The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, August 09, 1917, Image 6
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loui5 Joseph Vance
MOVELIZATION OF THE MOTIOr
NAME. PPGOUCEDTOR THE INTERI
liWDLR THE D;RfCT/OW?Of WHARTON,^
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I THE CAST.
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| MRS. VERNON CJASTLE as I
J Patria Channing.
| MILTON SILLS as Donald Parr.
f WARNER OLAND as Baron 1
J Huroki.
jOOROTHY GREEN Jtt Fanny
Adair.
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SYNOPSIS.
Anticipating the threatened JapaneseMexican
invasion of the Southwestern
States. 'Patria Charming, an American
Girl of great wealth, with the assistant c
of her fiance, ('apt. Ponald Parr -.late U.
S. A.), converts her vast border ranchlands
into what is virtually an armed
camp. Baron Huroki, commanding .-the allied
Japanese-Mexican forces, learim of
Patrhfs preparations, ; ml thinking vo nip
them in the bud. orders his troops in attack
in force.
FIFTEENTH EPISODE
The Sling of Victory.
DARK HOURS.
It wns shortly after sunrise when the
first shots signaled the attempt of
I'utria <'h:mninjr'? little handful of patriotic
advent upci/k to stem the invasion
of America*) soil by the allied
force of Mexicans and Japanese commanded
by Baron Wurolci.
Baffin's first move. then. was to dis
patch tclog; Mills to t.V>j Clearest post of
1he United States anwy as well as to
"Washington, giving notice .of the invasion
and asking for help.
Within an hour. .Tapun<v*e fn?ld butteries,
shelling with shrapnel tin* advanced
trenehes which connua&ded the
international boundary lino, had render?td
them untenable and Japanese
infantry had swarmed over thorn ju
pursuit </f the retreating defenders.
At the same time Huron 1 luroki and
his staff, taking possession of 1'atria's
hacienda, had convertetf it into field
headquarters. From its patio I luroki
directed the efforts of his troops to
overcome the resistance of the defenders.
The latter had nuanw Idle occupied
their main intrenehne nts, a far stronger
petition ftirro'vjnf; iiio yif ge of a
range ??f low hi'.ls lying bcl' of the
lfuejendn ami -..metiiincr slightly Jes>
tliTTTi a inilo icrth ,,f tp,. border line,
t Hero thev took root st ubbornly. D
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spite the disparity between their naml"1
rs and those < t the invaders, they
throw back charge after
.Tnnaoese awl IW-mYmu iiiMiicv with
< ring and I?l: s;!in: with iho m:?chine-gun
fjro . Id h JTjnilyn\ the terndn
v illi <i- us Ii :i? a garden hosi
sprays si lev.n villi life: while theii
batteries. cunninmy sei-n i* ? 1 let k u
tlm lulls and <?ir*M*t??*] in masterly fsish
inn. kept tli" guns >>f the invajdors p >
busily <?n the moCe to permit their lio
ins: much damage to the Ir- ii' lu-s.
Hut if the defon?lors fotighi with un
sTmkahle determine *??11 nini fearb'ss
ness. they toughi villi de>pair in tin is
hesirts. Fur their commanding elevsi
tion permitted !' -m to overlook at
the land hetvei in and the hound
nry, and they cot: d hardly help heir.:
nppillled hy the flood of allied troop
which was sweeping across the hinder
and arraying against them.
Agsdn urgent prayers for aid wcr
.dispatelied to the authorities.
As before, t'vv gamed no ncknowl
edgmcnt of any sort.
Failing to take the main iin
trenches hy .assault, lluroki ordere
l?ls forces to fall hack and dig their
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Donald Was Wounded.
eelvos in?which they did with tralr
expedition and oflloioncy, throwing
h line of littrenchinentR roughly jj
ullcling those on the hlllcrest.
And their batteries, presently find
shelter, mined shells upon the Am
cans to keep down their fire, until
tria's guns again searched them o
when the battle passed Into a ten
rary phase of hip; gun dueling, and
ilnfantry had a Ifttle time to breu
and take account of Its losses.
