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If you intend leaving Richmond for a vacation,
have The Virginian sent daily to your cottage
or hotel. You may then enjoy the mountain
or seashore air and at the same time keep in
dose touch with all that is happening in the
city and State, and country—political, aocial,
business and sporting circles.
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THE “ LAND BREEZE CA'
"Oh, Thou invisible, eternal, in
/>mte, force, poirvr, irUdli genre, or
|r whatever Them art, railed God.
"If Thou arc not a being like, unto
K.' ourselves. why slum id men blindly wor
sh tp Thee a.s* such i
"But if a bong Thou art. why may
not men have some knowledge of Thy
I? hkcnr.se, attributes, sentiments?"
1| This is not- the imagined prehistoric cry of
< §ouie wounded soul in the childhood of the race,
raising impassioned hands to unresponsive
I {Heaven.
f On tlx* contrary, it is the ‘‘invocation*’ deliv
|*red by an American woman at the International
pFree Thought Congress, now in session at Brus
|*ds.
® The “Free Thinkers", scattered through every
country of tb<? world, have sent their thousands
|*0 the Belgium Capital. Many of the delegates
bear noted names. Science and philosophy find
Sthere some of their most illustrious lights. The
convention which opened with the words quoted
|above from Mrs. Kate Trimble-Woolsey, of
, Covington, Kentucky, has in the past been started
* Upon its proceedings by men who have endowed
humanity, as Pasteur and Haekel.
|i It cannot be said that, there an* not thinkers
f in the convention, and yet its first and dominant
If Bote is not thought, not conviction, not even hypo
llhesis. In an international gathering of the in
' tellectually elect of the universe, the sum and
s.wubstanco of its mental emancipation is a cry
| Bo sooner uttered than denied! Thus, in the
| Strange revolution of nature, is its highest Pdf
prelopment cursed with the same blatant and dog
pBaatic doubt with- which its lowest human ex*
I ampies assert the wisdom of their ignorance.
pXearned in nature’s secrete, putting existence
: tinder tlx* microscope, student of a 1 j the laws
: which shajie its destiny, the only challenge which
p’Eree 1 bought ’ has to make to life is a question
which it cannot solve! Even more pathetic than
./the Athenian altar to the "l uknown God” is this!
•confession of human impotence to do more than
kill a natural human hope. Pantheistic Athens
t; at least felt the Clod it could not understand;
[ Godless “Free Thought” pitches its appeal to a
> Deity it surmises, but will not admit.
:* Alore remakable still, the "Free Thought”
philosophy, a.» voiced by its Kentucky Priestess,
Is one of protest and indictment of (iod—“if
there la* a God . It. is He who is charged with 1
| *U persecutions. It is He who is the father of all i
injustice, He who rejoices iu blood, and human ■
slavery. He it is who slays children, and stifles;
liberty, and brings wars, and propagates disease!
r‘Why r asks “Free Thought”—and “ Why?’’ j
■gain. “Wo plead a revision of the law accord-j
ping to our code, who are unable to know Thee,
l aud therefore blaspheme that which we know to j
, be impossible—never having seen it! And there- j
* lore,—haring first questioned, then denied, and j
; then judged and convicted you as the author of i
j Death—give, Good Ixird, Thy Peace.” Thus,
■ air». 1 runote-N oolsey, wno, in farswrnh* verbu*,
J concludes her “prayer
“As ue loruj for Thy eternal glory
and bliss, u e pray lhaJ. at the judgment
day, man may rwt plead he should
he the judge and Thou the one ad
I judged.
“With reverence for Thee, ire offer
|. this for Thy hearing, oh (Jod—if Thou
B be God."
J his, then, is the sum <>f "hive 1 bought’’,
that it arrives nowhere, sees nothing, believe*
[nothing, and. doubting everything, doubts most,
of all itself! Kasblv impertinent, it would “grasp
this sorry scheme of things entire”. Dismaved
•t its rashness, it would be judged in mercv by
■ the Being whose cruelty it denounces. Vet with
I# its inconsistency and folly, even to the great •
of the World—“Just slatin’ eevidential facts be-:
jond all argument”—it calls as rbe scented land
■?!WWze called to McAndrew:
“Your nut her’s God's n graspin’ deil,
|t the shadow a’ yoursel
Got Out >> hooks hy inerriisiers e!ran
daft on Heaven and Hell * * *
“Ye'll not go bark to Him again an’
kiss His red-hot rod.
