Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, June 20, 1919, Page 11

NORWICH BULLETIN, FRIDAY, JUNE ' 20, 1919 HARVARD GRADS WIN FIRST RACE Yale's varsity crew will go to the line a slight favorite in the renewal | this (Thursday) afternoon of the an- | nual boat race on the Thames with | Harvard, but the Crimson oarsmen \seored a victory in the preliminary that opened the regatta Thursday af- ‘ternoon, when Harvard won first bloed in the gentlemen’s eight race. ' This event of half a mile in length } was easily taken by the oarsmen who have sat in Harvard boats in years lput‘ They led their Blue rivals by one and a quarter lengths. “The night before” in Norwich and New London was probably the quiet- est ever known. In this city there was hardly an indication that the big col- lege regatta was to také place the next day only 14 miles mway, while in New London, it was reported the incoming crowd was far below the usual number, though there had been a constant stream of automobiles into the city from both east and west all through the latter part of the after- noon, Many of Massachusetts cars went through here late in the after- noon, Yachts Assembling. A fleet of 30 or 40 yachts, much smaller than in years before the war, had collected in New London harbor by nightfall and will line up along the course on the Thames in time for the races. Thursday night the yachting parties made merry at the hotel at Eastern Point with dances and sup-|ing. In place of Guy Nichalls, the fa-[Séem that, in the organizations which Tais OsrerailiMTe are desirous for saving for this pur- ominent sotiety people | coached Yale's 191 | pose, it would be to their interest to) registered at the Lastern Point hotel [ Mather Abbott has served as the Elis')be enrolled as government savings so- were J. Ogden Armour and party of|rowing master while William Haines, |cieties. The savings and thrift stamp 40, Edward Gould and party of eight,|a professional, has been in charge of |securities offered by the government Mrs. Morton F. Plant and party of|the Harvard coaching. Thus it came,are safe and so accessible to the ten, Charles Hoffman and party,|about that an amateur coach, whose|investor of such small amounts that among_whose guests was Mrs. Regi- | experience is limited to two-mile races|we feel that they should be well nald Vanderbiit. is pitted inst a profesisonal of{adapted to the needs of any church Contrary to early expectations, ho- |many service in one capacity | orsanization. We also feel that if the tel accommodations in New London|or at Cambridge. members of these organizations be- have been entirely cngaged and o preliminary training has = not|8in investing their savings in gov- serevation train tickets for Kriday's|been up to the rigorous standard im-[ernment securities it will aid the races were unavailable except a few|posed in former perjods, due to the|members to feel that they have a in the hands of speculators. shifting collegiate conditions which | more direct stake and interest in their The day before was one of com-|followed the armistice, It was not|government, and make them more ac- parative ease for the crew men and|until rowing squads reached |tive and intelligéent citizens. We are general interest centered in the course|Gales Ferry d Red Top, their re-|counting on your assistance in this arrangements and the final details for classic of the Tham: interest it has aro riod of strife which swept away all thoughts of sport competition in the far sterner struggle for international Dating back to 1852 when the first Yale-Harvard boat race was row- Lake Winnipesaukie, the regatta has been annual feature of intercollegiate sport with but an occaisonal break for more than half a century. So closely have the feature of the regatta, been con- that the score in victories is tied, each university having won of the premier events. oning no account is taken of the in- terim regatta rowed over the Hou course at ago for it was authoritatively stated at that time that the two mile con- test was an informal war-time race without bearing upon the regular an- nual regatta. an the west course and Yale the east while in the freshmen contest reversed. No m every angle the revival of this s is worthy of the ed following a pe- reaked barges on the varsity Derby, Conn., Professional vs. Amateur, Yet the blight of war has left its mark to some extent for there are fa- miliar features m spective quarters on the Thames, that the further changes were made in the course and the varsity race will be approximate- ly 150 feet short of the former four miles. races, In this reck- a year ing in the more prosaic routine of training and coach- ing of the crew candidates, however, nullifies any line which« might be