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A Mt of rare good fortune had come
Nek Barton's way. His father’s farm
ram down to the river and at the little
lalet one morning Ned came across an
old house boat. It lay in shallow wa
ter, the hold had been staved In, bat
Mb cabin was intact, although the
deck had been stripped of everything
of value.
“It has been abandoned," Ned told
hie sister Arline. “and it’s ours, isn’t
KT I have a famous idea. I'm going
to get our crowd of boys to haul It
clear ashore, prop it up, paint and re
pair It and we’ll use It as a sort of
river club house.’’
Ike young friends of Ned Burton en
tered with a vim and spirit into the
project. Within a few days they had
Ike old craft hauled free of the water
Hoe and set solidly on the sandy soil.
U was a pretty s|s>t. lined with trees
aod bushes, and for two weeks there
wae constant work on the Interior of
Ike cabin. Arline assisted in this.
She wielded a paint brush quite as ef
fectively as her brother and pieced
■mhos old carpeting in the home gar
ret to make a rttg for the cabin floor.
She coaxed some old pieces of broken
furniture from her mother, looped
scape curtains at the windows and
felt almost as nun h interested in this
share palace as Ned himself.
Artlne came into the cabin one after
noon tp find Ned seated at its table
with the parts of a hanging lamp be
fore him. It had been a gorgeous ar
ticle In its primitive perfectness. It
had a globe with dangling crystals,
poked up and down on a chain, and
pokeys, and promised to become the
principal ornament of the now cozy
and neat appearing cabin.
“Why, where did you get it. Ned?”
she questioned in wonderment.
“Pashed way back In that cubby
hele behind the closet.” explained Ned.
,4The chain Is broken and the globe
has a piece out of It. It's a famous
lamp and holds lots of oil. I’ll bet It
makes a great light,” and he rubbed
briskly at the tarnished metal. “Say.
It reminds me of Aladdin's lamp.
Maybe this is going to mend all our
had lack.”
They had known had luck, or culled It
that, in the past. Crops had been
r>o*r, an uninsured barn on the home
place had burned down with some farm
machinery it combined, and Ned had
to stay away from school to help out.
There were no parties or village fes
tivities for charming Ar'lne that year,
hat she cheerfully did her share of the
work and hoped for better times.
The lamp was set in place, every
thing ready for a celebration of the
event arranged, and Arline was alone
in the cabin tidying It up for the <*x
I»ccted guests who were to arrive in an
hoar Ned had gone after them. Her
work completed. Arline sat looking
over a portfolio that Ned had found
in the woods the day previous. He
had cptne across it under a tree where
some one had ramped, for there was
evidence of this fact in scattered food
and the ashes of a fire. Ned had
brought Hie article to Arline. explain
ing all this.
The [portfolio was made of fine leath
er and was apparently costly, and
there in gilt letters on its exterior the
Initials V. D Inside were some 30
[pencil sketches, and one of them was
that of Arline standing at the well of
the old home. She was pleased, yet
mystified at this, and more so at sev
eral roughly penciled sketches 1n
which the same fare and figure were
canvases.”
"The portfolio belongs to some art
ist on his summering jaunt," decided
Arline. “He most have been near the
boose u hen I did not see hint, and
made that hurried sketch of me. Why
has he been using it as a model for
■tore ambitious pictures? Certainly I
have no such beauty and grace as
these exacting artists require for their
canvases.”
Jnst at that moment, although she
was unaware of it. some one was
viewing her through the open cabin
window, attributing to her Indeed just
those characteristics of perfection. She
made a perfect picture for painter,
poet or lover at that moment. The
bright light fell across her fair golden
hair, setting it all a glimmer with
radiance, her unique environment
served to brighten the effect of her
daintiness and loveliness by contrast
with her somewhat unusual surround
ings. It was the eye of a pointer that
took all this in. that of Vane Darrell,and
he reveled in the fascinating element
of the scene.
She was his girl of the well whom
he had sketched from n covert near
the house a week agone in his casual
summering stroll. The Impression of
that moment was lasting with him.
and now. It was Intensified with glad
ness as he recognized his sketcli port
folio on the table before this charm
ing young lady. A meeting was inev
itable, and after a faw words of ex
planation Darrell was an Invited gueat
for the occasion.
In the cabin of the renovated boat
house he had met her. There he wooed
and won bur. There, too, on an oc
casion when the happy Arline first
wore her engagement ring. Ned laid It
ail to his treasured "Aladdin’s Lamp.”
Much Milder.
#”Dorrt you think the onlja board
craze is passing?”
"I never thought the interest was
sufficiently dignified to be called a
craze" said Miss Cayenne, “it wa*
only a foolishness."
PUZZLE TO SCIENCE
Origin of This Race Hangs on the
Tale of a Snail.
Mystery of Migrations Stumps Hun
dred Experts Who Are in Quest of
Polynesian Data.
