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REVEALING LOVE | By MOLLIE MATHER | <<£>. 1123. Western Newspaper Union.) TJIOH ui>on the bluff overlooking the sea stood the big house. At tta French window a uiiid lingered, a troubled frown on bis tine brow, as ha watched, far below tlie weird dance of a young girl across the aands. He turned sharply and called into the shallows the mime “Hannah.” A woman came from a farther room in answer; her gaze, too, was troubled, as she awaited his errand. “Hannah," asked the young man, “can you tell me why Mary, our little Mary, Is so restless—why no amuse ment, no talk seems to engage her? Are we at fault that she is discon tented? "Please, Hannah.” he requested, “tell me again the story of our rescue, ■o long ago.” “It was on a night like this, moon light everywhere, summer In the soft winds, that the great boat sank, with fire curling her decks. Sank quickly, far. far out in the sea. We were going to the old country—the minister, his kind wife and the two children. You, Bruce, a small chap—Robin, they called you then—-and I had been your nurse since yon entered the world. And the little Mary, then but a baby. Her mother had put her In my arms when she refused to leave her hus band's side as small boats were hur riedly lowered to save the women and Children. “My baby first," she said. “My hus band and I may come after. They nev er came. It was the gentle minister who placed you in mv cure. So. near the morning. X, with my two small charges, and other women who were of us, reached this same shore. The others went—I know not where. When I learned that you anil the baby Mary were orphanpcl I. who had no home nor country, decided to stay on here, below on the beach, where the bum ble folks earned their living. I be came one of them—your father had left very little money, so I worked with the women, making nets, doing what I could. And two years passed thus before the old Scotch couple, who lived up In this great house which we called The Castle.’ came down one day to the shore to see about adopting you. the Scotch minister’s son. They were not so sure that they wanted a little girl, hut the sister, I persuaded them, should not be separated from her older brother. So they took yon both, to be companions of their lonely old age. “But they Insisted that you should bear their name, to be their future heir, and you became Bruce Gordon. Little Mary’s name, in its simplicity, pleased them. And I was retained to care for you both. If you hail rela tives In the city where your true parents had lived, they did not In terest themselves in Inquiring after your welfare. That Is all.” The man moved towaisl the balcony. “But Mary,” he said, still troubled, “seems not so happy since her return from college. Yet, when 1 ask her if the silence here palls upon her—If she would seek friends in Hie city and live a part of the time with them—she be comes truly distressed. “ ‘I cannot bear any place.' she said to me last night, 'that is apart from you.’ “Robert Searles, a nice fellow, too, you must know, Hannah Is anxious to marry my sister. I—’’ he laughed harshly, “I would he miserable all my life If Mary should return his affec tion, so selfish do 1 grow In my love for her. But Mary assures me that she cares nothing for Searles nor any other man. save myself.” A smile of sweetness erased his j frown. “So, too, my little sister loves me. Yet, what is the doubt, the vague un ?ertalnty which seems"—he spoke as one trying to solve a new-found i>rob lem—“to draw her from me. I might fancy the girl in love. Hannah, if she had mentioned even the name of a man.” “In love—” she whispered, “and al ways the little lamb is talking with me wistfully about her brotller Bruce. I will tell you a part of the story which I have withheld. I hoped never to tell it. “The little Mary rescued from the ■hip with you is not your sister. It was a pretty little dancing mother who forced her In dying desperation into my motherly arms. She would stay with lier young husband, as I told you, to the last. He was her danc ing partner across the continent. Stage people, you understand—yet true and loving. So I kept faith with the trusting creature, and kept her child. Ana when the old Scotch couple came with their strict standards to adopt a minister's son. why I, who loved as my own the tiny blue-eyed child of the dancer, 1 longed that she, too, might know advantages, that her future might be assured, and to her I gave the plain name of Mary, and I spoke so that they might take ner as your sister. Man, dear, may it not now be love Indeed tpr you—the love of a woman fpr her husband-to-be—that Mary, In her Innocence, has learned to know?" Very still the young man stood. To the old nurse he spoke no word of re buke. A light Illuminated his face, and ha ran, at last, swiftly down the bal cony stair. Old Hannah, watching fror, her window with tear-filled eye* saw presently the man whom she had reared and sheltered fold close In Ida arms the beloved young girl of her care. Tee Much Learning. “After ■ man gets a certain amount af education,” said Ducle Eben. “be has to learn to fohglt some of It so’s It won't keep glttln* in de way.”