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A BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TODAY
Consider the lilies of the field, how they
grow; they toil not, neither do they spin, i
And yet I say unto you, that even Solo-!
mon in all his glory was not arrayed like :
one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe
the grass of the field, which today is and I
tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall He I
not much more clothe you, 0 ye of little !
faith? —Matthew 6:28-30.
The Electoral College
IF for no other reason than that it serves
to revive interest in an important funda
mental of our national government, even
though it may fail to arouse the conscience I
of all the people about great economic ques
tions, it is fortunate that we have a presi
dential election every four years. The ig
norance and misinformation that obtains all
over the country about this most important
popular prerogative of choosing a president
are astonishing. Relatively few people ap
parently know anything about the electoral
college and its functions, and still fewer
have any information as to how the electors
are chosen, as instance the widespread sur
prise that has been registered because La
Follette’s name has been excluded from the
ballot in certain states.
Although presidential elections are nation
al in their scope and effect, the federal gov
ernment has no voice whatever in th? man
ner by which presidential electors are
named. That function is controlled exclusive
ly by the states, and it is within the prov
ince of any state legislature legally to
./choose presidential electors without refer
ence to the popular will. Popular choice,
however, has the sanction of custom, and
that usually is stronger than law. No legis
lature would dare interfere with the long
established custom. ->
“For more than a quarter century,” says
the. Pensacola Journal, commenting on the
electoral college, “popular vote for electors
was not practiced generally, and although
early in the nineteenth century, Kentucky,
Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire,
Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee
and Virginia chose their electors as we do
now, the other states followed literally the
wording of the Constitution and appointed
theirs.
■“ln 1828 South Carolina still chose elec
tors_by legislative ballot. In 187 6, the year
which sent duplicate and conflicting records
of electoral voting from four states, the
choice of electors in Colorado was made by
ballot of the legislature. Thus in the selec
tion, of electors there is no constitutional
provision for the popular method we have
adopted. It has the sanction of custom,
however, to give it strength.”
The custom under which in every state
presidential electors are now chosen by pop
ular vote has. of course, been legalized by
the legislatures of the several states, but
there is nothing to prevent the legislatures
from repealing these laws at will and re
storing the old method of appointing the
electors themselves. But that will never be
cone.
It is frequently asked whether a presiden
tial elector is bound to respect irrevocably
the expression of the people from whom he
receives his commission at the polls. The
answer is no. An elector may vote as he
pleases in the electoral college. He may
have been chosen as a Republican, a Demo
crat or an independent elector, but in the ,
college he can cast his ballot for whomsoever
he pleases, and his vote cannot be challenged.
It stands.
Concerning the rights of electors to use
their own discretion, the Pensacola Journal
comments further: a
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THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL
candidates for president and neither of
them receives a majority of the elec
toral college vote. Assuming that the
electoral college will be tied up, it is
not improbable that some electors will
be fotind unworthy and vote contrary
to what his people want. Going into
history of the electoral college's activi
ties we find that in 1812 Eldridge
Gerry, governor of Massachusetts, re
ceived more electoral votes for vice •
president than Madison received for
president. In 1820, Monroe v. is elected
president by 231 votes, while Daniel
Tompkins was made vice president by
218'votes. A quaint variation in the
orthodox political fealty of electors, as
we have developed and safeguarded it,
occurred in that year, a New Hampshire
elector, selected at the polls, kicking
over the traces and voting for John
Quincy Adams, on the ground that it
was due the memory of Washington
that no subsequent president should re
ceive a unanimous vote. In 1828 Jack
son got 178 votes in the electoral col
lege, Calhoun was re-elected vice presi
dent by 171 votes. In 1832, when for
the first time all presidential candidates
were nominated by national conventions,
Jackson got 219 votes for president
out of the total of 294, while for vice
president Van Buren receive! 18 9
votes, a majority, but thirty less than
the vote for president.
I
“These statistical variations are sig
nificant as revealing the possibilities oi
defections. In 1836, when Van Buren
was elected president by 170 electoral
votes, the electoral college failed to
elect a vice president at all, and the
United States senate (as provided for in
the Constitution) made the choice, elect
ing Richard M. Johnson to that office.