These last proved nstonlshli
i slight, hut none the less terrible in
! tria's understanding. Already the 1
hospital accommodations which
hud provided were overcrowded
the atufT of surgeons with their
["he Great Romance
o| Preparedness
-i picture: play of tmf.same;
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sistnnts mul nurses overworked. And
(lie day was still young.
ltonald Parr attempted to i com fort
her wltli the .assurance that ?tlu>ir positions
were so strong they could hold
out another ?4 hours. If required
?hy which time help must surely
have come to them from the regulur
army and the National Guard which
had he**u mobilized for border duty.
AtrjiiiiKi tins argument more remained
the uwpu^ti enable fact that
repeated telegrams evoked no response
from any qtuurtor.
And ro-enforoomowts at any time
would arrive too lute to prevent hhleoiis
mortality in the ranks of the defenders.
Toward mid-morning1 a second series
of most violent assaults was launehcd
a gainst the niHiti-linr trenches, and
thoiurh each in turn was thrown hack
severely punished. each took its toll of
American lives and hy so much lessen<d
the ahility to present impregnable
esistaneo.
Hut hy noon Huroki seems to
have made up his mind that further efforts
to take the treiuloss hy storm
were futile. There f? 11 a lull Ux the
-i'.ury of the cotuhat between in'antry
ferees, while a thinking movetis?
lit on the part of tt.e Mexican cavalry
was met and confronted hy a
< loud of rough-riding plainsmen under
i.lte leadership of Itodinnn I'ilishuvy.
Ttn-w again the artillery duel was
restmu?.{ ; lap there was in this sonicthing
strangely perfunctory, as far
at least the work of the allied gunners
were concerned. The suspicion
was warranted. and by subsequent
vents was. borne out, that Illtroki was
sparring for lime.
lie was awaiting the arrival of heavier
artillery: whatever tlmse eircwm-tanees
were which delayed its oomvitli
effective ranee till dusk of
evening. they alone saved I'atria's
forces from annihilation?though mueli
credit is dee to the scouts of ('atria's
living corps for t he willingness and skill
with which they engaged t!ie Japanese
aviators and drove them from the
sky above the American positions, preventing
their locating the hidden batteries.
The last traces of light were dying
from the sky when Harold's heaviest
tnetal came Into action.
' Simultaneously new and extraordinarily
vicious assaults were made
upoit the trenches. v M...
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And suil no word from WashingI
ton or from any other quarter to
which appt a'.s had been telegraphed 1
1; was not till midnight that a
1 se, tiling party dispatched by l>onald
" I'arr brought In an explanation of this
o>|"ii - m]e P:djffei'eia e on the part of
* th air Imrit-es to the fate of I'atria's
' leV?{. d lift!.' band. "o
'l!i .i b appeared that the wires had
' V.ecii cut by Japanese spies, w ho had
- pee- j\"d?and suppressed?all mes
( aces <n-patched by I'airiti's held liead*
.p'oiiiers. iii such manner as complete*
]\ t ? deceive her telegraph operators.
1, j?. short. it transpired that not one
of (hose many frantic erics for help
' ' had hen heard hut by enemy ears.
Throughout a tiieht of hopeless hor.
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; ror the battle raged. From the mo1
men! when Huroki's great 'guns en'*
| fcred into the contest there was scarcei
lv a single perceptible break in the
" I succession of assaults upon the
1 poles 'in d:?.wn brnl-n upon (hull
. ' -ft/ ?W' ?
1 (!'. sp.; uu-i.v thinned ranks,
And with tho dawn canto the final
l* | effort, a chanro In force lhat taxed t<
i 1111 lit imo?i the eourntre, resource ant
j IntCMUiUy of the Americans. Thai
it hroke and was swept hack can In
c.united as nothing short of miracti
' Ions.
I As It did so. r>onahl Parr fill, hi
! shoulder shattered by shrapnel.
