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August 25
immigrants in Louisiana founded New
Orleans.
Tf— British, under Howe, entered Chesapeake Bay
and threatened Philadelphia.
35—Birthday of Francis Bret Harte, author.
■0—Birthday of Edgar Wilson “Bill” Nye, humorist.
H } BIBLE THOUGHT
ChMity shall cover the multitude of sins.—
4:8.
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Great mines, like heaven, are pleased in
doing good, though the ungrateful subjects of
their favors are barren in return.—Rowe.
T WEAKEST EXCUSE.
Somebody ought to collect statistics some
lay to find out whether more human suffering
• not caused by boneheadedness than by
:ussed ness.
When someone makes R costly blunder,
(We’re apt to excuse him by saying that “it was
a mistake of the head and not of the heart.”
We Seem to feel that if a man "means well,"
as we say, he can be forgiven almost anything.
But it sometimes seems that nearly all of
|Hur troubles come from just these mistakes
of the Head. Few people are downright
perverse; nearly everone means well, ln
competence, not malice or dishonesty, is
the great foe of happiness.
Here’s an example.
Tbe late Lord Asquith's war diary was
printed recently. It gives a number of inside
views of the conduct of the World War.
’And nowhere on earth is there quite such an
•sample of the price people sometimes have
to pay for these easily forgiven "mistakes of
the head." %
Asquith tells how Sir Winston Churchill.
then a prominent cabinet member, was all
adsorbed, at the beginning of 1915, in a plan
for a great attack on the Dardanells. Ad
j. miral Fisher, British famous old sea-dog, op
posed the plan violently; but Churchill was
ithusiastic and carried the day. The Allies
were to bombard and reduce the Turkish
forts, send troops up the straights, capture
Constantinople—it was all very nicely plan
ned.
Hie world doesn’t need to be reminded
what happened. Of all the battlefields of the
War, Gallipili was the most tragic. Thousands
upon thousands of young Australians died
there; and after some months the British
ministry was obliged to admit that it was
nil aghastly mistake. Troops and warships
were called off, and the Dardanells remained
Unmolested for the rest of the war.
* The attack on the Dardanelles was ordered
|»y jnen who had the best intentions in the
World. But they lacked the wisdom, of such
•nen as Admiral Fisher, who was shrewd and
War-wise to see that the venturi would be
w r orse than useless. As leaders, they simply
Id not measure up to their jobs; and same
0,000 Australians, therefore, had to die.
That's the way things usually work out.
isn't lack of good intentions, but lack of
nowledge, ability and foresight, that causes
tost of our troubles. Never forgive anyone
n the grounds that "he meant well.” That
► the weakest of all possible excuses.
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man is an
ine for i a joy ride. No telling where
land.
IF.
Occasionally in this column, 1 have urged
people, who , wish . , . learn to . write, to .
young * B vK to
simple words . words . of . „ a .1 •£
use one sy ,
possible. Don’t you remember how 1 have
begged you not to use big words—just be
cause they are big and long and high-sound
ing?
Now, I wish to tell you that one of the
biggest words in the English language is one
of the littlest—just two letters: "IF.”
Rudyard Kipling was born 63 years ago
and has been writing over 40 years, He
knows the force and power of words if any
man or woman does; and the title of one of
his greatest and best-known poems is this little
word, “If." The fact is, this great, world
famous author seems to have said all there
is to say on this subject; he says: If you
can do certain things and not do other cer
tain things, "you'll be a Man, my son.
Even though you may have the 32 lines
of this poem committed to memory, some
other reader of The News may not be so
familiar with it and will be glad to read the
opening stanza, here, and the remainder of the
poem in the Hawkes Library or at home.
"If you can keep your head when all about
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt
you
But make allowances for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies.
Or being hated don’t give way to hating,
talk ^
And yet don’t look too good, nor too
wise ..."
