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THE QEOR.GUAM’S MAGAZIHE PAGE
“The Gates of Silence”
By Meta Sunmins, Author of “Hushed Up"
TODAY’S INSTALLMENT.
Her voice cracked a little Suddenly
Rimington found himself wishing that
Fhe had not come. She brought an ele
ment of discord and unrest into this
place whose iron discipline had become
almost an anodyne to the unrest in his
own heart. His aunt’s words empha
sized her belief in his guilt, which, though
unspoken, he had always known to exist.
It was monstrous of her to come there
with her tongue dripping gall.
A Narrow Man.
Somehow, since he had come to RU
mouth he had ceased to find the consola
tion in religion he had experienced dur
ing his previous incarcei*atlon. The chap
lain had taken a dislike to him, or so
Rimington believed. He was a narrow
minded man. a formalist of a very petty
creed, and instead of using the power
he had to render his charges’ lives more
tolerable, he had put a premium on hy
pocrisy by interesting himself only fn
those who professed a whole-hearted al
legiance to his own views. He was ill,
Rimington had heard, and was about to
be transferred to another and lighter
charge. Jack thought of him as he
watched his aunt—he would have been
a man after Deborah Rimington’s own
heart.
Then, when his aunt spoke again, her
words made him ashamed for his un
spoken thought.
“Jack, I haven’t many' minutes to say
all I have to say,’’ she said. “And there
is much. First, Betty. love, dear.
All her love, all her thoughts, all her
hopes. You understand?’’
Did he understand? It was a flood of
sunshine let unexpectedly into a darkened
room. He felt blinded for the moment,
conscious only of the glorious glow and
warmth. He hardly heard what his vis
itor was saying.
“And for myself. Jack; I want you to
know that is true of me, too. While your
uncle lived, my dear, my duty was to him
—1 was but what every dutiful wife
should be, his shadow, his other self.
And now that he’s gone 1 am free to live
my own life—-so far as any of God’s crea
tures may live for themselves. And now
my life is going to be for you, my boy.
It is true I never loved you as I loved
your brother—one can’t control one’s
heart. Even among the disciples there
was John more loved than the others.
But I love you, too, and from hence
forth my life will be yours. There are
others working for you out in the world
—you know that, I suppose. Well, that
is not my way. It is the future I am
thinking of—all that is mine will be
yours, and it may be more than you think.
Things are changing. But first, and fbr
the present, Jack, it will comfort you to
know that I have come to Bllmouth—
come to live here w’ithin the very sight
of this house of shame. I will be al
ways with you—every day at the throne
of grace—come with me there. Ah! Jack,
while it’s yet day, before the nightfall and
the end of mercy.”
Aunt —aunt! It’s ridiculous.” Rim
ington hardly knew how- to stem the tor
rent of her words. He had never heard
her speak like this. That she had been
religious, and deeply so, he had always
understood, but she had been reticent
and restrained, the last woman in the
world, so he conceived, to have shown
her heart to any* one, far less to speak so
to him in the presence of a third person.
“You must not think of coming here—it
is not fit for you; it would add to my
pain to think of you amid such distress
ing surroundings.”
“Hush! I am here. I have taken my
house; in a few weeks It will be fur
nished. Then, Jack, I mean to live as
you live—to rise with you, to sleep and
eat with you, to tread every step of your
agony with you. Is that too much to do
to save a soul —a soul for whom He
died?"
Sheer Madness.
Her voice rose shrill and strained and
her eyes blazed. To both men—the pris
oner and the warder—she seemed like
one carried out of herself.
The twenty minutes were running out
rapidly. Rimington, marshaling his argu
ments, controlling his faltering tongue,
found himself able to make no headway
against the extraordinary determination
of this w'oman, who, in her own quiet
way, had loved the simple good things of
life —quiet and ease and the absence of
the actively unpleasant that constitutes
the ideal of happiness for so many—to
plunge herself voluntarily into a life of
penance, leading outside the prison the
life, so far as she could, of this relative
who was inside it.
