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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 11, 1916)
The Awakening B GEORGE L COBB (Copyright, 191(1. by W. O. Chapman.) ' "Sister of sorrows; welcome, thrice welcome." ; They were balm to a weary soul seeking sympathy and rest, those fer vent, sincere words. She, to whom they were addressed, did not resent the designation. Her proud Hp trem bled slightly, the clear steady eye was swept with a momentary shadow. Then Helena Brlerly was the com posed, queenly, perfect woman she al ways was to the outside world. ( Hers was a tragic story. Within a single year Bhe had seen a luxur ious home and a regal fortune slip from the control of her credulous, easy-going father, the prey of sharp ers. Then he had died, her mother had followed him within two weeks and Helena was left alone In the world, : Her beauty was of a striking type, her manner one of Impressive woman liness and dignity. Her knowledge of ceramics made of her an expert, and she secured a paying position In the studio of a firm catering to a high grade clientele. And then Helena met the romance of her life. The only man who had ever attracted her, Walworth Trav ers, became her fiance. He proved false. More than that; in a moment of temptation he appropriated money that did not belong to him. Repent ant, contrite, ho died In a prison cell a year later and the romance of Helena's life was ended. She settled down to a dreary, love less life. All that was precious to the heart of a sensitive wom an had pa8sd her by and left her stranded amid the bleak, barren des ert of despair. She lived on, she worked on, with but a single gleam of sunshine. Somehow, an old school friend sought her out, one she had known as Edith Mannlore, now Mrs. Perclval, happily married, with two children and longing for the company of the dearest friend she had ever known. It took Mrs. Perclval a full year to win Helena's consent to come to their "Like the Cno Lost to Me.' home in another city and live with them na companion, friend, a welcome guest. There wore the children to tonch, there would bo ample leisure to pursue her activities In ceramic art. And at last Holena had decided to leave the dreary old groove of life and attempt existence undor a now and more promising phase. "We are going to make you forget the old griefs and troubles. Helena, dear," said the gentle spirited Edith hopefully "Arnold and I. There is surely a happy useful place for you here. Modest, but comfortable?" quorlod tho speaker playfully, as Bhe noted a calculating expression in Jlolena'a eye as she took In her en vironment. "It Is a beautiful home, everything la so tasteful," began Helena. I "I see what you are thinking," de clared Edith. "You supposed that we were rich. We were, but the last year has changed all that." "Then If you have had money trouble, I Bhall be a burden to you;' "Why, we want you more than ever, Just on that account," Instated Edith. "Is there a more helpful person In the world than yoursolf? Think what you can do for the children! No, no, dear, when we first aBked you to come to us Arnold was wealthy, A dishonest partner robbed him of over fifty thousand dollars. But when we git your letter accepting our offer, Arnold was actually joyous. Don't think of deserting us because we are poor." i So Helena settled down Into her inew life. Now delights came dally within her experience. Mr. Perclval !was a resourceful man, and, though 'working for others now, earned a very liberal salary. Edith 'constantly de clared that It was a relief to be away jfrom the old follies of fashion. Ta WW; s--- 'P care of the children was a heart some joy tor Helena. One day in looking over an album a photograph fell to the floor. Helena noted a slight shadow move across the face of Edith as she apparently recognized the portrait. "Who Is It?" Inquired Helena, and she steadfastly regarded the picture. "That Is Bruce Arlington, my hus band's old partner." Helena sighed. She replaced the photograph, but when alone the next day took it again from the album. "Like the one lost to me," she mur mured; "the same Ingenuous charac teristics, a man of good Impulses but weak as water In resisting tempta tion." Somehow she could not get tho cir cumstance out of her mind. The orig inal of the photograph resembled her dead fiance only In general facial characteristics, yet the presentment Involved poignant memories with Helena. One evening some callers re ferred to this Arlington. They told of his being re-established In business In another city. The rumor was that he was building up a fortune. A wild, wayward thought came Into the mind of Helena. The following week Helena told her friends that she must return to the city for a few weeks at least. They deplored her decision and mourned her absence. At the end of a month Edith received a startling letter from her cherished friend. In a few plain words Holena wrote that her purpose In coming to the city was to seek out Bruce Arlington, to win his love, to sacrifice herself by marrying him, In order that she might lead him to restore to Arnold Percl val the money he had taken from him. As If purely Incidentally, Helena had flashed across the path of Arling ton. There was not a womanly arti fice of fascination that she did not employ to advantage In luring the man to her side. They became en gaged. More than once Helena felt that she was playing a dangerous game. Much as Bhe deprecated the dlshoneBt trait In Bruce Arlington's character, at times something Ingenuous, Intangi ble In his better nature stirred