The evening world. Newspaper, August 28, 1911, Page 11

‘ . The Evening World Daily “a dbase A A tl ith RA 26, 1911, 1 a ae a —_— ane er q DOBOOGODOOODODNAYS + =O. HENRY’S LAST AND BEST SHORT STORIES ae ‘3 CODOAOODIDOAS DO VOADSHSHSSE VIGO ANANTH HOTTA CDEDIDAHANDDNCDOODNTTEDATDOED MOCO TCOTA A quarter of a mile from the Fagie) One day, only a week after her fourth for him, but he wae a atrong man, and ever missing ® Rervion Aga ‘am home to keep their folk alive. Eapactaliy) eats, the dienity of the bare crags, the _ CHURCH W ITH THE House wae what would have been de-| birthday, Agiata disappeared, When! alvays appeared oheory and kindly. It]Stron patd for evermthing, Ha pald | about Lakelands wan the rlmor felts tryetal, lenis. moraines, Ute dream Roribed to tte ueata aa “an object of [last ween whic was plicking wild flowers wae tion that he was tngpired to con-|the preacher #500 @ year and Mina! As moon aa Abram Strong heard of| golden atternoone. full of myateriow oe vert che old mill inte @ ohuteh Lake | Phoebe $200. thie hie me linda was too poor to bulld ones and] Thus tn memory of Agiata, the old) narrow tll poorer mountalneera could not] mill waa converted Into a blessing for | "Aglaia There war no plu of worehip [the community in which ehe had once! were to ages flew) a e cara began the It sad unioad | Ko her health improved and her epirity ur there, The millers orders | grew light, She had a laugh as genta _— . a infil, n re the flour in the gallery and hearty tn its feminine way as the a [fe was “the only church tn the United | @ er than twenty miles. lived. It aeemed that the brief lite of {of the Olt MIL Church, and that every | famous laugh er Abram. Bot 16. ne ace Y Hiaten, ani With an overshot wheel; |. Of course avery effort was made | The miller altered the appearance of fthe child had brought about more cool one who attended the church was tO) of then ween nat iea nhete, | ai The Story of a Love That and the only mill In the world, aah, |fnd her, ‘The neighbors gathered art) the mill ax ttle am possible, The big |than the thren score years and ten of | carry home @ wack of tt Both Waele how tc , Ve ‘ Interea! fo the catalogue had the|by the alde of the road in front of ¢ 1, old mill that Was no longer| Went out to eee that #he did not stray far away, and @he was already n the worda of Jostan Rankin, | tr sore 4 with pews and a pipe organ.’ The| searched the woods and the mou overshot wheel Was left tn tte place, |many, But Abram Strong set up yet| Two weeks after that Abram Strong). fat thee to.¢ ae questa of the Eagle House attended |for miles around. They dra * young people Who came to the lanother monument to her memory vine for hia yearly. vie Te WAG8| one dar ite ch be Was Lost and a Cope mmm ES ERE i OD A acl FA | “one way Mie CR mill race sre uwed to cut thelr tnittala in tte! Out from his ne In ame “Father Abra: h _ learned | trom *% heard the preacher Mken the purified one of the guests the history of ot 1 eve nd the creek for Northwest! touse, and again, Th t WwW N t Christian to bolted flour ground to fat penson the Kaete House had! Abram's lost child. Quickly ahe a ory That Was Not. caine eaten ue taliies 5} vei tmagon, thereto, Howe had | Aves and’ Tn the ies feed oc A experience and auffering. r| Wan Rose Chester, Miss Cheater came | f4vorite rustic benen ar the chaly Every year about the beginning of to Lakelande from Atlanta, where she) beate spring. He was surprited wher « righted by Doubleday, Page & Co.) aged, It is full of ancient Instead of | Gutumn there came to the Eagle House worke in a di +t nt ot rs Thi a AR a a +4 y F | eo be youlioed in book peal after Sept. 12.) | modern improvements, and it {s alto-/one Ahram Strong, who remained for a unt a aaa My ation outing of Her Ife Fa ft t nh a —_——_ gether ag comfortably neglected and|time an honored and beloved guest. The wits of the store manager tad | eyes, i‘ pleasingly disarranged as your own/In Lakelands he was called “Father once “spent auminer at the : , Father A E ot eae I. home, * because his hair was so white, House, She had taken @ fancy to Re oor I didn't | toda ts not to be found In| But you are furnished with clean €0 strong and kind and florid, and had pernuaded hier to Ko there foF about you tow we ‘ae looms and food and abundant fare; hls laugh so merry and his black |her three weekw hollday an-| find her 5 u'T hope gai her @ letter to udly reeelved her in agers wife @ Rankin, who yourself and the pine woods must do | clothes and broad hat so priestly in ap- in new guests after three I ve ‘atta ues of fashionabl mer feeorts. It Hes on a reer ee erland ranke of moun. {thé reat, Nature has provided a min- | pearance, }down at her with hi of e own charge and care, tains o1 nu of Clindh jeral epring, grapevine swings and cro-|or four days’ acquaintance gave him Ml a rhe ‘i Fe ene ey iene tanted [quet_even the wick ts are wooden, You | this familiar title, alls, Chester, wan not very strong: Thank you, Misn io Village of two dozen houses #! have Art to thank only for the fiddie-| Father Abram came a@ long way to Jelicate from an indoor life. But onel expect to find Agt \ forlorn, narrow-gauge railroad. line, |and-guitar music twice @ week at the| Lakelands He lived in a big, roaring » te ee cere | Brite | erp te One Amara. You woaser whether the raliroad lost| top in the rustte pavilion. town in the Northwest, where he ness and apirit that changed her won: | vag shat “ weif'in tie pine woods and ran into| The patrons of the Eagle House are | owned mills—not litte mills with pews SE ee oe a ee ee opting: | Caran ane (Hat ate Lakelands f n fr t nd loneliness, or| those who seek recreation as a neces- and an organ in them, but great, ugly, she well the Cam funds ard at helt bids Aid ha * chether, Lakelands Kot. lost and hud-|slty as Well ag a pleasure. They are|Mountain-llke mills that the freight greatest beauty, ‘The mountain foliage) =f ‘cane ‘ led itself along the railroad to wait for busy people, who may be lkened| trains crawled around all day like was growing brilliant. with autumnal sald ie tie cars to carry it home. to clocks that need @ fortnight's|&"ts around an ant-heap, And now colors; on@ breathed aerial champagne, Nar pel You wonder Why it Waa named Lake-| winding to insure @ years run-| You must be told about Father Abram lL la Capen Ho tr And yet you nds. There are no lakes, and the lands |ning of thelr wheels, You will find/and the mill that was a church, for coe eee Nig weaeet and ready to make About are too poor to he worth men-| students there from the lower towns, | their stories run together. 1 one fo wae tray, ae fons light. Good onthe. now and then an artist or a geologist| In the days when the church was a * and Mise Cheater be ‘ hed the aie Hatta mile from the village atanda{abgorbed in construing the ancient | Mill Mr. Strong was the miller. There Father Abram and Mise Cheater bee mimicked the m me great friends. The old miller learned her story from Mrs. Rankin, hie Interest went quici to the 4 man-| strata of the hills, A. few quiet fam-| Was no foliter, dustier, busier, happier n he. He lived the road from Hagle | a big, roomy « sun tun by Josiah Hankin for the ac |ilies spend the aummera there and| ‘miller in all the land t smmodation of visitors who desire the |often one or two tired members of that | !n @ little cottage acro: “Who thinks of others Loreemed to strike ountain air at inexpensive rates, The| patient sisterhood known to Lakelands | the mill. Hisyhand was heavy, but his * rly girl who was making her . I agle Hovse js delightfully misman-!as “schoolmarma.” toll was light, and the mountaineers own way tn the world ‘ ; Ahearn she erted bp aitiiinlenaintaintiiininsinnoinmaniainniaaitans | DEON e Ke ee to him.across many ‘The mountain untry was new to “wouldn't it be wrand if T 1 prove —— a weary miles of rocky roads, . Misa Chester e had lived many to be your daugiter? Wouldn's it be The delight of the mitier's life was his GOES ROUND ears in the warm, flat town of At at Ard ow ty « re Uttle daughter, Aglaia, That was and the grandeur and variety of me for a dauglite | brave name, truly, for a flaxen-haired THE GRIST LS Cumberlands delighted her. She ed, Two sald the milter, e arr aml y | toddjer, but the mountaineers love son- determined to enjoy every moment heartily. “If Agiala had lived f could orous and stately names, The mother GROUND rostay. Her little hoard of savings) wish for nothing better than for h CE ne TP a | had encountered It sumewhere in a book i ween estimated go carefully In con-/ to have grown up to be Just aubh aw Mr, Fare Rehearses the Pleasing Role o/ [and the deed was done, In her baby= THE DUSTY MILLERS on with her expenses that ehe/ little woman as yc Maybe: $00 ; hood Aglaia herself repudiated the a Rs” | knew almost to a penny what her very are Agiata.’ he continted, falling. tn ‘ ” . Little “ Fohnny-Mind-Your-Own-Basiness’’ $ | name, as cémymon use went,/ana MERRY” [0 nlis WOUIS Be when she tec leith Her BIASTT moody Soanre wot: pee | Persisted tn calling herself “Dum: i Nina trom tie [tuned to her work | member when we lived at the miilt * —_ Ra : ‘he miller and his wife often tried to ' oak ikt be | Mise Chester wae fortunate tn gatning Mise Cheater fell swiftly Into serious Copyright, 9911 by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York World), coax from Aglaia the source of ‘this rie count kd ont that (drat n for a fiend and com.| meditation. Hor ea were fited * a . vai mysterious name, but without results a’ flour had two prices, One| P! new y road and peak, Vasuely upon something in the distance. > : If: or » Ta the little garien behind the cottage was wibenetiars lands. 1 she became ee-|@uick feturn to seriousness. She sat o with the solemn delight of the, (hue for @ long time before R wo ever going to get! say, Mra. Jabez Smith's affairs—Mr. | “ \ § - § Mr./a bed of rhododendrons in which the Wh rth ppen tamity | quaint je spoke, Te back to earth again?” asked | Jahox smith’s affairs, old Mra, Dusen-| child took a pecullar der ‘left peop iitate-eifte, @ Nod, : Ins, Mrs. \c ° deitght and in , people destitul e, a flo tilted aision of the pine for- < b Ve Mr, Jar, impatiently, in the|perry'a affairs-ANYBODY'S affairat est. It may have been that she per- A tonudon kepikcey ae a eareinocners sane Bia celal saad elec oe aa a midst of an areU-\(Vm going to attend strictly to my|celved tn "“Dums" a on to the would go hurrying ‘a generous consign-| ; Sleep EN GE TR ie & ment with BislSwn araiein formidable name of her favorite flowers t of the n Agi price. It was given away tow and judictou tit wax freely giv: and not a penny could the hungry one nothin ata tts good wife In re] ang aye, . When Aglaia was four years old she gard to some out- wr gover asked you to do anything | and her father used to go through a else asked Mrs. Jarr. “Jack Silver) tittle perto 1 f ak | side social adjuat- n tle performance in t IN every af- was YOUR friend. He was no ac-!/ternoon that never fated come off, Week-End Visits menta, MUANOAHOR (OE THM : : a long distance below the dam, Neversoft and slowl¥ ‘decaying wood. The {Pay for it. ‘There got to be a saying Miao Qo coartut” | Sea vit Grae wees ala Pad Ce ot ean re cites When supper! a trace of her did they find, “A night) dam was partly destroyed, and the| that whe there was a disastrous e PERT ET PE. nd per quotient en baRp CLI LM MUI Behe hce Mind etisalat or two before there had been a family) clear mountain stream rippled un-| fre in the poor districts of a city the a ummer 1ren to him, and sometimes not even that. | hair and put on ac apron an ndere m in a grove nearby. | checked down 4ta rocky bed. Inside the | fire chief's KEY hed the scene ol ne wiles itn | YOu Drought him to this house, And | her across bP rola lott ithe | It was con ne if he had been half a may could i he miller saw her have stolen the B heavenly,| ievetnsan coated eight now he could | coming in the mill door he would come | wagon wi ured that they might! mill the changes were greater. The! firat, next the “Axia flour wagon, and nila; but when thelr/ shafts and millstones and belts and|then the fire engin overtaken end searched she) pulieya were, of course, all removed.| So this was Abram Strong's other By Alma Woodward extatencey” what | Mudridge and the poor gir! wouldn't be VamacoaVechlanhect: ana tine ee old Se eee rare f BATS MCR AC MO FrICR Bt BARRE ME Mt | eer ucerd Sie atarn Comeatlltasiontane ‘ } “You know what ghd e old ie mille ned at the mill for! aisies between, and a little raised plat-|the theme may seem too utilitarian for | : ts 1 you xnow wnat! dying of « broken heart""— milller's xong that was famillar tn those | nearly two ‘an@ then his hope| form and puipit at one end, On three | beauty; but to some the fancy. wil bepdingeecal dial to Mabel Gnd BabA sco ca P Roy L Mr. Sarr, pourly. |. 9 Ruf!” aad Mr. Jarr, shortly, | parts and ran something like this: of finding her died out. He and his| sides overhead was a gullery contain m pweet and fine that the pure, On Board 6. 