When lie recovered convcinuyhcs
In her arms, and she knew tin t hi
* I hurt was not mortal, Pat via took tut
| her own hands The command wine
, she had resigned to his. (.'onferrin
hv telephone \n person with her stnf
i 1 slie ordered the effort of the last r<
** ! {sort. the forlorn bono which had bee
|j I reserved for that moment when tli
ft day seemed lost and sacrifice <d' se
b ; alone might stem the tide of defeat,
ra j All defensive tactics wore nhandone
wi 1 'The men were ordered from tl
H trenches, to advance, to charge ai
keep on charging till the last man fc
To give them heart a fleet of "tanks"armored
caterpillar tractors carry 11
machine-gun crews?were loosed up<
the enemy.
led Looming through the gray, formk
up light of the new-born day like m<
iar- strous armadllloes vomiting fire a
death, they crossed their own trend]
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injr | HLtU IIM'I Mild IM MUt* U 1:11111 Kt' 01 .MI|
(>ri* I nese and Mexican infantry, scatter!
I'u- it like chaff.
iut; As the enemy turned and fled th?
ipo- terrors the Americans forsook 1
the shelter of their trenehes and pursu
ithe At the same time masked hat lor
came out of hiding and moved forwi
iRly positions in the open.
Pa* A daring raid of cavalry capture*
field 42-centimeter howitzer and turned
she Upon its own people,
and Where the tanks were not, there *
us- hand-to-hand fighting characterized
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the rrftnevt ta^terTrihrtiftem on Imih >
sides. Rut wlh'imr the tanks i
moved?and nothing Nm*?d.;to swerve !
I one of those fratu whatever course It i
chose to take?like ranks of the -enemy
melted into disorderly rablde-of puniest
rlokon fugitives.
A shell from the howitzer found the I
('banning liaeiejKhi and 'told it in
llatiling, smoking ruins about Che ears
of liurokl and his eta IT.
Thirty minutes after the (tanks had ,
inaugurated the ofTousive, Ohe invn- j
sion had been turned Into a rout. The <
roads beyond the border were .choked
with fugitives. H-arokl and Jhis por- ,
i sonal aides foreed Their -armored motorear
through the milling mob upon the i
bridge at the border and regained
Mexican soil a hare iroinute befotve nnotlior
howitzer shell! destroyed itlie
bridge utterly, uud wdtSi It hundreds of '
fleeing Mexicans and .lapanese.
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engagement between American rough
riders and Mexican cavalry, in which
the latter, attempting to iw-wer the nair j
of the defeated unity, wene vanquished,
dissipated, sent seuVrying into ' t:l?e
south in disorder as great us that of i
their comrades and allies whom they
had sought to save.
Hut in this engagement Hodman |
IMIIsbury fell, killed instantly in action.
Ordering her batteries up to the
.boundary line. 1'atria instructed them
to shell the fugitives mercilessly. Further
than this line she would not permit
them to move. Nor would she permit
one of her decimated little army
to carry the war into .Mexico.
In defending her own property
against aggression she had acted within
her rights as a private citizen. If
reprisals were to be visited upon the
aggressors, that was the prerogative
of the ifiwvernnionf of her countrv?not
lier prerogative.
Thus iko invading army of Karon
Huroki and his dupes and allies incited
away into those sun-baked plains
and arid hills of Mexico, and was# no
more?like the army of a dream.
SAMURAI.
In the heat of that breathless afternoon
thi? armored motorcar, a grim
gray unit of mechanism rendered only
the more grim and gray by its heavy
coating of dust and the evidences of
hard usage it wore, hinged heavily
around the wide curves of the
mir'ary road penetrating .lie secret
heart of those Mexican mountains, de- 1
bouched on a downgrade with the
swiftness of an angel of death into
the great valley devoted to the allied
encampment, and drew up sharply, as
if eheeked by some invisible but immovable
barrier, before the adobe
building dedicated to the uses of the
commander in cldef and his staff.
Half a dozen men. worn, haggard, silent,
in uniforms stiff with sweat and
dust. alighted from the car and wearily
threw themselves, rather than
walked, up the steps to the veranda
io friitit of Hu? liojidniiMrtoi-s hnildiiLi/.