It will help to clarify the seeming con
fusion, and give a glimpse of what is
now conceivable following the coming
election in November, 1924, to note
that all the foregoing citations are not
irregularities, but were and are clearly
within the privilege of electors, under
the Constitution. In regard to them it
, has not been changed in 120 years.”
The electoral college will meet in this
coming January, following the November
election, and it could, if a majority so de
sired, utterly disregard the verdict of the
people as expressed at the polls and elect
a president and vice president of its own
choosing. Os course nothing of the kind is
likely to happen, but happen it could under
constitutional plan by which our presi
dents and vice presidents are chosen.
QUIZ
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Q. Will rabbits grow faster in light-colored
cages than in dark ones? P. J.
A. Popular Science says that in light-col
ored cages animals grow rapidly, while dark
paint retards their growth.
Q. What is the size of the bulb used in
the torch of the Statue of Liberty? W. N.
A. The chief electrician of the Statue of
Liberty says the torch in the Statue of Lib
erty contains 15 lamps Jls volts, 1,000
watts each, or 1 5,000 watts, and burns
from dark to daylight.
Q. Did the Progressives carry Wisconsin
for Roosevelt in 1922? F. N. S.
A. Wilson carried Wisconsin, receiving
164,228 votes. Taft was second with 130,-
G 95, and Roosevelt third with 62,460.
Q. What is the Pullman “surcharge?” F.
E. B.
A. The Pullman surcharge is an extra
charge made by the railroads for passengers
traveling in sleeping cars, chair cars and ob
servation cars. It is an addition to the reg
ular railroad fare and to the regular. Pull
man fare.’
Q. How many gasoline filling stations are
there in the United States? D. B. K.
A. According to 1923 figures there was a
total of 67,802 repair shops and service
stations in the United States.
Q. When were corsets first worn in
France? E. M. P.
A. Corsets were introduced into France
about the time of the Revolution, when the
French ladies adopted the Greek dress. Pre
viously they had been worn by Germans, by
whom they were invented. Bandages re
sembling corsets were used in Rome during
the early ages, but only as a support, until
a slender waist was considered a mark of
beauty, when they were made to compress
the form.
Q. Is the McMillan expedition to the North
Pole for purpose of discovery or scientific
observations? B. C.
A. It was undertaken for the scientific
purpose of making geographical observations.
Q. How manty people live at Gibraltar?
O. O.
a. The area of this British colony is but
1 7 s square miles. The fixed civil population
in 1921 was 17.160 with 1,400 aliens in
addition. The militarv population is about
3,500.
Q. Will the ZR-3 bring mail from abroad?
H. D. "N
A. The postoffice department says that so
far as it knows the dirigible coming from
Germany will not carry mail.
Q. What hymns were sung at the funeral
for President Coolidge's son? L. T. B.
A. The hymns that were sung at the vari
ous funeral services of the late Calvin Cool
idge. Jr., were: “My Faith Looks I’p to
Thee.” “Savior. I.ike a Shepherd Lead Us.”
“He Leadeth Me.” “O Love That Will Not
Let Me Go.” “Still, Still With Thee.”
Q. How many college fraternities are there
now? M. D.
A. There are sixty-two collegiate, fifty-two
professional and thirty honorary men's fra
ternities. Women's fraternities number thir
' ty-one collegiate, twenty professional, and
eight honorary.
Q. Are electric fans used in Egypt? E.
F. U.
A. The Department of Commerce says
that electric fans find m’ar.y users in Egypt
owing to the five or six months of warm,
humid weather. As the nights are cool,
there is not the demand for them in homes
that there is in the United States, bin in
business offices ’hey are considered indis
pensable.
THE SEA HAWK
BY RAFAEL SABATINI
i I‘ulCi--lied by Arr,•ingement. With First National
lii" Co i >.v rip lit cd by Houghton-Mifflin Company.)
