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BIG-STICKIXG THE SUPREME COURT.;
If we arc not very much mistaken, the cry of |
‘■Judicial Anarchy" raised amiinst William Jem ,
nings Bryan in the campaign of 1896 found its*
most violent expression at, the mouth of Theodore!
Roosevelt, at that time hand in glove, cheek by !
jowl, with Mark Hannah, with Thomas (Jollier
Platt, with Timothy Woodruff, and Benjamin 1
Odell, and all the crew that now survives to be
by him denominated political ‘‘crooks".
I The Democratic platform of that year had seen
fit to declare, in the face of a decision of the Su
preme Court, its adlierence to the principle of an
income tax. As the candidate of the party,
, Bryan in his public speeches not only affirmed
bis devotion to the principle of the tax, but crit
icized the decision of the Supreme Court, which
declared it unconstitutional by a majority of one.
the majority having been secured by the shift
in opinion of Justice Shiras in one night.
For this platform declaration of the party and
the public speeches of its candidate, both party i
and candidate were denounced as l>eing in oppo- i
sit ion to the courts. They were held up in im- j
passioned diatribes as the forces inciting to an- ,
arcliy in this country. “The preservation of the
judiciary" was a battle cry that rang loudly j
above the din. And in the red war of denun- i
riaiion no voice sounded louder than that of j
Roosevelt.
Vet in less lhan ten years, upon this same ques- j
ion of an income tax. this same Roosevelt was de
claring in a public utterance as President of the.
United States that—the decision of the Supreme
Court to the contrary notwithstanding— Con
gress should pass again the bill establishing the
tax. reiving for its operation, if necessary, upon
judicial eonstrurtioti. In other words, the clear
inference of the advice to Congres was to do a
thing in the full knowledge of its declared un
coustitutionality, and depend upon the Chief
Executive to secure, by appointments based upon
a promise to decide a case in advance, the re
versal of an opinion from the one department of
the government which had not then, and has not
jet, been even tainted wi:h dishonor!
Xow, however, the ex-Prosident has gone a
step in advance of either Bryan or himself.
Speaking in Denver, he accuses the Supreme
Court of standing in the way of the reforms
which “I” would work. He charges it with hav
ing established a neutral zone for the exercise
of pernicious practises—and this by what “a
man, whose interest i» chiefly in sane construc
tive stewardship can only call a highly technical
legal subtlety"! And not content with a criti
cism of this tenor, he cites two leading cases of
the Court — that of the Knight sugar case, and
that of the New York bake shop case—which he
attacks as in the one instance “nominally against
national rights, but really against popular
rights”: and in ihe other against popular rights.
while nominally against Siam right*. If we
are to lake ;he Colonel at his word, the Supreme
Conn stand?, not as the guardian of ibe consti
tution, but a« the shield and buckler of oppression
and crime. Having thus so far out-Bryaued the
Bryan whom he so fiercely denounced fur advis
ing a course nut remotely s<> revolutionary as this,
the Colonel pause- to say:
"It such decisions as these two in
dicated the court's permanent alti- -
tilde, there would he real and grate
cause Jo give alarm, for such decisions,
if consistently followed up. would up
set the whole system of jxtpular gov
ernment. 1 am, however, convinced
both from the inconsistency of these
V, decisions with the tenor of other de
cisions, and furthermore from the
very fact that they are in such fla
grant and direct contradiction to the
spirit and needs of the times, that
sooner or later they will he explicitly .
implicitly reversed.
mention them merely to illustrate
«*-—-«me need of having a truly national
system of government, under which
people can deal effectively with all
problems, meeting those that affect
the people as a whole by affirmative
Federal action, and those that affect
irely the people of one locality by
firmanve State action,
ing thus disposed of the Supreme Court
pointed oot what it must necessarilv do, now
s: that be has pointed the way, the ex-President an
flounced himself as in favor of national rights
*nd of Vitale rights. His attitude is denunciatory
:h ways. His inference is that it is he—“1'’
‘*bo alone can bring the people to hand on the
the trusts to ‘‘My” knees on, the other,
and the Supreme Courl into an attitude of cring
ing deference on another.
