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CIRCULATION FOB YEAR 1914.
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IN THE SEAT OF JUDGMENT.
No more altruistic attitude toward her
sisters in the world's great family oi
Civilized nations -could be adopted by the
United States than that recommended by
President Wilson in his recent address
before the Associated Press meeting in
New York.
Although the United States is profiting
and may profit further from the European
war the president indicated the neutrality
of this country is not being maintained
for selfish motives; and although “Amer-
ica first” is the natural slogan .one of
the most important duties of the United
States will be to render assistance to the
war-ravaged nations in the restoration of
peace and to extend them sympathy com-
fort and material aid after the conflict
shall have ended.
In its rhetorical aspect the address is
one of the most beautiful that President
Wilson has yet delivered—and he pos-
sesses to an exceptionally high degree the
faculty of embellishing an idea especially
in the abstract foi*m with an attractive
setting of words.
The practical value of the president’s
thesis however can be tested only by
the application of his ideals to concrete
situations. For instance the president
may experience some difficulty in recon-
ciling in actual practice the two objects
of this country's neutrality as prescribed
by him. Foremost of these objects is the
benefiting of America expressed in the
slogan “America first”; next comes the
desire to extend to the war-improverished
nations of Europe the services of a Good
Samaritan. Although the two objects are
not wholly opposed they must be part-
ially so in some of their economic phases
and in attempting to accomplish the
second object the United States might
easily find herself in a position similar
to that occupied by the belligerent nations
in their efforts to satisfy neutrals with-
out jeopardizing their own welfare. The
belligerents are finding the enterprise
quite difficult and in all cases in which
their own interests and those of neutrals
come into conflict the instinct of self-
preservation immediately asserts itself.
The fatal error in the president’s thesis
is the statement that “opinion ultimately
governs the world.” The enduring insti-
tutions of the world are the product of
economic processes in which opinion has
comparatively little cogency. Extraordi-
nary potency will be exercised by eco-
nomic processes in the aftermath of the
European war with opinion in a cor-
respondingly impotent role.
The supreme test of the practical value
of the president’s newly expressed ideals
however may be applied much nearer
home than the devastated areas beyond
the “3000 miles of cool calm ocean.”
Speaking of the part he expects the
United States to -play in the reconstruc-
tion of Europe’s war-rent social po-
litical governmental and economic fabric
he said:
“I am not thinking so preposterous a
thought that we should sit in judgment
on them (the warring nations); no na-
tion is fit to sit in judgment upon any
' other nation—but we shall some day have
to assist in reconstructing the processes
of peace and we must have our judgments
prepared and our spirits chastened against
the coming of that day.”
Nearer than the devastated areas be-
yond the "3000 miles of cool calm ocean’’
is unfortunate Mexico —a republic a
neighbor of the United States. “No na-
tion is fit to sit in judgment upon any
other nation”—let these' words burn deep
into the hearts and minds of all officials
of the United States government includ-
ing the president himself who have be-
trayed many a time and oft during the
FRIDAY
last few years a disposition to contravene
the cause of political governmental and
economic freedom championed by the
patriotic element in Mexico. Even now
according to plausible account the presi-
dent of the United States has before him
for consideration a plan proposed by ex-
patriates of Mexico for dictating for the
presidency of the troubled republic a man
whose sympathies have not rested with
the exponents of constitutional govern-
ment. In his zeal to “reconstruct the pro-
cesses of peace" let the president be care-
ful that he do not violate the spirit of
his pronouncement that “no nation is fit
to sit in judgment upon any other nation.”
THE ONLY WAY.
The * radical element in the Citizens’
League is constantly criticizing The
Light because it exposed the scheme of
that organization to use city employes and
county employes for the purpose of se-
curing instructed delegates to the con-
vention and jamming through the Brown
machine ticket. They seem to believe
it a high crime and misdemeanor for any-
body to hold a different opinion from the
one thev entertain.
