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The Signal, 1911-9-21, Page 6P . '• Inivai DAY, 8 , reung 21, 1011 • OUT OF THE SKY A fourth of July Story By Clarissa Mackie Copyright by Aweless Preen Ase.- enetaoa, ltti. , a • The wars was starred with dendo- tlone. land a robin bopped perkily amoug the yellow blossoms. Mrs. 8.• for watched the red breasted bird with resentful eyes that many fined with tetra. "Seems as if It can't Just right for a bird to be so happy wben the Lord de - ales happiness to AUce•-sot that she shows It. because abe'* too proud, but I amuerstai,J; seems as if alt the tight went out ot her face the day Martha bane carie over and told her abe thought it 1 -as a step dowo'for Henry to marry b. r. Humph -as 1.1-1 Hecor wasn't better blood than a rim. any by!„ Tbe door :opened just tben, and Alice Secor came into the room. surprising bey usually busy mother with Idle bandy folded on her knitting. lir.. Recur resumed bee knitting with harlots energy. "Get any mall?' she soaked. `Nothing except the paper," respond- ed Alice in her tow voice. "see anybody you knewr asked bar mother, with assumed indifference. "L met Henry Fane," she said, with a note of sharpness 1n her voice. "Khat did he bave to say, Alher 'Nothing, mother. 1 just bowed to him and pecsed along." Mrs. fever said eagerly, 'Are you going to do anything, Alice?" Iter daughter lifted ber bead proud- ly. "Nc, mother; Fm going to let tbe Lord take care of the matter." The oldrr woman reddened. 8he telt rebuked. "Tbe Lord helps those that help themselves. It ain't a day of Mr - melee" she said. Alice 8ecor Looked across the lawn and the stretch ot road beyond to where the prosperous farm of the "aid. attire w r Irma, 1 Irma" Tapes lay ander tbe wrmmer`annedne. The large bows and barn were paint- ed white as snow, and the fences marked the various leclosnree with nn - varying regularity and whiteness. Dun cows dotted tbe rolling pastures In the background. Th. wide open barn doors showed a gllmpee of carriages, and there was the distant pounding of horses' boots from the stables. A sudden booming speed rent the air, and the robin on the lawn darted Into the apple tree. "What's that?' asked Mon eecoe sharply. "A cannon. I think, mother. To. morrow's the Fourth of July, you know." "I don't suppose you'll go over to the bores trot same as usual with Hen- ry," remarked Mrs. Setae No, Toa not 'slag," said Alice. "1 wonder It Henry will ask Lucy Jennings to go. Wirth' Fan* thinks the Jenningsee are an tight, they're so well oft." Also* 476 sot reply. Sim was ems - tally computing Hi* value of ole blase farm and wobdertng bow Martha Fano could ever estimate the worth of land end bonsai far above the love and happiness of ber only eon, • • • • • • • It was a cloedy Fourth of July, and the noisy demonstrations of the pa- a trlotiosity inclined Only added te tie geoenl smokiness and dogifillalif beet of the day. 1 b For three years past Henry 1st* bad taken Alec* Omer to the hem trot • t the bolgbta Oece be bid a colt entered for the rims. and itf s be had triumphanW placed the t,lb- ied nine purse 1n AVNs lap the occasion at bad bees se torrid to ber as to Um hp. serest Toes, fartnee ab. hod /sessb1 to starry. OV Tads year, however, Henry Iran* set faith *s the Mee *II mono. Ills Se a stbes's laddsum, that be should ask Leer leentsge to acrotepsny Sim bad lit tittM Nes trots Imitation to mettle' T Misr. and 71. clad spokes banally to ber ter taw first nine is his life. '!tet wbet will she think?" T corm- let Mals*d Martha rasa l7. "TMahr q,sated Weary lmpetieet- et b• `1117 abseld Lacy /.Wage we- bah Feet mss to tally ber a tae trot waw IN. ewer aw. tt cne tier tayb.rmg 11.11 1 sever reef bmf em girt *std ata • 1 airs nave sew 1 ulnen analis "Henry. wait I told Lacy I walla be ~parsedmot ~parsed et you asked Ser to th ge to e am. 1 don't know what ebgra think," called Martha !'ane.ht "[ grsees shell think you're a migy poor prophet, mother," Henry laugbed shortly and drove out of the yard. He dbd not rid* past the cor cot - toga Instead, be earned to the left ro and took the long way *an& Be would have stayed at home that day so as to have shown Alice that he did sot care to go unless she accompanied him, bot he bad been appointed one et the Judges of the races, so be could sot very well refute. He boped Ades would bear of it and understand. His mother watched him driver around the long road, and *be under- stood, and for the first time there cams into her heart a doubt of Mar own wis- dom. Martha Fane had always bees sullldst aunto hermit and her family. Her sou Henry was different from the sleek