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FOURTEEN BRITISH MINK 8WEEPERS SUNK BY Au% "* TMIAN8 IN ADRIAtSF^ • V;;:ii#ry >• *.,« , *. i •• 14 SHIPS DESTROYED l>UPBMHI VnCfflnnii RETURNS ;-|f« * •<* By HENRY KITCHELL WEBSTER *.v OVER ROSE STANTON THERE COMES A CHANGE WHICH PUZZLES HER HUSBAND--AT FIRST HE THINKS SHE'S PEEVISH, BUT SHE IS NOT. SYNOPSIS--Rose Stanton marries Rodney Aldrich, a rich .voting lawyer, after a brief courtship, and instantly is taken up by Chicago's exclusive social set and made a part of the gay whirl of the rich folks. It Is all new to the girl, and for the first few months she is charmed with the life. And then she comes to feel that she is living a useless existence, that she is a social butterfly, a mere ornament In her hufc- band's hdme. Rose longs to do something useful and to have the Op­ portunity to employ her mind and utilise her talent and education. Rodney feels much the same way about himself. He thinks he ought to potter around in society just to please his wife, when in reality he'd rather be giving his nights to study or social service of some sort. They try to reach an understanding, following the visit of two New York friends, who have worked out satisfactorily this same problem. ' "~§k' .IK iU-; CHAPTER X. A Birthday. Rodney heard young Craig, who deviled up law for him, saying good night to the stenographer. He waited till he heard them go, then went out and disconnected his own desk tele­ phone, which the office boy, on. going home, always left plugged through; went back to his inner office agnin, and shut the door after him. There was more than enough press­ ing work on his desk to fill the clear hour that remained to him before he bad to start for home. But he didn't mean to do it. He didn't mean to do anything except to drink down thirstily the sixty minutes of pure solitude that were before him. That hour had be­ come a habit with him lately, like- he smiled at the comparison--like tak­ ing a drug. He was furtive about it, too. He never corrected Rose's as­ sumption that the thing which kept him late at the office so much of the time nowadays was a press of work. It was not that she had faded for him--become less the poignant, vivid, irresistible thing he had first fallen In love with. Rather the contrary. She hadn't seemed quite well, lately, nor altogether happy, and he had not been able to find out why. He had attributed it at first to the shock oc­ casioned by her mother's illness and her departure with Portia to Califor­ nia; but this explanation seemed not to cover the ground. She was all right, she always said. He couldn't force confidence from her, of course. But her pale face and eyes wide with a trou­ ble in them he could not fathom, stirred something deeper in him than the former glow and glory had ever reached. And (here was a new thing that gripped him In a positively terrifying way--a realization of his Importance to her. He had discovered one day--a fortnight or so ago, in the course of a rummage after some article he had mislaid, a heap of law books that weren't his. He had guessed the ex­ planation of them, but had said noth­ ing to Rose about it--had found It curiously impossible to say anything. If only she had taken up something of her own! It seemed as essentially a law of her being to attempt to ab­ sorb herself In him, as It was a law of his to resist' that absorption of him­ self la her. But resistance was difficult. The tendency was, after his perfectly ' solid, recognizable duties had been given their place in the cubic content of his day,- that Rose should fill up the rest. And yet there was a man in him who was neither the hard-work­ ing, successful advocate', tior Rose's husband--a man whose existence Rose "didn't seem to suspect. (Was there, then, in her no woman that corre­ sponded to him?) That man had to fight now for a chance to breathe. He got a pipe out of a drawer in his desk, loaded and lighted it. 6tretched his arms, and sat down lri his desk chain The thing exactly In front of his eyes was his desk calendar. There was something familiar about the date--some subconscious associa­ tion that couldn't quite rise to the Bur- face. Was there something he had to do today, that he'd forsotfen? .. . . Then, \fith a grunt of relief and*amuse­ ment, he got it. It was bis birthday! Another milestone. , A year ago! That was the day It had all begup. How did he compare-- the man who sat there now--with the man who had unhesitatingly jumped, off the car to follow a new adventure-- the man who had turned up water­ logged at Frederlca's dinner and made hay of her plan to marry him off to Hermlone Woodruff! v He was increasing his practice now, making money, getting cautious--pru­ dent; he didn't bolt the track any , more. And the quality of his work was good; he couldn't quarrel with that. Only, the old, big free dreams •that had glorified it were gone. He was in harness, drawing a cart; fol­ lowing a bundle of hay. The building was pretty well de­ serted by now, andVgainst the silence he heard the buzzer in his telephone switchboard proclaiming insistently ithat someone was trying to get him on the phone. Ue thought at first he wouldn't answer. He didn't want to 'talk to anybody. But no one can re­ sist the mechanical bell ringers they 'use In exchanges nowadays--the even- spaced ring and wait, ring and wait, so manifestly Incapable of discourage- ment At the end of forty-five sec- ionds, he snatched open his door, | punched the jack into its socket, caught up the head piece, and bel­ lowed "Hello!" Into the dangling j transmitter. ^ And five minutes later he was cali- ?' 4n* Rose on the wire. "'Rose, listen to this! from New York at five o'clock, and I've asked them out to dinner.--Barry Lake and Jane I What's the matter? Can't you hear me? . . ^Why, they're about the best friends I've got. The magazine writer,, you know, and his wife. And they're coming out to dinner--coming right out I told them not to dress. I'll come straight home myself--get there before they do, I guess, u . . All right! Good- by!" But he sat there frowning in a puz­ zled sort of way for half a minute. Rose's voice had certainly sounded queer. He was sure she hadn't planned anything else for tonight. He distinctly remembered her saying just before he left for the office, that they'd have the evening, to themselves. And It was incredible that she minded his bringing home two old friends like the Lakes on the spur of the moment, to take pot-luck. Oh, well, you couldn't tell about people's voices over the phone. There must have been something funny about the connection. An opportune taxi Just passing the entrance to his offce building as he came out, enabled Rodney to better the fifteen minutes he'd allowed for getting home. But in spite of that fact he found Rose rather splendidly gowned for her expected guests. "Good gracious!" he cried excitedly. "What did you do that for? I thought I told you over the phone the Lakes weren't going to dress." "I was--dressed like this when you telephoned," Rose said. "And I was afraid there wouldn't be tipne to change into anything else." "We weren't .going anywhere, were we?" he asked. "There's nothing I've forgotten?" "No," she said, "we weren't going anywhere." "And you dressed like that Just for a--treat for me!" She nodded. "Just for you," she said. "Roddy, who are the Lakes?-- Oh, I know his articles, I think. But where were they friends of yours, and when?" "Why, for years, until they moved to New York. They used to live here. I know I must have told you about them. I was always having dinner with them--either out in Rogers Park, where they lived, or at queer, terrible little restaurants downtown. They were always game to try anything, once. He's the longest, leanest, angularest absent-mlndedest chap in the world. And just about the best. And his wife fits all his angles. She writes, too. Oh, you're sure to like them! They're going to be out here for months, he says. " He's going to specialize in women and he's come back here where Trying to Help Both of Them Out of Their Wraps at Once. they get the vote, to make headquar­ ters. It's great! I haven't had a real talk with anybody since he went away, over a year ago." Then, at the sound of the bell, he cried out: "There they are!" and dashed down into the ball ahead of the parlor maid, as eagerly as a schoolboy anticipating a birtUday pres­ ent Rose followed more slowly, and by the time she had reached the landing, she found him slapping Barry on the back and shaking both hands with Jane, and trying to help both of them out of their wraps at once. When the greetings were over and Barry Lake and his wife are I they were on the way upstairs again, here. He Just balled up. They got In I he said: "J told Rose we weren't go- j .AfcV .A* ' ing to dress, hut she explained she didn't put on this coronation robe for you, but for a tceat. for Cue before I telephoned, and hadn't time to change back." And when Jane cried out, as they entered the drawing room: "Good heavens, Rodney, what a housed" he answered: "It isn't our?. We rented it for a year in some sort of honey­ moon delirium, I guess. We don't live up to It, of course. Nobody could, but the woman who built It." ' The gaiety In his voice clouded a little as he said It, and his grin, for a moment, had a rueful twist. But for a moment only. Then his untem- pered delight in the possession of his old friends took him