The Oregon mist., September 29, 1911, Image 2

STORY J
"Wo Courtship
& cymes
Standish
With Illustrations
Howard Chandler Christy
itVprrit&l, l'b Bubb-Morrtil cuiinyi
Love and Friendship
Ncthirg was heard in the room but
the hurrying pen of the stripling.
Dr nn occat-lonal sigh from the labor-
i Ing heart of the Captain.
Reading the marvelous words an-i
achievements of Julius Caesar.
Alter a while he exclaimed, as be
smote with his hand, palm down
ward, Henvi'v on re: " wonderful
man wcs this Caesar!
Vou ue a kilai, buu i uui a fighter,
but here is a fellow
Who rould Loth write and fight, and
in loth was equally skilful!"
Stra?rtway answered and spake John
Alden. the comely, the youthful:
"Yea, be was equally skilled, as you
car, with his pen and his weap
ons. Somewhere have I read, but where I
lorget. he could dictate
Every Sentence Began
Seven letters at once, at the same
time writing his memoirs."
"Truly," continued the Captain, not
heeding or hearing the other,
"Truly a wonderful man was Cains
Julius Caesar!
.Better be first, he said. In a little
Iberian vil age.
Than be second In Rome; and I think
be was right when he said It.
Twice was be married before he was
twenty, and many times after;
.Battles five hundred he fought, and a
f thousand cites he conquered;
He, too. fought In Flanders, as he him
self has recorded;
Finally he waa stabbel by his friend,
the orator Brutus!
Now, do you know what he did on a
certain occasion In Flanders,
When the rear-guard of hit army re
treated, the front giving way, too.
And the Immortal Twelfth Legion was
crowded so closely together
There waa no room for their swords?
Why, he seized a leld from a
soldier.
Put himself straight at the head of
his troops, and commanded tiie
captains.
Calling each by bis name, to order
forward the ensigns;
Then to widen the ranks, and give
more room for their weapons;
So he won the day, the battle of some-
tblng-or-other.
That's what I always say: If you wish
a thing to well done.
You must do It yourself, you must not
leave It to others!'
AH was silent again; the Captain
continued his reading.
Nothing was heard In the room but
the hurrying pen of the stripling.
Writing epistles important to go next
day by the Mayflower,
Filled with the name and the fame of
of the Puritan maiden Prlscilla;
Every sentence began or closed with
the name of Prlscilla,
Till the treacherous pen, to which be
confided the secret.
Strove to betray It by singing and
shouting the name of Prlscilla!
Finally closing his book, with a bang
of the ponderous cover.
Sudden and loud as the sound of a sol
dier grounding his musket.
Thus to the young man spake Miles
Standish, the Captain of Ply
mouth: W'hen you have finished your work,
I have something Important to
tell you.
De not, however. In baste; I can wait;
I shall Dot be Impatient!"
Straightway Alden replied, as he
folded the last of bis letters.
Pushing bis papers aside, and giving
respectful attention:
rgperk; for whenever you speak, I
am always ready to listen.
Always ready to bear whatever per
tains to Miles Standlsh."
Thereupon answered the Captain, em
barrassed, and culling his phrases:
" Tia not good for a man to be ulffue,
say the Scriptures.
This I have said betore, and again
and again I repeat it:
Every hour in the day, I think It, and
feel It, and say It.
Since Rose Stnndlrh died, my life has
been weary and dreary;
Sick at heart have I been, beyond the
healing of friendship.
Oft In my lonely hours have I thought
of the maiden Prlscilla.
She is alone In the world: her father
and mother and brother
Died in the winter together; I taw her
going and romitig.
Now to the grave of the dead, ami
now to the bed of the dying.
Patient, courageous, and strong, and
suld to myself, that if ever
There were angels on earth, as thert
are angels in heaven.
Two have I teen and known; and the
angel whose name is UiicciKa
Holds In my desolate life the place
which the other abnndoued.
Long have 1 cherished the thought.
but never have dared to reveal it
Iteing a coward In this, though valiant
enough for the most part.