her soul to the depths. Was she falling In love with him. She strove vainly to banish the thought. Then, too, Arlington had changed since coming under her Influence. Walworth Travers had died contrite. Was It her mission to attempt the "coming back" of this new brand from the burning? There was a week that Bruce Ar lington acted strangoly. He was de pressed, dejected. One evening, when she was expecting his customary call, Bhe received a note Instead. "You will find enclosed," It read, "a certified check for the amount I caused Mr. Perclval to lo3e. You may not believe mo, but voluntarily from the day I saw you my conscience quickened and I began putting aside a sum for restitution. Last week I found a letter you lost, written to Mrs. Perclval detailing the success of your 'schome.' I have Bold out my busi ness to make up the full amount, which 1 wish you to return to Mr. Perclval. "I have my punishment and I de serve It. I fanclod at one time you loved me. In vlow of your 'scheme' I soe you only had contempt for me. I shall always love you. At least, I am a better man for knowing you. Good by." , Her heart wont out towards this misguided but repentant man, It was strange, but, cither reckless or heed less, Arlington was run down by an automobile that ovenlng. It was Helena who nursed him back to health. She could not reBent his pleadings when convalescence came. And out of her Intended great sacri fice for dear friends, there came the deferred happiness of her lifetime. Artful Old Man. A gentleman, while walking with two ladles through one of the principal streets of London, saw a beggar ap proach. One of the ladles, who had evidently seen the mendicant before, Bald: "This is tho most singular man I ever hoard of. No matter how much money you give him, he always re turns the change, and never keeps more than a penny." "Why, what a fool he must be!" re marked the gentleman. "But I'll try him, and put him to a little trouble." So saying, the gentleman pulled from his pocket a sovereign, ($5) which he dropped Into the beggar's hat. The mendicant turned the coin over two or throe times, examined it closely, and then, raising his eyes to the countenance of the benevolent man, said: "Well, I'll not adhere to my usual custom in this case. I'll keep it all fdr luck; but don't do it again. " The donor opened his eyes In aston ishment and passed on, while the la dies smiled with delight. Harmonica Once Popular. Harmonicas, now Bmall boys' de light, at first were musical glasses and, according to the dictionary, that name still Is applicable to goblets or strips of glass from which harmony is rung, an exchange states. Musical glasses, tuned by regulating the amount of wa ter in them and played by running a moistened finger around the rims, were played on by Gluck in London in 1746. Mozart, Beethoven and other masters composed for this Instrument. Somiee's harmonica Is a safety de vice for mines, which Indicates the presence of fire damp by a musical tone given out from a lamp chimney In which, In pure air, the flame burns silently. STAR OF THE MOVIES V Mabel Normand. Popular comedienne who now heads her own company und has a studio of her own. A Mystery of the Sea. Tllefish are again being caught In sufficient numbers to become a staple article of food In America. They are handsomely colored fish, and very good to eat, but thirty years ago millions of them died In a mysterious way, and It was thought that they thus became extinct. In the beginning of IS82 fish ermen nnd others made amazing re ports of having sailed through miles of dead nnd dying tllefish by the coast of the United States. The whole area covered by dead fish was reckoned tp be 170 miles long and 25 miles wide. More thun 1,400,000,000 fish had died. The netunl reason was never proved, !iut from temperature tests it was as sumed thnt a sudden chill In the water lecounted for the blight. Camel and Mule In Team. Over one of the trails of the Sahara desert the queerest team Is employed In drawing a two-wheeled cart, which carries light freight. The team con sists of a camel and n small mule, and while the brads may be unevenly dis tributed between them, the mates never disagree. Each draws his por tion of the load, the camel loping along with great strides while the mule trots beside hi in. Habits, After All, By SIDONIE MATZNER GRUENBERG It Is Through Little Tricks of Politeness and Deference That a Child Learns Respect THERE Is no doubt thnt some chil dren are much "brighter" than others. And, of course, the brighter children are easier to teach than ure the others. But many a bright child ubsorbs the teachings offered him nnd develops a character that Is very fnr from sutlsfnctory, while among the less "gifted" children are evolved useful nnd lovuble spirits thut amply compensate for the rela tively feeble Intellects. This Is all common knowledge; yet we continue to be puzzled about It without making any effort to clear up our understand ing. Or we continue to think and to act as thought the development of the Intellect were of Itself sufficient to In sure suitable training of the character. The fact Is that while knowledge may be converted Into power it is in itself very far from being a substitute for wisdom. And still more remote is it from character. We know that chil dren can learn knowledge; the Impor tant question for us Is, can they ac quire character? When we compare an Infant with an older child and with an adult we may see that the lack of "character" on the part of the Infant means thnt the child has not yet developed fixed habits