Rut come u i I s (.\or. who were
They?) an know the Tiering God.”
gfi “Now, who are They?” And what is the
tree Thought” that, not daring to think, has
even the courage to believe!
THE IRISH.
IptiehTnond could not more warmlv welcome
f gathering than one which harks hacks to
‘Vuld »od”. The Ancient Order of Hi- '
bernians will find tbe city's amis open to their
reception, the city’s heart beating strongly with
sympathy, the city's color green in their honor.
Richmond is glad to welcome the order as a great
and growing enterprise of good. It will be glad
der to greet its membership as Irishmen and
friends.
No race makes a stronger appeal to the uni
versal heart than this sad and happy, free-spoken,
sunny and tempestuous people. Scattered over
the world, always on the move, ready to become a
vital part of any community in which he casts
his lot, the Irishman means home, typifies pa
triotism, breathes joy, and simplicity and kind
ness. He meets life at. the flood and rides upon
it, dispensing as he gi»os the sunshine of his
temperament. Tragic as his history may be as a
race—rich or jioor as he may be as an individual
A—the Irishman loves strong and loves long, bates
deeply and quits hating shortly, and everywhere
and all the time* blesses with his lmmor and re
proaches with his generosity.
V\ In n lie comes to Richmond in convention,
every citizen whose ancestry hold- u trace of
Celtic blood will boast him as a brother, and
treat him the same way.
RE FAIR TO THE MOUNTAINEER.
Somebody on the Columbia State has recently
been taking a vacation in the North Carolina
mountains and easing himself periodically since
his return of what he saw and heard in that
grandly beautiful section, which is typical of
the Appalachian range in general. It appears,
however, that whoever this editorial somebody
, . . *
i IS, Jus vacation trill WHS comnfi&sfHl liv what nil A
may learn in a summer resort hotel, with the ad
dition of forays into the mountains in search of
the almrigiual and the picturesque. Making jk>
litienl application of its discoveries, the State
! recently averred that probably nowhere in Amer
ica “are the results of ignorance so painfully il
lustrated as among the .Republicans of the West
ern North ('aroliria mountains’, and it goes on
to particularize:
“ 1 he. North Carolina mountaineer
when a Republican is a Republican
because his grandfather was a Whig.
In nine cases out of ten he is poor—
much poorer than the Southern Demo
cratic farmer. Only in a few. if any,
small areas in this State are such pov
erty anil wretchedness to be found as
in western North Carolina. The
mountaineers receive no benefits what
ever from the protection system. They
are not a manufacturing people, and
they sell nothing at a tariff-made price.
On the little that they are able to
buy, the sugar, the coffee, the farming
tools and household articles, they pay
the usual tariff tax.’’
While the political diagnosis is probably cor
rect, the tenor .of tho State’s evidence is dis
tinctly misleading. Perhaps it is true that the
Republican element in the mountains, not only
of North Carolina but in other States through
which the Appalachian range extends, holds its
political convictions from inheritance rather than
from reason. But the inference 'that, the moun-j
taineer of to-duv is the densely ignorant, fool-]
ishlv suspicions, abjectly poor individual met)
with in the pages of mountain “literature" is
well-nigh a libel. Even such ignorance as ex
isted in the mountains in the days when they
had not been pierced in every direction by rail
roads was more a lack of information than a
-wan.t-.uT-1nto 11 oct,—Your mountaineer. even in
the pages which depend for their interest on show
ing him as a viciously uncanny Rung, is never
called fool. Since he has come into contact with
the world, his native qualities have lent him to
a progress in both a material and a mental way ,
which cannot be equalled elsewhere. From the
ol<l pioneers and Whig foreliears, he absorbed a
Tonacitv ot purpose, and a vigorous, it homely,
morality which stood him in good stead and j
served to keep him strong and clean to meet the ■
advancing world halfway. While it, is true that i
an inherited stubbornness has preserved to some
extent a Republican tradition in a people who;
cannot hope.remotely to benefit by the success of |
their party, even this steadfastness of purpose!
servep to show a virtue superior to its fault.
