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Show PUBLIC OPINION Ah, tny new teacher of Engliah lib eraturo! my new teacher of mathematics ! my new matron I" he said la a oft, almost paternal voice which filled Janet with a vague resentment. "Wel- EBONY come! welcome! Down that avenue between tho evergreen hedges you sea the new professor of psychology almost like Hamlet In appearance. Isn't he? I told him ho suited tho old academy quite marvelously. Come In ! come In!" They followed him Into a broad, ImI posing hall paved with loaengee of By Anna blark and white marble, which at one McClure Sholl place bore an Insertion In green stone of a laurel wreath surrounding the letters In black marbles, Lostlund Academy." On the able walla hung dark oil paintings of stern and scholCopyright hy W. O. Chapman WJtO Service arly men In gown and bands, their yellowed hands renting on neat piles of hooks. Beyond them, one of a much later date, and apiurently executed by a SYNOPSIS portrait palmer of ability. It repreOn her way to sented a man in middle life, clothed In poiKion in Loat-laa- d the academic gown, with a crimson Academy, Janet Mercer, young professor of English literal ure and hood, and weuriug the mortar board." rhetoric, meela on the train a young The gown was flylug In the wind innan, Arthur Fleming, alao on hla way to tha Academy, aa profeaaor of uath-ematldicated by liendlug treetopa and a wild and ehemlatry. They reach the aky of cumulus clouds, and the artist railroad atation, and meat Mra Denhad put an expression in the eyes far ver, engaged aa matron of tho removed from academic calm a searching, hungry, sorrowful look. The background was the savage scenery of CHAPTER I Continued the neighborhood. 2 "The first three president! of I The farmer continued gazing at Haskell said, with a wave of them ; then, aa If this were none of hla the hand toward the older portraits. "Who la the fourth the very sad business, he chirped to hla horuea and the wagon moved ponderously for- gentleman who seems to be running ward. At the lame moment they heard from this spot?" Arthur asked boldly. the diatant chug of a motor, and a car Haskell changed color, flashing a awung Into view from around a curve. look almost of hatred at hla new Behind It, clattering and awaylng, teacher. "The fourth la Dr. Jethro appeared an open wagon, drawn by Bracebridge," he replied curtly. twe bony white horses. The poor "I see a lake In the background. la beaata evidently had been whipped there a lake near here?" Janet quesdown the mountain, and Janet, now tioned. seeing singularity In the most obvious "Yes, we have a small but terrificalcircumstances, felt that even the ly deep lake almost back of tlie horses In this wild region looked like grounds; and from It recedes one of tke burses In a miracle pageant, lean those wild gorges for which this midand scarred and with dle section of New York slate la Justlong, thin necks protruding toward ly famous." scenes in which, aulmul-lik"It has a waterfall, of course?" they scented disaster. Janet remarked. The man mho drove the car was a Haskell gave her a piercing look. in appearance; bis septuagenarian Are you clairvoyant? Yea, It bus a companion, directing the white horses, fall rather a high and terrible fall a youngish fellow with a rather sullen direct sheer drop of two hundred air. and twenty-fiv- e feet from an "The new teachers?" he asked wills ledgo. Above this fall, he cona kind of leer toward the imperturbtinued, hie manner becoming more graable old man on the front seat cious, "the cliffs rise to a height of "les and as you have but one four hundred feet Let me show you train a day here, It seems to me you Into the drawing room. He ushered them Into a long aiinrt-meought to be sole to meet It promptly," green-velvtilled with Fleming remarked, conscious that his structures were not altogether logical. covered chairs and sofa. Over the fireplace hung a painting of the The man laughed and began putting old academy, representing It in the the baggage in hla wagon and adjustblandness of some forgotten summer, a ing a tarpaulin over It with the comdrawn up Iiefore the ment that it was likely to rain. The eld driver of the car indicated by a pillared portico, aud little girls In full wave of the hand that they were to skirts and pantalettes rolling hoops get in; Mrs. Denver and Janet both on the trim walks or playing battlesecretly rather unhappy and nervous, dore and shuttlecock ou the sliavcd took their places But when the cur green lawns. Some old samplers hung