CHAPTER X’Vv-Cwrtln

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•Toar cocrtry yoo mors. - * »b! ? jxT«l “It t« b*tter that way. An4 rbat a man yoa aft- In uhlfunn! think I w r -« wiw» »IaK htada ttetoad ofbottlca. Six out «rite. Dave: ir» iirful. but >ou must < o Already wi l-now wbat haa hapr In Belclun Tou trill forget you: own wrong* In pvatbr wrooga ff ottoww. . V'. And I aball Join the; errlce aa a ncrae. My father was a Mtor. and I can

l-D pick It up."

She chatted on. b it he had become Mddenly grave. “I «out mink that la y,iur course. Irepe." ie said. "This is juiny to be a bigger J >b than it loosed. Th. gr vornment w!I' get soldiers and corses; tbr popular magi nation turn., to such things. But It fill be neither tidier* nor nurses *hat wtl! win tne u«r. I fee! sure of that now. alilllona of an n will be takt i from production and tutted to purpo c* of destruction. They >111 be takes from oScea, where they need lltt*'' i. and put-In the trruches, wbe> tf*y .wted much food, i cuntrlea will he dev.'u’-’fed; armies r ill rr-rnt.-dea^uytog ad fo*^! ■' 'hey

Ships will go down with cargoes

f uhoot; Incendiary Area milt swallow v ..rrhouaea of food. . I halirwe my place is In the trenches; but those lea* lit for fie* fight than I mu* . In some f.iru or other, produce food. That in- . the women: U include!) ydu."

-Wei But what cw 1 dur"

-.Slate I left home I've thought ajmoi coarf J' til of the old ranch. I de- at -iujied It In those proepwrou* dsyw— :lw*«e dnya we thought wefe ptvspsrom —but the prosperity Is gone and the ranch remain*. It -tfll lies out there, jon as It did when you and yonr fell.ar stored down that afternoon a dozen '•ar* :.*o. I think you'll Save to go «ck th'Te, Ueenie. I Uiutk you’ll • to taUc fee boy Charlie, and what rlier help you can get. and go back to he uio ranch and raise mnetblag for h' - Mildiera to eat You can do It rti^re nif good men to be hnd.; men ■ liu can’t very well carry a rifle, but an drive a p!ow. Ard believe me. ovnJe, It's the plow that's rolng to 'in. Co back and put them at It rinak of every furrow ns another reach In the defenses which s»-ai. aave our h me from the fate of Bdalum’s mme*. It's not as easy ns going to front; It hasn't got the heroic ring ! “ It. and 1 ruppoae then- are many ' , ■ bo will commercialise U. Let them, j I’e shall need their prodta after the 'Z&t'ar to pay our debts. But Ifa the '■’me that most be done. And you'll

• it. won’t youf

"1 11 do whatever ue«d» io be done, hive. I’d rather be.by your side, or * near ns may be, but If you say that .' duty lies bad.on the old nrnch I “»ll go back to fhe old ranch and •lood for my soldier. And when nil over xe shall ride fbose old iiii-ldes again. ... Up the canycn. ■ j n mcinber. DaveT The yule niche : the wall of ibe runyon. and all ibe leave and the auniightt . . . For-

more rhan pride—^doratlcn. perhapa— In his word* a* he straightened up and said in perfect Bugllsh: “My father was t-ubidiar. He waa kUU j at CoQr-

fdrtte."

I looked hi hli little sunburnt face, •n hi* dark, proud eyes, and presently a strange mist enveloped the room. How many little faces how many pair* of eyes! Tt wa* Just fading away when a Hep bounded on the walk, and I arose

os she reached the door.

“The Man of the House has made me at homer I managed to Bay. “I am shipwrecked on the hill for a little

gasoline."

■ There Is plenty out In the held, where the tractor Is." she replied. “Tou will find It without difficulty. Or If you care to welt here, Charlie may be

along presently "

Her voice bad street, modulated tom*, with Just that touch of pathos which only the Angel of Suffering knows how to add. And her face was fair, and gentle, and a little sad. and

try sweet.

