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OHIO SKHS A MAN.
Politics in Ohio has reached the pitch of
desperation at which the effort to force the de
feat of Governor Harmon does not hesitate to
v ink a' tin shedding of biood and to encourage
condition- of anarchy for the sake of partisan
advantage. For much more than the fortunes of
a Governor and a Senator are at stake. I ait is
at stake. The Republican party in the nation
calculates its fortunes on the result of the Ohio
issue. If Ohio, in the face of the power of the
administration, shall declare against it- own en
cumbent in the White House, the writing that
is already on tin* wall will need no inspired in
terpreter to decipher it. If Ohio can !*■ saved to
the administration, there will be afforded the
first check to a movement toward a profound
change of policy in the country. There will be
eliminated fmm the Democratic situation the
man upon whom, since the passing of John John
son, the eyes of the people have most steadily
rested, as the leader in 1012. The erisis is in
every sense a tense one. It is being met bv Re
publican.- with cut-throat methods. The inci
dent of lawlessness encouraged is not permitted
to embarrass the making of a desperate political
play.
Opportunely, Columbus developed a street cat
strike. Signs are not wanting that the Repub
lican maeilfhe knew of tin* strike beforehand ami
encouraged it. However that may le, the de
velopment of disorder was not only not cheeked
but tacitly approved. Destruction of property
continued rim.-, and disorders, assaults upon met
attempting to operate the ears elicited from tin
Republican Mayor and the Republican Sherit
only the most perfunctory interest. While the;
were eloM-»e.l with the managers of the State Re
publican machine, Columbus was left in a Stab
of anarchy. Then—“Labor” having heet
aroused, passions having been excited,—the May
or and Sheriff called upon the Governor fot
troops. Having encouraged lawlessness and tin
shedding of blood, they did not hesitate to at
tempt to spill the blood of those whom they ha<
excited t<> crime-- and to at iho same time pu
the Governor in the attitude of spilling the blocs
of “martvrs"\
Governor Harmon, however, is by no mean
lost to political appreciation. He ordered t:h<
—tPoops—ami -he—ordered in errrnTnanri r.f then
General Hick, a Republican. The disorder
ceased temporarily. The troops marched horn*
And then the riots commenced again, and tIn
Columbus police all hut joined the rioter
hy refusing to act toward the preservation o
order. Still the Sheriff hesitated, dawdled, dit
nothing.
Then the l»>lt fell. Governor Harmon ha:
ordered hack the troops, upon his own initiative
He ha~ played the man, and polities at the sam<
time. He has shifted the burden of respoiisibil
itv. while himself accepting the basic respon
fihility of maintaining order. He has set hirnsol:
on the side of the law. his opponents against tig
law. He will break the strike, >o long as tin
strike takes on the color of anarchy. Hr' will af
ford a fair Heal between lalx>r and capital. Hr
will, above all. protect the rights of the public
He will with that tine disregard of politics, vrhicl
has time after time Ren demonstrated to Ire tin
finest politic' a- all, do the brave and the ..(>
vious thing.
In this cool, calm, and determined action it:
the face of a political campaign impregnated
with teaehory there i- a suggestion of the Clove
laud precedent of 1 £!♦-!, when, asserting the riglu
of the Government to protect its fail functions
he acted in a larger sphere and called out the
l need .State- troops to suppress a reign of ternti
to which State politics in Illinois was at the tine
lending it« protection. Other causes resulted it
the retirement of Cleveland front politics, hut
had the issue hung upon his solution of the
Chicago strike situation there is little reason tc
doubt that the innate sense of justide of thf
people at large would have upheld a brave actior
—in the Xation. as we believe it will justify it
counterpart «f Ohio
J here is a point where the most elaborate ol
plow, the most calculated of meshes cast for thf
destruction of .a victim, is shattered and dis
solved. That is when, scorning the effort to
Bvoid the consequences, a man acts upon the ini
L pulse of his manhood.
POPULAR VERDICT OS “HIGH COST''
The report of the minority* members of the
4 ^cnite Committee appointed for the purpose 01
S' - 'ligating and reporting upon the causes tin
' eg the ‘'lru-tva.-i d <■/.-! of living" ifl exact lj
what was to lx* expected in view of the report. of
!the majority.
The majority report* aside from the labored
reasoning wherehv it was sought to sustain its
findings, amounted simply to a verdict of acquit
tal of the tariff.
