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HER LACK OF FAITH
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Young Bride Jealous of Own Note
Found In Husband's
Pocket.
By CLARISSA MACKIE.
(Copyright, 1SH. by McClure Newspaper
Young Mrs. Dewey took her hus
band s brown coat and sat down In the
sunny window to sew on a missing
button.
Antoinette Dewey had been married
only three months and she still be
lieved Jim to bo without a fault un
less it might be the minor one of
twisting his coat buttons when he was
talking busily.
"This Is the third time I've sewed
on this blessed button," smiled An
toinette as she snipped off the thread.
At that moment her hand brushed the
pocket of the coat and something
crackled.
"I do wonder If he has forgotten
to mall my letter to Edith! I forgot
to ask him and he Is so absent mind
ed. It's funny she hasn't answered
If"
Antoinette's slim fingers bad gone
down Into the Inner breast pocket of
the brown coat. They brought up a
half a dozen letters, a railroad time
table and a leather card case.
She picked out the letter to Edith
Delano and actually gave the brown
coat a pinch as she tossed It on a
chair. "I must telephone to her at
once. What will she think of me?"
Antoinette sat down before the tele
phone and pulled the instrument to
ward her. While she waited for a re
sponse to her call, she stacked the
other letters on the desk.
Just as Mrs. Delano's voice came
thrilling over the wire, Antoinette, her
eyes Idly scanning the package of let
ters she had taken from her hus
band's coat, noticed that the top one
was without en enevlope. It was
hastily written In pencil on a tttiy
sheet of paper and the signature was
folded underneath. The writing was
rubbed and blurred as If the note had
been carried nround In Jim's pocket.
"The Idea!" breathed Antoinette
quickly.
Then she had to talk to her friend
and when apologies had been prof
fered and accepted and some girlish
liosslp exchanged, Antoinette rang off
and slowly picked up the little note.
For a long time she sat there with
It In her hand She shrank from
opening tl-e sheet and rending the
words but she was Jltrs wife and
pile ought to know! Kor It was a
woman's writing and that fnrt ex
plained how Antoinette lewey put
honor aside and deliberately read the
note.
It. was tnntnllzlnBly short for one
who wanted lo know!
"IVari'Ht: The d:iys are 60 hours
long hlle yon are sway. Come buck
oun to Your Own!"
"The hnrhnr horrid creature!"
snhhed Antoinette, after awhile "The
lmld thing to write like that to a
married man' I never would have
believed It of Jim oh, Jlra, Jim
Jim!"
Antoinette flung herself down on
the couch and allowed her bitter tenrs
to suak into the brown coat. After
awhile she arose and rmnved the
traces of tenrs. tfhe stared at the re
flection of her wan. white face and
laid down the hand-mirror with a gasp
of dismay. A few minutes later she
put on her hat and a thick veil. 8he
went to thw rortier drug store and
when she returned she set forth on
her dressing table a number of little
Jars and bottles.
Antoinette had never used rouge
In her life but now to hide the rav
ages cf grief, she restored her com
plexion to Its usual brilliancy and the
highly satisfactory result lent an
equally arttncisl expression of happl
ness to her face. She put on a becom
ing frock of pale blue linen and plied
her hair on top of her head.
When Jim Dewey reached home
that night he found a pretty little wife
waiting for hlin.
After his first quirk kiss Jim drew
tick and stared hard at Antoinette;
his look roldly Impersonal and bis
manner stiff.
"What has happened?" ha asked
quickly.
"He has a guilty ronsclenre!"
thought Antlnnette. as she sat down
hastily for fear her trembling knees
Would give any.
