_ î * l« • » m a t d ls t la c t lo n t o r in a »
F . r b o r to b . k n o w . a . '« h , f i h a U g
F.
ÎO CU U M
*V nrF.
eestaay of ledeclslon tn tkla way. at
fifteen, she knew the writings of By­
ron. Jane Austen. Dickens Cfcartotte
Bronte. Fellcls Haitians.
Her tnree dark year»- from nine to
twelve—-were spent with her two maid
en aunts, the Misses Sarah and Abbl*
Peaks, In the dim, prim Vermont
Peake house trow Which her father,
the black sheep, had nm sway when
• boy. After her mother's-death Sim­
eon Peake had aent his llfti» daughter
bark east In a fit of remorse and tem-
pornry helplessness on hla part fced a
spurt of forgiveness and ehurctily
charity on the part of hla two slaters.
'I he two wemen wore Incredibly drawn
in the pattern of tbs New England
spinster of fiction. Mitts, preserves,
Bible, chilly beat rdom, solemn and
kittenless cat, order. Uttle-glris-muatn'L
They smelled of applet—of withered
apple» that have rotted at the core.
Something of thia she must have
conveyed. In her desperation, to her
father In an uncennored letter. Wlth-
tlme."
"What whole thing?"
“Living
All mixed up The b i t
kinds of people yon see. and the,mor>
things you do. and the more thing-
that happen to you. the richer you are
Kven If tbey’re not pleasant things
Thai's living. Hamemher. no matter
what hapiafUk. good or bad. It s Jnst so
me«*"—he need the gambler’s term,
unrwsrloualy— "Just to mach velvet '
But Selins, somehow understood
You mean that anything's better then
being Aant Sarah and Aunt Abbie
"W ell—yea.
There are only two
ktade of people in the world that really
count. One kind's wheat and the othei
kind's emeralds."
"Fanny Davenport's an emerald
salt) Melina, quickly, and rather aur
prised to find herself saying It.
"Yea That » It."
“And—nnd Jolle Hempel'g father—
be'» wheat."
"By golly, Selel” shouted Slmeoj
l ’a a k * “You're a shrewd little tyke
Julie Hempel and Selina Peake, both
PKB. 25 IV2S
MURAL E N T E R P R IS E
PAGE J
« t*
~
through the
J .SOUTHLAND
to the
PteEAST
By Train and Ship
to New York
G o this way—it costs
but little more
*
Shatra route to California— flour fine
tr a in s d a lly — th e n c e sc e n ic S u n set
route to New Orleans.
Excellent meals in the Southern Pacific
dining car.
C onnection at N ew Orleans with pala­
tial steamers for N ew York—meals and
berth included in the on e fare.
Sto:
topover« en route; «ce the Mardi Graa
al (N e w Orleans.
oiacg loam. He would and)« a gummy
though slightly weary smile sod stretch
wide his arms. she. too, would open
her tired arms wide, wide. Than they
a b o rt
s to rie s
In
A m e rlo a th a n 0 .
would eey ln a duet, hl» mouth a puck-
H e n ry
W h e n tb s
w orld w a s shocked
‘red pink petal, bare quivering with
by
h is
« n t lm s ly
< 3 « a tb ,
It becam e tenderness and n certain amusement,
A»k about Carriso G orge route from San
b f a v o r it e s u b je c t
"So-o-o-o Mg I” with the voice soaring
o f d iscussio n
In
D ie g o —A p a ch eT ra ll d eto u r o f A m e n a .
