Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 27, 1917, Page 7

(Copyright, 1916, by W. G. Chapman.) Frank Leeson heard his landiady'’s step on the stair, and for the first time in weeks it did not make his heart sink. He waited in his hall bedroom with malicious anticipation of the scene that was to follow, “Are you there, Mr. Leeson?” came Mrs. Studd’s rasping voice. you want to see me, H * asked Frank. o, I didn’t,” retorted the woman. t to see the last of you. Your Mrs, “Did ve to get out.” “Why, I told you I'd pay you to- day,” sald Frank. “You did, and you've told me what for weeks past. And I've not seen a penny from you. And it’s nine dollars I w , or you can go tonight and leave your trunk behind you.” “I’m sorry you don’t seem able to trust me,” said Frank, “but here you are, Can you change this?” He pulled out his pocketbook, and Mrs. Studd's eyes nearly popped out of her head, for “this” was a hun- dred-dollar bill, “I don't know as I can change it,” bluffed. “But never mind now, Mr. Leeson. Any time, I’m sure.” And Mrs. Studd retired in confusion. In the hallroom above lived Miss Nancy Walton. The sound of her foot- steps upon the stairs made Frank lin- } she csr) Hardly Recognized Himself. cer at the door, She smiled brightly she saw him, Nancy worked in a partment store, and she was always bright and neat and smiling. Frank had thought that the man who got her would be a lucky fellow. He did not sfy anything, however, syond an ordinary greetings He went k into his room and sat down and to think about the unexpected y of five hundred dollars which id left him, Frank earned y dollars a week in an office, and always been industrious, even until the money arrived. | going to see life now,” he said tuself. And he saw, in anticipation, the en- nt of Broadway, of late suppers, /ws, all those things that he had ! for all his life and never ted of possessing. d the round that night, ained a week's leave of ab- to come off his vacation. Busi- 8S Was slack, and Frank’s employer fered no objection, though he had “ idea how Frank intended to spend that e > the wext two days the young tuan lived in a whirl of excitement. He had never lacked friends, and now hat he seed to be flush they came “ustering round him like flies round & honeypot. On the third morning he awoke In his room with a splitting headache. He looked at himself in lass and hardly recognized him- ‘lf. There was a bad taste in his mouth, and he felt generally disgusted. Worst of all, however, was the discov- *ry that he had just three hundred apes twelve dollars remaining. T've been a fool,” he said to his re- fection in the mirror, “I guess I've ‘een all the life I want to.” He spent that day in bed. Mrs. Studd, who was really kind-hearted, brought him up some dinner and shook her head; she ‘guessed how things Were going, : “Why don’t you put your money into Something good?” she asked. “What?” asked Frank vaguely. © ‘A young man like you ought to get “arried,” replied Mrs. Studd. Frank felt irritated at thé time, but afterward her words stuck in his mem- thing happened, which, when he looked back afterward, Frank was inclined to regard in the nature of “ miracle, There came a gentle tap &t the door, and in eame Miss Nancy Walton, te dif Studd said that you were not celing well,” said the girl timidly, IT wented to see if I couldn't do tor you.” } to hi overdue three weeks, and you'll | | The young man’s conscience smote him. Here was this girl, a stranger, offering aid, and of all his friends on whom he had Spent his money he knew that no one would come to his assistance if he were in need. Se wey kind of you,” he an- Swered. “Won't you si r Walton?” 3 ia Sec: “I don't know that I should, but I will,” she answered, And they fell into a chat, of the kind Frank had not known since he left home, two years before. It was inti- Mate and confidential, and it gave him Studd’s advice he could not do bet- ter than walk right upstairs into the hall bedroom above him. Nancy had been raised, like himself, upon a farm, and she had gone to the city six months before, and she worked long hours at the store, and home as brig! ever. “You like it asked Frank. She nodded. “You have no ide jinteresting that sort of work is, | sald. came how she “And then I was always fond of ou call that gayety?" It's seeing life, isn’t it?” Seeing life! The words struck him } dumb. His idea of Seeing life had been to get away from the humdrum of business and squander money; life to this girl meant her work on a pittance of eight dollars a week.” He pondered long after she had gone, and the upshot was that the next day he went buck to work. And after that he kept out of Miss Nancy's way out of shame. He had banked his three hundred dollars, and his res- olutions never to see that sort of life again was strong enough to hold. It was about