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A BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TODAY
There was a little city, and few men
within it; and there came a great king
against it, and beseiged it, and built great
\ bulwarks against it. Now there was found
in it a poor wise man, and he by his wis
dom delivered the city; yet no man re
membered that same poor man. Then said
I, wisdom is better than strength; never
theless the poor man's wisdom is despised,
and his words are not heard. The words
of wise men are heard in quiet more than
the cry of him. that ruleth among fools.
Wisdom is better than of war.—
Ecclesiastes 9:14-18.
Georgia $ * Pauper Acres"
MEN and women who have a permanent
interest in Georgia will do well to re
flect upon the assertion that in this
and neighboring commonwealths, "the old
timber has passed largely into the hands of
non-residents,” while "the profits from its
operation are still chiefly enriching other
states, leaving behind as legacies to the local
communities millions of pauper acres.”
The words quoted are from so able an au
thority as Mr. W. W. Ashe, secretary of the
national forest reservation commission, of
Washington, D. C. Writing in the South
Atlantic Quarterly, he drives home The fact
this region, although it contains one-third of
tlffe potential forest lands of the entire coun
try and more than one-half of all privately
owned lands of that nature, is nevertheless
doing lamentably little to safegurad this
treasure against extinction. The output of
lumber in Georgia, Alabama, the Carolinas
and Virginia during the last twelvemonth
amounted to hardly one-half of what it was
during years of maximum production. Os
Georgia’s original forest area less than one
twentieth. remains, arid this remnant is fast
shrinking; its lumber output has decreased
wftTiin a decade fifty per cent. Yet, regart*
less of these warning developments, th state
does next to nothing byway either of con
servation or of replenishment. Within its
borders there are upwards of one million
acres of unproductive forest land. Why is
nothing done to redeem this waste and to
prevent millions of other acres from being
stripped to similar poverty? The answer is
wdrth pondering: "Absentee ownership, de
sire for immediate profits, operations con
ducted largely for the supply of distant mar
kets, and the failure of state and local com
munities to take cognizance of reduced pro
ductivity as an economic loss.”
The plea for Georgia’s forests is not that
they shall be left unusued and unprofitable
to their owners, but-that they shall be-mate
permanently useful and more profitable. Prac
tical students of the problem declare that the
area which now produces annually loss than
I one and a quarter billion board feet of timber,
worth on the stump about seven million dol
lars, could be made to yield. upwards of six
billion board feet, worth more than thirty
million dollars. No one now better appre
ciates the value and the need of conservation
than the far-sighted lumberman. He it is
who joins most heartily with the scientist in
commending approved methods of dealing
with timber ihipilics. in urging the reforesta
tion of waste lands, and in appealing for pro
g lection against fire.
This last is of primary importance. Not
until the Georgia legislature will vouchsafe
some effective measure for reducing the woe-
*
ful number of forest fires, will iube possihirr
to go forward oh other lines of the
problem. That this state should suffer
as many forest fires as any other i
Inion and yet have nothing done byway
o£ remedy, is a challenge to the patriotic
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THE ATLANTA TRI WEEKLY JOURNIL
-conscience and common sense of all her
thinking people. Those ‘‘millions of pauper
acres” will Increase ever more rapidly unless
men and women who look upon Georgia as
something more than a thing to be exploit
ed for speedy riches, assert their loyalty to
the commonwealth. The first essential is
the passage of an adequate forestry bill by
the Legislature—a duty which ought to have
been done years ago, but which, strangely
enough, remains undischarged. Shall not
good citizens see to it that ses
sion of the general assembly yields due re
lief?
The Irony of It
THERE is a grim touch of irony in the
House resolutions, passed by a virtu
ally unanimous vote, authorizing the
President to expend as much as one hun
dred thousand dollars “for the purpose of
employing the necessary* attorneys and
agents in Instituting and carrying on any
suits or other proceedings, either civil or
criminal, or to take any other steps deemed
necessary In relation to the cancellation, of
any leases of oil lands in former naval re
serves, in the prosecution of apy person or
persons guilty of any infraction of the laws
of the United States in connection -with said
leases, or in any other measures which he
may take to protect the interests of the
United, States and the people thereof in
connection therewith.” It is added, per
haps with unintended significance, that
"any counsel employed by the President
under authority of this resolution shall have
full power to carry on said proceedings, any
law to the notwithstanding.”