What has gone before.—Sir Oliver
Tressilian, renowned for his exploits
on the Spanish Main, is betrothed to
Ros.amund Godolphin, but the mar
riage is opposed by Rosamund’s broth
er, Peter, who takes every opportunity
to manifest his antagonism. A stinging
insult finally provokes Oliver, in the
hearing of witnesses, to threaten to kill
him, hut the thought of Rosamund de
ters him. That night, however, Oliver’s
young half-brother, Lionel, accomplishes
what Oliver would have liked to do,
and is himself wounded in the en
counter. Peter, Lionel relates, in a fit
of jealous anger over a. woman, had
affronted him and drawn his sword;
he had killed merely in self-defense.
Terror-stricken, he extracts a promise
from his brother to keep the affiar a
secret. Suspicion fastens upon Oliver,
who unavailingly protests his inno
cense to Rosamund and her guardian,
Sir John Killigrexv. They tell him a
trail of blood, undoubtedly that of the
murderer, Jias been found to lead from
the dead body to his doorway.—Nov r j
go on with the story.
CH.Ii’TEII V (continued)
He returned home with hell in his heart.
He knew not what the future might hold in
store for him; but such was his resentment
against Rosamund that there was no room
in his bosom for despair. They should not
hang him. He would fight them tooth and
claw, and yet Lionel should not suffer. He
I would take care of that. And then the
'thought of Lionel changed his mood a little.
How easily could he have shattered their
accusation, how easily have brought her to
her proud knees imploring pardon of him!
By a. word he could have done it, yet ho
feared lest that word must jeopardize his
brother.
In the calm, still watches of that night as
he lay sleepless upon his bed and saw things
without heat, there crept a change into his
mental attitude. He reviewed all the evi
dence that had led her to her conclusions,
and he was forced to confess that she was
in some measure justified of them.
It was a heavy cross to bear. Yet foif
Lionel’s sake he must bear it with what
fortitude he could. Lionel must not be sac
rificed to his egoism for a deed that in
Lionel he could not account other than
justified. He were base indeed did lie so
much as contemplate such a wav of escape
as that.
But if he did not contemplate it, Lionel did.
and went in terror during those days, a ter
ror that kept him from sleep and so fostered
the fever in him that on the second day after
that grim affair he had the look of a' ghost,
hollow-eyed and gaunt. Sir Oliver remonstrat
ed with him, and in such terms as to put heart
into him anew. Moreover, there was other
news that day to allay his terrors; the justices
at Truro had been informed of the event and
the accusation that was made; but they had
refused point-blank to take action in the mat
ter. The reason of it was that one of them
was that same Master Anthony Baine who had
witnessed the affront offered Sir Oliver. He
declared that whatever had happened to Mas
tei Godolphin as a consequence was no more '
than he deserved, no more than he had brought
upon himself, and he gave it as his decision
that his conscience as a man of honor would
not permit him to issue any warrant to the
constable.
Sir Oliver received this news from that
other witness, the parson, who himself had ‘
suffered such rudeness at Godolphin’s hands,
and who, man of the Gospel and of peace
though he was, entirely supported the justice's
decision—or so he declared.
Sir Oliver thanked him, protesting that it
was kind in him and in Master Baine to take
such a view, but for the rest vowing that he
had had no hand in the affair, however much
appearances might point to him.
When, however, it came to his knowledge
two days lajer that the whole countryside was
in a ferment against Master Baine as a conse
quence of the attitude he bad taken up, Sir
Olivei summoned the parson and straightway
rode with him to the justice’s house at Truro,
there to afford certain evidence which he had
withheld from Rosamund and Sir John Killi
grew.
“Master Baine,” he said, xvhen the three of
them were closeted in that gentleman’s library,
‘1 have heard of the just and gallant pro
nouncement you have made, and I am come
to thank you and to express my admiration
of your courage.”
Master Baine bowed gravely. He was a
man whom Nature had made grave.
“But since I would not that any evil con
sequences might attend your action, I am
come to lay proof before you that you have
acted more rightly even than you think, and
that I am not the slayer.”
“You are not?” ejaculated Master "Baine in
amazement.
