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III. MOTHER o'MoRE.

1--WE got news" FoSdick offered.
Priscilla looked up sharply, under knit
ting brows. Though, / imagine from
what you've told me, it will seem less
news than confirmation-in a way"
He was quick to satisfy her movement
of impatience: There's every reason
TO believe Leonora spent last night,
after the fire, at the Walpole, and Ma
rio called for her there this morning,
about ten o'clock, with motorcar. He
had a Japanese chauffeur and an
other woman with him, presumably a
maid. Apparently the man has means
of his own"
"He has. I think. But how do you
know all this?"
81 had man, private detective,
make the rounds of the hotels, first
thing this morning-on the off-chance
that Mario had acted on his sugges-
ton, If you remembered it correctly,
of putting Leonora up for the night at
the best and quietest place in town."
you employed a detective, Philip?
After your promise"
"Hold on, ella! 1 promised !
wouldn't go near police headquarters
or let the truth leak out about what
happened at Ristori's. And was bet
ter than my word. In the beginning l
sleuthed for you all on my own-spent
the better part of three days shopping
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and bridge lnrties, dinner, the theater,


Alike to work and to play she gave
herself without reserve, entering with
unwonted animation Though nobody
| thought it feyerish) into whatever d.
| version the hour offered. And if at
times there was an undernote of sad
ness in her laughter, Swallowed visit
fulness in her eyes, WEAKNESS in her
gesture, she was the first to notice
and swift to dissemble. So that none
remarked any change in her. more
than an access of loveliness and
| charm at once elusive and insistent,
and she was more than ever sought
after, importuned. courted, wooed. A
dozen conquests were added to her
score in that too brief lull. But she
seemed altogether unaware of them,
save as friends, and moved sedately
among them, adorably pretty, tantaliz-
| ingly desirable, exasperatingly de-
tached. In those days she liked all
men and loved none none but
one
Not Philip Fosdick.
With herself she was honest and
unpretending: If Mario was never for
her, she was for no one else.
She was patient in confidence of ulti-
mate emancipation. Already she had
gained much. The question of her
sanity no longer harassed her. More !:
she had ceased to dream of Leonora.
Or rather, she no longer remembered
what she dreamed. She wakened every
morning from night whose dream
content was blank-if she had dream
ed at all. She was far from satisfied,
however, that she had ceased to dreaU.
1t seemed to her that she had ceased
merely to remember. For in spite of
the cessation of her dreaming the
sense of the liaison persisted; never
had she felt more near TO Leonora.
more intimately sharer in her psychic
| life.
Now and again there would come
| without warning. without any encour-
| agement of conscious wish or thought.
feeling of identity with that other,
of understanding, of personal partici-
patton in Leonora's happiness, that
brought strange eXaltatiOn of spirit,
paradoxically akin to that happiness
which life refused her. And at such
times she would experience indefinite,
teasing glimpses into Leonora's pres
ent circumstances-glim no sooner
granted than snatched away, of a life
half known, half foreign, like a stir of
! shadow shapes in the depths of the
dark mirror of her unconscious mind.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-02-25
The CALLING Of Wild Geese.

There are certain bird notes which
strike strange chords, whose vibrations
are lost in mist of dreams. remem-
Der a little runaway boy who stood
in a clover field in gray twilight
and heard the changing calls Of wild
geese shouting down from midsky.
Frightened, he ran home a vast distance
at least the width of two fields. AS he
ran there seemed to come back to him
the memory of forgotten dream, if 1t
were a dream, in which he lay in an
other land on a chill hillside. Over.
head in the darkness passed burst
of triumphant music and the strong
singing of voices not of this earth.
From that day the trumpet notes of
the wild geese bring back through the
fog of the drifting years that same
dream to him who heard them first In
that far away, long ago clover field
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-02-25
Fate.

There has always been a passionate
protest in the heart of the race against
that element in life which men call
fate; the play upon unprotected
natures of those events, accidents,
calamities, which are beyond human
control. These arbitrary happenings
are often tragic in their consequences
they often seem wholly irrational /;
they have at times touch of brutal
irony. In many cases one is tempted
to persOnify fate as a malignant spirit,
studiously and with malicious cunning
seeking ways of wounding, singing,
bruising and poisoning the most SEN
sitive souls There have been human
careers so completely distorted and
thwarted that it has seemed as if the
gods are jealous of men, and anxious
to rob the great rewards of their
sweetness and the nOblest achieve
ments of their fruit.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-02-25
NOT A TERM OF OPPROBRIUM
But Really II Seemed as Though
Mother Had Some Strong Grounds
for Complaint.