When the report was made public every man
who watches the trend of polities smiled with sat
i.-faction n; his own powers of prophecy. 1 ho
majority of the committee simply reported what
it had l*een appointed to report. Its verdict was
made up la-fore it was chosen. Its deliberations
were of the farcical character of men who, having
decided what they were going to find, started out
to find it. The entire matter was preconceived,
and preordained. It fooled and will tool no
1* xly
The rejvirt «»f the minority lays the cause of
the high prices which everybody feels exactly
where the elemental reasoning of the average
man places it. It declares that the trusts which
- ttb- eompetit.ion within tin- country arc respon
»ibl«- for tht payment of two prices by the con
sumer. It declares further tiiat the existence
of the trusts is po-sible only so long as they are
enabled to maintain prices by the suppression of
a competition which, without the tariff, they
could not control. When foreign competition is
subjected to a tariff of from tiftv to one hundred
and wen more jwr cent, it becomes manifest
that onh active competition can keep the price
'of commodities to the consumer from practically
equalling the cost of the commodity, plus the
amount of the tariff. And with a market cou
tricted, it follows that a golden opportunity of
this character results in the formation of com*
binations for the expres purpose of destroying
compel .it ion and thus making available this im
mense advantage. The whole trust system of
oppression, of tyrannical control over trade and
manufacture, is precisely based upon the one idea
of utilizing to the full the false advantage of a
protective tax imposed for the giving of special
lienefits. The consumer pays. All the majority
reports of so-called experts to the contrary, he
" knows that he pays, and why.
Scientifically considered the tariff is not un
like the question of freight rates, in that nolxalv
understands it- Any honest rate expert will
admit that he knows as little about his profession
as the electrical expert knows about his. Both
deal with established facts. They apply prin
eiples without understanding them. As in the
case of the geniu* who devised the method of
' sending two telegrams each way over one wire
and was yet unable to explain how he did it, so
the tinkerers with freight rates and with the
lariff (tan look only t<» results. Results, after
all, constitute the matter of chief concern. And,
, as results are understood through experience, the
t "ultimate consumer", who bv the operation of
• the tariff is ultimately and completed consumed
f is about as fair a tariff expert as the next. The
r man who is "hit where he lives" understands as
no;one else can the force and direction of the
■ blow.
i Obvious as its findings are. we expect the re
• port of tiie minority members of the committee
' to work much good at. this time. It sounds the
J | issue of peculiar hutnan interest in this countn
just now. It indicates the point of attack. 1
I jexposes the hypocrisy of the tariff law. It put;
' clearly and sanely the effect of that Jaw. Its ex
I position is as plain as a sum in simple addition
with the demonstration in every man's daily ex
J perienee. And it will more forcibly point to tin
- j practice, which has almost become a policy, of as
rtsuiiiTng award, oT Intelligence in the people ii
3 matters of such simplicity that. lhe mere assump
• lion becomes an insult. What could he mor<
' cynical ami brutal than for a Congress which hac
: just laid an iniquituous and oppressive law t<
all hut openly declare that it would attempt, tc
1 jnstfv the law hv appointing a committee whe
should find that its effect was different from whai
! the country at large had already discovered it
• j to he 1 et that is the history of the Committee
‘ of Investigation of the High Cost of Living.
Everybody knew it at, the time. The result was
foreseen, admitted, declared in advance. As
in the case of the Ballinger whitewash eom
, miftee. whose findings while not vet made
public have been known ever since the committee
was appointed, the clear assumption is that tin
' people are fools.
But that is an assumption which has not yet
1 Iteen sufficiently justifieed to rank as a proverb.
“SHOWING T. R. HIS PLACE.'’
Roosevelt, the inevitable!
Vow the news is that the New York “stal
j warts”—people like Timothy Woodruff, likf
Odell, like Barnes, and Ward, and Hendricks—
are preparing to “show the Colonel his place’’.