"What did von expect to happen?"
she retorted lightly,
Jim looked at tier closely and his
mouth grew sitlkv. "Nothing." he said
curtly and lth that word the con
versation languished
It was Mdeims n,e;il to both of
them. Antoinette, scarcely touched
her food ami Jim refused dessert It
was ki tnvnrlte pudding, tun. Even
Nora nutiiiil Hint something was
wrong i.tid tried to patch up tlio qnr
rel In her own Mi.d hearted ay. for,
when the meal u over and she was
washing dl-le. m the, kitchen they
could bear her strong soprano sing
ing lustily. -Tls Only iAm Can
hutnea Broken Heart."
Jim soltled down tn roj ry.
ring paper nr .) Antoinette picked up
some sowing, hut her fini-ers trembled
and her eyes tilled ,h (PBr, gh(
waa angry at herself r this display
of emotion.
All the women she hsd read about
In fiction or seen on (he stage were
I marvels of calmness when confronted
with the proofs of a faithless husband
Tall and pale and cold and perfect
xnlstress of herself aven while the lata
bare the secrets of Jim's heart thus
would Antoinette have appeared if
she had had her way.
On the contrary she was small and
piquant looking Jim called ber a
"blacked-eyed chickadee"-most of the
time. Now, she wondered what he
called that other woman the one
who confidently signed herself "Your
Own!
Jim was stirring restlessly In his
chair. Antoinette could see the back
of his head with Its heavy crop of
brown hair. She could close her eyes
and see his regular features, hazel
eyes, straight black brows and finely
chiseled lips. A little sob broke from
her at the recollection that Jim was
not all hers never had been!
Jim turned quickly one might have
suggested that he bad been listening
for some sound from the little form
In the willow chair.
"What Is the matter, Antoinette?"
he asked quietly.
Antoinette lifted tragical dark eyes
to his and placed on the table be
tween them the blurred little noto she
had found In his pocket.
"This Is the matter," she said un
evenly. "I found it In your pocket
when I was mending your brown coat
don't look so disgusted. I really
read It I'm glad I did! For It has
opened my eyes to your deception!"
"Deception?" echoed Jim, jumping
up and towering over his Bmall wife.
"What harm Is there "
"Harm?" Interrupted Antoinette
angrily, "Harm what harm would
there be If you discovered I was car
rying a love letter from some other
man next to my heart!"
From some other man? What
would I do? Why, why, I suppose I'd
punch his head," he said dazedly. "Hut
what has that got to with it? For the
love of Mike, Chlckle. tell mo how
you could raise a rumpus over that
harmless little note, eh? Notice, I'm
not saying anything about your rum
maging through my pockets!"
Harmless little note. Indeed!"
flared back Antoinette. "She called
you her 'dearest' she said the days
were "sixty hours long' and she
signed herself "Your Own." Tell, me,
James Dewey, who la this woman?"
Jim's lips trembled In a smile, stif
fened sternly, and his eyes were
quite hard when he asked: "Don't
you really know who wrote that note.
Antoinette?"
"How should I know?" she retorted,
am sure It cannot be one of my
iViends nny way, It Is such a com
mon looking, grubby note; If I'm go
ing to have a rlvnl I " She broke
down and sobbed brokenly.
A gi'eat tenderness came Into Jim's
eyes. He hnd never known Antoinette
to bo ji-nlous before nnd ho was
touched by her grief.
Ho held the note before her eyes.
Antoinette d:ibhd her handkerchief
on her tear-wot face and It came back
streaked with black and red and white
!!ko the Kaiser's war flag.
All In a flush Jim comprehended
the reason for the rouged cheeks
and lips and the dark pencil. An
toinette had1 been crying all day over
this note!
"Chlckle. what do you want me to
do?" he asked finally,
"Destroy thut note and promise me
never to see her again," was Aa
tolnettc's quick reply.
I can t do that, dear," ho said
gently. "In the first place the girl
who wrote that note was my first
sweetheart and sTij will be my Inst
one; I carry It around In my pocket
oecause I like to look at It occasion
ally and remember that she loves me
as much today as she did when that
waa written.
Antoinette was as coldly composed
now as she could have wished, only It
was funny that her heart should feel
so dead!