Honolulu, T. H.—If certain varieties
of snails in the Hawaiian islands
could talk, tell whence they started
their migrations and how they trav
eled from one Island to another In the
Pacific, the world would be close to
the solution of the origin of the Poly
nesian race, according to scientists at
tending the Pan-Pacific scientific con
gress in session here.
Upward of a hundred of the most
noted experts of most of rhe countries
bordering the Pacific ocean hnve dis
cussed the possible origin of the Poly
nesians during the sessions, and on
one point they all agree—they don’t
know yet where the Polynesians ori
ginated.
Having failed to pry any Informa
tion out of the snail, the scientists
turned to the common nr garden vari
ety of chicken. This useful bird Is
believed to have been domesticated by
the Polynesians about KMX) It. C. Ac
cording to scientific data the chicken
reached Kgypt about TOO It. C. It Is
believed to have originated In south
ern Asia, hut how did it get to Poly
nesia? Another Impasse.
Begonia seeds and those of about
Ttxi other plants found In the Hawaii
an group furnished a little more Infor
mation than either the snail or the
chicken, according to the scientists. .
Ocean enrrents are said to have 1
brought tlipm here. Kquatnrial cur- i
rents flowing across Central America
from the Atlantic are believed to have
forced the Pacific currents westward, ,
carrying driftwood and seeds. The
process of transportation and germina
tion appears to have been fairly j
lengthy, since it is estimated that per- j
haps one sets! arrived from the Ameri
can continent and bore fruit within j
the period of a million years.
Ornsshoppers furnished their quota
to the discussion which terminated j
about where it had begun in the j
known facts that the Polynesian race
came out of the unknown and, being j
a rapidly dying race, is fast passing
to the uncharted shore where It was
horn.
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Eggs Proved Too Frail
As Carriers of Whisky
Kggs may tie all right to ship
whisky in, but the baggage
smashers must handle such cases
with cure. At a station In West
Virginia some of Hie eggs.hroke
and a prohibit ion inspector
found three cases of “doctored5'
eggs.
Kneh egg had been carefully
“blown" from the shell. After
whisky bad been poured in. the
•aperture had been sealed with
cement.
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A. 3ART0N HEPBURN
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A Ban oil ilepburn suggest s im
common-sense remedy of “work” as a
cure for impending and existing evils
NEW JUMP IN IMMIGRATION
Increase of 20,000 in Week Laid to
Typhus and War in
Europe.
Washington. D. C.—Immigration
officials here profess to be mystified
at the sudden increase in immigration
which approximated 20,000 persons
last week ; and, it continued, would
add 1,000.000 to the population of the
country in a year. Louis F. Post, as
sistant secretary of the department of
labor, said today no Information has
yet readied the department which will
explain the situation.
"But I have a theory about It,” said
Mr. Post. "I am Inclined to think that
many of these people are coming here
to get away from conditions at home
and that the condition Is only tempor
ary. Only lust week a ship was held
up at quarantine with typhus aboard,
and the war Is not yet over in KTrope.
Either one of these conditions would
naturally make a lot of people anxious
to get away.”
((E). I»i0 W>*(prn Wu -pitp. r Cnlnn.)
“Come home." wrote Walter Dunn'*
truly loving wife. "We miss you.
Never mind as to your failure in bet
tering things—they are good enough
as they are, as long as we are to
gether."
“Dear little woman!" enthused the
recipient of the letter and his heart
warmed and home, poor as It was,
seemed a fine berkryting havrtt at that
moment.
Hard as Nellie and he had worked
on the littlp ten-acre patch of ground
at the limits of Weston, they wound
up at the end of every year in debt.
They hail enough to eat and that was
about all. There were two little chil
dren. however. Father and mother
did not mind wearing old mended
clothes, hut they deplored their In
ability lo dress their children as those
of their neighbors were attired.
“If we only had a little capital to
Invest In fertilizers and the machinery
to do real farming. I wouldn't call
the king my brother,” Walter had as
serted strenuously “Why. the old
stumps and rocks routed out and a
year given in preparing the land for
real cultivation, and I'd show you
results."
Rut they never yet had the money
or thp tlmeAto carry out Walter’s plan.
It was certainly practicable, for oth
prs with money had made grand suc
cesses. So. burdened with debt and
the prospect ahead more forlorn and
unpromising than ever. Walter had
held a serious consultation with Nellie.
“I know no trade.” lie confessed.
“The city is pmhnhly crowded with
jnst such unsuccessful and disappoint
ed fellows ns myself, hut It must offer
some opportunities to a willing man.”
