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By ELLI8 WAKEMAN. j-i
When the Reliance dropped anchor
off Block island during the maneuvers
around Newport and Point Judith,
Tinkham appeared to have a settled
melancholy descend on him.
Deborah. That was her name.
Funny, sweet, little old-fashioned
name, he thought, Deborah Allan. She
had been born right there on the is
land, 16 miles out from the mainland,
and to Tinkham she seemed as sweet
and rare as one of her own island
pond lilies the barefooted boys brought
around the hotels and docks.
All he had done that first day was
to look at her and say, "Hello, sweet
heart! ”
And she had cuffed him soundly, her
big, dark eyes ablaze with swift an
ger, her little hand stinging in its re
buke.
“You boys from the ships think you
own the island the minute you land
here,’’ she had told him. "And we’re
not that sort.”
She wasn't “that sort,” either. A bit
of “Mandalay’’ had always made him
think of her in the long cruises later
on. “I’ve a neater, sweeter maiden in
a cleaner, greener land.”
She had boxed his ears, but she had
also all unwittingly given him a new
ideal of girlhood, and in his own way
he had tried to fit his standards of
life to the new picture.
Somewhere he had learned that she
played the organ up at little St. Ann's
by-the-Sea, and he had slipped into one
of the back pews to listen to her just
for one Sunday, his "neater, sweeter
maiden.” Also, before the ships had
slipped away toward Newport, he had
found a chance of meeting her father.
The old man had been busy calking
the seams In his sailing boat and
Tinkham had spent all hfe morning
one day helping him and telling him
stories of navy life. His reward had
come when Deborah came down to
call her father to dinner, and they
had met properly and rightly, and he
had held her band in greeting.
His time was up in September. 11
he could only be sure she was still
there in the little white house on the
shore road. He stayed on board and
hugged hiB memory of her, afraid to
risk the truth. Then Grlnman came
back and told him, blg'Grinman of the
gunners' mess.
“She’s still here, Tink,” excitedly.
“Seen her today myself. She’s all
alone up there. Dost her father In
the March blows.”
“Dead?” asked Tinkham.
“Sure. She's all alone, I’m telling
you. Thought you'd like to know.”
_ "Thaakjh" answered TtakMam. and
the next day he got shore leave. As
he turned up the beaten track to the
cottage, he lifted his cap and tucked
It under his arm for all the world the
way he had the day he went to hear
her play in church. Then, finally, he
stood at the green screen side door,
tapping, he, Tinkham of the navy, with
a year between him and a girl whe
had boxed his ears.
But he had full revenge. She came
quickly from the inner room and saw
him, and the color rose to her face ae
she gave a quick indrawn little gasp
and laughed to cover it.
Tinkham had rehearsed all sorts oi
proper speeches all the way along the
road, and now he stood silent, adoring
her, and all he could think to say was
1 "My time’s up in September. I’m on
shore leave today.”
She gave him a chair on the little
porch looking seaward, and they sat
down.
“Did you think I’d come?” he asked
“Didn’t you even remember me?”
She glanced from him to the boat
lying keel up down on the sands.
"Yes, I remembered. Dad liked to
talk to you best of the boys that came
up here from the ships.”
"You’ll never like me, ’cause I spoke
to you that day, will you?” he asked
hungrily. "I didn’t say anything
only—”
I rememoer wnat you said. sne
smiled at him from under her long
lashes. “It's Just what all of them
say to any girl.”
“If I said it today it wouldn’t be
the same,” said Tinkham doggedly
"I'd—I’d mean it. That’s what 1 came ;
ashore for. I guess I’ve thought about
you every day for a year, and when 1
heard about your trouble I had tc
come. I’ve only got one more month ;
to serve then I’m going out home to
see my mother and sisters. Hut I'm
coming back. I can’t get away from
the sea. I like it right here. Maybe j
It's you that makes the island seem
wonderful. I don’t know, but 1 feel j
it right here.”
Tinkham stopped and waited. He
was not given to eloquence. Love
seemed to leave him wordless and
smitten with its glory. Deborah was
looking past him out to sea, where the
warships lay, gun metal gray in the
morning light on the sapphire water, i
"I’m coming back in September. It
there isn’t anybody else—” She shook
her head quickly, and Tinkham's blue
eyes sparkled. He leaned toward her i
eagerly, throwing his challenge to
fate.
