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Show THE RICH COUNTY NEWS, RANDOLPH, UTAH The Ambition of Letitia i X By JANE OSBORN A by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) At twenty Letitia was a veteran kouseworker, for she had begun working for the Dawsons when she was twelve, and had served a right apprenticeship uuder Mrs. Dawson for six Mrs. Dawson had died and, as . years. i Grandmother Dawson was by this time disposed to remain in her easy chair, the entire tasks of housekeeping had then fallen to Letitia. This meant doing the cooking, cleaning, washing and mending for the indolent Grandmother Dawson, Mr. Dawson the widower, and Tom Dawson. Mrs. Dawson had called Letitia her hired girl." She had rescued the little girl from the county poor house after the death of her widowed mother, though it may have been a ruscue more in name than ih fact. Since Mrs. Dawsons death Mr. Dawson paid Letitia a menger wage, but one considerably greater than the pin money allowed by Mrs. Dawson. It was as Dawsons hired girl that Letitia was generally known in the However, there was no community. special social line drawn between her and her employers. She sat beside the same lamp with them, reading or mending on winter evenings. She ate at the table with them, Jumping up, of course, every few minutes to get fresh supplies from the 'kitchen. It was one chilly evening in October. Giandtna Dawson had. retired and Letitia sat with her mending in her lap, while Father Dawson read the paper and Tom leaned abstractedly over the table where he was working out problems in his correspondence course in scientific farming. Sev-- 1 eral times Letitia had looked up, opened her mouth to speak and had then remained silent After three or four false starts she managed to say: "There is some thing I was wondering. I thought perhaps, if it was Just the same to you, maybe now, since Im getting to be older and all that maybe youd just as soon call me a housekeeper instead of hired girl. If youd Just drop it that I was the housekeeper then other folks would get the habit Letitia looked up and for a painful moment her eyes met those of Tom Dawson, eyes that were flashing with Indignation. Apparently embarrassed at meeting Letitias glance, his eyes dropped and his tanned face reddened. I dont see why you should be so vexed with me, Tom, for asking, Letitia said, resuming her darning furiously. I wasnt vexed with you, Letty. I but it doesnt make any difference, I suppose. Mr. Dawson had been cogitating the situation. He ended by laughing and amused over his reading looking glasses at Letitia. So you want to be called a housekeeper, do you? Well for myself I dont see any difference between a hired girl and a housekeeper. No dis- grace in either. What you been read- ing, Letty, to put such notions Into your head? And Nothing," snapped Letitia. you dont have to do It if you dont want to. Only I want you to know that my folks were as good as any In the county. My father was a parson and my grandfather had as big a farm as this and it would have been mine, too, if he hadnt sold it to buy bum oil stock, or something." "Letitia said she had not been read- Ing anything to put new ideas into her head, but this .was not quite true. Letitia had invested in a book on etithat quette an elaborate volume worlds of opened up undreamed-o- f luxury and ceremonious living to her. She read it eagerly, and now she knew by rote the duties of butler, footman, ladys maid, first gardener, second gardener and the rest. She dwelt with especial Interest on the paragraphs dealing with housekeepers. They wore no aprons, were permitted to wear a silk dress in the afternoon, provided it was They were addressed as Mrs. or Miss to distinguish them from regular servants, and they ate their meals In their ' sitting room brought up on a tray by one of the maids. They carried the keys to the supply closets, had the hiring of less important servants, paid off household bills, kept guests and, where that work Was not done by the butler, ook Instructions for meals from their employers. Letitias ambition was to be a housekeeper. She thought with satisfaction of herself as a middle-age- d person In a stiff black silk frock, eating in solitary grandeur in her private sitting room. But she could not become so Important a personage all in one day. She must week. up to such heights. The rudiments of housekeeping she had learned from her service with the Dawsons. The flourishes she myst learn by experience In more pretentious households. . She had definitely decided to go ' the city and apply at an employment agency for a position as a housekeeper, in a less pretentious establishment than that described In the book to begin with. But she must be able honestly to say that she had been a housekeeper not a hired girl. Apparently she gained nothing by tier petition to the Dawson men, difficult as It was to deliver.. Mr. Dawson, Sr., simply hadnt taken her seriously, nd Tom as usual answered In an In-. high-necke- , definite sort of scared manner, , Ever since he