They resent his “meddling" in New York poli
tics—which they flatter themselves is tantamount
to their affairs, privileges and perquisites. Re
cently the Colonel naively admitted that he was
considering whether he would accept the tempor
ary chairmanship of the Republican convention
Woodruff, rf a Is, with a tine show of outraged
dignity, now point out the obvious fact that, be
fore worrying over the acceptance of an invitation
the invitation itself ought to be in hand, and they
gird their lions to the great effort of eliminating
Roosevelt in a machine ridden convention
From a Democratic standpoint we consider
this the most discouraging news from New York
since this same coalition defeated the Hughes
primary bill, for which Roosevelt had become
sponsor. We have our own definite opinion, as
tc the worth of tho Colonel himself. But, in
; common with others, we recognize and do not for
a moment discount the hold of the Colonel on
the people. Whether, as lias so often been clear
ly the case, he is wrong-—or whether, as it has
suited him, he has been right—a great body of
>th© people have choeeu the ex-Presideut as tho
^ physical expression of their own awakened in
terest in dean and honest government. It may
well lie that, they have chosen wrongly, that the\
have been hypnotized by methods at times ap
proaching those of the mountebank, but these
facts do not remotely affect the purity of thejg,*
Iteliefs or the fact of their coutidenet If Roose
velt desires to be temporary chairman, or perm
anent chairman, or anything dese connected with
the New York Republican convention from
nominco-in-chief down, he can have it. the ma
chine in into to the contrary notwithstanding.
I’lte worst of it is. that no man knows this fact
so well as Theodore Roosevelt, and the danger
of the situation is that, thy gage of battle having
been Hung at his feet, he may pick it up. In
that event it i* barely possible that the clear drift
of sentiment in New York toward the Democracy
will out of popular resentment, at an attempt at
petty rule reedve a check which could not other
wise D* given it.
N\ bile we deplore the elevation of any man to
a point of popular favor at which dictatorship be
gins; while we consider that, of all men, Roose
velt, whoso every act is so plainly bent to such h
consttmmation, is tin* last who ought to lx* en
! trusted with such a power, we must nevertheless
ricognize his sircngth while fearing its exercise,
ilis dictatorship in New York politics is not
only distasteful t<> New York politicians, hut, as
indicating a dictatorship of the country at large,
■ i- entitled to the concern of Nation. Whatever
j specious show of right they may bring to t heir
opposition to tlie Colonel, the “Old Guard” iu
New 'i ork Republican ranks is scracely the
agency which will ever if ever lie should Ik*
.made to discover it—“show Roosevelt his place".
1 here lives near Boston an old man. who was
once a ward politician of much success and many
pickings. He is now, and for years lias been,
jobless, hopeless and maudlin with remini-cence,
chief of which was tls* glorious occasion when,
to vent his indignation, lie defeated as a dele
gate to the convention Senator Hoar- in his own
ward! Incidentally, the vcnarable Senator was
forced to attend as delegate at large. Incidental
ly, again, lie was chairman of the convention.
And yet incidentally, the man who caused his
defeat in a precinct retired definitely and for all
time from the doorsill of politics.
Doubtless, the "Old Guard., will remember the
not infrequent instances of like character, all of
which go to prove that the most perfect machine
holds intact only so long a- it fails to conic into
jthe teeth of the wind of the popular purpose.
HARMON AGAIN*.
Governor Harmon, of Ohio, continue* to act
a manner calculated t<> make, his calling
, in
and election sure. Ihe Governor is a lawyer
j who is not afraid to put the theory of his pro
fession into praetiee. It. i.- sufficient for him
to perceive a duty marked out by the law, to
art towards the performance of the duty. He
j brings the power of the executive to bear upon
the things which the law declares it is in the
| power of the executive to accomplish. lie
takes the science of government solemnly and
staidly. Apparently, the man regards his oath
of office in a serious light, lie no more lets
executive action exceed his powers than he lets it
1 lag behind his duty. It becomes evident that
his attitude is clearly and undeviatingiy that of
taking the law at exactly its face value. A man
■ who is not afraid to enforce the law to its limit
1 : is little apt to trangress the law. It is the lax
• |executive abusing discretion in one instance -wht
I becomes a tyrant in a dozen other instances.
1 lie latest evidence ,of this peculiarity in the
Ohio Governor is the order issued by him to the
authorities to punish pool selling anti betting at
North Randall. A* a result it is announced that
the Grand Circuit Harness Meeting at Ivockport
Race Track is ‘‘Vailed off". Like Davy Crock
jett's coon, the gamblers determined to "come
'down" before the shooting commenced. It is a
j tribute to the man and an enlightening glimpse
i into the character of his methods that it required
l only a word from him to ensure obedience to the
law. What Hughes has partially accomplished
in New \ ork by a parade of virtue which has
been stmg throughout the country with the vol
ume of a choral society jn action, Harmon does
thoroughly in Ohio by simple executive order.