If these gentlemen do not approve the
utterances of The Light there is one in-
fallible method by which they can obtain
its silence. This is to buy The Light
and manage it themselves. It would prob-
ably cease publication in about two weeks.
ORGANIZED FOR PRODUCTION.
A \'ith such vast sprees and such enor-
mous areas of undeveloped land as we in
Texas see in every direction it is hard
for us to quite realize the efficiency with
which old countries cultivate their soil.
Millions are supported in Europe on areas
that we consider too small for thousands.
The condition has grown out of the need
for taking care of large and growing popu-
lations without being able to gain more
land. This has made for a degree of ef-
ficiency in production that the person who
has not actually seen the results can
hardly comprehend.
No nation is more efficient than Ger-
many. No nation has a more adequate
organization for all the necessities of its
life including production. Nevertheless it
will surprise a great many people to know
that Germany not only does not need to
send its subjects abroad as colonists in
order to make room for the others to live
but that she can work and support in
times of peace a much larger population
than she has.
Germany is not as large as Texas and
her population is 70000000. It would seem
that they would have difficulty in living
off the country. Yet tier economists have
said of late years that she needed emi-
grants.
In the current number of the Atlantic
Monthly is an article by Professor Hans
Dtlbrueck of the University of Berlin
reprinted from a German publication of
1912. In it he savs:
Germany is no emigratory land but
rather a country to which others emigrate.
The peasants and agricultural laborers
who might colonize are most urgently re-
quired at home and we cannot permit
them to go oversea.”
More people are needed in Germany to
cultivate the soil says Professor Del-
brueck (he is referring to peace times
of course) and annually there are em-
ployed on the farms of that country more
than a million laborers of surrounding
countries.
If Germany can develop its agricultural
resources to such an extent as this is
there any reason why the United States
cannot do the same? To admit the ex-
istence of any such reason is to admit
either that the Germans are more effi-
cient than we or that their form of gov-
ernment enables them to organize the
production of their country in a manner
not possible in a republic.
For the present America is not con-
fronted with the problems of caring for
her population that have had to be met
and settled in Europe. There are still
wide spaces of unsettled territory in the
United States the most desirable being
right here in Texas. As our nation be-
comes more crowded and the difficulties
of providing sustenance for it become
greater is it not probable our thinkers
will succeed in working out our problems
as ably as have the rulers of Germany?
To think otherwise would be to question
American efficiency.
CUTTING OFF THE TAILS.
Let us for a moment try to forget the
European war the local political cam-
paign the jitney problem and the high
cost of living and turn to a matter of
importance. w
They are threatening to cut the tails
off swallowtail coats.
For goodness knows how many years—-
more than a century anyway—he who
would “put on dog” at an evening gath-
ering has been supposed to wear a swal-
lowtail. Evening dress—or “the full dress
suit. ’ as the people who rent them ordi-
narily express it—has become a uniform
from which it seemed the world would
never become emancipated.
Until a few years ago all evening dress
included the swallowtail. Then a reform
began insidiously to creep into the.'Spirit
of the tailors’ dreams. Men of the^circles
’which gladden their persons every even-
ing with their best bib and tucker kicked
at the tails. Thereupon slowly but surely
there came into the use the "dinner coat ’
•—sometimes called the "Tuxedo” from
the place where it first happened to gain
vogue.
In the passing of years the dinner coat
which looks like a dress coat with the
tails removed and a little more cloth
patched on the front has succeeded in
establishing itself as a thing right in its
own place. Tjiat place is any social
gathering after six o’clock in the evening
at which women are not present and in
some comparatively informal cases like
attendance at the theatre even where
there are women present if they are not
in the company of the “Tuxedo” wearers.