drawn from these performances. WILL ASK CHURCHES TO 3 AID THRIFT SUNDAY Sunday, June 22, will be Thrift Sun- day in Connecticut and throughout the United States. In’' co-operation with the savings division of the treasury department churches of every denomi~ nation, will lend their aid to the na- tional thrift campaign. Pastors of their people on Thrift Sunday the personal and patriotic reasons for per- wise spending, and safe investment which the American people learnéd through the self-sacrifice imposed by the war. receive a direct message from Secre- tary Glass of the treasury department to be read from the pulpit, setting forth the reasons why the government is fostering the spirit of thrift as.a permanent American characteristic. 95| Pastors have been asked to devote at . |least a part of their sermons om Thrift Sunday to the subject of sav- ing. A letter to. the pastors of all denominations, sent by Harold Brad- dock, director of the savings division at Washington, reads in part as fol- low Ve are hoping you will be able to the local savings director in ng on the savings campaign in his community, and that you will im- press upon the members of the or- ganizations connected with your church the desirability of careful sav- ing for some worthy object. It would great movement for peace-time patri the three races that compose the re-|the training routine approximated that|otism.” gatta day programme. Varsity at 6 p. m. or Later. At a conference of crew captains and regatta officials it was decided not to start the varsity four-mile race until 6 p. m. and not at that hour unless there was an absence of wind. The forenoon races will also be set|% back a half hour, the freshmen rowing at 10.30 and the second varsities at 11 o’clock. Harvard Wins the Toss. In the toss for positions Harvard won the varsity choice and took the east lans but Yale oarsmen expressed the opinion that the west course was the better, so both were sfied. In the junior varsity race Harvard took |onds. Guaymas. atmosphere vety much like that of the steamroom i a Hammam bath. The crew tossed on the hetch covers, trying to- sleep, their slumbers dis- turbed by the contfausl splashing of the red snappers {n the tepid water about the anchot ¢hain, and the. mos- quitoes, which swertied out from the steaming - mofass just back of the vagus strip of beach. The mate, Who bhad been learing over the rall, contenipiating the stars in that absorbed Way that saflormen do, breathed heavily, “Hah,” he glghed and paused. “They say ‘there are three hot places. Well, we're in one of them; the other is Guayaquil and the other—wherever that {s." He was a sofi-volesd man for a mate, and hadn’t been inclined to talk much during the voyage up the torpid gulf, so it was rather a surprise when he stretched himself in a long cane chair and announced: “I'm golng to tell you a story that you won't belleve. Hot tropic nights liko this slways bring it keenly to my BELY KBEVER nev- er had a2 home n all the nineteen yoars of - her life. She had’been born ‘hm'l wug eight,and *school. Va with a she 8o elothies weore very. fortune Leely trudged.. her fmnocént and she read because she was a cheap actor’'s daughter, and the rest she let al nor learning mor moral smudge. When- she sighed over her a great deal. “You're just like your Leely sald nothing, but she wonder- babybood in a Our last ea €ap lodgln g wesks, :and ;goedh Who.were {hird? ,company. Bhe rf of in one of the po were scarce that‘he, a crew of hands who'had heard of him in the fo-c'sties of other ships. For driving men he w; what ya:'ll t\?‘rn out'te be. ,me as if you'll nevet be able to take in® &+ HowpHtal, had 'care of yourself, and I'm” sure your W 1% thtdugh { pa and ‘o, can’t do it'much longer. gegement only lasted six hess knows where atitwo we'll’ get’ another. The moving pic- gone™ ou the tures mfeljust'ruining the show busic ness. __‘lll as. for yaurr getting mar- “you marry? It's the.pret- 2d "ty girly that makerthe good matches, wca- | and you can see what you are by look- friend ot " fng in the glass” 8B & boarding house. Leely hadiiosked . in the glass and or three {mes & year she saw her kmew.' She had freckies - Sometimes sberhad spending and's big mouth; and clothes, sad sumre- ‘and quist. She was y at all and her W Through all thees ups and down of ny Wort] years. What effect defeated Princeton in a two mile race on the Housatonic the difference in time Frequent chang: B lay fn the land- memory, and maybe it will serve to locked harbor of pass the time. have * passed “Before I went into steam, sne. con- 3+ The' tinued pressutly, “I!was seconll mate on'tite old bflkfinfinp@!flmpe, which ' suspended on & dord. is now’ ending her, J&¥S as.a ¢6al huik * silvér Horseshus. S g s of the ‘North Pa- : A We had * for ’skipper ‘Bully’ :‘ho:nmné:'imm:jfi&‘l)rmtd for rutailly thatiwas,almest equal to his . dosm. Sailorman su 5 reputation as a lm‘,nflmfl r. His gy e T name was a byword in: the boerding- bouses, and it was, ouly_ when berths: short. . “That's anether ltb‘!!"