The people of his State know that when Governor
Harmon speaks, it i- the prelude to action. And
they know that lie dots not act, unless he has
the law on his side.
The prevention of race track gambling is, of
course, comparatively small thing. The prompt
enforcement of the law against a sheriff and a
mayor who winked tit lynching was an incident
scarcely of National moment. The refusal to
remain in profitable employment of the Govern
I mont. when the head of the Government refused
to permit the prosecution of a favorite officer was
I merely an indication of private professional
! ethics. Hut all of the-e things, for the vivid con
trasts that they show forth, indicate that the
Governor of Ohio i- true Presidential timber,
that he has and would bring to the White House
j that quality of manhood neither afraid nor
j belligerent, defects that for a long time have
■on one side or the other c-uused disappointment
to the popular ideal of what a President should
. be.
1 he indications are that the attempt in Ohio
to injure Governor Harmon is having a boom
erang effect.
\ enezuela has “backed down” again. If the
| process keeps up much longer it will back off the
j map.
| Colonel Roosevelt's continued silepee is doubt
dess in the way of showing au universal versatil
1 itj.
V.
A Dangrrotui Example.
Ab 1lluatratlng the dangers and evils of an indis
creet example when applied to a weak mind, we
have the ease of Tignor. of Henrico county. Several
months ago John Armstrong Chaloner, that distin
guished citizen who occupies the unique position of
being a raving maniac, officially, In the State of
Ne w York and a perfectly sane and responsible gen
tleman. officially, in the State of Virginia, undertook
to use his revolver to enforce the automobile regula
tions. lie was driving on a road and somebody in a
machine coming up behind him failed to stop at his
signal, whereupon he produced his firearm and witn
the threat of death Induced the automobile individual
to slow down. It seemfcd to us at the time that the
experiment was rather dangerous, but some of our
contemporaries were In high glee over It and exalted
Mr. Chaloner as a kind /'f champion of the people
and general hero. Now mark what happened:
Tignor is a farmer of Henrico, apparently a per
son of limited Intelligence but strong imagination.
Two or three weeks ago he* undertook to do the
Chaloner act and held up an offending automobile
with a pistol. The local newspaper apparently ap
proved his course. Thereupon Tignor adopted trie
pistol habit. It seems that he drove a perfectly quiet
pair of horses, which were not in the least disturbed
by automobile or anything else, except possible pros
pects of fodder. But Tignor fell into the custom or
driving slowly along the public highway around
Richmond, where automobiles arc many, of signaling
every machine and enforcing his warning with his
weapon. As usual, a revulsion of public sentiment
followed promptly. Tignor found himself suddenly
unpopular. Also in custody. He has been arrested
< n several charges more or loss serious. Certainly
he will be compelled t<> pay fees and fines which
he cannot afford and perhana he may have to |o a
term In jail or penitentiary. All because the ma.i
who did not know where to stop undertook to imitate
the man who did know where to stop. Which is fhe
danger that always attends the doing of a wrong, a
rash, a Silly or an illegal thing by a man of Intelli
gence and prominence.—Roanoke Times.
A View of tlie Farmer.
Edifying as may be the solemnity pervading a
modern memorial occasion, and devotional as is the
spirit which animates a camp meeting excursion,
neither of these examples of that adaptability of hu
man nature to the demands of the hour is half so
striking as the breathless interest vvith which an as
sembly of Agricolas will listen b> the hour while
velvet-handed children (,f political leisure essay t«*
instruct the sons of toil and experience In the science
of farming. The enlv satisfying parallel is to be
f< und in the callow ffedgllng who aspired to teach
his grandmother to suck eggs.—Norfolk Virginian
Pilot.
Ansa**!nation of RoanokeV Mayor.
A shiver may go up Mayor Onto hint?’ back whtn
ho reads the title statement, hence we hasten to as
| sure him that It is all a mistake.
! No great crime ever happens in an> part of th
country without finding a parallel in Roanoke -at
i least, according to the newspapers of other States
| Nobody has heard of the assassination of Koanoke’s
1 mayor, hut the editor of the New \ ork Journal
needed an assassinated mayor "to point a moral or
adorn a tale," and in mentally easting about, his first
thought was of Roanoke. He had no recollection **1
an assassination of the mayor of the • ity. hut con
cluded the chances would he in hi* favor to assert
it.