in regard to certain things, whereas the older person has. You do not know Just what the child will do under given circumstances, while you do know what the grown-up will do. It Is the muss of habits that make up the foun : Mother's Cook Book. : Date Bars. Take a cupful of dates chopped fine, add a cupful of walnut meats, add three-fourths of a cupful of sugar to two well bpaten yolks, then add six tnblespoonfuls of flour, a tcaspoonful of baking powder, teaspoonful of salt, and add the dates and nuts, then fold In the beaten whites. .Bake In a sheet and cut In bars the size of a nublsco wafer. Plain cottage cheese well seasoned and served on lettuce with a boiled dressing makes a most satisfying salad und one easy to prepare. Cheese Custard. Butter a bnklng dish, put In a layer of bread cut In Inch squares, sprinkle with thinly sliced cheese, dust with salt and paprika and a few grains of cayenne. Add other layers of bread and cheese, seasoning as before until half of a small loaf is used, one cupful of cheese and a half teaspoonful of suit. Beat two eggs slightly, add one pint of milk and pour the mixture over the bread and cheese. Bake half an hour in a moderate oven. Aberdeen Sandwiches. Heat one-fourth of a cupful of chopped cold tongue and half a cupful of veul or chicken with a half cupful of gravy and two tnblespoonfuls of curry powder, mixed with enough wa ter to form a paste, simmer together five minutes, then cool. Cook slices of bread until brown In a little butter, drain and spread with the mixture and heat over hot water. Serve hot. Lyonnaise String Beans. Melt three tnblespoonfuls of butter add a finely sliced onion and saute to a delicate brown ; add a quart of string bums, cooked, a dash of pepper, grating of nutmeg and a little salt; heat thoroughly, tossing the beans oc casionally; add a teaspoonful of minced parsley, a tablespoonful of lem on Juice and another tablespoonful of butter In bits, and serve at once. Minced Ham. To each cupful of finely minced ham add a tablespoonful of fine bread crumbs softened with milk or cream, Season with salt and pepper, heat thor oughly and spread on rounds of moist buttered toast. Place a poached egg on each slice. Corn Oysters. Take a cupful of kornlet, add two well beaten eggs, two tnblespoonfuls of flour, a half teaspoonful of salt, and a dash of paprika. Drop by spoonfuls Into a hot buttered frying pan, brown on both sides. Make the Child dation of the character which the child acquires. Habits of courteous speech, for ex nmple, mny be mere Imitations of other people's speech, nnd very different from what the child would use If neg lected in this regard. Yet as It be comes a habit It constitutes a distinc tive part of the person's character. It is through the little tricks of deference and politeness thnt a child learns re spect, and it Is from this thnt he de velops an appreciation for the quali ties that we wish him to look up to. And that suggests the second ele ment that enters Into the "character" that can be trained or cultivated. The comparison between young children and adults shows us that another dif ference In their characters lies In the comparative Instability of the child's likes or dislikes, and of his standards of right and wrong. Beginning with nearly direct Imitation of what be sees his parents do, he comes In a few years to Imagine himself doing things thnt he hears of others doing. When he begins to read nbout the exploits of great heroes he projects himself Into the characters of history or legend, and for the time being he lives in the character that Is upper most In his Interest. In this way he absorbs from his Immediate surround ings and from his reading and asso ciates the Ideals and principles that will give stability and color to his con ductthat Is, his character. laBm nmmm rlOUO DATTO THERE was one rich and un ruly realm the Spaniards were glad to rid themselves of fol lowing the battle of Manila bay. The huge Island of Mindanao, pronounced as though spelled Mlnd-a-now, known In the Philippines as Moroland, had the reputation of being largely unconquered, as much by the military as by the missionaries. The Moros clung to their religious beliefs as tenaciously as they opposed Span ish domination In government, writes Monroe Woolley In the Utlca Satur day Globe. But the Moro archipelago today Is not what It was when we first took tip stewardship there. This means that it Is not the unconquerable em pire it was when the Spnnish essayed to rule and run It. For a long time we sought to make the Moros obedi ent by whipping them by killing them off. Hundreds, thousnnds of them, were slain In periodic cam paigns, yet the fiery Mohammedans lost no opportunity to treacherously murder our troops and officials at times when pacification seemed ap parent. Military operations falling to a con siderable degree, and mindful of the hopeless task of the Spaniards, an other method was devised to win the people to new government and to new ways of living. At first the Philippine government smoked a peace pipe with the sultans and dattos, chiefs of com munity fuctlons, seeking In this man ner to make Itself popular with the masses. As much good will as pos sible was thus literally bought. Cost ly gifts and junketing trips were be stowed on the tribal chiefs, and they were fawned upon as loyal subjects are wont to do with royalty. Later, brute force was wholly abolished. Kindness and diplomacy were finally substituted therefor, and with this en lightened new system we are gradual ly and thoroughly remaking Moham medan Mindanao. Known