TJIK 11KE: OMAHA, MONDAY, AUGUST 2, 1915,
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TTheBees Home Ma
n 17
A Woman and
Her Birthday
"The Arch Traitor
By Nell Brinkley
fopyr'ght, 1S15, Intern! News Service.
Vi
aziiHe Page
By ADA PATTERSON.
A woman awoke early on her birthday
anniversary.
In the clear, cold light of that first
itiin of the morning, when daylight and
Intellect are chill
and revealing, she fmmmmmmmmmm
aw the truth a 7
It was, without any 1 1
or atmosphere.
She saw that by
Bo trlrk of fancy,
no aubterfuge of
toilet, could she be
longer made young.
For she vai not
young. The rank of
this birthday In the
calendar of her
years i Irrefutn-
ble proof. Even the it".
latltuae inn imumn
of today permit re-
gurdiiig age. life
inldnummer waa fading for her. fne
might not disguise the fart that for her
It was early autumn. Autumn In the rich
purples and thickly veiling hase of Indian
rvmmer. perhaps, a period gracious but
brief, but still autumn.
She was attractive till. Tha man who
loved her believed It. and she, In the re
flected light of his love for her, hart be
lieved It faintly. Always a woman Is
grateful to the man who keeps alive the
welcome fiction ' of her lrresltlblnees:
But this morning. In the cold, all reveal
ing light, she believed Mm no longer.
She was merely grateful that his Illu
sion continued.
Hor talent had been very dear to her.
Too dearT Phe waa not sure. But morning
light showed her what she could not
deny, that It had yielded her something
of recognition, but not all of the fame
and fortune that In her youth, pink and
confident, had expected. Could she yet
avomiillh what she had determined,
wlh the aid of this talent to dot Into
hr heart entered a new visitor, a faint,
Tret mldKlvlng. a doubt of her own
trensth. a fear lent the night overtake
her ere the day of her endeavor was
over. For tlio first time she was afraid.
Bhe feared whnt awaited her in tha old
hndowi that waited for everyone, at tha
end of the road.
Yet, turning upon her pillow, her eyes
and her soul staring Into that cold first
light of day. i he said: "I begin to tee,"
nodding to her pillow. It was because
she had not encouraged the flowers of
friendship to grow by that path. She
had not watered them with sympathetic
tears nor smiled enough Into the faoe
that smiled Into hers.
"I see now and I will be different,"
she said. But when she had bathed and
breakfasted and read her letters, whem
the routine of a crowded dally life began,
there waa no apparent difference.
And yet that day, and many day
afterward, she said to herself, again and
gain, "I begin to see. I hope It la not
too late."
In-Shoots.
The small man looks smaller than ever
hen he accidentally lands on a high
perch.
When some fellows raise thunder they
are called patriots. Others are placed in
the nuisance class.
You can l.ever convince at fat-retainer
divorce lawyer that marriage Is a failure
at any stage cf the game.
It Is sometime difficult to determine
whether it Is the Tlllan of the play or
the author who deserves dire punish
ment. T1IE CHARM
OF MOTHERHOOD
Enhanced By Perfect Phyi
c&l Health.
The experience of Motherhood If a try
1 one to most women and marks dis
tinctly an epoch la their lives. Not one
woman ia ft hundred is prepared or on
derataxids how to properly car for her
elf. Of courts nearly every woman
nowadays has medical treatment at such
time, but many approach tha experi
ence with an organism unfitted for tha i
trial cf strength, and when It Is over j
t rr ytra has received ft shock from
which it is hard to recover. Following
right upon this comes the nervous strain
ef caring for tha child, and ft distinct
change la tha mother results.
There Is nothing more charming than
ft happy and healthy mother of children,
and indeed child-birth under the right
condi tious need be no hazard to health or
Ix-auty. The onexplainuble thing Is
that, with all the evidence of shattered
nerves and broken health resulting from
&n unprepared condition, and with eav
j ' time in which to prepare, women
v ill jr.iit In going Llindly to the trial.