“He haa told me." I said. There ■emed on reason why I should not ly it. She bad entered Into the sisterhood—thai unf-eraal sisterhood of suffering which the world has known In these long, lonely years. . . . And it was between us. for we were all in the fatally. There was no occasion to scrape acquaintance by alow, con-

vention!.! thrust and parry. said, sitting down and to a chair. "! was bitter

at Qgst.. i was dreadful y bitter at first. But gradually I got a different view of 1L Gradually I came to feel

that an we can feel and

well behind the line of actual

—-but 1 had become detached from ■mr party In morlog to another station; ioet. If r«.l UXe. yet n<rf lost; never have t gone no dlNttly to ac great a destinauna. While trying to get my loeanor.. ! beraune •ware od a f-eecnce; it will sound strange

Of course I Know It could the fl**h. but you It seemed to be. nevertheless. 1 moved as thouM led by an Invisible hand, and presently I found a bit of shattered wait In the doom I could lust discern the form of a man lying In the shelter of the waU-tt you could can it shelter—it rose scarce a foot above the amend. ’ -nelt beside him nd turned my torch - 11 Phi* wen through the

CHAPTER XV. Any phdorophfr which accept* tl* ''inriple that the great, over-hodo 1 'S cvenu ot il fe ar'' aubject to an InHlgrot controlling Influence inui '•‘‘**11; gram that the same principle PPUfes to the most commonplace and • rj'-day experiences. The coom • creattM stream of event* may ••II be defected by Incidents so com•npiaeu S* tdfc, ilte escape the notice the cnwuai olju-rver. s, ‘"‘r auth thought aa tbU comforted r —or. at leeat. would have comforted Imd 1 thought tt—when c leaking Ibo Unt left me. literally as : unnivaly. high and dry to the "'"’ilia. The son of an August ufter«in Mazed Its glory froo. o cloudless : low in a valley to the left a rib- "< “llvcr-CTeen mountain water ■•ided its way through fringe* of •' 1 and cottonwood, while on .inis beyond -leek steen* drowsed ■be sunshine, and far«to the wci “fd the il.Mkies slept uncoocerned la '■ |r 'linperleo of afternoon purple. 1 these srenea the eye took In srltb--iithuslusm. almost without ap"*“1- and then fell on the vhlte--ii'd ranch buildings almost In the I'l.nv underuecth. And lu these 1- a ranch—almost any ranch— smsoiine. I -.,..n stood nt the door. My knock ■racted n little chop of two sod * |f " r thft« years; his stout hands • the t -re>« back, and I found ' s * f jsbered into his cumpany. ■•’v cvideatly was no one else about. 1 visited, and we talked an those which see of Importauce in the 'rid of three-yea.'-old*. Mu.ver’s don to the wlver." he nlided. “wfce tnm back pwetty

! fatbwr I 1

“Where

'T am hers !>»»■." 1 aaswersd. sad 1 think you wm fir. give the lm»er>aBatlaa. • Now let me find out where you are hart and well flz you up. and get you moved

with the etrange look of a wan whom thread of conedoueneas It half unraveled “Oh. ft’s you. Edith.- he said. *hen ha had taken me la. ••Funny. ! ihuagbt U was Irene I must have beer, drenmlaa." I qUesttoneO him again abbot hte wmpal and began (saiicg h*n hair -tf, ma. tbera.” he said. “Oaeee I got It ail over my hands. . Th^y got me this time Don't

Smihtfesi

esmd. wfth a tit »»e .was as had „ tunately. the wound had induced ■ total pagalyeU and be waa not ■offertac to any graat degree. I placed my hand to hu and felt hie grip tighten on 11 Tm going to stay tin Ifs over. Darn. We'U see It out together ' •Thafs decant." he angwared. sad then was etfll for quite a time 'Tve often wondered what was on tha f ar side." he said, at length. “I ehell know presently.“ “Tou are not afraid T" I whispered. No. tmly sor- of—curious Acd-rer-in* I guess it’s revaeant. . Tau ow I havae't been much r n religion Never * —- — -