It was madness —that was all he could
think but a madness of which she would
soon tire—rising at 5;30 in the bleak win
ter mornings, going to bed at S in the
chill of a stone and iron cell. What could
she know of his life, save the mere ex
ternals? —and thank God for it.
“Aunt Deb, you mean to be kind—
Vacation Days
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mountain and lake resort, in the North and West are
attractive. The clear invigorating air will do much to
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of the principal resorts:
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DENVER- 47.30 PUT IN BAY 28.00
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you’re an angel—l love you for it; but
it’s the maddest, most mistaken kindness;
it is making an addition to my punish
ment—not a mitigation of it,” he said.
"Boy, 1 owe it to you for the years I
neglected you." she said, solemnly. “It
is expiation for all the prayers 1 have
left unsaid; it is bowing voluntarily, as the
Book says, under the almighty hand of
God. We have sore need of that—l, sinful
woman that I am, far more than you in
your heedless youth."
Once again Rimington winced. During
his trial, during the weeks he had lain
waiting for death, he had found it possi
ble to bear with fortitude the disbelief >
in his innocence of those who had known
him; now it seemed more than he could
bear that this woman, who had known
him since he was a tiny child, should
come here and speak to him of resigna
tion and humility!
“Jack”—she had come as near to him
as the bars permitted; he could see her
face very clearly now. framed in the vol
uminous folds of the crepe veil —the face
of a woman who for hours had been on
the rack of pain; the great eyes were
surrounded by shadows and full of tears;
as he looked they overflowed ami began
to run down her cheeks; she seemed un
conscious of everything. “Jack, my dear,
dear child; it breaks my heart to see you
here behind the bars, like a beast of prey.
<)h! be patient yet a little longer—re
lease must come. Pray for us all that
we ’may fiave courage. Jack, don’t lose
your faith in us all—in the girl that loves
you and waits for you."
“I Am Happy.”
“Tell her nothing." cried Rimington,
hoarsely. “Tell her nothing of this.” He
ran his hands quickly over his motley
dress. "Tell her I am full of hope—that
-that I am happy and well, and —that
it is not half a bad life when you are
used to it. Tell her I love her!"
His working face, that was like some
grim travesty of the face she had known;
his broken, unfamiliar voice, his out flung,
roughened hands with their hideous,
broken nails—these were the picture Mrs.
Rimington carried with her out into the
world. A gray world, damp and rank
with the creeping mist from the sea,
through which were stealing figures of
shame, men in gangs who might have
been chained together, so closely were
their ranks set; men who moved to the
word of command more briskly than any
regiment of soldiers, slaves quick to re
spond to the goad of fear—that knowledge
lay locked away in the breast of every
one of them of the punishment that
waited unfalteringly for every fault —of
the cocked rifle for the runaway, of the
various manacles in the “jewel room,”
where the punishment fetters were kept
I as exquisitely as a society beauty’s jew
’ els; of. in the last and most desperate
I resort, the cap and the triangle, or the
! degrading birch.
“The discipline of fear" she had never
until today realized what that was. The
power that behind a single man enabled
him to keep twenty desperate ruffians in
subjection as easily as a firm mistress
can manage a school class.
This visit of his aunt, so strange, so
unexpected, involving as it must have
done great trouble to her to procure,
like the change from Wormwood Scrubs
to Bilmouth, was a turning point in Rim
inglon’s prison life. Just as the change
from the one prison to the other had
brought an interest into his life that saved
his mentality, so this visit of a woman
—and that one who had always stood in
his mind for the embodiment of domestic
beauty and purity and daintiness—saved
his self respect, arrested that deteriora
tion of personal habit of which he was
i beginning himself to be aware.
Will power and strength of mind in
themselves are hardly enough to stand
up against the immense forces arrayed
against the man who knows that, for all
the years he can see stretch before him.
he will always be a prisoner; who real
izes that the brand of the broad arrow
for a man in his rank nf life is like the
chrism of some priesthood of shame,
marking him as an outcast forever; only
some exterior force like the knowledge of
a trusting and waiting woman can aid
him. And to Rimington had come the
knowledge of two women who avowed
their life work to be a preparation for
his release.