Oh, I assure you I use no subterfuge
with you, as you shall judge. 1 have proof
to show you, as I say; and I am come to do
so now before time might render it impossi- .
ble. I do not desire it to be made public
just yet, Master Baine; but"’l wish you to
draw up some such document as could satis
tj the courts at any future time should this
matter be taken further, as well it may.”
“1 assure you, Sir Oliver, that had you
Rilled him after what happened I could not
hold you guilty of having done more than
punish a boorish and arrogant offender.”
“I know, sir. But it was not so. One of i
the pieces of evidence against me—indeed!
the chief item—is that from Godolphin’s!
body to my door there was a trail of blood.” ■
, The other two grew tensely interested, i
The parson watched him with unblinking :
I eyes.
“Now it follows logically, I think, Jnevita-;
■ bly indeed, that the murderer must have I
been wounded in the encounter. The blood i
. could net possibly have been the victim's, .
therefore it must have been the slayer's. 1
That the slayer was wounded indeed we i
know, since there was blood upon Godol-1
phin's sword. Now, Master Baine, and you,
Sir Andrew, shall be witnesses that there is
upon my body not so much as a scratch of
■recent date. I will strip me here as naked !
as when first I had the mischance to stray ;
into this world, and yoq shall testify your- 1
selves of that. Thereafter I shall beg you. '
Master Baine, to indite the document I have
mentioned.”
i And he removed his doublet as he spoke, i
“But since I will not give these louts '
I who accuse me so much satisfaction, lest I
seem to go in fear of them, 1 must beg. sirs,
that you will keep this matter entirely pri
vate until such time as its publication may
be rendered necessary by events."
They saw the reasonableness of his pro
i posal, and they consented, still entirely skep
tical. But when they had made their exam
! ination they were utterly dumfounded to find
all their notions entirely overset. Master
! Baine, of course, drew up the required docu
ment. and signed and sealed it. whilst Sir
Andrew added his own signature and seal as
witness thereunto.
With this parchment that should be his
buckler against any future need. Sir Oliver
. rode home, uplifted. For. once it were safe
THESE BEAUTIFUL OCTOBER DAYS j
SEPTEMBER, 19 24, having been a rec-I
ord month for rain- and some very I
raw days—the advent of October has!
brought wonderful sunshine and mild j
I weather. Those who can enjoy the out-of
doors- nothing could be finer as to good
■ roads and balmy days- from early morning
’ until midnight.
I am often questioned as to my favorite
season, and I feel sure there can be noth
ing more satisfying than such weather as I
we are now enjoying in the fall of the year, i
No frost has yet fallen on the grass or the |
' leaves and flowers. Everything is green, i
' and when the lawns are nicely cared lor, |
‘they look like a green velvet carpet had!
! been carefully spread out and nothing more
: beautiful in nature can be imagined.
The cotton warehouses for the town I live
i in are near enough for me to see the de
! livery of many bales of cotton, and Old Man
801 l Weevil has not been figuring largely in
our part of Cherokee, Georgia. Where the
crops have been well tended, the cotton
crop has been entirely satisfactory. Os
I course where the tenants failed to appre
ciate the situation the yield is poor. They
had several bad boll weevil years to encoun
ter, and were not very hopeful in the work
; season.
As I look back on what we have endured
I when boll weevils got the best of it, I re-
I member we put away planting seed in good
covered barns, and thus protected the weevil
in comfortable quarters, until the springtime,
and they were more than healthy, but very
active. In the late winter of 1924 we had
weather cold enough to make all sorts of
bugs feel uncomfortable, and especially when
the cotton farmers remembered they could
run the seeds through a fanning process and
fatally expose the bugs to cold temperatures.
FREQUENT RAILROAD AND AUTOMO
BILE DIS'.S I ERS
HIS morning’s paper tells of a fearful
I railroad accident almost within the city
limits of Dalton, Whitfield county.
Resident people were victims and six killed
xvithima few minutes, ground by a train. I
can glimpse the railroad trains from my
front veranda as they pass through Carters
ville, and I noticed the lateness of the Dixie
Flyer yesterday, which overran the automo
bile and killed all of the occupants of the
machine.