‘l. - a’able to ship "ed.in a whisper. " - > Often for ; his own i amusément ~ he * Was would like nothing betier than to send the men aloft to ‘crow Hkeirovsters'— as he used to say—watching with dev- ilish giee from the poop their aatics on the yard arms. “My stars what a change in the sea- faring game now! the soul of a saflor belonged either to a biz’Finn, with a belaylng’pf, bad ' a o === weat or Mrs. Reever in exasperation, “and yeu heven't any more idea of elo I don't . know It lodks to & freg. she Yrer mottrer eaid. d of & woman was Gren- Sl . lh...gled suddenly. rs. Keevet. iéd. . “She was the way. She studied without making re- best woman that ever lived, hu: she markabls progress. She practiced up- hedn’t & mite of talen on the plano. without a sign of talent, come from stde 01 ‘the hotise. Leely’s eyes looked far,away. going to be a guod’ woman, toe,” Ba gt 3o Ligc, sbliier friils D6'T AT, e i n&: othing to ber, neither 1] have a home.to be good 1n.; deors. bad secn’ sich be-- gely never expected.to see Therom A year later Mrs.*Kewver wrote to . fore. Dtn‘.%ncr'"wn‘m” " biw i best . Dodze gain, b = -ever Mrs. Reever came to see the girl, her daughter, seying, rather; bitterly, § % ght. e Gl e . that they were “down and outers” this will have upon the actual racing lan-gand all other lo not be foretold, but nothing ing a sensatiopal time trial has been uncovered in the training. Little of value for comparative pur- es was shown in the preliminary son short-course races. 1 the Harvard varsity period was defeated by Annapolis by more than ten lengths in|agreements as follows have bsen ap- a 1 7-8 niile race, the Crimson’s time | being 11m 31s for the dis pproach- ¢ a length with!der, bout four sec- in the seat- It’s one of those ex- There - periences that, perhaps, a man is bet- WASD't a breath of ter off mot to.have'had, or, if he has, alr wtifring and the” that he is able to'forget.~ But thers W a 3’ 'are some thiags -you. caa’t (fergét: no j matter how far {you. traveld many years without a peer. trem?il;:“-‘ea_con years ago and dull hair My gifts all T'm she buliding next te the Bijou and started may- & pazio. ; There's was a rush. for the: was going into.the ne’danger. Local Connecticut savings directors, 1 representatives of the savings division will cooperate with the churches to make Thrift ISUI\(LA_\' @ suc APPROVES SETTLEMENTS IN WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION Seven workmen’s compensation proved by Commissioner J. J. Dona- Har- s follows: vard finished two lengths ahead of| nette, Taftville. em- Princeton in that race. On May 3 Yale| d Laporte, Taftville, bruised and wounded at the rate of '§$10.31. Factory G International Silver Co., Norwich, employers, ‘and Urgil La- shoul- . 2 boarding-house master or e skipper. There was no redress for the A. B. in the courts, and ewners didn't inquire {oo deeply into the‘mélhods of their captains so long as they made clip paszages and kept expenses down. A show , captdin whose galley bills were af ekd in ‘their *and. who kept}down, hs requests’ far - néw gear andiclean mattresass for the by the agents. But I'm gettihg'away from my story.” /sy At mate put his hand:iato his thin shirt;and’ brefight; out o “You'll latigh” he sald. . “but this is, what I'firmly: believe seved, the Melatepe and,all hands going: to thétr say, but-ft's .trye.. As_for the] 8irl who gave it to me—2" ha Bt Py “Well, what had often d {h the Iplirces where ‘sailt ukahl‘ o such’a night; a8 o ‘the fi;;mr,ez-fi ngaquil. £ The captain,*coming aboard after: veh- ing ashore, mmfim‘mm abuge, of the men « fold .7 was in'the waist of . 1 heard a ¢ry which wasjthe last ut- tered by the skipper. Ome.of the hasids, ;nsere was something she could de at ast. Leely gave up school and joined. her in various - .ing picture places, for they were ©..ays on the Wing. Bome- times they had money add sometimes they had none. existence. . opened the Bijou. The Bljou’ was concrfi‘ It had been usel time,” 16 ter theater.; Howover, it’is the naw Keevers’ pictures- were soon drawing crowds. In a dim corner Leely played 8he had strong )dpnu the soreen o] lm“m et even ofter her dreams she wotld have died. Qhe night a fire broke out ia the churches have promised to lay before| petuating the lessons of sane savingy] Each congregation in this state will TR {ittle- ' to_ make ?iwhm n,” however, ship whion? ddeks ;. to quiet'the crowd. ; Laely mountad the at® plano