ten days later that Mrs. Studd gave him the news that the girl had lost her position. “They're laying ‘em off,” she said. “My, but business has been dull lately! I guess she won't have an easy time finding another job.” ° Frank went up the stairs almost with a bound and tapped at Miss Nan- cy's door. When she opened it she was snilling as well fs ever, but her eyes looked a little red. “I'm sorry,” he said awkwardly. “Thank you,” she answered. “But it doesn’t amount to much. I'll get something in a day or two. And, after all, one can see life in one store just as well as in another.” Her pluck confused him, and he was conscious of nothing so strongly as the Impulse to take her to himself. Perhaps his feeling was reciprocated enough to make him confident; at any rate, he found himself with Nancy in his arms a moment later, and he was saying | “Nancy, dear, will you teach me to see life with you?” And in her eyes he read the answer that she would. NOW IT’S THE ALARM WATCH British Invention Is a Boon for the Business Man, and for Others One Might Name. “It is all wound up and set. Ill walk away and you listen,” said the clerk in a jewelry store, retreating down the carpeted aisle. The other strained his ear. Suddenly there came a sharp, tuneful ringing, very clear and distinct, very much like the bell at one of the crossings of an Interurban railroad, though not nearly so loud. It is positively the latest—thLe “alarm” watch. It has a luminous dial, making time easily distinguish- able, even in pitchy darkness, and it is the most obedient little tocsin yet de vised, so the enraptured clerk declares, It is a British invention, made since the war and very popsiar in the | trenches. It rings uninterruptedly for a | full minute. | Experts on timepieces, wits, men about town, business men and society's grand dames and debutantes saw in it these interesting qualities: A business man having an appoint- ment has only to set the alarm and he'll not forget. Milady of society need longer about that afternoon Mrs. So and So's. The toastmaster at the banquet has merely to adjust the piece, and when the fustian, windly orator oversteps the time Iimit—b-b-b-r-r-r-i-n-n-g-e-g! What a godsend, too, to the abstract commuter who forgets all those er- rands Mrs, Suburban had assigned for him! And, hush! Young women, why not one for the beau who hangs over the midnight hour? worry no tea st What He Covidn’t Understand. In the recently published letter of a Persian envoy to the United Kingdom, written fbout the year 1820, occurs a description of the writer's visit to a meet of the famous Coaching club of those days which is worth quoting. “One thing I see,” he writes, “but I not understand that thing good or bad, Last Thursday I see some fine car riage, I ask why for, they say me that Gentlemen on Boxes they drive their own carriage. I say why for take so much trouble? They say me, he drive yery well. That very good thing. It rain very hard, some Lord, some Gen- tlemen he got wet. I say, why. not go inside? They tell me good coachman not mind get wet every day, will be ashamed to go inside—that I not un- derstand.” Good Advice Wasted. “To kéep warm in winter,” says & newspaper doctor, “eat plenty of nour- ishing Pte What a pity thut the poor can’t all know this and thus avoid their annual fuet problem !—Cleveland the feeling that if ever he took Mrs. | and | THE CASPER DAILY TRIBUNE FARM WOMEN NEX New Line of Work to Be Under- taken by Uncle Sam's Agri- cultural Experts. TEACHERS WILL DODGE FADS | Instruction Will Be Confined to Sub- jects of Practical Benefit— Would Save Time, Money and Labor. By ELIZABETH VAN BENTHUYSEN. Thirty-three northern and western states will get the chief benefit from a new line of work that has been planned by the federal department of agriculture in which the chief consid- eration is the instruction of farm wom- en in home economics. Miss Florence E. Ward has been placed at the head of the new task. She has been prominent for many years in educational work and is be- lieved to be thoroughly eqtipped for the latest venture in which Uncle Sam is embarking to make the farms of the country more profitable and produc- tive. The idea is in line with presi- dent Wilson’ recent pronouncement be- fore the farmers of the land. Hume demonstration work is the title of the department over which Miss Ward presides. The Smith- Lever act of 1914 made possible the work for the women. The law provid- ed for the use of government fynds in alding the housewife to increase her efficiency and her stock of knowledge. It was the first important concession made to the wife of the farmer and may be taken as a natural outgrowth of the progress that woman's suffrage has made in recent years. Once the farm was run as though it were mere- ly a man’s affair. The new order takes woman's work on the farm