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By ALTA LAWSON LITTELL.
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PART II. At home, Dan, once over his amaze -
Melissa was rima_ a and direct. If ment, assumed his duties of house -
a thing was right, that was all there keeper, with a feeling o" mingled
was to it. No use beating about the amusement and assurance.
bush or wheedling for something that The days slipped by into a week and
belonged to you. Just state the case a second week, began.
and be done with it. It was in this He came in after doing chores at
way she broached the subject to Dan the end of the second week, feeling
after the threshers were gone. There decidedly bad.
He built a
had been a fine yield of wheat. Dan fire, put a handful of tea
flourished the figures ou a slip of in the pot, filled it with cold water
paper under Melissa's very nose. and set it on to boil. He considered
"Just watch your Uncle Dudley!" eheadookinorbade a few he otexatoertion es bhisof get inachng
crowed. "You'll wear diamonds yet, them into the kettle.
old lady!" : In the morninghe could not get u
"I'd rather have a few small things. He resigned hiself to his fate and
I want to -day," she said in the same lay back with closed eyes. He seemed
casual tone she asked to have the! to grow worse every mintltel He was
butter passed at table.
"What now?" Dan's generosity cool-', going to die!
He wondered vaguely
ed perceptibly as the conversation just how he would look when Melissa
veered from future diamonds to pres_
found him. It would be a sad end to
ent wants. "Thought you were pretty h vacation but she shouldnothave
well stocked up with clothes."i neglected a kind and indulgent hus-
"It isn't any one thing particularly:', nand so long. Well, maybe not indul-
Mclissa felt carefully for the right'gent, exactly, but—. A twinge of his
way to state her case. "I've been
aching head brought further self-
thinking. I didn't tell you about the searchin 7 Did she get half what she
woman I heard talk :a Miss Mason's deserved . Meliss was a good scout,
office. She said the women earn half no great shakes for style but Lord,
an the far^is and we ought to have what a cook! And what a worker!
money of our own. You can see she's Nobody could accuse her of setting the
right and that's who*. I meant. I'dworld on fire with speed but somehow
rather have a Iittle money right now, in her calm, even way she kept things
for Danny and things I need to make' humming. Just before she went away
my work easier, than to think maybe he'd toldWell, h elisse didnwode rnhaanythi Y
you'd get me a diamond ring when I'm
an old woman."now. She'd get her thirds. If he
"Women earn the money!" Dan I could only get to a pen and paper he'd
snorted. "I'd like to know what wo-' see that she got all. He tried to get
tnen do to earn money. I suppose they' up but fell back nauseated. Perhaps
get out in all sorts of weather to do he fainted, he never knew.- Ages later,
chores or doctor sick animals, and; he heard a sure, familiar step in the
plow and plant and reap, and have all; kitchen and Danny's sweet voice call -
the worry of deciding what's to be ing, "Dada, home! Dada, home!" He
dant.' tried to answer but couldn't. He was
"No, we don't put in the crops nor! really a very sick man—for the time.
harvest them," Melissa agreed. "But Melissa gave one horrified glance
I guess our work is just as important. about her kitchen and hurried through
Bove long could you work if you didn't to the bedroom. There lay Dan, white
eat?' she quoted the woman speaker. and wan.
"And how far ahead would you get if "I'm awful sick, Meliss'," he said,
you didn't have a comfortable bed,weakly. "Get me a pen and paper so's
clear clothes and a tidy house? I'vI can make my will."
often heard you say men with shiftless Melissa asked a few brief quiet
wives never get along. I've come to questions, and left the room. It was
think with that lecturer that I have not the ink bottle she sought but a
a right to part of the money, more
right than you have to all of it.".
"Think it then," Dan agreed readily.
simple home remedy for an abused
stomach.