had been working on that correspondence course he had seemed preoccupied. Once several years ago be had taken her for occasional walks and had driven her to town, but apparently his ambition to become a scientific farmer left no thoughts for Letty, "the hired girl. Letitias darning needle flew back and forth as she sat by the reading lamp, and once a large tear splashed on one of Tom Dawsons heavy woolen socks that she was darylng. She rose to retire when the clock struck halfpast eight, and on some pretext or other Tom followed her to the kitchen, Where she went to get her little-lam- p to light her to bed. I want to talk to you, Letty, Tom said, barely looking at her. Stay in your room until father has gone to bed, then come down quietly. Letty went about lighting her lamp and said only after a long pause. All right, Tom, Ill come back. A half hour later Tom and Letty met in the living room and Tom led the way to the little side porch where, though the air was chilly, they could talk with no fear of being heard. Its about your wanting to be called a housekeeper, Tom began. I dont blame you not wanting to be called hired girl, but father doesnt really mean to hurt your feelings. I'd have made matters different from what they are long ago if It had been any use trying. . . Instead I made plans, and part of the plan was to take this course in agriculture. I came into that money from mother last spring when I was twenty-onIm going to finish my correspondence course and next winter take time to take the shorter course in agriculture at the Father has agreed. State college. Then Ill come back and buy a farm of my own ; and when I do that Letty, if you were Mrs. Tom Dawson it wouldnt be so bad as being Dawsons hired girl, would it? There was a trying pause and Letty kept her head turned from Toms. Letty, I love yon, Tom said with more bravery than he knew he posI know yon have ambition sessed. and didnt want to be called a hired girl, but Ive had ambitions too. I dont want to be an blundering farmer. Thats why Ive worked so hard on that correspondence course. I want to marry you." But Id have to love you Letty high-powere- t Fishermen at Kealakekua Bay. . (Prepfcrtd by the N&ttonat Geographic ciety, Washington, D. C.) So- Hawaii, territory of the United States, and most important strategically of the lands of the Pacific, Is not alone interesting because of its military and naval value to Uncle Sam, emphasized some months ago by the deliberations at Washington in regard to the worlds greatest ocean. It Is In many ways literally an island paradise. Scarcely anywhere else in the world may one roam through tropical Jungles with never a thought of poisonous insects or snakes. Such creatures do not exist in these fair islands. Even poison ivy and similar noxious plants And though in the are unknown. edge of the tropics, Hawaii has a cooler temperature by ten degree than jiny other land in the same latibegan. tudes. Moreover, one may change his Dont you a little? at will by a Journey of a few climate to have think," I dont know. Ill for the northern half of each miles; When said Letitia under her breath. Is I have had time to think things over Island, swept by the trade winds, while Just and wooded, heavily rainy Ill tell you. Good night, Tom, and over the mountain ridge is a drier, thank you for for understanding. With that Letitia went back into warmer region. In a way, the United States may the house and upstairs to her little Boston and its daring room. For an hour she sat in her well thank traders and missionaries of the early Then chair thinking. single upright that Hawaii now she took up a pencil and wrote on days for the fact flies rather than and Stars the Stripes a piece of writing paper. or the British union Jack. the Dear Tom, A Spanish navigator first discovered I love you. the Islands In 1555, but his country LETITIA. no claim to them, and they were Then Letty unlocked a drawer of laid forgotten. The British practically her bureau, took from it a book and Cook visited the Hawaiian started out of her room. She slipped Captain In 1778, and named them the the note tinder Toms door and went group Islands. Still the Islands Sandwich down stairs. There she opened the unknown. Then, folstove that was closed for the night. were practically lowing the close of the American RevShe dropped the book on the coals American ships began to sail and left it to smolder there through olution, seas In growing numbers, seven the the dark hours. and in 1781) the first ship flying the Stars and Stripes from Boston visHAVE EYES ALL OVER BODY ited the Hawaiians. It was the first of many from the same part, carrying Nature Particularly Liberal to Some traders, whalers and adventurers; and of Her Creatures, the Dragon soon the natives had learned of the Fly Noticeably. republic on the continent to the east, and came to consider the United There is a most astonishing diversity States and Boston" synonymous: Tlie Boston traders found each of among animals in respect to the number and location of their eyes. In mamthe Islands