again. They talked--heavens, how they talked ! It was like the breaking up of a log jam. The two men would rush along, side by side, in perfect agreement for a while, catching each other's half-expressed ideas, and hurl­ ing them forward, and then suddenly they'd meet, head on, In collision over some fundamental difference of opin­ ion, amid a prismatic spray of epi­ gram. Jane kept up a sort of obliga- to to the show, inserting provocative witticisms here and there, sometimes as Rodney's ally, sometimes as her husband's, and luring them, when she could, into the quiet backwater of metaphysics, where she was more than a match for the two of them. But the main topic of the ̂ evening got launched when Rodney seized the advantage of a pause to say: "A series of articles on women, eh! What are you going to do to them?" With that the topic of feminism was on the carpet and it was never thereafter abandoned. After half an hour of it Jane turned to Rodney. "But what do you think about it?" she demanded. "You've been grinning away there all this time without say­ ing a word. Are you for it?" "For what?" Rodney wanted to know. "For what women want," said Jane. "Economic independence -- equality, easy divorce--all the new stuff." "I'm not against It," Rodney said, "any more than I'm against tomorrow being Tuesday. It's going to be Tues­ day whether I like It or not. But that conviction keeps me from crusad­ ing for it very hard. What I'm curi­ ous about is how It's going to work. When they get what they, want, do you suppose they're going to want what they get?" "I knew there was something dead­ ly about your grin," said Jane. "What arIf you so cantankerous about?" "Why, the thing," said Rodney, "that sours my naturally sweet dis­ position is this economic independ­ ence. I've been hearing it at dinner tables all winter. When I hear a woman with five hundred dollars' worth of clothes on--well, no, not on her back--and anything you like in Jewelry, talking about economic inde­ pendence as if it were something nice --Jam on the pantry shelf that we men were too greedy to let them have a share of--I have to put on the brakes in order to stay on the rails. "We men have to fight for economic Independence from the time we're twen­ ty, more or less, till the time we die. It's a sentence to hard labor for life; that's what economic Independence Is. How does that woman think she'd set about it, to make her professional services worth a hundred dollars a day--or fifty, or ten? What's she got that has a market value? What is there that she can capitalize? She's got her physical charm, of course, and there are various professions where she can make it pay. Well, and what else?" "She can bear children," said Jane. "She ought to be paid well for that." "You're only paid well," Rodney re­ plied, "for something you can do ex­ ceptionally well, or for something that few people can do at all. As long as the vast majority of women Can bear children, the only women who could get well paid for it, would be those exceptionally qualified, or exception­ ally proficient. This is economics, now, we're talking. Other considera­ tions are left out. No, I tell you, economic Independence, if she really got it---the kind of woman I've been talking about--would make her very sick." "She'd get over being sick, though, wouldn't she," said Rose, "after awhile? And then don't you think she'd be glad?" Rodney laughed. "The sort of wom­ an I've been talking nbout," he said, "would feel, when all is said, thqt she'd got a gold brick.** Rose poured his coffee with a steady hand. They were in the library now. "If that's so," she said, "then the kind of woman you've been talking about has already got a profession. As Doctor Randolph says, she's cashed In on her ankles. But maybe you're mistaken in thinking she wouldn't choose something else If she had a chance. Maybe she wouldn't have done It, except because her husband wanted her, to and she was In love with him and tried to please. You can't always tell." It was almost her first contribution to the talk that evening. She had asked a few questions and said the things a hostess has to say. The other three were manifestly taken by surprise. <0 But surprise was not the only ef­ fect produced. Her husbnnd had never seen her look Just like that be­ fore. The flash in her eyes, the splash of bright color in her cheeks, the ex­ citing timbre of her voice, was new to him and very alluring. Barry saved him the necessity of trying to wvyw, hy taking up the L.vi;)' kiK cudgels himself. Rodney didn't feel like answering, nor, for the moment, like listening to Barry. His interest In the discussion was eclipsed, for the moment, by the thrill and wonder of his wife's