Great as Roosevelt is, we are hopeful that some
dav he may gr> «o far that the moral sense of
the country will l>e shocked into an appreciation
of the greatne«> that lie would nrrogate to him
self. We think that in attacking the Supreme
Court, he has chosen tho speediest means of
bringing to pass this rosuh. The-nine Judges
of the most powerful Court on Earth <lo not act
on impulse. Having acted, they hate behind
them, not armies, not heavy banded executors of
their will, but the sober sense and confidence of
a groat country, looking in a time of perplexity
between monarchical ambitions on the one hand
and socialistic attack on the other to them alone
as the sole tribunal which shall maintain the bal
ance of government. Once only lias a decision
of that Court been reversed bv popular clamor.
1 he [)red Scott, decision did, it is true, find'in
a bloody war its ultimate reversal. But the
events of the late sixties.would, it would seem,
give pause- even to Roosevelt—in the announce
ment of an antagonism which can only be effected
by blood and revolution, and which, not effected,
can only weaken, to the extent, of the influence of
the man by whom if is voiced, the orderly pro
gress of the government toward its destiny.
The right of private contract may seem to
Roosevelt a thing to bo brushed aside at will. The
inhibition of the constitution against interference
in .State affairs may seem to him a something to
be demolished at the desire of a stalwart, ruler.
But. it. is exactly because these and other rights
and prohibitions are balanced in the Constitution,
and announced by the Supreme Court, and en
forced by the people, that the government itself
endures. Against these things we do not. believe,
that even the denunciation of Roosevelt will
avail.
TAR HEEL POETS.
Recently, in comment upon a reference to the
late John Charles .McNeill a? a “boy poet", we
had occasion to state that not only was McNeill a
man, but his poems were "man’s poems, in shin
ing contrast, to the grist that the Tar Heel State
turns our annually in the shape of ‘near poetry",
a little of it designedly funny, most of it seriously
ridiculous”. Noting this quotation, which had
1 >een copied by the Norfolk Landmark, one
(.’harles A. Morrisette writes to that, paper, as
serting that our statement was "manifestly un
fair to living ‘Tar Heel’ writers” and quoting
as justification of ihe charge some graceful verses
by Harold Child, dedicated to McNeill himself.
Whereupon Mr. Morrisette asks, "Would the
editor of 77m Richmond Virginian, class this as,
‘seriously ridiculous’1 1 might also call his at
tention to the work of the Rev. Plato Durham.”
We protest that our reference to the grist that
is turned out by the poetical Tnr Heels ought not
to he held against us as including all the litoTary
and poetical output, of the State1 of North Caro
lina. That there is much such worthless chaff
anyone who has followed the efforts of t.he Tar
Heel who has become entangled with ihe Muse
will admit. To all such McNeill, on account of
his versatility, the humanity of his appeal and
the beauty of his inspirations, was indeed in
shining contrast- a contrast that we are certain
even those few gifted North Carolinians who
have largely been inspired by his work will be
glad to admit. So tar as Mr. Morrigette’s cita
tions are concerned, we admit the beauty of his
illustration, as we admit the talent of Rev. Dur
ham (though we thought he wrought in prose
rather than in verso). We, might also cite to him
the work of another gifted Tar Heel—Henry
Jerome Stookard whose exquisite handiwork in
the making of the sonnet has gained country
wide recognition.
Despite the statement of Coogler that the
“ South is not much given.to literature", North
Carolina has in late years mixed its effusions
with not a little work of real and lasting merit.
The fact that ibis is so i* due perhaps more to
the example which McNeill set than to any other
or all the causes operating in two decades.
