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Show NEPHI. UTAH riiE times-news- : ZONA GALE By Copyright Continued. VI T by D. Appleton A Company 13 Next flay there came n message from that womnn who had brought up Dwight "made hlr what tie was," ho often complacently accused her. It Was a note on u postal can! she had often written a few lines on a postal card to say that slip lmd sent the maple sugar, or could Ina get her some samples. Now she wrote a few lines on a postal curd to say that she fcas going to die with cancer. Could Dwight and Ina come to her while she was still able to visit? If he wu8 not loo busy. . . . Nobody saw the pity and the terror of that postal card. They stuck It up by (he kitchen clock to read over from lime to time, and before they left, Dwight lifted the griddle of the cooking-stove rind burned the postal card. And before they left I.ulu said: "Dwight you rnn't tell bow long you'll be gone?" "Of course not. How should I tell?" "No. And that letter might come while you're away." "Conceivably. Letters do come while a man's uway !" "I ) wight I thought If you wouldn't tabid If I opened "Opened It?" You Bee, It'll be about me "Ves. tiling about the letter. He thinks Nln-la- n got tired of me." L'eep down In tier heart there abode her certainty that this was not so. By some etiquette of consent, Mrs. Bett cleared the table and Lulu and Cornish went into the parlor. There side-tabllay the letter on the drop-lea- f among the shells. Lulu had carried it there, where she need not see it at her work. The letter looked no more than the advertisement of dental olllce furniture beneath It. Monona stood Indifferently lingering both. "Monona," Lulu said sharply, "leave them lie !" Cornish was displaying ids music, "(lot up quite attractive," he said it was his formula of praise for his musk'. "But we can't try it over," Lulu said, "if Di doesn't come." "Well, say," said Cornish shyly, "you know I left that Album of Old Favorites here. Some of them we know by heart." Lulu looked. "I'll tell you something," she Mild; "there's some of these I can play with one hand by ear. Maybe " "Why, sure!" said Cornish. Lulu sat at the piano. She had on the wool chally, long sacred to the nights when she must combine her servant's estate with the quality of lie1 ing Ina's sister. Kite wore her coral beads and her cameo cross. In her absence she had caught the trick of dressing her hair so that it looked even more abundant but she had not dared to try It so until tonight, when Dwight was gone. Her long wrist was curved high, her thin hand pressed and fingered awkwardly, and ut her mistakes her head dipped and strove to make all right. Her foot continuously touched the loud pedal the blurred sound aeeuied to accomplish more. So she played "How Can I Leave Thee," and they managed to played "Long, Long sing it. So e, It" mostly" "I should have said tlmt It'll be about my brother mostly." "I? tit you know what I menu. You wouldn't mind If I did open it?" "I!ut you say you know what'll be it." In "So I did know till you I've got to see that letter, Dwight." "And so you shall. Hut not till I show it to you. My dear Lulu, you know how I hate having my mail Interfered Willi." She might have said: "Small souls nlways make a point of that." She find nothing. She watched them set off, nnd kept her mind on Ina's thou- sand Injunctions. "Don't let IH see much of Bobby I.nrkin. And, Lulu If It occurs to her to have Mr. Cornish come up to slug, of course you ask him. You might ask him to supper. And don't let mother overdo. And, Lulu, now do watch Monona's handkerchief the child will never take a clean one if I'm not here to tell her. She breathed Injunctions to the very K'ep of the 'bus. lu the 'bus Dwight leaned forward: 'See that you play post oltice BMiiarely, Lulu!" he calfed, nnd threw buck his head and lifted his eyebrows. In the train he turned tragic eyes to Ms wfie. "Ina," he said. "It's ma. And she's going todie. It can't be. . . ." I'T7r"saiti: "But you're going to help tir, Dwight, Just being there with WW MM 3 mm ..." .r ii t, n.f. i k t i i i nm llvllLl Ml wii e I wmm ItitfWH Jer." It was true that the mere presence of the man would bring a kind of fresh life to that worn frame. Tact nnd wisdom nnd love would speak through liim and minister. Toward the end of their week's absence the letter from Ninlan came. Lulu took It from the post olllce when she went for the mail that evening, dressed In her dark red gown. There was no other letter, and she carried tlmt one letter In her hand all through the streets. She passed those vho were surmising what her story might be. who