Every woman at this time should rely
t ;-jn Lydi E. I'iiikham'a Vegetable
C-u"pcimd, moot valuable tonic and
i '.jtbUr of the female organism.
In many homes
once childless there
are now children be
cause of the fact
that Lydla ii link
Lam's Vegetable
tX;!. pound' makes
women normal,
Lt itlwly tiii strorg.
If jta w sit spwUl BJriee write t
J )C:i C riu.ijfci UevHilneCo. (con 11
U.J) I y un, Yuur httfr will
le ; rij J, read and andwert-4 by
i i ,.- ;s J Icll la strict coaCJeuce.
Wit
There Is One the son of the Ledy of Beauty who rose whlte-and-f
old out of the sea who wanders about the face of the Winter
land with a melody box strapped by a pale blue ribbon (pale bluets
the color, you know, that Is supposed to be man's weakness) to his
cold little back (what i ft blue knee and a frosted toe and icicles on
his lashes If a bachelor-man or maid Is to be snared by ltt) and he'll
likely come begging some day or other at your door.
There are folk on the soft green isle with the blue lakes like bits
of sky gemming it over who believe In the "Little People" still. But
even If they're wrong and there are no more of them, browny and
green, tucked away under tree roots and tweakln' your oapple over '
Read
Dy Oouverneur Morris
and
Chftrlet W. Goddafd
OwrteUi ISIS, fttas Ceases
Synopsis of I'evlous Chapters,
fur the, traslo death of John Autes
bury, his yruitualed ti. one of Aiuar
ic s SOMtlval UnuliM, iU. At hor dtlQ
i rvf. biuiiler, so aunul of ilie luleicui
kltluaps Ui baauliiul .-year-old baby
lit and brings her up tu a vartulim
to her aba m, no nutu. but Ihuiks she
Is lausiit by aiisots who iiuiruwi iter fur
Umi luualun tu iciorm lh world. At the
of 1 she IS suddenly thrual tutu tu
world wiisie ajivuts of tits lulervsla ar
iuy tu prloi.tl lu find hor.
sirtsau years later Tommy goes to the
Adirouilacka. The tutials a isaooual
tn Cur lue irlu. liy avctduiit he Is lh ul
lo nisol tha Utile Anieabuiy ali'L. as sue
iuiiwi (olio Hum her lx.ia.uuto Cflesna
the siil trora hsaveu. Naiiiir Toauuy uur
Coteail recoKuiscs each oinor. Toiiuuy
tluda n au iiiaHar lu tosuus L'aivaua
fruut i'rut. bLlUliat ami thy hUu, lu
tha uiuuuialiui, Uter ibay ar vutauad
by bullilar cacape tu au Ulautl wuol
lory auvutl tua ItlsiiL
Tutiui.y s flrat aim ,as to sat Ceistla
ay tiom bullicer. After may Ivave
beliavua Toiiuity la unable tu sat auy
boUal lu ta.ka iVlwlla lu omlng tu l.ar
cualuiua. ilut IkUr lie teraua.dra lila
lailiar Vu aveD her. When ha aueS out
lu the tan! ha fiiul bar a una. biie I mitt
Into tha hands uf whlta alaveis. but
uoapw and itoaa tu live Milh a boor fam
ily by tha name of loulua. Vv nuu llieir
sou Fraddls returns houia be fmda rlvbt
In his ou hvuaa. CaloaLia. tha aul fur
which tha underworld has ol'leieu a re
ard that ha huoad lo ant.