Deepest diseonsolation was (ho keynote
of their common demeanor.
. J?1 (kojiims that furrowed their dustnmsked
fares, hi those red-rlmmed
eyes which stared out of them, despair
was written plainly-?the despair of
ramblers who lutve ?t_eked all on a
single throw and have lost.
l*v?vM,no--t in their numher was Ihiron
ir?roki. that areli-coiispirator. that
rambler ineurabl ?a presence of eomtttandin^
distinction even in the shadow
of def< at, dis^raeo. and deatii.
At his heels moved his shadow, that
(me who-e devotion and loyalty to his
master passed even that devotion anu
loyalty which was the due of his emperor?Hurokl's
aid de camp of today,
his hody servtint of yesterday. his familiar
spirit of all (lavs, that Japanese
who answered to the name of Kato.
T^lr f011 r companions wore officers
of nigh lank, subordinate only to tlie
commander in chief of the army which
Japan had thrown Into Mexico to eo'
operate with the native troops in that
"great drive" designed to split the
baited States asunder by invading the
; Mississippi valley via the Southwest'
era states, leaving the I'aelflc slope de1
fenseless ngaiimt invasion hy way of
' Lower California and tlie sea.
As ITtiroki moved toward the door of
the adobe building, a Japanese orderly
' came out, paused, saluted stiffly, with
a Countenance expressionless, and
s proffered a folded paper.
Iluroki recognized the form on
s which incoming telegraphic dispatches
s were I ranserihed. lie could have
? l hazarded a shrewd guess at the iutlure
of this eoinmunication ? if put
^ to it. could have foretold it almost
b word for word.
None the less he extended a stead?
n ii/fmit If 1111 , I, I, ,< i ftn> nil Pier
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1 read it without pt?rmi11intf the slight
'' est phase of liis emotions to ho re
fleeted in liis faro, and deliberately re
'1. folded it.
u' ; At ;?::';vr before the doorway, h<
id rounded smartly on Ids heels and com
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^ The Caterpillar
?m tided the wandering hrtfwt ?f Uta I
tagged stuff with a single glance, hri?
pose gesture less. With a single impulse
t)H>y stiffened to attention.
After a moment lie ml<lre*Ko<l them
In a level and toneless voice, with '
tlte muiiiier of one imimrting infocma- j
tion concerning a person of particular ,
unimportance.
*Ntieiitleuien.** said Huron lluivki, ""It 1
becomes my duty to Imiwrt to you cer- i
tain advices. I have here a message '
from his majesty, the emperor."
He paused to make olieisance to the
ettigy symbolized by that name.
"I need hardly remind you that, upon
the untimely death, day before yesterday,
of the late commander in chief,
Count Nogi, 1. acting ou authority
vested du me by his imperial majesty,
assumed the functions of commander
In chief, :itnd in my supreme discretion
initiated :that invasion of the United
States Which was the ultimate purpose
of our presence in Mexico. For
this action tl assumed, professed, and
accept full responsibility.
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i iiiti uij :iu uuii n lid iii-uuyimti
beside the imixbut. I alone was, ami mil,
liable for it* consequences. The onus
of failure rests upon a single head,
my own.
"Ily my lackMaf sound judgment, my
liatste and rashness, 1 have brought
down defeat upon our forces, 1 have
needlessly sacritlce.il unnumbered l'el- j
low servants of his majesty, the emperor.
1 have wrought confusion with
his imperial designs, 1 have set at
naught his ends.
"So be it. 1 explain without attempt
to extenuate the consequences of my
madness, I accept without protest
the penalty of failure.
"The command of our scattered and
shattered forces 1 resign to your
capable hands. You are Instructed
to reorganize them as quickly as
possible and withdraw from this
part of Mexico, inarching westwards
to etfeet a junction with the army en*
< 11011x1 <i I At n 1*1111 >o it llov Tills: von
will do not only with nil possible expedition.
but with all feasible secrecy.