An investigator is all too apt to discover that ;
for which he searches. Here and there in the j
mountains survives the typical cabin of the)
pioneer, equipped with antlers and long barreled
rifle, with slattern wife and skulking children, j
It is. however, but the quaint memento of a van
ished past: and it is not remotely the illustration
•f a type. In the bustling mountain towns, on
the well-kept mountain farms, in the modern
development of mountain resources, the men of
the big hills are actors iustead of on lookers.
Republican or Democrat, the average man of
iho mountains holds, along with an equal intel
lectual ability with the average man of the low
lands, the tang of interest, pertaining to a more
ir less mysterious history. And that is all.
Whatever his politics, let us be fair to the moun
taineer.
THE SOUTH ANI) THE CENSUS.
The een«us forecast, which is now reasonably
locurate, is somewhat surprising in that it indi-1
■ates that the center of the country’s population
ias riot within the past decade advanced farther j
A est.. This is contrary to rule and expectation,
rnt analysis of the condition shows a cause which
eaves the East little to rejoice over at the fact.
In earlier decades the steady stream of im- 11
Migration that filtered through Castle Garden!
eareely paused in the Metropolis and adjacent !
States. The bulk of it held the vision of the i
Vest—free, op-n, with lands lying fallow for !
he taking. Absorbed in the spacious new eoun- *
rj* these European immigrants found in their j
indejiondence, in the necessity of hard and
healthful living, the antidote for generations oi
crowded squalor. As a consequence, the immi
grant who settled in the West reared American
children, himself became American through his
contacts. Now, with the Western lands practical
ly settled, with prices high for farms and rancliet
that a few years ago could have been bought for
ja song, the immigrant does not feel the Western
impulse. Squatting in the city or herding in the
coal mines, he finds an environment in which
he may easily continue in the new land the ens
! toms, the language and the point of view of the
'old. It is the accumulation of this class of people
which enables the East to hold its own in figures
with the West. But what it holds in figures, it
does not hold in fact. Indeed, it is stated that the
! forthcoming rolls will discl<*e for the Eastern
Stall's more foreign than American names.
Indications, also, are that more than ever the
country must look to the South as the home of a
rapidly vanishing '•American” race. The South
ern type was fused and amalgamated in the
earlv days, when immigration meant adventure
instead of desperation, strength instead of weak
ness. Peculiar fortunes have held the type true,
untill now it, is both dominant and established,
j The census ligures are expected to show a large
j percentage of growth in Southern population, a
[growth, too, which is in despite of negro emi
gration from the rural district-, and the bulk of
which is “home-grown”. With lands plentiful
and comparatively cheap, arui yet, too well-settled
to attract the irresponsible elements from foreign
countries, the South has abundant cause for con
gratulation in this first definite, augury of what
the census will disclose concerning it.
NEWSPAPERS FRAN'KS.
\\V fail to see the hypocrisy which the Roa
noke Times implies in noticing the dead silence
on the. part of the, press upon the passing of the
telegraph and telephone frank from the constant
ly diminishing store of newspaper perquisites.
It has. it says, “watched with some curiosity to see
joirr friends the daily newspapers hurst forth into
I editorial rejoicings’’, but, "A’nry a rejoice have
We seen over the withdrawal of these special priv
ileges and means of small graft”.
Why should the daily papers especially re
joice at a law which removes small benefits
from themselves, when laws that in a very large
way benefit real special interests are carefully
festered ? What does it signify that these same
papers which are silent upon the occasion of the
cutting off of the courtesies to which they have
bf4*n educated by public service corporations
should in the past from time to time have in
dulged "eloquent and impressive outcries against
the abuse of the franking privilege—the free
use of tiio mails—by members of Congress” ?