With head clear and stomach in its
"Thinking never hurt anybody. But accustomed mooring, Dan came out
getting it is a different thing. Women next morning to breakfast of crisp
can't be trusted with money, and as toast and heaven -brewed coffee, spread
for earning half of it—shacks! You on a white cloth. A bowl of purple
could stop to -morrow and the farm asters decked the table and he saw
would go right on." He strolled off them.
to the barn, whistling airily.- "I've been thinking over that matter
Melissa went seventy on with her of money since you went away," he
work. Her placidity, which nothing said, as he nibbled the golden toast
ever upset, was her strong point, and sipped the fragrant coffee. "I
Against it storms raged and broke in thought a lot about it while I was ly-
vain and petty irritations simply slip- ing there. You won't go away again ?
ped away. She hadn't expected Dan I was wondering if you could learn to
to agree with her, so why get excited make out cheques if I was to get you
over his refusal ? Things always a book."
worked around right in time. All you "I should think I might learn how in
had to do was to be sure you were time. I don't suppose it is so very
right and then wait. She didn't be- bard, is it?" she answered with utter
lieve in fretting and nagging. The calmness.
Lord wouldn't give her a little boy
like Danny to bring up and then over-
look any means of having the job done
right.
It must be admitted, however, that
the outlook was rather dark for
Melissa that morning. A lonely girl-
hood had been succeeded by a busy
married life, and she had never receiv-
ed any of those confidences with which
women make each other wise. So she
knew none of the various and devious
methods by which her more fertile purposes.
brained sisters separated their nus- The body of this giant camera is 9
bands from their dollars. And being feet 4 inches wide, 6 feet high and
almost devoid of imagination she could 20 feet long when fully extended, and
devise no way of her own. She had in its construction over thirty gal -
heard Mrs. Muneton tell how she went
off to town on threshing day and left Ions of glue were used. The lens is
her husband to get dinner for the men twelve inches in diameter and cost
the best way he could, because he had $1,500. All moving parts, including
refused her the money for a kitchen the curtain slide, run on roller bear -
:cabinet. Mr. Munson cashed in that ings. The focusing is accomplished
night but he always was a sort of by two panels. of glass, which can be
simple, Melissa reflected. A trick
(The End.)
A Giant Camera.
A camera that is thought to be
three times as large as any other in
the world is that owned by a scientist
in Chicago. With it several noted pic-
tures have been taken, including
bird's-eye views of factories and
towns. It is also used for enlarging
like that would only niake Dan furious
and she'd never get anywhere.
Next day when a peddler drove in
with huckleberries which he offered
for $3 a bushel, Melissa was penniless
and Dan out of reach. He had been
wishing for huckleberries. The neigh-
bor across the way took the berries.
Melissa carefully explained that she
had no money i.n the home.
"Well, for goodness' sake, don't let
another chance to get huckleberries go
by whatever you do," Dan growled.
"I couldn't Iive through a winter with-
out huckleberry pie."
It was later in the week that Dan
drove off to Biggers, two miles away,
to help in oat threshing. Melissa had
just come in from hanging her dish
towels in the sun when a big car
drove into the yard and a prolonged
"T -o -o -o -o -t" bellowed for instant at-
tendance. A babel of voices, "0-1-o
Melissa," shrill giggles, and pounding
on tin pails succeeded. Melissa, run-
ning to the door, saw her cousin's fam-
fly from beyond `Three Rivers en route
for a"rodaek +a.. Y....+.
« , ,:ue,ir nexty iS9G'a 1 .
r-Met-Y`i3I3-oltl duds and come Ort---"
Refusal was on her tongue, when a
wonderful thought came to her. Maybe
this would' be the way to show Dari!
He would be all alone, for Mothet ant
rather Tompkins were visiting Dick
and Carrie in the city.
In a half hour she Was ott her way
t hastily seribbled note to Dan fling
there she bad gone,
moved to all parts of the field. The
plate holder weighs nearly 500
pounds when loaded and is put into
the camera by means of a der
Great care is used in loading, as a
broken plate would result in a loss
of $150. The plates are madeof plate
glass 8 feet long by 4 feet 8 inches
wide, and weigh over 200 pounds.
In order to dust the palates a man
enters the camera through an opening
in the front. A piece of ruby glass
is then placed over the lens and the
slide in the plate holder is withdrawn.