Most men of the set that wear evening
clothes at all like the dinner coat better
than the swallowtail. There aren’t any
tails to sit upon and wrinkle and every-
body knows that it is an evidence of
horrible breeding to part the tails and lay
them on the two sides of the chair. You
must sit right down on them; otherwise
somebody might think you could not
afford to get them pressed every time
you wore them. And with a dinner coat
a black tt« is correct instead of a white
one. And you can wear a soft hat or even
a straw instead of a stove-pipe. Oh yes
the dinner coat is popular but its use
has been limited.
But now the tailors say they see indi-
cations that the dinner coat is going to
supplant the long-tailed regalia even on
very formal occasions. The reason is
simple enough when you once hear it.
The satin-lined tails interfere with the
ease of dancing. And everything nowadays
is to be gauged by whether it fits in
with the dance craze.
Ordinarily this reason wouldn’t accom-
jdish the retirement of the swallowtail
because Europe has been setting the fash-
ions for years and Europe has not the
slightest intention of giving up any slight-
est part of the formal regalia of society.
But due to the war American tailors
are coming into their own—or at least
they are trying to. If they have their way.
America as one of them eloquently puts
it "will be forever emancipated from the
thralldom of foreign influence in dress."
If they succeed in carrying their point
it will be due more than anything else
io the fact that the tendency in America
is always toward simplicity in men's
dress. The best and strongest argument
against the long tails on a dress coat is
that they have no real use and hence
there isn't any sense in wearing them
znyway.
Huerta In the Slates.
Vlctorlano Huerta hunted from the presidency
of the Mexican republic by President Wilson has
now after a sojourn in Europe come to the
United States on a mission the nature of which
1s a secret. But despite the fued between him
and Mr. Wilson despite his rare capacity for
mischief making there was not the slightest
attempt on the part of the government to deny
him entry into the country. The thing does
credit to' the liberality and good judgment of
the president but It is merely the logical ex-
tension of a principle always honored here since
the foundation of the republic that this land
should be and Is the refuge for the political
exiles of every nationality.—St. Paul Dispatch.
No Decisive Results.
The great war in Europe has now been in pro-
gress nearly eight months with decisive results
apparently as far away as they were five months
ago. Germany is not so close to Paris as she was
last fall but the allies have made lltt’e progress
toward Germany on either the eastern or west-
ern-fronts. Thousands of men have been killed
on both sides and millions of dollars' worth of
property destroyed but the real murderous days
of the war will not materialize until the opening
of the spring campaign. The British have de-
monstrated their ability to advance in the tak-
ing of Neuve Chapelle but at the same time the
fearful cost of advancing was clearly demon-
strated. —El Paso Times.
Misplaced Sneers.
The government war risk Insurance bureau is
continuing in business at the old stand. Its
rates are being revised in view of recent expe-
rience. and if the new rates are not calculated to
stimulate American exports to the German coast.
Berlin must admit that it has no just ground for
complaint. Sneers about the government hav-
ing to "revise Its actuarial tables" are a trifle
misplaced. How does private enterprise work
out laws of averages and figure costs in entering
a new field of Insurance risks if not on the basil
of experience which compels more than one re-
vision of prior calculations? —New York World.
Reel Protectionism.
Suppose the Allies were able to prevent Ger-
many selling any goods to the United States and
suppose Germany were able to prevent any ex-
ports by England and France to this country.
What a howl would go up from American busi-
ness men! Any rightly. For they would know
that If Europe couldn’t sell to the United States
It wouldn’t be able to buy from the United
States as it couldn't afford tc pay for its pur-
chases In gold. Yet that woi^d be an ideal situa-
tion from the protectionist standpoint since it
would shut out all competition from "the pauper
labor of Europe."
Rubbing It In.
In various cities It has been argued that it is
wrong to permit jitneys to take money away
from the street railway companies Yet the city
of Chicago is making experiments with motor
busses and if these prove satisfactory it is plan-
ned to use some 53.000.000 of the fund which
the city has accumulated out of Its Share of the
Chicago street railways (privately owned) for
the purchase of motor busses to operate in com-
petition with the street railways. This has the
appearance of rubbing It In.—Dallas Journal.