"Very well," sha said listlessly. "I
can go away."
"Chlckle," said Jim again, "do you
really mean to say that you don't rec
ognize that note?"
"I only read It once."
"Well, read It again, word for word,
read the address at the top. It 4s al
most obliterated now but read It.
The envelope la locked up la tor
desk."
Antoinette held the ragged note
close to the lamp and -re-read the
penciled words. A puzzled look came
Into her face.
"I can't remember anything about
it waa she some one I knew T" she
asked at last.
"Dear, you wrote It yourself! cried
Jim excitedly. "Don't you remember
that time when you were stopping at
Bea Sands with your mothor? We
had Just became engaged and we quar
reled over a necktie 1 was wearing?
I went back to town and you wrote
me this darling noto and I've kept it
ever since!"
And then, Antoinette vaguely re
membered tho hastily scrawled note.
No wonder she had forgotten It In
the whirl of her short, happy engage
ment to Jim!
There was only one thing to do and
Antoinette did It She laid her head
on Jim's broad shoulder and begged
forgiveness for her lack of faith
A Future In Art
"You say you are educating your bo
for a theatrical career?"
"Yes."
"An actor or producer?"
"No. I want him to become prosper
ous as well as prominent. I am going
to make a ticket speculator of him."
A Ctntle Optimist.
"Who Is your favorite poet?"
"I don't know bis nam. He's th
weather expert who writes the talf
and warmer' predictions."
FARM m ORCHARD
Notes and Instructions from Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations
of Oregon and Washington. Specially Suitable to Pacific Coast Conditions
Uses and Care of the Loganberry.
Oregon Agricultural College, Cor
vallis The more the loganberry is
studied tho more wonderful its quali
ties appear. Possibly its greatest
single asset is its remarkable keeping
qualities. Who ever heard of a can
of spoiled loganberries? Of course
the careless and unsanitary handling
given all fruit by some people would
spoil anything, but if such treatment
has resulted in producing bad cans or
bottles of loganberries the case has not
been reported.
urieu loganberries likewise have ""vor. in all these qualities it is su
been on the market in limited auanti- perior to grape juice."
ties for several years ahd no loss from
spoiled berries has been reported here,
either by the dealers or consumers. It
Handling Loganberry Crop.
is not only very resistant to the action
of germs of decay, but appears not to
De inviting to the common by-products
pests.
Jams, preserves and jellies of most
fruits are generally expected to dis
play good keeping qualities, so that a
great deal is expected of the logan
berry In these forms. Nor has this
expectation ever been disappointed, so
far as reports show. Unlike the fruits
that have to be heavily sugared and
greatly concentrated by boiling, these
loganberry products keep with a mini
mum of both. Hence the natural and
distinctive loganberry flavors are pre
served, offering the much-to-be-desired
something different to discriminat -
l ng tastes.
Training the Loganberry Vines.
Most wonderful of all this berrv's
fine qualities is the self-nreservinir
quality as shown in bottled juices.
the severe test of commercia fit
ness has been given all the foregoing
products with the single exception of
loganberry juices, and they have met
the test in a most satisfactory manner.
In addition to the commercial tests,
the far more critical test of the labor
atory has been applied to the products,
including the juices, by the horticul
tural department of the Agricultural
college. These tesU have established
beyond question tho fact that the
berry has very unusual Preservative
qualities. Concerning these qualities
Professor Lewis, who conducted the
tests, says:
"The loganberry has come to .lav
and in it I believe that Oregon haa one
of its greatest horticultural assets.
There are but few states that can grow,
good loganberries, and the demand for
this berry is going to be tremendous.
The output will doubtless be increased
very greatly and I firmly believe the
time will come when we shall shin out
of Oregon ten million dollars worth of
this fruit yearly.
"It is a splendid berrv to work nn
Into by-products by drvinir. canning
and manufacturing into juices. These
products will, I believe, be unsurpassed
by any Iwrry grown. It also serves a
a basis for a long list of products, val
uable In confections, ice cream and
general city trade.