sivol and began: to . tell those Granny last, and were giving up the stage for- St bt Who, ' te.oRit “Worth,” she said. “I'm sure, Leely, I ever. Mr. Kesver hndfhmv'::: » I-* over ; gring te <lish don’t knew what I shall de with,you.” tle money and pree, Norwich, employe, injury to-left eye, at the rate of $14. C.: H. Norton, North Wastchester, employed and Amasa Lamph North Westchester, employe, right hand, at the rate of 3! P. L..Shea Bottling Co., » don, employers, and Sam Muscarilio, New London, employe, strained back, at the rate of $12. ton, employers, and Herberi Tourte- lott,- Westerly, employe, Dbruised left foot. at the rate of §: New: London Coal Co., Ney I.on- don, employers, and Thomas Donovan, New London, employe, sprained knee apd ankle, at the rate of $10.80. -Jronsides Board Corp., Nerwich, em- ployers, and C. J. Mlllaney, Norwich, employe, bruised right thigh, at the rate of $10.89. ELKS GET NOTICE ON ATLANTIC CITY CONVENTION - Postal card notices have been re- ceived here by ‘the Elks from Daniel J. Clifford of Bridgeport, who is the chairman: of the committee appoint- ed by the Connecticut Past Grand Ex- alted Rulers’ #&ssociation for the pur- pose of arranging for Connecticut's part in the Victory convention of the grand lodge which is to be held in At- lantic City on July 7-11, Mr. Clifford advises that an early registration for the big event is absolutely necessary, The exalted rulers’ committee has arranged for registration headquarters at the Hotel Blackstone on the board- walk in the famous convention city, and all members from and other cities in the state are re- quested to make it their business to register at headquarters, which will me located on the Exchange floor di- rectly above the registration head- quarters of the grand ledge. It is the first time in the history of Elkdom that tbe state of Connecticut will be represented with registration head- quarters. The committee had also arranged for an all Connecticut banquet to be held on the evening of July 7 and all those wishing to attend from this city are requested to state their intention immediately. The banquet will be a of Conneoticut’s representatives. It is thought likely that the largest number of -local Elks that ever tended any of the Elk conventio will convention and it is the aim of the Past Exalted Rulers’ association com- mittee to6 have the Nutmeg convention, LIEUT. PECKHAM GOING TO FRANCE ON INSPECTION Lieutenant Howard L. Peckham, Corps of Engineers, U. who has been spending a b parents in this city, sailed for Fi Thursday on the Cap Finister the other student-officers of the gineer school for a three-months of inspection of the war zoue. Ten Submarines Coming. Waldo E. Clarke, resident engineer felled the captain like an ox. Thompsen died cursing. “"The ship will never reach home,’ he vowed befors he passed out. ‘Re- member,’ he laughed, with the death ‘rattle in hig throat. ‘The ship will . neyer reach—* e consul 'investigated the case, upon the testimomy of the men ‘Bully’ He fell to watching, the, stars again .crew was always patted on the back - that - el f_fi![‘l:mle. 'ways pat 4 that he had struek the captain in self. .defense, the big Finn'was given his 7 Five of The Mauds , deserted e hiad . to.84jp as many Chileans any.:: The big afd” of{the’ batkertine, and atfer the dis- . charge of our lumber cargo, we squar- ed awky'th ballast for Caliao, whers ;\:\:wm to load a cargo of nitrats for . home. - “The crew was restiess. Thosz who >had rémained were continually talking about the old man's threat. Their pmm-;m, 's had been . communicatad to the £ .end as the days passed it . was with difficulty that the mate and il that'we I eould get them to stand watch un-" % less thiee of them were together. They sesmeld to scent the supernatural. s~ “As we meared our destination we . ramifate w violent storm, which putthe s fawash and siripped us of sev- ¥l pieces of canvas. In the grave n of the moment, battling the elements, the fears of the =Afi. YOU and got her attention from what was happening. “There was no oecasion for a scare,” Sanie fool aad it stasted it all by-jumplag up r father came dack, gloomy and It was a precarious swearing. - “It's a shame just when the long hours o:r i< % we'd got this thing started on a pay- At last they came to Wes{more aad ‘;h; basis,” he growled.: “What'd you' been umpleasant in heér life. & stop playlsg for, Leely? Why didn’t long, narrow,.dark ‘hnndinlg.,.mnld.mjp right on when you saw what on to another town where there was Waus up?” Lhefewu’nutmr‘nifilfi—" “I;got up on.the pisno bemch and . talieed to the crowd, father,” Leely an- little girl.” “I've beem thanking your daughter for what she ¢id,” the man answered. “She_seems to be wonderfully