on
the
prolonged
vowel
and
dripping
<nd p u t>-
lla h lftff c irc le s as
suddenly with the second word. Part
to the a u t h o r
of the game, she would run to him,
w o r t h y 4 o fill his
P la c e
T h e w h o le
and »wool» down upon him, and bury
lis t o f m a le w r l t -
her flushed face la the warm moist
« h i w a s re v ie w e d
w it h o u t
s e ttlin g
creases of his neck, and make aa
w it h a n y d e g re e
though to devour him. “So big I"
o
f
u
n
a
n
im
it
y
upon
K 4 a a F a rb e
one b l< e n o u g h In
But of course he wasn't. He wasn’t
w ear th . o o
* li t e r a r y w a y to
For further information, ask
a» big as that. In fact, he never be­
come as big as the wide-stretched arms
« 4
• ¡ ¡ »
i
of ber love and imagination would have
°f cr,tica a d ito rs and o th e r had him. You would have thought she
a u t h o r it ie s a g re e d t h a t she c am e n e a r-
should have been satisfied when, In
,h e °
« « n r y ty p e o i
* T h U w i2
a t h ' r ATO»r | can w r it e r
later years, he was the Dirk Dejong
C . P. M O O D Y , Agent
T h is W is c o n s in w o m a n , s t ill y o u n c
I’hone 22*5
ip ‘ L b ^ ' i 0 * ' 10^ 1 r o* " = ‘ ’ } t h ? 7 u b
whose uame you »aw (engraved) at the
^ « h o o l ^ a n d o f new spaper o flL
n e w s p a p e r ufflces
top of heavy creuin linen paper, so
b o rn ln K a la m a s o o an d w u
rich and thick and «tiff aa to liaVe the
r e p o r t e r on th e A p p le to n ( W I b i D a lly
C re s c e n t a t s e v e n te e n
She m ust have
effect of being starched and Ironed bp
h a d nn u n u s u a lly c a p a b le c ity e d ito r,
because she le a rn e d f /r e i or a it to be a
some costly Amerlcnn buslnasa process;,
f r a t o f a ll to be
« tu r lffiT b r n
• « " « “ »he h ad
tin- public schools. They'r* mostly old.
whose clothes were made by Peter out warning he nud come for her, nnd
Oalshed products of Mias F ilter t
?han . „ v t h u . 2
• l o r l* e s h o w m o re
Twenty-five or even thirty— or moral”
Peel, the English tailor; wtiose read- at sight of him she had been guilty of
th e n a n y t h in g else th e k e e n o b s e rv e r
school, were of an age— nineteen Se­
a n d r e p o r te r .
H e r f e r t i l i t y o f Id eas Is
with nineteen'« Incapacity to Imagine
ster ran on a French chassis; whose the only fit of hysteria that marked
■ m a i l n i a n d I l k . O H e n r y , e h . can
lina, on tbl« September day, bad been
an nge beyond thirty.
wants were served by a Japunese ber life, before or niter the episode.
l a k e . a s im p le in c id e n t an d w e a v e a
spending the afternoon with -Tulle, uud
f a s c in a t in g t a le a ro u n d it.
Then I'll Just teach a country
houseman; q-hose life, la abort, waa
So, then, from twelve to nineteen
She e x te n d e d h e r n e w s p a p e r e x o s rl-
now, adjusting her hat preparatory te
school. I'm good at arithmetic. You
JJ*c e _ ®.n ^ M i l w a u k e e J o u r n a l, and
that of a successful citizen of the she waa happy. They had comq to
leaving,
she
clapped
her
bands
ovei
t 5 * w H ( i , ? A r T. E bU n* a nd t h , n «’ «olded
know that.” Julie should have known
republic! But she wasn't. Not only Chicago ln 1883, when »he wa« sixteen.
to w r it e f o r th e r a a u a tln e a
H e r In -
her ears to shut out the sounds ol
It. having bad all tier Flater sums
wus-ahe dissatisfied: she was at once There they remained. Selina attended
t0 b* ln<le f a t lg a b l«
At
Julies Importuning» that she stay te
one tim e she w a s w r it i n g a h o rt s to rie s
solved by Selina.
