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WHAT ABOl T DAN Yll.LK'
The Times-Dispatch continues to iav«>r ns
Headers with editorials, short mnl Ion?- cotict tip j
Ug the failure of prohibition.
The most recent pteture held 11(1 a- an horrible
sample is that of Memphi-, in which tin 1 lines (
[Jiapateli declare- that there 1- a worse remit
ion of affair' ii<*« tlian prevailed before he
irohibitorv law went into effect, and therefore i
be prohibitory Ihw should he repealed. Without.
Ii sous* mg at thi — lime the tact, tha .Memphis
las been out ui th»' 111• t lawless cities iu the
fountry for many years, and tie- glaring di-re
jsrtl of iinjiui’taut tacts in the sianment- made
Sencerniug Mttnphi' now, and accepting for
lit* time the -latejmnt,- of the limes Dispatch
la facts, we respectfully mpm-i our exalted eon-;
iemporarv to give some attention to conditions1
floating in it' own State, and to give to he;
Headers souk interesting information ala>ut \ it'.
pm a.
: The city of 1 htnviiie voted "wet, a lew ,
nonths ago. It had lieeu *'*1 ry for two years.
Lf. has been “wet" four months. According to
be logic of -the 1 lines-1 hspateh it i- far 1-tter
for Danville to have the open saloon, because a,
najoritv desire it- Let us look at the facts in this j
iTirginia city, which facts have l*'on published
H the Danville daily papers, and in the Method j
it of Danville, hut which the 1 imes ] fispaieh;
In failed to give its reader- in it- great anxiety,
(Oncoming the vile blind tiger whiskey reported
10 be sold to Admiral Kvan's marines, in the
ttfbors of Maim , ami in its anxiety concerning
be dives in far-distant Memphis. 1 he tacts and
faires given are vouched for by the panprs pub-:
jehimr them, a' taken from the offieiiu records.
I In the Dailv
St!
Bee uf Danville of October •*!•< 1
statement of tin* recommendation of the jail
issioners, The principle recommendation
erection of another tier of cell-, in the
State department of the jail, and of sufficient
pells to accommodate twenty more white pris
Iters and twenty more eolored prisoners in the
bain-gang department.
K The present jail was completed eighteeu
Bonths ago and- the jail commissioners Mated
ben that it would answer “all purposes tor
Uany years to come." And it was entirely ade
jpUlte during the “dry" regime, hut since the
jgloon has return's), it i» necessary to enlarge
j| to furnish accommodat ion tor titty or sixty
Bt>re prisoner-. The following figures taken
fcom the records show why it has become ueceg
pry to enlarge the jail.
The figures are for -Iutic, duly, August- and
September of IfiOlt, “dry" months, and for the
ptMfirsponding months of 1010, “wet'
I try
total Arrests ,.<»<)!*
(b«aulfs .. 1T.‘>
pptnrhancc .Il<>
|brunks . .Did
Pine* Imposed.$2.d45*.45
Fines Collected .$l.dJ,d.4y
Feeding Prisoners.$1,548.40
. The figures, all down the line, tell the “Tory of
he work of open licensed saloons in Danville.
Before the town voted “wet'’ the man who had the
sontraet for carrying prisoners in the patrol
aragnn to he city jail was paid $2<* per month
|nr this service. ()n Septemher loth the Com
tkittee on (frdinunee- and I’oliee made the fol
itnring report to the t 'ouneil:
*To the President and Memliers of tin City
‘ Council:
y “Gentlemen,- We lieg i.o report that Mr. W.
£. Gardner, who has had the contract for carry
mouths
Wet
1 1 75
1 It 1
1 ti(J
5 15
$4.U'd 1.1*5
$•'5.07'>. t(i
$d.255.1 5
BIX arrests) persons iu the patrol wagon to the
ally jail, at tin- call of the police during the
Mat year-, iia- notified ns hat he "ill decline'
to continue the contract upon the present terms.
Put that lie will lie willing to miter into a new
for lilt* linn him* nrovnictl he 1* allowed'
1(0.00 per month i«»r Jii- work.
