the old man, and
he somehow found himself transferring
the affection which he had thought had
been buried beneath the sod on that
long mound before him, to the younger
man. He had loved and served a
Meade all his life and he began to see
that he could not stop now, nor could
he lavish what he had to give merely
on remembrance, "Mr. Meade" he
said, "where are you going and what
do you intend to do?'
II don't know where I shall 20, or
what I shall undertake eventually
said the man. I'm going to leave
everything behind now and try to get a
little rest at first"
"And you will keep me advised of
your whereabouts?"
"Perhaps-I don't know. One last
Injunction: you are not to tell anyone
the TRUTH"
"God forbid" said Shurtliff, I'VE
have lied to preserve the honor and
fame of him we loved who lies here.'
"Don't render our perjuries of non
EFFECT"
II will not, sir. I haven't found that
paper. I guess it was destroyed"
II presume so. And now, good-by."
"Aren't you coming with me?"
Mt tn cto IL 1,x,
myself"
Shurtliff turned and walked away.
When he reached the road, down which
he must go, he stopped and faced about
again. Meade was standing where he
had been. The old man took off his
hat in reverent farewell.
Meade was not left alone. Beyond
the hillside where his father had been
buried rose a clump of trees. Bushes
grew at their feet. A woman-should
man be buried without woman's tears
had stood concealed there waiting;
Helen IllingWorth had wept over the
dreariness, the mournfulness Of it all
She had hoped that Meade might stay
after the other went and now that he
was alone she came to him. She laid
her hand upon his arm. He turned and
looked at her.
II knew that you would be here" he
said.
did you see me?'
II felt your presence"
"Listen," said the woman. 'You are
wrecking your life for your fathers
fame. A man has a right perhaps t.
do with his own life what he will, but
when he loves a woman and when he
has told her so and she has given him
her heart, did it ever occur to YOU
that when he wrecks his life he wrecks
hers, and has he right to wreck he1
life for anyone else2" -
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CHAPTER XII.
The Valley Of Decision.

The Valley OF Decision.
Much water had run under the
bridges Of the world and incidentally
over the wreck Of the International
since that bitter farewell between
Bertram Meade and Helen nlingworth
over the grave Of the old engineer. Life
had seemed to hold absolutely moth
ing for Meade as he knelt by that low
mound and watched the woman walk
slowly away with many a backward
glance, with many pause, obviously
reluctant. He realized that the lifting
OF hand would have called her back.
How hard it was for him to remain
quiet; and, finally, before she disap-
peared and before she took her last
look at him, to turn his back resolutely
as If to mark the termination Of the
situation.
Father, fame, reputation, love, taken
away at one and the same moment A
weaker man might have sent life to fol-
low. In the troubled days after the
fall Of the bridge, his fathers death,
the inquests, his testimony and evil
dence freely given, and that parting,
something like despair had filled the
young engineers heart. Life held moth
ing. he debated with himself whether
1t would not be better to end it than
to live it. He envied his father his
broken heart: Singularly enough, the
thing that made life at least value
was the thing that kept him from
throwing it away-the woman.
Striving to- analyze the complex
emotions that conferred about his losses
he was forced to admit, although it
seemed a sign Of weakness, that love
of woman was greater than love of
fame, that in the balance one girl out
weighed bridge and father. That the
romance was ended was what made
life 1nsupportable. Yet the faint, vague
possibility that it might be resumed If
he could find some way to show his
worthiness was what made him cling
to it.
Of course he could have showed
without much difficulty and beyond
peradventure at the inquest over Alb
bott and the investigation into the
cause Of the failure Of the bridge-un-
fortunate but too obvious-that the
frtghtful and fatal error In the design
was not his and that he had protested
against the accepted plan, If only he
had found the letter addressed to his
father. But that he1would ns1e. IL
f
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est distance between two cardinal
points, and one of the great transcon-
tinental railways bought it and began
improving it to replace it's original
rather unsatisfactory line. - Il
The long wooden trestle which
crossed the broad, sandy depression In
front Of the town, the bed Of the an
cient river, through which the Picket
Wire and further down its afluent, the
Kicking Horse, flowed humbly and
modestly,, was being. replaced by q
great yiaduct 81 ats Ear uQ ire
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In line Of promotion has been given the
level. One of the men went East last
night. You can have the job, which
is"
II don't care anything about the de-
tails" said the man quickly and gladly.
TITS the work want -
'Well, you'll get what the rest do,'
said Handkerchief. "Now, as you just
~ remarked, have found that it Is
not polite out here to inquire too close
~ into mans antecedents and I have
learned to respect local customs, but
we must have some name by which to
identify you, make out your pay check,
and"
do you pay in checks?"
mo, but you have to sign check"
"Well, call me Smith"
Vandeventer threw back, his head
and laughed. The other man turned a
little red. The chief engineer observed
the CLINT in his new friends eye.
I'm not exactly laughing at you" he
explained, "but at the singular lack of
1nventiveness Of the American. We
have at least thirty Smiths out Of two
hundred men on our pay roll, and it is
a DIT confusing. Would you mind Sc
Letting some other nameY'
IF it's all the same to you." an
nounced the newcomer amusedly-the
chiefs laughter was infectious-'.rm
agreeable to Jones, or Brown, or"
I'VE have numbers of all Of those,
too"
Really" said the man hesitatingly.
Il haven't given the subject any
thought"
what about some of your family
names?"
'That gives me an idea," said the
newcomer, who decided to use his
mothers name, "you can call me Rob-
erts..''
And I suppose John for the PREFIX
John will do as well as any, I am
sure"
1--WE have about fifty Johns. Every
Smith appears to have been born
john"
"How did you arrange it?" asked the
other with daring freedom, for a rod
man does not enter conversation on
terms Of equality with the chief en-
gineer.
II got little pocket dictionary down
at the town with list of names and
went through that list with the Smiths,
dealing them out in order. Well, that
will do for your name," he said, MAX
ing memorandum in the little book
he pulled out of his flannel shirt pocket.
He turned to q man who had come up
to the level. Smith," he said-'by the
way this is Mr.. Claude Smith, Mr.. Rob-
erts-here's your new rodman. You
know your job, Roberts. Get to work."
And that is how Bertram Meade,
few months after the failure Of the
great bridge, once again entered the
ranks of engineers, beginning, as was
necessary and inevitable, very low
down in the scale.
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A man Of Meade's ability will
soon find a place for himself in
any environment, and so it is
with the young engineer: His
new start In life is described
in the next instaIIment. -.-~~->---
(To BE CoNT1NuEp.y
Sweet, Younu Thinu.