Readers unapprised of the disclosures
which prompted this action by the House
might well ask why so large an appropria
tion for retaining special counsel should be
considered needful. Why not leave the
prosecution to the regular forces of the. D
epartment of Justice? Representative Gar
ret, Democratic leader, appropriately moved
to amend the resolution by inserting the
words, "whereas, the President has expressly
intended to employ counsel other than those
of the Department of Justice.” This was
lost by a vote of one hundred and thirty
seven to one hundred and twenty-five, the
Democrats voting almost solidly for it, and
the. Republicans almost solidly against it.
Nevertheless, the idea of the amendment is
implicit in the resolution itself. For the
prosecution of what appears to the Ameri
can public as one of the darkest scandals
in their government's history, the President
evidently cannot rely on the office of his
own Attorney General, but must be author
ized to turn elsewhere for effective aid.
A grim commentary, indeed, on G. 0. P.
efficiency!
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Q. How long have gangs of French rob
bers been called "Apaches?”—W. G.
A. The Apaches of Paris were so namffd
by newspaper men about 1903. Two men
named Manda and Lecat loved the game wom
an, who. was named Casque d’Or. She be
stowed her affections upon Manda, where-,
upon a quarrel arose between the two men.
Manda was shot and killed by Lecat. The
quarrel was taken up by Manda’s friends and
followers. Soon two large bands were organ
ized, and their quarrels became so violent
that the name "Apache” was given them.
Q. Where did goldfish originate?—A. P.
A. Goldfish are but a variety of the carp,
and owe their existence to the Chinese and
.Japanese people, who, since the sixteenth cen
tury-, have kept them In a domesticated state,
and by selective breeding have eliminated the
sombre colors of the ancestral stock and pro
duced the beautiful colors we now see. Dur
ing their first year, goldfish are brown, after
which they assume a silvery tint: and, as they
grow older, they change to gold.
Q. What was the sum that Edward TH
of England paid as a ransom tor Geoffrey
Chaucer when the latter was taken prisoner
as a soldier in France? r. f,
A. The sum would amount In our curren
cy to about $1,200.
Q. Who was the first wnnian to receive
a Federal Art Commission? H. F.
A. The first award was given, .to the young
Washington sculptor. Vinnie Beam. Her
statue of Lincoln, in the rotunda of the
I nited States Capitol, was executed under
this commission.
When was "Nearer, My God, to Thee
written? N N ’
A. Sarah Adams (nee Flower) wrote
Nearer, My God, to Thee.” It was con
tributed to W. J. Fox's ‘‘Hymns and An
thems” in 1841. We find in the book called
-Hymns .and Hymnology that the hymn has
hfeen~e4ited numerous times to meet the re
quirements’of different persons. The changes
ai\d adaptations occurred in the 18 60's as a
rule. .
Q. How long has wood pulp been used to
make paper? What was used before that?
T J. M. T.
A. It was in the late ’6os that wood pulp
eame into prominence as a material for pa
per making. Its use increased rapidy. Pre
vious to this, linen, and to a leaser ex
tent. cotton rags, were the principal raw ma
terials used in making paper.
Q. How may geraniums be kept through
the winter? N B T ~
A. The Department of Agriculture says
the method of hanging geraniums up by the
roota in the cellar is a reasonably success
ful way of keeping them through the win
ter, bYit it is not considered- the best pro
cedure. It is better to dig the plants up,
put them into pots, cut off most of the tops
of the plants, and keep in a light window
in a cool room. Another satisfactory way
is to put the plants in earth, water them,
and let them alone.
Q- Why is horse latitude so called?
. „ , F. K.
, . B H ? rse latitude is the name given to the
bit of belt of calms in the North Atlantic
oqean between (he region of westerly winds
the higher latitudes and the region of
trade winds of the torrid zone. The origin
of the name is not certainly known. Some
authorities believe that it was derived from
the fact that vessels with cargoes of hordes
were often so delayed because of the—calms
that the animals perished from lack, of wa
ter.