on the wall, the work of children gone bogrna Its Journey Into the hills the three newcomers lost fur the time long ago to their rest. A large phototheir anxiety in wonder over the view graph album bound In green leather console table. which every height or curve unfolded lay on a marble-toppe- d te their eyes Mechanically Junet raised its cover. "How far Is it?" "Don't touch that, please," Haskell "About five miles" aid sharply. "Is it near a village?" She took her hand away flushing It used to be we're cornin to the with embarrassment. I beg your parruins a genuine deserted village. It don. I really have no special Interest was called Lostlaud, too, In the old in the book." days" "No matter, Mias Mercer. I suppose "Where do you get your supplies?" I'm fussy. Perhaps the old things "From the city from Oteaga." shouldn't be about but I like to have There was no time for further diseverything ss It wee In my stepfacussion; for now they were entering ther's time my stepfather. Dr. Jethro a road protected from curious visitors Bracebridge. 1 was very devoted to him. I watched over hla last melanby high Iron gates newly painted, stunned by an Iron grille bearing In choly years when the old place was letters once gilded the words "Lost-lan- d shut up. Well have tea here, and then you can go to your rooms. You'll Academy." They now beheld a great mansion dine upstairs tonight Janet waa beginning to breathe more looming beyond the Immense pines which were shaking In the wind. Built freely. She removed her hat, and her massively In the shape of a Greek temoft, burnished brown hair released ple. its high porch columns reached made a kind of aureole about her face. te the root and supported a tympanum Her eyes with excitement and fatigue m which was bleaching a Latin motto were at once bright and dark, and In tall, black, faded letters which more deeply blue than Arthur had Fleming at Janet's request translated ever known a womans eyes. Even as the Biblical text, "Unless the Lord Mrs. Denver looked at her with a kind build the house, their labor is in vain of maternal admiration; and Arthur that build it" felt anticipatory Jealousy of HamFrom the central body of the buildlet" They saw him pass the three ing, which was of brick, warm and front windows walking slowly, his time-toneand superimposed upon a cloak blowing In the wind. Then he basement of granite blocks, two wings entered ; a young mnn with old eyes, a f the same material Jutted out; the very sensitive, slightly repressed mouth, whole covered with huge metallic and a rather puzzled, almost apprehensive expression. green patches of English ivy careI am Wilton Payne, the new teachfully cut away from the long, narrow Georgian windows filled with small er of psychology," he said simply. panes of glass flashing purple and Arthur shook hands with him, and violet Iridescence. Lilac bushes almost introduced him to Janet and Mrs. Denas tall as trees partially hid some of ver. Upon Janet his eyes rested with A strange windows. the ground-floo- r friendly quiet admiration. hush was over the place, so deep, so And you, I believe. Miss Mercer, profoundly unbroken by human voices are to bring Crashnw, and Chaucer, or sounds, that the three passengers Burns and Shelley to this ancient spoke in whispers ss If not to Intruacademy?" des a discordant note. An evergreen "I hope ao ! walk, outlined by enormous, century-l- d "In all iny life I never knew a place box bushes, stretched to a far perso silent, Mrs. Denver announced in spective. Iu that walk a tall man was a hushed voice and with a look orer pacing with s cloak over his shoulder, her shoulder, as If she were afraid of lie looked both unhappy and reliable. some one creeping up behind her. The car stopped iiefore a majestic Where are the scholars? front door with a fan and Wilton I'ayne and Arthur exchanged filled In with delicate Iron tracery. glances, and as If reuding each other's Shoe scrapers in ancient iron flanked thought, looked uervously away. The the stone steps. Down these a man former arose from Ills scut and stared about forty yenrs of age came to out of one of the windows. "I wonder if houses possess mental greet them; tall, clean shuven, with bright, restless eyes and an and emotional statca approximating manner, he seemed more like those of a long line or occupants. a very keen financier than a schoolThis place seems absolutely vibrant to master. lie was fUstldiously dressed me; as if people were hurrying in nearly new suit of leaf brown; through tho corridors, and yet I haven't tie held