"Hello, sweetheart!” he whispered,
not as he had said it that first day,
but with all his heart’s longing in his
voice, all his life's hope in the call.
Hello, sweetheart!"
And Deborah, blushing softly,
stretched out her hand to him.
"Hello, boy!” she answered. “I kind
of thought you’d come ashore. ’
(Copyright. 1915. by the McClure Newspa*
per Syndicate.)
Could Be Replaced.
Mrs. Newed
(sobbing)—Oh. J
John! The c-rat
has e-eaten all the
a-angel cake I
bnked this m
mornlng. Boo-hoo
oo!
Newed (consol
I n g 1 y)—W e I 1,
don’t cry or wor
ry about it, dear! I'll buy you an
other cat In the morning.
Typical.
“That shabby looking old gentleman
has discovered a comet.”
“Well! Well!”
"But he’s a typical scientist. He
knows the heaven like a book and
can’t find his way to the post office.”
STAR OF FILMDOM
Miss Kathlyn Williams.
Popular actress with big personal
following among patrons of the
“movie” theaters.
HEALTHY RIVALRY IS BEST
Boys and Girls Need Something Be
sides Home Training, Asserts
Eastern Journal.
The father of two school children
who refuses to have his offspring vac
cinated, and therefore does not send
them to school, says the mother is just
as well qualified as any teacher to in
struct the children at home.
This parent misses the point of
something more than the inoculating
quill, the Philadelphia Ledger asserts.
Of course, the mother knows her own
children, and no doubt has retained
from her own schooldays and subse
quent reading enough book learning to
qualify as their instructress. Many
wise men and good women have profit
ably gone to school at the mother's
knee in the three R’s as well as In
piety. But the rule Is that children
do better who face the competition of
the schoolroom and undergo the disci
pline of healthy rivalry with their
comrades. There is less danger of
growing up a spoiled or a solitary
minded child.
Every boy and girl needs that part
of schooling which comes from other
pupils, not from the teacher. There is
evil sometimes mingled with the good,
and a careful supervision must go as
far as tt can to check any pernicious
influence. But the child grows up to
a world to give and take, and must
know how to "fear God and take his
own part” in It. Moreover, there is
nothing like keeping the definite hours
and following the plan of impartial,
inflexible routine in the sehool life.
Home is a respecter of persons; the
mother is likely to be led by her affec
tions fnto an overtenderness that tem
pers the wind to her shorn lamb. The
republic of school stands upon the
doctrine of equality in human rights.
Fair play is its reign of law. It Is not
disparaging the mother to say that in
normal pupilage the teacher who is
“no relation” is the best.
DERIVED FROM RARE EARTHS
Where Some of the Most Valuable
Metala Known Have Been Dla
covered by Sclentiats.
Rare earths are the oxides of such
metals as thorium, cerium, titanium,
zirconium, tantalum, niobium, tung
sten, uranium and vanadium. The
most common and familiar uses of
these metals are: For thorium and
cerium in the making of gas mantles,
and for tungsten in the making of in
candescent lamps. Tungsten, to
gether with vanadium, is also used in
making certain kinds of steel. Thori
um, or one of its compounds, is used
extensively In searchlights, motor cv
headlights, and in flashlight powders.
Cerium alloyed with certain metals
makes the flaming alloy used in cigar
and gas lighters and to trace the flight
of artillery shells. The same metal,
or one of fts salts, la used in pho
tography. In dyeing leather and for
coloring glass. Titanium alloyed with
iron is often used to purify steel, cast
iron and cast copper. Zirconium oxide
makes crucibles and similar vessels
that, even when brought to a white
heat, can be plunged into cold water
without cracking. Tantalum makes
surgical and dental Instruments that
will not rust and that can be sharp
ened like steel and sterilized by in
tense heat. Nine-tenths of the tung
sten and the vanadium produced is
used in making steel.
Old Wines.
Some time ago a bottle of ancient
wine was found during the demolition
of an'old house at Finsbury, England.