J IfK LESSON OF MOliOKAI.
it is almost what might he called a "sporting
interest" that science brings to its unceasing
fight against, disease. Outpost after outpost
falls to a campaign waged .without regard to
difficulty, without relaxation from labor, with
out admission of the possibility of defeat. In
the cause whose end is the great economic ques
tion of the preservation of life, all Nature is
cross-examined for her secrets, all hypotheses
are tesled. no experiment is so garish in ap
pearance that if cannot get a hearing. To carry
another line of defense the great .army of ex
perimental medicine and biology labors with an
enthusiasm that does not pause at. the sacrifice of
life itself, and works with a purpose that is at
once beyond ihe hope of personal gain and care
less of the reward of personal renown. Here
and there some investigator makes a small dis
covery that is pregnant with hope, lie has, as
it were, Ids hand upon the key to the secret
chamber. 11 is tingers, did he choose to let them,
are already closed on fame and riches. But the
fine thing about the battle is that in silch an
event the investigator at, once discloses, instead
of nurturing his clue. Instantly all the world
of science is on the trail detected by one man’s
scientific scent. Frequently it happens that
when the new quarry is brought to earth, the
man who directed the chase is hut an inconspic- j
uous figure in the huut. Yet it is just this un-,
selfish spirit, that gives the constant conflictj
what might be called ihe espril du corps of l^p. I
Just now it is announced from Alolokai.. the j
leper colony in Hawaii, that'the lepra bacillus,
has been propagated in a pure culture. That ,
means, if the record of scientific achievement 1
j holds good as n precedent, that it is only a ques
I rion of time when leprosy, the only recorded
cures of which are stated to have been the, work
of miracles, is at last to yield to treatment. Tt
means that the most ancient, of all the scourges
of humanity is u» lose the dreadful dignity of
its incurable character. It means that human
ity, for its protection, need no longer impose on
helpless thousands of unfortunates the cruelty
of isolation front their kind. I he. cry, Lnclean,
which has echoed down the ages will no longer
l>e heard as the synonym of hopelessness. Lep
rosy, a- diptheria, as pneumonia, as consump
tion and cholera and smallpox, and tetanus,
a^d the ’hundreds of other diseases which the
world wide search has brought, to bay. "ill bo
tied, bound, deprived of it- fangs. The incur
able disease will be cured. More, it will lie pre
vented. Finally, front an almost epidemic vogue,
it will slink backward, become sporadic, become
isolated, become extinct!
Observe the genealogy, if we may so call it,
of this now hopeful end to an almost, hopeless
struggle extending through the centuries. It was
Hansen who, in 1879. announced the discovery
of the Irpra banllns. Since then, following the
principle of tho scrum as the cure and preventive
of disease, the medical and scientitic world has
struggled to catch and breed the deadly” secret of
the plague. Failure after failure only made the
bunt more keen. Disappointment after disap
pointment only set ihe searcher? more sternly on
the trail. A year ago. at Manilla. Dr. Moses R.
Clegg discovered that the bacilli could,—or
might.—l>e cultivated outside the body of their
victim. Following his announcement, Doctors
Currie, Brinko.rhoff and Hoffman, at Molokai,
have labored with the persistence which only
science seems ever to have understood anil ap
preciated. Now they have done what Currie
could not do, what Hansen dreamed. No doubt
it will remain for someone else to accomplish
with tho aid of their work what they are working
for. Yet in the great final achievement—such
is the concert, and unselfish organization of
science—the man who win- the ultimate glory
will not he puffed up. Modestly, as one to
whom it is given to bo the trustee of the salva
tion of thousands of human lives, he will make
his acknowledgements and take his proper place
among the diffident great, who -hape the destinies
of the world. The great unscientific world, the
rulers, the war gods, the statesmen and the poli
ticians, the money grabbers, and the pleasure
hunters, irfaV well turn their eyes to-day to the
lesson of Molokai.
TILE SONS SAVE THE DAY.
The action of the Sons of Veterans in clioos
■ iug their own sponsors for the Norfolk reunion
iwil cause a responsive thrill to run around 'he
EState. .Not onlv will tho daughters and the grand
daughters of veterans find in it a happy solu
tion of an unhappy precedent, hm .he veterans
themselves, who were forced to deny themselves
the number of sponsors they would have liked,
will find in the presence of patriotic femininity
a grace upon the occasion which they would other
wise havo sorely missed.
