THE ENCHANTED BARN
copyright ISIS, by J. B. LlppInccU Co.
When ~>ho had r 'Covered a Tit
*
tie trom her wonder and aston
ishment, and realized that he had
asked h r to marry him, aud was
waiting for his answer, she lifted
her wondering eyes to his face,
aud tried to speak as her con
science and reason bade her.
“But I'm not like the other
girls you know," she said brave
ly. Then he broke iu upon her
fervently.
“No, you're not like any oth
er girl I know in the whole wide
world. Thank God for that I
You are one among a thousand!
No, you’re one among the whole
earthful of women! * You’re the
only one I could ever love!”
“But listen please; you haven’t
thought. I’m not a society girl.
I don’t belong in your circle. I
couldn’t grace your position the
way your wife ought to do. Re
member, we’re nobodies. We’re
poor. We live in a barn!”
“What do you suppose I care
about that!” he answered eag
erly. “You may live in a barn
all your days if you like, and I’ll
love you just the same. I’ll come
.and live in the barn with you if
you want me to. My' position!
My circle! What’s that! You’ll
grace my home and my'life as no
other girl could do. You heart
of my heart! You strong, sweet
.spirit! The only question I’m
going to ask of you is, Can you
love me! If you can, I know I
can make you happy, for I lovo
you better than my life. Answer,
please. Do you love me!”
She lifted her eyes,, and their
spirits broke through their
glances. If the old man at the
other end of the ear was look
ing they did not know it.
They came back to the cottage
at the shore with a manner so
blissful and so unmistakable that
even the ehfhlreii noticed. Eliza
beth whispered to Carol at the
table: “My brother likes your
sister a lot, doesn’t he! I hope
sho likes him, too.”
“I guess she does,” responded
Carol philosophically. “She
oughtta. He’s been awfully good
to her, and. to all of us.”
“People don’t like people just
for that,” said wise Elizabeth.
Harley, out on the veranda af
ter dinner, drew near to Carol to
confide.
“Say, kid, I guess he has got
a case on her all right now. Gee 1
Wouldn’t that be great! Think
of all those cars! ’ ’
But Carol giggled.
“Goodnight! Harley! How
could we ever have a wedding in
a barn! And they’re such par
ticular people, too!”
“Aw, gee!” said Harley, dis
gusted. “You girls are always
thinking of things like that! As
if that mattered. You can get
married in a chicken-run if you
really have a case like that on
each other! You make me
tired!” and he stalked away in
ec_1..1 .— *~
UKV-1IVIV •
Meantime the unconscious sub
jects of this discussion had gone
to Mrs. Hollister to confess, and
the sea was forgotten by all three
for that one eveuing at least,
even though the moon was wide
and bright and gave a golden
pathway across the dark water.
For a great burden had rolled
from Mrs. Hollister’s shoulders
when she found her beloved eld
est daughter was really loved by
this young man, and he was not
just amusing himself for a little
whilo at her expense.
The days that followed were
like one blissful fleeting dream
to Shirley. She just could not
get used to the fact that she was
engaged to such a prince‘among
men I It seemed as if she were
dreaming, and that presently she
would wake up and find herself
in the office with a great pile
of letters to write, and the per
plexing problem before her of
where they were going to live
next winter. She had broached
that subject once to Graham shy
ly, saying that she must begin to
look around as soon as she got
back to town and he put ‘her
aside, asking her to leave that
question till they all went back,
as he had a plan he thought she
might think well o{, but he
couldn’t tell her about it just yet.
•He also began to urge her to
write at once to Mr. Barnard and
resign her position, but that she
would not hear of.
* ^*No,” phe paid decidedly.
*"We cbuldn’t live without my
••salary, and there are a lot of
•things to be thought out and
' before I can be married,
we need to get to know
er and to grow into each
other's Jives a little bit. You
| haven't any idea-even now how
: far I am from being fitted to be
the wife of a man in your posi
tion. You may be sorry yet. If
you are ever going to find it out,
1 want you to do it beforehand.”