^ttcrtttr'jvxunrT-vztziTtrT-»y JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN. U. tha world sevtcs to I* turning topsy-turvy. Just as If the great war had not made changes enough to satisfy moat (iranoouncbd feeling of tv hat wc call “me rest.’ all sorts of people are breaking Int- th* limelight with nil *o-!s of Hardly a day passes without some iconoclast getting on the

thins that gives It all in one wordf' "In one w^rd-aaertflee. *Ha that loaatb his Ufa shall And It.' “ I quoted He did not answer, but I could see ’ala pr smiling again. His breath was more lab>rad. a few dropa of rain :« and aoma of them apattered on his face Preaecdy he chuckled. Tt was an aery rT.ij.uon. out on that bread plain of death, alone by tha aide of this man -xbo was already far Into the shadow-to heat

him chuckle

•That splash of water—you remember— It m de me think of tha tlgie we pulled tha old car Into the stream, and the harness broke or something, and ! ■ had to carry you. Tbr • member that. Reedier* X coaid only say. "Tea." and pren- hie hgnd. HJi wind was back on the old. old

know here la on the surface—era the outside, as you might say. and we can t know the purpose until we a Inside It is a- though life were riddle, and the key la hidden, and the daor behind which the key la hidden is called Death. And I don't believe it's all for nothing; I won't believe it's nil

for nothing.

•Tbta there Is th? ariferiag.” she contlnced. after a pause, why there should be suffering, hut I know if there were no suffering there would be no kindness. It U not until you are hit—hard hit—that you begin to thin); of other people. Until then all Is selfishness. But v » women of the war—we ; av< nothing left to t* selfish for. But we have the wt-Ie world to be unselfish for. It's all different, and U can never go back. We won't let It go bock. We’ve paid toe much to let tt go back.' tt was hard to flail a reply, “I think ! knew yonr husiiand a Utile," I ventured. “He was 1—a m “He was ail that.” she said. She arose and stood for n moment In an attitude of hesitation; her fingers went to her Ups as thouglr enjoining caution. Then with quick decision she went Into un Inner room, from which she returned In a moment with a letter. “If you knew him you may care to read this." she said. “Ifa very per •onal. anu yet, some w«y. everything Is impersonal now. In 1 sense. There has been such a conn.on cause, and such a wave of common .'uffertng, that it seems to flood out over the individual and embrace us all. ... So this U really, In a sense, yonr letter as well

as mine."

1 tuck it and read;

I have had many ivttors to write since my service began ss s ouree In the war, out never have I epproeched the took with such mixed emotion* The pair 1

. give yoa 1 would gladly bear myaelf Id. but It U nut all pain, onder1 11. running throtgrh tt In some way ■not explain. U a note »o n nth deeper tlias pain that tt must be 10}

'* 0 have already been advted that David Eiden v. a* among those who fell s« Couroeletto. U Is trite to •»> that you hsvo the sympathy of a grateful nation. How grateful tie cation really Is we shall know by It* treatment of ihe Rerees who survive She War end of the depend**! a of \o*e who have cre*e*d over But nothg can rob you of the knowledge that he syw* a man e pari- Nothing ren detor .u from that universal fellowship of mf athy which is eprtngln* ui wherever

onhuod I* valued at Its worth

A new Order has been horr into the erurld the Order of BuCertne Not that It Is bvw. either; V hss been with us elm*

•lie Orel mother vent Into the

Brel hlid; bit -dwayr ei

Tor example, there’s that German awrecionH'r'afiJ *cu-ntl«rt Prof. Albert Elnateln. vlfh’Kk’theory of ••relativity." Tlttt “relativity" .fieory Is so tvode-rnl that only twelve men in all the uortO are able to tinderetam! !u h Is stated. No wo.ider. II knocks all established theories Into u rocked hat. The [.lofesnor holds, tt Is geDwrully undertrnod. that oor Ideas of time and apart are nl' wrote and that Xe .on should tarn over- In bis grave and gue** again *t the law of gravitation. TV-u there« Maroon!.- the Irallnn who 'f bo. busy In the world of winles* ulegrnphy. He come forward with thu atuiement thnl Mari, or Venus or some other phumt is runnlug In signals on hi* wireless and tt u lng to say “Bvllo, Earth: Let'* have a

little talk!"