THE LOVE TRAP
HAZEL DEYO BACHELOR
What has gone before-—After a. two
year s’ engagement, Gail Martin is jilted
by her fiance, George Hartley. When,
shortly afterward, Gail’s Aunt Debbie dies
and leaves the girl $5,000, Gail recklessly
llecides to spend her money in having a
good time. She goes to New York ahd
there meets a reckless crowd of young
people. She is shocked at. the things
they do, but, nevertheless, tries to be a
good sport.—Now go on with the story.
CHAPTER XXXVI
I 'Hie Moi-nnlg After
GAIL woke up the next morning and lay
for a. time without moving. She. felt
as if a heavy weight were pressing on
her chest, and the light streaming through
the curtains hurt her eyes.
After a "time, she turned her head toward
the wall,. but . that was worse. The zigzag,
pattern of the paper gave her an unpleasant
sensation of dizziness and the memory-’of last
night was 'depressing in retrospect.
Arch Kennerley’ had brought her home in
his car at a frightfully late hour. The streets
had been deserted and just before they had
turned off Madison avenue into Thirty-first
street, Arch, with one nand on thg steering
wheel, had tried to kiss her.
She had evpded him with as much good
humor as it was possible to shqw under such
circumstances, but his proprietary touch had
sickened her and she hated herself for having
given him reason to believe that he could
take such a liberty.
“All right,” he had said laughingly, his
tone slightly thick. “Plenty of time. 4 don't
like a girl to be too easy.”
Gail shuddered Vit the memory of his words.
She hated him; she hated the whole crowd.
M hat had possessed her to behave as She had,
and what did she expect to get out of it?
She remembered the last glimpse she had
had of Gracia. The Egyptian headdress with
its dangling ornaments had" slipped down
over Gracia’s eyes, giving her a rakish ex
pression. Gracia had had too much to drink,
t wasn t that she hadn’t possession of her
faculties, but, she was quarrelsome and took
no trouble to hide this fact from any one.
"Some little initiation party, wasn’t It, Miss
Martin?” she said with a sneer as the crowd
emerged from the Arcady. "Be careful of
Arch, inasmuch as he’s taking you home. He’s
a Peck’s bad boy when he gets started.” With
a wave of her hand she disappeared into the
waiting liriiousine, followed by Kay Sanford
and two of the men.
It was hard for Gail to realize that these
girls Were from good families. In the Arcady 1
they had behaved atrociously, for after the
champagne they had not only talked and
laughed too loud, but some of the things they
had said were inexcusable.
Just before closing time one of the girls
bad carried Gail off to the dressing room and
there had enlightened her on many points.
Gracia is furious because vou’ve made an
impression on Arch Kenneriev,” were her
first words, "but I’m glad. Gracia is a little
cat.
Gail had said nothing. She liked this girl
the best of the lot; somehow she was kinder
than the others and, although she was flip
pant, her manner was less boisterous than
Gracia s and Kay Sanford's. She sat now be
fore the small enameled dressing table mak
ing up with great deliberation, and Gail
leaned against the wall watching her. As she
carefully outlined her lips with a carmine
pencil she looked up at Gail with a grin.
“Shocked at us, aren’t you? Oh, you needn’t
pretend. You were a good sport, all right,
but I saw your face during Millicent White's
dance.
“Do you really like that kind of thing?”
Gail had asked impulsively. “I mean,” her
face flushing sensitively, “do you think it’s
fun, or do you just pretend to like it?”
“Anything that isn’t a bore is fun,” the
girl had returned nonchalantly. ‘‘We’re
practically shock proaf; we’ve seen every
thing there is Xo see. 'Nowadays it’s the
jazziest dance place that catches the crowd,
just as it’s the girl with the most pep that
catches the men. You have a new slant on
things; that’s why you appeal to Arch. He
goes the rounds in search of something dif
ferent, and just now you’re it.”
The girl did not mean to be unkind; she
was simply speaking the truth as she saw
it. hut the memory of her words filled Gail
with self-loathing and sent a little shiver
of distaste through her body.