CWaaUa sacures work in a lars Sar
man I factory, where a treat many gula
are employed. Hera aha shows her pe
culiar ur, and nialtes friends with all
her sii'l couiiMuiuna. kiy bar talks lo the
aula aha Is able to calm a threatened
atria. a, and tha "boas" overhearing her la
moved to sranl in raiiei itie giria wuyueo.
and also to right a rvat wrong be had
done one or theiu. juat al ti ls point the
favutory catches on rire, and the work
room Is soon a blasins furnace. CalealU
retuaea tu cacap wlia tha other grui,
and Tommy liarclay ruat'es la aud car
ries her out, w tapped ui a tii rull of
doth.
Aflrr resoulns CeUjalla from the fire,
Toiiuuy la aoofcht by tlanaer ta-ciuy.
to ho ub.dvrtai.rs to paiaua.ie him tu gle
wp the u! loii.ioy rI-;a, and CvlciiU
tJIfiKTrTU. JEW AT '
BOO rl tHOU
It Here See It at the
wants him to wed her directly. He ran
not do thla. as he has do funds. KtlUlter
and Barclay introduce Ceteatla to a co
terie of wealthy mining men, who agree
la send tcieeria to the foni-inus.
The wife of the miners leader Involves
Tommy in an earapado that leads the
miners to lyncn mm. ce'eaua saves him
from the mob, but turns from him and
goea to see Kehr.
TWELFTH EPISODE.
And at that moment there was a
sound of footstepe Just outside the tent.
The feet which mode the sound belonged
to Freddie the Ferret With his usual
good luck he appeared to have arrived
In the very nick of time. Prof.. Stllllter
was not at that time to receive the klaa
for which his greedy mouth was waiting.
'Wake up!" he said la a disgusted
voice.
Celestia put her hands to her eyes.
woke, and couldn't remember just what
had been said.
"I think I'm too tired to talk," she said.
"Ho I see," aald BtUUter as Freddie
entered the tent. "Better rest then."
And the psychologist withdrew, quite
sane again and rather badly frightened.
An open Tapped tent waa certainly no
place for making love by violence; yet
for a moment the cautious man had lost
all thought of elf-control and all fear of
consequences.
It was on the afternoon of the next
day that Barclay, Bturtevant and Semmra
came to Bitumen wtlh a whole tralnload
of capltallats. and biddable men expert
la politics. The entire town almost the
entire township waa at the station to
meet them. Several brass bands played
different patriotic, airs at the same time
arid doubters and skeptics were carried
off their mental balance by the excitement
and the ahoutlng. Swaying? and tottering
above tha heads of the crowd were all
sorts of banners and transparencies, var
loualy Inscribed and erablasonod:
"Vote for the New Constitution."
"Every CltUt-n a Stockholder."
"IXvldends instead of Taxea."
"Kehr for hrnati.r."
From the station to the stockade, now
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your eyes as you pass after dusk there's one who Is "own brother"
to them, playing the wandering minstrel through the world with a
pack of tricks under his golden-feather kopf that would make the
faery people blush pink with shame for their stupidity.
He can smile the frost out of your heart he can squeeze a
rainy tear If he Just wishes as much he can look all things -at once
and more than that, too unutterably desirable, piteous, merry, gen
tle and tender, provocative, so wee, and harmless; and you think
you'll never sleep again if you cannot have him and his music beside
your hearth 'til the weather's sweeter out.
If you ave a sour bachelor who hugs your loneliness close and will
own no other but a one-seated (selfish) car, don't open your door at
Movies
wide open, and shorn of its warlike bar
barities, the crowd marched, pushed and
scrambled, headed by the bands, and
bavins' In Its midst a number of broken-
down, funereal look ins hacks In which.
four and four, rode the most pompous
and distinguished looklrox visitors, smok
ing lone black chjaXl and smiling and
raising their hats whenever the crowd
called upon them by name.
When the head of the procession came
near the tents of Celestia, set back from
the road en a little knoll. It halted, and
every man bared his head and began to
shout her na.ne. The shouting brought
her presently to the door of the main
tent a slender, girlish figure all In white,
whoso eyes shone with excitement and
triumph, whose mouth smiled with in
effable sweetness, and who waved b.r
followerg and adorers a white and slender
nana.