It ought to be said, however, that the action
of the veterans, in sternly declaring for a re
I duet ion of sponsors.-shows that the quality of
their courage is not diluted with years. The
! sponsors have undeniably increased faster than
the veterans. They hail served in the pa.-t to
give to the reminiscence of war a doubtful em
phasis of trills and flowers. Under their divert
ing influence the ball room had come to over
shadow the camp-fire, j-'igurativelv speaking, it
was sometimes impossible to see the veterans for
the laces, to hear the n.Ud yell for the laughter
of voting women, to invoke the smell of any pow
der except that which comes out of a box. Some
witty veteran sometime since referred to the “re
union of the spousor-", and made a hit—as
palpable at it was courageous. The veterans
would not capitulate even to the sex to which
they are always in captivity.
1 he action of the “Suns'' relieves a perplexing
situation. It gifes the reunion its veterans; it
gives the Sons their sponsors. It put* the eternal
girl hack again where she has always stood in
the South, in the center of affection, on the tir
ing line of emotion. I he Sons know what thov
want when they want it. And, wanting, they
have it or know the reason why.
In the light ot this compromise of genius, we
trust that there will he no more twittering in the
dove cotes of Beauty, and no more grumbling
in the bearded rank- of Heroes.
Editorial amenities to the South of us are
warming up. The lialeigh Evening Times re
fers to the editor of the Durham Sun as that
“narrow minded little fellow.” The Sun refers
to the editor of the Times as “brat.” and the
Columbia State treats the grave editorial argu
ments of the Charleston News and Courier as i
"Infantile Mumblings”. Somebody is evidently
being belittled.
The statement of acting Mayor Mitchell, ■who
gave the New York police orders to clean up
(,'oney, that the paper? would not print the reve
lations on account of their vile character, hints
at a state of affairs that, in the light of the Thaw
trial and the publications growing out of it, is
unimaginable.
Cotton at twenty cents brings to the South one
war time condition, the return of which it can
view with complacency.
Marshfield. Missiouri. launches the ‘'boom” of
Vice-President Sherman for President. This (
is one development which tinds the entiie court- !
tCT residents of that State, J
SOCIAL. AND
- PERSONAL
Dr. and Mm. Robert J. Willingham, of 1 t>°*> ^ffcRt
; Grace street, have issued invitations for the marriage
of their daughter, Belle, to Mr. Ralph H. Ferrell, or
Raleigh, N. C.
The wedding will take place on Wednesday e\ening,
I the 14th <»f September, at 7 o'clock, at the Second Bap
tist church.
Jones—Stephenson.
An interesting event which will take place Wednes
day evening at the Presbyterian church at Warm
Springs. Ya.. will he the wedding of Miss < harlotte
Wilson Stephenson, daughter of Mr. .T^hn Wilson Ste
phenson. to Dr. John Walker Farter Jones, a promi
nent specialist of Newport News, Ya., and soil of Hon.
Maryus Jones. The church has been elaborately deco
i rated in ferns, palms and whit** and pink hydrangea.
The officiating clergyman will be Rev. William C. Rom
mel. of Philadelphia. . «
The bride...exquisitely gowned in ivory satin with
lace and pearl garniture, will enter the church with
her father. She will carry a shower bouquet of lilies
of the valley. The maid of honor. Miss Margaret Beale
Stephenson, will wear blue satin draped In blue chiffon
with clusters of pink chiffon rosebuds and crystal trim
ming. The bridesmaids—Miss Constance Warwick Ste
phenson; AIlss Sara Gibson, of Baltimore; Miss Denote
Tinsley, of Richmond; Lida Poole, of Hot Springs, and
Miss Nannie Lewis Cowardin. <>f Richmond—will wear
beautiful gowns of crystal net over pink satin.
Mr. Robert Met andlish, of Hampton, will be best
mail, and the ushers will be Dr. Lewis, of Memphis.
Tenn.; Mr. Nelson Robins, of Richmond; Dr. Coleman
and Mr. Andrew Hull, of Newport News; Mr. John U
son Stephenson, Jr., of Warm Springs, and Mr. Hen
derson Gregory, of Washington.