[‘‘We recommend that we In- authorized in cn
ipr into contract on t hr- b< »t terms obtainable
th a licenc'd 1 iv«-r\ keeper t>. furnish a lmrse
driver for our patrol wagon.on a rail from
member of the police force to carry persons
for offences t<» the jail, said contract
ill force during lltr hmr irhiU’ bar-mount
b'Xe4M#(i to sell intoxicating liguor* in the
(italics ours); and al.-o to provide for
mg person> to the, almshouse when rcipie-i
■0 to do by the proja r authorities.
"Respectfully Submitted,
COM MITT fcE ON ORDINANCKS ANH Coin "
clause in italics shows eanclnsivcly that the
.ittee attributed the iuereuse to the licensed
columns of the evening paper of he city
been tilbnl from day to day with records
murders, assaults, stealing, etc.
ifacta and figures are proof of the damage
I UflHwed saloon is doing in Danville. They
JW* broad, sweeping, unproven statements
ling a citv hundreds of ini lets distant, but
p. are official facts, concerning a Virginia
■ cUmc at hand. Why does not the Titncs
print these figures easily available, to
| give us a column editorial on the “Fail
the Licensed Saloon ia Danville * Mas
interest in' Maine and Memphis than
in Danville? Dr does il dislike for its readers
in the State to know the facts about Danville i
The Virginian is not a fanatical, unreasoning
advocate of prohibition. 1 * it can be proven
t?ih' it is lietter for a city to have the licensed
saloon, if it ean lie proven that there is less
rrime, and less cost to the taxpayers where the
saloon i> licensed than where il is prohibited; if
it can be proven that women and children are
in lc" danger <>f life and limb, and are better
fed. liefer loved, lietter trained, where the sa
loon is licensed, than where it is prohibited, lhe
Virginian will give the facts as they are eerti*
tied. Him The Virginian -land for ilie Progress
of Virginia--materially and intellectually and
nioralU. H stands tor he care and protect ion
(•f our women and children. It does not believe
that, tbe licensed saloon i- a help to the young
life of our State. It ladieves it In lie a hindrance
and. Udieving that to lie the ease, it proposes to
stand for the welfare id the women and children,
the girN and the Iso-, the hope of mir State.
I bis is all irrepressible coiitliel. 1 - is destined
to be a matter of ever-increasing interest in Vir
ginia. and it will lie settled as all other great
ipicstioii' arc finally settled on the basis of taels.
Shall we bo honest in the face of facts ? I lc*
l ime- Dispatch dcelans Prohibition to be a tail
lire. UcaW'o of lawlessness in Memphis. Hy h*
same logic i- not the l.ieensed Saloon a failure
in Danville? Will the Times-Dispatch give its
readers the facts as to Danville?
KINDS IN KXILK.
I In- mya! family of Portugal has at length
been formally banished. Manuel, and the Queen
Mother, and the Dowager Queen, and the Duke
of Oporto, it11<J others ot the long' Into that list'
rested on the 1 uj<-k- of a vaguely wondering peo
ple will now go out in tin* world, carrying with
them the empty tradition of kingship.
I heir own Mate will not !*■ its melancholy ns
it might appear. It will not he nearly so sad, in
fad, a- the morbid -tatiis they will hold in the
country in which they settle will Is* essentially
ridiculous. rp"H their weak and inefficient (a r
sons will he lavished the sentimentality that
distinguishes the aura—we had almost said the
taint of a throne. A Inmy world will yet find
in its brain he curious fascination to observe
them with interest. I hey will he through life
the recipients of a misplaced and maudlin pathos.
To them will cling the aroma of their false royal
ty. About them will continue to flutter the
sycophants to whom the title, even though ex
tinct. evi n though depraved and degraded, con
st it ties a halo. Once a king, always a king to the
world that is always truckling to "majesty"—
however truculent it may lieeome when majesty
becomes too much of a liui-anee.