A Pet Theory.
Sitting there in the ice chill of his cell,
with the dim gas jet burning outside the
corridor window. Rimington thought
steadily nf Mrs. Rimington’s visit, and as
he thought the singularity of it, which
had at first loomed so large in his mind,
began to diminish, and the beauty and
mercy and charity of it to increase. He
remembered now that Toby and he had
often laughed at a pet theory of hers,
which was that widows should be “wid
ows indeed,” devoting their lives after the
death of the beloved to works of charity
and deeds of mercy, cutting themselves
off frdm the world.
To Be Continued in Next Issue.
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Up-to-Date Jokes
“Let us go to Mr. Simpson's wedding,
my dear." said a newly married wife to
her husband.
"Oh. no: let us stay at home. It will
be a dreadful bore.”
“But, my "Viear, you must remember
Mr. Simpson attended your wedding."
"So he did (grimly). I had forgotten
that (revengefully). I shall be there." i
It was in a country village, and be i
was making preparation for “flitting"- ;
the fourth removal In about twelve
months. The vicar happened to be
passing, and remarked:
“What, removing again. John?”
“Yes, sir,” replied John.
"You are taking your poultry, too. I
see. I think they will be getting tired
of being moved about.”
“Getting tired?" said John. “Why,
bless you. sir, they are quite used to it
now. Every time they see a furniture
van they run into the yard and lay on
theia backs with their legs in the air
waiting to have them tied."
A young lady who was by no means
beautiful, was introduced to a gentle
man who was endowed with good looks,
but not manners. During the course of
their conversation the gentleman
asked:
“Are there many more young ladies
like you in the Potteries?”
The young lady replied: “Oh, yes;
we are all good-looking there. You
see, we make our own mugs."
“Os course 1 am wrong! I,am always
in the wrong, am I not?" exclaimed an
irate husband during an altercation
with his wife.
"No, dear,” was the irritatingly
sweet answer; “not always.”
“Not always!" echoed her husband.
“Why, whenever did you allow that I
was right?”
"Last week, dear, when you admitted
you were wrong. I said you were right
then in confessing it.”
A noted professor of music a Ger
man, was supervising the work of an
orchestra at rehearsal, and he became
much anoyed with the conductor for
his erratic use of the baton. Stopping
the band ho said to the culprit:
“Mistaire Jones, you would make a
beautiful conductor—for zee omnibus;
you vag alvays behind."
Farmer Jones was on a visit to his
nephew in New York, and the two
went to a case in Broadway for dinner.
They had given their order and were
waiting for it to be brought when the
younger man, who had been glancing at
a menu card that lay on the table, said:
“By the way. uncle, did you ever have
cere bro- spinal meningitis?"
"No." replied Uncle Jones, after a
few moments mental struggle with the
question; "and I don’t want any. “I’d
rather have fried liver and bacon any
day.”
! For Sweethearts and Wives
i (Aunt Ruth in Household Helps.)
“If tho eyelashes are short and thin,
plain pyroxin should he applied to lash
roots with thiunlyand forefinger to make
them grow thlc4< and beautifully lone
Thin eyebrows improve with daily appli
cations of pyroxin.
“Men admire glossy, well kept hair.
Any girl can keep her hair light, fluffy
and beautifully lustrous by dry shampoo
ing every wpek or so. Put four ounces
of powdered orris root in a fruit jar. add
an original package of therox and mix
together. Sprinkle a little on the head
and hrusn through the hair Therox re
ntoyos dust, oil and dandruff
“Now comes the time when dainty
complexions look shiny from perspiration.
A complexion be&utifier that will not rub
off or show like powder is made easily by
dissolving an original package of maya
tone in a half pint of witch hazel. Gently
massage face, neck and arms with this
solution daily, and the skin will be soft,
lovely, smooth and satiny.
“Embarrassing wiki hairs can he made
to vanish quickly from face or forearms
. by using delatone paste, made bv mixing
I powdered delatone with water. Cover the
' hairy surface with this paste for two or
; three minutes, then remove, wash the
skin, and the hairs will be gone.”