These accidents should be prevented by
creating underpasses or overhead bridges for
railroad crossings. Public patience is al
ready fatigued with its long endurance,
also fatigued with indignation that human
life has become so cheap. No matter what
it costs there should be careful methods
used at railroad crossings employed for pre
vention of such disasters.
What automobiles do for themselves and
on the highways for unhappy foot passen-.
gers is another question also to be settled,
but it goes without saying that railroads
should never be allowed the opportunity to
kill so many human beings when such ele
vated crossings would make it impossible to
collide with human beings in front of the ;
rushing train of steam cars. These cross
ings will be obliged to be thus safeguarded,
ere long. It appears to me that such cross
ings, overhead or tunnel-wise, would be
much cheaper than damage suits after such
deplorable accidents. Once erected in per
manent style they are fixtures that are so .
THE ADVERTISER
By Dr. Frank Crane
HAS' the advertiser any limit? Can he
put his signs anywhere he pleases?
Can he display any kind of sign ho
pleases, no matter how ugly?
Is the soft and modest desire to look out
upon pleasant scenes, is this sentiment of
civic beauty, of anv importance xvhen it
clashes xyith the desire of Mr. Einstein to
sell pants at amazing values?
Os course there are some extremes to
which the advertisers hardly dare go. So
far as I have heard, nobody has yet posted
up on the inner walls of the church the
illustrated merits of Somebody's corn plas
ters.
The question may be raised: Has a per
son any inherent right to enjoy the land
scape free from the enforced contemplation
of Mr. Johnson's Rustless Screens, and look
ing from a car xvindow are xve going too far
when we ask the handsome gentleman who
makes such meritorious toilet powder to re
move his beautiful mustache from our range
of vision?
A man took a tour in Europe. When he
got home he was asked about the places
where he had been. “I don’t know,” he
said. “In Paris I rode about a good deal,
but all 1 saw xvas- mostly Dubonnet and
Byrrh. At London I got on a bus plastered
with advertisements and went out to see
Bryan and May’s Matches and Bass' Alo,
returning by a street where we saw Sun
shine Soap and Cadbury’s Chocolate. At
Lucerne xve visited the lake and gazed for
an hour at Noiseless Sewing Machines. Down
the Rhine voyagers used to view castles,
ruins and cities; noxv xve pass the Purest
Spring Water, the Cosiest Underwear, and
the Suddiest Soa-p. I couldn.’t see the Pyra
mids for Choicest Hams, and the Coliseum
at Rome'was obscured by Unexcelled Chew
ing (Him. I reached home and recognized
dear old New York by the signs of my
patent medicine friends.
This man exaggerated. The ham adver
tisements do not extend entirely around the
Pyramids.
But is there any place where xve may ask
the hustler to stop in his hustling and give
us a chance to enjoy life? ,
Os < ourse the newspaper is his for he pays
the bills. The man xvho hands out three
cents for his daily paper doesn’t pay for
the xvhite paper, let alone the black smear.
Without the advertiser we could have no
newspaper at the present rates; hence xve
wish it distinctly understood that whoever
puts an ad in the paper, and especially in
this paper, can go as far as he likes, and
none of these remarks are intended for him.
We knoxv which side of our bread is but
tered.
But it is a little trying for a stranger in
New Y'ork. xvhen he is going up to Ninety
sixth street in the subway, to try to see
where he is by looking out the xvindow.
The first stop is Peerless Pills, the next is
Holeless Hosiery, and then he finds out that
all the stations are named Peerless Pills.
Os course, he cannot understand a word the
guard shouts. So he gets off at L nexcelled
Chexving Gum. and. coming up to the light
of day, finds out he is somexvhere in the
Bronx.
Has the street car company a legal right to
thrust upon your notice the exceeding merits
of Thrifliman’s Soap when you are trying to
compose your mind by a few chunks of
Now Thought, or xvhile you are giving a
friend of yours Absent Treatment? Just
about the time you get a spiritual strangle
hold on his rheumatism your mind is di
verted by Syrup's Throat Lotions and your
golden meditations chased away by Ready
Rheumatism Cure.