And now Jumps into the spotlight L. B. Larsen of Portland. Ore., author and theologian, wlio says—v eil, any* way r 1>1* Ulocoverii** urw calculalrd io shake our fnilb In the Bible, which uowiubiy* Is ubout the only thing a nu.b <-au really Ge to. But first u fvw facta by way. of preliminary, as 4 sort

of shock-absorber.

In Ihs Stale of Calltoruia. on the

Pacific. l» the CabrlKu uatioppi tuonu-!-)cn\. If t»a* created iViuber 14. 101S. by proclumatJon of President Wilson, under the act f->r the preservation of American•cmiquiUes approved June 8. IBOfl. All regular, you see; here’* comethlng. moreover, on which the

president and congress agree. Cabrilte antlonal motinment was ded-.

Icated by Die United Stott*.* to the people because tt is believed to be on the identical spot first sighted by Juon

t . . . . . j ttodrlguez Cobrillo Septenilier‘J8.131% X tandrf (h-lMi-r b,c ud ,, u „„„ dtonU olttar.o» Ml th, nenr 1 „M. | M KaropMtv tv ,h, n<Mc.

tralta

Hs became suddenly sober. "And when Brownie woe kitted." he weal on. "1 aud 1: was the Innocent mine that sot caught. Perhaps I was right. perhaps It’s beet to get caught. Not for the rrttlo* caught, but for the—the compensation*. Ifs th* Innocent men Umt ore getting kUte-1 And perhaps lt*a beat. Perhaps there *r# lO-m-

peaaarioha warUi white."

Hte vote* waa weaker, and I had to loan

door to catch his word*.

•Tin r«n*-out.“ ha said. "Kls# ate,

Raante.”

And then 1 klseed him—far you. Suddenly he sat up. "Th* mountains’' he exclaimed, and his volon woe attrlfl with tn* pride of his old hi •. "See me moonlight-on th* mountain* Then hi* strength, which seemed to have gathered llself for this one ‘ax vial on of (he place of hie boyhood, gave way. and be foil back, and he dll not

apeak say more.

And what car I add? Dear. It is fijf defeat It to promise. It is hope Some day w* .hall know. But unt’l •-hen ws shall -o on. It Is woman's bit

dldn‘1 go out 'hat wry. He

s little curious, and hs wsnt out a smile And ws shall go on. and carry Ms smile and his confidence through th* valley u our sacrifice. What am 1

doing, speaking of our aacrifica?

I salute you. slstet la the Order of Suf-

fering—and of hope. EDITH DUNCAN.

isml. Ore., author nod theologian, throws all this Interesting post into the dlscunl as modern and u:.Important. Of the Cabrillo nntlunal monument he say* “poi.h. pooh." aud of the cllff-dwe!]!ngs “tut. ttu." This A inert can Southwest nays L. B. Larsen of Portland. Ore, teutfcor sad theologian—ami he doesn't can who knows tt—is the Biblical land of the Children of Israel, ahd the history of the Old Testament took place right

there.

And what's more. Mr. Larsen uf Portland. Ore_ hits written a.book

loggers like to argue that this Huddra draining of the Inland ant caustM a flight shifting of the earth's reatet of gravity and that this shifting caused the flood about which Noah bad

received advance information."

l»s Angel<*;. says Mr. Larsen. Is the

alte of ancient Jenimlem.

Sodom and,Go.-1101x0h were In Utah. Mount Whitney, he *ar*. la undoubt- ** cdly Mt. Slna'. and Mooes 1* burred nt 1M buse. Mount Whitney u to Tulare cou.ity and marks the eastern boundary of the proposed Hooaevelt national park, tn be create.', out of a

furnish proof that what he says tt the | ^tly enlarged Sequoia .laltousi

truth. Tlie title of tha book L. “The

Key to th* Bible tied Heave:

Mr. Larsen says, by way of starter, that Adam und B*3 were the original Argonauts and the progenitor* of the Native Sous a ad Daughters of. the Golden West. The Garden of Rden was in the present State of Missouri. Nouli. says Mr. Larsen, landed on a California mountain, after the flood. Strangely enough he makes no mention of the mighty Paul Buoyun. Of course, tt tt p-*salble that lie never heard of him. being an author and theologian, and noi a lumberjack. Now. this boss logger of all boss loggera, Paul Bunyuu. tt the very fellow who got out the tlmliers for Noah's

nrk. Maybe he caused the flood.

length. “The world is full

.«! tt CKJi valtm vm. I 1^, „ J3U,

— — —-. 1 writer In the Saturday Evening Post sorrow. ( „ fru-a a high peak of the used Paul to bottter cp n piece of *"**■ '* “ “ *’*“ ™ -tlon only the C. r day. and spoke

a* this letter doc." | T",J" ►•c-Gau-1 of k'm thus: au jul uvrr P w She hesitated, and I realized then bow , *** ““ ^ u ' r,flc ’ J? '•"•ttraa. Tone knows., N .. vudn mi( . , ho ( ^«,ern border of Call* much I had naked. It la the rtr.rv ; . J ?* j i cnll<Kl for ^ p tk ‘ 11 " , P her ' V0 ' >J -, foznla. white Asher. Issachnr. Zebulun.

So Roosevelt national Iiark will.bg a double memorial. < .

Arizona I* where tha Irraeiltes so-

journed white 1 waiting the return uf Mo*e‘. They had their headquarters either In tin* Grand renyon or at Cure Granite. Grand canyon is now a national park and Casa Grand" (.Great Building) Is a national uiiraumt.qit

Mr. I-nraeo shows that Israel;*

twelve tribe* occupied practically all the Pacific coast from the Mexican

border to the Canadian ''-ue,

. The tribe of Simeon lived around San Diego, it seemh. spilling dowc Into Mexico and the Gulf of Lower California. Judah occupied the domain from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara. Livl made headquarters nl Bakersfield, and Benjamin flourished near Son Francisco. Ephraim's territory extended up well toward Eurekn.'and Ruben and Gad aprond .<ut over the regions of

mif*. H-rtuuute Je A lea run explored j,.ailed for the deltt.

Of *j llfr-m, «»1.~ a, sold. -Itt ■aj*''' “•“““J* ,MU ,,r i «»' "T If tt would help—" Ibcreabouu and FraiMflaoo Vasquez *•; »hlpbnllder hl-aseU and be knew

pla'n. “Without real names of places

people.'

New Mexico alwut the same time may evea ti'ave got us fur ns Kon« —but C-.h lilo natlonnl tuumum-ut 1* «

•enrchetl the wj I flually dei’lded tx-s! suiieil for

And *0. In that little whitewashed hotm. wher. the brown hills rise around und the r'acid miiuntulns 1 -ok from U»e distance, and a tongue of spruce trees beyond the stream stands sentinel against the open prairie.

In carrying on.

und bittern ess. but In service and hope. And so her sister*, all this world must rarry on. un"’ their sweet- J 1 and their sacriflce shall All up ond | flood over ail the valleys of hate. . j And If you should chance ttiat ! way. and If you should win tin* con- j

fldence of young Throe-year-old, he .... ..u,...

w1th hl , myatery. That they had progressed

#

•or r, Paclflc urean Coluinbus' Wat-

ling Island.

T’ds American Southwest had its Neva das funned the unbroken western j own civHIxa.'-oii lung befirtv the Span- Shore of nn Inland sea that extended ! tare, "discovered" tt—so long ’ before eastward to the Itocklev* Uuny | tha’ the pretolatorlc |>eopte who lived : covered tliot the level c» this Inland

tn d^tran-W.^ ’ to *iml-IHK*blo. .h a .l

j vanished before Id* arrival. Nobody j knows wlk> they were, where they i tame from or what became of them. Excavations In Mess Verde naMounl park la Colorado, lu itandelter nationa] monnmem In New Mexico and In other regions ubcandlng In prehistoric ruins, have so far fulled tT> solve the

may stand for you and

voice lilted with the honor and the

glory and the pride of tt:

"My father wan a soldier. He waa

killed Ot Oourcelette." *

THE BSD.