8. Titame, eo resentfully-end then I feel sv prow “ MSCARDELL “Aw long as we| t 860 by the society columne, which |, The wheel goes round, | wife moved to the Northwest. In a! ing seats and reached by a statrway| white, virgin flour, fying on its mia: HERE'S « man leaning againet|@o@ warm eroun@ my beart! , Jenkins called my attention to at the The grist is ground, | few years he was the owner of a mod-\ineide. There was also an organ —a) sion of love and charity, might be Itken- | ur own affairs and had our hi The dusty milters merry, . Tern mill‘in offe of the {mportant milling ! the «al that/ed to the apirit of the lost obild whose {the rall, looking at me through| The man agninet the rail, strange to 18 more oF less one grand, sweet #n8. | 80. thy hoakkeeper eave ie Ne While thinking of his dearie recovered from tie shack caused by the! the Old Mill Church. Misa. Phoebe came a Year that brought hard think he'a trying to dechia a| pressed by the Lgvcrnd ring—in fact, | ut ever since we got axed up in ; per. say amount he! hen Agiala would run to him la. loss of Aglaia, and two years after they | Summers the organist. The Lake- to the Cu rlands. Gi crops mode of approach. think I can eee @ emfle Gawning in t+ ner people's love affairs, over aince | Me# to send her in checks.to pay for jing, and call: “Dada, come take Dy ed away t Mer was left to bear) tands boys proudly took turns at pump- light, and t were | He's trim and good to look at-4f I| comers of hie eyes. 1 resent it. _ to marty Jack Stivorsdack {28P 1ossen at bridge Indicates to him |home:": and the miller would swing her sorrow aldne, ing it for her at each Sunday's abevice. no local crops at all. Mountain floods | should be asked what I thought him,| Just wate ¢ilt vo comes! I'l bet Silver had never done anything to you that the firm will break before even |to his shoulder and march over to sup-| When Abram Strong became proapers|'The Rev. Mr, Ranbrilge was the|had done much damage to property. | 1d any “Wall Street right off the reel |/he') ektp then she cracke a ventricle, But I don't|per, singing the miller’s song, Every|ous he paid a visit to Lakelands and| preacher, and rode down from Squirrel | Even game in the woods was so scarce ef right. @uch impu- > Clara Mudridge, {t's been nothing it a mixup @nd fuss and excitement ‘ver and about other people! And, sane it! I'm tired of it, and I want | Ket out of It and go back to living own life mm my own y 1" ‘Your own life in your own way!” care, I want to forget her. T want |¢vening this would take place, the old mill. The scene was a sad one!Gap on ‘his old white horse without! that the hunters brought hardly enough peiobllselyoy Meter dlhe afce dl ex: dence—firting with @ married woman! |” to forget the whole mess I was dragged | ~~ oo . eee eee . ae ct rw a. = P ne | Biints in the sun. : into! You see before you Little-Johnny- Mind-Iis-Own-Businesa!”* | “Why, you talk to me as though I} were to blame!” crled Mrs, Jarr m not twitting anybody, I'm z 3 3 s i iy i ‘ez: {t rather smart—Z looked with secret Silhouetteville Sayings 54 34% By Joe Ryan $cc TTcieies 0k aitimeat ame hin clothes have Fifth avenue atamped |. t'# mice to feel that you belong, body" and soul, to @ man and that any one sneered Mrs, Jarr. “You talk like one i Ef f " ) y all over them and hia face bears a0 ae : nt, IIT, by ‘The Wrese Wublishing Co. (The New York World) t those lady @ocial anarchists, the | vouch with it, that's alli”” growled Indication of. eriminal tendeacies—or | "N° Ve Slances at you ts trosspass- women who want to tive in atudios, on| MF. Jarr. fopplahasan tng! All the independence that I gloried anned goods, and amoke cigarettes, “At least, you could mall this packet ind discuss the color of their souls| Of letters to Jack Silver. You know while the color of the lothes would | ‘Where he Clara has renounced him he better by dry clean-| forever, and is sending him back his | air with a shampoo and | letters and the presents he gave her eamnb atid bree (tt the searfpin and cigarette case she took T hope I haven't been lady-like, even| ftom him. She's an unselfish girl, too, in, Just @ few short weeks ago, I now re, T 8m | cheerfully surrender. I'm eatisfied to koing to Gisplay prominently my left| be