beauty. For the next half hour she hiatched wits with Barry Lake very prettily. When Jane declared that they must go, her husbahd protested. "I haven't managed yet to get a word out of Rodney about any of his things. I want to know how far you've come along with your book on 'Actual Government.' I want the whole thing. Now," "I've, had my fling," said Rodney, with a sort of embarrassed good hu­ mor. "There are no more Intellectual wild oats for me. Have you forgotten you're talking to a married man ?" On learning their determination to walk down-town, he said he'd go with them part of the way. Would Rose go, too? But she thought not. he said. "I won't to it." f "If It weren't tru<£* she persisted, "you wouldn't be excited like that. If I hadn't known it before, I'd have known It when I saw you with the Lakes. You can give them "something you can't give me, not with all the love in the world. I never heard about them till tonight---not In a way I'd re- And there are other people --you spoke of some of them at din­ ner--who are living here, that you've never mentioned to me before. You've tried to sweep them all out of your life; to go to dances and the opera and things with me. You did It be­ cause you loved me, but it wasn't fair- to either of us, Roddy. can't love me all the tlifte. I don't believe a man--a real mfcn--can love woman all the time. And if makes him hate her when he doesn't love her, he'll get so he hates loving her." "You're talking nonsense!" again roughly. He was pacing the room by now. "Stark, staring non­ sense! I've never stopped loving you since the first day we walked together. And I should think I'd done enough to prove it." "That's it" she said. "You've done loo ranch. And you're so sorry for CHAPTER XI. A Defeat. The gown which Rodney had spoken of apologetically as a coronation robe; was put away; the maid sent to bed. Rose, huddled Into a big, quilted bath­ robe, and In spite of the comfortable warmth of the room, feeling cold clear Into the bones--cold and tremulous, and sure that when she tried to talk her teeth wodld chatter--s$| waiting for Rodney to come back from seeing the Lakes part Way home. She gave a last panicky shiver when she heard his latchkey, then pulled herself together. "Come in here, Roddy," she called as he reached the head of the stalrsj "I want to talk about something." He had hoped, evidently, to find her abed and fast asleep. His cautious footfalls on the stairs made clear hlsi intention not to waken her. "Oh, I'm' sorry," he said, pausing at the door to her dressing-room, but not coming in, "I didn't know you meant to sit up for me. If I'd known you were wait­ ing. I'd have come back sooner." "I haven't minded," she told him. "I've been glad of a chance to think. But now . . . --Oh, please come in and shut the door!" He did come in, but with manifest reluctance, and he stayed near the door in an attitude of arrested de­ parture. "It's pretty late," he pro­ tested with a nonchalance that rang a little flat. "You must be awfully tired. Hadn't we better put off our pow-wow?" • She understood well enough. The look In her face, some uncontrolled inflection in her voice she had meant to keep so even, had given her away. He suspected she was going to be "tragic." If he didn't look out, there'd be a "scene." "We can't put It off," she said.- < let you have your talk out with the Lakes, but you'll have to talk with, me now." "We spent most of the time talking about you anyway," he said pleasant­ ly. "They're both mad about you. You were a perfect miracle tonight darling, when they were here. But now, like this . . ." He came over to her with his arms out. But she cried otft "Don't!" and sprang away from him. "Please don't Roddy--not tonight! I can't stand It to have you touch me tonight!" He stared at her, gave a shrug of exasperation, and then turned away. "You are angry about something then," he said, "I thought so when I first came in. But, honestly,- I don't know what It's about." "I'm not angry," she said, as Rtead- lly as she could. She mustn't let it go on like this. They were getting started all wrong somehow. "You didn't want me to touch you the night when I came to your office, when you were working on that case. I^ut it wasn't because you were angry with me. Well, I'm like that tonight. There's something that's got to be thought out Only I'm not like you. I can't xlo It <alone. I've got to have help. I dont want to be soothed, and comforted like a child, and I don't want to be made love to. I Just want to be treated like a human being." "I see," he said. Very deliberately, he lighted a cigarette, found himself an ash tray, and settled down astride a spindling little clialr. "All right," he said', "Now, come