He" looked adoringly into her
eyes.
‘‘I know perfectly now dear!”
he said, ‘‘and I’m not going to
be satisfied to wait a long time
for you to find out that you don’t
really care for me after all. If
you’ve got to find that out, I
believe I’d rather it would be
after I have you close and fast
and you’ll have to like me any
way.”
And then the wonder and
thrill of it all would roll over her
agaiq and she would look into his
eyes and be satisfied.
Still she continued quite de
cided that nothing could be
done about prolonging her vaca
tion, for she meant to go back to
Bnrnard & Clegg’s on the day
set. _
‘‘You know I’m the man of
the house,” she said archly. ‘‘I
can’t quite see it at all myself—
how I’m ever going to give up.”
‘‘But I thought I was going
to bo the man of the house,”
pleaded Sidney. ‘‘I’m sure I’m
quite capable and eager to look
out for the interests of my wife’s
family.”
‘‘But you see I’m not the kind
of a girl that has been looking
around for a man who will sup
port my family.”
‘‘No, you suroly arc not!” said
the young man, laughing. ‘‘If
you had been, young lady, I ex
pect you’d have been looking yet
so far as I am concerned. It is
because you are what you are
that I love you. Now that’s all
right about being independent,
but it’s about time to fight this
thing to a finish. I don’t see why
we all have to be made miserable
just because there are a lot of
unpleasant precedents and con
ventions and crochets in the
world. Why may I not have the
pleasure of helping to take care
of your perfectly good family if
| I want to ? It is one of the great
est pleasures to which I am look
ing forward, to try and make
them just as happy as I can, so
that you will be the happier.
I’ve got plenty to do it with.
God has been very good to me in
that way, and why should you
try to hinder me!”
And then the discussion would
end in a bewildering look of
worshipful admiration on Shir
ley’s part and a joyous taking
possession of her and carrying
her off on some ride or walk or
other on the part of Graham.
lie did not care just now that
she was slow to make plans. He
was enjoying each day, each
hour, to the full. He wanted to
keep her from thinking about the
future, and especially about the
winter, till she got home, and so
he humored her and led her to
other topics.
One night, as they sat on the
dark veranda alone, Graham said
to George:
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XX JUU WCIC UUllCgC,
where would you want to pre
pare t J ”
He wondered what the boy
would say, for the subject of col
lege had never been mentioned
with relation t» George. He did
not know whether the boy had
ever thought of it. But the an
swer came promptly in a ringing
voice:
“Central High! They’ve got
the best football team in the
city.’’
“Then you wouldn’t want to
go away Ao some preparatory
school t ’ ’
“No, sir!” was the decided an
swer. “I believe in the public
school every time! When I was
a little kid I can remember my
father taking me to walk and
pointing out the Central high
school, and telling me that some
day I would go there to school.
I used to always call that ‘my
school.’ I used to think I’d get
there yet, some day, but I guess
that’s out of the question.”
“Well, George, if that’s your
choice you can get ready to enter
as soon as you go back to the
city.”
“What!” George’8 feet came
down from the veranda railing
with a thud, and he sat upright
in the darkness and stared wildly
at his prospective brotherinl&w.
Then he slowly relaxed and his
young face grew grim and stern.
“No chance!” he said lacon
ically.
“Why not!”
“Because I’ve got my mother
and the children to support. I
can’t waste time going to school.
I’ve got to be a man.”
Something sudden like a choke
came in the young man’s throat,
and a great love for the brave
boy who was so courageous in
his self-denial.
“George, you’re not a man
yet, and you’ll shoulder the bur
den twice as well when you’re
equipped with a college educa
tion. I mean you shall have it.
Do you suppose I’m going to let
my new brother slave away be
fore his timet No, sir; you’re
going to get ready to make the
best man that’s in you. And as
for your mother and the family,
isn’t she going to be my mother,
and aren’t they to be my family?
