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Show THE RICH COUNTY NEWS, RANDOLPH, UTAH Bq a Lieutenant in the United States Navi Omk 'V ' i W5 V ed, but the barrel is painted dull gray. d use tires, dont you? A concession to shininess is made by YOU rubber heels, and chew your using gray' enamel or by oiling the . food, and are careful not to stick head painted surface. Its not hard work though, and or arms out of the window? Then In it that appeals theres accident insurance, dentists, there is something and pure food laws to keep you out to the men. A few bright spots change the whole ships appearance. It is like of trouble. of a But do you have a list of things that the d single pearl in the dark tie masone mans apparel that And do you keep might happen? touch of brightness, in good taste list in sight? Ive a ten-spsays you terly without being gaudy. dont Jack might not entirely agree. But In the navy we do. Ammunition and his esthetic taste is less stunted than, guns are of course the dangerous part of our equipment, almost of our lives. he tries to pretend. After years of experience and many MYTHS accidents we have been able to catalogue all the possible misfortunes that THERE is a strain of the mystic in which will never die. might befall a loading crew. We have devised a complete set of instructions For safetys sake they hold to mathematical precision when necessary. But which, if properly carried out, constie tute a against all such deep in the long night watches come as fire, explosion, and over again the old apparitions of the sea. destruction of the ship. Even in the navy this holds. Theres This list is called the warships the thick main armor belt poured and safety orders. Almost the first safety order is that forged by formula Theres the nice "1 they all shall be printed and posted complexity of the anemometer. There cranks and pistons, in of the turrets and near are Whut tiie devil are you up to? By thunder, all every part torpedo Men must know them back- and glistening guns. Ill make you pay for this. wards and forward, and one at a time. lubes. She was smiling, looking Into the black void Men must know this Yet who has not heard the whisper safety first cateof the house. Her lips moved, answering him ; of fog on the armor shelf? No doubt chism so perfectly that when the emerYes, afterwards. I dont mind paying gency arises no instant shall be lost Columbus knew that the lips of thick then. weather on its way can always warn remembering just what to do. keen-eareFrom that, moment she took the play into her ship captain. Though two of kinds, pre- the Safety orders are hands and made it what it was meant to be. The ventive the truth of the matter is that thick The former and members of the company, inspired by ' er revolt, weather comes with calm, and the discourage the devils visit. The latter and latent dislike of the Big Man, supported her entertain him after he has arrived. Of wash' of sea alongside is then more loyally. With the vigor of the. big scene restored the former some samples are those in noticeable. And who, in spite of anemometers to it the play took on a new and convincing as- regard to ammunition: Dont take pect. Even the impotence of the Big Man could naked lights into magazines. Dont (wind velocity measurers), does not not arrest it progress. The Inspiration of the drill with live that is, loaded am- know that westerly wind will work Though the Leading Woman carried it on the flood tide to munition. Dont expose too many evil with ones compass? scientific fact is that homeward success. The emasculated first act was forgotten. are two or one three at time charges Finally, the curtain descended on a play made. the limit with the big guns. Dont bounders into Queenstown started this At the end, the call for the author grew vehe- handle shells and powder bags rough myth. They were right too. For with weeks on westerly trades the earths ment. The author was not in the house. Then ly they are strong, but much stronger forces Induce a slight new magnetism they called for the Leading Woman again, and she, tf they go off in your hands. into the ships iron and so works to the Man in coming forward, bowed Most care is taken at the guns Why Front . . . and then she trembled and grew weak, themselves. After each shot the plug-ma- n evil with the compass needle. not blame thfe wind! because he looked straight back at her and smiled. breech-blocmust sponge off his attraction There is the The Big Man made her pay when they got home Suppose 360 lbs. of smokeless powder that night. Exactly how does not matter. This are shoved in for the next shot. Sup- of land .on ships which the old rascals used to bring up in court after an is a civilized world, but the veneer of civilization pose the red-hplug Is swuqg home to inexplicable grounding. They used to lies very thin on natures such as his. stop the powder. Before it locks the She sat up all night writing to the Unknown whole mass may Ignite. And the only get away with it too. But can you imagine a better creed when one has a whom sh'd had seen at last. Bodily pain and men- possible advantage that can come out and a tal anguish were forgotten In the ecstacy that of such carelessness is the afternoon on to ones hands than lives thousand over the paper. drove her pen off you may get while burying the I have seen you! I knew you! My heart has ashes of your shipmates who were in believe that rocks and shoals are drawthe helpless monster into danger? shakc;p hands with you , . . and oh if you would that turret. Safety