(Copyright, 1924.)
before the eyes of Sir John Killigrew and
Rosamund, and all might be well.
Continued Tuesday. your sub
scription noxx- to avoid missing a chapter of
thi« splendid storx.
THE COUNTRY HOME
BY MRS. W. H. FELTON
SATURDAY, OCTOBER IS, 1924.
manifestly needful that it is amazing that
public opinion has not made it oome to pass
long years ago.
WHICH DO YOU PREFER, IINWCIAL
RENT, OR POLITICAL UNREST?
TAM not so silly as to suppose that I can
call myself a doctor lor cither financial
afflictions or deep political cancers, but
1 am so often asked how I shall vote in the
November election, that I may excuse my
self by saying what 1 cannot afford to vote
for on the rapidly approaching fourth of No
vember. From Monday, October 6, to No
vember 4 is barely four weeks off. It will
be here in duo time and is hound to appear
in a flurry of hot political fury when it ar
rives.
First—Respect for my own conscience
will not allow me to assist in electing any
representative who is not sufficiently quali
fied to know how to vote as my representa
tive in Georgia or in Washington. If he
must obey any secret political organization
as the price of his own ejection he is not fit
to represent himself or ( anybody that seeks
a representative for that upright, purpose.
Georgia is on the down grade and not far
from the bottom, when candidates must put
on a yoke of servitude to get the position,
and I think any person who surrenders his
own liberty to act as a representative also
surrenders his own self-respect and is thus
disqualified, mentally and morally, for any
official position.
I may be misled, or kept ignorant of such
alliance with conspirators who seek to car
ry out improper legislation, but when I
see the facts, or get the facts from reliable
parties, 1 certainly will never cast a vote for
such a misfit.
The New Jersey Democrats have put it
down in plain language: “We condemn the
Ku Klux Klan, an organization formed to set
at naught the liberties guaranteed by the
Constitution to every citizen,” etc., etc. As
Torryism was condemned in the Revolution
ary war the people of this country will give
these secret organizers the rewards they de
serve.
Second.—Opposed as I have always been
to participation in foreign wars, as allies or
helpers, I do not propose to vote for any
candidate who voted for the Versailles
League of Nations, or who seems likely to
vote again if the opportunity offers in the
congress of the United States, for another
league with nations.
We conscripted millions of American men,
the young men preferably, and 70,000 are
buried in France who to the bat
tle front and sacrificed, and I shall never
be found in the ranks of those who voted
this conscription and are probably being now
selected to do the same thing for the second
time.
What we need in a republic is good busi
ness, where a good living can be had, and
with some to spare. The billions of money
that were wasted in the World's war should
be remembered by those whose money was
also conscripted for that purpose.
We need financial rest and minding our
own business, and relief from demagogues
in office. The lust for office has made it
easy for such demagogues to get such posi
tions, provided they bind themselves hand
and foot to obey these conspirators who
have fritted this republic into a fury of po
litical unrest.
ART AND LIFE
By H. Addington Bruce
rp HE increasing attention paid in our
I schools to education in the appreciation
! of- music, painting and sculpture, the
i steady growth of art museums, the expand
! ing of facilities for the enjoyment of operas
j and concerts—all this is progress in the
truest sense.
It indicates a clearer understanding of the
important part that art should play in the
life of every human being. For avt is not,
as the Philistines would have us believe, a
cispensable luxury. It is among the real ne
cessities.
And -'t is more than ever a necessity in
our age ol stern competition and unprece
dented material developmen.. On the masses
of men and women the practical more an !
mere insistently presses its claims. Less and
less in their everyday activities do they find
it possible to satisfy that craving for the
beautiful instinctive in the race:
Too often is this instinctive craving un
derestimated. Yet, as Surette has pictur
esquely put it:
“If there is any one certain fact it is
that, from the earliest times until now, man
has continually sought some escape from
reality—some building up of a perfect
world of ideal beauty, which should quieten
his eternal dissatisfaction with the imperfec
tions and inconsistencies of his own life.”