The eases, as we see them, are not remotely
aoialagous. The newspapers, indeed, are the
best customers of the telegraph and telephone
companies; they pay for what they get and it is
recognized business tactics to show a courtesy to
a good customer, ft. may be that in the long run
it will be better for the papers not. to have the
franks, but wherein th< ir possession of them con
stituted an abuse similar to that, of a servant of
the public employ adding to his salary bv in
direct. means, we are unable to say. If any com
ment upon this question is specially pertinent, is
it not rather that the newspapers’ knowledge of
the withdrawal of favors from themselves has iu
no wise served to keep them silent, as to the prin
ciple which is in constant antagonism to-special
that, are now conspicuously silent did not hesi
tate to endorse the hill to include the telegraph
and telephone companies in the class of inter
state commerce corporations, although they knew
full well that such a hill would have the effect- of
bringing both companies and newspapers under
the inhibition of the Hepburn law as respects
the giving or acceptance of franks or passes.
1 he ease cited bv the 1 irties is, we think, dif
ferent from the position in which many papers
found themselves when the Hepburn law was in
committee. At that time there was loud outcry
for an anti-pass provision, most of it in the ex
pectation that the amendment would not he in
cluded in the bill. Had it not been included,
many papers would have continued to use their:
passes, while crying to high Heaven against the
iniquity of the law permitting them to do so. To !
their everlasting undoing Congress adopted the I
amendment, and there was woe in Israel—a woe j
at which even those most afflicted were forced to I
grin guiltily in private. But we do not see !
wherein a thing that was asked for hypocritically ;
in 100(5 implies hypocrisy when the' same thing j
was asked for with open eyes in 1910.
I he latest reports from Nicaragua indicate a
Glorious victory for Secretary Knox. Madriz
is stated to be on tbc run and mobs in Managua
are shouting “Down with the Yankees”. A !
Good start for the era of good feeling and closer I
trade between the United States and Central and !
South American countries which was prophesied
when the Panama ('anal commenced to take the
form of a fact!
Y hat is to become of the Kopsevelf speech for
Slomp? If the Colonel aligns himself with the
Insurgents, he attacks his candidate’s platform;
if he sticks to 1 aft and Cannon, he sacrifices his
nvn hopes. If he does the one, he ruins Slemp;
f he does the other, he ruins himself. The signs
ill point to the Colonel s regrets instead of the
olonel.
Senator Gore s statement that all the evidence
ends to negative the idea that Vice-President
Sherman was involved in the Indian graft
eandal confirms us in our first impression that
icither the size of the stakes nor the assurances t
t
•of safety in the game were such as to appeal to
a sport of “SunnyJim's” size and genius. .
The latest revolt against the Standard Oil
Company has at least the theory of science be
hind it. “The hair of the dog is good for the
bite”, and perhaps the way to kill the trust is to
sick another one on it.
Colonel Roosevelt stretches the Ananias Club
to include those persons who stated that he had
sent President Taft an ultimatum. Xo doubt
the Colonel bides the time when be can hand him
a quietus.
1 Inspector Dew's action in going to the trouble
|of raking pasasge under a fictitious name shows
that the man from Scotland Yard is not so averse
i to publicity as he may have led some people to
believe.
Hoke Smith’s own paper forced him to run for
Governor when he didn't want to do so. If the
people give him another kick, he will have to
j kjck himself for getting himself kicked.
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The census returns indicate that the Amer
ican people have been “holding families down.”
: T he average citizen has an impression that the
l difficult tiling is to hold them up.
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| 1 he straw votes now being taken in the Georgia
I gubernatorial contest, are about as conclusive as
the “popularity” contests at the motion picture
i shows.
j I he only sound that proceeds from Sagamore
rr:ti • _, 1 , 1 . , . , ■ .
j *** vmh- mat irJsruiim-M mi* ^ruiuiu^ ni ict-fiu.
j Perhaps the Colonel is sharpening his weapons.
Korea has merely discovered that hermits, if
necessary, will he washed bv force.
THE PEOPLES FORUM
As to t.rnde Crossing*.
To the Editor of The Virginia:
Sir,—In an Interesting article in your paper of Fri
day, styled ‘'Highway Heath Traps," the general tone
of which is good, and with whim I agree, you say:
In England and on the continent such a thing as
the American grade crossing is not known," etc.
In this you are mistaken, for there are a great
many, though in a majority of cases the crossing is
either above or below grade, as I have found In a
recent extended trip through Europe. Believing you
Wish to be entirely accurate in any statement you
make, 1 have written you thus in this matter.