a scarf-pl- a seen a soul since I arrived an hour his nent, which Juliet noticed at once, a ago." cameleon curved in the shape of a A rattier obtuse-lookincountry womtiny death's head. In his buttonhole an entered with a tea tray and put It he wore a gardenia, strangely reministable which down on the marhle-topecent. Junet thought, bulb of funerals occupied the center of the room. sad festivities. TO BK (.ONTlNl'Kb. populace to the dignity of people. He tuught, iHiciilcatetl, civilized. He was Indefatigable and immovable. He conqnered violence . by a smile, despotism by Infallibility hy Irony, oliKtlnancy by perseverance, Ignorance by troth. I have used the word, smile. It is Voltaire. Whatever may In; his just wrath. Is passes, and the Irritated Voltaire always gives way to the d Voltaire calmed. Then In that eye Ihe smile apiiears. That smile, I rcpcHt, is Voltaire. Luminous, Hint smile was fruitful also. The new soceily, the society for equality and concession, and that beginning of fraternity which rails Itself tolerance, reciprocal good will, Te Improve Potato Salad (lie Just accord of men am rights, favorite Potato salad is a great reason recognized ss the supreme with many people. You can make law, Ihe annihilation of prejudices It still better liked If the next time and fixed opinions, the serenity of you prepare it you try this; Chop the souls, spirit of Indulgence and up nut meats and celery or parsley, of reason, harmony, peace behold, or both. Add throe to the salad from that great Kiiilln !" come has all be You will before Just serving it surprised to find what an ImproveEarmark Identification ment this is. Besides, it adds nutriEarmarks rather tlam finger-print- s THE HOUSEWIFE. ment as a means of Identification Is proCopyrMf fey Public Lcdpr, 7 sc. posed by lrof. Henry K. l'erklns, director of the Fleming museum of who has the I Diversity of discovered nenrly 150 distinct characteristic format ions In the human cur. Not necessarily connected with Eulogy of Voltaire Held as the rriminal. eastern uionnrchs have used the thumb'a impression, the Masterpiece. "sign manual, as a surety against , Indiu's courts have used forger-Just a century ufter Voltaire's for Identification nnd Amerl-icu- n prints death in 1778, Victor Hugo delivered maternity hospitals for Identian oration on the imin aud his abidbabies. Photography, not porfying ing influence, a writer In the Kansns traiture, has shown individuality In City Star recalls. Hugo was not only the human ear, once thought only his country's greatest poet In the found In the hands. Professor PerNineteenth century, hut equally kins has railed attention to this famed ss the writer of such celebratmost easily recognized means of ed dramatic novels ss Notre Inme" criminals. Literary Identifying " He waa ulso and Les a superb orator, and It Is safe to say that no more eloquent words have been spoken concerning the Eighteenth century sage during all the .SflVESMORE-TIME- ? years whirli elapsed since 1778 when Voltaire laid down (he burden of his and OLD WHITBY sun-asm- WATERS white-panele- tiro-foun- d i ca HUGOS TRIBUTE TO GREAT SAGE Scotch Lassies Work at Whitby During Fishing Season at-land, foam-flecke- e, out-Jut-ti- nt coach-and-fo- d slde-llgli- ts over-Mllclto- dark-maroo- n g d Idea Box The Housewife' by National Piiptrrd WaahlBSlun. D. U. Mellowed Society. WXU Service. Grosraphle by time, Whitby, the cliffs of the coast to which It has clung for centuries, draws many visitors who are lured by the atmosphere of old England. Most of the old part of the town remains as It was hundreds of years ago, dominated by the parish church, the SL Mary's built In llOfr-a- nd famous ruins of Whitby abbey. Today Whitby Is a fishing port only, and Its real splendors belong to the pest: to the days of the old Saxon monastery of SL Hilda and Caedmon; to the days of the Great Synod In GG4, when Saxoa kings and the leading ecclesiastic lights of the land met with pomp and circumstance to settle the vexed question of the date of Easter; to the days of wooden ships and when Whitby wooden was fifth port In England and her ships were famed sturdy, oak-bui- lt across the seven seas; to ths days when Whitby was one of tbe chief bases of the Greenland whaling Industry, and Cook and Scoresby sailed from the port on tlielr exciting enterprises ; to the days when 1,500 men were regularly employed mining and carving Jet (a black mineral) and twice this number were engaged In the alum industry along alilp-bufldin- semi-precio- the crash There Is no shipping