under a separate king, with mals, birds, reptiles and fishes they are two rival rulers on Hawaii, the largest limited to two and are invariably of the Islands. One of the latter obplaced in the head, but others of the tained firearms and ammunition from animal kingdom may have anywhere the traders and got their assistance In up to 50,000, and they seem to have building a navy.' With this Ameribeen placed anywhere they might be can help he became the Napoleon of the Pacific," conquering the other Ishandy. The dragon fly possesses eyes com- lands. and, as Kamehamelia L ruled over the consolidated kingdom. posed of an aggregation of about In spiders and scorpions there Hawaiian Trade Was Valuable. are usually eight or ten eyes in one or The Americans found the Hawaiian more clusters on the dorsal aspect of trade a good thing. They sold the that part of the body which is formed king and his nobles everything from by the union of the head and thorax. clothes and Jewelry to billiard tables The starfish has an eye on the tip of and steam yachts, and In return carteach of his five rays, or arms, as has ed away shiploads of valuable sandalthe sea urchin, which is homologically wood. Strong liquor was not forgotnothing but a starfish with the ends of ten among the Imports, and in Honoits rays drawn close together in a lulu among the circle around which is considered the natives the American sailers contribhinder part of his body. The scallop uted. to the creation of a gay Pacific has numerous eyes on the edge of its resort, a sort of forerunner of San mantle, extending from one end of the Franciscos Barbary Coast of later decunlmal to the other, and forming a ades. Deserters from American ships, Some marine worms have in the delightful haven of a barbarous eyes in clusters not only on the head paradise, helped to heighten the fame but also along each side of the body, or the infamy of the Honolulu of even in the tip of the tall, and they those days. The situation became such are connected individually with the that in 1820 President Monroe sent an median nerve cord. agent to reside In Honolulu and look In the lowest forms are found many after American Interests In regard to Infusoria which have neither eyes nor commerce and seamen. nerves, but are nevertheless sensitive A shipload of missionaries, also from to light, eitherseeklng or avoiding it. Boston, arrived In the islands In 1820, much to the disgust pt the traders as Largest Power Dam. well as those who had deserted the The Keokuk dam, which extends sea to tread Hawaiis primrose path. across ttf Mississippi river from Keo- The complaint of the traders was that kuk, la., to Hamilton, III., is the largthe missionaries taught the natives est power dam In the world. From the value of things, and so made the 15 turbine generators propelled trading unprofitable. American ways by the water which passes over It, and teachings at their best made a electric power is transmitted to St. great impression on the more thoughtLouis, 145 miles away, and to smaller ful Hawaiians, and when they recities In Illinois, Iowa, and Missouri. shaped their government they made The turbine wheels, one of which the Ten Commandments the basis of weighs 65 tons, or four times as much their laws. as any ever before made, will eventualMore and more Americans visited ly be 30 In number, and together will and settled in the islands and the produce 200,000 horse power. Hawaiians looked upon America ns their best friend among the nations. Portable Oil Refinery. When pioneers from the United States A Texas man Is the Inventor of a were pushing west toward California portable oil refinery mounted on railJust before the Mexican war, which road cars that can be readily moved added that state to the Union, a Brit from one oil field to another. tri-col- 10.-00- 0. naturally-light-hearte- e. . a gun 70 or 80 feet in length, when , the enemy is as far off as 30 miles. In the days of the Civil war when small cannon shot iron balls weighing 15 or 20 pounds, the range was usually point blank, the enemy ship loomed large as a target and the sighted by gazing along the barrel. These two new Instruments are called the target computor and bat-- " tery computor. They are directed by'' d two telescopes located at fixed 'observation stations In the vicinity of the harbor defense. On sighting an enemy ship the observations are transmitted electrically to the two calculating instruments, where the exact location of the enemy' ship Is computed. These new Instruments, the fruit of several 'Tears constant work and experiment, predict the advance location of the moving enemy, make allowances for the temperature of powder, type of shell, atmospheric pressure, direction and velocity of the wind and the drift of the shell caused by the big guns rifling. Under the present system all these factors are added,- subtracted and otherwise checked up and accounted for by human range finders gun-point- e. semi-circl- Hit the Enemy at Thirty Miles Will d ish naval commander In the Pacific, realizing the strategic Importance of