CHAPTER XXXVn
Which Road?
IN spite of her good resolutions, Gail was
swept along the line of least resistance.
Arch Kennerly's flowers, arriving the
morning after Gracia Van Alstyne’s dinner
party, found the girl depressed, and with
her spirits at low ebb. The spendthrift
loveliness of the American Beauties cut into
her consciousness with a realization of their
money yaiue. and brought back to her the
realization that her own funds would not
last forever.
Arch Kennerley was rich. If she played
hei cards carefully, wouldn’t it be possible
for her tn marry him? Certainly she could
not expect to do any better, and, after all,
why not? Os course, she didn’t love him,
but how could she be sure that such a thing
as romantic love existed? Enough had hap
pened in her life to do awav with her illu
sions. George Hartley had failed her; she
had no reason to believe that men were
capable of any real, lasting devotion, and,
after all, money brought its modicum of
o ap . p . ,n s ss - At lea «L she would be able to
avoid the sordid things of life.
Looking ahead. Gail could see her future
as Arch Kennerley s wife —that is, if she
were fortunate enough to land him. She
would have to play her cards carefullv, but,
after the campaign was over, the compen
sation would be worth the necessary trouble
She would be rich—rich, she would never
have to think again of money. Clothes
would be hers, all kinds of lovelv fripperies
and she could travel. She shut her eves
with.the bliss of such a thought.
In novels and moving pictures wealthv
women didn't have to gee much of their
AnH ba ,i ’ ( ? loney made a H things possible.
And then the joy of returning to Dalesburg
m triumph, perhaps driving there in her
own car. o yes. it was worth it; it was
K’S " She h ’ d -er
a GaH Came t 0 herself with
She would be married to Arch. She
would be his wife; she would have to "sliare
lite with him in the most intimate of rela
tionships. With a leap of her heart she,
remembered the touch of his hot hands on
her arm. and the thought of being in his
arms, feeling his kisses on her lips, swept
over her. She couldn’t bear that she
couldn’t! And yet it would be that wav
only at first, and afterward she would have
money, social position, everything worth
while, save love. .
There she was again, being romantie.
How* foolish She was to cling to that old.
childish belief. It was time she put aside
such nonsense and faced life bravely. And
yet—the memory of a pair of amused blue
eyes looking into hers across a crowded
dinner table made, her heart beat suddenly
fast, and she tMf(ed off into another kind
-of dream. ' **
If life were as c she had once thought it
was, if journey's ended in. lovers meeting,
she could imagine this man. whom she had
seen only once, as her lover. She had no
TOO MANY OF ALL SORTS OF SUNDAYS
THE representatives of the numerous
nohdfenominational, and interdenomi
national “Societies,” “Boards,” “Asso
ciations” and “Councils” are fond of criti
cising the churches. Some of them even
assume to supervise the churches.
‘ J
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xivii: 1-9).
It is difficult to say whether their criti
cisms of the • churches, or their cries for
help from the” churches, are the more an
noying. But both are becoming quite
wearisome.
Both the churches and the "preachers are
growing very tired of the appeals of these
outside and self-constituted, bodies, which
like the two daughters of. the horse-leach
are ever crying, “Give, give!” (Proverbs
xxx: 15.) Their clamorous calls, if heeded,
would exclude preaching from the pulpits of
the country on almost every Sunday in the
vear and suppress the spiritual functions of
the church to the point of its perishing
from disuse.
But there is hope in the fact that both
preachers and churches are awakening to
this evil impression upon them.. The grow
ing disposition to resist such things is
voiced in a. recent communication of a
preacher which was published in -“The Re
formed Church Messenger of Philadelphia.”
“Within the last two months requests
hav§ coriie to me to observe Hospital Sun
day, World Court Sunday, Red Cross Sun
day, Education Sunday, Father and Son
‘Sunday, Tuberculosis Sunday, Golden Rule
Sunday, Home Mission Sunday, Church Pa
per Sunday, Bible Sunday. In that same
period of time appeals for funds have come
to us for Home Missions, Japanese Earth
quake Relief, local Old Folks’ Home, local
Hospitals, local Children’s Home, Bible So
ciety, German C. E. Societies, Ministerial
Relief, Near East Relief, etc. Meanwhile,
our Home and Foreign Mission apportion
ments have doubled, and the growth of our
own, work has been handicapped for seven
years for lack of an adequate church build
ing, which we could not yet afford to build,
as our people are of the working class.