"VS e have conducted numerous ex
periments during tho nasi ver In
drying, canning and juice-making with
this berry, ami hope to bo able soon
to give out the 'information we have
gathered in handling this crop.
Lucky.
There was only a thin partition be
tween (he parlor and the taproom of
the suburban hostelry, so that I could
not help hearing what was perhaps a
confidence about a certain Hill's terrl-
ble condition the previous day.
"Well, to cut tho long storv short."
said the voice, which was husky, prob
ably with emotion, "I had to set 'im
on a doorstep and leave 'Irrl there. E
must 'a fell asleep and Ma at dropped
on to t' footpath, an' would ver hm.
Ileva It T when woke up there was
11 penct In III"
. 'I am very enthusiastic over the
possibilities of the loganberry juice:
more enthusiastic now than I have
ever been before. The resultB of our
experiments with four or five of the
products are results that we are proud
oi. necenuv we made un some nf th
: preserved juice for drinkine-. earhnn.
! "ted t and gave it out to a number
j f our friends to sample and test,
Almost invariably they told us it was
, tne best temperance beverage they had
i ever tasted. It had a wonderful color,
a delightful aroma and a very pleasant
I A strong association of loganberry
' growers has recently been formed,
I and a serious attempt will be made to
escape the pitfalls and hidden dangers
that have attended the launching of
too other great fruit industries of the
Northwest. "No slump" sums up the
ambition or these growers and Profes'
sor Lewis for the progress of this n
dustry. The association expects to accom.
plish this result largely by establishing
rigiu sianaaras or products which all
growers must adhere to in order to
obtain the other advantages of the
association. Every box of berries.
every can, every package of dried fruit
and every bottle of juice that goes out
oi the stuto is to be of first quality.
The fine preserving Qualities makes
, this ambitious program a little easier
0f accomplishment with the Imnnhnrm
n -J
than with any other berry, so that
growers fully expect to see the policy
strictly enforced. All Inferior goods
will be kept at home and uaed on the
farm or else made into suitable by
products.
Another means of managing the
ra&idly growing industry is a bureau
of statistics. The acreage and produc
tion or each year s crop will be ascer
tained as nearly as may be, and pro
vision made for marketing just what
is grown. Extensive advertising will
be carried on in order to widon the
market and cooperate with the agon'
lea that handle the crops.
While the area of growing logan
berries on an extensive commercial
scale has been somewhat limited to
certain district of the state, and
doubtless always will be, these areas
are extending. Experiments are
being carried on In several new dis
tricts, some of which, it is hoped, will
show the necessary conditions for a
large and profitable Industry.
a HaiaaiiiHa(aMwaiis
J. W. Cook has just paid In London
$4000, a sum covering debts from
which he was freed In the bankruptcy
court 19 years ago. The payment was
not the result of a windfall, but repre
sented many years' savings.
The Italian ministry of education
will spend 115,000,0000 for new public
school buildings In the next four years.
At the Minnesota school of agricul
ture a course of sewing for men is to
be Included in the curriculum.
There aro only 20 person In France
with a yearly Income of more than
$1,000,000.
Too Much for Him.
A Methodist bishop tells of a con
versation he once had with a Wyoming
man touching certain difficulties of the
tatter's religious tenet.
"Bishop," said this naive westerner,
"I do not refuse to believe the story
of the ark. I ran accept the ark'a
great size, Its odd shape and the vast
number of animals It contained, but
when 1 am asked to believe that the
children of Israel carried this unwlcld
ly thing for 40 years In the wilderness
I must confess that my faith breaks
down." Harpers' Monthly.
