PAGE SIX v&pit*—- Five Minute Chats THE "PAUPER" on Our Presidents By LULU LANGDOM By JAMES MORGAN ((ft, 1911. Western Newspaper Union.) (Copyright, 1920. by James Moreen.) "A marriage has been arranged and AN UNHAPPY PRESIDENT will shortly take place between Miss Bstelle Lambert, only daughter of cigarette 1788—John Adams elected vice Rear Admiral Charles Lambert (re* •vY?*:-•*""lllf*.•'•hum.** president. tired) and Mr. John Hewlett, the wellknown (HI'* v'1"" 1792—Re-elected vice president. senior partner of Hewlett & 1796—Elected president Mason, 89' Wall street.": "".Mi 1797— Inaugurated second president, John Hewlett was forty-three. He aged 61. had: made millions, had been flattered ftlUK3tR!a££_^2u 11//* 1800^-Concluded peace with and courted then, at forty-three he France. Defeated for see* had fallen in love, for the first time ond term by Jefferson. in his life. He had met Estelle's father 1820—Member of Massachusetts at his country clnb, and the admiral constitutional convention.* captivated by the bluff slncer* 1826—July 4 died, aged 90. ity of the man, had Invited him to visit him at his home on Fifty-fifth street. There he had met Estelle, Just back PROBABLY John Adams was the from school in France, to take her unhappiest man who ever sat In dead mother's place in the household the presidential chair. One of a dozen and by sheer force of personality he unwanted presidents, who were taken had swept her off her feet with his JhjLS sn*AM-*+£aAA' /ufcx£ only because the men that were wanted impassioned pleading. could not be elected, this humble He had almost resolved to see Estelle role embittered all the remaining days privately, to speak with her, to of the proudest man in the line of our put the circumstances before her, FIRES OF PECULIAR ORIGIN YOU How Much chief magistrates. Are gravely, dispassionately, and self-forgetfully, It was hard enough for Adams to as a problem to be met, as Many Disastrous Conflagrations Have be the understudy even of George he would have propounded a business 1921? Been the Result of Incidents of Washington, while serving as vice Going matter to an .acquaintance. president. When he became president Most Trivial Character. He must release her from the engagement. it was maddening to his ego that he There have been a number of cases should be expected to play second fiddle Add More,Acresto the Credit Three-quarters of an hour later he lately of women's frocks catching fire to Alexander Hamilton, the master 'was being ushered into the drawing without any obvious cause. The mischief spirit of the old governing class, Side of the Ledger room of the Lamberts' house. has now been traced to an "art left over from colonial times and John Hewlett paced the room quietly, silk" which is really material prepared which controlled the Federalist party. thinking out the speech that he during the war for the manufacture Ttically The president made the fatal mistake HE new Du Pont Red Cross Dynamite is pracfreeze-proof. had prepared. He passed into the of cartridges. of keeping Washington's cabinet, Fires are started In all sorts of odd halL Adjacent ^to the drawing room By using it you save the vis a the bidden smaller one, entrance ways. A man had Just taken his labor and danger of thawing. Twenty per cent, dynamite by a Japanese screen. Behind this seat at dinner when his dress. Jacket is cheaper than 40% and will give practically he burst into flames. The solution was heard the murmur of voices. One ether of them was EstetlCa...... The equal results if properly loaded. You have a safer found In the fact that a potash throat was the softly modulated one of The* lozenge, loose in his pocket, had become and a cheaper explosive this year when you use odere Faning. ignited by pressure against .the side of a safety match box. a "Yes, Bstelle. he's beggar," he few years ago a rounded window A heard Faning say, with a self-satisfied in a chemist's shop at Scarborough laugh. "Every penny wiped ont in focused the rays of the sun that the Hardware slump. It's all over the BO they set fire to a celluloid box. while street Poor beggar RED CROSS 20% DYNAMITE a fly was responsible for the destruction "Why 'poor* beggar?" asked Estelle. of a large house at Westport, in See our local dealer without delay. Arrange to New Zealand. The insect flew into "Because he's losing you, Estelle," r: get your whole season's requirements of