into thorough and important consideration. Teach Women to Do Part. The object of the venture is to pre- vent women from failing in their part of the communal life. She is to be instructed in the keeping of accounts, in the state of markets, the channels for the purchase of food and clothing and in becoming an efficient ald to the farmer in handling his own work. In the first study of the new de- partment it is stated that the average work of a farm woman covers ten hours a day—quite an illuminating statement in view of the nation-wide fight by the labor element for an eight- hour day. The demonstrators to be sent out by the government will seek to avoid technical, laboratory terms in their Instructions. They will dodge fads and seek to confine themselves to the things that farm women can use today. They will assume that women of the farm have brains as well as hands and are prepared to use them to get more important results. The government is seeking to get practical women on the roster of dem- onstrators. Women are wanted who can go Into rural schoothouses, face a Jozen practical, able women and teach them something worth while that they do not already know better than the teacher. Obviously the task is great. Most women raised on a farm are not be- hind in getting the most from the least. They once had to do so and in many cases have to yet. The new teachers must tench the best things socially and economically and carry the very best light into the rural com- munities that can be afforded. Save Time, Labor and Money. The keynote of the government's venture is to teach women to save time, Inbor and money. That means, as a corollary, to make time, to make leisure and to make money. The program of work calls for this schedule : March, April and May—Poultry pro- duction, gardening, keeping the home grounds and home sanitation, June, July and August—Cannixz, food, sanitation, the dairy, home laun- dry work. September, October and November— Clothing, food and the co-operative purchase of things needed for each community. December, January and February— Heat in the farm home, community life, education and home management, This is indeed an ambitious pro- gram and I shail watch it with pe- cullar interest, born of many yeurs of effort in this service for the better- ment of the farm, the garden and the home. Nation to Promote Saving. Uncle Sam announces that the Colombian congress has adopted a meusure providing for the appoint- ment, by the minister of public instruc- tion, of a commission to investigate methods for promoting saving through- out the country. This commission will work out a general plan of organiza- tion of public and school savings banks, retirement funds, and socleties for mutual ald and cv-operative buy- (ng. In conjunction with the minister the commission will draw up a bill -overing iis recommendations, for con- Ideration by the congress in its regu- ar session in 1917. The Consequences. “The first time he tried, that am- tous aviator flew into a gale.” “What happened then?” He flew 4-9 a passion.” INSTRUCTION FOR |MINES YIELD FORTUN Arizona Produces $34,000,000 in Dividends in Year. Uncle Sam’s Final Figures on Mineral Output in 1916 Expected to Show Total of $3,000,000,000. Ten mines in Arizona paid $34,000,- 000 in dividends during the past year. Adding Utah, Montana, Nevada and Idaho dividends to those of Arizona we have a total of over $100,000,000 in dividends paid out of the mines of these five western states in a singly year, There are some of the lnpressive facts brought out by the report of Un- cle Sam's geological survey to Secre- tary Lane. “Never before,” said Mr. Lane, “has so large a draft been made on the nat- ural resources of our country as during this year, and never before have the | metals been extracted from these ores with less waste or utilized to better ad vantage in advancing the general pros- perity of the country. Even as writ- ten in the plain figures of 1916 produc- tion the wonderful record of our mines sets forth a degree of national indus- trial independence only hoped for a few years ago. “Again copper stands out as the best illustration of how American mines can | meet a world demand. The output of nearly 2,000,000,000 pounds of the red metal is double that of ten years ago and its value ts twice that of the copper produced im 1915. Add to this the facts that in value copper now con- tends with iron for first place among the metals and that together th, «: \ount of these two metals produced tust year had a value of more than $1,000,000,000 and we have a measure of what this country can contribute in useful met- als. “The output of zinc from domestic ores increased last year 95,000 tons, which makes a new record for that metal, the total value of spelter from United States ore being $150,000,000. Lead also shows a large increase, the $75,000,000 output being a gain of more than 50 per cent. “With all this activity in metal pro- duction the coal mines have had to meet a heavy demand, so that the bit- uminous coal output has now passed the 500,000,000 ton mark, an increase of 12% per cent over the previous year. Coke production increased 30 per cent and it is gratifying to note that by-product coke made the largest gain, which means a_ corresponding gain in benzol and other valuable by- products, “The reports received from the sur- vey’s western offices contain most sig- nificant mining records. Every west- ern state shows a large increase in yleld of metals, Arizona leading with a gain of $100,000,000 over last year, while Utah and Montana together re- port another $100,000,000 gain, Alaska also had its best year, contributing a total value of more than $50,000,000 this year, or over 50 per cent in excess of any previous year. “These advance statements not only show that 1916 marks a new advance for the mineral industry of the coun- try, but this remarkable increase prom- isea to be approximately 25 per cent ovyr the 1915 production, so that we mny expect the final figures to show a total of $3,000,000,000,.” Uncle Sam’s Mirines Are To Visit South America With the ‘prospect of viewing the greatest engineering feat of © the century, hundreds of Uncle Sam's marines, now serving with the Atlantic fleet, are eagerly looking forward to the time when battleships, cruisers and destroyers are scheduled to make a five-day trip to the Pana- ma canal, The war in Europe curtailed the customary visits of the sea soldiers to many foreign ports, and, while no formal arrange- ments have been decided upon, plans are being made to enable a the men of the fleet to make an © annual visit to South American and other neutral ports, mainly $ for educational and recreative purposes, until a world-wide peace has been established. TO DEVELOP COAL MARKETS Uncle Sam’s Commerce Boosters See in This a Means of Building Up Amefican Merchant Marine. An investigation of South American markets for coal will be undertaken by Uncle Sam's bureau of foreign and do- mestic commerce. It is held that South America is the most logical mar- ket in the world for American coal and that a thriving business in that commodity will be an important factor in building up a merchant marine. British economists are agreed that much of England's success In merchant shipping is due to the fact that Welsh coal has always been available for re- mar- F/LAD LIVES ALONE IN WILDERNESS High School Graduate Enjoys Ex- perience as Houseboat Care- taker for Hunting Club. Neenah, Wis.—Living alone tn the midst of a marshland wilderness, skiff and shotgun inanimate companions and with only occasional week-end visits to home and civilization, has heen the experience of Wilbur Haertl, son of Mr. and Mrs, P. A. Haert!l of this city, who r ntly emerged from his primitive existence. Young Haertl, who is a graduate of the Neenah high school and is en- rolled in a school of engraving in Chicago, donned the huntsman’s garb several weeks ago and since that time has fulfilled the duties of caretaker of the houseboat owned by the Buck Ready for an Opening Crack at thé Ducks. Up club, located on the banks of the “cut” in the heart of the Lake Poygan marshes, the most famous wild-fowling region in the United States. An ardent sportsman, Haertl was glad of the opportunity to transform his favorite pastime into the business of living. Hunters who make flying trips of one or two days’ duration te the duck grounds do not experience the utter sense of loneliness and iso- lation which comes with a day in and day out existence in such a manner, To communicate with the outer world, young Haertl was obliged te paddle several miles to the nearest farmhouse and telephone. Often, of course, he came in contact with hunt- ing and fishing parties, but these were mere fleeting glimpses, and for the most part the sensation is one of soli- tude. As the “simple life’ and “back-to- nature” experiment, Haertl’s marsh. land home was a success. He retired early, usually about 7:30, shortly after the evening flight; was up long be fore daylight, bolted hot coffee and bread for brenkfast, and by the time the sun peeped over the top of the waving rice was ensconced in suitable covering and ready for an opening crack at the ducks. Strange as it may seem to the un- initiated, there was not the monotony connected with this mode of living that one would expect, and when WIL bur left his flouting abode for good it was with regret. DEAD IN EACH OTHER’S ARMS Secretly Married Couple Victims of Suicide Agreement Near Milwaukee. Milwaukee, Wis.