The following story is told of a GER
tain school in central New York. DR.
l., the health officer, had just
made the customary physical examina-
ton and filed out the various health
certificates.
One afternoon he received a visit
from an irate mother.
81 should like to know" she said bel
ligerently, what you mean by calling
my boy a poor nut'?'
Madam" said the astonished physi-
clan, II haven't an idea what you are
talking about. To the best of my
knowledge have never applied the
epithet you mention to any person"
"It's down in black and white" con-
tinued his visitor unappeased. "My
Jim has Just been transferred to
D school, and it's on his health
card as plain as can be, Poor Nut"
The light of comprehension dawned
on the bewildered doctor. He smiled.
"Ah--I see! Poor Nut my dear
madam, is merely an abbreviated way
of saying poor Lltrition.' youths
Companion.
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disregard everything else, no matter
how insistently it may claim atten-
ton. Keep yourself constantly occu-
pied, constantly doing and going, keep
every minute filed. Paint every day
till you're tired out; but don't stop
then. When you've worked till you feel
ready to drop, play till you cant think,
and then as you drift off to sleep fix
your thoughts steadfastly on some
thing like your work. On no account
permit yourself to browse off wonder
ing about Leonora."
'My work will help" she agreed.
'I'm so glad you want me to keep on.
Then you think there's no more danger
lin the associations"
"Not since this afternoon" he said
smiling. "The portrait is no longer
there"
"My portrait gone" Distress VI
brated in her voice. "What has De-
come of it?"
"Harkness has it." Fosdick laughed,
pleased by her bewilderment and at
the same time apprehensive of the
effect of his confession. "You see. you
left the studio key on your dressing
table last night; l saw it there and
borrowed it. This afternoon l took
Hardness to see the portrait, and he
was so enthusiastic-it's really fine
work, you know-he insisted on cart
ing 1t off with him then and there.
II
wanted, let him have his way. It's
no use. ella. = had to get that thing
out of your way, and if / had waited
for your permission it might have
meant weeks of delay. Now that the
portraits disposed of, you may use
the studio as freely as you like.
Which reminds me: here's the key"
She took it from him brusquely, at
once annoyed and gratified, her face
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-02-25
II. Observation-Disclosures

She shook her head. 81 can't tell
you, but 1 do. 1t was just before
noon. 1 was In my room, alone, Won
dering-trying to think things out
some way. And suddenly-there's no
>explaining-I knew it had happened.
1t was nothing like dream: haven't
the remOteSt idea how or where they
were married. only know they were. :"
He studied her closely, detecting no
trace of hySteria i'm her manner. There
were melancholy shadows beneath her
eyes. but the eyes themselves were
calm, clear and direct.
'Tell nae as nearly as you can :"
She oVercame a reluctance: 81 slept
well enough, after you left last night,
heavily but without dreams that re-
member: but I woke up with sense
of strain, a tension of nerves, as if
subcOnsciously waiting for something
toehappen. 1t got worse as the morn
ing wore on, though fought it as hard
as knew how, and had a feeling of
suppressed excitement. too. And then
as L say-about noon, the tension
snapped. Without the least warning
1t was gone, there was nothing left,
just emptiness-you know-desOlation
And after a little time of that, peace
of a sort: the feeling one has when
something terribly important that's
been long time hanging fire is at last
settled, even If it's settled disappoint-
ingly. So knew"-the least suspicion
of a tremor crept into her voice-"it
was over and done with, they were
married, the thing was finished"
Weren't you glade"
''In a way, yes. had sense. of
happiness, but it wasn't mine, it didn't
rise in me, it was her happiness was
sharing. Then even that left me,
nothing remained, only the forlornest
loneliness, Philip as if I'd lost
something could never regain.
presume 1 have Somehow I've got a
notion shall never see Leonora again,
even in my dreams. Do you think it's
possible I'll never dream again-that
way?"
81 hope so, 'Cilla-with all my
hearth .....
She sat very still for a time, gaze
dOwncast to the hands that held her
teacup.
81 suppose hope so, too," she said
family.
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w. AEEINITY.