were telling one another what they hud heard. But she knew liardly more than they. She passed il.irnish In the doorway of his little music tdmp, and spoke with him; and there wns the letter. It was so that Dwlghts foster mother's postal card might have look 2d on Its way to be mailed. t'uriil'sh stepped down and overtook l.er. "Oh. Miss Lulu. I've got a new song or two " "Do. Any SI e said abstractedly: night. Tomorrow nlht could you " 1 was ns If Lulu were t' preoccupied ss .v . V.. Jx": l ttrti-- , T j k J ! J BETT "No. But there It is. It puts me you see what It does to rue. They think they all think uiy husband left me." It was curious to hear her bring out that word tentatively, deprecatlng- ly, like some one daring a foreign phruse without warrant. Cornish said feebly: "Oh, well. Before she willed It, she was telling him: "He didn't. He didn't leave me," she cried with passion. "He had another wife." Incredibly It was as If she were defending both him and herself. 1" said Cornish. She poured It out. In her passion to tell some one, to share her news of her state where there would be neither "Lord sakes hardness nor censure. "We were in Savannah, Georgia," she said. "We were going to leave for Oregon going to go through California. We were in the hotel, und he was going out to get (he tickets. He started to go. Then he came buck. I was sitting the, same as there. He opened the door again the same as here. I saw lie looked different and lie said quick: 'There's something you'd ought to know before we go.' And, of course, 1 said, 'What?' And he said it right out how he was marrletb eighteen years ago and in two years she ran away and sue must be dead, but lie wasn't sure. He hadn't the proofs. Sin of course, I came home. But It wasn't him left me." Of course he didn't," "No, no. Cornish said earnestly. "But, Lord's sakes" he said again. He rose to walk about, fount! it impracticable ami sat down. "That's wliat Dwight don't want me to tell he thinks it isn't true. He thinks he didn't have any other wife, lie thinks he wanted" Lulu looked up at hlin. "You see," she said, "Dwight thinks he didn't want me." "But why don't you make your husband I mean, why doesn't he write to Mr. Deacon here, and tell him the truth " Cornish burst out. Under this Implied belief, she relaxed and Into her face came its rare sweetness. "He has written," she said, "The letter's there." He followed her look, scowled at the two letters. "What'd he say?" "Dwight don't like me to touch his mail. I'll have to wait till he comes back." "Lord suites!" said Cornish. This time he did rise and walk about. He wanted to say something, wanted It with passion. ITs paused beside Lulu nnd stammered : "You you you're too nice a girl to get a deal like this. Darned If you aren't." To her own complete surprise Lulu s eyes filled with tears, and she could not speak. She was by no means above "And there ain't," said Cornish sorrowfully, "there ain't a thing I can do." He And set be was doing much. was gentle, he was listening, and on his face a frown of concern. Ills face continually surprised her, it was so .'S-'t.-.-'-fiiiB nnd alive and near, by comparison with Ninian's ruddy, imd personal look and Dw ight's thin, hardness. All the time Cornish gave her something, instead of drawing upon her. Above all, he was there, and she could talk to hint. "Oh, No," Lulu Disclaimed It. Shs It's it's funny." Lulu said. "I'd Looked Up, Flushed, Smiling. be awful glad if I Just could know for other woman was alive Ago," and "Little Nell of Narragan-set- t sure I that the know she's dead." couldn't if Mm. doors. open B.eyond Bay." This surprising udmissiou Cornish Bett listened, sang, it may be, with to understand. them; for when the Ringer censed, seemed "Sure you would." he said briefly. her voice might be heard still hum"Cora Waters." Lulu said. "Cora ming a loud closing bnr. "Well!" ConusJi cried to Lulu; nnd Waters, of San Diego, California. And heard of me." then, in the formal village phrase: she ncTcr Cornish admitted. "No,"They "You" re quite a luu.iiciaii." "Oh. no!" Lulu dlsclnime.1 It. She stared at each other as across some rM iJ. loose-lippe- high-hone- III at ease. looked up. flushed, smiling. "I've never abyss. In the doorway Mrs. Bett appeared. furnish flushed with pleasure, said done this In front of anybody." she "I scraped up everything." she reowned. "I don't know what Dwight lint he could Indeed left ti e iVshes set." lTt.;mwi)hiT " tov-b- marked, "and and Ina'd say. . . ." She drooped. "That's riuht. tnnmniM," I.ulu said. They rested and. miraculously, the . air of the place had stirred nnd quick- "Come and sit