We’ll just shoulder the job to
gether, George, till you’re older
—and then we’ll see.”
“But I couldn’t take charity
from anybody.”
“Not even from a brothert”
“Not even from a brother.”
“Well, suppose we put it in
another way. Suppose you bor
row the money from me to keep
things going, and when you are
ready to pay it back we’ll talk
about it then. Or, better still,
suppose you agree to pass it on
to some other brother when you
are able.”
They talked a long time in the
dark, and Graham had quite a
hard time breeaking down the
boy’s reserve and independence,
and getting a real brotherly con
fidence. But at last George
yielded, saw the common sense
and right of the thing, and laid
an awkward hand in the man’s,
growling out:
“You’re a pippin and no mis
take, Mr. Graham. I can’t ever
thank you enough! I never
thought anything like this would
happen to me!”
“Don’t try thanks, George. !
We’re brothers now, you know.
Just you do your best at school,
and it’s all I ask. Shirley and
I are going to be wonderfully
proud of you. But please don’t
call me Mr. Graham any more.
Sid, or Sidney, or anything you j
like, but no more mistering.”
He flung a brotherly arm
across the boy’s shoulders and
together they went into the
house.
Meantime the beautiful days
went by in one long, golden
dream of wonder. The children
were having the time of their
lives, and Elizabeth was never so
happy. Shirley sat on the wide
verandas and read the wealth of
books and magazines which the
house contained, or roamed the
beach with the children and Star,
or played in the waves with
Doris, and wondered if it were
really Shirley Hollister who was
having all this good. time.
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The morning they all started
back to the city was a memor
able one. Graham had insisted
that Shirley ask for a holiday
until Tuesday morning so that
they might go up with them in
the car, and have the whole day
to be at home and help her moth
er get settled. She had consent
ed, and found to her surprise that
Mr. Barnard was most kind
about it. He had even added that
he intended to raise her salary,
and she might consider that here
after she was to have $10 more
per month for her services, which
they valued very highly.
George had sent his resigna
tion to the store and was not to
go back at all. Graham had ar
ranged that, for school began the
day after his return and he
would need to be free at once.
Elizabeth to her great de
light, was to go with the Hol
listers and remain a few days un
til her parents returned. Mrs.
Graham had written from the
west making a proposition to
Mrs. Hollister that Carol be al
lowed to go to school with Eliza
beth the next winter, because
Mrs. Graham felt it would be so
good for Elizabeth to have a
friend like that. Mrs. Hollister,
however, answered that she felt
it better for her little girl to re
main with her mother a little
longer; and that she did not feel
it would be a good thing for her
child, who would be likely to
have a simple life before her with
very few luxuries, to go to a fash
ionable finishing school where
the standards must all necessar
ily be so different from those of
her own station in life, and, kind
as the offer had been, she must
decline it. She did not say that
Carol had fairly bristled at the
idea of leaving her beloved high
school now when she was a senior
and only one year before her
graduation. That bit of horror
and hysterics on Carol’s part had
been carefully suppressed within
the four walls of her mother’s
room; bat Elizabeth, deeply dis
appointed, had wept her heart
out over the matter, and finally
been comforted by the promise
that Mrs. Hollister would write
and ask Mrs. Graham to allow
Elizabeth to go to school with
Carol the coming winter. That
proposition was now on its way
west, together with an announce
ment of Sidney’s engagement to
Shirley. Sidney was confidently
expecting congratulatory tele
grams that morning when he
reached the city. He had writ
ten his father in detail all about
their plans for returning, and
how the work at the old barn was
progressing, and Mr. Graham,
senior, was too good a manager
not to plan to greet the occasion
properly. Therefore Graham
stopped at his office for a few
minutes before taking the family
out to Glenside, and sure enough
came down with his hands full of
letters and telegrams, and one
long white envelope which he put
carefully in his breast pocket.
They had a great time reading
the telegrams and letters.
The way out to Glenside
seemed very short now, watching
as they did for each landmark.