A reception will be given immediately after the cere
mony in the home of tl*? bride. The house decora
tions will be in pink and white and music will be
furnished by the Warm Springs Orchestra. Assisting
| the bride in receiving th** guests will be her sister,
Mrs. George N. Wise* and Mrs. Mary us Jones, of New
port News. Mrs. James F. Reid, of Norfolk, and Mrs.
W. W. Arnett, of Wheeling, W. Va The reception
guests will include Mr. and Mrs. W illiam M. McAHis
t*f, Mr. and Mrs. S. \Y. Andersen, Mrs. Richard Mason,
Miss Mason, Dr. and Mrs. Henry S. Pole, Dr. and Mrs.
Kdgar A. Pole, Mr. and Mrs. George Guuton. Dr. and
Mrs. Lewis M. Cowardin. Dr. and Mrs. Frank Hopkins,
Mr. and Mrs. Rodney Snead Cohen, of Augusta, Ga.,
Judge and Mrs. William Felton, Mrs. George* Duncan
and Messrs. Duncan, «»f Macon, Ga.; Mr. and Mrs.
Richard P. Whiteley, Mr arid Mrs. Robert F. Sheppard,
Miss Alice Sheppard and Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Mc
Guire. <*f Washington, D. c., Mr. and Mrs. Mary us
Jones, Mr. and Mrs John L. Bouldin, Mr and Mrs.
George N. Wise and Mr Hutson Salley, of Newport
News, Ya.; Mrs. W. \\ Arnett, of Wheeling. W. Ya :
Mr and Mrs. Janos I*’. Reid and Miss Warwick, of
Norfolk; Mr. and Mrs. George Dole Scott. Mrs James
B. Pace. Misses Johnston, Miss Lenore Tinsley, Mrs.
Rosalie St. John Herndon, of Richmond, Mr and Mrs.
George T. M Gibson, Miss Gibson and Miss Loirlse
Gibson, of Baltimore, and Mr. Carl Heck, of New York.
Attractive Luncheon.
Miss Xelll-ee Murphy was host* ss »>f a very attrac
tive luncheon at her home. Sis North Harrison street,
Tuesday afternoon. In honor of her house guest. Miss
I Virginia Howell, who will play the lead ini; role in
“Ishmaei" at the Academy Tuesday evening Miss How
’.el), who belongs to a prominent South Carolina family,
was a classmate of Miss Murphy at. Ml. de Sales
vent, near Baltimore. The table was charming with
! its decoratlohs in the Mt. de Sales colors.-hue and
white. Forget-me-nots and white asters formed the
centerpiece, while dainty little place cards with gilt
edges and cpids hand painted in blue, bearing the
\1 P. S motto. ‘T'ideilc Ad Finem," marked th places
Covers were laid for six, and the guest.-* Included
' besides the guest of honor and hostess, Miss Mamie
, Irwin Murphy. Miss Anne Irwin, Miss Marguerite Mari
, ning and Miss Ethel Hurton.
Miss Murphy will give a very handsome dinner in
Miss Howell's honor .Tuesday evening.
St*y «t-Home Whist Club.
Mrs. Bland Smith, of 301 Hast (Irate street, enter
tained the Slay -at- Home Whist Club at her h nse on
Monday evening. Top score was made by Mrs. 1 fen
Ingham Spitman and Mrs Larkin Gla/.ebrook
The club will meet next week tvith Mrs. Spilman,
009 Flow'd avenue
Norfolk’s Debutantes.
Richmond and Norfolk .society ha\e S" much in
common and are so closely ronnftcied that what is
happening in one city cannot fail to be talked of
in the other. The following front a Norfolk exchange
concerning' this \ ear’j* debutantes w ill have much of
interest t<» society here:
’Perhaps the following list have not Quite made up
their minds themselves to give up the school-room,
though their names and charms are already l.-eing talk
ed about in connection with the winter s affairs: Miss
Holly Whaley, who is spending the last of the sum
mer in Connecticut, will leave about the middle of Sep
tember for Europe, to be gone several months, and
on her return will come out, which will probably not
be before Christmas. Miss Whaley is a daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. William M. Whaley.