The girl suffered atrociously at first.
But nobody knew; or Philip Fosdick
alone suspected something of what she
was going through. He could not
know all, for even to him she said lit
tie or nothing, and went sweetly
through her days with high head
and eyes of lying calm. But he was
sick with sympathy for her and so
in some measure quick with intuition.
He helped her more than she knew,
indeed, for he contrived to devote to
her more time than a physician had
any right to, with so many patients
leaning heavily on him for comfort.
And though he refused to expert
ment with obvious forms of hypnotism
such as mesmeric gestures and the in
duced trance, he worked insidiously
upon her by suggestion, not so much
at the expense of her spiritual indie
pendence as to its re-establishment
and invigoration. 1t was never, "You
must, for it is my WILL" but always,
''You can if you will'-though far
more subtly.
Thus gradually self-confidence was
built up in her anew, she began to
perceive the truth. like light dim at
the far end of a tunnel, that nothing
mundane transcends the power of the
informed, self-regulated and applied
will, that not even the mortal ache
Of longing can withstand it. So vague
ly she began to apprehend coming
time when, instead of flying from her
sorrow, it might be to a state more
unhappy yet, she would be able to face
it, even to OUTAGE it unafraid, its
master and her own.
However, that was only toward the
end
Meanwhile she was faithful to her
word, faithfully regulated her life in
accordance with the scheme suggested
by Fosdick. She started a portrait of
Ada Meyer and worked at it steadily
every morning, and in amazingly few
sittings managed to make the painted
canvas body forth the impish charm
of that lady, her irresistible gay i'm
that Ada posed poorly and pervaded
the studio with an atmosphere of in
fectious responsibility that was most
demoralizing to a SeriouS-min
artist-and did Priscilla no end of
good.
In the afternoon she labored more
soberly but no less successfully upon
a composition employing two profess
sional models, a mother and daughter
painting famously well, with a de-
cision new in her work, with a dash
ing technique whose secrets she had
newly surprised and whose manipula-
ton proved an abiding joy.
In between there were luncheons at
Avignon, Del's, the Ritz, with the
women of her world, and others with
professional workers like herself in
dingy, amusing little holes of restau-
rants with which that part of Green
wich Village Immediately adjacent to
her studio was riddled. And after the
light failed there were teas, motoring
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-02-25
''DEAD;' RETURNS
after IS YEARS
New Jersey Woman Gets Terrible
Shock When Husband She
Thought Dead Reappears.
IDENTIFIED HIS BODY
After Deserving Woman He Was Sup
posed to Have Been Drowned
Declares Her Love for Man Is
Dead and She Is Happy
With Present Husband.

Orange, N. Mrs. Barker Pierson
of 8 Elizabeth street, almost collapsed
recently when she opened her door in
response to ring and saw short,
dark cOmplexioned man whose hair
was beginning to turn gray. She rec
ognized him at once and barely could
hear him address her because Of the
sudden roaring in her ears that seemed
an echo of the tumult in her brain.
He was Charles loops, her first hus-
band, whom she believed had been in
his grave for more than ID years. Dim
ly she comprehended that he was
asking for the address of their son,
Adrian, now eighteen years old, who is
in the navy. The startled woman
heard herself responding mechanically
to the question.
Was Great Shock.
The apparition leaned comfortably
against the porch railing and asked
her something else. What it was, Mrs.
Pierson does not know to this hour.
The full significance of this mans re-
turn in the flesh had swept over her
with his casual assumption of an ease
full pose on her front steps. Sudden
recollection of the five-year-old boy
who was playing in the room behind
her and of the husband who soon
would return from work smote her,
and the shock was so great that she
suffered when her eyes lighted on the
small, dark-featured man before her.
Without another word to him, she
turned on her heel and shut the door.
She tottered to her bed and could
scarcely speak when Mr.. Pierson,
whom she married in 1912, five years
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-02-25
They Ride a Turkey to School.