now. At the dawn of the great Iron age some of the "yards" turned to Iron, and many fine screw steamers were built on tha stocks which then lined the upper harbor. But the shallowness of that harbor and the distance from foundries and rolling mills were fatal handicaps, and Whitby found annihilating rivals In the ports of tbe Tees and the Tyne. Tbe alum Industry died with the discovery of a cheaper method of A trade which depends on the fickleIs built on ness of feminine fashion sand, and from a peak of prosperity reached in that glum period of court mourning that followed the death of Queen Victoria's consort, Prince Albert, the Jet trade declined, until today it supports scarcely more than a dozen craftsmen. Ancient, Crooked Streets. The old town's streets ere tortuous end narrow. The names of the chief ones, Baxtergate and Flowergate, suggest that they were built when there were no traffic problems. There Is documentary evidence of their existence In the Fourteenth century. Flowergate climbs down the slope of the West Cliff. Baxtergate runs parallel to the docks. A steel bridge, originally a wooden drawbridge, conduct! Its bewildered traffic to the east side of the harbor, and here la the equally ancient and ever narrower Church street sgaln running parallel to the harbor and leading to the foot of the famous 109 steps which the faithful must climb to attend worship in the parish church, St. Mary's. Whitby Is the shopping center for a wide rural area. Its shops are chiefly In the two main streets and its market backs off Church street The mar ket day Is Saturday. Early In the morning the farmers ar rive in their neat little traps, with baskets of butter, eggs, chickens, curds (filling for the famous Yorkshire cheesecakes), trussed geese, rabbits, and the like. Chiefly In Church street are the hops of the Jet and fossil dealers. Jet is fossilized wood converted Into carbon. It is found In beds known si Jet rock, which crop out In several places along the coast It does not occur Id scams, like coal, but In Isolated pockets, which make Its mining a speculative business. A man night dig for months and not find a handful. A good pocket however, when the trade was In Its heyday, might have been worth anything up to 1250. ' There Is no mining now. What craftsmen are left depend for their supplies on the longshoremen, who col lect the bits washed out of the cliffs, or from submarine exposures. Its Jet Is Distinctive. Wliiie there Is diverse opinion re gnrdln? the merits of Jet as a medium for the true artist, It hna Inspired ome very fine and original carving. It Is easy to work and takes on a lovely polish, as different from the glaze of glass and Imltntion Jet as the polish of chef p furniture la from the patiua of a genuine piece of Queen Anne. Moreover, while Jet la found elsewhere, notably In Spain, Whitby Jet Is distinctive. Most of the famous craftsmen ara dead, and there has been a tendency for their successors to keep the standardised deslgna But here and there one of them will show a flash of originality, end hope endures that the pendulum of fashion may swing beck. Tbe fossils which form the second bow of the Whitby Jet dealers tyave a more strictly scientific Interest The commonest la tho ammonite. It Is found In immense profusion along tha entire coast, but from tha geologist's point of view its most interesting aspect is Us extraordinary variety. The ammonite, of course, was a marine animal belonging to the family of squids and octopuses Its nearest existing relative Is tha nautilus Us variations are distinguished by size, by number and shape of the corrugations of Its shell, by the presence or absence of spines or tubercles The ammonite, which is particularly abundant on the rocks at the foot of the Abbey cliff, has given rise to an Interesting legend which still finds credence among Whitby fisher folk. They believe it to be the petrified remains of a snake. Rarely, however. Is a specimen found with its "head intact The story goes that in tha days of SL Hilda, tha district suffered froln a plague of adders The holy lady was prevailed upon to use her ln fluence against them, with the result that first their heads were prayed off and then their bodies were turned lnte stone. Cottages of the Fisherman. From the main streets of Whitby Baxtergate, Flowergate, Church street and from Skinner street, Sandgats, Hsggersgate and SL Ann'a Stalth, narrow lanes twist among the old cottages or lead to watery dead ends The cottages are built in amazing confusion. One has the Impression that they must