"Miss Elizabeth Changing Brooke, who his spent
a year studying music at Mary Baldwin Seminary, in
Staunton, Va.. since completing her course at the Nor
folk High School, will make her debut at the first
i senior german. Alisa Brooke is the second daughter of
Mr and Mrs. \V. T. Brooke, in Boush street.
"Miss Louise Robinson will return from Europe the
iasi of the month, where she has been for the past
eight months. Mias Robinson is a daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Emmett Robinson, of Newport News. She will be
chaperoned by her aunt, Mrs W. F. B. Slaughter, in
Redgate avenue.
"Among other charming and attractive buds will be
Miss Elizabeth Payne, ttie youngest daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Inman M. Payne; Miss El Oise Williams,
daughter «»f Mr. and Mrs. W Leigh Williams; Mias
Virginia Etheridge, daughter of Mrs James Etheridge,
in Colonial avenue; Miss Nancy Reid, daughter of Dr.
and Mrs John F. Reid, in Westu\er avenue, and Miss
Julia. Downer, daughter of Mrs. Eliza Downer, in Bute
street.
"Norfolk society will be interested to know thaFAUss j
Emma Cray White, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W illiam
H. White, will make her debut this fall at the rut ,
senior german in Richmond. No doubt Miss White will
spend much of the coming winter in Norfolk."
Ochs I tree—Rowe.
Mrs. R. K Thomas, of 405 West Marshall street, an - I
nounres tlie* marriage of her daughter. Edythe Virginia
Rowe, to Mr. Joseph Lindsay Oeheltree, which took
place Monday. August 29. at the Fifth Street Baptist
< hurch. Washington, P f\, Dr* ('harks S. Gardner
officiating. After a Northern tour the young couple
will return to their future home, in Norfolk, Va.
Ragland—Powers.
Miss Rosalie R. .Powers, daughter of Mrs. AL A.
Powers'' and Mr H St. ('lair Ragland, son of Mr.
Harvey F. Ragland, were quietly married Monday i
evening at 7:30 o'clock at the bride's home. 2704 East j
Grace street. The Rev. W. R. Burrell performed the
ceremony, and the wedding inarch was played by Miss
Florence Anderson. The bride was becomingly attired
in lavender silk mull with lace trimmings. She carried
a bouquet of bride roses.
AJr. and Mrs. . Ragland will be at home after Sep
tember 5 at 2704 East Grace street.
• Personal*.
Colonel Charles A. Dempsey. U. S. A., retired, Mrs. j
Dempsey and Mr. Worth Dempsey, of this city, w ho i
have been visiting relatives In Uppervtlle. are the truest* \
of Mr. and Mrs. Phineas Jannoy Dempsey In Alexan- |
Mrs. Samuel K. Woodfln ha* returned to Richmond, 1
after some time in Charlottesville and at Rorkfish, Va.
Mr. Woodfln. who has been at Rawley Springs, has
also returned.
Dr. Charles W. Kent. Mrs. Kent, Miss Eleanor Kent
and Miss Mary Stuart Cooke, who have been abroad for
•the past eight months, landed In New York on Mon
day.
• • •
Mr. Prewry W. Bowles, Jr., is summering in the j
mountain resorts of Vtrginia and West Virginia. He
will return to Richmond within the next wee kor so. |
Mrs. T. M. Blnford, Mrs. R. W. McDonald and Miss
Belnte McDonald have taken apartments with Mrs.
Bowers at 115 East Franklin for the winter.
Miss Sadie Wakefield, accompanied by her niece,
Miss Corlnne Davis, is the guest of Mrs. Raymond
Nelsen, of Orange, Va. ^
Misses Louise Parrish and Irene Bowles, of 2014
Stuart avenue, are summering around Wilmington, In
Fluvanna county.
Miss Mattie Hunter and Miss Eltr-a Hunter-are stay
ing at The Arlington, Virginian Rearh.
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Miss Mabel l^arrlt. who ha* been..*! GcssxuKAag.jCae.,
Several weeks, la now vlaltlng frtendg In Charlottes
ville.