the clingingest ae pte hand There 1s, on the third Anger) tna, fay forth—or as 1 os t hive of that hand, @ flashing emblem that usband’ the giant oak of my hy etrength means but one thing. And, snugsting|t ating to, . ts clome beside it-the fulfillment of the Yet, if he continues to at ae ee eee strong-mindediy lady-like” ventured | D@cause it's @ star sapphire in the scart- |sparkto'a promlse—le a narrow, ob, @|— ne’ Comins Gown the deck now. Fils agi. pin and th® cigarette case ts a solid \eety narorw. plain band. that ehines |&Tay: Well-fitting clothes do mot “Areas” i nen, don't talk about Yeading your | #4 one eet with diamonds. And tt | ei him—he'a the sort of @ man who blots fe in your own Way, ‘That's the way | Would De A nice present to give her hus: | she anil out etyle, in tte accepted eens Ris and after they've had a tiff, for tt wouldn't cost her anything. And, as old Smith doesn't smoke cigarettes, he'd | give it back to her and she could have it made over into a vanity box for her- * something.” 1 have a nerve’ aa k those things f | didn’t give them to her." { “Weren't they « mt, Jack Silver "land ste? And isn't being engaged al- most the same as being married?” asked Mrs. Jarr, “What right had he to have @ star sapphire scarfpin and a diamond st gold cigare It's only one day old—that’s the Fe8-! wonderful personality would make the son it shines @o—maybe that’a the Fe8-! moat perfect examples of the tailor’s 1, too, why I'm @o unreasonably | art seem trivial, proud of it. ‘The manicured gentieman, egainst the It's hard to realise I've really married | rail, rents trouble—he realizes that the ¢ man, All the gunning, the|tne REAL man, coming down the deck, whole muminer through, came to naught | coud make mtncemeat of MMe puny the real gam@g was trapped tn the| pody, #0, wishing to retain his frame very beginning. And now, laoking back, |tntact, he is sneaking, with assume? e the summer waated, carelessness, out of range. | 1 shall always regret the olden weeks! He ts really afraid! Oh, it's great 1 COULD have had with my great|to be ruled by @ man whom men fear! |gladiator man—tuet heing engaged and|'The tiny shred of envage that lingers, | foolten! the heritage from primal women, 1s My husband (how absolutely @lorious |@trong within me. lo write that with certificate certainty) | T have given myself to a man who haw just gone down to the stateroom |ts MASTER—e master af tender heart, to get me a book T like to send him |wonderful understanding and brute | on little useless errands, just ao I may | force. ‘The cup ts full t everfowing! nder talked when she in- the parson with no n small children, She's own Ife [n her own way now, snatrating edible breakfast food | or husband | tter Mr. Jarr. phim, He case? T hate to Aman w So do all the women," replied Mr. Jarr. “Well, as T said, I'm through’ | Tm going back to old ways and old | friends ewelry a I suppose that means you are going to go about | out to ¢ ng of A's saloon?! sneered Mra: Tarr, “| hear you got stage fright when you addressed that temperance “When you' hit him what did he do?” admire his reat phyaique as he «wings | WHO SAID THERE WAB NO HAP- own business and lead the happy} “Yes, 1t does," said Mr. Jarr. | meeting, TDS athe ce at ORE he eoulant ‘oatahimall town the deck toward me, All the|PINESS IN THIS WORLD? ‘ife of other days and have no mo And out he w | “I did. | told them work was the curse of the drinking classes women stare 60 enviously and the men| ‘The Rat. By Clare Victor Dwiggins Na Was Say JiMeN— LP Gop Af Same Litre OLD thray As Ou Use To *ANES — lust THE Sanne \TrLe. Smart ( » ew. : SE ALE sone T Morning, Sie + p Kinpto’ EAR FIROVOV A A New core FoR -THE GRIP_ SUREST Thing- To BG QVTy AIT IT? * You JusT Saveeze Back} i OU FRAID “THE “t= el Hot Ho! - a v Wee BAD Lt GIT z 5 Moh H Te Same Utrre STewer PRune Ame Y& seT on A NEw FSC EE Oy? ae 2 4] MISERABLE, LITTLE, SAWED OFF, Haro RED ALMA! BAL REMEMBER , than & You Dow SN A\NNAP Hat HA! Wat PinT ‘You 2 BLE. \ us? A ons NES ALE weeny pow yy 9 fr: OU WouLD|l | SMP THER OF VE CHANGE! ] 2 {oT OPEN THaT/| “10 FRESH Box oF | HAVANAS J BE, BACK AT The OLN SCHOOL House . AL ~TpT } CAUGHT Gow’ To A PARTY, ONE Bint You? ‘tay! mY! ThaTS Gow’ on FA EVEHING, pir DF eD " wie THENTY YEAR, Simray ! Youre Just Pants, & GRnveet ‘ Rigo AR msenwnenrae b