“Country school«
remorseful and ind'-nant. as though Mi»» Flater'a Select School for Young
supper. Certainly the prospect of the
e ? i . P|ri?Cth ^ a i t >
rZ
m ana-
she. Seliiin De.Iong. the vegetable ped- I Ladle». When her father brought her
ure Just arithmetic and grammar and
s in s in th e L n lt e d S ta te s
H e r c u to u t
usual Monday evening meal ln Mrs
d u r in g th e p a .t ten o r t w e l v e T a m
geography."
let- had been partly to blame for,thia
there he had raised qtilte a flutter ln
In d ic a te s a b o u t a s to r y a d a y . a n d a ll
Tebbltt's boarding house did not pre
"You! Teaching a country school I”
•iucceas of hla, and partly cheated the Flater breast— so soft-spoken wa»
w ne " ’ ‘ ,0oJ • to r,e > ’ h lch th e e d l-
sent sufficient excuse for Selina's re
tore w e re g la d to n e t a n d p a y good by It.
he. «o gentle, so aad-appenrlng, so win­
¡Th°lv*eeo?ira And, 2 u r ln * «his r e m a r k ­
When Selina Dejong had been SeHna ning aa to amlle. In the Investment fosai. Indeed, the Hempel supper ns
(Continued from page 5)
a b ly p r o llf lr p e rio d she fo u n d tim e to
w r *te s ig h t o r ten n o ve ls
business, he explained.
Stocks and sketched dish for dish by the urgent
Peake she hud lived In Chicago with
, „C",owi n»
a tn p n a th e c r itic s o f
her father. They hud lived In many that kind of thing. A widower. Miss Julie brought little greedy groan» from
noVale h a v e been s a y in g fo r s ev e re!
/ ASH PAID for.falae teeth, den-
T ,* a c * w »«nh E d n a F e r b a r " H e r n o r -
Selins.
Dtlier cities ns well. In Denver during Flater said, yea. she nnderstoo«L
,
tai gold, platinum and discarded
Simeon Peake had had nothing of
the rampant '90s. In New York when
"It's prairie chickens— three of them
w id e a t t e n t io n
" T h e O lr ls " w a s h a ile d
Ije w -lry
1'oke Smelting and Refining
as a g e n u in e a c h ie v e m e n t. T h e r e w as
Selina was twelve.
In Milwaukee the look of the professional gambler of —that u fanner weal of town brought
o.
Otsego. Mich,
fo r w a r d
m ovem ent
In
briefly. There was even a San Fran­ the day. The wide slouch list, the flow­ Father. Mother fixes them with stuff­
° * ° ,i
1 " H a ,f P o rtio n s ." In l i f t
«"ro e Ho B ig ." w h ic h has been g re e te d
cisco interlude which was always a lit
ing moustache, the glittering eye, the ing, and there's currant Jell. Creamed
? ''* > a u p a r la t lv e p ra la a on a ll aides
He sketchy In Selina'« mind and which too-brlght boots, the gay cravat, all onions and baked tomatoes. And fu r
T h a t It d e v e lo p e d In to a b o u t th e m ost
s u c c e s s fu l n o v e l o f th e y e a r occasioned
had ended In a departure so hurried were missing In Simeon Peake's make­ dessert, apple roil.”
j o s u rp ris e a m o n g th o se w ho ha d been
a« to bewilder even Selina who hud up. True, he did sport a singularly
Selina snapped the elastic holding
d e v o te d fo llo w e r s o f " th e fe m a le O
« • n r jr.
learned to accept sudden comings anti clear white diamond pin In his »hlrt her high-crowned hat under her chig­
rid your «ystem o f Catarrh or Deafocaa
abrupt goings without question "Busl- front; and hla hat he wore Just a little non of hair in the back. She nttered s
caused by C a ta r r h .
ntvs ' Ip r father always said. "Little on one side. But then, these both ware final and quavering groan, “On Mon­
C h a p te r I
S eU by i n t t i i l i /k r O f t, «0 w m
deal." Sue nevei knew until the day of In the male mode nnd quite commoniy day nights we have cold mutton and
F. J. CHENEY fie CO.. Toledo. Ohio
Ills death how literally the word deal seen. Foe the rest he »eemed a- mild cabbage at Mr». Tehb(tt's. Thia Is
Until he was a I moat tan the name was u| pllcnhle to hl» business transac­ and suave man, allni, a trifle diffident, Monday.”