husband who had died and the bnd saast.e daughters wbo had mar, AU and gone away. Henry had a dominant spirit of his own, trot she lad exacted his promise not to marry without her consent, and then attar his engagement to Alice 8ecor had beet an accepted fact for three years she bad set her face against it She was Jealous of the girt and of Henry'. devotion to her. So she h made family pride and money the v aide of her displeasure, and atter awhile, wben she bad ez:lalned b views to Alice herself. the engage. meat was broken off. She wondered now if abs was any bappler. True, s so had her n all to herself, and he ha passionately declared tt he wool marry nobody else But be w changed from the happy young ma of three months ago, and in Ms serf nus, brooding face she read bitterness and sorrow. Elbe was afraid, and she was ashamed, and yet she did not know how to make amends Perhaps It would come out all right, she argued, although sbe bad doubts, for the 8e - con were proud, too, and would never make the first advances. Dusk was lalling when Henry drove tato the yard again. After Henry had eaten hie *upper he went with his mother to tbe bleb hill back of the Darn to watch the din th play of rockets from all around e valley. They roared rep into the drmamen, broke into rainbow showers of star. or sent streamers of red Gee down ti eerie with their dropping sticks. "That one fell on the barn, Henryr Med Martha soddenly. "I wish I'd let you renew the insurance on tt ae you wanted to, bub -there, I guess it's gone out, Oh, look Henry; it's awful - like a Jndgmentr She pointed upward where by a strangeum freak of circ - stances six great skyrocket., like blas ing comets, tore toward the senith from all points of the compass. Joel above the Vane house and barns they poised an Instant and then broke all together to a fiery rain that fell on the Fane farm buildings Like a heaven sent disaster. "Oh, Henry. that was awful!" cried Martha, almost hysterical ts with fear. "We better get down to the house and that at "rry etbing's all right I wish I'd let you renew tb• insurance" Henry spdre not a word as they bur th fled down e slope Wixom they reach. ed the barnyard the barn was afire 1n a amen places where the tinders had ignited the dry com- panyngles. While Mar. tea flew to telephone to the hose com- pany Henry tore open the barn doors and led the frightened stock into the pastures. Thee be rolled the earrlagss to a place of safety, threw a canvas cover over them and turned to the hoose. Through lbs dormer window of the attic there glowed • red tight. and a little tongue of dame licked the root He called his mother, and they worked frantically to remove their choicest gm yseaaloms from the hoe, for there Was berthing else to do until help came trans tbe village. Suddenly Mrs. Seco, ant Ante appeared and worked alae by Ads with lbs mother and son. When the hose company came It breeght half of Little Siver with i1. and before long the boos* was deio ed of its bunt- ed contents while the Are Du - ed slowly donward, checked little by little by the streams of water pumped from the artesian wen. Tb. three THE SIGNAL GOD ' CH V Who Kissed Me? A Series of Mysarisen flap. ni peses sad the Cs plena doe Thereof. By Philip Quentin Copyright by Americas Press Apse - elation. 11111 • • The gun bunt, and wbere was I? It was the morning of • eelebra doe, and I was ordered out with tour guns of the battery to dr* a national salute. 1 pulled th• lanyard whichn Bred the twentieth shot. There was an explosion. not especially to front of the gun, but all over, and I was flint on my back nneooactona. The nest thing 1 knew I telt a soft bed under me. but I couldn't see any- thing. My eyes were bandaged. 1 re- membered the salute and the explo- slon. It occerred to m. that 1 bad lost my eryesegbt I asked if any one was In tbe room. and a man's voice fig answered He told me that the sur- a. I geon attending me had ordered that no light should, for a few days at least, fir be permitted to enter my eyes. i was in a house where I bad been carried atter the accident. I wu to be taken be I home that afternoon The man as - d sired me that I was not much hurt d and my eyes would come out all rtgbt as My informant went out soon after • tbls, leaving me alone. 