on with your trou­ bles." He didn't say "little troubles," but his voice did and his smile. Rose steadied herself as well as she could. "We've made a horrible mis­ take," she began. "I don't suppose it's either of our faults exactly. It's been mine In a way, of course, because it , wouldn't have -happened if I hadn't been--thrughtless and Ignorant. I might have seen It If I'd thought to look. But I didn't--not really, until to­ night." He wanted to know what the mis­ take was. He was still smiling In good-humored amuiement over her seriousness. "it's pretty near everything," she said. "You've hated the way we've lived--the way this house has made us live. I haven't liked It, really. But 1 never stopped to think what it meant," "What it does mean," he said, with a good deal of attention to his ciga­ rette, "Is that things are desirable to me now, because 1 am li% love -with you, that weren't desirable before. I don't see anything terrible about that." "There isn't," she said, "when when you're in love with xne. But you aren't In love with me all the time. And when you aren't you must hate me for what I've done to you." His face flushed deep. He sprang to bis feet and threw his cigarette into the fire. "That's perfectly outrageous CRUISER HIT BY TORPEDO "I'm Not Angry,** She 8aid. me when you don't love me» that It makes you do all the more." She had found another Joint In his armor. She was absolutely clairvoy­ ant tonight, and this time he fairly cried out: "Stop It!" Do you believe that marriage should be a business partner* ship as well as one of sentiment --that If the wife is capable of doing so, she should earn a part of the living outside the home? (TO BE CONTINUED.) SUNS AND WORLDS IN MAKING Astronomers Admitted to "Workshop of the Universe" to View Won­ ders Therein. We look today on the things of a Icentury, a millennium, ago. Light trav­ eling at- the rate of 180,300 miles a second requires more than four years to come from the nearest star, perhaps thousands and tens of thousands* of years from the farthest. Henco In every case we see not what Is, but what was. Thousands of nebulae have been dis­ covered in the heavens. The spiral pattern of some few nebulae has long been confirmation of the theory that they are the real beginners of a solar system. But there has recently come In much evidence of the spiral charac­ ter of other nebulae, that the conclu­ sion seems forced upon us that practi­ cally all are In a state of rotation, and are hence supplying the centrifugal force to throw off jthe rings which roll themselves up into planets revolving about central suns* When opportunity is given to look directly down upon a nebulae there re­ sults startling evidence of its being in rotation. There is no.other way of explaining its remarkable details of structure. Some look like the propel­ ler blades of a motorboat; some are ac­ tually caught In the act of throwing off rings, which are seen condensing at certain centers, rolling themselves Into planets, henceforth to travel around their suns. The great nebulae In An­ dromeda gives striking evidence that it 'is working out another and a greater solar system than our own. In short, it seems that in studying the nebulae we are being admitted to the very workshop of the universe, and are permitted to watch the actual pro­ cess of turning out worlds. Nothing in the heavens is better fitted to fill the very soul with awe. As in the case of the "fixed stars," our lives are too brief, too feeble our eyes, to detect the actual motion.--Frederick Campbell's "Suns and Worlds In the Making." Unrelated Potatoes. Sweet potatoes have not much -In common botanically with their more familiar namesakes. They have long been cultivated as food in tropical and subtropical countries, and were actu­ ally Introduced Into England at an earlier date than the common potato The two tubers were often confound­ ed by writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, but the sweet potato won more popularity than its rival. Steeped In wine or made Into a sweetmeat, it was regarded as an excellent Uivlgvrator. Sweetish and agreeable to the taste, its flesh-form­ ing qualities are considered equal at least to those of the common potato. A Wise Teller. It is a wise paying teller who checks u fellow's cash before Its check. London Says Vessel Reached Port After Attack by Submarine--Ital­ ian Airmen Damage Foe's War- .. ships--150 Die on Transport, London, May 21,--It is officially an­ nounced that the transport Cattieronia been sunk. One hundred and forty on board are missing. The British admiralty announced on Friday that 14 mine-sweeping steam Is, known as .drifters, had been sunk In a ruid by Austrian light cruis­ ers