Even at that distance her effex-t
them was magloal. .Hats which looked
as if they had grown on their wearers'
heads for years, as fungi grow on stumps,
came off, and were waved violently or
thrown Into the air. Throats grew hoarse
wnn shouting. Then she backed from
their sight Into the big tent, after one
laat wave of the hand.
And they, becauso they knew that she
would come tu them later in tha i-wH
and speak to them and fill their hearts
full of hope and courare, allowed her now
to withdraw from their eight, and. after
one more minute of shouting they took
M the march once more, and went roar
ing toward the stockade late strikers,
late strike break era eanltalista. nollti.
clans, men, women and children, all wild
now, with excitement and enthusiasm
tha two most contagious dlseasea In the
world.
Celestia stood meanwhile in the center
of the big tent; and she toe was trmebllng
with excitement and enthusiasm and the
sense of personal triumph. And tint
looked so young and Innocent, and beau
tiful, that for a moment the frown faded
from Tommy Barclay's forehead, and the
ache from Ms heart
"Oh, Tommy," said Culaetla, "you won't
, - . - i r t,,K viu i Mtitir
spoil It all now, will youT Tou'll be some
where In the crowd there where I can
see your face, when I stand up to speak,
won't youT".
"It goes to my heart," said Tommy,
"to see how they love you. It goes to
my heart to eea bow happy their love
makes you. But I can't go to the stock
ade to be a face In the crowd. I'm afraid
things might go to my head."
"I was so happy," said Celestia, ''and
now I'm not so unhappy."
"More people are in such a state of
mind," said Tommy, "that if you said
the word they would march on Wash
ington and try to pull the president out
of the White House. I've hoped against
hope. Ive seen your power, known that
you had It, and hoped that you didn't
really have It. Tou made a little mark
on the great city of New, Tork. you will
go back on the wave of your triumph
here and sweep It off Its feet, as you
have swept Bitumen. If you go to the
stockade and show yourself once more
to those craty people and speak to them
you will start a campaign of revolution
that will sweep a sufficiently sans coun
try off Its feet I see you floating from
city to city and from village to village
in your special train, winning all hearts?
persuading all minds, and spreading, as
I think, upon my honor, the seeds of
national disaster. In the name of all that
la most sacred to you, Celestia, stop while
there is still time. Speak to those people
if you must, but tell them that you have
ben deceived, that you are the plaything
of capital, and that they have been de
ceived; wash your hands of politics and
sophistries; step down; resign. In the
Image of all that la noble and fine, you
have created a monster. Don't breathe
the final breath of life Into that monsttw
snd bring it to life a Frankenstein that
even you can never hope to control once
It gets on lu feet, and begins to think
murderous thoughts. If you go to the
meeting In tha stockade you will bring
this'monster to life. Have you no fear of
the consequences T"
She shook her head primly, but with a
little sadness.
"Celestia," he said, "back of these tents
the woods run to the) hills, vhe hills to
tha nwuntalna. Will you comet
For a moment it appeared that she hesi
tated "Won't you comer'
Then aha drew'' a depe breath and stiff
ened hr spine.
"I believe," she said gently, "that Clod
lent me to do what I have done and
what I am going to do."
(To Be Continued Tomorrow .
THA0U6H THS'JACK WITH
all when you hear a voice like a baby-bird note outside In the storm!
If you are one who's busy being famous you may Just "keek" out at
him long enough to tell him where there's ft man down the road who
has leisure (for It takes time to be a good lover, you know) and bid
him adieu and good luck.
And If you are poor! Too poor! With gaunt pockets and fax
apart dollars what can you do but tell him your fire Is thin and just
warm enough for one, and that you have only bread and cheese and
cannot afford klssesT
But don't forget to be clever for Danny is a Kobold a Wigief
a traitor faery who'll win in H he can.