Go to the damsel Prlscilla, the love
llest maiden of Plymouth,
Say that a blunt o'.d Captain, a man
not of words but of actions.
Offers bis hand and his heart, tht
hand and heart of a soldier.
Not Id these words, you know, but
this in short Is my meaning;
I am a maker of war, and cot a maker
of phrases.
You, who are bred as a scholar, can
say it in elegant language.
Such as you read in your books of the
pleadings and woolngs of lovers,
Such as you think best adapted to win
the heart of a maiden."
When he had spoken, John Alden.
the falr-halred, taciturn stripling.
or Closed With "Prlscilla."
All aghast at bis words, surprised, em
barrassed, bewildered.
Trying to mask his dismay by treat
ing the subject with lightness,
Trying to smile, and yet feeling his
heart stand still In bis bosom.
Just as a time piece stops In a house
that Is stricken by lightning,
Thus made answer and spake, or
rather stammered than answered:
"Such a message as that, I am sure I
should mangle and mar it;
If you would have' It well done I am
only repeating your maxim
You must do It yourself, you must not
leave it to others!"
But with the air of a man whom noth
ing can turn from his purpose.
Gravely shaking his head, made an
swer the Captain of Plymouth:
"Truly the maxim Is good, and I do
not mean to gainsay It;
But we must use it discreetly, and not
waste powder for nothing.
Now, aa I said before, I was never a
A Wonderful Man
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A Wonderful Man Waa Calua Julius Caesar."
maker of phrases.
I can march up to a fortress and sum
mon the place to surrender.
Put march tip to a woman with such
proposal, I dare not.
I'm not afraid of bullets, nor shot
from the mouth of a cannon.
Put of a thundering 'No!' point-blank
from the mouth of a woman.
That I confess I'm afraid of, nor am I
ashamed to confess It!
top
4$ '-m
Now to the Grave of the Dead.
So you must grant my request, for
you are an elegant scholar.
Having the graces of speech, and skill
lu the turning of phrases."
Taking the hand of his friend, who
still was reluctant and doubtful.
Holding It long In his own, and press
ing It kindly, be added:
"Though I have spoken thus lightly,
yet deep Is the feeling that
prompts me;
Surely you can not refuse what I ask
In the name of our friendship!"
Then made answer John Alden: "The
name of friendship la sacred;
What you demand In that name, I
have not the power to deny you!"
So the strong will prevailed, sub
duing and molding the gentler.
Friendship prevailed over love, and
Alden went no bis errand.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
The Finishing Touch.
"No," says the eminent actress ear
nestly, "I cannot approve of the fash
ion that so many members of my pro
fession have of being photographed
continually."
The reporter makes some feverish
notes and she continues:
"It seems to me that because one
Is on the stage Is no reason why be or
she should consider bis or her face
of absorbing Interest to the public."
She continues for half a column and
as the reporter Is stowing away bis
notebook she smiles sweetly and says:
"Here Is one of my latent photo
graphs for you to use with the Inter
view. I sat for It only yesterday, so
you may be sure it has never before
been reproduced." Judge.
There Was a Difference.
A local Protestant clergymnn has
decided, much to the disappointment
of bis congregation, to accept a call
to another pulpit In an eastern city. A
few days ago, one of the neighbors
met the little son of this minister,
and said:
"So your father Is going to work In
FJIanktown, Is he?"
The little boy looked up In surprise.
"Oh, no," be said. "Only to preach
there."
His Wonderful Memory,
"Excuse me," said tbe absent-minded
professor, "but haven't we ccel be
fore?" "Why, yes." replied the beautiful
girL "Our hostess Introduced us Just
before dinner tonight."
"Ah, I remember! I never forget
a face!" Stray Stories
Waa Calua Julius Caesar."
ESCAPES WEIRD FATE
Diver is held under water
by monster abalone.
Wrenches Himself Free When Almost
Drowned His Flnq.r. Were Bad
ly Lacorattd by the Shell
of Mollusc
Avalon. Cat. -Many years ago Vic
tor Hugo wrote In his "Tollers of the
Sea" a wonderful bit of description
wherein he pictured a man slowly
sinking to suffocutlou In a quicksand.