our new, a gas jet, and, escaping with its wings Faning answered, "and that makes him ablaze, blundered into a muslin curtain doubly poor. extra low-freezing 20% Red Cross Extra Dynamite. which at once burst into flames. "Take it from me, you won't see Made also in higher "strengths" where required. Birds have been responsible for him again, Estelle. He's probably more than one conflagration. At miies away by now with all the money Get a free copy of Farmer' Handbook of Explosives telling Coverack, in Cornwall, a chimney in that his dupes trusted him with." the best ways to use the new Red Cross Extra .20% low-freezing a farmhouse took fire. Out of it Next moment Hewlett was standing Dynamite. Ask our dealer or write to us. fluttered an owl with its feathers in front of Estelle and his traducer. burning. It settled on a hayrick, and *SI heard you," he bellowed, "I heard E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS 8s CO., Inc., Hartley Bldg., DULUTH, MINN. the latter was completely destroyed. you! I—I won't hurt you in Miss Rain falling on a truck of lime at Lambert's presence. But I'm going to Beccles Station caused afire which speak to her alone. Get out!" destroyed the truck and its contents, "Mr. Hewlett!" cried Estelle, springing and the string of a military kite falling to her feet, pale with anger, across overhead tramway wires Adams. "please remember that you are both John and a wooden house caused the destruction my guests." of the latter.' which really had passed under the At that moment Admiral Lambert A strange case occurred in a wood control of Hamilton, who presumed to entered the room quietly, stepped up, Down Goes the Prices on near Grange over Sands. Red ants direct the new administration, very and took his place between the men. had constructed a huge hill in the much as a Tammany boss puts a Tammany "Come, Hewlett, my dear fellow," roots of a splendid fir tree. Hot HAY AND FEED mayor through his paces. As he began. "What's the matter between weather dried the heap, which was Adams never had succeeded in ruling you and Mr. Faning?" composed' of vegetable matter. Then himself it was impossible for another "May I be allowed to speak?" inquired came warm rain and a return of heat. to rule him. Faning ironically. He stood Oioniical action resulted in spontaneous Like aristocracies everywhere, the up, cool enough, although his hands combustion, and the heap ignited, Federalists were thrown into a state were shaking. "It amounts to this: setting fire to the tree and of panic by the French revolution and That man is a pauper. His house has bringing it to the ground.—London by the rise of the Jeffersonian democracy failed. And I think," he continued, Tit-Bits. in our yet aristocratic republic. with a little bow, "that he has come In their alarm they frantically rushed here to teH you so." through congress the alien and sedition Colors Affect the Health. "Yes, you're right," cried Hewlett, acts, which became only millstones It is no longer a theory, but a proven and all his rage came back. "Yes, about their necks, sinking their fact, that certain colors produce certain I've lost all my money," he shouted. party forever. Not satisfied with desirable or extremely disastrous "And I came to tell Miss Lambert so shutting the revolution out of the New =UNTIL FURTHER N0TICE= effects, even upon the ordinarily sensitive World, many of them were for joining —not you, admiral, but Miss Lambert, mind. Psychologists, eminent ft because it's her right to know." physicians, and skilled decorators are the monarchical coalition against in the Old World. In an uproarious "And I think Mr. Hewiett is angry making a keen study of this subject, quarrel wkh the absurd French directory, and each year discloses some new that Mr. Faning should have told me and valuable truth. the militia was called out and first," put in Estelle indignantly. For a long time we have known that Washington summoned to command it, Hewlett looked round at the calm, blue and violet were employed successfully after which the president astonished collected witnesses of his helpless in treating nervous cases the jingoes by suddenly throwing them rage. and so soothing indeed is blue that, over aqd returning to a pacific policy. •'Let's come to the point," he said. ^vlien m-ed in a whole room scheme— As he had been the first minister "I have asked Mr. Faning to