In a local theater,s one evening re-
Gently, a powerful spotlight revealed 9,
house fly crawling over the pow0erea
surface OF q pretty girls back. "Oh,
lookie," whispered little girl, in toner
that could be heard all about her,
"lookie at the fy!' ''Hush, DEAR" the
child's mother cautioned. There was q
moments silence, then the little gin
again whispered hoarsely:: 81 spec tha
~ thinks he Il ca naxshmallQR,n..4
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1917-02-09

''The system of releasing inmates
on parole, subject to the custody Of
the prison, was inaugurated in 1908,
about two years after the law was
passed by the general assembly. and
the practical results attending it's OPP
Grafton have been of a highly salts
/ factory character and fully warrant
it's continuance. During the past two
years we have carefully kept a record
of the earnings of all inmates on pa
role. This we are pleased to report
amounts to $4,000. The result of
our parole system from the time the
first inmate was paroled in 1908 is
shown by the following table:
Total number authorized for pa
Total number revoked. ....
Awaiting employment ........... 0
Total number released on parole. .333
Total number returned for VIOLA
tfOn ZS
Total number delinquent and at
large Fl
Total number discharged while on
parole %
Total number of sentences ex-
PRED while on parole. :. .159
Total number died while on parole Z
Number reporting monthly. ...... IS
Total per cent. for violations to
date, 14.71.
Regarding the forfeiture of fran
chise rights, the report says:
Il do not believe that we are right
in this state in depriving a prisoner
Of his citizenship. I think that, hav-
ing served his sentence, he should
have paid the full penalty of his
crime. The fact that the conviction
for felony deprives him Of his citizen
ship leaves him in this position COM
ing out of prison. BY his inability to
vote he must constantly proclaim to
the world that he is an ex-prisoner.
He can see no hope, even after he has
served his sentence, Of becoming a
man-an American citizen-among
his fellows. If we are going to bring
him back and make q man of him.
we should help him to forget, not
compel him to remember the davr Of
his degradation"
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1917-02-09
INSPECTOR O'BRIEN,
ILL LONG, IS DEAD
Had Been Sanitary Inspector i
Health Department Since
October 1, 1910.

\ John T.. O'Brien, employed as SAM
tary inspector by the health board
until taken i'll several months ago,
passed away this morning. The
funeral will be held from st. Mary's
church at 9 o'clock Monday morning
and interment will be in St. Mary's
cemetery.
Mr.. O'Brien was 80 years old on
January and had been in poor health
for about ten years. He was not seri-
ously stricken, however, until last fall,
Mr.. O'Brien was appointed by a for
mer health officer, Dr. Henry T. Bray.
as sanitary inspector on October I,
1910, and for two or three years
worked in conjunction with the
building inspectors Office. On the re-
rganization Of the health department
his position came directly under that
board. Mr.. O'Brien was we'll liked
and had a host of friends. He was
always an efficient and conscientious
employe and his cheerful personality
made him popular. His death is re-
GREETED by all who knew him.
In this city Mr. O'Brien made his
home with his uncle, Daniel O'Brten,
at the Hotel Washington. He leaves
two sisters, Mrs. r. G. Vandover of
Waterbury and Mrs. James E..
Leonard of Phoenix, Arizona.