Clarence llrodle got some Inkling of
.ie sensations of such a death In the
waters near here. llrodle, who Is an
expert diver was caught under wa
ter oy nis lingers uy an annione mm
held there until 4ie thought he was
about to drown.
He succeeded In wrenching himself'
loose with badly torn digits and "w:,.,.,lt tMtam-e. The White House
the gentle one shelled mollusc Is a know1 M ..,.,.,,,,,,.,, HI
thing of terrible menace to him. J ." and the 'government building-.
Ihere have been many tales ana
traditions up and down the California
coast of how fishermen and others
have groped along the bottom when
the tide was low. how they have had
their hands caught In the terrible
grip of the abuloue. how they were
bold as the tide rose higher and high
er until they drowned or how they
desperately chopped off the Impris
oned member to get free. Prodle had
something of such an experience here.
Accompanied by two companions be
went out to gather some abalones.
Diving to the bottom. Ilrodles made
the mistake of trying to tear one of
the abalones loose by clawing bis
S h IM .. I. a ahull In
stantly the powerful muscle, of ' the
mollusc closed down the shell on the i
rock to which It clung and llrodle
found himself held helpless.
His breath was becoming exhausted
as be struggled to free bis fingers
and finally with one supreme wrench
be toie th fingers from under the
abatone shell and rose to the surface.
His fingers were badly lacerated and
he may carry the scars as a souvenir
of his adventure for life.
CHr'CH TO RUN PICTURES
Plan by Which a Colorado Congrega
tion Hopes to Compete With the
Nickelodeon.
Grand Junction, Colo.-The Presby
Icr'.aa church here has evolved a plan of , old battleship, cavalry drills.
to put the Sunday moving picture mln, ,nd work pliui,
shows out of buslnes. At a meeting ma, jndul,ryi ro building and every
9f the church trustees, the Rev. Dr.,lnRle ,cvltr of tn, 0Vernment will
Luther Edwards, the pastor, was au- b, shown on the films.
thorlred to buy a machine with the) The problem of educating (he public
K"r' -
an Sunday all day. except during serv-
Ices and until 10:30 o'clock at night.
The public will be admitted fre.
Instead of films showing train rob-
bertes. suggestive love scenes, or sup-
posedly humorous events, the church
machine will be utilised entirely for
duration and religious purpose. Al
leading historical episodes will be II-
lustrated Moving pictures will be
used to Ulttetrat. sermon, and lee-
tures and all will have an educational
f '.v.. , , . . .
By this mean. It Is honed that the
piciura muff Liien'ers win ue lorceo
to close on Sunday or else meet the
competition offered by the church
free.
GIRL OF NINE IS A THIEF,
New York "Strong Arm" Men Pick
Her Up as a Most Clever
Pickpocket.
New York. The youngest girl pick
pocket ever seen In the children's
court In New York city faced Judge
Hoyt the other day and was turned
over to the Children's society pending
further Investigation of her case. Her
name Is Concotto tngloso. She de
clare, she was In the game of pick
ing pockets five week, before being
caught, that .he was taught to be a
thief by a strange man and that she
received 45 cents a day for her work.
Detective Werthelmerof the "strong
arm" squad and Detective Wittenberg
were detailed to bag the "big game"
that was working In the central part
of New York city, when they were
startled to see a little girl deftly put
her band Into a woman's apron pocket
and withdraw a pockethook Hoping
to find her confederate they trailed
her and saw ber repeat the trick 15
times, each time placing the pocket
book In a large handbag she carried.
his death thought a joke
Earl Stows, a Practical Jester of Mas.
slllon, Hangs Himself as
Friend Reads.