have pushed themselves up, mushroom fashion, from the ground wherever there was apace. They have no gardens They have, with few exceptions, no view save Into their neighbor's parlor or down hie chimney stack. They are, however, all built on one general plan, which gives a kitchen, parlor, a best room, two bedrooms, and an attic. Their architects and builders were til men of the ses Today It Is chiefly the fishermen who lire In them. Even the fishing trade of Whitby has suffered more than an ordinary share of economic vicissitude. Old residents of the town can remember the time when. In summer, during the height of the North sea herring season, the harbor was a forest of masts And they have since seen the time when tha unloading of a solitary herring drifter created a sensation. The herring trade has TiniaCred. But that no Industry can spirit wlthonc thrive has remained alive In the breasts of the sturdy Whitby men, and the port has of late years experienced a revival In the crab and lobster trade. Coble a Fine Surf Boat That view to the east across the harbor, so beloved of painters and photographers would not bo complete without the fishing craft, moored hard up to the very threshold of ths cottages; without the lobster pots stacked upon the quays the salmon nets spread out on poles to dry In ths sun ; without the groups of d men, busy with their gear or gossiping. Borne of these men are and loquacious; old, but most of them are In their prime, Mist-rabies.- WORK body. from Unit The following address, May 30, 1N7N. vividly sums up what the iHter great Frenchman felt concerning tin- - earlier great man of the same race: "In the presence of I Ids society, frivolous and dismal, Voltaire alone, having before Ids eyes those united voices, the court, (lie noldlity and capital; that unconscious power, Ihnt blind multitude; that terrible magistracy, so severe to subjects, so docile to the master, crushing and flattering, kneeling on ths people before the king: that clergy, vile melange of hypocrisy nnd fanaticism: Voltaire alone, declared war against that coalition of all the social iniquities, against that enormous ami terrible world, and he accepted buttle with it. And what was Ids weapon? That which has the lightness of the wind and the power of (lie thunderbolt. A pen. With tlint weapon he fought: witli that weaism lie conquered. Gentlemen, let us salute that lie conquered the memory. old code mid the old dogma. He conquered the feudal lord, the Gothic Judge. lie raised the luis-mg- e ... ... thanaIOO2 WASHING MACHINE No Hasting with Matches or Torch ...No Waiting. ..Lights Inilantiy, Lika Cas D EDUCE your ironing time one-thiThe Cole. . . your labor one-naIron will save you man more time and work than a $100 washing machine! Iron any place where you rd if 1 Self-Heati- can be comfortable. No end 1cm trips catryins coat only Iron from Move to board. fed an hour. Helps you do facust Noam. CMln. quicker. See sour hardware or hnuarfunilaliint dealer. Ulocal dealer don't handle, wide ua. THS COLEMAN LAMP S HOVS COMPANY ta-- a POOR COSIPLEXIOnS Clogged pores, pimples improved in Hew days by Retinol Soap and the Resinol WUX ' w -- TIRE NEWIOUSE HOTEL A Distinctive Residence An Abode renowned Throughout the West Mrs J. H. Waters, President Salt Lake9s Most Hospitable HOTEL Invites You RATES SINGLE $2X0 to b $4-0- 0 DOUBLE $2X0 tS $4X0 400 Banns THE Slotel NcwSioasc V. E. SUTTON, General Manager CIIAUXCEY V. WEST Assist, Gen. Manager 400 Bsths YOUR TOWN blue-jereeye- YOUR STORES salt-tanne- white-bearde- tall, square-shouldere- d, soft, catlike in the way they move sbouL restrained In their speech, watchfuL The type of craft characteristic of the const Is the coble. No photograph can show Its superb sailing qualities Its design is the evolutionary outcome of conditions It la a surf boat The coble's greatest draft Is forward, and on an open shore it Is landed stern first, its slender bows offering no resistance to the surf. It sails fast and very close to the wind, because its long rudder sets ss a keel. But the rudder Is also a source of danger, for It may foul a moss of seaweed or bo--1 come entangled In anchored fishing gear when the boat la In a heavy breeze. The coble, like a spirited! horse, demands expert handling. J j community includes the v farm homes surrounding the ftUR town. The town stores are there for the accommodation and to serve the people of our farm homes.The merchants who advertise specials are merchants who are sure they can meet all competition in both quality and prices. 31 |