1 did not feel much pleased over what had hap se decor mod Alice, huddled 1n uole• ler of the yard. Somehow or other their arms bad become Interlaced, aidth mate Mara nine's quivering lips bad premed against Alice's dark batt. "It'. a judgment on mi for betas proud." aha moaned costlntsalty. Long after midnight tbe fight ceased. The barn lay • beep .f saoldertegs redThe boom was gutted by efts devastating fire, and the boa.ebr old ea here of careful Martha ran. was beeped about the yard. Bury came and placed his arm retied els mother. "I guess we're Peet eegegh now. Hoary," lobe sobbedessay•.. egg a essay of insurance ea any- thing me Mt a place to lay ray bead' UM ger , took bee arm and gently M' 1tw•M her own boom. "Poor NW Martha rano, my beam le AMIN u beg es you wast to stay thorn Uncle flsaJ•min the wiq weagcb er e mina sod the furniture, He damsel mind, Nevem be eta sleep all y tomorrow. Maybe ft's an for the beet Martha. Tree know yes never w ed tie upper emir ot t1*t bo os cam build 1t to suit now." "i gases Ws a Judgment come direct tress beeves ess te °trolgltei out a whets of things." said Martha rue mask - She looked beet over her *midst Henry end Atte. "Tee • good care of esryr' etd tM ea la M a meaning tuna, and Hma,j I raspoadwith hl• Old bey ehteg► • *+1 Qat itsfte , I filly," tom t "i oar rare eraser dun ma ." pened-tndeed, 1 was pretty Idw spir- ited- I lay brooding over the matter, not so sure that my aught bad not been destroyed. when suddenly I felt two lips premed against mice. it did not occur to me at once to reach for the person who klssd men sod wben 1 did 1 was too late. A figure clad In woman's apparel slipped throng. my hands. It was very nice of whoever bad timed me, eves If It were taking an advantage of a blind man. It cer` minty turned the current of my thoughts Into a pleasanter cbanneL I called, asking who was 1n the room. but received no answer. The person mast have gone out very softly, for I could not bear the slightest sound. 1 fay wondering what woman had taken sufficient Interest 1n me to ides me. Wu it from modyes of pity or bectose *be had been especially attracted to me? I wee Inclined to look ■t it as a freak of some mischievous cult to set me wondering. After ail, ft must bay been something of a temptation for ber to kiss me since she could do se without bring fond out I we.. removed to my home. bet 1t wu several weeks before I etts per- let witted to go out wttb my eyes uncov- ered. 1 uked to be clown the bones u where I had been carried after the se- eu cadent and found it am eminently re- spectable residence. I went o to am thank wboever bad received me and found an elderly lady *be congratulate rieel ed me upon ay recovery. tee Now, what I bed realty gone then Tou for was to Ind oat wbo timed roe • But bowl Could 1 tell the lady that 1 bed been ourtupfltllvusty Wooed while defenseless In ber hose•, thus ,tying sspl away wboever bad dem the deed? I I A sat a few ,lotto talking wftb m7 ' erre bent/settees, but thinking of els se- cret 1 wished to discover tUl 1 .weld - tea Bred it about time to within*, tile- act appointed at being no wiser than wben 1 bad roma. 1 was • good deal of • Le[ boy then and not competent to push a finch a matter. i wu nineteen. Tisa bag lady wbo bed succored me was put ba forty. and i was quite sure hhe bad of not been the kisser. as A year paused the day I was rid - leg in a street car wben a young lady got in. Wben the conductor came tee ONTARIO am heirs as essertaity M Win RALEIAH'3 Ink the raver:' 1 ahesvM have Way te go N via Interesting Letter Bespeaks Nle Lae the ooaveafatioe. brit emeele fie thug It would be pstsassptaeea Dstt team to M M the gert scads se futhtt h loamy N th. °eeversatlaa Ne gat out Shote 1 416, and 1 traya beam glad to Rota bar, but would net for the world ban taken advan- tage at so .mail a matter as tending ler a *betel to torus an acquaintance. 1 had forgotten the episode whoa IS. day 1 recotvad as saveloy* eon- tldning a theater ticket It was sue )awned complimentary. 1t bud ed- ited, been purchased at the box o1 - moa I went there and asked the tick- et salla, 11 be could remember who bought It H. looked at 1t and .all that be could not 1 went away won- drriag wbo had favored me, but fest- Ing sure that the person would tuna op la rima I want to the play boping that I would ha.e my curiosity tatisded be. tors the evening was over, bat 1 dM sot. I saw no one wbo, I suepeeted In the audience, and no ow made Mengelf or herself known to cess I had fancied that 1 might receive a pleasant surprise in seeing some old flared take a seat beside me who would turn out to be the donor of the ticket The seat on either ala of baa was Oiled with peruse I had never seen before. A young man eat o* fay r tt. a middle aged lady oa fay left. Dada was with smother pompom, but me one of either couple did I know .t lad eves paid any attention to etas I wet home mystiBee. One evening 1 was putting on Wren. lag dreg to go ont•wbes. atlpptng iffy land into the right pocket of my Mi- ner jacket. 