Masstllon, O All or Earl Rtowe'i
friends knew be was a practical Joker,
so when he hanged himself on the
porch of the Simpson hotel one eve
ning. Just to show how It wa. done,
oohody paid any attention to him. A
man who didn't know Htowe's reputa
tion as Joker came along and start
ed an Investigation, which showed the
Joke bad been carried too far and
that the man was dead. F.dgar Smith,
who sat near reading a magazine, paid
no attention when Stowe began to
n. for ha had been fooled an nfi I
by Stowe that he aid not care to bi
fooled again.
Whltecaps Scare Woman to Death.
Aiken, Oa. Whltecaps who whipped
Columbus Bpradley, frightened Mr..
Nettle Bpradley to death and caused
bit uncle. Pen Bpradley, to become
Lsperately 1IL
I WSB
Is a City of
J -fry vS J. i fl- 1
vsillMJTOV Cities outgrow
, W ,,,.. ,.,,,., , ,.hi,r,,n ,i.
'Washington win known three quarters
- , . ... . ,,. lf.
,,,(lnll,.( n ,,.,., Uur. were con
sidered to be far and away too great
for the business of the country. Now
the national capital Is over 10') yenr
:itil, and has outgrown everything that
was planned for her. Tremendous
wings were built to (lie capltol even
efore the war. The White House has
tieen remodeled nnd remodeled until It
presents very small appearance of the
original. We have outgrown our beau
Kful treasury building, our statx, war
ind nnvy building, we have outgrown
two postal departments, and we long
)go outgrew the ten miles square of
the district tiouiidarlc. In fact, the
residents of Washington have lapped
j ,ver Maryland snd Virginia at
1 -
The treasury building Is of an
-lent Greek temple design, and simply
cannot be remodeled. To add to or
take from It a single stone would be
Government to Start Picture Show:
i
IT NCLE BAM himself Is going Into
SJ th
e moving picture show business.
With the authority of President Tart,
a contract has been entered Into by
the government officials and a Chicago
firm for the purpose of reproducing In
moving pictures all of the various ac
tivities of the nation.' The pictures
will be shown in hundreds of moving
Olcture Bouses Murine at vnrb nn
- , battleshlns. aunnrrs flrln. at th. hulk
to the work being done by its own
.overnmwit carefully considered
by the president and members of his
cabnet before the contract was en-
,ered ,, rilhnt 0rf, w
,hn ,u,hor1l(, to milk, n own
ranKcmpnt h ,ha ,, rotl0Prrli ,,av-
, ,n, r((llt to for ,. ,r.
,ur ,ie wished to have taken and
r,Jert ,ho((B he (,w not rHre for
. , th, ,., S(Mp )f bc
ro for ,,,... the director. Ix-
wler ,,aK, nrrRnKH , h,
I pictures taken showing the effects of
ooJ ,Dd bad rondr , ,he c, of
Bulk of Concealed
I WAS LUCKY
t no-en ro
CtT PAHT
BACK
T1K United States ha. recovered
nearly $7.r,0.0(J0 from the concealed
assets of Oaynor, Greene and Carter,
who defrauded the government out of
t2.000.000 In Savannah harbor Im
provement contracts In 1897. The
actual amount unearthed and attached
was !3C.9n6.69. This does not In
clude $40,000 forfeited surety of John
F. Uaynor. This sum the government
Is endeavoring o recover by civil suit
In tbe United States district court for
the northern district of New York.
More than half of the recovery came
from the concealed assets of ('apt.
Oberlln M. Carter, the engineer officer
In charge of the work at Savannah
harbor and coconspirator of Greene
and Gaynor, the contractors. The
total asset, of Captain Carter selxed
by the government amounted to 1501,.
855.39. From H. D. Greene $106,4fi0.25
Undo Sam Builds
ArniSON within a prison Is being
built at Leavenworth, Kan., and It
will be the first exclusive federal
prison for women in the United Hhhm
The new Jail Is being built within the
wall, of the United State, peniten
tiary, but It will have a wall of It.
own and the Inmates will be more se
curely shut off from the world than
the more desperate men confined In
the men's prison.
This Inside prison will have room
for about 600 women, there being now
about that number In the various
State penitentiaries tn the United
State., the government paying the
states ror tneir keep. These women
have been convicted mainly of viola
tions of the postal laws, smuggling.
cuumericmng or white slaving.
