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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 25, 1916)
"LaaY Hard Luck" Bu GENEVIEVE ULMAR (Copyright, 191S. by W. O. Chapman.) It was with an Iron band, but a genial, patient heart, as waa her splen did nature, that Inez Walton took up the distracted threads of destiny amid the wreck and ruin of a great fortune. "It's Incredible, but true," spoke the old family lawyer, Gideon Blake. "Your father, It seems, was the vic tim of the most fantastic and unrea sonable experiments and speculations. A Rothschild couldn't afford It." "As I understand you, .then," spoke Inez steadily, although her lip trem bled, "the estate, as we have called it, has dwindled down to the little farm place at Brldgoton?" "And the wet meadows a mile be yond, a worthless waste stretch." "But the sale of the estate equities ! will pay all the debts?" "Just that, with possibly a few hun dred over." "Then I am satisfied," said the clear eyed young lady. "The debts can be honorably liquidated at least, there Is shelter and the pensioners are sure of a home." "I fear you will have to give up your philanthropic ideas, Miss Wal ton." "Never!" came the firm, simple re ply. "When I fancied I was rich I adopted old Uncle and Aunt Daniels and their two helpless orphaned grandchildren. They are my sacred charges. Much or little, they shall share what bounty I have till the end." The good old lawyer viewed his handsome client Indulgently and Coldly Waded After Her Hat and Re stored It. with a certain shade of sadness, with al. In his estimation she was "a splen did lady!" He respected her force of character and admired her beauty. He wondered why, with all hor capabili ties for attracting attention, sho had not chosen a life mate and evaded the harsh rigors her acceptance of four helpless charges was certain to bring to her. But Inoz was loyal and sincere. She was naturally disappointed to see what had been considered a great fortune practically fade away into nothing ness. Thore was one mighty consola tion, however: all the debts wore paid, within a week she and her pensioners were quite comfortably domiciled In the old house at Bridgeton, She sold off the liorBoa and carriages. The law yer savod a moiety from the sale of tho real estate and Inez found herself the possessor of a liquid capital of about nine hundred dollars. "We're not so bad off, after all," she observed cheorlngly to hor aunt and undo. "We can all do some garden work. There Is a cow, some chickens, and the twenty acres ought to provide for us with a little drawn from the ready capital.,. The children must go to school, Aunt Huldnh can knit and I can sew, and we shall got along charmingly." "Yes, Indeed," readily chirped in her uncle, "and I am not so old that I can not do a little worV now and thou for neighboring farmers." It depressed Inez when for the first time Bhe went to look at "the wet meadowB." They covered a few acres and were a foot deep with swamp grass and water. There seemed to be a spring in the center which bubbled up IrropresBlbly, the waste water hav ing made a sort of river bed, and draining Into the creek half a mile away. Surrounding it was a noble stretch of landscape woods, valleys, a little lake, and quite recently most of this land bad been taken over by a city syndicate. Inez heard that the enterprising speculator controlling It was planning to buy up all the land available and start an up-to-de sum mer resort. "It's Ideal, that Is sure," reflected Inei "all but my poor little damp patch of bog. Oh, dear!" Tba exclamation was caused by sudden gust of wind taking her new hat flying. It was a dainty creation, and it skimmed the long waving grass and gently sailed down across the top of a stunted bush. Inez glanced at her low slippers and the treacherous glint of water under the grasses knee deep In some places. She was about to turn from the spot and find some barefooted farmer's boy to help her out In her predicament, when she noticed, appearing from be hind some bushes near the spring, a young man. He wore high boots, lift ed his cap to ber, boldly waded after her hat and restored it to her. In the Interim Inez had noticed that a second man directly at the spring was filling some bottles with the water. She thanked the stranger very much, impressed with his courteous, mannerly ways, and left the spot won dering who he might be, but surmis ing that he was one of the group who were visiting the site of the new sum mer resort regularly. It waa about a week later that, as Inez came in from the garden, her aunt announced a visitor waiting for her in the little parlor. She was sur prised to find that this was the young man who had rescued her runaway hat. : "I represent the new syndicate which is to operate the summer resort here, Miss Walton," he stated. "We have been looking over your spring property. The truth is, we find that its water is of rare medicinal value. To add a spring equal in its virtues to the famous Bpas abroad is to have a very valuable feature in our general equipment. We wish to secure the right to use it and to build a pagoda, park the surroundings