clear- headed.” eight hours of ragfime:was.notiteo ' He began to talk to her faiher. Lee- tired to sleep. She nevar looked at ly learned that his name was Theron the gcreen, nor the ctowd, for she hat- Dodge, and that he worked for the ed both. She hated -her:own:music. “Express,” and that he was willing to She hated the life she lived. ' But for help'them out with a little notice in {lie next daily bulletin. All this pleas- ed her father and he was in fairly good humer when they closed up the T and went home together. they were at the show Rext even- ng. ‘ After the first act Elsie brought Leely a box of carnations. They were ;-.m Axngd they never weat eut -C,, B. Cottrell & Sons Co., Stoning- |4 New London | staté affair and a get-together of all|§ at- | i go to Atlantic City for this Victory!Q tate take | Said a large part in the activities of the|[§ witn his| g them. crew were for the time forgotien. The third night of the gale thére came a moderation in the weather, although a terrific cross séa was runaing and the vessel . yawed frightfully in the grip of the watery avalanches. We had pebble:ballast, and as it had not been veryicarefully stowed, the danger of it shifting confronted us. This was the only time'that I really thoughi of . the old man’s ominous prediction that we would never reach home. - Had the ballast shifted we would have turned ‘turtle and that would.have been -our end, for me’small boat could live in such 8.804.; . “As'I sdld, the yawning of the bar- kentihe wasifrightful. Two men were required at:the wheel, and during the deg“watch it was the big Finn and myself who struggled with the spokes 28 the waves slammed the rudder and combed up over the coumter. “All' of a sudden, just as a Dblack squall strack us, T had that uncamny, indefinable feecling—a subtle ; some- o> 'a'sardonic sneer.” A red sie3s, thing that cemes to a man out of the showed on the brow. The eyes gle:m- night at sea—~that a presence was e me, and then it was borse in upon ay consciousness that a”sirsnge. power i “The sweat started from my every, was guiding my hand atithe wheel.“' 1" became aware that we were: getting $legs. fear-stricken' e. .:The Lwho. sesmed on lm :‘:hmcr 3 e got several points” off our? sticks trembled, through the ship. again, but once more an " of the building without having some- thing to say to Leely. - As for Leely, her dream had sudden- parents. For three years she, played , Leely said. “Thersfive.was all outside. ly crystalifzed into hope. She'was so happy that she wondered at’hamself. The sight of T Dodge’s kind, gentle face con. ted her fully for jabor at.the plano and for everything c'se that had Then suddenly her father decided to move + mo competition. It seemed to l.cely as if she would rather die. That night . she told Theron Dodge that they were breom that siweeps cleanest, and.the: swersd quetly. “Thea this man gave golng away. i . EAN was an undenl- ably pretty- girl, and as she tripped down to breakfast in ~ her freshly lauadered tailored shirt - waist, ~-and black tle, she re- sembled a. convent girl--rather than early rising city stenographer. Her family greeting, however, be- led her appearance. “It makes me sick to have to get up so early,” go- over each other’s backs tet there'was ‘the first flowers the girl had ever re- lug on to tefl her patient, cars-worn 7 7 3 ; He.was.holding a.child ceived, and she told the man so when litle 4 “movie” business. He wuuld take the high over kis head. Leely understood she thaaked him. ed what her Grandmother Worth was tickets, she would sell:them; they had the amxiety'in his face. . Ske - bke. bired 2 man te run the lantern and;out and got the child and set he: “You caa't dance for sour apples,” they 'Mbd:-t'alw!hfiM‘m'n-:.o Then she-stood 'in:‘“ mother, “that she never did cook things to suit her anyway,” and reached . After that he and Hisie came sbout threateming to find a new boarding R twice a week and always sat in the bouse. Little did sho -veaiise bow these cut- il HAMILTON'S SHOE STORE CLOSES Saturday,.June =L And the Big Sale Ends On That Date | at the state pier at New London said|fect that the U. 8, steamship City of iThursday that he has received word|Savannah ac from the navy department to the ef- States submaj power put the wheel over & number of points. It was useless in our hanas. “I looked at the big Finn. In the dim light of the binnacle his facs was ghastly. It may have been the cold spray, but he was shaking ltke a teaf. His head was half turned around and his eyes fixed, with horror, intently upon something. His lips moved, but I could not hear what he said. If words came, they were drowned ir the roar of the waters and the shrick of the gale through the rigging aloft. “And now I saw