• • •
Mia* Gelnie McDonald has returned to the city, aftef
a delightful aojourn at Wa.vneaboro.
Misa Ruby Seay and Mlaa Emma Figg are at Ocean
view for a aojourn of two week*.
Mias Mary Hlckok l* spending late August and Sep
tember at Cape May, N. J.
•'fr"v B- Bowden la the guest of friends at Red
mu. Albemarle county.
Miss Irene Jones, of Charlottesville |* spending lams
time In Richmond.
Miss Mamie Pilperton is at the Gardner cottage, Vfr
ptnta Beach, for several weeks.
Miss Ann L. Pendleton Is visiting friends In Scott**
vllle. \ a.
The Yellow Rose Lady
By TEMPLE BAILEY.
—/ °Pyright, 1910, by Associated Llterarv Press.)
" lAbnT D(!we fir»' 'aught sight of the new
summer boarder she was sitting on the steps of the
hotel. She was all In whit*, with her hair arranged
in curls and puffs, and handed by a pale yellow ribbon
m a strange vet fascinating fashion.
. rw.°.ho1ur® latPT" "hen Abner had milked the cows,
^ c^eJ four wild old-fashioned yellow roues that
grew in the fence corner. When the boarders ap
P'-ared on the porch after supper, with the goddess
hp*rt '•i*>ir midst, he waited until the riarken
ng or the st..ulows made his approach possible, laid
tne roses on the rail, and, with beating pulse, with
drew again to the shadow of the trees.
liad Mm reward when he heard a voice *ay—a
*' e 1V voice. "Why, the lovely roses—how
tunny. They weren't here a moment ago, and—why.
u no could have picked them?"
Abner could see that she was not satisfied with
he explanations that followed. In the background be
heard another feminine voice, n little haughty, ask.
,> ou know they are meant for you?"
I he girl With the roaes In her hair said in a startled
till, of course—only they matched—my ribbon—'•
As if any one could have noticed that:'' said ths
voice in the background.
Abner wanted to speak out and say "I noticed it,'
but he had no place among these people. To them
he was etmplv a countryman, a farmer. How could
they, who estimated a man's worth by' the clothes
he wore and the money he spent, understand his stand
ing in his own community, where hi* father* larg*
ownership of laud made him something of a person
age ?
It never entered Abner’s head that he might fores
hnnselt upon the object of ,,is adoration. "She Is
■ d to city folk," lie said to himself, without bitterness,
and when she love* It win be some man who can
match tier In style."
lie had asked tier name and found that It was Camp
••in u *ie ('ampbell. arid that she had much wealth.
A.I the men tag aper her." *Hid the waitress who gat >
11111 thfH information, "hut 1 don’t understand what
they see In her. I like that little Mias Wells much bel
ter.
"Which is Mis* Wells— Abner asked
‘.*h, she * the other girl," said Mary, vaguely, ns shs
wem hack to her work
\bncr decided that the other girl must be the oi *
wnh the haughty voice. He did not wonder that the
men did not can for her It was ths little lady with
the curls who was altogether lovely.
II." was surprised, therefore, as time went on, To
see how much she was left alone After that first night
i he men drifted toward the haughty girl, who, by
da,, light, appeared to Abner's curious eyes as n stately
beauty whose arrogant manner matched her voice.
S!”' med to he much In demand, men In automo
biles and men on horseback escorted her everywhere,
while the 1 allow Rose I.ady, pa Abner had called her,
atttr that first seemed to have few Invitation*.
V tmer. n. a romances about her, decided that
she held herseit aloof. lie liked to think of her as a
princess, to whom the*., people were but vassals, at
her command. As for himself, he was content io |y€
her slave to worship afar off. unseen, unknown.
let i.s time went on, he felt that this was not ade.
duate il, wanted to apeak lo her, to show tier some
of the beauties of forest and of stream. He knew
f,'rr>' n'*>k and cranny .,f the gnat rn.-ky hills. every
turn and twist <>£ the u bite road-. every path that
across the fields. and he would often dream of what
lift' would be if h» coulil walk In the fragrant twilight
with Ilia Yellow K'iko Ja»dy
• Yet who am 1 ?" ho would chide himself. • She has
money, position, everything- aha wouldn't look nt me 1
Yet he often had a surprised consciousness that sl;s
was looking at him as he mowed the grass with w Ids
sweeps of his strong arms, or came up on horseback
with the mail.