the" Hawaiian group, seized the Islands, but his country promptly disavowed his act After some difficulties with France over the Islands in the forties, the United States declared a sort of Monroe Doctrine toward them. As early as 1851 the island, government, fearing trouble with other nations, provisionally ceded the Islands to the United States. But the cession. was not accepted, and numerous efforts to become a part of the United States were made in the following half century. Two instruments TX7ASHINGT0N. which, it Is declared, will revolutionize the art of coast defense, are being exhibited in the ordnance department here, and later will be Installed at Panama to control the fire of the big guns In the canal defenses. The instruments comprise a system of ranging and following a moving enemy ship. They are operated electrically and adjusted automatically. They add, substract, multiply, divide arid make allowance for many factors controlling the flight of a big shell. Visitors to the larger coast defense stations often wonder how it Is for the gunners to hit a ship with a five or projectile shot from possible six-fo- Uncle Sam to Keep Tab on Sun Spots - SAM and the Western Telegraph company, which was damaged to the extent of a quarter of a million dollars by a sunspot In May of last year, arenow developing a system of precautions against sunspots like that of the mariner and farmer against the weather. The sunspots shower the earth with excess electrical current, producing Annexed by Uncle Sam. now and In 1887 tlie United States obtained the electrical storms which and cable then telegraph, paralyze hara concession for the use of Pearl have service. Arrangements telephone bor for a coaling station. When been made with tlie United States Queen Liliuokalani attempted to abolNaval observatory for a regular bulleconish the constitution In 1893,' the on the condition of suntin service stitutional party, led by American Whenever a new one appears spots. a revolution about settlers, brought, on the rim of' tlie sun and starts to and dethroned her. One of the first In a acts of the provisional government move around where It will be to volley the earth with elecwas to apply for annexation to the position trical showers, notice is sent from the United States. Germany was seizing Union ofislands right and left In the Pacific,' observatory to the Western ficials. In return for this service the and the Hawaiians wished to get Politics Western Union is preparing to collect under a sheltering wing. on a large scale on elecin the United States delayed action, Information tlieir strength and diand in the meantime the Republic of trical currents, and their apparent connecrection, Then in 1898, Hawaii was organized. tion with sunspots. tlie Spanish-America-n war, during cycles. Sunspots occur In eleven-yea- r Hato make voted congress suddenly The present year M near the middle waii American territory. of the cycle, or in the period when the Though the Hawaiian islands are are fewest. Last year was a known as the half-wa- y house of the sunspots when few sunspots were normal-- . time Pacific, in reality the distance froip San Francisco to Honolulu is only about half that from Honolulu to Australia, the Philippines or Japan. All the Islands are of volcanic origin, Dut cfiral has grown on the .shores of many of them. The disintegrated lava lias formed a rich soil which responds liberally to Irrigation. Only Cuba and Java produce greater, total crops of sugar, and the per acre yield of Hnwaii is the greatest In the world four tons without Irrigation and six tons with. The sugar crop for the year ended June 20, 1920, was worth $78,500,000. " The pineapple crop, second in importance, was valued at LTAVE you ever seen the suns spots? Hate you ever seen dem. Mauna Loa Volcano. onstrated Foucaults celebrated penPerhaps the Hawaiian group Is best dulum experiment to prove the rotaknown to most people because of the tion of the earth? Have you ever huge volcano Mauna Loa on the Island watched the antics of minute Infusoof Hawaii. In September, 1919, this rians swimming In water? blew off steam, great safety-valv- e With the completion of the new giving a most unusual demonstration home of the National Academy of Sciof natures forces. Prom a huge vent ences at Washington, these things will In the mountain's side, a flood of moltbe a regular part of the. Interesting en lava was belched forth. Spread. . exhibits open to the public. ing out into a great shallow stream, It It is hoped to have the building came roaring down the mountain completed by the fall of 1923. It will slope, burning forests, carrying huge be located near the recently deditrees and Immense boulders on Its surcated Lincoln memorial and will be face sweeping everything before IL three stories high. The first floor will With a speed varying from 1 to 20 be given over to the public and mumiles nn hour, according to the counseum purposes, where many scientific try it was passing over, it broadened facts will be demonstrated. The twp out until it was nearly a mile