It appears that this ancient bottle is
eclipsed by the treasures of France.
Some of the cellars in Paris contain
bottles of Sauterne at least two cen
turies old. This is a very respect
able age, but it is nothing compared
With a certain Rlbeauvilliers of 1652,
or a Steinwein of 1540, or a Jewish
Passover wine of five centuries and a
half. Still, in the museum at Reims
there is a far older wine, or rather a
bottle containing something which was
once wine.
It is said to date four centuries be
fore our era. This, tradition saya, was
found In a tomb of the Gallo-Roman
period. Berthelot, the celebrated
chemist, has left on record that he
once analyzed a bottle of wine made
in the neighborhood of Rome about
Nero’s time. In this case the analyst
had only a dry residuum to work upon.
Couldn't Blame Him.
"You were pretty well pickled when i
I brought you In last night,” said the
copper to the man who had been ar
raigned in municipal court.
"Was I?” replied the man, whose
thumping head was also telling him
I that he had drunk not wisely but too
well.
“You sure were. You gave the desk
sergeant your name and address, but
you couldn't for the life of you tell your
•ccupatlon. You tried and tried, but
you couldn’t say it.”
"Well, no wonder! I'm a statisti
cian!"
The Usual Way.
“Say, Orimshaw! Would you rec
ommend young Sam Skook as being
of good moral character and entirely
worthy of confidence? I have a po
sition of trust for which be is an ap
plicant.”
"Certainly!" replied Grlmshaw
heartily. “Give the young fellow a
show, Jinglefritz.” Then after the In
quirer had passed onwarl, satisfied,
Grlmshaw turned to Trotter. “Who
the deuce la young Sam Skook?" he
asked.—Kansas City Star.
RAILROAD TIME TABLE.
St. Louis, Iron Mountain Si Southern
LITTLE ROOK * MONROE RY.
South North
5:59 a. m.Huttig.2:27 p. m
7:40 a. m. Monroe.12:26 p.m
local. *
Leaves Arrives
11:40 a. m.Huttig .... 12:15p.m.
St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern
farmerville * southern ry.
North South
5:01a.m.. Huttig .2:55 p. m
4:15 a. m.. P’armerville.4:15 p. m
local, f
10:10a. m.Huttig 2:25 p.m.
tArrives Monday, Wednesday, and Fri
day from Monroe and goes to Farmer
vilie.
’Arrives Tuesday, Thursday and Satur
day from Farmerville and goes to Mon
roe,
LODGE DIRECTORY.
ROWLAND LODGE No. 594 F. St A.
M.meets every second and fourth Satur
day evenings at 7:30 o’clock. Visiting
Masons always welcome.
L. M. Despain, W. M.
C. A. Berry, Sec’y.
HOWARD CHAPTER, No. 122, R. A.
M.—meets every first and third Thurs
day evening at Masonic hall. Visiting
companions welcome.
L. G. Gibson, H. P.
D. F. Collett, Secy.
HUTTIG CHAPTER No. 320, Order of
the Eastern Star, meets every first and
third Friday evening at 7:30 o’clock.
Visiting brothers and sisters welcome.
Mrs. J. A. Brignac, W. M.
Mrs. L. G. Gibson, Sec'y.
HUTTIG LODGE No. 348 I. O. O. F.
meets every Tuesday evening. Visiting
brethern cordially invited to attend.
W. E. Chadwick, N. G.
Harlan Sehon, Secy.
HUTTIG REBEKAH LODGE No. 66,
meets every Monday night at 7:30 o’clock
Visitors are invited.
Mrs. Lou Milstead, N. G.
Miss Murray Pilkinton, Secy.
SWEET BAY CAMP No. 41 1 W. 0. W.
meets every first and third Saturday eve
nings. Visitors made welcome.
C. A. McCormick, C. C.
J. C. Bridges, Clerk.
Sweet Bay Circle No. 146, W. C..
meets every second and fourth Thursday
night at 7:30 o'clock. Visitors are cor
dially invited.
Mrs. W. R. Dickerson, Guardain.
Mrs. C, A. McCormick, Clerk.
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