Paris, Ky.-Henry Wilkerson, farm
er of Bourbon county, owns turkey
gobbler which one of his children
rides to school every morning.
The gobbler is pet and the Wilker-
son children had so much fun climb
ing on its back that the father de-
vised saddle and bride, which the
gobbler took to kindly, and now one
of the children rides it to school every
day or visits adjoining farms with it.
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slightly flushed with the one emotion,
her eyes luminous with the other.
81 like your impudence!"
"We strive to please"
Divided between anger and mirth.
she compromised by giving free rein to
both, so that resentment was swiftly
swept away in laughter.
"Philip, you are incorrigible J"
81 have to be, to get my own way"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-02-25
Ians Hold Full Sacred.

Full is the name of Japan's most
famous mountain, and, writes the ia.
panese correspondent of the London
Morning Post, no Japanese thinks
anything of himself until he has made
some effort to ascend its sacred
heights. To climb Fuil is a religious
dug to most Japanese. while only a
pleasure to some and a boast to 9th.
ers. Its graceful cone, like an inverted
fan, is so familiar to all admirers OF
japanese art that it needs no descrip
ton here. But in Japan every noun.
tain has spirit; and the spirit OF
beautiful or awe-inspiring mountain
Is to be strictly respected.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-02-25
Laborer Becomes Millionaire.

Greenville, S. C.-When a century
old will was scraped clean or accumu-
lated litigation, it was found George
A. Wiseheart, Jr., an acetylene welder,
had become millionaire. The will
dates back from Wiseheart's great
Observation-Disclosures, who left sew
eral country blocks" in Philadelphia
to his heirs.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-02-25
Shot in Neck. Drives Car.

Richmond, Ind.-Although he had a
bullet in his neck, Clarence Stout
drove his automobile several miles to
the hospital to receive medical aid.
His revolver dropped out of his pocket
and discharged while he was putting
chains on his car.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-02-25

around the lower East side in a slop-
shop suit, unshaven, my nails in
mourning, till got what was after,
established indisputably the fact that
your dreams were true telaesthetic
visions = Observation-Disclosures you
care to call them-anything but hallu-
cinations of disordered mind. More
than that, proved that Leonora was
as real creature as you are, not a
sort of secondary personality you'd
been projecting more or less involun-
tarily into phases of life utterly out
side your comprehension and expert
ence."
81 know. Philip" She leaned Tor
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-02-25

The Polynesians believe that the
moon at its waning is devoured by
the spirits of the dead.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-02-25

Ireland spends less per capita on
drink than any other part of the Uni
ted Kingdom.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-02-25
A bluff by any other name would be
Just as unsatisfactory.

cuticura Soothes Baby Rashes
That itch and burn with hot baths
of Cuticura Soap followed by gentle
anointings of Cuticura Ointment
Nothing better, purer, sweeter. espe-
cially if little Of the fragrant Cuti-
cura Talcum is busted on at the fin
Ish. 25c each everywhere.-Ady.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-02-25

Safe Blowers Found Only One Cent.
Eau Claire. Wis.--Burglars blew the
safe of the New Way Manufacturing
company, and obtained only one cent.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-02-25

Did you ever hear of a mans net
ting married for the purpose OF having
some one read poetry to him?
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-02-25

Thrift is the careful use of money
and materials.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-02-25

1t is sweet to suffer when we suffer
for those we love.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-02-25

Luck and work are twins.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-02-25

after she had identified the body Of
a man drowned in Morristown as that
of her husband, got home from his
work. Where loops went, where he
has been since 1907, and what his
present intentions may be, Mrs. Pier
son has no idea whatever.
Love Is Dead.
OF one thing she is certain, she said.
That is that her love for Charles
loops is as dead as she believed him
to be, and that nothing now can come
between her and her present husband.
In this Mr.. Pierson agreed with her.
81 don't love him any more" said
Mrs. Pierson. "He deserted me and I
was sincere in my belief that he was
dead"
Morristown officials said that the
body found in a millpond there a few
days after loops vanished from his
home never had been identified Off
cially, and had been buried in potter's
field. Mrs. Pierson said that she had
assumed it was the body of loops be-
cause a pruning knife was found In
a pocket and he was accustomed to
carrying such a tool. She had been ad-
vised not to inspect the body, she said,
and was too poor at the time to pay
any burial expenses.
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The way to carry stiff load is to
have a stiff upper lip.