lu the Adriatic sea and that the British light cruiser Dartmouth was torpedoed in a subsequent engagement with the Austrian warships, but reached port safely. The text of the statement reads : "The admiralty announces that from reports received from the rear admiral commanding the Adriatic squadron, supplemented by the Ital­ ian official communication. It appears •that early Tuesday morning an Aus­ trian force, consisting of light cruis­ ers, subsequently re-enforced by de­ stroyers, raided the allied drifter line and succeeded in sinking 14 British drifters, from which, according to tne Austrian communication 72 prisoners were taken. "His majesty's, ship Dartmouth, with the Italian rear admiral aboard, and H. M. S. Bristol immediately chased the enemy off, assisted by French and Italian destroyers. "The chase continued with the ene­ my under heavy and continuous fire Until near Camaro, when, some enemy battleships coming out in support of their cruisers, our vessels drew off. "Italian airmen, after a battle In the air, attacked the Austrian war­ ships outside Camaro and confidently affirm that one of the enemy's cruis­ ers was on fire and was takep In tow off Camaro In a sinking condition. "During her passage back the Dart­ mouth was struck by a torpedo from an enemy submarine, but returned into port with three men killed, one officer and four men missing and be­ lieved dejtd, and seven wounded. There were no other casualties to our ships." Vienna, May 21.--A British cruiser was sunk during an engagement with English, French and Italian vessels after an Austrian naval detachment had made a successful raid In the Strait of Otranto, on £he southern coast of Italy, accorlng to an official announcement made by the admiralty. Italian destroyers, three merchant­ men and twenty armed guard vessels, the statement adds, "became vlcltims" of the Austrian raid. KAISER BLOCKS PEACE TERMS On Hindenburg's Advice Ruler Turns Down Chancellor0* Pro­ posal. The Hague, May 19.--The kaiser and Field Marshal von Hlndenburg were responsible for the refusal of the German chancellor to announce peace terms In the relchstag this week, according to advices received here from Berlin. It was reported In these dispatches that the chancellor, Doctor von Beth- mann-HolIweg, had gone so far as to draw up a peace offer, suitable to both Germany and Austria-Hungary, but when he took it to German Great Headquarters for the affirmation of the kaiser, it was rejected at a, mili­ tary couneil. There Is a growing belief In some circles in Germany that the confer­ ences going on between the German chancellor and Count Czernln, the .for­ eign minister of Austria, may lead to a pease proposition in the reichstag when it reconvenes in July. U.i S. EXPORTS SHOW GAIN Entrance of America Into War Re­ sults in Big Increase in Value of Goods Shipped. ^Tew York,- May 21.--Entrance of the United States into the world war has resulted in a tremendous Increase In the value of exports from the port of New York, In spite of the submarine menace, according to' figures made pijblie at the customhouse. The to­ tal last month was $263,873,049, com­ pared with $186,671,441 for April, 1910. There also was a material increase In imports. The figures- were: April, 1916, $115,290,462; April, 1917, $128,- 801.160. Exports of gold decreased from $6,- 443,234 in April 1916, to $3,017,151 last month, while the imports of gold for April, 1917, were only $877,460, as compartd with 4,229,050 in April, 1916. "Billy" Sunday's Wife Improved. New York, May 22.--Mrs. W. A. Sun­ day, wife of the famous evangelist now preaching here, is pronounced to be resting easily. She was operated pn In a hospital here on Saturday for ap­ pendicitis. Earthquake in California. Richfield, Cal., May 22.--Several > chouses were wrecked, and doors and windows shattered by an earthquake which was felt here. The first shock was followed by a slighter one *a bear later. Bail Team Owner to Enlist Chicago, May 21.--Capt. J. D. Hus­ ton, one of the owners of the New York Yankees, is going to quit base- hall to Join Uncle Sam. He went to Detroit. Mich., to report for examina­ tion. - War Order Warehouse Lost Albany. N. Y., May 21.