withdraw. walls, curtains, rugs—it acts as a partial to England, .John Adams was also the Now I can proceed. I have anesthesia upon extremely sensitive first president to take up his residence lost every penny I have, but I've paid natures, sufficient for dental purposes in Washington. As Mrs. Adams had my debts and I'm going to start life or the carrying out of minor operations. been the wife of the first American over again—and win. I've always won. envoy in London she was also the first But I've lost one thing. I came to say Red develops the action of the mistress of the White House, if for $1.50 that. I wish to release Miss Lambert VmuscJes as much as 50 per cent and only a few months. On the way from from our engagement. It wouldn't be is often employed in the medicinal OATS—80 pound sack Philadelphia she and the president fair." World where stimulating results are lost their trail in the wilderness until $1.65 Faning shifted uneasily. desired, as in the treatment of smallpox, a "straggling black" came to their, assistance. "With your permission, I will be melancholia and certain forms of BRAN—per 100 pounds going, sir," he said to the admiral, anemia. Red, therefore, is not a good $1.65 The capitol was yet unfinished, and and, bowing to Estelle, he went out o{ color to choose when decorating the out of a desolate bog, far off, the unfinished the room. He chuckled all the way SHORTS—per 100 pounds room of a "teenage", child, for, aside White House rose to view. home. from its hot and heaVy suggestion in $2.00 There was neither a fence nor a tree Inside there was a dead silence. summer, it overstimulates the already about the structure, and the president's Then the admiral spoke. restless nature of the growing GROUND CORN—per 100 pounds.. buy nearest neighbor dwelt half a "Why wouldn't it be fair?" he asked. or girl.—Good Housekeeping. $2.00 mile away. Mrs. Adams had a hard "Why?" stammered Hewlett. "Why time to get wood enough to keep her —why—" WHOLE CORN—per 100 pounds... family warm in the big, bleak mansion, Admiral Lambert came forward and ».• •.« MM I $23.00 and she smiles at us still as her V# iV clasped the other by the hand. letters tell ns of how she hung her TIMOTHY HAY-per ton "I can't speak for Estelle, John," PROFESSIONAL CARDS washing to dry in the great east room. a fc he said, "but I think you are doing After sitting at his desk until midnight us both a wrong. I hope you are. I hastily signing appointments,, to believe, John, that this misfortune has forestall his successor, Adams drove JOHN H. BROWN swept away a barrier—a barrier which out of Washington at the dawning of was once almost invisible, but has Attorney at Law the day of Jefferson's inauguration. been growing higher and stronger— He had no smiles to bestow on the Office over O. M. Carr & Co. the barrier that you yourself have opposed triumph of his rival, and few enough to your own happiness. I mean International Falls, Minnesota to light his own pathway, through his your pride, John, and your self-depreciation. remaining years. But II can't answer for Estelle. After his brave, good helpmeet had A E Perhaps she can answer." been taken from him, he lived on He passed out of the room. Lawyer eight years more, lived to see what no "John," Estelle said—and there International State Bank BUg. The Falls Lumber & Coal Co. other ex-president has seen, a son in were tears in her eyes—"John, won't the White 'House. At ninety, as he International Falls, Minnesota you ever understand? Well, then, I'll lay dying in the sunset of the fiftieth have to tell you. I loved you for Fourth of July, we are told that his yourself, my dear, not for your money, NORTHERN MINNESOTA thoughts turned to the first and most not in spite of your roughness, but j-1 HOSPITAL glorious Fourth and that his Hps mni ,: :•. v. .v.:1 because of the heart of a man beneath 4 mured "Thomas Jefferson still survives." Phone 81 International Falls, Minn. it. There I've told you and Dr. B. F. Osburn, Physician and ', V. The author of the Declaration I never dared to hope the time would Surgeon in Charge really had died a few hours before, come" Office Phone Hospital Phone 79 39 and in their flight from earth the And the tears that fell on his. face spirits Office Intl Skate Bank Building of the two old patriots of 78 washed away all bitter memories of were strangely pnlte^ again. International Falls, Minnesota the oast 0