—Wash ington Evening Star. loins of Us Knew 1C A curtain lecture la worth all the Sermons In the world for teaching tha of patience and long suffering, htngton Irving. ffhrtea Hi *gyp««> Tembe. were «auwi la m y to im. ! SEAPORT FOR INLAHD STATE Arizona Wants Slice of Mexico to Gain Access to Sea for Its Huge Shipments of Minerals. Washington—“The •Ararat’ of a strictly American ’Noah,' real com munist Inhabitants, a huge lava flow, and saJt and sand sufficient to curS most of the world’s fish and to keep all Its builders and glass factories ousy”—these, says a bulletin issued by the National Geograiffilc society, are some of the hv-products, valuable i and otherwise, that the United States j would acquire If It successfully acted I on a recently reported resolution of the Arizona house of representatives. The resolution seeks to add to the state a small triangle of northern Mexico. “It Is for quite a different reason, however,” continues the hulletln, “that Arizona desires what might be called this ’second Gadsden Purchase’ of one of the most desolate and least known regions of North America. The map show's that while the south ern boundary of the state extenda due west for a space from the south western corner of New’ Mexico, It then strikes northwestward at a very ■light angle. The resolution speks an arrangement with Mexico by which this bend In the southern boundary of the state would be eliminated so that the line would continue as it started. In a due east and west direc tion. The trlnngular aren that would be added to the state would he ahorft 240 miles long by about 50 miles wide at the point of greatest breadth. Bottled Up by Narrow Strip. “The Important consideration la that this long narrow triangle Is all thnt separates Arizona from the sea— the Gulf of California, huge arm of the Pacific. Add It to Arizona, and overnight the state would desert the 27 Inland commonwealths and Join the 21 that border on salt WRter. With Its hundreds of thousands of tons of mlnersals to ship, the state Is now bottled up by a narrow region unde veloped and little likely to tie devel oped by Its present owner. It Is felt that even the desolate, practically tralllesa desert, and the lack of nat ural harbors on ttie gulf would not deter Yankee enterprise and Yankee engineering ability from laying down a trail of steel and constructing quays or pier® at which ocean steamers would soon he loading, furnishing the cheap transportation thnt bulky prod ucts demand. “The areas of most states are well known, even the parts sparsely popu lated. It Is hnrd for dwellers In many other portions of the United States to realize, therefore, thnt not ontv Is this trlnn.de of Mexico a terra Incognita, hut that the portion of Arizona which adjoins It Is almost equally so. Most of the region sonth of the Southern Pacific railroad may he thought of as s desert on which small broken rocky ranges of mountains have been super imposed. "P.oth north and south of the bor der. this region Is given over almost wholly to a handful of Papago Indians with communistic customs who range as freely as did their remote ances tors, needing to give In their desolate homeland little or no though* to hor der-llnes or to the governmental ma chinery of states and nations. The region—both American and Mexican— la known roughly as ‘Papaguerla.’ and Is seldom traversed by white men. “Through It the International boun dary extends, the ultimate In arbi trary lines. Swerving neither to the right nor to the left It extends, a straight, geometrical line, running np sheer cliffs and over craggy peaks, hurdling great valleys and tlnv arrovoa. crossing deserts, lava flows, and sand dunes, until It strikes the Colorado river some fifteen miles hplow Yuma. Indian “Noah” Saved Wolf and Beetle. “The Mexican triangle of Papa guerla. which It Is proposed to add to Arizona, Is even a more Inhospitable j country than the border region. In addition to the features of the latter, It embraces a district 30 by 40 miles covered by extinct volcanic craters and an ancient lava flow, and hun dreds of square miles of great tower ing sand dunes that create a land scape like that of parts of the Sahara. On the highest lava peaks of Plnacate, say the old Papago legends, their 191 ! der Brother’ landed from his cask after the deluge and after floating around the world four times. While hla solicitude for animals was not as extensive as that of the Hebraic Noah, he at least managed to save a coyote and a beetle. The Papagos formerly were ‘sand people’ living In the sand dune region near the lava fields, with headquarters at the few small water bolea. This region la now practically deserted, the Papagos living by dry farming and stock-raising farther east and north. “There la no general knowledge of good natural harbors along the portion mt the Gulf of Oaltfomla that would be Included in the proposed triangular addition to Arizona, but probably there would be little difficulty In con structing harbor facilities either along Bahia Aralr, which would mark the southern boundary of the addition, or northward toward the head of the gulf. The larger sand dunes are 20 miles from the shore near the gulf head and an pqual distance from the Colorado river. The most feasible railroad m”te nrohnhlv would he from Ho- ■ ' rf Yuma, extending] Not Good In a Fight. “One er dese safety razors,” said Uncle Eben, “may be safer foh shavlp’, but It ain’t no perfection at a rough party.”