We quote from his editorial upon the attempted
assassination of Mayor Gaynor:
"From the murder of the mayor of Chicago, in
i 1S93. to that of the mayor of Roan«<ke, Ya.. the other
day, the instances of private violem e against puhlh
officers are numerous.”
We shall expect Mayor Cut**hin. after the manner
of the late lamented Mark Twain, to notif> the editor
of the journal that the report of his death is very
much exaggerated.—Roanoke World.
Save the Trees.
The Times-Herald called attention the other -lay
to the destruction of trees in the city by San Jose
s a’e and urged the council to take sortie steps toward
the extinction of the pest
We are gratified that the matter was a subject d
discussion In the Chamber of Commerce, last night
and that that body instructed the committee on street.-,
roads and parks to confer with the city council and
request that immediate action be taken.
In another column we publish an instructive com
munication from Mr. Klbert Nexsen on the name sub
ject. Mr. Nexsen calls attention to a ' it ordinal) e
which provides that the council SHALL annually ap
propriate « sum sufficient for the can and preserva
tion of all trees and ornamental shrubs along th**
sidewalks, in the boulevards and public grounds • f
the city and for the planting of ^uch trees and shrubs
as may be ordered by the,council
It is a matter of supreme importance and we hope
that the council will give it the attention it deserves.
Trees are a necessity. We have rather a s* ant supply.
| which makes it the more imperative that they should
be preserved. The council should ascertain from the
1 department of agriculture the surest method «»f de
stroying the scale and apply the remedy * fr» tually.
_N*.iv.pii.rt. News Timen- H»-ra UP
Kxaggerated Statements.
Just as when we had smallpox here, several years
ago. it is said very exaggerated statements arc being
circulated as to the extent of the damage being done
hereby the caving on Baldwin street. Our ir»en<B
on the outside may know, that the damage is rnuhm-d
so far to less than the length of a block on Baldwin
street, and the premises of three persons t■» a di
stance of about one-third the adjoining block Th*s
entire premises are not affected, but simply a big
i sink running across them. Then there is ea\ ing
under the fire house across the street.
The whole area affected is a very small part of
Staunton, and is all near to Hew is Greek, where once
was a marsh.—Staunton Leader.
The Talk “Down Home”
Flc\i'll ta» mi tin** stalk.
Mr. T E. Robinson, whose farm la two and a
half miles south of Gastonia. on the I’nlon road,
brought to the Gazette office yesterday a stalk of
Prolific torn which had on It eleven well-developed
ears. The stalk itself was about 12 feet high. This
particular stalk grew In a new ground field. Mr
Robinson has some good corn this season, though
his yield, he says, will not compare with that of
the farmers who are contesting for the champion
ship. He states that Mr. Robert Lineherg r, who
lives In his community, has the finest corn on the
Union road, not excepting that of Mr. Charleu Knives,
who last year made 800-odd bushels to the a-re
and who expects this season to make 100 bushels t"
the acre. Mr. Robinson thinks Mr. I-lnebergcr «lli
make more than that. Such corn records are mat
i ters of pride to Gaston countlans.—Gastonia <{alette.
Paid Primary for itohewitt.
Pursuant to a. call Issued by Chairman George B.
McLeod, the Robeson county democratic exceptive
1 committee met in the courthouse in Lumberton
yesterday and the primary plan of selecting county
t candldat-s was determined upon. The following
: schedule of charges was fixed to meet the expenses
of the primary: Clerk of the court, register of needs,
: treasurer and sheriff. $25 each; for Senate and House
i of Representatives, $10 each; for county commis
sioner and coroner, $5 each.
Butler Moans Trouble.
We see some democrats are taking great conso
lation. over the fact that. Morehead Is Butler’*, men
; and that this fact will take the piac-e of the- nigt-er
i In politics." We see no great consolation in this.
As we see It. Butler In politics in North Carolina
means frouhle, and lots of it, for the democratic
party.—Catawba County News.
Doctor's Jawbone Broken.
Dr. George H. Costner met with a painful accident
I Wednesday afternoon by which his Jawbone was
i brrken. He was helping unload some heavy ma
chinery from a wagon fn his back yard when a
’ massive piece of iron slipped and struck him on the
right side of the face, jarring him seriously and break
ing the jawbone just to the left of the point of the
i chin.—I-incolntcn News.