Np. Better Time.
Every student of events agrees that the pres-
ent Is the best time that will be afforded the
people of this country for many years to build.
Increase their facilities get ready for a season
of activity and develop plans for a broader and
more active future. The man or the firm or
the corporation that has the faith and wisdom
to go ahead Instead of drifting with the tide Is
sure to reap a reward when the dam Is opened.
—Utica Observer.
oo—
Yes Indeed!
Though Eng'-and has declared a blockade and
Germany's submarines are raking up the mud tn
many parts of the ocean and threatening all
comers five ships left Galveston on last Satur-
day with cotton valued at $1341144 and des-
tined for European ports. It is only ships that
sail from Oregon and the Atlantic coast that
Into trouble because they know that without
Texas produtts they could not exist In Europe
—Henrietta Independent.
DIE SAN ANTONIU LIGHT
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By EDWIN BLISS
Copyright. 1915. by Pathe Exchange. Inc.
All moving picture rights and all for-
eign copyright* ■trlctly reserved.
(Continued From Yesterday.)
In the carriage he could not drive
that contrast frojn his pre-occupied
mind. He felt himself already a bit
irritated at the insistarfbe of Ann
that the tiny cottage the humble
little home in Los Angeles should
not be sold that not a stick of the
furniture be changed. She had in-
sisted it was merely a bit of senti-
ment. but the firmness with which
she defended her wish made him
believe it had its birth in foreboding
for the future.
He flushed hotly as she stumbled
upon her train as they made their
entrance at the Van Rolphes' angry
with himself for the Impulse which
made him seek out the eyes of Olga
Drake to find whether she had no-
ticed the slip more 'angry to know
that he had smiled with her at his
wife’s mishap. Ann was his wife the
woman he loved and no one had the
right to smile at her.
He turned toward her assisting
her to their hostess bracing his
shoulders against the gibes he knew
her manner occasioned with a smile
upon his lips. And then the guilty
feeling came upon him that he was
feeling the martyr that he was tak-
ing pride in his attitude of suffer-
ing.
In the mortification of the mo-
ment he found himself offering his
arm to Olga Drake passing' his wife
without a glance. With head high he
feigned n-ot to notice the hurt expres-
sion upon her face as she permit-
ted herself to be taken away by a
young fledgling.
"I’m afraid we frightened your
poor wife." Miss Drake murmured
in his ear.
He looked furtively at Olga Drake
at the note of sympathy in her voice.
And yet he merely smiled and sought
out his wife with his eyes dropping
them more swiftly as they met the
mute appeal In Ann's own eyes. He
was conscious of chattering volubly
about nothing in particular was
aware that his face was burning. For
hfs wife the woman he had taken
for life was staring at him in piteous
appeal. Indifferent to the world
about her the world Into which his
fame had thrust her. And the w)fe of
a milkman she would remain con-
sidering nothing’ at all save her owh
comfort her right foot thrust out
from her gown the slipper that had
become uncomfortable thrust to one
side.
He looked at Olga Drake then
and her eyes were fastened upon the
vagrant slipper a faint suggestion of
a smile about her lips. Merwin
smothered an oath in his throat.
A farmer's daughter he had mar-
ried. A milkman's wife he had made
her. And equally Indifferent to
aught she was one still.
Re paced the library floor ner-
vously every nerve In his body jang-
ling discordantly at the chatter of
his wife in the next room the con-
fusion of her undignified romping
with the baby. Only the night before
he had given a wretched perform-
ance. his voice turning hoarse. Only
the night before he had tiffed with
Olga Drake for the first time In all
the months during which their in-
timacy had grown to such an extent
that there were whispers about it.
First he had tried to break away
from the spell she cast upon him.