And then Kipling says: If you can dream
and think, meet triumpH and disaster, see
your hopes shattered and try to build them
up again, talk with crowds and keep your
virtue, walk with kins and not lose the corn
mon touch; If neither friends nor foes can
hurt you, if all rn,en count with you but not
loo much; If you can do all these things and
some others mentioned by him—with certain
reservations—then “you’ll be a Man, my
:on!” (If you have forgotten the poem, get
it and read it. It is medicine for the soul.)
The principal ’’If” we hear these days is:
“If 1 had the money," or "If I Were young
again, • * or "If my health were as good as it
used to be," or “If I could have gone to col
lege," etc., etc.
Suppose, now, we let that “If” rest a min
ute an use this one: "If I were starving,"
or "If 1 were twice as old as I am, or "If my
health were worse than it is,’’ If 1 could
have grown up in ignorance," etc., etc.
IFI IF I 1FI Folks, when we get blue, let s
just think what a joke it would have been
on Adam and the rest of us IF the Creator
had forgot to make Eve.
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A BOY SCOUT
EXPLORER.
It’s our guess that one of the most interest
ing members of that daring band w ho will
penetrate the desolate Antartic with Comman
der Byrd will be Paul Siple, 19, the Erie, Pa..
Boy Scout, who was chosen from among
millions of Boy Scouts for that honor.
There is something about the idea of a
Boy 'iScout going to the South Pole with a
band of hardy adventurers that challenges
the imagination and fires the spirit of youth
His courage is certain to be followed with
avid interest by millions of boys, their fathers
and their mothers.
We admire the Spartan spirit displayed by
Paul’s mother. Mrs. Clyde A. Siple, when
she learned her boy had been given the
honor of making the dangerous trip.
"If the good Lord permits Paul to be se
lected, the Lord will permit him to return to
me," Mrs. Siple told reporters.
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ABOUT PLAYING CARDS.
The World’s idea about people who play
cards hhve changed since 1858 when the
card player was U pariah, according to Philip
Curtiss, writing in Harper's Magazine.
"In 1858 if 1 had refused to play cards."
he writes, "books would have been written
about me and distributed to school libraries;
leading bankers would have offered me junior
clerkships, and my wife would have had me
photographed with my hand on her shouldei,
"In 1928 if I do not play cards 1 am a prig,
a highbrow, a grouch, affected or unsocial.
In other words, th® man who doesn't play
cards today is one step lower than the man
who doesn't drink."
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"Don't waste your time,’’ he told
her then. Lila moved nearer to
him. “Are you going down to the
gutter before you decide to take
Jlfe ag you flnd it7 » she asked
tensely,
"Perhaps, but not with yon,” Rod
said levelly. Lila drew back a little
and the next instant Rod had a
feeling that she would need but lit
tle prompting to tear him to pieces
if she could.
It was just after this visit from
Lila that he was served with the
paper in Bertie Lou s divorce ac
tion, and lost the position Tom's
reference had helped him to get.
His newborn ambition had died then
and he did not seek anyone’s help
In getting work. He took what he
could get. And changed hfs name to
Brown.
And it was of Brown that Bessie
reported, with not the faintest glim
mering of suspicion that he was Ber
tie Lou’s husband. She did guess
that he was more to her friend than
merely ‘a’ young man I used to
know,’ 'however, and Bessie wasn’t
going to see him, put anything over
on Bertie Lou. So she told what
she knew.
He had a woman visitor in Ber
tie Lou’s housft.
“Don't worry. I haven’t felt better
for a long time,” Bertie Lou said.
“Then tell me everything I’ve got
to know," Bessie besought her. “So
I won’t make a fool of myself.”
They went into conference and
brought up all that each could think
of in connection with a caretaker’s
duties. %
“I wish you’d see him yourself,”
Bessie said when it was near the
time for Rod's return.
“It would spoil everything. He’s
hiding from the people who know
him,” Bertie Lou explained, You
mustn’t mention me at all.”
Bessie was more agog than ever.
“Is it safe to have him here?” she
asked.
“He isn’t a fugitive, if that’s what
you're ^thinking,” Bertie Lou smiled.
"I'm not after a reward.”