orders say ing a better spirit to keep a man there Is come. how I to would call me, gladly SPONGE. And, believe me, we vigilant and alert?. eternally ill The next evening she pleaded she was too SPONGE Some old beliefs are very real. Local to play. She really was. - But the Big Man There are over 200 safety orders. "roirK? magnetic spots are not devils holes laughed. She had reverted to the original script. No more set of commands as was first supposed. Off Madagascar was being rehearsed she wrote more frequently , She would play It so every night, . . . and pay exists in important fleet. No day passes the in several parts of the South Paciand to the Unknown, than she ever had before. Her for it after. Inwithout some drill and instructions fic are areas of iron-san- d bottoms or need was greater. , The Man in Front was there. cluding them. And the result is safety. something of the sort British cruisers The Big Mans professional-- , jealousy had out- He was there the next night. have several times reported sudden run his discretion and his business Instinct. As And each night the Big Man made her pay BRIGHTWORK and extreme variations of their comso terribly that the last shred of her allegiance the first, night approached, reckless of conse-- , IPLING a write passes at these points. stirring might cut her part to him slipped from her. quences, he deliberately sliced and about polishing brass On the other hand equinoctial except where it fed his own. The Leading Woman On the, third night, at the end of the perform- on aparagraph battleship. O. Henry could at storms (March 21 and September 21) said nothing. She knew it would be useless. ance, as she was preparing- to go home, the tele- least drag a laugh out of the subject. are pure myths. So are weather rang. She picked Quite 'at the last moment, too, the Big Man phone bell in her dressing-rooAny sailornmn could drag a laugh out changes with changes of the moon. made a vital alteration In the principal scene of up the receiver. of a hitching post just trying to de- And its lunacy to believe that afterthe second act, delaying her entrance so that Yes? . . .' Im the leading woman, . . . scribe brightwork and what it means noon sights are less dependable than he might have the stage to himself as long as To whom am I speaking? to his d soul. those of early morning unless ones which of an error was It judgment she possible. The author of the piece, was the answer The fleet American be to battle used grog allowance is too great In sense excuse that mot the ; did and even vanity received promptly. . white. On the cruise the around it maimed the play and injured the actress, it was She grew faint at the sound of the voice. world in 1909 marveled at . BALANCING a crime. , I want to thank you for what you have done our cleanliness. foreigners The were like ships The Leading Woman knew the play was a good for my play. The papers are full of you. I great floating advertisements for some POISE is mans greatest social gift marks the clod. wasnt able to be present, although seats were washing compound. "They even smell play, and that there was one way to save it. The Equilibrium of mind and mental attiIt meant clean exclaimed an Australian. sent. I was there in spirit, I think. remedy lay with her. If, instead of acquiescing tude, grace of bearing and manner, are In her, belated appearance in the second act she so much to me. Tidiness is all right and so is health- characteristics of a gentleman the came in as arranged in the authors script, the What A voice within her asked a question. ful But warfare against world over. Big Man would have no alternative but to go on seat did they give you? filth can be carried too far. After the been Should , with the action as it had written. And, strangely enough, of an engine The middle of the front row of the stalls. n war the eternal ir- too. she do it? All she knew on the opening night was Number ten. ritation of painting and scrubbing and Its alive! spectators cried when that she could pull .the play out of the fire if she . You werent there? polishing Her voice grew staccato. with ironbound the first steam mechanism kicked side-wicoupled dared. k You sent no substitute? rules to preserve the virgin purity of and snorted. It was. But that Before the first act was over any help of hers No. I cant even drive round and thank you. what had been painted, scrubbed, and was all. For its basic lack of balance was with received seemed hopeless. It hung Are, The doctor wont let me out. men drove to distracpolished, nearly no more than the abysmal comparative silence. When the curtain fell she Words dried in her throat. She got them out tion. This one thing was said to have made it ancestor of our great race of brute had ten minutes in which to make up her mind been responsible for more than 75 per harshly. modern steam machineries. whether or not to take the step she contemplated. Shall I come to you? . . . The address? When cent of desertions at that time. ' Watts engine nearly shook the She stood on the stage, looking at the house will I? Now Finally war paint was adopted in in the proscenium. through a peep-hol- e Before she left the theater, she questioned the place of white. Rails and upper works laboratory windows out Bob Fultons snatched pitch from his veRight in the center of the front row of stalls man In the box office. were also gray. Even guns, once so baby the seated figure of a man, enchained her gaze. Number ten, front row of the stalls. Who had beautifully polished, now faded Into ssels seams by such