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Advice to the
Lovelorn
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
YOU OWE HIM AN APOLOGY.
Dear Miss Fairfax:
I am eighteen and have been
keeping company with a young
man two years my senior for the
past six months. About six weeks
ago we went to a place of amuse
ment and, after coming home, had
a little quarrel, but made an ap
pointment for a few days later
which I deliberately failed to keep,
being still angry from the previous
evening. I have seen him many
times since, but he never speaks
to me. M. R.
You were rude to him and owe him
an apology. Having made the appoint
ment, you should have kept It. You
made your first mistake in making it
while still resentful and mad.
LOVE IN A TANGLE.
Dear Miss Fairfax:
I have been keeping company
with a young lady one year mj’
junior. Last week we had a dis
agreement and since then she has
been angry with me, although I
have written her a note of apology.
1 have told her I love her and I
feel sure she loves me. G. A. V.
If she loves you. and you love her,
your little tiff will not last longer
than a summer shower. You have eat
en your humble pie. Give her time,
and I am sure that she will be gener
ous enough to ask for her share. Then
all will be well, and the skies will again
be blue.
APPEARS TO BE INDIFFERENT.
Dear Miss Fairfax:
I have been keeping company
with a young man for the past year
The other day I wrote to him ask
ing him to come to a dance which
was at one of my friend’s houses,
and he did not come. I again wrote
asking him to come and see me,
and h? did not come.
ANXIOUS.
If a man plainly shows a girl he
doesn't care for her society, she owes
it to herself not to care. You have
asked him twice, and he has refused.
Don’t ask him again. A third invita
tion from you will look like pursuit,
and nothing so cheapens a girl as that
attitude.
Pannier Design
Do You Know—-
Baron Marshall Vonßiebersteln, the
new German ambassador, is said to
have a novel method of avoiding any
possible indiscretions on the part of his
blotting pad. He uses a typewriter
specially constructed for him, whose
secrets are known to himself alone.
This machine marks cryptographic
signs understood only by the baron and
his correspondents. It Is kept locked
up in the ambassador’s desk, and is
brought out only when he has a con
fidential letter to write.
An American agricultural journal
prints on its front page the novel an
nouncement that, as farmers are so
busy with the cultivation of their fields,
and have no leisure for reading, the
news of the day will be briefly printed
on the first page of the paper, and the
other page will be soaked with a “death
to flies" preparation. Thus the paper
will serve two purposes; it will supply
Important news and will serve to ex
terminate files
Mrs Herbert Wadsworth, holder of
the world’s long-distance riding record,
has made a new record by outdistanc
ing two army officers in a 900-mile ride
from Washington to her summer home.
She was the only one of the five start
ers to complete the trip.
It is estimated that the total produc
tion of automobiles for 1912 will ap
proximate a quarter of a million. There
are between 350 and 400 automobile
factories in the country, and they turn
out an annual product worth nearly
half a billion dollars.
WOMEN SHOULD
BEJWECTED
Against So Many Surgical Op
erations. How Mrs. Bethune
and Mrs. Moore Escaped.
Sikeston, Mo.—“For seven years Isuf
fcred everything. I was in bed for foui
or f lve days at a time
every month, and sc
" wca k 1 could hardly
' ilfL. » wa lk. I cramped and
"Ji backache and
11. us headache, and was
t ’ 80 nervous and weak
1 *that I dreaded to see
anyone or have any
onvmovcirith-room.
I he Actors gave me
IWW I ''\ t medicine to ease me
at those times, an! said that I ought to
have an operation. I would not listen to
that, and when a friend of my husband
told him about Lydia E. Pinkham’s Veg
etable Compound and what it had done
for his wife, 1 was willing to take it
Now I look the picture of health and feel
like it, too. I can do my own housework,
hoe my garden, and milk a cow. I can
entertain company and enjoy them. I
can visit when I choose, and walk as far
as any ordinary woman, any day in the
month. I wish I could talk to every
suffering woman and girl.”—Mrs. Dema
Bethune, Sikeston, Mo.