Bessie subside^, “Wel(l, if he
doesn’t guess there’s so methin g
phpny gj/out this he's dumber than
he looks," she stated.
Rod was inclined to question for
it did seem strange to him that
anyone should want a caretaker to
live in a humble little place like
that cottage. Still, it was furnish
ed, and a caretaker was more de
%/endable than a tenant. And a ten
ant could not be put out at a mo
ment's notice.
As for Bessie’s claim to being the
owner's agent—she was a friend
probably acting in that capacity;
and too zealous in her duties to al
low him to deal directly with the
owner. •----
And the work itself. Why should
n’t he take it? Perhaps if he got
away from accounts and ledgers and
balances for a while he would be
able to hold his next job. But,
hadn't he been away from them?
°h. that ws different—being out of
job. He worried.
There was a lot to do around a
new place too. He wouldn’t have
to sit around much. The lawn was
in. but it wasn’t doing very well and
there was room for a vegetable gar
den and he could build a rose arch
—do a lot of things—the things he’d
do if he owned the place. If it
only paid him enough to buy his
food . . .
Promptly at the end of the hour
he was back on Bertie Lou’s front
porch. This time when Bessie
mitted him there was no indication
of anyone, else being in the house.
She led him to the kitchen.
sat on the same blue chair Bertie
Lou had occupied a few minutes
before. .
"The owner was here but he
couldn't wait to see you,” Bessie
lied. “He told me everything you
want to know, I guess. All you
have to do is to protect the place.
You mustn't go away at night-all
night. I mean—and of course you
will have to take care of your own
room.
“I'll come out once a week an4
clean It for you. and 11 you eat your
meals in the houfee you will have to
wash the dishes yourself.”' She was
certain about that.
"What’s the pay?” Rod asked.
"Well, as 1 said before," Bessie
hesitated, “the pay is small—five
dollars a week, but il you have other
work there's no objection to your
being away in the daytime"
‘“I think I’ll take it.’ ’Rod declar
ed ' on one condition.' -
It had been Tom Fraser this time
who had told Lila where Rod could
be found. Rod had stayed on
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'Don’t pay any attention to him Bessie, he’s only trying to
catch your eye.
Bertie Lou’s little cottage until his
money was gone. When he took
himself to task for being so im
practical he excused his weakness
on the ground that it benefited his
health.
But he had been forced to go to
Tom for a loan, and because 1^
was not sure that Liia had obtain
ed his former address from the Fra
sers he did not ask Tom not to- let
her have his present one.
He had no wish to tell anyone
the truth about Lila.
As for his health he had in truth
lost the emaciated look that had
wrung Bertie Lou’s heart and caus
ed her to keep him in the cottage
in spite of her belief that his con
duct toward her had been unfor
givable. She did not lorget his re
mark to Bessie either and she still
felt that he wasn’t happy in exile
from the Loree menage. This kept
her from making even the slightest
overture toward a reconciliation
with him.
But as the time when she must
• discharge' ’hlfn came nearer she
knew more and more certainly that
it would be another heartbreak to
.lose him if she let him drift on
again! After all Rod was very
young; lie could make all kinds
of mistakes before the innate
strength of his character asserted
itself and he was ready for the high
way of progress again.
♦ * *
Bertie Lou put it off as long as
she could. And then came Bessie
with her story of the golden hair
pins arid a scented handkerchief on
Rod’s qresser. One factor that col
ored the tale was Bessie's misguid
ed devotion to Bertie Lou. She
knew that Marcs wanted to marry
Bertie Lou and she hated to sec a
dead romance stand in the way.
How could anyone compare these
two young men? Of course Mr.
Brown was good looking; she told
Eertie Lou that it was “cropping
out on him now like new hair on a
flea-bitten dog. He doesn’t look so
any more, But Mr. Palm
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er was good looking too, and wasn’t
he just wonderful to Bertie Lou?
Bessie forgot that she had always
said she would marry for love. It
was her opinion that Bertie Lou
was "batty” to refuse Marco Palmer.