vibration as a nervous earthquake couldnt imitate. It seemed as If he returned it, for his eyes were it? the misty background of the sea hofixed on the precise spot from which she regarded At that time centrifugal force was Nobody, madame. It was reserved for the rizon. Battle lanterns and search him. She went hot and then cold ; for she knew dark horse of steam design. Mothe author." lights were black. Gangways were beyond a shadow of doubt, as women do sense Did you let anybody else have it in his ab- dull shellaced. Every effort was made ments that is leverages of rotating r such things, that the man in front was he whom sence? to assure cleanliness, but without be- masses were the wild tribe of early mechanical construction. she had called her Unknown; for whom she had Often and each been has night. empty No, madame. It ing finicky or foppish. All surfaces kept her heart empty all the lean years of her The cab stopped at the hotel. She got out. The were made dull that could be. Today often would they descend on a peacemarried life. At the brightwork call on the bugle at ful habitation of cranks and wheels elevator took her to an upper floor. She went quickly back to- her dressing-room- . 8:15 a. m. means more than half an and wreck the whole contraption. Endoor to a room she dismissed the bellboy. how long was a matNot only for the authors sake, but for her own ; Alone in the long corpidor she paused for a hour of overhauling than of actual gines ran, but for ter of luck. her mind was made up to revert to the earlier moment, her knuckles poised over the door panel. shining. Earlier types did fairly well because entrance and risk everything; including the Big What was the opening of that door going to mean The whole ship Is divided into cleanMans displeasure.- She was going to- act for the to her . . . the shutting of another? She knocked ing stations. During the morning their speed was nothing to brag about. Civil war the Navy deMan In Front, to forget that she was the wife as softly.' There was no answer. She went in, clos- watch from 5:30 to 7:30 the men During the the Wampanoag for the built well as the victim and chattel of the Big Man. partment her behind going eyes the door her, quietly ing sweep and scrub paintwork, canvas, of cleaning out Johnny Rebs She dressed feverishly. Then she sent for the decks, masts and other parts. The purpose instantly to the still figure in the . It was the man she had seea in the theater-- in period from 8:15 to 8:45 is merely a swift commerce destroyers. But her knees knocked together too hard. Im going to- take my original cue in the second the seat that had been empty ail along. Wait- final touch. he of told him. she a Its In the engine and dynamo rooms my responsibility, She averaged the then startling act, long illness, ing for her, convalescent after course. Im going to- play my part as the author had fallen asleep. there is a good deal of metal surface speed of 18 knots on her trial trip. The wrote it. I shall speak my driginal lines, and Standing there, her eyes took their fill of him. to be shined. But this is considered in engine made only 30 turns per minHer senses swam with the joy of looking upon the class with scrubbing on deck. How- ute. By heavy gearing a speed of 75 those engaged in the scene- will ignore the cuts him while he was unconscious of her presence. ever, outdoor machinery, such as revolutions wa,i transmitted to the promade yesterday. Will you please tell them to be prepared? The prompter as well. Her eyes loved him. winches, cranes, and capstans have peller shaft. (Contrast this with modhad always considered the The room was untidy, inhospitable as a hotel small unpainted parts which are pol- ern turbines going about 1,000 r. p. m.) The apartment always is. It needed a womans touch. ished at "brightwork time. But poise was there not, and a cruel Leading Woman a pliable, weak creature. The Wood can also .be brightwood. In not it was. Her wooden sides tremThere was a writing-tabl- e by his side with painexplicable change in her left him so amazed pers on it and a womans photograph . . . hers! fact this term has come to signify any bled. Her whole body became palsied that he had no word to say. She passed him on whos eaten The grate was full of ashes, the fire low, Silent- - ' surface unpainted. For instance the like a her way to the stage, stood behind the center ensodas as a girl. trance for her cue . . and took it. ly she stepped across the room and knelt by the gunwales (edges or railg) of boats are too many no longer varnished. They are scrubBut genius was not to be beaten so The Big Man gasped and forgot his part, which grate. The man, roused out of a fitful slumber, awoke bed, bleached in the sun, and sand- easily. In the succeeding 40 years rowas nothing new. Beneath the artificial color his to see the woman tidying up his hearth. papered until softly white and smooth. tative speed Increased tenfold and face was livid with rage. The house applauded And thus, early in the year, a new happiness Working parts of a gun are polish-- power jumped every year, as the Leading Woman took the stage: Under was dawning. cover of the noise, he jerked out: SAFETY ORDERS non-ski- HE Leading Woman came back from rehearsal tired and spent, every ' nerve fiber aching, mentally bruised. ' II 7 The role of Theo in The Eternal Triangle was the best part that had ever been given her to create, and willy-nillshe had to create it as the Big Man, her husband, decreed. The part fitted her like a glove. And the Big Man made her murder