But his work threw him with her
set and his wife used every subter-
fuge to avoid accompanying him to
any affair which might aid him in
the social world always pleading to
be allowed to remain with the
baby.
And now she was late. He looked
at his watch nervously then whirled
to the stairs and tapped upon her
door.. No answer from within save
the shrill cry of childish laughter
Of his bahv. Curiously enough that
sound irritated him.
.He was afraid of himself. He
had wanted her with him this night
of all nights. He knew Olga Drake
would be at the Van Rolphes and hie
was determined to show that Ann
came first last and all the time with
him. Yet he was afraid needed help
and encouragement. His spleen got
the better of him and he wrenched
the door open sharply. Ann stopping
short her laughter as she looked up-
on his lowering face.
"I forget again H«»nry" she plead-
ed. before he had chance to say a
word. "Please forgive me but—but I
don't think I help you with these
people—"
"You make no effort to Improve
yourself. You are constantly doing
everything you can to annoy me.
You are ruining my voice clouding
my whole career.”
“And you don't try to do better.
You don't care for anything but the
vile little hole In Los Angeles.. You
want me to be ruined. You want me
to lose my voice. You know you do
—you want a milkman because you
are nothing and never will be any-
thing but fit for a milkman's wife.”
He halted suddenly taking com-
mand of himself with an effort. Ann
had crumpled upon the bed. She was
not weeping merely looking at him
with an expression in her eyes a
suspicious look mingled with her
wonder an accusing took that turned
him cold and cruel.
"But what can I do. Henry? What
do you want me to do?’
"Do?” He laughed laughed In her
face. "Why get a divorce of course.
I’m through Get It before I’m com-
pletely ruined I’ll give you the di-
vorce—there’ll be no trouble about
that—anti fifty thousand dollars."
She regarded him steadily search-
Ingly.
“No. there’ll be no trouble—^about
that.” she repeated after him. as he
slammed the door. “No trouble.
Henry."
VTI
Merwin felt a curious elation up-
on him a sudden lightness of heart
one z>f those miraculous Sensations
of utter delight that come at the
most unexnected mordants when one
Is performing one's work a little bet-
ter than ever It has been performed
before.
(Continued Tomorrow.)
An elderly farmer drove Into town one
day and hitched hla team to a telegraph
"Here!” exclaimed a burly policeman
'■you can't hitch there!”
"Can't hitch!" shouted the irate farm-
er. "Well why have you got a alg^ up.
Tine tor hitching* Argonaut.
7 he Light'* Daily Story
AN OPERATION FOR HARRISES
(Uy Rolf Harbor.)
Dr. Jeaperson had been hard at
work all uay. Long betpre the late
winter dawn he had been called away
to patients at the point the laug
narrow peninsula jutting out into the
Kattegat. Aicvi mat ne nad made
his regular extensive rounds and at-
tended to patients during his offide
hours. Now he wias comfortably
seated in his armchair enjoying a
cigar alter his lonely bachelor's
lunch. It was ' dreadful g weather
outside with snow and sleet beating
against the windows by a regular
hurricane and it was already show-
ing dusk only a little after 2.
Today he felt more lonesome than
ever and still he was sure that he
had been born to be a lonesome man:
The newspaper he tried to read did
not interest him so he dropped it
and slowly puffed his cigar while
pondering bver the emptiness of his
existence. He felt himself growing
old without ever having accom-
plished anything. To some people
he thought life is one great injus-
tice from beginning to end. Why had
luck never come his way? Was he
perhaps less deserving than /scores of
people he knew who seemed to get
everything without the slightest ef-
fort?