down." with a Mrs. Lett entered leisurely ened, ns if the crippled, halting melody He came for supper. And I'l was had some power of Its own, and air of doing the thing next expected She had pone off 111 the poured this forth, even thus trampled. of her. t; X nt home. "I don't b ;:r i.ny more phiyin' and with Jenny nnd Bobby, nnd oui.fr "I guess you could do 'most anyshe remarked. "It pounded sin'iil'." not did said set return. band to," your thing you Coy merely re;il nice." .Mrs. I :! t nnd Lulu nnd Cornl-- h and Cornish. " c we Fittis all I knew Imw M iniiii stii ped alone. All were at "Oh, no," Lulu said again. ph'V I puess, m;immn," ease. ii. iw that they were alone. Es-p"Sing and play and esik " I use" to play en the melodeon," "But I can't earn an thing. I'd like hilly Mrs. Belt was at ease. It became one of her young nights, her to earn something." But this she bad Mr-- . Bell volunteered, and spretnl and sllve and lu. Id night. She was there. not meant to say. She stopped, rather examined her right band. " "Well !" s.ild Cornish. She iit in I w 'adit's cl alr and Lulu frightened. She now told lb. tit about her "You would! Why, you have It tine ot In Ii.a'n chair. Lulu had picked In n New Fngland clearing, flowers f..r the nblr a task coveted here, I thought." was a bride. All her stor I tit she when me tine. Ina. "Oh, Dwight her yes. given usually performed by by of (Irn'iia mid lif came front Iter. I.i'ln lad now poked Sweet William wliat I have And I do their Work." Shu it with far eyes. i:d bad ti'h'd n vase .f silver gilt "I sec," said Cornish. "I never She rehearsed Also, L'll.l liioiiht of thiift" be lul.lel. She l.iogl n'. nf old delights, drooped lit t:.::cji fr.,.ti !!,. p.T'.ir. She told about her little ) 'I i ile be in i'iMi;:'.!t ills sie'Tliit!. lookby ii.nl oi. fc.irt. I don't s.e what I'l crtti liiinlihoard a tale or two concerning her re- daughter who bad died lit "ix'een u -sui h as Mira wotdd have been like ,1 !;. turn, as win in WnrMeron had not tl:l'-e'' of." Llllll mil. "It At the end In n itMl lirlhid. -" i under f: S!e v ih nfad beni'l? la? i!ii.i e yiivr.i'd frankly ns If. in otee If It. "You're woirlerii': why ! did'i'i i, iid end''.! nl!:,.it if "pi s. p' t. iition. the bud been tollb' Me.im'Ti-- Iff f si.iy w'lh l.'.m!" I.'ihl aid fori of soli one !., w':h s'K.e. "Oh, well!" Ic riM, This was no Ii v tlcti w run: from l.er, ing tl.e j.l s!i said, "Clve tj one more t.iit Its utterance im nsioned in her an e rt lief. "fun we'?" Cornish Kit. I if n rel!. f. I think, to have till.-- i k ' nilsli In r to ie." snld Mr. I'. tt. from the disclaimed, m.d "Oh, no," .'I n play '1 'll.ink When I Bead t.ol .red and rocked, "li l t Sweet S ory of Old.'" I.tibt scid. fii: iv of something er fitiiet. her "Vis, von are," she swept on. "The 'Mot her t" Lulu "aid. 'Tints the ticket!" rnld Cornish. whole towns wondering. Well, Id like "tin'i They f nng it, to Lulu's iUh! band. i iii to know, litit Dwight won't let me "'1 hut's the one tT bind, 1 love her,'' Mrs you pii ki d out "Wny, n little girl, Lulle," when '.on wh Betf i tift'iied, "but si e w iggirjt and l ell." t otnisb frowned, trjlng to under-stancried Vr Belt. ehltter." TO tili I'sTlll EH l never made the slightest Cornl-- li "'Won't let you!"' be rrpeaied. "I effort. t any time, to ke.p a straight GooJ Definition now laughed Wndom. should my that wnt year own a!Tii!r " The honest fel' f.ice Wisdom Is that at Muite of rnnn "Jf. Not when Dwiglit gKes me nil loudly. of a mnn "Weil ! Loin thought, tie rsn'f t lnv through which every ! its h!e:i vul'i) and Import. "Tl .it mri "Oh, Hint" aald Cnrnlsh. ry much In love." And again h!:rt 'i.:t. her thu tbuvtbt: "II dcMfsa'l know any- - not rlghV Tome fur supper," Lulu said. Wouldn't that be Oh. could he? Such was his accept-price- . , . Well, say! Uncle Sam Will Teach Nature Study til Public school officials and teachers the country over will be Interested In a new departure of the United States burenu of education as outlined In the following letter from John J. Tigert, United States commissioner of education, to Mrs. John Dickinson Sherman, chairman of the department of applied education of the General Federation of Women's clubs: "Dear Mrs. Sherman: I have read with interest your pamphlet on natural science and nature study In the schools, including a graded course of study from the kindergarten through the sixth grnde. The bureau of education fully recognizes the importance of the study of the practical application of the natural sciences to everyday life in the education of the child and believes that the subject should receive speciaj attention In