A Catawbu County Jug Factory.
Mr. Sharp runs a jug factory on his place, which
| we stopped to Inspect. Mr Sharp made a jug as
I big hr a jardiniere out of a little lump of clay the
i size of your two lists. He is an expert at the tradf?,
1 having worked in the Jug factory of his father, Mr.
* Peter Sharp, who Uvee nearby. The jugs are made
t
frnm the day taken from the Henry'a fork of the
Catawba river. It it* ground up afad then moulded
on a lathe. There Is a furnace where they are burned
hard, and when they, are ready to be sold to the
country stores and elsewhere, at 6 cents a gallon.
Jug hole goes at this rate. One or Mr. Sharp's
brothers, w ho lives out this way, also makes Jugs, but
there Is nobody who can quite’ make a little brown
jug Vlth such an entrancing glue-glue mouth to it
as M. I.. Sharp.—Howard A. Hanks, In Hickory
Democrat. a
.m-.n™.
this from the Richmond Virginian is worth repro
ducing: "The Durham Sun speaks of the late John
< harles McNeill as a 'boy poet.’ McNeill died when
he was nearly thirty-five years old and scarcely pub
lished a line before he was thirty. He germinated
silently and came to his utterance of song as a tree
sometimes flowers in a night. It Is evident, how
ever. that the Kun has never read any of the poems
if the man of whom It speaks. They were mao »
; poems. In shining eontrast to the grist that the Ttr
I Heel State turns out annually In the shape of 'near
poetry.' a little of It designedly funny, most ot it
J seriously ridiculous." That McNeill "germinated si
ently and came to his utterance of song ..s a tree
| sometimes flowers In a night,” Is one of the truest
i sayings that has been said of that lam snted genius,
i lc ls a sw^et sentiment and we thank the Virginian
I lor it.-—-Charlotte Chronicle.
Birds of a Feather
Hy TKMPLE HA I LEY.
i Copyright, 1810, by Associated Uterary Press-)
When Ward Davis heard that her name wan Jennie
Wright. he smiled and said, "It ought to be Jenn.e
Wren."
He had noticed that she wore sober little (towns
to class, (towns which contrasted strangely with the
pinks and blues and heliotropes of the other girls at
the summer school.
She had a sober manner, too, which was reltt'ed
by a birdlike brightness. And she went on her sedatw
and busy little way alone, studying hard while others
daneed and played cards, or ate shore dinners at
neighboring beaches.
To Ward she seemed, in spite eif her intellectual
occupation, closely allied to the women he had known
in his childhood She seemed the type who should
1 be busy about household things. He was glad when
he discovered that her work In the winter was in
I a kindergarten There seemed an eternal fitness In
the fact that she lived daily with little children Rut
now and then the thought t ame to him that she would
be at her best crooning a lullaby at her own hearth
; stone.
j S'ueh thoughts never entered his head when ha
I made merry with the other grown-up scholars who
were seeking the knowledge that should advance them
| Ir. the professions. Most, of these other women wets
bright, scintillating, beautiful treatures, who seemed
! made for fun and frivolity. Those who were not
I beautiful and brilliant were intellectual machines,
. whom no man c'VTitd seek, because they would not
. admit the need of masculine companionship.
Ward Davis, having taught Kngltsh to countless
! students, both in the summer and the winter schools
, of the university, could not uulte understand his in
terest in Jennie Wright. < 5 ir Is had come anil gone,
j and hi- had remained heart whole and fancy free,
i When he had dreamed of marriage for himself, ha
had thought he would select a wife of rare attain
: mints, with culture and b-auty. He had made up
| his mind that no teacher or toller should tempt hint
i from his ambitions, and now this little Jennie Wren
"us beginning to hold for him an Interest which waa
amazing and disconcerting.
i He avoided her except when she came to his
i i lasses, yet mb ae.mea to bring them singularly
| together Their taste wire similar. at;d If he went
: to the college art gallery he was sure to find her
j In front of nis favt rite pictures. She spent hour*
n the library digging among old looks, and It
pleased him on. ua,. ... .inn mat she was pouring over
n volume of ancient cookery. It seemed to fit In wttti
j his idea of her domestic dualities
That isn't in line with your studies." hi chided
her with a laugh In his eyes. Vou ought to >•»
reading Unger plays arid things like that
As her eyes laughed l ack h-e felt a sudden thrill.