the sight which I shall never forget. As I said before, it's a terrible thing for a man to have had such an experience. It stays with you to the end. ) “Following the horrified gaze of the big Finn'I beheld a strange appari- tion. = Tall, commanding,‘ menacing, agyinst the taffrail, stood the fzure of ‘the dead skipper. It wore: and, the ;. sou-wesier irevealéd ¢ pertion of a face, which was W' 8 ed like - phosphorescence fm'mlundgrlla': the hedd:of the cap. pore and I could, have’a thanthe big JBO It was a bad night,and the audience was small. Theron watted ! the show was out, and then he walked out beside Leely, carrylag Elsie, who had gone to sIt€p. - & “I feel terrible abeut this,” he said. “Beems like-I couldn’t let you go. Oh, Leely, I wish you'd stay—with Fisie and me. We can be merried tomorrow it you say so, antl I'll be good to you and give you a good home.” He paused for Leely was sobbing. = ° R “Oh,” sbe breattied. “I've ‘always wanted -a -home, but, that's mothing now-—nothing atall to the way I want titg remarks really hurt her mother, which werds came back to her many times during the diy—and how hard her mother stiived to; please her. ‘Immediately irpon leaving her ma- ternal dwelling her manner of speech seemed to change, and upon entering the 7140, WRich wis to convey hor to the e¢ity, anfl spying-& girl acquaint- ancs, with a joyous smile she remark- ed, “What a perfectly lovely day; how T'd love to'take a Tong walk in the couniry this morning.” Her compan- ion'replied that it certainly was Jovely out, but she could hardly eater into the spirit of the weather on account ot the day marking the setond amniver- sary of the death of her mother. She told Jean how. just two years ago she had left for work as usual one morning, leaving Ler mother in per- mpanying ten United es is due to arrive in ¥ ¥ * breathed. % “No,” rettirned thé ate, slowly. “It A THIS IS YOUR LAST CHANCE ‘and if there is a pair of Shoes in this Store that will fit your feet—You are the loser if you do not buy RETIRING FROM BUSINESS Govern Yourself Accordingly FINAL DATE—JUNE 21st. New London on June 24 and to, up at the state pier for an indel period. at home. Would I ever get therg again? The ship stiil held ifs coa- trary course, but now, with the one thought in mind, I mastered evs en- ergy in me, and wresting the helm from the hands of the big Finn, I put it over so violently that the barkeh- tiné came about with a shock that nearly rolled the masts out of her. “The action was none t0o soon. Al- most on the instant came the terrify~ ing swish and roar of breakers an here and there—thank God! now on our lee quarter—showed spirals of foam that marked the jagged fangs of a reef. “When I turned my head again the specter was gope. Only the wind yammered weirdly.” 3 The mate was stars again. “But the Melanope wasn't lost!” I looking up at the takes more than one murdered man 1o 33pd & ship to her'doom.” And the girl who gave you the ““seshoe, what of:her?” The words 2re out of my mouth before I knew e A %4 The. soft-volced mate mads a sound the varge’of toppling {like. a sob, and: clapping his haud to Sover. - Just then I felt the,pressure of i his forebead as if to ward off a mos- ‘thisiUttle: horsestice. against ;my. breast, * quito, ‘mousnted-the companionway te o -and I saw a vision “of’the,little; girl the bridge withoutanswering. 5 Ry T, fect health,’and how . at about 30 o'clock she had been called home from the ' office, her mother having besn stricken with ‘s fatal -{llness; .and ‘ar« riving home just too late. - With a broken voice she told of her terrible regret of the horrid things she could remember of saying, and how she would have given anything to Late asked her mother’s forgiveness before she died. . Also of the many Tittle things which she might have done to have made her mother’s life a little brighter, but How it had all dawned upon her just a lit- tle too late. Jean listened to her friend with tears glistening in her eyes, the girl’s very earnestness having more effect upon her than all the preaching in the world. It was a very thoughtful and seri- ous Jean who entered the office that morning. She couldn’t seem to put her mind on her work, and her usual perfect letters came back to Jer v many mistakes. Her eyes-continual sought the clock, and at one minuie of § Jean was hurrying from the office for her train, . Upon entering the house. Jean ran up to her'mother and kissed her some- thing which she bad not done for com time, and which caused her mother a little start, and a very great lump in her throat. She then told her moiher how terribly sorry she was for all tha horrid things she had said, and ree ceived her forgiveness. The mother has oXsn' wondered what caused the change.