quite a way on the way to civilization U evident. They mad* clay utensils, ware cloth, constructed stone buildInga, hint <-t-rvmoaial structure*, practice*' Irrigation, used cold-air refrigerato,.. and lived under a cctnmurity

And now this l

. I-a men of I'ort-

M^nassch ni 1 Napttall and I>anMlved la Washington. Oregon and Idaho, respectively. There m-eins to have been

world over and j wo jvnn*. for we And one occupying iregon’ fir was cou ., j u «t vve*t of Bakersfield, punevse. about where Paso Robles tt now lo-

ll! remember. <^,^1.

and the Sierra The writer otto clears up a moot

question. lu that he has fixed definitely the ground oovc'rW In that t!nn*-hon-ored phrase, from Dun to Beersbeba. He says It represents the distance on a

aeu was much higher than 'he level crov “s line from Cueur d'Alene. Idaho

of the Pacific o van. so he sc: the Wg I to ,j le Colorado river.

Swede to work digging a ditch through . Notwlrttsiandlng the fact that L. B. the Cascades. The Rig Suede, aa log-, tAraeu. au.hor aud theologian, lives to gers know. Is Bunyuu'* foreman and j Portland. Ore., und shou ! therefore be

more Interested In Crater fake and

ha* charge of all the log driv “When file ditch was finished—t.

dny folks call It the Columbia riverBunyun was ready wjth his bigs. 1 took the best of his whlte-waisr boy* to bundle that drive, for tha rush of water frota the inland sea carried the

Rlanler National park* than in Soquolu and‘Grand Canyon National parks, Californians will doubtless hasten to deny that Ms book Is "Just some mure Southern California literature." concocted with «><• Idea of lo-

teelleved to Bar Moaquitoc*.

Many plants are popularly believed

to keep away moaquicoes. ainong them j - , ■ ihe' calloc-ull plant, Qhr cbluslM-ny ; TOWN’S FIRST FREE SCHOOL

tree. etc. Scleotlfli- obwirvatlons have 1

log* out to the ocean in a great burry' creating the tourist traffic. To this «teand created such a tide that they had | nlal other parts of the country will prehardly time to gather the lugn into n i stnnnhly «ay. "H«. ha." for tlie Inraft before they found themselves In ^ genuity end p. rvlstence of the Golden .'oah's home port. j <int,. IhmisPt l.« a household word la

Home of the scientifically inclined America.

not confirmed the popu'.vr Idea on this

subject.

t ha

Important Oats In History.

On the tenth of vetober la 1843. tin United Slates Naval acadtoiy at Annepciis was opened. George Bancruft. the historian. Who was then *ecrriftry vt the navy, was largely insirumectal in estsbUslilng the academy.

sens. In 1888 the “ommonwenltli erected a tablet on the spot where this first school was loca'ed In ISSK.

Dedham Maas.. Very Properi;> Cele- I rated was built In 1645. II having been ,,Hf rn ’° , ”- ,n dred and fiftieth aanlrerbratos Its Found.nq Neariy voted b> the efrizoo* asaombted In j , " U7 ' of ,h, ‘ ■* 001 * ■ *>># pobllc releThre* Centuries Ago. | town meetings that sufficient tux«*s be l,rntlon l ,laop , " Hh protnln -nt rotted to estubllsh Coe school. There j | a *‘ n Allfl *■ exp**cted that In celebration of the two hundred | hiis been free public instr -ettua It. :!ie f 8,no T -‘ iu ’ >, '^ ur ln B>45. he tl. ee and seventy-fifth annlvenmry of the Dedham ever since. ; bum-reilth anniversary. — Chflstlas •tartlnc of a free public school In Devi i 80 foiR'amenul and aU-(mp«rt*lit tt

Mae*., held by many to hove been t ils early step of the Puritan fathers the firs’, one on the continent. The c *«t*ldered mat the annlversarlee are j Neve school* of the town held special ever- j «•» -r kept upperroavt in the thoughta i table < Claes. Tho tree echool cummcao- j of educator* and other na trio tic «uil- • saucer

carry away a plate from th* 1 which are two kuteee nor • rith two spoons.