“Now I realize full well that these are
all worthy causes. Interest must he aroused
and funds must .be raised; but where shall
we draw the line? What shall we ministers
emphasize, and what shall we neglect?
When shall we find opportunity to preach
that series of sermons on prayer, and to
discuss some of the other spiritual problems
that perplex our people? How shall we re
spond to these appeals for funds? It is
helpful to think of the miracle of the loaves
and fishes —but even the most generous
people will grow indifferent if you try it
week after week. Shall we appeal to Con
gress or to General Synod for a few extra
Sundays each month? If you could not
respond to all these requests and appeals,
which ought to come first? O most worthy
Oracle of Philadelphia, tell us what to do!”
The editor of the Messenger replies to
his correspondent counseling generous pa
tience with all these appeals, but his mild
answer hardly meets the request of the
preacher who seeks his advice.
It is quite true that we are living in a
time in which good causes have multiplied.
To the appeals of some great bodies, such
for example as the Red Cross Society, the
churches must, and will, always respond.
But of others there are not a few which
have outlived the necessity out of which
they arose, and they should cease to Bxist
a day longer. Many sprang up during the
late war, which no longer have any reason
for continued existence Outside the desire
of their secretaries and other employes to
retain j'obs with lucrative salaries’ attached.
They are mendicant in their nature, and
parasitic in their effect.
MY FAVORITE STORIES
By Irvin S, Cobb
Tollchlttg On Our Daily Menu
If my memory serves me right, I al
ready have told here the yarn of the patron
in the cheap restaurant who ordereci eggs
for breakfast’.
“Boss,” said the colored waiter, “mebbe
you better tek somethin’ else. I would not
care to reckhrmend de sags dis mornin’.”
“Why not?” asked the white man.
“Aren’t the eggs fresh?”
“I don’t know es they is or es they ain’t, ’
’cause to tell you de truth we ain’t got ]
none.”
I am repeating this story because it
seems to me it should be included with the
two others of a somewhat similar tenor
which I heard the other day.
Glancing over the fly-specked menu in a ,
short-order establishment in search of des
sert a gentleman who had just finished
with the more solid parts of the meal, or
dered stewed peaches.
In a minute or two the waiter came
hurrying hack from the kitchen.
“I'm sorry, sir.” he said, “but you’d bet- '
ter order something els’e. The stewed
peaches are pears today and they've turned
sour on us.”
Here is number three of the series:
A County Kerry man, newly landed in
the country, was taking his first walk up
Sixth avenue under the escort of his
brother who had been liviftg here several
years. In the window of a delicatessen
store he saw a great mound of fresh cran
berries.
“What are them?” he asked.
“Thim is cranberries.” said his biuCner.
“Are they fit to eat?”
“Are they fit to eat?” repeated hi>
brother. “Why, whin thim cranberries is
stewed they make better applesauce than
prunes does.”
(Copyrighted, 1924.)
idea why she felt this way about him, but
there had been something about the direct
ness of his look, something deep in the in
tent blue of his eyes, that had stirred her.
roused her curiosity and. more than that,
quickened her emotion. To be loved by a
man like that, to think of nothing else but
the supreme joy of going away with him, of
beinx alone, utterly alone, for days and
days, forever! / That would be living! His
arms would sweep around her closely, and
yet she would meet his look with her own
eyes sure and unafraid.
Gail came to her senses suddenly
conscious that her heart was beating fast
and that her cheeks were flaming.
“I'-wouH make myself unhappy by dream
ing . slicfi 'litter foolishness!” she said, half—
aloud, and yet the sweetness of the dream
lingered, tfiumpjijng over the reality of
Arch Kennerley and his money.
Saturday—" The New Recruit” and “Out
of the Past/’ Renew your subscription if
your time is nearly out so as not td miss
a chapter.