For what will happen see above. NELL BRINKLEY.
The Mecca of Our Winged Hosts
Alaska the Eden Which millions of Songsters and Game Bird Visit
By GARRETT P. SERV1SS.
Tou have never thought of. Alaska as
a summer paradise for birds; neither had
I until I read the Aubudon societies' de
lightfully surprising little book on
"Alaskan Bird Life." There I learned
that "the bird
population of.
Alaska Is not 'only
extensive, but la
more representative
of the whole of
North America
than that of any
other part of the
continent."
Thla is an aston
ishing statement to
make about a land
where' there are
two or three months
of summer and nine
or ten of winter.
nd no spring at all. Where the ther
mometer la capaibie of sinking 60 degrees
below sero! Where rivers freese to a depth
of nine feet! Where, underlying vast areas.
there is a never-melting layer of fro sen
soil, two or three yards' thick! Where
the ground. In winter, may. In places,
be frosen to a depth of 100 feet) Where,
In the southern portion, the sun. In mid
winter, stay above the horixon only four
or five hours at a time, while in the
northern portion there is a continuous
winter night more than a month long!
But the short summer la crowded and
humming with life, whose Intensity varies
In Inverse proportion to its brevity. And
into this little far northern world of
amaslngly beautiful flowers and ex
quisitely brilliant aunahlne, of sweet,
temperate wind and delicious garden
odors, come flocks of birds front the
south lands, to take their share In the
delights of the sub-artla Eden.
They have a road Into It that is one
of the grandest natural highways on the
globe. It lead from wealern Canada
down the great valley of the Tukon
river, and by thla route go and return
many of the familiar birds of the United
Mate. 1 The migrant varieties are not
troubled by the long, coif winters, for
they fly back to more genial climes a
soon as the chill begins to' creep down
from the pole. '
1 1 .
au jk a m t f.
A TCliONtP ?
Remaining only from mid-May to mid
July, they see nothing of the endless
nights, but, on the contrary, enjoy the
endless days. In June the twilight Is so
bright at midnight that one can read
fine print, but the birds, both visitors
and natives, are too wise to stay awake
Just because the sky refuse to darken.
By S or t o'clock all except the nocturnal
specie are "abed," where they remain
In seclusion until S o'clock la the morn
ing. Mr. E. W. Nelson says that during
tlte long twilight of the early summer
nights he ha often wandered for hour
over the silent tundra east of ft
Michael watching the sleeping bird on
the numberless pond aa well a oa the
open land.
Alaska not only ha multitude of sum
mer bird visitors, but also many natives,
which remain all winter, notwithstand
ing the gloom and excessive cold. Among
these Is the Alaskan jay, called "Whisky
Jack.' which ia fond of entering winter
camp and cabins, and needs little en
couragement to become the play-mate
of man, while remaining by nature a
voracious thief.
One of these jays will sometime at
tach himself .to a lonely camp dweller,
will perch on his shoulder and accompany
him In his journeys. Water ouxsela. In
midwinter, when the temperature sinks
to from 60 to 70 degrees below aero, will
dive through air-hole la the Ice cover
ing swift streams and walk along the
bottoms seeking their food. These bird
are clothed with close-set plumaga, im
penetrable to water.
Mallard duck winter la some parts of
Alaska. Charles Sheldon found hundred
of them In midwinter north of Mount
McKlnley. living at a point on the Toklat
river where the swiftness of the current
prevented the formation of Ice, and
where, consequently, they oould reach
the bottom, and feed upon dead sal
mon ' and on unhatched salmon eggs,
lodged there.
In Alaska many of the wading bird
and ducks are ongsUrs In the mating
season. Their songs. Mr. Nelson avers,
are a musical a those ef robins. The
golden plover, "admirable ia their hand
some breeding dresa, utter an extraordlav--ary
musical series of notea They stand
like beautiful statuette on the tundra
as they give their one.'