It. Once, he had taught her. In her ignorance she had married him so that he might teach her.. Now khe had got beyond his 'teaching, and he did not know it In his vanity he thought he had made her. He lived, fattened on that, thrived on the reflected glory of her art, and ghoul-lik- e on the woman herself. There was no escape for her from his exactions of this piece. The author was abroad, in so he could not be present at rehearsals. Moreover, because this was his first play, the Big Man, took liberties with it as might a theatrical celebrity. This one rehearsed his wife with the .assiduity of an animal trainer, bullying her before the whole company until they tittered and then grew silent with sympathy. The Big Man came into the room noisily. He was always called the Big Man. The name fitted him. He was big in physique ' and In His face still showed signs of exasperation. , Botten ! Simply rotten ! he threw at her, stridFive years of drilling things ing up and down. into you,, and youre as dense as when I married you. You queer the business, you slur your lines. Tou you havent an ounce of the real stuff in you. .Dont look at me with that martyred expression! Id get rid of you if we didnt have to open on New Years Eve. Now, look here, well go through that business in Act n again, right here, now, until you get it right my way see? Whats the cue? I cant ask you to sacrifice yourself (He takes her in his arms). Come on ! ' The Big Mans' temper was smarting under a recent newspaper criticism in which it was suggested that In his next production he should give premier place to his wife. He specially resented the advice, because the writer hinted that the Big Man, dramatically speaking, did not count. Come on ! he repeated. actor-manag- er : . . No. He stared at her. She had never disobeyed him before.' It nearly staggered him. Im too tired tonight. Besides, I dont agree that the scene should be played your way. That was not the authors Intention. He took her by the wrist. By gad, youll be saying the play was written foi you next! .. It had been. The aiithor bad seen her on the stage once, ne had purposely written his plty round her, because her personality had impressed him. The Leading Woman did not know this. Neither did the Big Man. Youve got to do what I tell you. If youre tired, what about me? Rather than argue, she gave in. It wasnt worth it arguing with a man who could only rea- son like a woman. The worst of it was, she could now. She knew he was jealous. - see through him She knew he took a perverse pleasure in trying to queer her business. She was perfectly well aware that could he have dispensed with her, he e would, have done so; only receipts had been so good since he had starred her. After he had gone, the Leading Woman turned the key in the lock. There was always one way by which she could secure oblivion of her mental sufferings. Not by morphia, or drink, but by letters. A score of them, written by her, sealed but not addressed, lay in a locked drawer of her escritoire. She did not even know the man who, in them, she invoked. Her eyes had never seen him. To write thus was one of those queer feminine impulses that women who suffer give way to in order to save their hearts from breaking. They were the she had ever written to a man. only She took up her pen now, striving for calmness while writing to her Unknown; Oh, my dear,' I am so terribly sad, and I am , so lonely that I feel like a little child crying in It cant go on. ' I cant bear it the dark ' much longer. Sometimes in my agony I have told myself to do as other women do, to be worldly, venal, to laugh ahd console myself with the first Pride stops me, . likely man who comes my way. and my deep regard for you, Unknown. Shall I ever see you? Will you ever become real, my ideal? Shall I never know what love is? For now my heart Is virgin. wherever you are! Think of it, I. am a wife. And I have never known what it is to love, except intangibly, as I love you. That is my punishment for having married without reflection. Beloved, I was such, a child, and thought nothing mattered except my art. Sometimes, when I first began to write to you, Unknown, I used to ask myself what would happen should I ever meet you? I know, as I know . still, that I should recognize you, and at once. I used to think of myself as ever bent, to the Big Mans will. But I know now that this would not be right. He has so long forfeited my loyalty. All that is best In me bfelongs to you, whoever and wherever you are. I could not keep away if you ; needed me. Affd I am a religious woman. All this life I am living is wrong, unnatural. oh, dearSurely it cant go on. I am twenty-si- x and there is nothing left to est, only twenty-si- x me but work. . . . And In work I cannot forget because It Is emotional I am going to write a little prayer here. I have prayed it waking and in my dreams. I send it now on the wings of my spirit, this petition- of my soul, that somewhere and sometime I may see a face In the you, know you, if only once 1 box-offic- love-lette- ... ' - ... crowd. She was strung up and she covered pages, givwoman of acute ing her emotions full play. To a veryconvincing in is something there sensibility the idea of a soulmate. It was that Leading Omans consolation and her beacon of hope. the following weeks while the new play fDuring well-dresse- stitch-in-tim- miss-stltch- drop-forge- d ... d stop-it-iv- e. ... well-know- n , man-of-w- qorro' . brine-soake- ... s. Spanish-America- se ' - - stage-manage- r. . ... arm-chai- r. stage-manag- er m |