With kingly caution it is understood hat Man
uel and his family have Iron industriously salt
ing ijown a foreign fortune, the while they is
sued 'addresses to a suffering and povertv^strick
en people. Holding tight to what they possessed,
they smelled the storm ahead. Like the com
monest peasant in the land, hut with none of the
peasant's purity of motive, they carefully pre
pared against the "rainy day". Now the storm has
broke, and they have tied it They find themselves
rich and fa'. When the first tears of hurt pride
have Iren wiped away, the Portugese royal fam
ily w ill find Paris gay and safe. Out of their
exile they will construct for themselves a -em
pathy ami romance which, as sovereigns, their
incompetence would never have permitted them.
\\ ith the audacious egotism of 'he king. Manuel
in the fashionable rnfr.s and Won.v of Paris may
comfort himself with dreams of a certain Kin
la lor in a cocked hat who gazed toward f ranco
from St. Helena!
Portugal, no doubt, feels as a man feels who
Ini' gone through bankruptcy. The country is
"'•broke ..hut it has • hr hope of regeneration which
it could Hot otherwise have had. it is rid of
it- incubus. It has something else to expect and
to dream of. Ii can go to work with the hope of
rereiving its wage-. Ii can remember the era
of kingship a- a long and disastrous speculation.
Portugal i- "out of- the market". It can breathe
deep and go hack to the office.
I lie wni'lii is not -ii inrlimitir, rorlugal s mini
is iis loss. Ii must care fur Manuel and all die
kinsfolk nl Manuel. Ii must treat them with
dignity. 11 nui*t make wa v fur Ihem to jia**si. It
imi'i give them iu daughter- to wed. Throiigh
<mi tin* ages- in the world at largo, will run the
degenerate “lilue blood" of the euusiio- to ilie
Hidalgos, who had a country and threw it a wav.
IS < AKNECIE \ CREEK ;
It wore perhaps an ungrateful thing for any
one in thin broad land to question the jihilan
rhro|iie motives of the Laird of Ski ho. buf his re
cently annouueed gift of $50,000 to the cam
paign fund of Ihmoeratic oandidate Dix hath
a fishy look.
Id the sfoelniaster i- really desirous of helping
forward the lfemocratic cause in New York
h\ contributing to the sinews of war. why did
lie uo sooner make tho donation than he per
mitted it to be shouted front the housetopsHe
must be aware that such an event i.s exaetlv what
Ivoo-evelt and the Rejinblieau managers in the
Empire State desire to have noised abroad. He
must know that, in a spectacular tight against the
“bosse.' and for "purity." the reputation of
being displeasing to a trust of the magnitude of
die Steel Corporation is far more to he desired
thaii any mere $50,000 of trust money. Such a
gift can only react forcibly in favor of the cause
against which it is ostensibly given.
Everything connected with this sudden access
of political generosity suggests that there is a
definite something behind the check. Campaign
contributions have never yet been paraded, as
this one has been, ou the public street cerntXa.
The amount itself i» a small one for Carnegie
to give to any cause on which he has set his
heart. Why, it he gave it in good faith, should
he desire to'fob it of any possible influence for
good by, as the street has it. “bawling it out <
The endorsement of the Taft administration and
the tariff by the Koosevelt-coutrolled convention,
tin* lamb-like sjteech at Saratoga of the lion
who had been roaring through the West, had
thoroughly suggested that the battle against cor
ruption and for reform was to be waged with all
due respect for its rich friends at home, "male
factors’’ or otherwise. For Carnegie to ostensi
bly contribute to the Democratic campaign was
one of the surest methods by which this im
pression inevitable front the fact- might bo laid.