The children were as eager to get
back as they had been to leave,
and Star snuggled in between
Harley’s feet, held his head high,
and smiled benevolently on
everybody, as if he knew he was
going home and was glad. They
began to wonder about the chick
ens, and if the garden was all
dried up, and whether the doves
were all right. There was an
undertone of sadness and sup
pressed excitement, for it was in
the minds of all the Hollisters
that the time in the old barn
must of necessity be growing
brief. The fall would soon be
upon them, and a need for
Continued next week.
Way* of the Lord.
From the Springfield Republican.
To have the republican party .definitely
committed to a drastic limitation of
naval armament wil be an Immense
gain. Other political parties could well
afford, In the Interest of the country and
of civilization, to give a republican ad
ministration ungrudging credit for es
tablishing the 10-year naval holiday In
the event of the adoption of the Hughes
plan. All hall to Harding, Lodge, Root,
the younger Roosevelt, Denby, Weeks,
Poindexter, General Wood and Rear-Ad
miral Sims—all those indeed who have
spent years of their lives preaching pre
paredness as a republican gospel! The
limitation of navies under their auspices,
with Its crowning as a republican policy
and the glorious achievement of a re
publican administration, could not but
place the general cause under the
guardianship of the most powerful poli
tical party In America for years to
come.
This Is not to say that other parties
have not had In their ranks and among
their leaders so-called big navy men.
Yet there Is abundant historical basis for
saying that under Bryan's long leader
ship the democratic party became more
pacifist In spirit than the republican
party under the Inspiration anil direc
tion of Roosevelt, Two new battleships
a year was the Roosevelt policy even
In the period before the World war.
Curious inversions of role occur In
party government and often they are to
the great advantage of the country. In
many ways It was a blessing to have
the federal reserve banking system es
tablished by a democratic administra
tion with the aid of the followers of
William Jennings Bryan from the
“corn tassel" districts of the south and
west. For the new banking system Is
now measurably safe from attack by
the democratic party, or by that large
element In It which periodically cam
paigns against Wall street. No important
reform can do better than be carried to
triumph by the forces which had long
viewed It with hostility and aversion.
Banking reform Is secure today because
the party of soft money and free sllv<»
adopted It and put It through.
If the Irish problem la finally settled
to the satisfaction of all by the unionists
or coalitionists, the settlement will bo
the less likely ever- to be overturned.
The party of Balfour and the Chamber
lains can grant dominion rule, which
Is much more than Gladstone ever of
fered. and can insure the permanence
I of the concession. For there can be no
successful reaction In England against
a tory grant of freedom to Ireland be
cause In torylsm has dwelt the soul
of opposition to Irish liberties.
The Inversions of role In party gov
ernment wore never more striking than
In the more recent history of the United
States. It was the antimllltarlst Wilson
who finally was forced to ' lead the
country to victory through the World
war. It Is doubtful if his own party,
by lar the less warlike of the two great
political organisations, could have been
reconciled to hearty support of a war
administration under a republican presi
dent. Yet we now see a republican ad
min'stratum, naturally representing T5
per cent of the more militaristic ele
ments In American life, demanding that
some 80 warships costing half a billion
dollars be turned into old junk and that
no more be built for 10 years, while
the country cheers Itself hoarse and
even the steel Interests hasten to an
nounce through the Iron Age that the
overjoyed steel Industry with Its armor
plate mills welcomes disarmament.
In fhls great country It takes a
“pacifist” president to wage war and a
“militarist” president to scrap a navy
and speed up universal peace. Mysterious
ars the ways of the Lord, in a dem
ocracy.
“““TaTimfoalnst English Qiris!^^’
From the Los Angeles Times.