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Transport
EMOTE as it Is from the tour
y 1st trail, the "Middle East" Is a
rpetnn hut 111 11a Itnnwn tn
,, Americans, Each season scores
or trtpperB get as rar as
Damascus, touch at scorching Aden's
sandswept coast, or scurry by train
across upper India on the beaten path
"around the world." They swarm
Into Constantinople, too, and overflow
down the shores of the Mediterranean,
seeking the levantlne delights of
Smyrna, Beirut and holy Jerusalem.
Uut Ilagdad, Dabylon and historic
Nlnevah in fact the whole of Turkish
Arabia and most of Persia Is still
terra Incognita to even the most hard
ened globe-trotters. Few travelers,
Indeed, aside from those who are
forced by duty to make the arduous
trip, ever penetrate this Isolate though
Interesting region.
Shut off from the outalde world by
burning deserts and tho hostile Per
sian gulf the middle East the birth
place of nations reflects to this day
the simple, primitive life of centuries
ago, uninfluenced by modern men.
About Ilagdad the desert Arabs live
as in Abraham's nomad age, observ
ing the same rites and customs de
scribed In the Old Testament
Now the average American knows
In a general way that Mesopotamia,
Persia and Afghanistan are some
where off In the scrambled geography
of southern Asia. Hut let him be sud
denly told to proceed, say to Hagdad,
Heheran or Kabul and he probably
wouldn't know Just which way to
start. It was so with me when I
wss ordered to Hagdad, writes Fred
erick Slmplch in Loa Angeles Times,
On the Map.
It took tho tourlut agency almost a
week to "route" me. The ticket ven
dor at the desk so often an omnis
cient person goaded to sullen silence
by myriads of fatuous questions, hon
estty admitted his Ignorance when
named my destination.
"here Ib Hagdad?" be pleaded, in
a voice that spoke his shame.
I proudly showed him, on tho ma
but I did not tell him how long I bad
hunted for it myself locked in my
room with an atlas of the world! Be
tween us we discovered that freight
for Hagdad and Persia Is sent through
tin Suez mostly via Bombay and
then across the Persian gulf and up
the winding Tigris.
So It was my ticket read via Na
pies, Aden, Colombo, Bombay, Maskat,
Bassorah, etc. Hut to the very last
the agent was dubious. He was loath
to admit tbat Bagdad waa really
town, and not a clgarotte, a dead hero
or a strange disease. Ills last words
were, "If you ever get there, let me
know!"
At Naples the company'! agent ex
changed my ticket for another bigger
than the first a sort of poster effect
printed In four languages, and on
which Bagdad waa spelled with an "h"
In the middle. And by the time the
Lutzow had slipped through the Suet,
and over Pharaoh's bones In the Red
sea and down past "Old Aden, bumped
above," I waa a marked man on board.
I wss known as "that man who la
going to Hagdad."
At Colombo a Portuguese sailor got
aigllmpse of my trunk, with "Bagdad
painted on IU end. He crossed himself
nervously, and hurried Into drink
ing place run by a Malay. Later, at
the t'isUe Face hotel, a Slngalese man
garbed In woman's clothes, selling In
dlan sapphires made In Paris, told me
his brether had saved rupees 11 years
that ha might visit Bagdad. He had
changed his mind at last, however,
and bought a moving picture show.
Hera la Colombo, Ilngdnd seemed
fully as flir away as It had In New
York. But I owned a ticket which
laid I wltfit ride all tho way and
llirco days nut of Colombo I landed In
reeklnr, mildewed Bombay, the mar-
let-place of the East.
I was glad when the red faced
dark" of lhi British-India Stentnshln
totnpnny'a ofllie cautiously admitted
Mth frugal use of words, that a steam
r would sail "up the gulf" next morn
ing. From the reluctant way he let
the Information slip, I felt that I must
bo robbing the firm of an Important
lecret. The clerk was not sura at
what hour the Kola would sail; I
rould find ml at the dork "Really,
rou know, yoo. Americans are deuced
Inquisitive!" Finally I coaxed him to
Ihe counter and Induced him to tell
lie a ticket
On the Kola'i nnsoourad deck
Cart, Sonny
camped a crowd I shall never forget,
nor probably see the like of again.