the" kindergarten and the elementary grades. To secure the best results the subject should be made an Integral part of the school course, recognized as one of the serious subjects of the curriculum, nnd credit given as for other recognized subjects. I appreciate the work of the General Federation of Women's clubs In its effort 1o awaken a general understanding among parents of the value of science teaching in the education of the child and urge that the work lie continued. The bureau will support the project and give active in so far as It is possible for it to do so" The General Federation has undertaken to get nature study Into the schools and Mrs. Sherman has now secured the approval and of the federal government, which will publish a graded course prepared by the federation and lessons now being prepared by the bureau of education. Divorce Judge Wars on the "Parasites" Judge Timothy D. Hurley of the Superior court of Cook county. 111., has created a sensation in Chicago divorce Love pirates iehi) traffic In circles. the affections of misunderstood husbands or abused wives are to be the target of sweeping Injunctions or restraining orders in all cases where evidence of home undermining Is properly presented to him. Convinced by the testimony of hundreds of victims of the "other man" or "other woman"' that powerful InsX. fluence exerted by an outside agency might have broken the triangle before V It was formed and saved another home and family to society. Judge Hurley widened the scope of his war on "easy divorces" to Include a drive on the "domestic parasite." Information that her husband has succumbed to a siren, if Included In t&X'-7?s a petition for separate maintenance " will the result. wife, by Judge Hurley a in "other to exwoman" the issuance of forthwith citation for the asserts, plain her conduct. Substantiation of the charges will he followed by an Irrevocable decree restraining the interloper from "seeing, talking to, or writing to" the husband. i . i i . I 1 r-- twi-.tin- ri.iw Scout Bur CAUSE On Children's day during the recent Safety Week campaign in Greater New York, boy scouts directed traffic, gave nrst-aland demonstrations of marched 7,000 strong lu a mammoth The scouts wore children's parade. buttons containing the Safety Week slogan, "Don't Get Hurt!" and carried mottoes emphasizing the impressive need of caution, such as: "The A. B. C. of Safety Is, Always Be Careful," "Better Be Alert Than a Cripple," "A Itash Minute and a Human Wreck," "Better Belated Than Mutilated," "Scouts Are Trained for Safety," "Be Trepared Is Our Motto." At the foot of a monument erected In Central park to the memory of the 1,054 children of Greater New York; whose lives were lost in 1021 through preventable accidents, the mayor decorated .with a gold medal Scout Samuel Levine, who, because of his thrill-lu- g rescue of two boys under desperate circumstances had been selected as the boy scout of Greater New York who had performed the most meritorous act of The medal was especially designed and was the gift of Judga Elbert C. Gary. Because of the number of acts of heroism performed by scouts, the committee w ho selected the boy to receive the medal found It difficult to reach a decision. Among the outstanding cases were the rescue by individual scouts of a small girl, whose dress had caught afire while she was playing near a bonfire; of a small boy who fell from a dock into deep water; of a girl who had broken through ice while skating; of a young woman who had discarded her water-wingand unable to swim, ventured too far out In the surf; and of a boy, not a scout who was being carried away by a swift current. The last mentioned rescue was performed by a scout who had sight In only one eye. d life-savin- s, AN ENGLISH SCOUT LEADER At the Invitation of the American delegation at the recent International conference of scout officials at Paris, Capt. Francis Gidney of England, attended the national biennial conference of scout executives at Blue IVge, North Carolina, In September. Capt. Francis Gidney Is one of the most prominent leaders of scouting la England. He has been a scoutmaster since the early days of ihe movement, and for the past three years has been n Gilwell camp chief of the Bark training school for scout leaders, Chingford, Essex, England. Captain Gidney has placed In his camp many of the picturesque features of American Indian and cowboy life. lie Is an expert in lassoing and rope work of various kinds, and gives credit to our own Will lingers for much of hla knowledge. Captain Gidney brought with him an extensive exhibit of English scouting equipment and handiCouzens of