—Frozen, covered with snow, the girl’s head resting on the man’s breast, while his arm en circled her shoulders, the bodies of Alvina Leup and David Bersensky were found, each with a bullet hole in the temple, in an automobile parked under sheltering underbrush on a little used road ten miles north of the city at ten o'clock this morning. Bersen- sky had shot the girl as she lay ip his arms and then ended his own life. Secretly married a month ago, they never had lived together. Bersensky told the friend from whom he bor- rowed the car: “I don't know, what todo. Alvina must have a home soon, but I cannot support her the way the girl deserves of me.” It is believed they agreed to die to- gether. RAGGED DRESS HELD $1,991 Mary Novak, Who Didn’t Believe in Banks, Hoarded Small Fortune Though She Appeared Poor. Cleveland.—Twenty years ago Mary Novak came to this country from Bo- hemia. She went to work in the rag factories here, and had been tolling there until a few days ago, She always seemed to be poor, and as old age crept up she grew more needy. At last she STORY OF THE FIREPLACE. It had been a cold day and Nick and Naney. were sitting beiore the fire when Daddy came tn to tell them his bedtime story. “Is the fire saying anything to- night?” asked Daddy. “Oh, there have been such queer sounds and snaps and cracks,” said Nancy. “And the finmes have been of all sorts of colors,” said Nick. “1 think I know what's going to bap- pen there tonight,” said Daddy. “Oh, what?" exclaimed the children, excitedly. “They are going to have a ball,” said Daddy, “and they are waking all their plans now. The snaps and cracks and queer sounds you hear are the sounds of the Fire Fatries making thelr ban- Quet for the ball, and the different col. ors are the colors they're going to wear, and decornte the fireplace with.” “Can we watch them?” asked the Children, “Yes,” sald Daddy; “they're Just be- ginning.” And as they sat before the fire they saw a great many blue flames. “What are they?" asked Nancy. “They are the Blue Fire Fairies and they're going to meet the Red Flame Fairies as they arrive at the ball.” And sure enough, the blue and red colors in the fire seemed to be dancing and playing and frolicking together. Then came the Yellow Fire Fairies and the Green Fire Fairies and some queer ones dressed ip black. “They are the witches,” sald Daddy. “Oh, dear,” shivered Nancy. “But they're olce—witches are— you know.” “Yes,” said Nancy. “But they look rather frightful in their black colors.” “Ah, no,” said Daddy, “that is only to make them look more mysterious and marvelous. And after the dancing is over the Witches will tell the Fire Fairies the most beautiful stories of everything that has happened tn the fireplace for years and years and years. She will tell them of the games the sparks have played and of how they love to tease the Grown-Ups by Jumping out on the rug in front of the fire. She will tell them of the Castles that have been made in the Sreplace and of all the Fire Kings and Queens who have lived In them. “But when she tells about the sparks you will see that the sparks still jump out and land on the rug—for they want to show that her stories are still very, very true. Later on, though, they will become so sleepy that they will stay in the fireplace and go to sleep,” And so the Children watched the dance In the fireplace first. They saw the beautiful costumes the Fire Fairies Telling Bedtime Tales. wore and they saw them blaze and flame while the queer sounds seemed to grow fewer. s “They're eating their banquet now,” said Daddy. “The Fire Fairy Cooks have finished everything and now they are enjoying the goodies.” But soon the flames began to dle down and only a few little flashes of light and fire were seen from time to time. “Those flashes and flames,” sald Daddy, “are some of the Fire Fairies who are still wide awake enough to ask the Witches questions, For now the Witches are teliing bedtime tales, and soon the Fairies will be sound, sound asleép. They love to be put to sleep by the Fire Witches.” The flames died down entirely and only a little smouldering went on in the Fireplace. “The Wlitches are saying good- night,” said Daddy. “Then they too will go to bed. But the ashes that will be left—the nice warm ashes— they will be the pleasant dreams that are left behind for the Fire Fairies.” The fire had gone out! Only some ashes could be seen, but In one corner a few red coals bad appeared. “What are they?” asked the Chil- dren. ’ “They're the King and Queen of the Fireplace and they've come to see that their People are all fast asleep. Then they will go to sleep, but they will first whisper a “Thank-you' to the Witches who tell the marvelous stories.” And just as Daddy sald that, the Children heard a faint, crackling noise, and then they knew that every creature of the Fireplace had gone to sleep in their warm ashes of pleas: dreams, In a new form of electric fan vertical olades draw in the air from beneath and distribute {t equally to all horizon-