OLD-TIME RELIGION
RY BISHOP W. A. CANDLER'
But notwithstanding
their habitual depreci
ation of the churches
they run to the
churches for recogni
tion and funds. They
know that the most,
unfailing streams of
benevolence issue
from under the altars
of God’s house, even
•as in the • vision of
Ezkel the stream went
forth of which it was
said, “everything shall
live whither the river
cometh” (Ezekibl
FEBRUARY 14, IM4.
Moreover, the sotting apart, of particular
Sundays for special appeals is quite objec
tionable. It interferes with the freedom of
the pulpit and tends to enfedbie the dis
tinctly spiritual forces which support the
life of the churches.
Most of Salrbaths in the year shoWd-be
devoted by the preachers to calling sinners
to repentance and to delivering sermons di
rected to the edifying of the body of Christ.
Furthermore, the churches are doing in
their own better way most of the really
proper things for which these outside bodies
make appeals.
A large majority of the hospitals in the
United States are owned and supported by
the churches. Why should any self-consti
tuted body, responsible to neither church
nor state,, seek to supervise these blessed
institutions and meddle with their affairs?
In like manner the churches own and
maintain a majority of the colleges arid
universities of the country. What associft’-
tion of outsiders is competent to direct the
proper management arid support of these
great enlightening enterprises. If half the.
educational associations of America, wjfh
their impertinent . and impracticable regula
tions, were killed, the cause. of education
would be promoted. By their meddlesome
supervision of teachers and conceited fixing
of what they call "standards” they suppress
the wholesome individuality ’Which should
characterize the work of instruction and
impair the freedom which is indispensable
to the highest type of education. Our
schools are supervised too much for their
good.
The attempt of self-constituted bodies to
supervise the domestic relations, such as
husband and wife, father and son, and set
apart special days on which preachers and
churches are called upon to carry out their
petty programs, should be met with nothing
short of sharp rebuke.
The happiness of 'the homes of America
is best promoted by the preaching of the
Gospel “in demonstration -of the Spirit arid
of power.” Religion is the foundation of
the home, and in the hoihes where holy
flames of devotion burn daily on family
altars there is found the most perfect rela
ting of husbands and wives, and parents
and children. No special Sundays nor
stilted programs can be safely substituted
for the preaching of the redeeming, grace
of God constantly to all the people.
These program-makers are generally dis
eased with the ailment which Henry Van
Dyke has called “publicomania,” which
being interpreted means that they are af
flicted with an inordinate desire to show
themselves to the public. They are fond
of being called “experts,” although they
are expert in nothing but ordering other
people to execute their visionary schemes
and ambitious plans.
The churches need a deeper and richer
spiritual life for carrying on the work com
mitted to them by our Lord. Certainly
they cannot have this more fruitful life, if
their pastors displace preaching the gospel
in order to make room for advocating every
j sort of special interest on particular days.
A wise, and successful pastor has re
cently written me a letter in which he says,
I “The spirituality of the church is not equal
to the demands v(hich are being made upon
j it, financially and otherwise.” He is right,
and his words are especially pertinent to the
subject under discussion.
The churches are overloaded and under
nourished, which does not mean that they
i give too much; but that the multitude of
things asked of them outrun very far the
; forces of life within them.
And this hurtful state of things has come
j to pass largely on account of the fact that
they have been made pack-horses to qarry
burdens laid upon them by all sortsof
' “Societies,” “Leagues,” etc., which have
asked the pastors of the churches to use
less time and efforts in giving their people
the bread of life and to spend more energy
| in making them draw the vehicles of semi
secular bodies loaded with worldly wares.
■ The value of the church’s labors cannot be
made to exceed very long the vigor of its
life.
Preachers and people have had forced on
them too many of all sorts of Sundays and
all manner of appeals for special interests.
It is time the churches had rest from all
i these things to the end that they may be
i edified, “and walking in the fear of the
Lord and the comfort of the Holy Ghost
(may be multiplied.” (Acts ix:3l).