PETER J. WHITE.
Virginia Comment
A Rather Bad Precedent.
While the newspapers have the undisputed legal
right to do ao if they so desire, it appears to us a bit
unusual for them to print the declaration ottered
in the suit of one Farmer vs. Governor William Hodges
Mann in a suit in which a violation of professional
ethics is alleged against the defendant In a claim for
damages growing out of such alleged course. The
declaration In the case is neither more nor less than
a biased statement of what the plaintiff claims and
has not even the small merit of being an affidavit,
! which is itself an ex parte statement under oath or
affirmation. It seems to us hardly fair to give wide
publicity to the unsupported assertions of one man
prior to an opportunity for the defendant to make a
i statement or even enter a denial. Of course the
prominence of the defendant In the suit adds to the
! interest in the case.
We are not Inclined to attack anv serious inrport
; ance to this suit. The Roanoke Times, which was not
a supporter of Governor Mann nor In sympathy with
; his political views generally, yet admits that this Par
mer claim was threshed out pretty well during the
I recent campaign and that the popular verdict was the
favor of Governor Mann. We do not assert that the
suit was instituted for the purpose of nagging and
annoying Judge Mann, but it affords a pretext for ills
foes to gloat over the allegations of Farmer before
i it is shown that ther is any merit in them.—Danville
'.Register. .. ....
Virginia Highway.
The suggestion of the Tarheel editor that North
Carolina construct a "Mountains to the Sea Highway"
I* receiving the vigorous support of his brother editors
In practically every section of the State. Why not a
similar highway for Virginia? And why not make
the beginning with the proposed highway from Nor
folk to Richmond via Petersburg? A movement to
that end was inaugurated, we believe, some time ago
but for some reason or other wa* allowed to lapse!
It ought to be revived and pushed to the earliest pos
sible consummation.—Virginian-Pilot.
Poetic Trane*.
William Dean Howells is of the opinion that ’ the
poets of America have a great failure.'’
Of that we know not. They have a respectable past,
thanks to Poe and Sidney Iainier, but no present to
speak of. Further than that your deponent speaketh
not.—Virginian-Pilot.
A Suggestion.
A street in Staunton, Ya., hase unk over forty feet.
The cave-in is attributed to many causes. How about
it being a rebuke to the August County Argus for
boasting of Staunton's high elevation above the sea
level.—Northern Neck News.
Refutation in tlie CUnrgc.
We do not believe a word of the story to the eflfeot
that a Southern editor drew his revolver on a man In
New York and when arrested and taken before a
magistrate to give bond, flashed a thousand dollars In i
bills. No real Southern editor ever has a thousand ;
dollars at one time, and, if he did. he would have
too much sense to take It to New York with him_
Virginian-Pilot.
Anniversary of Steam Navigation.
It was a hundred years ago on Wednesday that Rob
ert Fulton made his first trip up the Hudson in the
Clermont. "The American Citizen" of August 17, 1810,
contains this paragraph:
Mr. Fulton's ingenious steamboat, invented with a
view to the navigation of the Mtssislppi from New
Orleans upwards. Sails to-day from the North river,
near the State prison, to Albany. The veioslty of the
steamboat is calculated at 4 miles an hour. It is
said that it will make a progress of two against the
current of the Mlslssippl, and if so It will certainly be
a very valuable acquisition to the commerce of the
Western States.
According to Kdward Hagaman Hall's history, the
Clermont made the trip to Albany in thirty-two hours.
The State prison referred to stood on the block now
bounded by Washington. West Tenth, West and
I'hariee streets. In old Greenwich Village, New York
city.—Alexandria Gazette.
The Talk “Down Home"
Some Snakes. ,
J. Reid Baird captured twenty-three water tnoc
nasions Sunday, in the river near here, with one rock. 1
Phis sounds very much like an oYlglnal snake story, i
nut he has the goods to prove his statement. Twenty- i
>ne can he eeen in alcohol at the Southstde Pharmacy
ihe other he skinned and has only the skin from t
vhlch he says he Intends making himself a belt._
Monroe Enquirer. ' .