"I hnve one request to make of your
pity; if it be within your power, 1
would like my dishonored body to he
conveyed to Nippon for burial.
"(Sentleinen, I tfo to Join my forefathers.
in full confidence that the
honorable fashion of my death will
secure for me the freedom of their
company."
Iluroki ceased to speak, drew himself
up. and saluted his staff. That
salute returned, he executed tin aboutface
and strode into the adobe buildin
tf.
After him went Kato.
For tin hour he sat in the office of
the commander in chief, industriously,
methodically putting in order ml his
affairs, ollicial as well as personal.
When there was no more to do, he
rose without hesitation, and strode into
the adjoining room, which had been
his sleeping quarters.
Hero Kato was await im: him?Kato
translated from the trim and soldieny
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anny into a ligure that might
have been conjured from some .Japaii's-e
print, a servile, fawning, obse(}uioii>
figure in the robes of his race
ami liumhle caste.
Upon the plain canvas cot which
had been liuroki's bed were laid out
the iii.'iirniii'j' inly embroider: d robes
of a ?S;?muruL ? ' ~
I'eside the <-c?t stood I he steel trunk
v.'hirh had contained these robes, and
which for many years had formed an
e senii I adjunct to Harold's traveli
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Assisted deftly by Kato. Huron lluroki
divested him- ''' **'' Ids soldier's
cloihinjr. bathed ; . e..<. sed In the
robes of his nobility.
Throughout neitln r uttered a single
word.
' And In silence IfuroUi turned and
entered the room beyond, leaving his
footwear at the threshold.
The door closed behind him. On Its
other side Kato, the imperturbable,
knelt and ground his forehead into
the dust of the floor.
In one stride Baron ITurokl had
; passed from Mexico to Nippon. Paper
screens masked the earthen walls and
1 he thatched roof of the room. The
floor was covered with a clean white
cloth. In the middle of It rested n
umall rug of glowing, sanguinary scar
let. At the edge of this small ruj
was a low stand on which rested t
i jeweled dagger in a jeweled sheath.
Kneeling on tin* rug, Baron HuroU
swiftly denuded his body to the waist
Than taking up tin* driver and draw
, lug it from its slioath he tested it
edge and point upon the thumbnail.
Satisfied, be held the damper bf
fore him on bis two hands, <?ntst retell
ed. open palms uppermost ; ami in tld
posture remained motionless for man
minutes, his grave, intelligent eye
fixed in meditation upon a point, e
r, scene, or memory, thousands of mile
removed beyond the narrow confine
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> Tank Wins the Day.
ctf -that little Tmvi Hi rtic mlobf HlMd*
?iuK in the mountain* of Mexico.
There was neither liesitiitlon nor
mutiny in hi* tcaqtrr. hut only repining
that his efforts in the service of
iliis eutperor hud been so ill lated.
He would have 5 ecu glud of a lor
<ir life if that pejnuiTNcd him to ropa
the errors of which he had been jxuilty.
Hut he had liad his chance, ami had
infled.
What must be, must.
With a Kiuhleu, *wift turn of hi*
hand this unhappy gentleman of .Japan
-reversed the point of the dujr^er
and (drove it in toward his diaphragm.
THE COST.
When Pntria appeared in the doorway
the nurse rose and with a friindly
and reassuring smile slipped out of
the return.
Donald J'nrr lay moveless on his
cot, .asleep. The girl sat down -on the
chair by ills side mid gently dropped
her hand upon oao of his (hat lay
outside th* sheet, a dark, strong hand
tliat seemed. in her sight, to dwarf
and render altogether puny and insignificant
the slender white grace of
her own.
Still Donald did not slir. She was
content with that. Sleep was what
la4 needed, the best of all medicines
for his hurts. She asked for herself
no more than this, that she l>e permitted
to rest a little hy his side, to
touch Ids hand, to know that, though
his wounds wore grievous, he would
live, and in a day to come he whole
and sound once more?and hers.
She was very weary. The need to
rest oppressed her like a heavy lairden.