I’ PEOPLE AND CHARACTERS
By Dr. Frank Crane
THERE are certain well-known characters
upon the stage. There are the young
lovers, the hero, the villain, the inge
nue, the banker, the sot, and so on. When
one of them, appears you .know perfectly
well how he is going to perform.
There are certain types' in novels. After
the first few lines of introduction you could
write the rest of the ta(e yourself.
And the curious port of it is that if you
find that any particular character on the
i stage nr in the story does not act precisely
as he is supposed to act, the criticg belabor
the author, and you say the book is not true
to life.
But, tell me, did you ever in real life see
any characters Are you a character yout
. self? Answer: No; you and the rest of the
cumberers of this earth are persons.
The difference is that a Character does the
expected; a Person is quite as apt to do the
unexpected. Outside of fiction and the mad
house, nobody does as they naturally should.
That is one of the of existence; it is
I the interesting element in being aliv£.~ To
know that you need not take soup if you
don’t want it, and you even do not have to
i take it if you do want it. To go by the right
side of Pine street as you walk down to your
. work in the morning instead at by the left
I side, and that not for nny reargon but for no
reason; to do this, that, ahd th?? other tiling'
, principally because others expect you and
you expect yourself to act quite on the con
trary; that is living. . .
It is not freedom to do as we please, that
is liberty; real liberty consists in doing what
we don’t pleeser
A Person is as unchartable as the wind.
Psychology is as full of the accidental as
meterology.
In books, systems, morals, and the drama
virtue is rewarded and vice punished. Among
Persons vice is often rewarded and virtue
' plays smash. See Ibsen and Bernard Shaw.
There was once an author (this Is a par
able, it is true, not fact) who set down to
write a play that should portray a real Hu
man Being. He first wrote it in novel form.
No magazine would buy it; no publisher
would accept it. All thp manuscript readers
said it was improbable, untrue, vague, and
didn’t fit in anywhere. So the writer had it.
printed at his own expense. Then he found
himself in the condition of Thoreau, who said
he had a library of 1.000 volumes, 800 of
which he wrote himself.
Then he made a play of it. No manager
would undertake it. Having some money
(remember, this story is not fact), the author
staged the play himself, hired a troupe of
actors, and sent free tickets to people enough
to fill the house. Only one of the who
came bought a 50-cent seat.
The play never finished. Half way through
the people on the stage being so natural; for
| got they were Characters and began to min
. gle with the audience.
The man who had paid £or his ticket
| ' HER MONEY
BY CAROLYN BEECHER
CHAPTER LVII
MISS BUNDY arrived so quickly that
Althea suspected she had telephoned
very near by.
“What is it, Miss Bundy? What can I do
for you?” she asked, all her dislike of the
woman who had been almost a confidant re
turning with her appearance.
"I haven’t any position, Miss Graham, since '
the doctor discharged' me for taking just a
bit of whisky when I was sick. My money’s
all gone. I thought ou might help me,” the
wheedling vonce went on, “get the doctor to
take mq -b.ack/’
"That i-s impossible. Dr. Graham is vpry
particular-about his office nurse. You ifiheclif
have been more careful.”
"You talk different to me now than -you
used to—and there’s reason why you should
be good to me. I know a lot of things that
go., on. My friend, my man friend, is engi
neer at the hospital and tells me What goes
on even if I ain’t here myself. That Howard
girl was helping the doctor there yesterday.
I’ll bet you’ didn’t know that or about their
taking a long walk together. ( They pull ths
wool "over Vour eyes mighty easy.”
"I can’t do anything for you, Miss Bunday,*
Althea said, but her blazing eyes had not
escaped the nurse. She had aroused Althea’s
jealousy—just as she intended.
“You are sure he won’t take me back,
honey, if you ask him to?”
"Positive, Miss Bundy.” • j 1
"Then you’ll help me, won’t you?” ’
"Help you—how?” J
"I need a little money to tide me over until
I find a job. I guess you’ll find you ain’t
throwing either. Then that is good to
me — I finds ways of paying.”
Althea thought she referred to repaying tho
loan. An other meaning did not occur to her.
"I haven’t much at hand,” she said, hes
itating. It seemed rather strange that Miss
“I haven’t muc hat hand,” she said, hes
itating, It seemed rather strange that Miss
Bundy should borrow from her. Why not
from some of her nursing friends?