■fork to him. Ha had literally to flih t tions. Slmeou T’cuke, traveling the coun­ sp««klng seldom and then with a New
"Well then. Billy, why not stay I”
Is your child nicking good prog­
his way free of It. Fronj So Big (of try with hl» little daughter, was a gam­ England drawl by which he had come
“Father comes home at six. I f I ’m
ress at school ?
fond and Infantile derivation) It had bler by profession, temperament, and honeatly enough. Vermont Peeke that not there be'» disappointed.«'
been condensed Into floblg. And ftnblg natural talents. When In luck they he waa.
If your child is not making *
Jnlie, plump, blonde, placid, forsook Thud— Shuffle— Thud— Shuffle— Up 'the
Dejong, in all Its consonantnl dishar­ lived royally, «topping at the bent ho-
Chicago waa hla meat, It waa boom­ her soft white banishments nnd tried
Narrow Stairway.
•
oitisfactory
average at school you
mony. he had remained until he was 'els, eatipg strunge, succulent sea- ing. prosperous
He played in good ateel against the steel of Selina's de­
shiny
the
boots
were,
fie
was
siwaya
a tan-year-old schoolboy In that In­
hould
find
out why. Defective
lands, gn.'ng to the play, driving In luck and bad, bat he managed eoroe- cision.
very finicking about such things.
credibly Dutch district southwest of hlredjlgs. (always with two horses I f how to see to It that there waa always
vesighl is often responsible for
“He leaves ypn right after supper.
Chicago known first as New Holland Simeon I'ea^e hod not enough money the money to pay for the Flater erhool-
Simeon Peake hud been shot In Jeff
And you’re alone every flight until
D'-ogre»» in s ln d ’es Don't
and later aa High Prairie. At ten, by for a two-horse equipage be walked). Ing Selina waa happy. She knew only
Hankins' place ut five In the afternoon. ooor
twelve and after."
dint of data, teeth, copper-toed boot», When fortune hid her face they lived such young people— girls— aa she met
The Irony o^ It was that the bullet had nwsit longer. Find out fer sure—
“I don't aee what that hus to do with
and temper, Dirk Dejong.
not been bUeuried for him at all. Its now.
In hoarding- houses, ate hoarding-house at Mine Flater'a school.
it," Selina aald stiffly. “I f I'm not
H er chum wu« Julie Hempel, daugh­ •there he's disappointed. And shat ter­ derelict course had been due to femi­
The nickname had sprung up from meals, wore the clothes bought when
the early and Idiotic question Invariably fortune's brenth wns balmy. During all ter of August Hempel,'the Clark street rible M r * Tebhltt makes eyds Ht Idm. nine alm ;,-bpcd by one of those o v e i-
dramatic.ladies who, armed with boyse-
put to babies and anawered by them, this time Selina attended school», good, butcher. You probably now own tome He hates It there.”
whlp or pistol In tardy defense of their
with infinite patience, through the bad. private, public, with surprising Hempel stock. If you're lucky; ahi? eat
“Then I don't see why you stay. I
year» of their Infancy.
honor, spangled Chicago's dull 'bus
regularity considering her nomadic ex
Hempel bacon and Hempel hams cpred
never could see.- You’ve been there
in the hickory, for In Chicago the dis­
with their doings, it had been meant
Selina pejong. darting expertly tstence She had a beitutlful tlraa Ex
four months now, nnd I think it's hor­
about her kitchen, .from wasbtub to c«pt for three year», to recall which tance from butcher of 18831 to packer rid and stuffy, and oilcloth on the i for a well known newspaper publisher
usually mentioned (In papers other
baking board, from stove to table, or, wa« to ber like entering a sombra Icy of 18f>0 wa« only a flve-yecrileap.
stairs."
than ms own) us a bon vtvant. The
Being so much alone developed la
If at work In the field» of the truck rqom on leaving a warm and glowing
"Father lias had some Uunporary
lady's leaden retn«mstranc<> was to
her a gift for the make-believe. In
farm, straightening the numbed «hack o»e, her life waa free, Interesting,
business setbacks."
varied
She made decisions usually comfortable, well-dressed way »h» war
have been proof of the fact that he
for a moment'» respite from the close
Julie, fond though defeated, kissed
had been more vivacious than bon.
aot row» of carrots, turnips, spinach, devolving upon the adult mind. She a tort of mixture of Dick Bwlveller'a her friend good-by.