and establish drink ing fountains and baths. The negotia tion has been left entirely in my hands. I have decided to offer you five thousand dollars." "Oh, what a blessing!" cried the de lighted Inez. "With that I can better provide for my dear ones." "Five thousand a year on a ten-year lease," concluded the young man, and Inez sat fairly stunned with amaze ment. "You cannot mean it!" sho gasped. "Why, I offered the land for one thou sand dollars outright when I first came here." "That may be true," spoke Alvln Hughes, "but Its value was not then known. I might have bargained if I had been dealing with a man, but you" He paused; he did not go on to tell of all the good he had heard of this sterling young woman and the chlval rtc and noble in his nature that bade him protect her Interests. And bo Inez was no longer "Lady Hard Luck." And later she became Lady Thoughtful, and Lady Interested, when she learned that the syndicate managers, when they found out that their representative had acted like a man of honor Instead of taking easy advantage of an Inexperienced young lady, promptly turned him adrift. She could not get the sufferer on her behalf out of her mind. She lo cated him at last through a friend, filling a rather poor position. He had brought her comparative opulence, surely comfort and a com petency. He was the one In bard luck now, and all for her sake. A woman's wit brought about a meeting. A woman's love ruse, genu ine and supreme. Alvln Hughes would not share her fortune. Hor loyal af fection was sufficient, and he was the kind of a man who could make his way rapidly when the smile of a brave, encouraging woman was his all his own. So Lady Hard Luck became old Lady Bountiful, her sweet life filled not only with the love of a loyal man, but scattering its perfume among all those with whom her radiant nature came in contact. Peruvian River of Horror. There is a river of mystery and horror In Peru, aud the legends of rich rubber regions and untold wealth In gold nre accompanied by tales of those who went up It never to return, Cuslmer Wntklus, a naturalist, recent ly returned from South America, tells of the stream. "This river," he said, "is the Colo rado river, tho richest river In Peru. Great groves of rubber trees He along Its course, and gold has been found In It. But the Mascos, a tribe of can nibals, infest It. They still practice cannibalism, and will kill a nmn on sight. Kxpcditlous have been fitted out and been heavily armed to go ex ploring for rubber and gold, but none of them has ever returned. The sav ages have killed the men and eaten them nnd turned the canoes adrift. They have come down the river empty, bottoms up, or filled with sup plies which tho savages did not care to remove." Profound Essay on the Duck, A little schoolgirl in Michigan has written the following essay on the duek : "The duck Is a low, heavy-set bird. Ho is a mlghfy poor singer having a coarse voice caused by getting so many frogs la his neck and he likes the water and carries a toy balloon la his stonmch to keep from sinking; the duck has only two legs and they are set so far back on his running gears by nnture that they come pretty nenr missing his body, some ducks when they get big curls on their tails are called drakes ami don't have to set or hatch but just lonf and go swimming and eat everything In sight If I were to he a duek I would rather be a drake they have a wide bill like they use It for a spade they walk like a drunk man they bounce and bump about side to side If you scare them they will flap their wlugs and try to make a pass at singing." Young Man Must Fit Himself For Life Work If He Is to Advance By CHARLES A man of twenty-six years, in seeking for a position, was asked to name the trade or profession for which he had fitted himself. He could give no satisfactory answer. He had 'never thought of nor fitted himself for a life work, but after leaving high school had taken the first job in sight and then floated from job to job. When asked whether he thought that method would ever get him anywhere, he indicated that he had been taught to believe that a worthy young man with a high-school education would eventually reach a creditable goal if he patiently followed a path of careful, conscientious and concentrated effort in any position but still he had arrived nowhere and was willing to work for $15 a week. What's the trouble ? Who's to blame ? What is wrong with his logic ? Can anyone get far in this world without a well-laid plan and a firm will to follow it? Who should have instructed and counseled this man at the beginning of his career? Would classroom talks and counsel by a trained and experienced voca tional instructor during certain school years help? Should the state take the responsibility (in order to alleviate unem ployment) of instructing those who graduate from our grammar and high schools regarding vocations and choice of life work? If the man in question had wisely chosen a fitting life work and secured a position at the beginning, which might have been a stepping stone toward his thus developed life ambition, would he not have today been nearer a