He had come to Alton, a thriving
little city, to try hi« luck. Three
weeks’ earnest effort to secure work
went for practically nothing. He grew
homesick for Ihe wife and the littlp
ones. He wrote so to Nellie. The
answer to his letter decided him. He
spent two hours at dnsk strolling
about the streets thinking it all over
and decided to start hack for home
the next morning. There came a slleht
sprinkle of rain and. as he wore his
best suit of clothing. Walter stepped
back Into the, entrance of a broad
doorway just above a fashionable res
taurant "Suppet rooms upstairs," he
read on an illuminating glohp and It
made him think of home, for his prov
ender for the day had been light.
He had hut two dollars In Ilfs pocket
and was saving of that for it would
take him only two-thirds of the way
home.
As Walter stood under, “belter a
middle aged man opulence prevailing
In dress, manner and ornament, came
down Ihe stairs glanced along the
street then Into the lower restaurant
and then chanced to take Walter with
in Ills vision, lie wore a light over
coat of peculiar pattern and this I e
removed ns he rc entered the arch
way. half halted, studied Walter close
ly ami ihen approached him.
“Toting man." he *poke. “have v”l
the lime and Inclination to partake
of a very princely supper?"
“Why," replied Walter, smiling at
the oddity of the circumstance. “1
scarcely understand von."
"A'ery well Some friends are
gathered for a little hantpiet ■ others
expected have not arrived We are
Just thirteen as it Is, and the super
stitions ones won’t «it down until we
have filled the fourteenth chair."
“I shall bp glad to he at your sent,
lee.” said Walter simply, and a few
minutes later found himself one of *
party of men who suggested refine
ment and wealth. He who had Invited
him spoke an occasional word lo him.
hut Walter did not intrude upon the
general conversation
“Such a meal!" he told Nellie after
ward. and *nld It to himself. For two
hours, as a truly hungry man. Walter
reveled at a table of luxury and
plenty, lie thanked the man who had
Invited him when the repast was mer
and came down to the street alone like
a man In a dream He started at once
for his hoarding house. Half way
down the block. Just ahead of him a
man acting suspiciously stepped from
a dark alley. The coat he wore at
once attracted the attention of Walter,
If was the one he had noticed on ds
recent friendly host. In a flash Wal
ter decided that the Inrker had stolen
the garment and had slipped out the
rear way with it.
“Just a minute." tny friend." he
apoke, hurrying to the man and seizing
him by the collar. "Stolen property,
eh?" But the s||ek thief evaded de
tention by slipping out of the garment
and dashing away.
Walter returned to the Ijanquet room
to tell his story. The owner of the
cent excitedly rummaged the garment,
revealing a Inrge package of papers.
"My friend, you have done me a
vast service. That package holds over
ten thousand dollars In negotiable
bonds. Wh*t can I do for you to re
pay your diligence and honesty?"
"I need a little money to pay part
of my way home t<> my wife and chil
dren.” replied Waiter frankly.
“Wife and children? That sounds
Interesting to a lonely old bachelor.
Come, sit down and tell me about It.”
And because he of opulence was
whole-hearted and sympathetic, and
because Walter told the truth In hla
simple story, when he left the city
Walter carried with him sufficient to
carry out all bis cherished farming
plans, with his new friend an lnier
Mted friend for Ufa.
Miraculous Bell.
A qualnt-looklng hell Is known a*
the '‘Miraculous Bell of St. Paul" and
ts reported to be greatly venerated
by the faithful folk of the Isle of
8atr, France, to which spot It Is re
torted to have been conveyed from
England by a fish In the sixth cen
tury !
South America Grows Any Crop.
It Is claimed for Smith America
Ihnt It has greater undeveloped re
lources than any other continent. Its
! mil can produce any crop grown on
the earth and Its mines of gold and
tllver and roal havp been scarcely
touched.
Age of the Great Sphinx.
The age of the Great Sphinx in
Egypt is unknown, but It is considered
well established that if was In exist
ence at the tlmp of Cheops, and was |
repaired by him earlier than the,year |
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The belief In the luck-bringing power
of the horseshoe attained Its greatest
diffusion at the end of the eighteenth
and the beginning of the nineteenth
'entury. Lord Nelson had a horse
shoe nailed to the mast of the Victory;
and In many towns It was not unusual
to see hulf of the houses with horse
shoes fastened over the door.
Plain Truth.
One of the sublime.-* things In this
rorld la plain truth.—Coleridge.
He WH R'ght.
“Can an, bo, tell me the three
food* required to Keep the hod, to
healthT" There was a silence lo the
class till one youth held up bl§ hand
and replied: “Tour breakfast, root
dinner and ,onr supper!
Coffee Tree Grow* 30 Feet
The coffee tree In a wild state wn
jrotv to a height or 30 feet : when .-i
ttvated If Is pruned down to five fee
'or convenience In gathering the b* r
1es.
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The Judicial Ballot
Non-Partisan
For
Judge of f
Municipal Court
Arthur C. Wakeley
Candidate for
JUDGE OF THE
DISTRICT COURT
FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT t
Now Nervine bn one of the Seven Dintrifi
JudeeN.
Flection Nov. 2, 1920
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