After the plate has been dusted the
slide is replacedand the man steps
out.
In snaking enlargements the focus-
ing is done from the inside and the
operator remains in the camera dur-
ing the exposure. In this process
the entire apparatus is supported by
springs, which absorb' any e,.agsale
vibration. +�
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IEfeotricity Closes Windows,
Electrical apparatus has 'been in,
vented to close all the windows in a
ho sew L rainh begins' to fall, the
i r"s fear' dfops 11e"i letening blotting
paper, hutting the ratchaalem fll
operation.
WI Imtnlment used lay Pbyelclerie.
The Chin ear -Star.
The grayest things in my mother's
House
Are grandfather's beard and a careful
moues -
That conies from behind the kitchen
door
For the crumbs my kitten forgets on
the floor.
And the brightest things in the, kit-
chen are
A tuppeny light and a timid star
That hides away until I sit
Beneath the chimney to look at it.
Yet what I i'Ike the best ()Ball
Are the pewter platters against the
wall;
For mother has promised the plates to
me
Wheat I am the woman I hope to be.
But the chimney -star was promised to
Jing.
"Just wait till you're married," said
she to him;
And he at the fire where mother has
cried
Down tears a plenty since Jimmie died.
Oh, I wish that grandfather's beard
were blue
And the mouse were gayly colored too;
And I wish that the woman I'll be
were big
Enough to be dancing my wedding jig!
For there do be times when the tup-
penny light
And the star we have are not as bright
As when Jimmie and I would watch
the door
And the crumbs our kitten forgot on
the floor.
Loss of Time.
"The wiser we are the more we hate
to lose time," says Dante, although in
more solemn and stately phrase. And
Matthew Arnold remarks somewhere,
in substance, that we all maltreat
time shockingly; some of us waste-
all of it, many of us waste most of it,
all of us waste some of it.
Well, of course those sages are
right. When we stop to think of the -
precious, golden things that can be
done with minutes, it is pitiable to see
how we all throw them away, scatter.
them about and behind us with care-
less indifference, as if they were futile
grains of sand, given us only to be
got rid of as soon and as easily as pos-
sible. Yes, there are some who really
seem to waste all their time, and they
waste it without being aware of it un-
til it is too late„ and many are not
aware of it even then; for the possi-
bilities of an hour, for good or for evil,
are inexhaustible.
Yet there are also people X'
so desperately anxious to wasteeife'
time at all that they almost reconcile,
as to the squanderers. Those unfor-
tunates are as avaricious with minutes
as others are with pennies. They
seem to live with the clock, even in
their sleep, and to be dissatisfied un-
less every motion of its hands regis-
ters some accomplishment. They want
to improve every hour and to make
every hour improving, until their
mere presence suggests some dis-
agreeable duty or .some burden with-
out profit.
The truth is that it is well to know
how to waste time, to forget the clock
altogether, to relax completely, to live
idly, to enjoy pleasant things just be-
cause they are pleasant, without a
thought of their profit. The birds
sing for the pure joy of singing, and
the butterflies fold their wings and
balance deliciously on a flower in the
sunshine. •
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To lose time profitably is an ex-
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His Grave.
His grave is far teway
Across the sea,
Away from home and love
Away from me.
I'd go and lay on it,
If it were near,
The spring -time flowers he loved
When .he was here.
I'd plant the summer roses,
White' and red,
Beside the wooden cross
Above his head.
Lord, I believe his soul
Is sn Thy care,
Yet from my heart doth rise
This human prayer:
"Oh Lord, beside his grave
May flowers spring,
And in the air above
May sweet birds sing!
"Oh, may the spot be blessed
And brightness shine!
May Nature take the charge
That should be mine!"
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FOR HER TOURISTS'
MANY NOVEL AND IN—
GENIOUS DEVICES.
Wooden Houses and Army
Huta Fitted With Electricity
and Other Comforts.