larger place in life ? Passing of Virginia City Recalls Its Old Glories Despairing of a revival of Virginia City, Nev., the Enterprise, a newspaper on which Mark Twain once worked, has given up the ghost. In dying it recalls attention to a city once as fa miliar on men's tongues as Verdun Is today, but for reasons quite other. The city of fabulous riches, the city where millions came und went In an hour, the city whose earth yielded the coveted metal as In geyser floods, the city that had a life and a luxury which today amid its sagebrush seem mythical, Is now a collection of shacks, no longer able to support a newspaper. Only yes terday, it seems, Virginia City was the most populous In Nevada, though Car son City, as we all learned In our geographies, wus the capital. Few things In American history are more romantic than the rise and fall of Vir ginia City. The state of Nevada sur vives a sovereign state Is Indestructi ble. In area It equals all of New York nnd New England combined; Staten Island Is more populous. Nevada has had its Reno and its Goldflelds, for one thing or another famed, as It has the husk of the once dazzling mining camp, now bereft of Its newspaper. But Ne vada, with all Its vast extent, has not yet learned to graft cactus with cab bages, and until it does Its Bedouin cities will fold their tents like the Arabs. New York Globe. The Dream Ship By H. 8TANLEY HASKINS. Sleep is the gangplank for me, It seems, From the everyday world to my ship of dreams, And faith as I cross It I leave my mind Safe with Its thoughts, on the wharf behind. Plxle and goblin and fairy and elf, All are aboard for a voyage, like my self, And each has for bnggnge, the journey to start, A happy go lucky, go plucky gay heart. 'TIs often we sail by the light of a moon That hangs In the sky like a paper bal loon, Yet sometimes the harbor Is dappled and bright, And never we leave It for all of the night The ship has no crew and no helmsman to steer, No compass to guide from the Where to tho Here, But always, at morning, our journey Is o'er, And It's over the gangplank of sleep to the shore. What Women Are Doing. Dr. Knthorine Bement Davis, head of the department of corrections in New York city, has charge of over 5,500 pris oners. Solum Lngerlof, the Swedish autho ress nnd only woman to ever receive the Nobel prize for literature, makes nearly as much from her herd of Jel soy cows as she does from her books. Miss Frances Welser, who Is em ployed ns a paleontologlc draftsman In the United States geological survey, makes most of her drawings umlef a microscope, ns nwurncy Is essential. Dr. Anna Manning Comfort Is the only surviving member of the first graduating class of the New , York Medical college for women. The first batch of doctors were turned out Just 50 years ago, Mrs. Fred A. Busse, wife of the late mayor of Chicago, Is now working for that city as a collector at a salary of $30 per week. Investigations among the three great Industries the Southern cotton group, the glass Industry and the Pennsyl vania silk group show that more than two-thirds of the girls employed are under twenty years of age, while the proportion of married women runs from 10 per cent up to CO per cent S. BOHART STAR OF FILMDOM Mary Fuller. Young actress who has risen high in the movie world. Poultry Pointers. (By H. L. KEMPSTEK, Missouri College of Agriculture.) As the chicks grow they need more room. It does not pay to let them crowd. Beware Of musty, moldy, sour or de cayed food. It Is sure to cause trou ble. Tough grass is of no value as a green food. Better sow some quick-growing crop. ' Feed hoppers greatly reduce the work. If they are kept filled, the chicks will never go hungry. If your chicks are not doing well something Is wrong. Look out for lice and for worms In the Intestines. Two-year-old hens had better be sent to the market. They seldom pay for their feed If kept over a third sea son. Grit and oyster shell should be In cluded In the ration for both young and old. To neglect this would be poor economy. Young stock will do better If not compelled to pick their living with the old. There will also be less trouble from lice. Shnde Is one of the most importan essentials during the hot months. Get the chicks Into the orchard and corn field. A growing chick will not thrive on short rations. If the right kind of food Is fed, there Is little danger of over feeding, especially If they are given plenty of range. Supplement the regular feeds with a wet mash fed crumbly. Feed all the chicks will clean up before going to roost, but none should be left In the trough, for It will sour. Mark the pullets this fall so that you will know just how old your hens are. A leg band on the right leg one year and on the left leg tho next will assist In culling the flock. A hog ring will serve the purpose. Big Agricultural Warehouse. New Orleans has the largest agricul tural warehouse In the world. It has a capacity of 2.000,000 bales of cotton and Is adapted to the storage of all other packed commodities, such as sugar and coffee. It was built at a cost of $3,500,000 by the state of Louisi ana and Is said to reduce the