Tile fifty thousand publicly donated to the Demo
cratic cause suggests the question. How much was
privately donat'd to the Republican chest f Is
it possible that the canny Scotchman lias gone
to the gamblers for a jail icy and proceeded to
play the game both ways from the middle (
To add to the merriment, it is announced that
the reason for the Carnegie dollars is fear ofi
Roosevelt as a dangerous man. in the light ot
his presidential aspirations for litl'J. When, its
President, was the Colonel ever dangerous to
Cnrmgic or I'nited States Steel ( In the very
ihick of all his trust busting was not steel so
scatheless it- also to be sacred f When, tit the
face of exact decisions to the contrary, ba.-ed
upon enthusiastic Rooseveltian prosecutions, the
Steel Corporation desired to acquire i s largest
competitor, was it not Roosevelt who granted
l>oth permission and a promise of legal immunity
from an illegal aet i! Have not Theodore and
Andrew been for lo, these years fellow soldiers
glorious in all good works,— the one with the talk
ami the other with the cash { W’hat dream lias
come over the Laird of Ski ho that he should now
find in his friend a dangerous quality apparently;
never before discovered f Only a week ago. and
the same Carnegie was in London giving out an
interview in which he stated that he was glad
that House veil was in polities and that it was in
evitahle that so great a man should be so engaged.
Now,—ostensibly,— he is seeking with the pow
er ot' gold, carefully and partially guarded for
bim by this same great man, to cut the great
man’s throat. Is it possible that Roosevelt Imres
his throat with knowledge of the dumb show,—
that in the equipment of the "practical man”
there i- a passing knowledge of parlor legerde
main ?
A THOUGHTLESS EPITAPH.
In a North Carolina exchange, the Winston-j
Salem Sentinel, is an editorial entitled "The
Mark on ihe Grave", the first paragraph of
which reads:
When a multi-million lire dies why
don’t, they .put a dollar mark on hi#
tombstone? For a man like Ilarritnan
who made his hundred millions in ma
nipulating and thought of little else
hut the growth of his fortune, it would
U“ the proper thing.
The Sentinel is unfortunate in its illustration.
If Harriman ever thought, primarily of his per
sonal fortune, the world never detected him in
the act. Millions came to llarriman as the
merest, incident, of his life atnl ambition, lie
used dollars as knowingly, hut as impersonally,
as a workman uses his tools. They were the
rank and file of a general's soldiery. He knew
their value, massed them, made them attack,
and win. and clear a way tor the ends lie hail in
sight. He did not. however, associate with them,
so to -peak. They brought him nothing that he
could not have possessed and died unknown to
tame. He might have had as many, and never
been known. It was because lie had his eves
tixed on something beside the dollars that llarri
man became a force, admired, feared, and envied.
It was the man and not the possessions of the man
that won from Theodore Roosevelt the denuncia
tion ihat placed him in the spot-light for the re
gard of the country.
Say. if you will, that llarriman and the hand
ful of fellows ot his type make a menace to the
their arts. Mold to the belief thtu through tlieir
operations eotne oppression, and injustice, and
the decav ot democratic principles. Admit that
their lives tend to make life a machine, to stifle
individual ambition and initiative, to rob the
great body of the people of fields in which they
naturally -dioiild have a tree hand to aeipiire and
create wealth. Hut do not -ay that the llarri
mans are money hungry. Do not stigmatize a
pirate with the effeminacy of the idle rich. Clive
them the meed of their manhood, however mis
directed it may l»e. dram them fbo justice of
regard for what they are, strong, ambitious,
laboring men.
Harriman had his dreams. They were ex-;
prised in miles on miles of railroads, connect
ing seas, binding rities. He saw armies of men
mobilized and at work under the impulse of his
will. He saw a great industrial empire form
ing at his word, with himself as King. He saw,
these things and he worked for them at a heart-)
breaking pace. A bundle of nerves, sick, weak j
in body but strong in mind, ho whipped himself]
more unmercifully to the task than he whipped!
anybody else Finally, the dreams came true.'
one after the other, and still he worked. Almost
he dropped in the harness, and when he did the
world was amazed to know how much it was pos
sible for one man to do in so little time.
Money 1 To a man like that ? A dollar mark
for an epitaph \ lo such men money 19 per
sonally no more than waste paper, Hold is more
useless than dross.
A HOT CHESTNUT.
Notwithstanding Knox, we are unable to cred
it lilt rt^tvrt UiaU uu a States tfrclijBti
Manuel is sailing back to Portugal to engage,—
with the aid of this country, England and Ger
many,—in recovering the throne from which he
has recently been ousted with such consummate'
ease.