No he would not think of how
things might have been If Inger
Due had not broken off their en-
' gagement. He saw her face before
him young and happy as she
looked when he met her first* At
that time he had actually believed
in happiness. But of course it had
been foolish of him to believe that
she could really love him who was
almost twice her age and whose
heart was even older/than his own
conception of the seriousness of Ilie
in a way which she had not under-
stood and it was really not so very
strange after all that she had with-
drawn from him whose world had
no room In it for merriment and
happiness. She had found a friend
scarcely older than herself who had
been all bver the world and who
could laugh and sing and this mere
boy she preferred to him who knew
what life meant and who was thirst-
ing for a little quiet happiness. He
had only had cold harteh words for
her when she left him with tears in
her eyes and he had hoped that life
w’ould show her the enormity of the
mistake she had made. If she were
made to suffer enough he might
perhaps forgive her. ’ -
Lately he had lost track of her
completely since he took up a prac-
tice inr this corner of the world and
'perhaps it was better so. Some years
ago he had heard that she had been
married that was all.
No he would not think of her any
more. She should not be permitted to
disturb his peace of mind. His cigar
was finished he leaned back in his
chair and tried to take a nap.
The old fashioned door bell rang
shrilly through the house. The doc-
tor rubbed his eyes and made a face
annoyed at the disturbance. His
housekeeper showed a man into the
room.
His heavy sailor’s greatcoat was
wet with snow and frozen spray and
he wore boots that reached his hips.
A gust of wind and cold entered the
room with him.
"How do you do doctor?" he
greeted.
“What is the matter” growled the
doctor "are you sick?”
“Not at all doctor sickness Is not
for the like of me. It is the light-
house keeper’s little boy whojs very
sick.”
“Oh I see you are Laust Moller
from the Islands. I did not recognize
you right away. Sit down and speak
up."
“You know of course that we
have a new lighthouse keeper on
the main Island. And they have a
boy seven as pretty a little fellow
as you'll ever lay eyes on. But now
he has been taken sick all of a sud-
den something with his throat he is
struggling for breath and can't say
a word and they must not lose him
so I thought I had better come and
See a doctor.”
"See a doctor! As if that would
do any good. We are no magicians
but I Suppose you expect me to come
along with you in this storm eh?”
The doctor's voice sounded gruffly
enough but the sailor recognized the
tone of sympathy it tried to conceal
and said: "Yes doctor that is just
what I want and God helping the
boy will pull through all right."
"Gdd helping" growled the doc-
tor "in that case we doctors are
quite superfluous and if God does
not help I am afraid we are super-
fluous too. So you want to drag
me out In this hellish weather? I
suppose I have to come eh? What
Is the name of the new lighthouse
keeper?”
"Brandt doctor and a very decent
chap he is. Not a bit hightoned
though he be a lieutenant In the
naval reserves.”
“Brandt" the doctor looked up at
the name. Brandt was the name of
the man Inger had married. “Do
you know the wife Laust Moller?”
he asked while stooping over his
case of Instruments. _ •
“Do I? I should say sb. There is
not a soul in the islands who does not
know Inger Brandt and who would
not go through fire and water for
her. She must not lose her little
Kund doctor not If we can heln !♦.”
“So his name is Kund." said the
doctor. "I suppose I must do some-
thing for my namesake." He felt an
awkward lump in his throat which
almost prevented him from speak-
ing but he controlled himself with
an effort and shouted for his house-
keeper to bring him his sea boots
end his big coat. Madame Ninian
strongly protested against the doctor
going out in this weather but one
glance from him showed her the
hopelessness of her attempt. He
would not be back until the next day
he said.
I shall not try to describe the dan-
gerous sail across the stormy sea In
an open sailing boat under constant
hailing and maneuvering. More
than once the angry waves threaten-
Daily Fashion Hint
’Twas Made
I
in .America
By Jo Martin
QUITE a striking frock recently
worn at one of the fashionable
Southern resorts was of white
khaki-kool the skirt laid in a series
of small box-pleats and the bodice
built much on the lines of a jacket.
It was nevertheless a simple frock
to make and one quite within the
limitations of the home dress-
maker. However in undertaking a
frock such as this it is well to re-
member a few simple rules of dress-
making. For instance the pleated
skirt should be hemmed before at-
tempting to lay the pleats or get the
correct fit around the waistline.