-•You and then she spoke to him In her soft little
voice, and he would grow weak with rapture at her
simple 1 hank you" or "Please ' as he did Some small
service for her. Once she came out to the barn ami
found him mending the harness before the open door.
A white cot und two kittens lay asleep in front of bins
"Oh." she crooned, and went to pet them.
"You'll soil your dress,'" Abner warned, and she
caught It up and laughed a Uttle when he Insisted oil
bringing a newspaper oil which she knelt as she hugged
the pussies.
Ahner thought her gown was lovely. It was lawn,
and It was cut low to show her round white throat.
He felt that women’s clothes must cost a groat deal.
He wondered If he would ever have money enough
to let u wife buy gowns like that. He thought of tbs
happiness of coming home at night and having some
one waiting whose presence would light up the big
rooms of the old farmhouse like a ray of sunshine.
How vi as he in his Ignorance to know that th*
yellow dress was a cheap lawn, bought at a bargain
seh-’ How was he know that his home would seem
like a palace to this child of the tenements? How was
he to know that his Yellow Rose Lady was Miss Wells,
a little drudge who worked In the millinery depart
ment of a metropolitan store, and that it was the
haughty beauty who was Miss Elsie Campbell and an
heiress .*
All unconscious of his mistake, ha adored afar oft,
until one day hie eyegy were opened.
He came upon the lady of his heart suddenly »ns
evening in tho little pavilion that overlooked the val
ley. All of the other guests had gone to a dance at
the country club. He had thought she had accom
panied them, and he had come up here where he could
see infinite stretches of sky and stars, and where he
could dream of the woman he loved, for he knew now
that he loved her.
As he reached her side she gave a startled "•Oh:*"
"1 thought—you had gone to—the dance," he stam
mered, awkwardly.
"I was not asked,” she said, and at th# tremble la
her voice he bent down and looked at her sharply.
"Why—you've been crying," he said Quickly.
"Yes—nobody seemed to care whether I lived or died,
I was all alone—and nobody seemed to care—"
Then Abner said so suddenly that he surprised him
self, “I care—I care very much—I—I love you.”
There was silence for a moment, in which It seemed
to Ahner that the heavens must fall and crush him
for his presumption. Then a tender little voice mur
mured, “Oh—Oh—I never dreamed—I—I thought you
were so far above me.”
Abner rubbed his eyes. Wu he dreaming? “You
have everything," he said, “money, position—while I
—I am Just a hard-working farmer. Not that I am
ashamed of it, only youre so different that you seem
to belong to another world.”
"‘But I’m not rich,” her protest came tumultuously.
"1 a in poor—I work fop my living, work late at night,
until I am so tired that It seems as if X should die.
And this summer I made up my mind that I would have
a rest. I took the money that I had saved and bought
nome cheap little dresses, and came up here and thought
I would have a lovely time and make friends—and he
happy. But after that first evening no one noticed
me—they found out that lived In a poor neighbor
hood and trimmed hats, and so I thought 'nobody cared
—and now—now that you know 1 am nobody, maybe
you won't care, either.”
Abner held out his hands to her. “Do you realW think
that?” he asked. "Don't you suppose that X am thb
happiest man altv'e because now. If you will let me. I
car give you something that you don't possess'.’ ’ X
want to take care of you the rest of your life, and
all that you'll have to do is to love me and to meet
me when I come home o' nights In that Uttle yellow
gown with a yellow rose in your hair. Will you do It
glrf?" *
And when she said. “Yes," It was as if one of th*
stars from heaven had bent to bless him.
No Wonder.
"Very. She a Gibson girl wth a Christy husband.*'
“Unhappily married, are they ?”
Converted.
City Editor—What do you mean by writing
and Mr. Brown were among the guest* 2V
Scribe—-wife's * aaffragtat.