1 felt a IltUe oblong pack- age. Withdrawing tt, I took of the paper to which It was enrolled sad fennel a pasteboard box wttb a jewel- er's name and address au tb. cover. Opening tate box and r movtag a layer et eottos. there on mother Layer gals. tamed a gold scarf ring. How did the boy get into my pocket? I pondered over the matter wltb no meccas. Tben I remembered that I tad last worn the dinner Jacket at the theater on the night I had used Cite mysterious ticket It occurred to me that the young man sitting on my right could bay* slipped it Into say pocket But wby abould be ban bag set He was a stranger to me tea bad armrest d no interest in me during the evening. Indeed, be seemed to 1rm e0Ugty absorbed with tels companion, a very ply glri. 1 remembered. The scarf ring was a plain nand of gold with a peculiar *string of Ave jewels. In the center of a square was a diamond. One day wale visiting a picture gal levy. paasing from one room to emote er, 1 eget the street car girt fan to tie, I bad my scarf ring on, and b eyes fell upon It before they struea m7 face. 8b* raised taws and at one. threw out the red signal Bow- ing ber bead, she attempted to dire past ma But 1 bad bad eoongb of this mystery and eprang directly in trout of ber. "You have returned the loan of a nickel." 1 said. "with a theater ticket' sad you placed this scarf ring" - "I did not" "I mean a young mea who sat fa tie next *sat to me placed 1t there it ' year request" "I whiled to repay an obilgatioa." "You repaid It tenfold." Then Mks an eleetrie shock aged„ lafotee• struck me. I determine/ OP tisk all on a hazard. "But you have given ms sornetbbele more delicious than these," I said. boob tae hot In the rya "Wben I was blind. tMMel"- The blood 1n her cheeks that had partly subsided again flamed up, and she made anbtber dive for freedoet„ but I headed her off. I knew abs was the girl wbo bad Waled me. WNL It was ail oat, and I told Me that eothtsg would satisfy me but e tact et.temeit of the ease from tis time of the burettes of that gas as (71. celebration that had swpeaiisl conectess*ees within at. red mama to marry w olio soccesatoa en sits► prima oto* told m. that 1 might call pun ber and abe would satiety say Monty. I made the call without 1117 Seaay, and tits is the 'tory abe gave "Tbe hoose to wblcl you were eat - For His Spouse. The Iurlt and interesting Jotter writ- ten while in prison by Bir Walter Ra- leigh, which was sold at Sotheby's in London, a few days ago for 571,1100, is dated Oct. 6, uo year; and la address- ed ddrew ed "To my very worthy friend, der Walter Cope, Knight." It is as fol- lows: "Sir Walter Cepe You are of 1 1l� pd ms, sAd sue Al I • t tar for man/ years', t mehope you dkdnot skf that I ever used any unkind office towards you. But our fortunes are now chant- ed and it may be in your power great- ly to bynde me unto yo it the bynd- ing of * man to my ektate be worth anythig. Iffy de,ire unto you is that you wi1- be kr/eased to move my Lord Treasurer in my behalf that, by his grace, my wife might agayne be made a prison- er with me as she hath bine years last past. ghee being now decoded from me and thereby to my great impover- ishing, 1 am driven to kelp to bowies. .k miserable sute it is, and yet great t' me, who, in this wretched estate, can hope for no other thing than peacibte sorrow. "It is now that I call the Lord of all power to wittnes, yet I ever have bine and am resolved that it was nev- er in the worthy hart of Sr. Robert r'cylI (what soever • coutvaelor of ( State and • Lord Treasurer of In - (j bound must do) to suffer me to fall, much lees to perrish. For whatsoever names it hath pleased his Lordship to use towards me, which might ut- terly despaire any bodie else, yet I know yt he spake then as • counselor, sitting in counsell in company ot such as would not otherwise have bine satiaAed. 'But, as God liveth, I would have bought his presence aft • far dearer rate than there sharp words and thou three months' cluie Imprisonment, for it is in his Lordships hart and coun- tenance that I behold all it remaynes to me of comfor,t and all the hope I have, and from which I shall never be beaten till I nee the last of evil!a and the disapire, which habit no healp. The blessings of God cannot make him cruel that waa never so • • • nor any man of so great worth to de- light in tate endless adversities of an enemie, with lash of him who, in Ms very bowie and nature, can never be such a one toward. him. "Sr, the matter is of no great Im- portance (though a cruel] destinie hath made it so to me) to desire that m7 wife may live with me