Hundreds of thousands of tourists.
from all parts of the world are now
either `on their way to France or are•
planning to come here to view the'
battlefields, says a Paris despatch..
Tours of all kinds, not only to the bat-
tlefielde but to every interesting part.
of France, now are being organized..
To cope with the volume of sightseers.
expected France is beginning to de-
velop touring machinery 'on a vast
scale, which, however, is sadly de-
ficient to accommodate a rush of visi-
tors.
Provision of adequate hotel accom-
readatione, particularly near the bat-
tlefields, is presenting the greatest dif-
ficulties, ewing to the lack of all kinds
of building materials. In the vicinity
of Arras hotel accommodation has
been provided by the railway trails.
which formerly constituted the travel-
ling headquarters of the United States
General Staff in France.
The -carriages of this train have been
arranged to form a hollow square
which is roofed with canvas in such a
way as to transform the inclosed
space into a spacious lounge. Rock-
ing chairs, shrubs and other conveni-
ences and ornaments complete the il-
lusion of a hotel's winter garden. By
this means a hotel of eighty rooms is
provided, each compartment constitu-
ting a separate chamber and opening'
directly into the lounge.
Army Huts installed.
On other centre:, notably at CIer-
monten-Argonne, wooden houses, roof-
ed with cemented felt, are being used.
Many of these wooden houses previ-
ously have done duty in Morocco and
other parts of French North Africa.
Old French army huts,comprising
more than thirty bed rooms, also are
being installed in many places. These
have restaurants more than 100 feet
in length and width and twenty feet
in height. These wooden hotels are
fitted with hot and cold water- ser -
.vices, electric lights, bath rooms, and
even central heating pietas. Motor
garages . and other modern require-
ments are attached to most of them,
Thus, despite financial, economic, -
transportation and other difficulties,
France is making a strenuous effort
to provide comfort for her visitors.
Desecration of French battlefields
by tourists who pay more attention to
the products of the Champagne district
than to the solemn memories of the
hard-fought battles is arousing the in-
dignation of the French labor press,
which objects to these "unpious pil-
grimages" in luxurious automobiles by
persons who take good care they shall
not thirst on their journey. The "Hu-
man" says:
"Onitearriving at places where so
many unhappy men met their death
these cads begin to appreciate how
good it is to be still alive. They make
signs to the chauffeur to stop and
corks are drawn from the stock bot-
tles they acquired on the way at
Rheims."
1t is asserted that at one place,
where the bones were near the surface
of the ground, these "pious pilgrims"
were seen playing with the 'sad relics
of the war, passing from one to an-
other skulls on the end of walking
sticks. They even are said to have
had photographs taken, each holding
a human bone, It is asserted, how-
ever, that such occurrences are rare.
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As Cannibals See Thennsohres.
Two years ago Mr. and Mrs. Martin
Johnson risked their lives on Malekula
Island taking motion pictures of the
savages, They were captured by the
viscous chief Nagapate, and had to
rtin for their lives. just managing to
effect an escape. But later these in..
trepid explorers made another trip to
the island, and this time they were
received like royalty. What broughh
about the change of heart of the can,
nibal king?
Mr. Johnson took with him a gen.
orator to furnish the Idgi1t for a trip '
tion -picture projection machine. !ilii(
hung up 1Zis semen between the pa)*
trees gild in the starlit night of ilia •
southern seas he exhibited, under tia,>e�
protection of un armed guard, motion
pietures of the natives themselves.
SO a'1r1, d Viiere they at seeing'
their �i, ; Mneir y " ,
tt� C� ides taus preserved t '
Iley ilei,. stliadf§ly ,x4t''the twhote 'th
«:� t�
down as ax^k"of "devil n>agie" toed
astonislii*ig:to ha eo .; iafetd, er+ os
they iigt► a4 e -1y fenced ever the ke r c
of the island1to tiii ;iii to 'explorexd,
and the chret ; pllsr lecl th'esnl
about i -flag to tribe, opeely'r
t os �at he had brought them.
there.
Cro4peran it1 , ,iron canmouitd. nn!l
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