Art, in its various aspects, presents an
avenue of escape, an unfailing means for
satisfying the craving for beauty of thought
and feeling. Hence a genuine and xvide
spread appreciation of art makes not only
for personal contentment but for social .sta
bility and progress.
So that it even becomes possible to pre
sent the case for art on distinctly sociologi
cal grounds, as Otto Kahn, for example, has
- done.
“Some of the unrest, the unruliness, the
transgressions even, of the day, some of the
seeking after sensations, some of the ex
treme and subversive tendencies, arise in no
small part, 1 believe, from an impulse of
reaction against the hur.xdrumness and lack
of inspirational opportunity of everyday ex
•'stence. »
“Much can be done by art to give satis
faction to that natural and legitimate im
pulse, and to lead it into fruitful channels
instead of letting it run a misguided or even
destructive course. . . .
“Art is a mighty element for civic prog-;
ress. It leads us to seek and to appreciate!
that xvhi.'h is high, worthy and exalting, and
to despise and turn away from that which
is vulgar, cheap and degrading. . .' . •
Among those fields where the rare and be-'
nign herbs grow from which healing may I
be gathered for the ills of the world, one of
the most fecund is that of art.”
These manifestly are the xvords •?! an ar-,
dent lover of art. But they are also the |
words of a practical-minded man, a man
widely known for his ability to meet the
concrete r emands of workaday tasks and
problems.
And to my own way of thinking the ;
philosophy underlying what Otto Kahn here j
says, is a philosophy borne out by human ,
experience through the ages and having its
basis in human nature itself. ;
(Copyright, 1924.)
I “Is Mrs. Rise at home?” inquired Mrs. ;
Chatters, standing in the shadow of the door
way.
“I don't know, ma'am,” the new maid re-
I'lied. “I can't tell till I get a better look at
you. If you've got a wart on the side of your
nose, she’s out.”
Mounta Everest is nearly as high as the ,
combined heights of Mount Cook, the high
est mountain in New Zealand; Fuji-Yama,
the highest in Japan; and Ben Nevis, the
highest in the British Isles.
i Thackeray lifted his hat every time he
| passed the house in which he xvrote “Vanity
The Second Mrs. Strong
BY HAZEL DEYD BACHELOR
What lias gone before —Matthew
Strong marries his stenographer, Julie
Benton, and when he brings her home
after the honeymoon his daughter Clau
dia does everything in her power to
make things uncomfortable for her new
stepmother. It isn’t long before Mat
thew begins to feel that he has made a
mistake. — Now go on with the story.
CHAPTER NV
A New Friend
AS for Julie, that evening had been for
Hie most part agonizing. Perhaps if
Matthew had not made his disapproval
so apparent, if she had been more certain of
his love, things would not have been so
bad. But as it was she knew that he was
watching her. censoring her, she felt the
amused wonder in the eyes of his friends,
and knew that they were probably criti
cizing her. x
“Yes, he married his stenographer. Yes,
she was in his office. Quite mediocre, don t
you think? And with absolutely no social
polish. She can't talk about anything, to
tally lacking in education.”
Such remarks echoed tantalizingly in Ju
lie’s mind and as a matter of tact, she was
not fur from the truth. People were criti
cizing her, wondering what Matthew saw
in her. No one there seemed to want to be
friendly with her, at least no one but Brad
ford Pierce.
Afterward, Julie wondered why he had
been so kind. When he had asked her to
dance, she had acquiesced, but she had not
enjoyed it, because she felt rigid, clumsy,
her self-consciousness prevented her from,
letting herself go. It wasn’t until after
ward, when he had led her to a seat in th©
conservatory that something in his manner
had broken down her stern self-repression.
In an incredibly short time she was pouring
out things to him, things she shouldn't have
said, things she would never dream of say
ing to Matthew. Remembering them, her
cheeks burned and she wondered what he
must think of her. .
He had begun the conversation with the
following remark:
“Tell me about yourself.”
Julie had turned to him quickly.
“About myself? But there isn’t anything
to tell.”
“Oh, yes there is.”
She shook her head in vehement denial.