While the women's prison will be
under control of the warden, there
will be a woman superintendent and
under her a corp. of subordinate.
?M".n b"n" COnnn,d h'hini
double wall, no guard, will be nece.-
eapeclally en prisoners, be allowed
I r
nr m
rl H II mP-Tr" CtT part
Magnificent Distance
to ruin It, architecturally siwn.ln.
Is said to be the most pnfict (UJ
I le of Greek art lu this count- J
(lie treasury department had to hi J
more room, and so they iiniiini.Mi H!
roof and hoved It up siuun oa tJ
siiii s anil inauo a little more rsniJ
wuru. i nu state, war and navy ,ult
lug always was hideous, h-in t,
Is culled Italian renaissance, sng M
at all suited to ine solid. Iimt torn,
necessities of the I'ulted Sutoi
eminent, and It looks as tawdry up,,
slide w hen brought, as It Is, Into Ju
tHiiosllion with the White llnux ...
the simplicity of the Urvvk temiU J
nuance.
When the building was put up
was to house the I'ulted States po4
department and the city post uh
some architects planned a sort of Co
ogne Cathedral building, which lit
long ways oft from being big
for either department ami ion
match anything In the gorer-a-
building line In Washington Artwo
structure was put up there i
form In Idens for govermn-ut
Iiiks, and since then they bv fe
nlona the stately substantial lln. rj
finest recent examples of these J
found in the splendid whits mtrtJ
buildings constructed for the houasu
seiate omce buildings, which hut h
the central figure the beautiful .
marble national capltol. wlih tb n
gresslonal library and Its glided ju
in tne loregrouua.
the latter, the films will show !
farmer trying to csrry U;aJ uf frhi
uca over a bad. road; how he bnm
sick; how the doctor Is uoiblt i
reach him, and how, because of lit
mud ruts, the undertaker finds It a
ceedlngly difficult to get him to U
grave. Another film w ill show snotl
tsrmer rarrylng his produce twlct
much over a model road romtruol
under the supervision of the go'o
ment.
The department of ariculttirt r
be able to show. In eiitertslnlnl si
well as Instructive style, th tlK
of pure food and Impure find; tM
secretary of war will be able to iM
the advantages of army life, and t
secretary o. the navy the advaotw
of life on the bounding waves, w
the Interior department will b ike
Ing how forest fires are foucbt lit
entombed miners are rescued.
Assets Recovered
was recovered, and from John T. Gv
nor I29.CS1.05.
Moat of the assets of Captala CV
ter were In trust funds. They "
traced to and corralled In ths I9
of receivers for the estate of Capl1
Carter. These trust funds Include!
real estate, bunds, stocks and cut
The government made aitarhmnl a
this case. Of the $50t.R5u 2 rt
ered from the Carter concealed M"1
the Supreme Court of the Unit
States allowed $111,064 211 for Carta'1
counsel expenses.
All the proceedings In the court!
the Carter case have been termlnirti
but all of the asset, turned o
the government .have not been
verted Into cash. The total amount
cash In the Carter assets turned II
$227,JiB2. The balance Is In rl
tale In New York and New Jn'
and certain securities In Oeorgla. TW
now are In process of being Mat
every case the assets corralled
been transferred by Greene, 0a
and Carter to other persons or
by persons for them In conreslo"1
The tracing of the assets w B"
difficult
Prison for Women
in the women', prison. The w
will be more completely shut cut
the world than cloistered nuns.
TVa -.mi w. k.i InO b"1
,f
m iiuinrn will irn mry. -
to think about men, however, '"'"JJ
them will devolve the making Of
the bed clothing, tablecloths, te
and other things of that nature
In the prison and the repair of
.mi ks ti
own clothing, of course, llh"".,
type of uniform ha. been ok
upon. It probably will be a onfrP1
blue dress, but without Dumbtr (
anything to denote the wearer
The women will have thrtr
thapel and varlou. entertau"
wlU be provided for tbeia. ..