--The ware­ house of Rathhone. Sard A Co. was destroyed by Are. The company had contract for army camp stoves, bnt all of th«w*» war* la a sepafpte bujid- HORSE Taken in March to the Sea, She W«t jroo Much of a Pot for Him ta , Keep From Owner. I General Sherman was with tftefrmttl body of his troops, tvhlch marched di­ rectly through my grandfather's pla*. lation. Several days before the soldiers ar­ rived my grandfather went to SJj*§« vannah on business. His seven sons and his two sons-in-law were fighting for the Confederacy. Only my grand"' mother, one of my aunts and the nch - gro servants were at home. Fortunately, General Sherman led the troops that come to our house that day. His army was "living off | th* country," and they took' most of our chickens, cattle and hogs for food, ap­ propriated what horses and. fodder they needed and helped themselves to whatever was- growing In the field# that was fit to eat; but there were none of the cruelties and insults of which irresponsible bands of forager* were often guilty. General Shermajl' appeared the courteous gentleman wh<»;l was performing a disagreeable duty. Among the horses his men took froil my grandfather's house was Bess-** the big black mare that he had raised himself, trained for h's own saddle horse and loved and petted like a child. General Sherman took a fancy to Bess, and he himself rode her away. When grandfather returned and found what had happened, nothing' hurt him so much as the loss of Bess. Scarcely waiting to see how complete*- ly the place had been stripped, he mounted an old horse, the only one ho had left, and started after General Sherman^ troops. The federal sol­ diers laughed at him arid his mount when he came up with them, but he paid no heed; he was bent on recover­ ing his favorite horse. When he presented himself to the general, my grandfather was a good deal surprised At the kindness and consideration with which he Was re* ceived. "General Sherman," he began, "I cannot give up my horse; she Is like a child to me. My children are grown up now, and I have taken almost M much care in raising and training hfijr as I ever did with one of them. knows my call, and will come to m|» when she hears me. She is yours b|r right of war, but I will pay you fc|r her. I cannot pay you much now, but I will give you all that I can possibly spare." "No," said Sherman. "I believe what you say. When I was riding her away she whinnied and tried to turn back again and again. Come out here and let me hear you call." At that grandfather gave a loud; warbling whistle, and almost Instantly came the answer--a glad whinny. •--.* General Sherman ordered Bess sad­ dled and he put her bridle rein lnip my grandfather's hand and bade hlxRi ride her home.--Youth's Companion. . More Wholesome Living. " It is the cheerful custom of otcr times to urge what amounts to lnjh providence and Insist that the liberal spending of our money Is for the best not only for ourselves, but for every­ body. Every effort to reduce living expenses Is frowned on and considered as a mean and underhanded .attack oil some Industry which ought to be en­ couraged. If we do not wear gold rings, we are not treating the gold miners right, nor are we giving the Jewelers a fair shake in business. How can we expect the Jeweler to buy oiur pork and cabbage If we do not buy his gold rings?* We are hurried on to make more that we may spend more with others, so that they may spend more, and so on, and so on. There Is no end to this sort of thing, and there Is no health in this kind djt hectic existence. The principle of making more that we may spend tfc faster is not a worthy basis for our philosophy. A little economy wouid be a whole­ some thing for all of us and would help amazingly in the matter of thp high cost of living.--Idaho Farmer. His Grouch. "You Weed never accept any more dinner invitations from them." "Why not?" "They-only invite us when they want to use us.". ^ "I don't see what makes you taut that way. It was a lovely dinner partjr and they cerlalnly gave us a time." "Oh, the dinner was all right, but we weren't asked because they really wanted uS» You saw, that homely girt they made me take In to dinner?" "Yes." "Well, all the other, men the» had good-looking partners. They sins- ply had to, have someone to unload her onto, andTtheyr&xk&i the Job." ^ ' Possible Advantage. Wederly--Can the girl you are en­ gaged to marry swim? Singletbn--Really, I don't know. But why do you ask? Wederly--Because if she can yoiil ought to be happy. Any girl who call swim knows how to k^ep her month shut. The Minimum. Kldd--Now that your daughter has graduated from he- domestic science school I presume she gives her mother a little help? Kidder--Yes, Just aa little as possi­ ble. ' Easily Fixed, "My wife hears a good many Imagi­ nary burglars." "And what do you do?" "I aiWays run to the window tad see an imaginary policeman." go Ostracized. Getthere--Did you ever attend any of Miss Budd's "at homes?" ~ I>e Bore (sadly)--N-o; hut I've a$>" tended a good pany of her not 4t homes. Anything to Oblige. --•at"Dad--No, sir, I won't hm«-wf: daughter tied for life to a stupid fooU Her Suitor--Then don't you thii^k you'd batter let me take her pff jvm tends? f t :<sw -j »:x> -m