It was as it a wild bird had flashed past him, ant
had tb-n hidden herself away In a thicket.
1 Itke cook books." she said. "They are my.
"nen in:ngs at in** hoard trig house go wroij|.
I like to read admit {food things to rat—just at this
moment 1 have hern reveling in a recipe for Bruns
i " i' k stew l>id you ever tarte one
"Yes, Indeed. H ard s tone was eager. M\ grand
father was a mighty hunter, and he would bring horns
squirrels, and there were always rorn and green pep
pers and onions to make it savory, and tomatoes to
a ltd the final finish to Its flavor."
She laughed. mu positively make a poem of It."
she said.
"Book here," he urged, boyishly, "I know a place,
a short ride away, where we ..an get Brunswick stew
made after our family recipe An old nurse of mins
keeps the place, and she would he delighted to have
It ready if I telephone ahead."
Her glance reminded him, more than ever, of a
startled bird. H'hv. 1 couldn't,' she said. And then
.. she added stillll-''Xjm,—must—tb+o-k—me—lirradfutty
; silly "
i Ward wanted to say that he thought her charming,
with the flush <-n her cheeks, and with her kindling
eyes. But ho knew u wouldn't do. He felt that flat
tery would ho distasteful to her. and that she Would
fly away.
Please." he urged again, but she shook her head.
"I have so much to do." she pleaded.
.Vey. r having he. rt thwarted. H ard made up hi*
, mind that some da\ sho'should go with him. hot he
hided his time. And, before he knew it. he w is
wooing his little Jennie Wren like a gallant KoMa
Kodbreast.
He was deeply, profoundly in love for the first
time. He felt stirring in his heart all the primeval
instincts. He wanted a home with this woman In
it. He wanted a future In which this little crea
ture should he at hts side, hheering him, helping
him. sustaining him He smiled as he analyzed hi*
feeling. "I thought I longed for a mate of gay
plumage, but I am no more fitted, with my quiet
i tastes and love of homely happiness, to unite with
1 a society woman than ts a ptatn robin to join his
t fortunes to a humming bird."
His sense of protection made him want to sur
! round her with every safeguard, and when ope day.
upon the campus, he found her being badgered by
a group of gay young students his blood boiled.
Behind a screen of vines he rat on tile porch of
the old library and heard them tease her about him.
They had read his secret before her modesty would
I permit h. r to understand, and now they were taxing
! her with It.
"I.ittle mouse." said a gay girl in blue, "to think
that you should carry off the prize.”
Jennie's inquiring glance went from one amused
face to another. "Why—I haven't won any prize,"
she said. "What do you mean?"
"A big prize." the girl In blue explained; "all ot
| us set our caps for the professor, and now you ha\»
i won out—" a
"Oh. Jennies face flamed, “but I haven't why,
who ever thought of such a thing—"
"He did and we did," chanted the girl In blue,
"oh. you blind little mouse." And away they went.
Ward dared not approach her as rhe stood alone
looking out over the rampus. He knew how rhe
mart feel to have had her affairs talked about by
i Iriv vrrent tongues.
But that afternoon he sought her out. ' You re
| fused my invitation -once." he said gravely, "to go
to my old nurse'*. Please don't refuse me now—I
want you."i
With a new self-oonselousnes* upon her she drooped
; her head.
"Please don't ask me." she protested. ”1—I think
f ought' hot to go."
"Why?"
I "Because.”
"Because of what those girls said to you on tug
porch this morning?”
" Yes."
“And It is true. And it is because of that that I
want to carry you off with me this afternoon. I vvunt
to talk It over with you—may l, Jennie Wren?"
Suddenly she was enveloped by the jo-’ of Ids love
for her. "Oh. yes,” she Said breathlessly. “I'll he
glad—to talk It over.”
In the dim, cool dining room of the old «arni»
house, where the air was sweet with the fragrance
of honeysuckle. Ward told her the story of his awak
ening. "I need such a woman as you to complete
my life." he said. "I need the comfort of you. the
quiet content that your presence gives me, ih» rest,
the peace, the Jcy of your gentle wtmanhood." He
r.mtled whimsically. "Do you Jtnow the w"rds "f the
old song: Will you have me. Jennie Wren?'”
And Jennie, true to nursery rhyme tradition, wtua>
pered, “Xat."