Yet she il <! not dream of closing
her eyes in sleep. She hud too
much to think about, the victory of
the day to contemplate, its cost to
reckon. Her brain seemed to burn
with thoughts, doubts, fears, regrets.
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tleetod in (Mullens succession flashing
scenes from the splendid, nwftil
pageant of that day and night of
fi^rli t i n^r.
It was three o'clock in the afternoon.
The last shot at the routed and
tiering armies of invasion had been
tired hours ago. The last fugitive had
long since disappeared. The last
stricken horse had hern killed, the last
wounded man had been found and
cared for, the last dead man buried.
Remained only the stricken field,
bloodied and defiled and trampled and
furrowed almost beyond recognition;
the consciousness that the day was
won, the invader disastrously defeated,
the country saved in spite of itself;
the bitterness of victory.
Sitting there in that close little roem
that reeked of iodoform, with her
hands touching the hand of her beloved,
the girl abandoned herself to
reverie, her dark eyes fathoming Immeasurable
depths of thought.
Uiironsejotisiy site began to eon the
toll of victory; lmnahl wounded nh.'h
unto death. Rodman l'illsluiry an 1
Ibid Morgan (had?and tlmse hut the
beginni.ig. names that hcadei^ ihe hundreds
upon the 1 i -is of casualties
merely hernuse they were most intimate
to l'afria; the haeiemia wrecked
neyonu repair, iik> tair eount rysuit?
that surrounded i; turned into n stinkii;shambles,
a en . \ irea^ure ? \,? !?? 1 ed
it; ammunition arid tin- bushes of
v a r.
Aral ail to what end?
Shy foresaw unite clearly what
Touchy People.
I't'Wiii'o of touchy peopl"! Tie re
uri' always some about. ready to ] >ter
you In some way. Hurry on past, so
you cannot hear them, and aliove all,
refuse to deny what tln-y say. .lust
Keep sweet and pi ahead, and let lldr
unkind words swelter in the jiloa'.ninp
1 low mil' h time and nation are wast
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?. < I til) I?'IM I lt\ JM-I IJIM-. ; \ i M .< ? ? ......
people think tl.ey sire the ssilt ??1 '.lie
* i"111 and everybody else <iirly water.
It is a mil wickedness t?> 1m* touchy,
It is sis bad us lyin^r and chcsiliim.
It doo.s t!u' world as much harm. It
spoils mora religion than swearing. It
you find si touchy person in yout
church, turn hill) out sis soon sis possible;
if not, lie will infect the whoh
brotherhood and sisterhood with hi?
! sin. We knew a touchy person om
) time whose touchiness struck in ot
i him sind he died. We hope all our ta n
i tie renders will escape so sorry a late
- ?Ohio i>tate Journal.
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1 The Kind of Floors He Wanted.
j "Would you like the floors in mosti
' ic?" asked the sirehileet.
The Sprlnjdlcld lima looked dubious
"Would you like the floor in iuosai
a patterns?"
i "I don't know so much Jibcmt thsit,
; he finally said. "I ain't K<d ntiy prejti
l" dice about Moses sis a msin, and mayb
H he knew a lot about the Isiw. As rc
v ysirds laying floors though, I kimie
s think I'd rather have them unscctai
11 Jan."?Harper's Weekly.
H Ambition.
"T'n, what Is ambition?"
"Ambition, my hoy, is that spir
which prompt* a young man to wor
hard so tlutt lie can some day ate
working hard."
\
Natural Process.
j "What do you think of having
' woman on the floor in congress?"
| "Why, naturally, I regard it as
1 sweeping change."
A Strategic Retreat.
1 ? - ? * ? ?>*t
4 "John, wnm is at i?iimmiii.<i? ,
I "Mary, my dear, I am nstonlftha
t you should ask we such a question ai
I before the children, too 1"
I Increase in Friends.
5 "I thought a five passenger c
1! ! would easily hold all my friends."
; "Well?"