A Unique Writer. ,
Judge Risden T. Bennett of Wadesboro, Is not only 1
i unique, but a forceful writer, and a recent reference \
. uakina. but_a forceful writer, and a recent reference j
In the Chronicle hu aroused some of his slumbering
humor, ff* write* to the editor of this paper: "I have
2#0 pages of written matter composed the last sixty
days, which Is In the arms of the dead. 1 hope there
Is little fault of conception nor weakness of expression
In these pages, as would seem to be Inferred from the
suggestion that we had lost our trigger in writing. X
noble Joke. The heat possesses my mechanism. My
crops, the best I ever saluted from the conning tower.,
cumber my landa I have read Burn’s awakes on Firths
to influence my temperature. X shall write now and
then for your sake and that of all of us. The best
letter of my seventy-flrst year was to Professor
Paschal, now of Slier City:
"The trembling steed fell prostrate at the sight, ,
And Nestor’s trembling hand confessed his plight.”
"Pope was the greatest poet since Shakespeare,
May Qod give you wisdom.”
The sentence In our editorial which drew forth
this gem of a literary medley. “Who was it said Judge
Bennett had forgotten how to write?" was meant to
be taken not that anybody had said It, but that any
body who might say ltw as both unbalanced and lost
In the woods. We welcome his expressed Intention of
keeping his pen going.—Charlotte Chronicle.
Profits on Berries.
The strawberry section of which Wilmington Is the
; centre this season shipped to the Northern markets
i 128.581 crates of strawberries of the gross value of
l 13.25 a crate, aggregating nearly 51.400,000. Kefrlg
I eratlon, transportation, commissions and other ex
I penses amounted to $471,439.10, leaving a net balance
i of 5921.449.15. These Interesting figures we pick from
■ the report of Mr. H. T. Bauman, secretary of the
' Kast Carolina Truck and Fruit Growers' Association,
i which held its fourteenth annual meeting In WIN
i mington on Wednesday. An industry of such magnl
I tude and tremendous importance requtres the super
| vision of just such an organization as the East Caro
| Una Truck and Fruit Growers' Association, and the
Star Is gratified to note renewd interest In Its valuable
work and Increased determination to support sn or
I ganlzatlon so well calculated to save hundreds of
! thousands of dollars annually to the berry growers.—
' Wilmington Star.
WINNING GLORIA
BY TEMPJ.E BAIIjKY.
(Copyright. 1910, by Associated Niterary Press )
It Is not often that a woman builds a house with
her own hands, and then lives In It alone for five
years, tilling the soil and getting out of It a living
| lor herself and a child.
But that Is what Gloria Strong did In a new coun
tTV and it had not snoilf.l h#*r hrantr In fort ths
suppleness of her young body, the vivid color In her
cheeks, the brightness of her eyes testified to the
power of out-of-doors and hard work In the making
of the perfect type of woman. v
There were people In the nearby town who criticised
Gloria. "Why doesn't she take her little brother
and work In some kitchen? That would be woman s
work."
When Gabriel Marks heard that taunt, he turned
to the man who had made It and demanded. “Can
you imagine Gloria Strong as a slave of the whims
and caprices of another woman -your wife. for
example?"
"I don’t see.” Seth Bowles retorted, ' that my wife
has any more whims than the rest of them.
"No.” Gabriel admitted, "but the women of our
town weren't brought up to keep servants, and they
don't know how to treat them. And I can't imagine
Gloria Strong taking orders from any one.”
"Not even from a husband?" Seth sneered. "If
Gloria Strong should marry you, what then? You'd
be the master of any woman.”
Gabriel felt that he would like to strike that sneer
from Seth's face. But he knew the futility of su- h
a feeling. What could such a man know of the
timidity which the most masterful man feels when In
the presence of the woman he loves?
It was this very timidity which had at first kept
Gabriel from confessing his love to Gloria. He had
tilled the soil of the adjoining farm, and as the
two plows had met at the fence corners, the man
and woman had rested and talked in the shade of
the trees. It was in these moments, stolen from
toil, that Gabriel had learned to appreciate the
sweetness of womanliness which lay behind the
almost masculine firmness of Gloria’s character. There
had been hot days, too, when the small brother.