cost of handling any agricultural commodity 40 per cent There are 23 acre of ground under roof, while the ntlr plant occupies 150 acres. It ,m WHEN SUN WAS WORSHIPEC Baalbec, Now In Ruins, Was the Cen ter of Religion That Once Had Many Adherents. Baalbec Is the city of the sun. Here the sun god was worshiped thousands of years ago, here the ruins of his great temple still stand, monstrous and majestic, a wonder and a mystery to another age and another race. Here, too, the sun today still seems to smile with particular warmth and fervor, as though regarding his faithful capital now that his place in the hierarchy of deities Is gone. In the ruins of Baalbec you can trace the rise and fall of almost every creed that the near East, rich in creeds, has known. The very stones still lie about that were raised by the worshipers of Baal, whom the Israel ites overthrew. Then came the Greeks and the Homans, with temples to Apol lo and Jupiter, Bacchus and Venus. The warlike Arabs left their mark In a circle of fortifications, temples to a religion of the sword. Today the Turk holds dominion, and his modern mos ques raise their frail domed heads, like the transient structures of chil dren, beside the mighty monuments of the past. . In plain terms of the guidebooks, Baalbec is a little Turkish village of 5,000 people situated near some of the most remarkable ruins on earth. So there ore two Baalbecs the city of yesterday and the city of today. Mod ern Baalbec has its mosques and Its churches and its schools, sends its re cruits to the sultan's armies, and makes picnics to the temple of Bac chus, where Its young men and maidens hold hands in the twilight. Ancient Baalbec is a confused colossus, a heap of mighty blocks of cunningly carved stone, earthquake tossed and time eat en, piled haphazard and burled In sand, with here and there some frieze, some wall, some shrine or nltnr still raising Its head through the tide of destruction to hold aloft the symbol of the sun or the Roman eagle. The old stones have taken on a pe culiarly rich and golden color with the years. Fragments that archeologlsts unearth from underground are pale and colorless, but the sunlight of cen turies has touched what It could reach with Its own sunset hues. Few sights are so beautiful as Baalbec on a clear spring evening. The five great col umns of the sun rear their slender height heavenward like the trunks of giant palms. The tumbled temple stones glow golden In the level rays, while below stretches the tender green of young grain, the delicate bloom of wide orchards. The rock of the col umns crumbles with the passing of ages, but the bloom of growing life that blights nt a frosty breath returns ever fresh and new, spring after spring, eternally. Sculptor's Prophecy. Suddenly, In the midst of his work, Arnold Ronnebeck, who was designing the decorations for municipal bridges In Berlin, was overwhelmed by a strange and unaccountable feeling of sadness. It was not like a mood, but rather like a deep shadow cast over him and his work. He was under con tract to do the work, but he could not keep at it. Finally he yielded to what was for him a mysterious impulse, and let his feelings have their way with him. No one was more astonished than he when he had finished, roughly but with simple power, a figure of the crucified Christ and the mourning women. He could not explain It. He wrote to a friend : "I felt I had to do It. I could find no other symbol to express my sense of tragedy. But as soon ns it was done I felt relief, and I am working again." Did the war fling the shadow of the cross over the sensitive soul of the artist, and was his mood born of the Inner knowledge that there was to be another crucifixion, and that again throughout the world there would be women mourning at the foot of the cross upon which humanity was bleed ing? Christian Herald. Great Names Die Out It Is curious how rarely our military and naval supermen leave direct pos terity in the male line. In the three cases of Lord Roberts, Lord Wolseley and Lord Kitchener the succession has passed out of the usual direct male line. Lord Nelson was succeeded by his brother, for whom In fact the earl dom was created in recognition of the hero's last aud greatest exploit. Lord Howe, victor of the "Glorious First of June," left no son, and the barony of Howe descended to his daughter. The title conferred on Lord Strath nairn is extinct, nnd there Is no long er a Lord Clyde. Lord Anson, the great sailor who girdled the world, left no children, nnd the title was recre ated for his great-nephew. London Chronicle. Sugar Cane in Arizona. Sugar cane Is being raised In Ari zona for the first time to any extent. Some 1,200 acres of the Suit River valley are under cultivation, and next season this acreage will be increased to 5,000. This Innovation Is predicted to be the beginning of an extensive In dustry, as the valley lands of both Ari zona and New Mexico nre considered well suited for the growth of cane, and the higher lands can also be cultivated where irrigation may be had. Deer-Hunting Accident Figures of the TJntted States bu reau of biological survey for the