Tt waa, perhaps, because of this that
or beets over which she was laboring*, ralected clothe». She ruled her fntb- Marchioness and Sarah O»we. Even
Selina walked quickly the short dis­ the matter was pretty well hushed up.
In her childhood the extracted from
would wipe the sweat bead» from nose
tance
from
the
Hempel
house
to
Teb­
life the double enjoyment that comee
The publisher’» paper—which was Chi­
and forehead with a quick duck of her
usually only to the creative mind bltt's, on Dearborn avenue. Up ln her cago's foremost— scarcely mentioned
head ln the crock of her bent nrnt
aeciind
floor
room
ah*e
took
off
her
hat
"Now I'm doing this. Now !'m doing
the Incident and purposely misspelled
Thoae great One dark eye» of her«
Optometrists. Jewelers
that.” the told herself while abe was and «wiled to her father.: but he had the name. The lady, thinking her tnak
would regard tbts child perched Imper-
not
yet
come
In
She
was
glad
of
that.
doing It. Looking on while she pae
accomplished, had taken truer aim
and manufacturing opticians
mnnently on a little heap of empty p<>-
llclpated. Perhaps her theatergoing She had been fearfnl of being late. She with her second bullet, and had aavM
tato sacks, one of which comprised
ALBANY
had something to do with thia. At an regarded her hat with some distaste. herself the trouble of trial by human
his costume. Selina De.Iong had little
decided to rip off the faded spring t Jury
age
when
moat
little
glrle
were
not
time for the expression of affection.
rone* did rip a stitch or two. only to | ^ 1J1Pon
,eft b||( „ „ JKhter
only naheard but practically unseen,
The work was always hot at her heels.
discover
that
the
hat
material
waa
|)nH
,
legacy
of
two fine Hear blue
the occnpled a grown-up eeet at the
You saw a young woman In a blue
/
play, her rapt face, with Its dark aerl- mom faded than the rosea, and that I white, diamomi» (he had had the gam
calico dreaa. ^*.>1 and aarth grimed.
ous eyes, glowing In a aort of luminous the uncovered surface shewed up a bier’s' love o f them) and the sum of
Between her eyes wa« n driven look
LAWYER
AND NOTARY
pallor aa she sat proudly next her dark splotch like a wall-spot when a four hundred,and qlnely-s«iven dollar«
as of one who walks always a little
picture, long hung. Is removed.
So
father.
H
alsey
, O rkoon
In cash. Just bon- he had managed to
ahead of herself in her baste. Her
In this way Selina, half-hidden la she got a needle and prepared to lack | have a sum like {hit put by waa a
dark abundant hair was skewered Into
the depths of an orcheerfa teat, wrig­ the offending rose in Its accustomed ( mystery. The envelope cohtalnlog II
a utilitarian knob from which soft
gled la ecstatic anticipation when the place.
loops and strands were constantly es­
hail evIdenUx uaue held r larger sum.
Perched on the arm of a chair near
cartaln ascended on the grotesque
caping. to be pushed back by tflnt tame
It bad been tested, and then silt. On
the window, taking quick deft stitches. !
rowy
of
Haverly
a
minstrel*
She
wlt-
harried ducking gesture of head and
the outside jw u i' written, In Simeon
she
heard
a
sound
she
had
never
h e a rd '
neaed
that
atartllng
Innovation,
a
Jew­
bent arm. Her hands, for such use.