"Until I got a five passenger car."
would happen within tV next few
day* mix! weeks; the storm of popular
indignation; the massing ?f troops
dong the heritor; the interexchange
oin'omat'r amenities; Japan's stuiiinisiv
polite disavowal of Hurokt
::i.?1 all his alleged works; Mexico's
disavowal of the part its troops had A
played in the conspiracy and the at- / ^
tempt ed Invasion; the administration's
grudging acceptance of both;
demands for measures of "preparedness"
voiced in congress; the shrill
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Huroki Prepares to Die.
clamor r?f the pacilixts, contending lit
once that to prepare to resist agreNsion
was to invite agression mid that
tln? defeated invasion hud been nierely
a minor skirmish between cowpunchers
and Mexican raiders, an 11 ffair
e\at';.'eT*at? <1 heyond reason; tho
sltmm rin^r d*>w n of popular interest;
the return of the eouuuon apathy; the
renewed reign of lethargic indiffwrenee
to the need for "preparedness !'*
And so she began to understand
that the vietor.v of that day was hut ^
a liarren one; that she had fought and
* ...lur< i| and sacrificed lives and happiness
and treasure to no end wh.iti
\i r. hut only to he a beginning; that
lie battle, the battle of her country,
the battle of eointaon sense patiiotisi.i,
w; s no'rely beginning; that he
v. ho uld siivc his country in spite
of it so! t utidert: l:es a labor as unending
a.s it i< t hai.kb- s.
>Vv* rtheless, to this plough she had #v
set li r hand* ; and there could he no j
turning back. 1
She must light on and on and on, J
should* r to 1 >pnn!d's shoulder, Ins
hand in hers. |
Kending forward Patrin tenderly set I
her lips to the lips of Inmald l'arr, I
dedieal ing anew her lile and his, that 1
wiij Imrs to do with as she willed, to |
the s'Tvice of their country, that It
might l>e saved. 1
(Tin-: i:xd.) I
At the Wedding Fcart.
Tn suiiM- pa rt s of ilio eountry it Is
tin- custom to s< 11< 1 eomrrat ulatory telegrams
to fri? mis iif m distnnee who lire
being married. Th:tt is, the message
is timed to arrive just after the ceremony.
and during the feast wliich usuaily
follows,
i Now. a certain man, ti large farmer, I
kpvus about to he married, and shortly
before the time he heard that one of
his cattle had strayiil. it being a
valuable animal, he toid his bailiff to
let him know at once when it was
found. The bailiff, being an ecimotnhal
mall, eomhimd the two ifujhiirs,
and the happy bridegroom received tlio jj
following message just as they ail sat
'! down to dinner: I
<!i "Congratulations. The beast Is |
'1 caught !"
1 It is fair to conclude that the tele- h
* gram afforded at least as much grati- Jfl
fication to the assembled miosis as to
Hie actual recipient himself.?Tit-Bits.
Proverbs.
Proverbs luive not always boon an
unmixed benefit to the world. There
' are several very mean and malignant h
c proverbs embodying the wit of one
man and the ill-nature, not the wis- ^
dnin, of many men. One of the'-tfcorst
of these proverbs Is, "There Is no
<- smoke without tire"?a proverb which
has lent its aid to thousands of gross ^
r calumnies. Perhaps we might venr*
ture to adopt a counteracting proverb
which has at least as much truth, I
physically and metaphysically, as the
foregoing one. It Is: "The (ess fire rJ
the greater the smoke."?Sir Arthur
It Helps.
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>P Correctly Defined. ,
The women were discussing their
marital troubles, when one asked: "By
. the way, what is your hushuiul doing
ft now ?"
"Oh," snld the other, "he's n-settln* i
a 'round tellin' what's goln' to happen ;l
next election."
"Then he's a prophet?"
"No, he ain't. So fur as this t^finHy
Is concerned, tie's a doud loss."
Ml
ad Resented Insult.
The Judge?You say that through- j,
out this affair you acted like a per* t
feet lady?
?t Mrs. Casey?Sure, your honor; when t
he tips his hat to me an' me not J
knowln' him, I ups with a rock au*
caves in his face.?l'uck.
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