—Washington Evening Star. India's Way and Our Own. India's method of Judging a man by hla caste Is about as intelligent as our method of Judging him by bis cash.— Ruffalo Evening News, Queer Human Way*. A man la presented to a girl and then If all goes well the girl Is given awes to the man.—Boston Transcript. WINSOME CfttPE COSTUME j This simple little white crepe outfit hat a bit of drawn work done in con trasting color, and when worn with such a really lovely hat ie an attrac tive getup. TWO-TONE HOSIERY IS SMART Silk and Lisle Mixtures Shown in All 6hades, With or Withoi** Colored Clock* Stockings of silk and lisle mixtures. In all shades are shown, with or with out colored clocks. Comblnalions of stik and wool In similar shades are worn for golf and one of the smartest, perhaps, of all the sport Btocklngs 1a a heavily ribbed, coarsely woven ull sllk white slocking, which bus a very dull finish. Woolen stockings, woven In plaids to match the Argyle sweater, are still very much In favor, but these bril liant checkerboard effects have been So overworked that they should only he recommended In the soberer com binations of black, brown, gray and beige with white. For use with white canvas or buckskin shoes for sports or country wear, plain white lisle stockings are being shown. Two-tone silk stockings are offered \ tor country wear In two new styles. | One skilfully woven stocking (which combines a color with white) gives the two-tone effect at all times. These may he had with or without embroid ered clocks, in many color combina tions. Including navy blue and white, black and white, and cordovan and white, Nile green und gold, or royal changeable, present one color In one light and the other In another. Tills changeable stocking Is of medium weight and may he had in such com binations. for example, as mauve and white, Nile green and gold, or royal blue and gold, to mention only a few. In conclusion. It Is perhaps unneces sary to re|feat that the trend of the modp as exemplified by the selections made by women of breeding. Is more snd more a wav from the overelabor ate shop.—Vogue. DRESSES FOR LITTLE GIRLS Midsummer Frocks Are Charming in Their Simplicity and Varied in Their Colorings. The showing of little girls’ dresses j seems to grow more varied and Inter- , estlng as the season progresses, and organdies of summery shades add to the rainbow hues that distinguish the average showroom. Midsummer dresses cow on display are charming in their simplicity and varied in their colorings, and are distinguished by an unusual variety of design. ' White and colored organdie often are com bined, and as a rule there Is some hand embroidery to add a note of distinction to these pretty little "dress-up" frocks. Dotted swiss in colors, combined with white, often is seen and In the dainty party dresses an additional color note is introduced by use of a knot of gavly colored flowers here and there. An especially pretty organdie model has two tiny bou quets of organdie flowers In pastel hues to add to its charm. Small ornaments of bakellte frequently are used on children's dresses, usnally as a finish to the sash or as pendant* on a contrasting neck cord. The Buffums are great tourists. Dui* tng the summer there Isn’t a week-end they miss going out In their little open car. They never tniss a bet. There Isn't one of the better-known week-end resorts they fall to visit. But as noon as the cold weather comes the car Is drained of water and the storage bat tery Is put In the cellar until spring. Neighbors of the Buffums have no ticed Mrs. Buffum making frequent visits to the garage of late, bearing covered dishes and paper packages of food. One neighbor was Anally con strained to find out what these proces sions meant. Mrs. Buffum explained: “Our house Is go hot,” she said, “that we needed more Ice than In sum mer, so I’m using the car as an Icebox. And I’m saving the price of five gallons of gas a week on my Ice bill.*’ Feat of Arboriculture. A gl-nt redwood tree 210 -feet high was recently roofed 20 feet without lowering from Its vertical position. Learn "Style" From the Bible, Iniense study of the Bible will keep my man from being vulgar In point >f style.—Coleridge. Three Things to Remember, Think of three things; whence yon ■ ame, where you are going, and to whom you must account.—Franklin. PROCLAMATION * The Sons and Daughter* of Merry Anniversary Day, Sunday, May 20th. 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