From the hem to the hips the pleats
must be set according to the hip
measurements. With a blouse of
this sort it would be quite a clever
idea to attach snap-fasteners to the
belt and upon a very warm day one
could easily change to a blouse ol
white batiste or silk.
ed to send the frail craft to the bot-
tom and sailor and doctor looked
solid masses of ice when they land-
ed on the island three hours later.
A man was waiting for them at the
foot of the lighthouse as they ap-
proached.
“Is it Laust Moller?” he shouted
through the storm.
"No it is the doctor.”
“The doctor! Thank God—at
last."
A strong hand grasped the doctor's
frozen mitten took his instrument
। case and led him into a light hall
i Doctor Jespersen stood a moment
gasping for breath.
“The boy is still alive?” he said in
his gruff voice looking Into the face •
of the man a fair bearded giant I
with blue eyes.
“Yes thank God dostor.” The 1
voice was trembling and he was j
struggling to master his emotion. I
"But we are very much afraid.
The doctor quickly threw aside his ।
wet clothes and together they went |
into the sick rpom where a young *
woman was kneeling at a child’s bed. '
She turned her tear-stained face to-
wards them and arose to meet them.
As she did so she recognized the doc-
tor and her arms dropped while a
shadow of hopelessness passed
across her face.
"Good evening little Inger” said
the doctor and grasped both her j
hands. “I am so glad to meet you
once more."
Then he stooped over the bed
where a curly headed little boy was
Struggling with death. He saw it '
was a dangerous case of croup mak- j
Ing an Immediate operation neces-
sary. .Tracheotonsy was the only.
thing which might save the boy's
life. In a firm voice he gave his or- I
ders. A table -was made clear the
instruments taken froiji the case
while the father carried the boy to
the operating table. The mother
sobbqd and wrung her hands and as
he had already done once while
crossing the sea the doctor prayed: 1
"Oh Lord make me the instrument
of saving the child’s life.”
Then he was once more the calm
strong surgeon his whole mind con-
centrated on the task before him his
eyes bright and his hand steady.
It was done now. The operation
had been a success and a few min-
utes later the exhausted child was
sleeping soundly. The doctor knew
that never in his life had he felt as
happy as at this moment.
For a while nobody spoke. Then
the doctor stood up and said: "The
danger Is over and in a couple of
weeks little Kund will be as well as (
ever but as I doubt that Laust will
fake me back tonight I am afraid
you will have to keep me until to-
morrow.”
Jukt then he felt two soft arms
around his neck and a kiss on his
bearded cheek. "God bless you
Kund” said a voice he had never
forgotten “tonight you have saved
the happiness of two human beings."
“Yes. with the help of God little ;
Inger" said the doctor “and my
own happiness too perhaps. But
now I want to sleep while you two
watch your baby and your light.” ii
APRIL 23 1915.
Sleepy-Time Tales
For the Little Folk x
BILLY BUNNY AND SAMMY
SQUIRREL.
Once upon a time Billy Bunny and
Sammy Squirrel were playing to-
gether in the woods. They had just
finished making a kite and had
drawn lots to see who would fly it
first. Sammy had won and Billy was
good naturedly helping him to let out
the string and guide it. They ran side
by side up the hill and when they
reached the topSammy let out more
string and soon the kite was sailing
up high and straight.
All at once a big gust of wind came
and before Sammy knew it or Billy
could help It had taken the kite
over towards the woods with Sammy
hanging at the end. On on he flew
with poor frightened Billy following
as fast as he could on the ground
and calling up to him not to let go.
At last the wind let the kite down
on a tree top and soon Sammy was
scampering down the tree as fast as
his legs would carry him. When he
reached Billy he said: "I tell you
Eilly Bunny it was a good thing that
I was flying the kite for I am used
to climbing trees and can run down
very fast but if it had been you and
you had had to hop hop down I •
don’t know what would have hap-
pened.”