So she did not heslUte to let Ber
tie Lou see that she believed Rod
had used her house as a rendezvous
for a clandestine love affair.
Bertie Lou was furious.
In her house! And there was no
mistaking who the jvoman was. Lila
used golden hairpins. In her rage
Bertie Lou had a flash of enlighten
ment. It came'to her as clear as
a crystal that Lila had sought out
Ro dand brought this thing to pass.
That would account for his having
changed his name.
In an instant her opinion of Rod
was reversed. He had some decency
after all! But not enough to with
stand Lila’s vamping Unless.
Bertie Lou wished she hadn’t
thought it—he cared too much lor
Lila to risk causing Cvrus to divorce
her. But at any rate it was Lila
who pursued him. There was no one
else he needed to hide from. It
wasn't necessary'to crawl away un
der an assumed name unless he
wanted to escape a temptation he
feared.
Bertie Lou wished she could take
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hold of htan as a dog shakes a rat
Why couldn't he stand up and tell
Lihi to f© to the dew.*? But at least
he had run—that was something. He
had made an effort to break with
Lila. Lila ought to be shot, Bertie
Lou declared in a rage
And in a rage sne went to Lila.
The butler was going to refuse her
admittance, on Lila’s orders, issued
when her name was taken up. It
was morning, the morning after
Bessie had told her story, and Ber
tie Lo.u had forgotten all about go
ing to work in her determination
to face Lila. But Bertie Lou brush
ed past him and burst in upon Lila
who greeted her with stony silence.
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Bertie Lou was going to speak her
mind to Lila. Then she would go
straight out to Moor.fields and or
der Rod out of her house. She
would be through with both of them
forever and if Marco wanted her
to marry him as soon as she was
free she would do it.
“If I didn’t despise you and Rod
both too much to care anything
about you I'd go to Cyrus and'tell
him that you were at Moonfields,”
she said in a tight, hard voice.
Lila sat up with a start. She had
been coritemplating some cutting in
sult to offer Bertie Lou, but the lat
ter’s knowing about her visit to Rod
made a difference. Lila wondered
apprehensively how she had found
out.
Bertie Lou’s remark revealed
something else besides—something
that Lila was not too disturbed to
realize. If Bertie Lou despised her
and Rod too much to care what hap
pened to them she wouldn’t be here.
Lila smiled slyly. So Bertie Lou
still loved Rod, did she? Well, she
would give her a point or two to
wriggle on!
“Sit down,’ she said, motioning
toward a chair near the bed. Ber
tie Lou continued to stand.
“Why don’t you let Rod alone?”
she blazed at Lila.
“Let him alone?” Lila repeated.
“My dear,’ ’she laughed, “do you
i imagine I want anything to do with
the caretaker of a dinky cottage?”
Bertie Lou turned white with an
ger. So Rod wasn’t good enough
for Lila now! (
“You know who’s responsible
that” she said furiously. "Rod can
thank you for ruining him.”
“Oh can he? Well, maybe you’d
like to know that he thanks you!”
Lila' returned mockingly. She en
joyed Bertie Lou’s look of amaze
ment.
“Yes, you,’ ’she went on sweetly.
"You made a nice mess of every
thing right at the begining. But
Rod tried to be trne to yju in spite
of finding out that he’d never loved
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anyone but me.” She paused to sa
vor Bertie Lou’s slight wince.
"He loves me now,” Lila went on,
‘and he always has. It didn’t take
your affair with Marco Palmer to
open his eyes to that! But he stuck
to you Just the same until he saw
Marco come out of your room. And
you can be sure he’d have killed
you both if he hadn't heard Marco
address you as the future Mrs. Pal
mer.
Bertie Lou stared at her like a
person in the grip of a catalepsy.
Not a muscle of her body moved;
only her eyes burned with a sud
den brightness that frightened
Finally; . | What did you say?” she’
asked. Her voice sounded strange to
her own ears, with a faraway dis
soqance straining through it.
(To Be Continued.)
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