Murrayville, Ill.—“I have taken Ly
dia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound
for a very bad case of female trouble
and it made me a well woman. My
health was all broken down, the doctors
said I must have an operation, and I was
ready to go to the hospital, but dreaded it
so that I began taking your Compound.
I got along so well that I gave up the
doctors and was saved from the opera
tion.”—Mrs. Charles Moore, R. R.
No. 3, Murrayville, 111.
Daysey May me and Her Folks
By Frances L. Garside
ANOTHER WALK OUT.
WHEN she did her hair in curl
papers she couldn't sleep at
night because of the bumps all
over her head, each bump being a curl
in embryo.
When she wore shoes in which her
feet looked pretty her toes w ere pinched
and her corns grew.
When she rubbed on the cold cream
she experienced the greasiness of a
fried oyster, and when she put red on
cheeks she felt like the flag of an
auctioneer.
All these Daysey Mayme Appleton
did, and more, that she might prove
attractive to gome man.
"And what ‘do the men give up for
us?" she asked.
"We are always discontented with
our looks, and he is entirely satisfied
with his.
"We go to more torturing pains to
win the admiration of a moon-faced
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bills. It is easily prepared and most econom
ical. Write for free book of recipes. All
grocers sell Faust Spaghetti—sc and 10c a
package.
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THE SOUTHS MOST SPLENDIDLY EQUIPPED PREP SCHOOL
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Fills every hour of a boy’s life with wholesome mental development, body
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for boys and young men-a gentleman’s school, limited to about 125 boarding
pupils, so grouped, as to gi ve every teacher about 12 Cadets for tutoring and over
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teachers and pupils. Every sanitary convenience. Electric lights, steam heat,
artesian water. Elevation nearly 1,200 feet, no malaria, perfect health.
Best Table Fare and Prettiest School Campus in the South.
Three regular Coartee— Classical, Engineering, Commercial.
Member Southern Association of Colleges and Preparatory Sehoole.
Active U. S. Officer in Charge of Military Department.
Classed A by U. S. War Department.
Parral, arted torialt and compare the School with the heat ta America. COL I. C. WDGOWAH, L M.. PIK.
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ATLANTA, GA
NEW LOCATION—I 374 Peachtree road. Just beyond Ansley Park
GROI NDS AND BPILDINGS; private park; beautifully shaded and landscaped,
affording privacy of the country.
Bl lI.DIN<;S Boarding department (limited), one of the most beautiful homes
in the entire city. New Academic building a model of school construction In
lighting, ventilation, heating, with open-air class rooms, gymnasiums, audito
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DEPARTMENTS Kindergarten, primary, academic, college preparatory, domes
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METHODS »Sinall classes; last year 235 pupils and 18 teachers, allowing on.
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ACCESSIBILITY Three car lines, Peachtree, West Peachtree and Buckhead
lines; 20 minutes from center of city.
PROTECTION Special police officer at 2:30 and 1:30 to protect students get
ting on and oft cars.
CATALOGUE and views on request; thirty-fifth year begins September 12.
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Principals.
Phone Ivy 647.
Wesleyan College
Macon, Georgia
One of the Greatest Schools for Women In the South.
POR PARENTS desiring a most healthful school in a warm and delightful
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butcher boy than he undergoes to win
the love of an heiress.
"And what do we get for it? An ice
cream soda, and a partner for the next
waltz!
"It is time to strike! We must walk
out together, and throw rouge bottles
at the head of every man on the way.
“We must —”
Rut Daysey Mayme came to sudden
pause in the proclamation she was pre
paring to issue to cotd-creamed and
straight-fronted sisters.
She had caught a glimpse of a splen
did young man, who gets nine dollars a
week, and is just too generous for any
thing. He was turning the corner. He
was coming to call!
In her haste to get on her special
scenery and powder her nose and tint
her cheeks she upset the ink over her
proclamation, and two minutes later
was demanding assistance from her
mother In getting into a corset two
sizes too small.
The walk-out had been postponed!