in width. upper floors will be devoted to offices. After wiping out the government belt The main demonstration feature will road, razing telephone poles and destroying a vast amount of property, lava tumbled over a high thp red-hprecipice and plunged hissing Into the letter sales Is sea nearly 20 miles from Its source. ATTENDING dead in Washington. A In approaching the flow from the local auction house Is crowded to the sea In the early evening, the glow from doors when the government puts np at the lava was visible for many miles. auction an accumulation of several As one drifted within ,200 yards of the point where the liquid rock was months unclaimed and unmallable matter. rushing into the sea, the scene was parcel-pos- t Some people have an idea that a Slowly the smoky haze from the burning forests, which hung dead letter sale is conducted along lottery lines. A glimpse into the aucover the source 20 miles away, lifted and the river of fire stood out. in Its tion room would bear out this impression. No other gootjs are in sight. The full glory; Leaping from pall to valauctioneer, high above the crowd, is ley, rushing uphill and roaring down, the fiery flood thundered down the rattling off as fast as he can: Lot number twelve at $5, at $5, mountain slope, carrying on Its bosom $6, at $7 ; yours for $7, Mr. Brown. rocks as big as houses. Then without a pause for breath, As the stream of blazing lava neared the coastline, It appeared to gather the auctioneer Is reeling off the next more N speed, taking the final plunge number and calling for bids. The bidders In the crowd are closely followcliff at a terrific rate over a 100-foing the sale by their catalogues, but and looking for all the world like a As the red-ho- t lava these give only the most general defiery Niagara. scription of each lot of goods. Apcame In cbntact with the water,- great columns of steam and gas, like huge parently they are buying In tlie dark. This is not the cse, however. The waterspouts, were forced hundreds of day before the sale the articles to be feet into the air. Huge boulders, sold are on display. Long rows of hurled into space, exploded with thunpacking boxes with ' aisles between derous reports into auras of red and them range the length of the auction green lights, while flashes of what room. Each box contains one lot of looked like lightning added to the goods. Scarcely any articles are dischaos. posed of singly at these sales when , UNCLE- ly due, so that the sunspot, or cluster of spots, which caused the great electrical storm on May 19, 20 and 21, was It is only since quite unexpected. ' telegraph and telephone wires - and cables, have been In usd that electrical storms of this type have made any difference to human beings, so that records of them have been meager, but that of last year is by far the worst that ever occurred, when measured by damage to electrical apparatus. d It burned out fuses and apparatus all over this country, caused fires in Europe, and probably caused one In a railroad yard In Washington. It damaged cables so badly that the Western Union had to send out a repair shop to put them in good ' order. short-circuite- Where Science Will Tell All About It N , "Dead Letter Sales be under a dome in the central lobby, where the sun-spphenomena will be demonstrated. i Foucaults experiment demonstrapention will be embodied in a dulum swinging In a wide arc. The swinging pendulum will mark an Invariable direction in space, and as the earth revolves beneath it rotation will be plainly, shown by the steady change in direction of the pendulums awing over the divided arc. Here the pressure of light, earthquake action, 'magnetic storms, the gravitational puli of small masses, the growth of plants, living bacteria and other phenomena will be the subjects of other exhibits. In the seven exhibition rooms surrounding the central rotunda, the latest results of scientific and industrial research will be demonstrated. One week there may be displayed the latest forms' of radio telephony and the1 next perhaps a set of psychological tests or a new find of fossils or a series of synthetic compounds. The building, designed to cost $5,000,000, was the gift of the CarneThe ground was gie corporation. bought with a fund of $200,000 collected by donations throughout the country. The building will' be of marble In classic simplicity. , j - 60-fo- a Popular Sport ' ' , a large amount of goods is to be auctioned. Hundreds of people go through the auction room selecting bargains to he bid for. When the sale opens, therefore, It proceeds with a, snap. The 235 boxed lots of more or less bulky merchandise, 22 lots of tires and 60 lots of jewelry and small articles sold In three hours at the last sale. The term dead letter sale Is misleading. Every year the post offices of the country handle millions of let ters that cannot be delivered, but--thgovernment does not sell any of them. The government officially puts ou the market articles accumulated iu the division of dead letters, i. and most of these are parcel-pos-t metier. e |