Bensie. had brought from the house a pitcher of cool
milk, and the brown bread and cream cheese for
his sister g lunch. And she had made Gabriel share
these things.
"it Is so easy for me to make more " she had said,
"and you have to depend on stuff from Ui« bakery—
you must get tired of it ”
"How do you manage to do a man's work and a
woman's?” Gabriel questioned
F*or a moment a shadow lay in her eyes, then sha
laughed. ”1 am happier," shu said, "when I am
busy.”
Three times In five years Gabriel asked her to marry
him. But she would not. 1 must live my life alone,”
she had said, and would not be persuaded beyond
that.
Gabriel was a patient man and a strong one He
bided his time, but there were moments w hen he felt
discouraged. She seemed so divorced from any need
of masculine protection. Yet he often sighed, wishing
that some chance might bright her to him to ask a
favor so that he might show his willingness to dis
for her if need be.
At last the chance came, and although she did
thing greater than that, for she put his honor at
stake.
“You remember, Gabriel," she said, coming Into hts
house one night when a winter storm raged, “that
you told me that an old woman had glten you some
money In trust for her son—a queer old woman who
feared bank—there was flee thousand dollars—and —
"Wait until the morning and I will got it from <hs
bank.”
"I can't wait—I have Just had a letter from Cyruf
twing."
“Cyrus Twing-—you know him?"
"Yes."
"But he Is a sailor who left seven years ago, ana
you have lived here only three— — ”
“I know—but I knew him—before T came—’’
Something In her manner, something furtive, stun*
him into the demand. "What is he to you?"
She held out an Imploring hand. "Don't ask me.
Dnly give me the money. He has forged a note.
Unless I can get money to him to-night he will b#
agrested. and it will all come out—it will all coma
out-"
She sank In a huddled bunch at bis feet. His eyea
softened as he looked down at her "Tell me." he
said; “surely you can trust me. Gloria?”
"Yes," she whispered. "Yes. 1 can trust you.”
“Then tell me—what Is Cyrus Twing to you?"
She threw up her head and faced him. "He is—
my husband."
■‘Your—?" But no sound came from his lips as he
stood staring at her. blankly.
"Yes. and Bennie Is my child. I was married when
I was very young and lived on the coast—and Cjrru#
came home from India, and he gave me a string of
pearls and a coral comb, and he told me tales of
strange countries until 1 W'a* fascinated. And w*
were married without his mother's knowledge. Cyrus
dared not confess, because he was afraid she might
leave away from him the few paltry dollars that
are in that box. At first I did not understand. 1
thought it was because he loved me ao much that ha
wanted to have me all to himself, but later I learned
that he had a sweetheart In every port. Then his
mother moved West, and I came too, for Cyrus sailed
away on a long cruise, and he promised that when
she died, for she was old and 111 he would confess
his marriage to me. But I told him after Bensle's
birth that I did not want the world to know—I had
found him out, and I didn’t want Bensie ever to
jave to own such a father. So I worked and slaved
ind have made a place for myself, and now—"
“There are strange things in this world," said
5abrlel, heavily, hi* mind dwelling on the fact that
ihe was a wife and the mother of a child "T will taka
he box to Min <d-nTght, and I will tell him that ha
nust go away, and never come back to trouble you,"
But when he returned from his Journey he had a
nersage for her.
"Your husband is likely to die, Gloria; he wants
mu—he Is racked by a cough and his end is near."
ihe wailed. •
“X know"—for a moment his hands hovered over
ler. "But—his ayes haunt ma—he Is such a poor
hlng—and some day you must come back to me.”
She stayed with her husband until he died, and
ler own little world thought that she had gone to
isit relatives, so that when she came back there was
io gossip.
"Why should Bensie ever know that he had such
. father as Cyrus Twing?" she asked Gabriel, pitifully
"Let me Ije a father to him, Gloria,” Gabriel an
wered, and with a little sob she leaned against him
nd hid her face In his coat, and cried as any weak
roman might And when he whispered “Will you
« my wife?" she murmured, “It is what I hav#
ranted all these years, Gabriel; It lg what I ham
ranted alt these yeatsi" ,