in this un- savoury place. If, byyour mediation, I may obtayne it I *111 acknowledge it in highest degree of thankfulness and rest reddy to yew fayth to be com- mended by you. "W. Ralegh." The letter was probably written in 1610, when for three months the ene- mies of Raleigh, or Ralegh, se he ,spelled the name. succeeded in dc• previag him of the society of his wife, *r who was ordered to leave the Tower. He was released in 1616-16 to go on • hunt for gold in South America, but failing in his quest was re -arrested on his return to England and was executed on Oct. 19, 1618. was and la oee*pled by my meq meta 1 went there abortiy after wen taken in and, sling a crowd boat the Sousa wu to dread lest something bad dappeoed to map one the faintly. My aunt told Meet IM orlon of tit. grin and yew Infa doctor was then with you, waahlb( t what bad been blown mato pas era. and wben be lett the ,peal 1110 reported that yea were is a beer e . 1 condltlon than afterward time to be the case. "I volunteered to go to and loot slit your seeds, and my mast, w1e to very nervous woman, was quite will - to accept my services In your bo- lt ♦It Wing I sew a Tombs asfiL or there gtl*oesty Injured to akg N ndeom*"- "Cut 1t out, I Interrupted, Sbe continoed ber story, sallialy-9 t pity IN my beart TIMMr t1► carred to see to male lee tale roved for bar tare she opened her pocketbook avid looked surprised at seethe no chatap theta She woe about to get est et tu. ear *bee 1 sited ber to let me pay tier fare On ber, Sbo consonant with a very sweat mane. and I banded the eondector the mosey. '1811 yore pieta, sive m. year ad- dntr Het I may repay you?' site asked, '9'e aid • nickel wetlel b. aleev butte than It ie worth." l repent I "lie matter le of so reimequasee. i eke ease" yon' ass 'Yoe or, very Idol 1 will anal* M• Oho a♦emavit trestle, feet 1 easy elm* to "When 1 met you 11 the strait — t pai..d.d 1 bad so ebasgo that 704 Was ply my fare. I knew wbere yore 11►M me most the theater Hetet as • return tact your favor. T1. young lila waw est on your right was req brefleer sad commlssiosed by esti b fres the scarf flue into year poet*. '!late leu testi my eontasste. The whsle thing has boas dos* tor tea." essel.dM (hat • obi arts would ad fast troebt• for Ass might 1e lord to uta by the Wort t et amososaat I Wad • tete elle• sal bredIIleMWm%.�, 'The Ungodly Cough." "You never know where he Is ge- ang to breakout next," someone once said regarding Ire.. R. J. Campbell, pastor of the City Temple, who 1b about to visit Canada on a preach- ing tour. This person was referring particularly to Mr. Campbell's Some- what unconventional remarks. On one occasion he addressed his hearers upon the timely subset of congrega- tional coughing, and assured them that there wu such a thing as "the ungodly couch." Then, again, he one day ins that hymnped , sing- ing Beautiful My Country," saying that the compilers rt the hymn book had spoilt it by elterfng the tune. And then break- ing into .ing he santthe lines as he thought they should he written. The applause which greeted this musi- cal effort was tremendous. Apparent- ly. however, Mr. Campbell, doe. not c')resider himself to be the broadmind- ed man hie admirers Imagine, for, when he -was asked 11 he was like) to stay abroad, he replied, "I am such a narrow,' bigoted John Bull that I am afraid I oouldn't be comfortable in any country but my own." The Lord Groat Chamberlain, I- c: as announced some weeks ago th,.t Lord Carrington, who recently celebrated Ma sixty-eighth birthday, would act a Lord Great Chamber- lain at the crowning of King George. His lordship stands in high favor at court, and f. exoeedintly popular throughout the country, F$ie is a mo- del landlord, and it than who has always used the advantages of his position and wealth for the benefit of the community at large. H. 1s prob- ably the only peer who derives his income entirely from agriculture. "I let my tenants farm as they tike, shoot what they like, pa when they like, and vote a they like," he once !said. He is a creat believer in girls learning to cook. "Good 000kery," he has remarked, "is one of the se- crets of domestic happiness. Lady Carrington hes looked after our house and given myself and the family a most excellent dinner every day sine. lour marriage a good many years ago. fir every otn .r wife would strive to do the tamp we should hear less .bout unhappy ma mage.. Wh*n TheeNJore Hook was one* tra- veling by coach, there were bet two inside paa•engere--e very pretty bet delicate -looking yr,nty lady attended by a homely -looking bald. 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