“But there must be. Haven’t you any am
bitions? Don’t you ever dream, aspire to
things? I’m sure you do.”
She turned to him then, quickly, almost
passionately. In that moment she was beau
tiful, she forgot to be self-conscious. “Oh,
yes I dream. I’ve always done that. When
I xvas a little girl it helped me to bear
things, ugly things, sordid things. ,But of
course when I grew older there xvasn’t much,
time. I was too busy and when I reached
home at night there were always things to
be done.” \
“But there was always time, perhaps},
when you were dropping off to sleep,
the- first thing in the morning, wasn’t
there?” he suggested.
“Yes. and sometimes xvhen I happened to
hear music,” Julie went on quickly. “Music
always does queer things to me, makes me
feel all choked up. Not that I. know any
thing about it, because I don’t. But then
you know that.”
Bradford Pierce smiled. “Perhaps you
will do me the honor of going with me to
hear some good music” he said evenly, but
the smile left his face at the shocked ex
pression that, dawned in her eyes. He knew
what was behind it. She did not trust him.
She believed that her marriage must of
necessity put an end to any friendship ahe
might have with another man, and he has
tened to reassure her.
“I’m an old friend of your husband, ana
I’m sure he would he quite willing.”
Julie smiled, hut almost immediately a
hurt little feelin" settled around her heart,
it xvas kind of Mr. Pierce, and she would
enjoy it, but not as she would if Matthew
had suggested it. She loved. Matthew; to
go with him anywhere meant joy so intense
that her heart seemed like a live thing
within her. And yet dimly she realized
that Matthew was not proud of her., she
had not come up to his expectations. Would
he always be that way? Were things hope
less between them, or xvas there still a
chance that she might educate herself up
to his level?
Tuesday—“ Matthew Seeks Out Margaret.'’
and “Bradford and Julie.’’
QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES
He xvas on his xvay home xvhen suddenly
he heard Bounds xvhlch betokened a bitter
quarrel between a man and woman who
stood outside a rose-clad cottage. Without
a moment’s hesitation he opened the garden
gate and hurried towards the pair. “Tut,
tut!” he cried. “This will never do. Pray
cease thia unseemly argument.”
The couple turned"toward him. It was
the man who spoke: “What business of
yours is it, coinin’ buttin’ in here? Besides,
this ain’t no argument.”
“Yes, but I. heard —” began the peace
maker.
“Never mind what you heard,” broke in
the husband. “To be an argument there’s
got to be a difference of opinion, ain’t
they?” ''..l
“Yes ” conceded the pe_acemaker.
“Well, there ain’t to difference of opinion
here,” said thd man. “My wife thinks I
ain’t going to give her none of my week s
wages, and I know durned well I ain t.
The unanswerable logic of young children/
frequently confounds the best-meant efforts'
ot grown-ups. This story concerns a small
boy who had been particularly naughty all
day long and had almost worn out his moth
er’s patience. At bedtime his mother took
him severely to task, and when she thought
him sufficiently chastened she said:
Harry, tell me! What must we do before
our sins can be forgiven.
“Sin,” said Harry.
She xvas anxious to find out where her
husband xvas, so she rang up a club to
which he belonged.
“Is my husband there?” she asked the
hall porter.
“No, madam.” M
“But I haven’t even told you my name,
said the astonished woman.
“That’s all right, madam,” said the dis
cre pt porter; “nobody’s husband is ever
here."
The sweet young thing was examining
cameras. “What is the name of this one?”
she inquired of the assistant as she picked
up a dainty little instrument.
“That is the Belvarlere” replied the man.
For a moment there was a chilly silence.
Then the sweet young thing pulled herself
together and, fixing the assistant with a
stony glance, she inquired icily: “And can
xou recommend the Belva?”
The solemnity of the meeting was some
what disturbed when the eloquent young lec
turer pictured in glowing words the selfish
ness of men who spend their evening in.
clubs, leaving their wives in loneliness at
home.
“Think, my hearers,” he said, “of a poor,
neglected wife all alone in the great, dreyy
house, rocking the cradle of her sleeping
babp with one foot and wiping away her
tears with the other!”