“Yes” said Billy “I am glad It
was you instead of me and I don't
think I want to fly kites any more"
and Sammy Squirrel quite agreed
with him.
The next day they thought they
would play hide-and-go-seek so they
drew lots to see who should blind
first and Sammie was the one and
had to shut his eyes and count one
hundred. Billy ran to a hole that he
had made while he was waiting for
Sammy to come and play and crept
into it.
Sammy ran around and around
but. he couldn’t find Billy and at last
he had to call “in free" and when
ho saw Billy come out of the hole
he was so cross he wouldn’t play
any mofe for he told Billy that he
had been past the hole several times
and didn’t see him. So Sammy „ran
home and poor Billy had to play
ale ne the rest of the day.
SARAH BERNHARDT.
From Colller’u. .
Sarah Bernhardt Isn’t just an act-
ress. She Is an old master In that
art—not wholly Yankee after all —
“publicity.” She has never known
fear and at an age it would be un-
gallent to mention she has volun-
tarily undergone a grave operation.
Through her best work for the stage
was accomplished a dozen years ago
at least she promises to return to it
—and we wish Sarah well. On or off
the stage may that tomb of hers on
Belle Gin near the coast of Brit-
tany stand empty for many years to
come; and may the monument for
the tomb to which she has given
her vacation hours —for she is a
sculptor too!—wait on In the studio
draped In its modest calico. She
bridges French dramatic history
does Sarah—and after the younger
Dumas what a debt do not Richepin
an<V Rostand owe to that golden
voice! Just how old Sarah is we re-
fuse to whisper; not so old as the ex-
Empress Eugenie whose physicians
tell her: “But your majesty you have
already lived long past the ago at
which anyone ever dies!” Sarah is
the spirit of youth—its fire and en-
ergy and imagination. She has car-
ried beauty of word and gesture to
the Antipodes. When De Lesseps
started work at Panama a genera-
tion ago Sarah came out from Paris
to the French theater there to glor-
ify that fete of great expectations—-
tragically betrayed. If we of the
United States managed ceremonies
as well as we dig canals we should
be giving Sarah Bernhardt a warship
cruise through that great ditch and
San Francisco would build a theater
named for her —a theater for all the
time like Sarah.
LAND MONOPOLY!
From tho Memphis Nowa-Sclmltar.
Life is full of paradoxes. Texas has
more land than any other state In the
•Union and her people suffer more
from land monopoly. This is because
of the limitless expanse of territory
। which was in the early days consld-
j ered worthless. Texas gave five or
six countless of forty miles square
each for a state capitol building and
! in the early days the railroads were
given ten sections of land to the mile
of railroad built. In this way the
land slipped away from the would-be
settlers and of course other land
grabbers and exploiters saw their op-
portunity and purchased large tracts
of productive soil. The result is that
। Texas is largely in the control of
great land owners while those who
actually cultivate the soil are tendnt
farmers and are rapidly becoming
agricultural serfs. The present gov-
ernor Ferguson la trying to relieve
the situation by applying a remedy
to a symptom by limiting the rental
value of land. This may ameliorate
the condition of the tenant serfs
but it is only a palliative. What must
be done before the problem Is en-
tirely solved is to make it not only
possible but easy for the actual pro-
ducers and tillers of the soil to ob-
tain access to the land. All wealth
(tomes from the land and those who
produce and create wealth should
and must be given first attention
:and the speculators must be satisfied
* with what their speculations have
brought them in now. The condition
that is acute in Texas exists in other
states and the remedy which must
come to Texas must also come to
other states. The thesis that the sur-
ace of thq earth belongs to whom-
soever can make the best use of it
and who by his labor andxlndustry
will add to the sum total of the sup-
port of the people of the world is
I sure to be proven before many years
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