Lots of English women are coming to
this country. If an English girl can raise
enough money to pay her transportation
and get by the barrier she Is glad to
take a chance on America. She figures
that her chance of securing a husband
is about 100 per cent, better than in the
homeland. In England the women now
greatly outnumber the men and so the
prospects of securing a mate are not
good. When they reach this coyntry they
begin the pusult at once. What do the
American damsels think of an Invasion
of this kind? First thing we know they
will be asking a prohibitive tariff for
protection against the pauper brides of
Europe. Some of our home girls find It
hard enough to find a suitable male
mate without having to compete with
the rest of the universe. A tariff would
be a wise thing, to thetr meaneg of
thinking.
USE DRUGS TO GAIN COURAGE
After Stimulant Subsides, Criminals
Are Cringing Cowards Again,
Declares a Writer.
Stlck-up men, shoplifters, burglars
and pickpockets are the largest users
of drugs. Most persons think mor
phine, heroin, cocaine and opium are
Indulged in by the criminal classes
after the commission of a crime as a
surcease for their minds.
“Nothing is farther from the facts,”
Said an old detective. “The criminal
who works In the open uses drugs to
supply him with courage. It is a sort
of false courage, for it dies out with
the effects of the opiate. Neverthe
less without it your holdup man
would never have the nerve to carry
through a daylight robbery. A census
of the drug addictJ is a roster of the
crooks in nine cases out of ten. Of
course after a time the criminals ac
quire a permanent appetite for drugs,
but the seeming super-courage that
sends a man with a pointed gun into
a Jewelry store filled with customers
to grab trays of diamonds is only stim
ulated from the effect of the drug.
Ha)f an hour later when the influence
of the poison has worn off he Is left a
cringing, cowering coward.”—Philadel
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Records His Mower Mileage.
The latest device whereby the subur
banite can lord it over his neighbors
is a small dial attached to his lawn
mower which keeps a record of the
mileage. Because it is more Im
pressive the total is marked _ln feet in
stead of miles.
"I pushed the mower 20,000 feet
this summer,” said the man who intro
duced the novelty, “while both the fol
ders that live near me have only done
10,000. The Idea is to see how much
you can use the thing without having
the knives sharpened.”—New York
Sun.
All for a Dime.
"What have you got for a dime?”
nsked a young man with a sweet
tooth as he sauntered up to the candy
case in a drug store. The clerk
looked curiously at his inquisitor and
then looked toward the ease, mum
bling incoherently. Finally he drew
out a plate from which the young man
took one article and stood about eat
ing it, probably thinking of his boy
hood days, when a cent could buy the
same thing.—Detroit News.
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Unsophisticated.
The proud escort of a pretty girl at
the race meeting said to her as the
horse cantered past to the gate:
“That's Donoghue, the famous jockey,
on the second horse.”
"Oh, yes," said the girl, “he's quite
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Warned of Disaster.
Miss Janice, just turned seven, was
visiting her cousin, Elizabeth, age
eight, who is exceedingly careful of
her playthings, though she is known to
be generous with them, and always
willing that her friends should share
them. Janice, in some caper in the
playroom, let fall a small doll, with
great damage to Its head, and with
such sorrow to Elizabeth that she
cried, and even scolded a little. Janice,
too, cried, from mortification, and In
their tears the two girls went out to
the porch where the older folk were
sitting. mJ
"Janice broke my little pinky doll,”
sobbed Elizabeth.
“Well," sobbed Janice, at her elbow,
“I told you not to let me have the
pinky doll to play with, that’s what I
did."
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Subtraction.
“A poor excuse!” said Senator
Borah In an argument on disarma
ment. "As poor an excuse as Aunt
Dinah’s!
“ ‘Look here,’ I said to old Aunt
Dinah one day, ‘I put four pairs of
white flannel pants In the wash on
Monday, and you’ve only brought me
back three pairs. What’s your ex
cuse?’
“ ‘Mah excuse, Mars Will,’ said Aunl
Dinah, ‘is dem fo’_paIrs muster shrunb
up to free. Don’ yo’ know, Marse Will
dat flannel shrinks awful?*" t
Happiness Is a sunbeam which may
pass through a thousand bosoms with
out losing a particle of Its ray.