to and thoroughly explored by white men for centuries past, Min danao Is today just beginning to be lifted from a savage past into the limelight of civilization. The rich realm has never been exploited be cause the Inhabitants were always hos tile to any outside Interference. Min- v . Native, Base, dnnao, with the Sulu archipelago the Mohammedan empire Is well worth reconstruction, and it is per haps this fact which hus made us so persistent. Largest of Philippine Islands. Mindanao itself Is the largest Island by fnr in the entire Philippine archi pelago. It Is about the size of our own state of Mississippi, and Is big ger than Indiana or Ohio. It would make seven states like New Jersey, and Is by far much larger than sev eral of our Atlantic const states com bined. To be precise, it hns nn area of 40,721 square miles. Iu ancient times the Moros had lit tle, if nny, business sense. They hud a woeful lack of the appreciation of money. To overcome their antiquated Idens of trade we have established markets for them in the lending towns where they meet to buy and sell. Some day MIndnnno will be one of the lending countries ot the world for the production of rubber. The rubber tree grows wild there In great pro fusion. Although the Industry Is as yet undmnestlcated, exports from a single locality have, reached nearly 1.000,000 pounds In a year. The Island, also produces much hemp, as well as tapioca, cocoanuts and other tropical fruits. We have been successful in giving railroads to that part of the Philip pine archipelago occupied by the Fil ipino, even though foreign capital had to furnish the money, but we have yet to lay the first steel rail in Min danao, the greatest and richest of the islands of our insular frontier. Bor neo, distant only a stone's throw from Znmbonnga, Mindanao's metropolis, Is far ahead of Moroland la everything save natural wealth. AND RETAINERS Mindanao has a larger colony of American planters, engaged mostly In hemp cultivation, than any other spot In the islands, notwithstanding that the people there have always been hostile to trespassers. Many of these have been wantonly murdered, but the fatality list is growing less right along, an evidence that the people are being converted to a new order of things. Many of these brave Ameri cans started business ou what they saved from a soldier's wage, and to day not a few of them are Oriental nabobs. Responding to Education. For centuries the Moro thought the only kind of effective government was that having force behind It. To be kind to him, In his opinion, meant that you feared him. But to be kind, with a means of making kindness accepta ble through a standing military force, has completely wrought a change In the warlike people. Under good lead ers the Moros are good people ; under bad ones they, too, are bad. The Mohammedan religion teaches that to slay a white man, or a Chris tian, Is a sure way to got to heaven. Therefore, In Spanish times, and dur ing our early occupation, fanatical Moros used to run amuck, chopping down as many foreigners as they could with their wicked knives. Often It has taken a dozen bullets, wen aimed from a high-power army rifle, to kill the crazed followers of the Koran. All Moros hate pork as a bull does a red flag, and the military offi cer who plnced the dead body of a fanatic inside a pork carcas and strung the two up in the plaza for the Inspection of others effectually kept "running amuck" within bounds In his territory. But today the Moros are laying aside their war krlses and spears, are discarding their tight-fitting, gaily colored costumes for modern dress, similar to the Filipinos, and are send ing their children for the first time to public schools. A decade hence there may be Moro professional men, such as lawyers, doctors and scientists. A committee of Moro chieftains who went to Manila recently to meet Resi dent Commissioner Manuel Quezos of Washington, himself a Filipino, told the commissioner that schools were Ball team Intensely popular, and asked him to say to congress that as long as that body was disposed to furnish school books that the Moros themselves would furnish the schools and the scholars. Datto Piang, one of the powerful chieftains, has himself erect ed two costly sehoolhouses in Min danao solely at his own expense. A. Moro doing anything of this sort In olden times would have been hanged, by his own people. Baseball Has Helped. Baseball has helped wonderfully with the Moros, as it did with the Filipinos, to cement affections for the Americans. It is claimed by a learned Filipino who recently toured Min danao that In two decades the vis itor In Moroland will not be able, so fnr as dress and manners are con cerned, to distinguish a Moro from a Filipino. No American baseball fan. really knows whnt fun Is until he Is privileged to see a hotly contested, game of ball between Filipinos and Moros and gives an attentive ear to the game vernnculnr as it is spoken by our wards in the excitement of the sport. With the awnkcnlng to clvilizatioa the Moro Is acquiring some chivalry One of the sultans thought he had reached the acme of politeness when ke asked the popular daughter of one of our ex-presldents, nt the time vis iting his palace, to become No. 1 in his harem. Of course, there was a blushing declination, at which the dusky ruler was probably chagrined.. But the incident goes to illustrate that the American, as well as the Christian. Filipino, Is for the first time making himself and his Institutions accepta ble to the remade Mohammedans of our farthest-flung frontier.