Detroit Muyor James He says: "The only continent work. has quit his Job to become United on which I have not had the opporStates senator Xrom Michigan in the of studying scouting at first place of Senator Truman II. Newber- tunity hand is Australia, and I am looking Gov. Alex Uroesbecli J. ry, resigned. forwnrd with keen interest to my visit appointed Lliu to till the unexpired to this country and to meeting the term. James Couzens was born in Chat- scout executives at their conference. It Is a privilege which is much apham, Ontario, fifty years ngo. preciated not only by myself personalto have a fortune of ninny but by Ihe whole scout movement be started his career as a ly, In Britain. I do sincerely hopa Great "newsle" on a passenger train. In l'.KKl he became associated with that It will prove a link in scouting between the two great coun"V Henry Ford, taking a position as book- operation tries." in 1010 he When was he quit keeper. vice president and treasurer. HIKING HELPED Mr. Cou.ona' first public office was that of police commissioner In 1!'10. Although be had suffered when a He iJiS elected miivor of Detroit In child with Infantile paralysis which 101.1 and re elected hist year. left one leg In a weakened condition, A proposal sponsored by the mayor TrenFrank Bcdson, seventeen-year-olfor the purchase of the Detroit United ton walked every mile of the 2- -1 Railway lines lost by a few votes In milesscout, hiked by Ihe Trenton scouts Oil mill. He then obtained authority of I heir recent trip to Fort Ticondcrngii. n liulhl was well to and tills voters under after he (he way municipal eystein, the ( lose of the trip Iledson said to netotlated the purchase of the privately owned system and consolidated it with At Executive Abriels : "I feel wonScout the new i lly lines after the voters had autlioi lzen the move. Improved. 1 don't bollevn? ny- derfully The L'elrolt community fund receives from him annually Jptti.tNKI, He hus thing else could have Umbered m up established numerous homes, and settlement bouses. us this hike has done." r A III 1 well-know- Quits Mayor's Job to Become Senator Ke-put- .i. 14 d Waller F. George, the new senator from Georgia. Is in his seat and It In the committees on civil service. Immigration nnd poM office and post He lakes the place made varoinls. cant by Ihe death of Senator Thorn) L". Wal"oii. The clrciini(Mtice of his Inking Ids e,it will !"ng be remembered, for the rcao;i that lie played hl purl in the seizing of Georgia's er-lu- g r f-i-. - AID COMMERCIAL 1 st .' ' THE HEART OF SCOUTING old holy," Mrs. W. 11. I clton, sen iior I y up oil. fun i t f Governor i;.rdw Bclletlng In, loving, nnd being wlk ling to serve one another In the right, I the heart of scouting. Clarence 11 Latimer I'clton, eighty. ri e !. will 1:0 down i hbfory ii the lit 111 the I nlti'd t';l"t w:oii:ii to llleniilf. To he ..ire, her net mil S'fit( was ot.Iy ; fen hour", but "lie DM actually tw m tl In. Moreover. he made a sTiciM'ti rw aMitor, l.eiu IN I i ei ;s by Citiiimiiis. -- Howard. MAYOR HAS OWN TROOP In Sprlnirfleld, Ma's., Troop No. M both nid honor to and been bonded by the city's chief executive. Mayor Edwin F. Leonard, who Is onn if the community' strongest supporters f the boy scout movement. Last Ffhrtiary during twelfth anniveriary neek, l.i honor, a mayor, receiv-- . the badge of honorary tender'oot scout. Itecetitly, a private cill.en he wm deenrsted with a veteran pin for his ervlc Troop No. 12 la Tin Mayor's Own." lot pre! dent pro tern if fe setm!-- , n "tie afor fmr.t Georght," Senator- "I Junior Kleel G. nr':" imtt!" this by . iti hohlin-- hi elf dent iii!. which ( rllt ed to his e'ei thai November 7. nun h Binowineiit over tli pteiilcainent In which Iniiiotif;.l I bore 1 hey Mr. Felton sh would b veteran son. tor found IJ.i infeUt of mi'tn sworn In upon the Evidently they lmd forgotten that ilf the s. m fe most ! ofTclally notified of the death of S senator before hi can be rcflved. Also they lmd forgotten that In accordance w'lli np luituedla'e'y out of respect, hiykeii I'ecevlHijt the seimtf mum adjo-ir..--aa- pi-;- . TRAVELERS Scouts contributed assistance to tb recent convent Ion of the New England councils of the Tnlted Commercial Travelers at Springfield, Mass., by maintaining Information and aid station!, by furnishing ft bicycle nnfety-firs.ud, a comfort M'tiad, traffic guards and a fife find drum corps, and by entering a float In (he pageant of Industry, a feature of the Inst day of the convent Ion. ".mini -- ' Council of til of America.) by National CHAMPION CHILDREN'S ,olNew Georgia Senator in Watson's Seat ci i scours (Conducted fturd .. |