"But a little will help until I find work,”
the woman insisted.
Althea, rose and left the room. She re
turned in a moment with her purse and tak
ing out a ten dollar bill gave it to the nurse,
"This is all I have in the house except a
little change,” she said.
Miss Bundy almost grabbed it.
"It will get hie something to eat and help
pay my room rent,” she whined as she" tucked
the bill into her bag.
“I’ll speak to the doctor, Miss Bundy, but
I am sure it will do no good,” Althea said,
anxious to be rid of her, yet hardly able to
control her desire to ask questions about
what she had fold. her—Peter and Misa
Howard taking a long walk together,
“Try and make him take me back, honey.-
He ought to for his own "sake,” she mum
bled as she went out.
Althea breathed a sigh of relief as she
heard the street door close.
“How could I ever think I liked that
woman?” she asked 4 herself. t “Yet —I
wonder if what she told me is true; if that
Howard girl even when she is employed at
Mrs. Williams’ to the hospital to meet
Peter —if they went walking?”
Althea's first impulse when she heard
Peter come in was to tell him .of Miss
Bundy’s visit, her plea of poverty and that
she had loaned her ten dollars. But
something held her back. She 'would find
out in some way if what the nurse had told
her was true. Then, too, knowing how
Peter felt toward Miss Bundy, she hated to
acknowledge she had received her. He
would never understand.
At breakfast she made several futile at
tempts to get Peter to talk of his work, but
he was very quiet, and she couldn’t avoid
feeling that his mind was upon what she,
had done-the day before in keeping the
message from him. Finally she said:
“I don’t suppose Miss Howard does any
thing else but take care of her sister, does
she?”
Peter looked surprised at the question,
but replied:
“Not until lately. Now that the little girt
r is better she helps me occasionally at the
hospital. They are very short of nurses.”
So far Miss Bundy had told the truth.
Mabel Howard had been at the hospital
helping Peter. Althea dared ask no more
questions, but what she had learned effectu
ally prevented her telling Peter of the
nurse’s visit the night before. She would
wait—perhaps be able to prove the story of
the walk also true. J
True to her plan of the previous day, she
went down to the office and seated herself
at. the desk. Peter looked his surprise, but
said nothing until just as he was leaving,
then:
“I have made arrangements to relieve yott j
of this. Miss Howard comes back
row.”
Continued Saturday. If your time tn
about out, renew now bo as not txt miss a
chapter.
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS
About all there is to "superior” people 1$
that they have more skill at the art of
sneering.—Hartford Times.
Many a man who has worked from the bnt»
tom has a son who is working from the top,
—lllinois State Journal.
In the old days a turned-down glass meant
that' ytfu were ft teetotaler. Now it means
that you are suspicious.—Jersey City Jersey
Journal.
- . >Bame fellows will never he able to play a
harp'-in the hereafter, as they know nothing
but chin music.—Des Moines Tribune.
,We have with us yet a few good hardy
•Americans who ride with the limousine
windows open.—Akron Beacon Journal.
Some men, when they get old, are subject
to rheumatism; others to reminiscences.—
Boston Transcript.
Who recalls when we had t’ break »
couple o’ eggs in a pair o’ wet boots before
we could git ’em on? “If she comes in t’-
night I 11 try t’ catch her in th’ mornin' ait
tell her,” said Mrs. Tipton Bud, when some
buddy left a message for her daughter.
Next t’ a Shakespearin revival, nothin’ hes
a harder time gittin’ an audience as 3n un
dersized man. A bright, pretty dav ’ll keep
th’ doctor away.
(Copyright, 1924.)
demanded his money back.
Thg critics, in the next day’s., papers, flnff
’ing nothing to say, dismissed the affair In a
few words and discussed the drama in gen
eral sos S holujnn or go, with many autobio
graphical £onfe&SLQJi&.
The writer went home, took down one of
his volumes, and found the pages blank. He
examined others. All the pages were blank.
The people he had written about, being real.,
had refused to remain in the books and had
deliberately walked off.
(Copyright, 1924.)