pe riod of 1908-1912, Inclusive, show that there were 62 deer-hunting accidents In states that had no buck law, and only 11 In those that bad. MADE BIG MISTAKE TRAVELING MAN "GOT GAY" WITH THE WRONG MAN. Meant His Remarks as a Joke, but Sleepy Individual Whom He Had Abused Could Not See It That Way. A Columbus traveling man tells of an .unusual and humorous experience ou the road down lu south Georgia a few days ago. A salesman had been working that section und found business fine. Cot ton sales had been good and the folks had money to buy his commodity and did buy. So, his work over nnd an envelope stuffed with orders mailed In the post office, he felt In extraordinary fine spirits when he boarded the train to go to the next town. The train sturted off ond the sales man Btood on the back platform, smok ing a good cigar and surveying the scenery with great satisfaction. A rather shiftless looking individual was leaning against a post near the truck, a hundred yards or so from the depot. The train had gathered considerably momentum und was going fust when It passed the post The salesman was In extraordinary high spirits and his good humor had to vent Itself some way ; and it expressed Itself in this most unusual manner. When the rapidly-moving train passed the shiftless-looking man the traveler leaned off the platform, shook his fin gers In the other's face and In the course of two or three hilarious sec onds gnve him his complete Industrial ond personal history iu terse, crisp phrases. The traveling man was smil ing, and If the citizen had but known it, his apparently derogatory remarks were really an expression of overflow ing good nature and satisfaction with the world, but the sleepy-looking man couldn't see anything In it but malice of the most astonishing and unexpect ed kind. To the traveling man's astonishment, the sleepy-looking man, galvanized Into life, started down the track at full speed after the train, now going quite fast. It was apparently an unequal race and the man on the platform was lightly amused, although admiring the other's pluck and endurance. In two or three minutes, however, he was sur prised to find the speed of the train lessening, nnd as It did so the runner made another spurt In just a little bit the train came to a dead stop the engine always paused to get water there, although this passenger was, of course, unaware of that fact. The Marathon runner In the rear arrived in time to jerk the traveler off the plat form. The classiest kind of fight fol lowed, but when the traveling man managed to climb back on the platform as the train started off again, he had two well-blacked eyes and his new suit was sadly torn, while the gentleman whom he had decorated with several titles a quarter mile back down the track, had found and was utilizing an other post and seemed In a state of perfect content. Macon Telegraph. Predicts a Simple Religion. "When the war is over we are going to have a simple religion, a religion without frills," the bishop of Stepney said, addressing those who took part in the second procession of prayer and Intercession service arranged by the Church League for Women's Suffrage in Hyde Park. "No frills," he addl, pointing, amid laughter, to the frills on his own sleeves. "We Bhall want a religion that will hold us together. We have had a great deal too much of Individualism in re ligion. We have had too much of the ology of the Jolly miller who lived on the banks of the River Dee, who said, 'I care for nobody," no, not I, nnd no body cares for me.'" The boys when they came back from the front would not want mere sing ing, or billiards, diluted with religious thought, but something stronger and firmer, he asserted, nnd with nil his heart he belleve'd we wanted more re ligion, but a real, living, simple relig ion. London Observer. Speed of the Turtle. The slowness of the turtle again is proved, but he gets there just the same. While hunting on Dnntz run in Delmnr township, L. R. Van Horn found a large mud turtle. He noticed a steel plate on its back, which bore the inscription "V. D. G., 4-13-13." It was supposed that these were the ini tials of V. D. Gross of Tyadaghton, and Van Horn wrote him n letter. He replied that he had found the turtle in Pine creek nt Tyadaghton and put on the plnte nnd turned him loose. In two years and seven months his tur tle has traveled IS miles. Van Horn has had a copper plate made with his initials and address, and he will send the turtle to some point in the North Tier and have it liberated. Wellsboro (Pa.) Correspondent New York Sun. In Darkest San Francisco. A superb marble figure of Christ typifying "Christianity Emerging From Paganism," the work of a famous for eign artist, exhibited nt the Panama exposition, was offered as a gift to the city of San Francisco. The women of that city raised $4,000 to meet the cost of transportation and material, but the park commissioners refused the gift on the ground that "the subject was a religious one." Leslie's. Be Sure Fire Is Out Are you going camping, or for any purpose make a fire in or near the woods? If yon are be sure to put out the tire when you leave.