There were Sikhs, Slngalese, Arabs,
Afghans, Bagdaddles, Burmese and
Jews. There were a few women, too,
with rings in their noses and fancy
open-work tatoolng that took the place
of stockings. It was a rare assort
ment of race, religion, language, color
and clotheB. The men carried knives;
once there was a noisy row, and the
British officers went In and disarmed
the belligerents not a simple task
and kept their knives away from them
till the voyage was over. The night
of the trouble, one man disappeared;
he fell overboard, his companions
said. Off to one side of the mass of
men that littered the deck I saw a
small band of Shia Musselmans bound
for the shrines near Bagdad. They
went through the movements of their
prayers, kneeling and touching their
foreheads to the deck, over and over
again, and murmuring to themselves
In the chant. Everyone seemed to
have food and cooking-pots; some car
ried a live sheep, a coop of chickens,
or a skin or dates. The Hindus got
their food ready off In one corner,
where It might not be "defiled" by
contact with unbelievers. All around
the deck this moving mass of hu
manity spread out, lying, sitting,
squatting, eating, steering, Binoking,
swearing, praying, singing, gambling
with grensy Turkish cards and up
from it all came more new and pus
zllhg fumes to mix with the amazing
stench of the Kola.
Barrsn, Dusty Town. .
Two days out of Bombay sailing
northward along the flnt, malarial In
dian coast, past the Gulf of Cutch, we
anchored at Karri-hen, tho most Im
portant town in northwest India.
From here the railway takes off to
distant Quetta, on the northwest
frontier; from here England flirts
with the Ameer of Afghanistan safe
In his forbidden retreat at Kabul or
keeps her ear to the ground to find
out what Russia is doing on the north.
Karachec Itself Is a barren, dusty
town of barracks, freight sheds and
somber clay buildings. From the roof
of one of the latter flew the American
flag, and the consul, a genial gentle- "
man from Tennessee, made mo wel
come, l-ong trains of camels, tied
head to tall, filed through the wide
streets bearing bales of goods for
Baluchistan, tho great province to the
northwest. Karacheo Is tho "boom
town" of India. It has grown like our
Seattle. Railroads and the export of
grain have made It a city In a few
years' time.
At Karachee the Kola took on mall
for various British consuls up the gulf.
Two boxes of Ice, for the parboiled
Englishmen at Maskat, were also
taken on. Soon after sunset we aailed
out to sea, making due west for Mas
kat and the Persian gulf "The Gulf,"
sailors call It, and swear grimly.
Time Wanted.
Wanted Time. Lady who spends
ber mornings at the dressmaker's, her
afternoons at bridge and ber evealoga
at the theater would like to get Into
communication with some efficiency
expert who will be able to tell her
how she can get more time. She re
quires time to get acquainted with
ber children, familiarize herself with
a few of the most essential details of
housekeeping. Improve her mind by
a little calm and serious reflection
and develop an Interest In an occa
sional subject of Importance, kfn.r
bo time heretofore not employed, and
positively must not Interfere with
present activities. Money Is no ob
ject whatsoever, and the highest price
win giauiy dc paid for the requisite In
formation. Address Exclusive, cor
ner Rambler and Climber tr.i.
Manhattan. Life.
Circulation of the Blood.
The circulation of tho blood throueh
tha lungs was known to Servetus. a
Spanish physician, In 1G63. Cesal.
plnus published an account of th
general circulation, of which ha had
some confusing Ideas, and his treatise
was later on added to by others In
16G9. The great Barpl of Venlca dls.
covered the valves which serve for
the circulation; but there Is no doubt
tbat the real honor of positive discov
ery of the circulation of the blood be
longs to William Harvey, between
1161 and 1S2I. Tha Ideas of tha an.
clenta were too confused to be called
uisoovsry, or even a theory.