It is sufficient strain upon the pure and hu
mane tradition of the Monroe doctrine for the!
I’nited States to adopt, the role of bully-in-chie£
of Central American Republics. Only the
strength of the nation and the weakness inherent j
in the universal suspicion, one of the other, of
European nations have availed to preserve in-1
tact a governmental policy declared for the Issue-'
tit of others and made the instrument of selfish
benefit to ourselves. Against the profession ot
the doctrine are forever set over, also, the Philip-;
pine Islands and the numerous nets of aggression
of a Western power in E^*t*rn affairs. 1-or
this country to now so far forgty its early prin
ciples and its ancient sympathies ns to aid in the
overthow of the principle which it itself served1
to make alive would Ik* an invitation to reprisal
that could not in the nature of things go for
ever unaccepted.
At the moment when Washington diplomacy
is engaged, under the theory of the Monroe doc
trine, in blocking the long mooted trade of the'
Danish West Indies to England, it would he
the height of folly should this nation throw out
of the window the last vestige of Republican
pretense to engage, knee to knee, in the world’s j
imperialistic scramble.
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A German professor, visiting Newport, lias
declared that the socially elect arc distinctly lack
ing in personal pulchritude. Perhaps this phe
nomenon arises by reason of the failure of the
socially elect to observe the adage, "pretty is as
pretty din's.”
It will be noticed that the crank who cante
to Aunt Delia 1 or rev with the alleged news of
a plot airainsr the President's life waited 'ill
hr* was safely at the front pile la-fore he tried
a threat <d that game on Aunt Oelia herself.
If Philadelphia should happen to win tin'
world s series the last vestige of exem-e for the:
slander that it i' a slow town will have been
dissipated.
One difference between gambling at Naira-*
gansett Tier and the fashionable Virginia re
sorts is that in Virginia the courts convict the
off. nders instead of trying to protect the wit
JH'SSfS. a
Cavalieri is talking of suing for a. divorce.
In that ease .John Armstrong Cliahmcr might
send -her hi- prize boar, “1 tolgorouki'* tor a
next -w edd i ng present.
I he new football has so far resulted in casual-'
ties chiefly confined to broken ankles. That is
mmdi 1 tetter than last season's record of broken
n< eks.
Mr. Roosevelt is eortainiy forgetful of him
self. Witness his statement that in making per
sonal allusions he was preparing to establish a
new record.
President I aft has a blister on his foot. We
though- that the contain tiring would after a!
while commence to fizzle the fat.
In the Supreme ('otirr the State of Virginia'
is contending for it variation of the doctrine of;
State’s Rights in asking permission to collect a
debt.
Inability to pronounce the name of their
King's affinity may have added frenzy to the
Lisbon revolutionists.
Vico-President Sherman lia- accepted an in-1
citation to dine with Senator Lorimci'. Misery:
like' company.
Pride .lue Cannon miiv take what eoiufort!
he ran out of the fact that Colonel Roosevelt en-j
dor-ed Slemp.
There will he no "Suffragan Bishops”. An
other sj>ecies of race discrimination which the
('ohmel should attend to.
Washington, in the alienee of Congress, is
suffering a milk famine. Also, there is a dearth
of pork.
__ _ I'
King Manuel is going back to that dear Paris,
the hospitable asylum of so many titles without i
performance.
The Second District scents to have primaries
forced upon it.
The "Old Guard” smiles grimly ar the new
young man.
The South i* a little hi? shaken, but from last,
accounts sti|! "solid”.
.
Disgusting Situation.
From the wav the theatrical season has hojjun in
Raleigh it seems aa if the chief of police would station
an officer or officers at the Academy of Mnalc at night
after each performance to aee that the sldewalka and
thoroughfare are cleared, so that the ladlee attending
the ahow can pasa out without l»etng puahed and shoved
and handled in such a manner as ia being done at
present.
Immediately after every performance the men con
gregate In front of the Academy, from the door to the
sidewalk, and it la almoa* Impossible for a lady to pass j
through this aggregation The situation lias become
disgusting and something should be done for the pro
tection of the ladies on such occasions.