Peake's line,; almost feminine hand
ish play, called “Sami of Posen." She hefore. snd yet, hearing It, recognized
were usually too crusted and Ingr.iund
“F<»r
my llttje dBugbter Selina Peake
saw Fannie Davenport ln "Pique." Sira It by one of those pangs, centuries old,
Motor Hearse.
with tha soil Into which she was delv
In case anything should happen to Efficient Service.
called woman's Instinct. Thud shuffle
eon
even
took
her
to
a
performance
of
Ing. You saw a child of perhaps two
Eadv Attendant.
nie.”
it
bore
a
date
seven
year»
old.
that shocking and delightful ferru of —tend snume— up toe narrow stair­
years, dirt-streaked, sunburned, and
What the original sum had be«n no one Brownsville..................................... Oregon
way, along the passage. She stood up,
new entertainment the Bxtravagansa
generally otherwise defaced by thoee
ever knew,'
rke
needle
potaed
In
her
hand.
The
The thing I like about playa an d
bumps, bites, Scratches, and contusions
To Selina fell the choice of earning
books la that anything can happen “hat fell to the floor. Her ««yes were
that are the common lot of the farm
ber ov n living or ot returning to the
wt«le. Died. Her lips slightly parted.
Anything!
Ten
aevAr
knew,"
Selina
child of a mother harried by work
Vermont village and becoming a with­
said.
The listening look. 8he knew
w . L. W R IG H T
Yet. In that moment, as the woman
ered and sapless dried apple, with
No different fro « life." Simeon
She
knew
evfn
before
nhe
heard
the
Mortician
& Funeral Director
looked at tha child there in the warm
black fuzz and mold at her heart, like
Peake assured her
"You've uo Idee hoarse man's voice saying. “L ift 'or up
moist spring of the Illinois prairie land,
Halsey and HarrUburg
ber
auDta.
the
Misses
Sarah
and
Abbie
the things that happen te you If .von there a little on the comer, now. Easy
or Io the cluttered kitchen of the farm­ •be Road Abeorbedly Books Found In
i Call D Taui.ua. Halsey, or
Peake. She did not hesitate.
Just relax end take them aa they —e-e-eeay." And Mm. Tebbly's high
house. there quivered and vibrated be­
W. L. W s ig h t . Harrisburg
Boarding House Parlor*.
/ ‘But ubat kind of work?" Julie
come."
th
rill
clamor-
“You
can't
bring
It
In
tween them and all abount them an
H
*n
p
el
demanded.
"W
hat
kind
of
there!
Yon
"hadn't
ought
to
bring
It
Curloualy
enough.
Simeon
Peeke
stld
anra. a glow, that Imparted to them er. She read abecrbedly books f 'UBd
work can you do?” Women—that I *
and their surroundings a mystery, a In boarding house parlors, in hotel* tu thia, not through Ignorance, but de In hem like this!"
the Selina Peakes—did not work.
liberal
el
y
and
with
reason
In
hla
way
such
public
libraries
m
the
times
af-
Belina's
suspended
breath
cams
beauty, a radiance.
“I —well. I can teach."
"or led. She was alone for hour» a and day he wea a very modern father. back She was panting now. Kbe had
"How big Is baby?” Selina would de
“Teach what?"
“I
want
yon
to
see
all
kin
d
*"
he
would
flung
open
the
door.
A
list
still
burden
day.
dally
Frequently
her
father,
mandL senselessly. "How big Is u»
"The
things I learned at Miss Fla-
«ay
to
her.
‘1
want
you
to
realise
that
partlsMy covered with an overcoat
ie rfnl of Imtellnesa for bar. brought
man?"
ter"*’’
this whole thing la Just a grand ad carelessly flung over the face. The
The child would momentarily r cease
re* e I her an armfql of books and she had aa
"You have to do something first—go
venture. A line show. The rrtch 1« to
to poke plump flu jera igtc the
»e öcb I • orgy. - dipping and /- «wooing aboui play „la It sad look at It M the aaai« f*et. In their square-toed ho«»ts. wob­ to Normal, or teach In the country,
bled listlessly.
Selins noticed how
uttiong them in a aort of <ourm>a4'>
don’t you?— before you CXn teach ¡¡)
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