A hot temper will make others cool
toward you.
The Newark journal., 1921-11-24
l2 LOSE LIVES IN
 ARKANSAS STORM
Cyclones Hit Two Sections of State and Property Loss Is
 Very Heavy

Little Rock, Nov. 18.-At least 12 known dead, 30 injur- ed and property damage that will mount into the hundreds of thousands of dollars are the results of two terrific wind and rain storms which swept widely separated parts of Arkansas last night and early this morning. Wire services to remote sections was put out of commission by the storms and many points known to have been in the paths of the tornado have been unable to get into touch with the supply centers of their respective sec- tions. The storm was marked by the heaviest rainfall in years, as much as seven inches being recorded at certain plac- es in a period of IS hours.
 At Malvern, the tornado knocked down homee and out houses as it swept a path 200 feet wide clear of all timber and obstacles. Ore farmer was killed and his three chil- dren seriously injured in one place and two other persons met death at another.
 An entire family of eight persons were killed near Mena in the Western part of the state, when their home was completely demolished. Near Philadelphia one person was killed and 24 were injured when the tornado struck a lumber camp.
The Newark journal., 1921-11-24
MINISTERS IN FIGHT
Two at Batesville Cause Con-
 siderable Excitement

Batesville, Nov. 19.-Much excitement on the streets of Batesville occurred yesterday when the Rev. z. T. Griffin, Methodist minister, and the Rev. Charlie Boone, Baptist minister, became engaged in a fist fight caused by an alleged misstatement made by the Rev. Mr. Griffin in regard to a load of pine wood, sold by the other minister. A trial in the may OTIS court resulted in fine of $2 assessed against each of the ministers.
The Newark journal., 1921-11-24
FIVE COWS NET $58O
Jackson County Farmer Makes
 Money With Cows

Newport, Nov. 21-Jake Phillips, one of the coun- tvs thrifty farmers, in a state ment made to the Newport Creamery Co.,, this week gave an interesting account of the net profits realized from the dairy products of five cows. MT. Phillips had during one year, dating from last Octo- Der to this, sold whole milk from the five cows amounting to $694. He also sold three veal calves and one registered heifer, making a total for one year from his herd of five amounting to $783. The cows also supplied milk ard butter for his family of feur. De- ducting an expense account of $200, for feed, MT. Phillips said he would then realize a net profit of more than $580, from this department of farm products. The Newport Creamery has placed many dollars in the hands of Jack son County farmers who are fast appreciating the value of dairy herds.
The Newark journal., 1921-11-24
FARMER IS KILLED
 TWO OTHERS HURT
Auto Accident Near Forrest City Results in Death of
 J. G. Vance

Forrest City, Nov. 21.-J. c. Vance, aged 45, a planter. was killed and F. C. Proctor. aged 52, and Ben WoodalE, aged 40, farmers, were injur- ed late Saturday evening. when their Ford car struck a wagon driven by Steve Ellis, negro, about Il miles east of Forrest City.
 Vance was killed instantly. Proctor, who received several cuts about the head and face, was brought to the home of his sister, Mrs. L. H. Merritt, here, while Woodall was taken to his home in the St. Francis river bottoms. Both of the mules hitehed to the negro's wagon sustained broken legs.
The Newark journal., 1921-11-24
VICTORY WEEK SET
 BY COTTON GROWERS
Organfl CTS For Marketing As sociation Hope to Finish
 b. December l7

Little Rock, Nov 21- The week of December 12 to IT inclusive has been set aside as Victory Week, dur ing which time the members of the Ark ansas Cotton Grow CTS Cooperative Association expect to sign up 75,000 bales of cotton.
 Saturday, December Ii of this week has been designated as Every member get a mem- Der day" If every member of the association will on that day get a member, very likely this will produce enough cot ton to insure the states quota of 100000 bales.
 About 500 men will be in the field during this week. Pledges have been sent out to the various county agents and farm bureau officers with the request that they get from ten to fifteen men from each coun- ty to sign the pledge, volun- teering to give their personal aid in putting this great cam paign over. Each man who does this volunteer work will be given an Honorary Certifi. cate of Service and his name will be placed on an honor roll, together W ith the names of the county agents, to be kept permanently in the off ces of the Association, when organized