This matter can be easily handled by detailing an
officer, or more than one if necessary, to see ihat this
crowd Is broken, up and that the sidewalk is opeu and
Hally nassgblt.n-Raleigh Times. 4
LIGHTS OF HOME
HV PHILIP KEAN.
(Copyright, 1#10, l»v Associated Literary Preaa.)
Stephen did not mind the dark. The night wag
tempestuous and b&ek of him the aea moaned. Ha
»a« sure, however, that in a little while he would
see the lights of home; that had alwayB been tha
joy of his return. His mother had kept a candla
In the window, and after it long voyage the steady
tlanie was Stephen's welcome. A jutting rock hid
the cottage until one was almost upon it, but ho knew,
that the obstacle once passed he would see the star
like gleam. It was with a feeling of Intense disap
pointment, therefore, when hating rounded the rock,
he faced blackness. Following the disappointment
came fear. Why had the light gone out?
The house when he reached it showed a locked
door nnd closed shutters, the forlornncss of an un
inhabited building.
Stephen sat down Weakly on the front steps. He
was sure that something had happened to his mother.
In his voyage of two ycjfrs It had not been possible
to receive letters, although he had written regularly.
Manj things might have happened In that time—
Illness, death.
With a feeling of deep foreboding he rose, uncer
tain where to gi out with the remembrance of ft
former schooling, , little Ajtne Martin, who had
comforted liis m ..,er in her loneliness.
He went down the path with heavy steps, then
Stopped short aiol turned as a sudden flieker of
light Illumined the darkness With the light life
came hack Into the empty house, the shutters in the
sitting room were opened, and the candle could bg
seen straight and tall on the table.
It was not the candle at which Stephen looked,
however, but at a girl who stood behind the table,
lor hand shielding the flame. She was tall and fair
with a blue ribbon banded around her shining curls.
The room behind her had the dreary look of a place
not lived In. There was no tire on the hearth, no
work basket on the window ledge, or purring cat
on the cushioned bench. There was an unreal alf
of tidiness which chilled him.
Front outside thu window ho called the girl: "l.it<
tie Annie;’'
She came and looked into the darkness. "I# if
Stephen?” she asked breathlessly, "at l.iat?''
He caught her hand In his.
''Where Is my mother?” he demanded.
' ••h.'” she wailed, "has nobody told you?”
"No, hut the room tells 'me,” he said heavily.
' She was very ill,” the glr! said softly, "and af
)«.'! she went to sleep HUd I promised to keep tha
light always In the window for you. To-night 1
was late because l stopped at the wharf to watch
the ship come in, never dreaming that you vvera
on it.”
She opened the door and let him In. "it is a sad
home-coming.” she said, "but you must let me get
your supper. 1 bought mine In town und 1 will
cook It here and then I won't have to eat alone.”
"Alone'.''' he questioned.
rather is out fifth inn. Ihere are just the two of
us left "
In the basket which she brought from the step*
were a loaf «>f bread, bacon and eggs
“There 1st tea left in \ >ur mother'* canister.” raid
I -ittic* Anne, and if you will build the tire I will
soon have things ready.’’
With the fire burning steadil> in the stove, ho
watched her fiit from room t.> room. Her presence
rested and comforted him. in his wandering Ufa
he had felt little need for domestic jo) ft. The littig
NVu Kngland village had nut provided enough ex
citement to satisfv him, and to- had traveled to the
end of the world seeking adventure.
He had found it. and what after al* win it worth?
He had a swise suddenly of utter forlornness. With
his mother dead, there was no on** who cared. No
one but little An he He had a vision «.f what life
might b» If he could make himself settle down In
some quiet place with this girl as his wife. Surety
there would be much that whs pleasant In an ex
istence "ith mu h a woman hv his side. While ho
was not conceited, he had little fear that he could
"in her. They had been friends, alwavs. arid he did
m*t doubt that he. could rouse a deeper feeling.
He vbteed some thing of his feeling " hen. as they
sat down at the table, he sold. “1 wish your f&cg
might he always opposite me. Anne.”
She was pouring ids tea and she smii^d at him
brightly. “You must stay with father and me uAtll
> oil go awa\ again. '
"Perhaps l shall not go away,” he ►aid
She shook her head at him "You could never
stay in one puu e long.' she said.
“Perhaps if then was some one to keep me/*
he said, significant^
But she refused to lake his meaning ‘ You could
never settle down.” she insisted.
It was not the time or the place t<> pres* hf»
suit, but "hen he had been home a week he asked
her to marrv him, and she ref used.
“The spirit of the wanderer vviM come upon you/*
► he raid. "Your ship sails next week: you will want
to K" with it. and I could never live the life that
>"ur mother lived, waiting with the candle -in tha
" /illi'W,"
1 would stay with you/* he said ardently. “You
" •Mild hold any man.” But sh* persisted tn her r#
fusa i.
"You will want to go with your ship/’ she r#
pent»d: “you will grow restless, and 1 shall feel that
1 am second in your thoughts '*
“I shall n*»t want to go,” he declared, but, when
the time f.>r sailing <am*. he found himself drawn
irresistibly to the dock. The great steamer v\ aa
ready for hur voyage, fresh with paint: and there
was about her the atmosphere of mystery which
belongs to vessels that sail the tropic seas. The
other end of her voyage would find her where dark
skinned people stood on white sand* to welcome
her. Back of them would be waving palms, where
hrtght-hued bird* made their nests a land of indo
lence and allurement.
He realized that 'his love of Little Anne was a
thing of recent growth, while, all his life, his passion
for the sea had held him Was there anything
' w i\i ni . it tilt
contented In a future of Inaction.’
Even us he thought of her. she (-ante and stood
beside him on the dock.
I want ton to go away, Stephen." she said, ‘and
if. when you come hack in two years, you still earn
for me. I "ill beltevo that you know yourself hetteg
than you do now.”
It w as not easy for him to go, > «t he rrnllzed
when he was oiue on his journey that It would not
have lieeii east for hint to stay. The spell of the
sea was on him. and he was, before everything eIsa,
a sailor.
Hut he realized, an time went on. there was another
spell upon him the tropic country, the lazy, life did
not satisfy. He found himself buying, not us he had
bought before, useless trinkets, but things which
would beautify a home, a carved chest, embroideries
and linens things that a woman would like. And
when he bought a ring of curious workmanship, of
beaten gold with a dull blue stone, he knew that
he had made up his mind. He knew, too, that ha
had made his last voyage.
On the return trip his heart failed him. What
if Little Antic had not been true? What if her love
were not waiting for him- Other men knew her
charm, and other men had not sailed away and
left her.
She was not on the dork when the boat came In,
and fearing to fare the things he dreaded, he took
his nay to his mother's cottage. As hl< rounded the
Jutting rork he looked for the light. And It wag
there' Anne, was waiting’
"I shall never go away again,” he said, us aha
welcomed him.
"Hut won't you long ror the sea '.’ I am Jealoug of
it.”
He shook his head. "I know now 'that nothing
lias for me the charm of the lights of home. There
is beauty to tie found elsewhere and wonder and ad
venture. tint these things do not count when weighed
in the balance with such women as you. X have
found that out, and I know my mind now, Eittle
A nne.
THE PEOPLE’S FORUM
•WHO WILL SPEAK THE WORD?"
Suggested Terms Descriptive of the Gentlemen Whs
Emulate the Gull.
Editor of The Virginian:
Sir,—Apropos your editorial In to-day's paper, ‘‘Who
Will Speak the Word .'”, I may suggest "sky-weight." as
ar. appropriate appellation for ‘‘the man who manipu
lates the aeroplane"? “CAROLINA.”
Leaksvllle .V t'., Oct. 5.
Editor ol The Virginian:
Sir.—You ask. In Issue of October 5, "Who Will Speak
the Word?" What Is the matter with ‘‘airman"? We
ray "postman," “trainman,? etc.
M. W. JUNSa. .
JiTfJCViiiv Yl*»» Oct. I* - - m.
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