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She had never loved Anson Burdett
i In a true sense, and such a thing as
j becoming his wife had never entered
j her thoughts, yet, when misfortune
! came upon him, there was bom in the
' nature of Leila Italeigh pity, mingled
! with mistaken duty, that amazed her
mother and sisters.
“I shall make any sacrifice necessary
as a friend.” she told them. “If poor
; Anson is to go through life helpless.
I blind, and asks me to share his trou
bles I will marry him at his bidding."
"Leila, you talk wild!" scolded her
sistio Adelaide. "You never really
: cared for Anson. He has no claim up
[ on you. It Is sheer folly."
“Kut 1 feel so sorry for him.” said
Leila. “He certainly paid me more at
tention limn lie did to other girls."
"And out of an impulse of sympathy
you would tie yourself to a man unable
| to make even a living? Leila, this is
all sentiment," declared her mother.
Nothing more was said at the time,
1 but Mrs. Raleigh knew that Leila was
a person who always acted upon her
1 convictions, though neither romantic
nor heroic. Intensely loyal to her
friends, sympathetic and tender-heart
ed, Leila hud exaggerated her sense
of duty towards a man who had never
spoken to her one word of love. A
strange condition of affairs had come
about. There was an athletic club in
Rosstnore to which nearly every young
man in (he town belonged. It had
been started and mainly supported by
Wilton Porter, who bad been left quite
a fortune. Burdett, too. was a mem
ber. and one day, while practicing
with the Indian club, Porter lost his
grasp on one of them, and it whirled
I ihrmigh the air with terrific force.
Burdett stood directly In the path of
the flying missile. It landed squarely
i between his eyes, he went down like
a shot and the shocked and horritied
Porter went through twenty-four hours
i of crushing anxiety, remaining at the
hospital whither Burdett was con
veyed until the physician assured him
I that the patient would live. Porter’s
heart sank, however, as he was told
! that It looked as though the nerves of
■ the eyes had been paralyzed and An
son Burdett might lie blind for life.
A high caliber, sensitive young man
all the joy of life seemed to have de
parted for Porter. He gave up all of
! his time to the cure of Burdett,
“Hopelessly blind, perhaps." report
ed an expert oculist, “although the
1 case is of a variety mat has seen some
remarkable cures, tint through time
alone.
In the meantime Porter laid become
; acquainted with Leila Raleigh. From
the first he was attracted h.v tier and,
although he knew that she and Bur
dett were friendly, he never suspected
that there was any mutual affection
■ between them.
Leila kept secret even from ber
! mother and sisters that, while she was
not as yet engaged to Burdett, there
was u tacit understanding between
them that some day they would marry.
She. however, had become disappoint
ed in Burdett. A position had been
offered by a manufacturing concern
out of sympathy for his affliction,
w here lie could answer calls at a tele
j phone. “I don't have to drudge." he
1 told Leila, audaciously. “Porter ha?
plenty of money and Is acting princely
! about it. He took away my sight—lei
j him pay for it."
One day Burdett called upon Leila
| and asked her to marry him. He tol(
; her that he had an opportunity to se
cure a pretty little farm in Florida
; where they could enjoy life withoui
| anxiety. He asked her to think it ovei
j and give her answer the next day
, That same afternoon Wilbur Porter ap
j peared and laid his heart at her feet
"It is too late," said Leila simply
and nfter the disappointed suitor liai
gone away she hurried to tier root!
and wept all the long night, though sh*
scarcely kenw why. Burdett called up
on her the next morning, irrational!]
eager and excited.
“We must get married at once
Leila," he said. “See,” and he drew i
packet of bank bills from bis pocket
j "There is five thousand dollars, and al
| ours. I am going to buy the farm a
j once and—”
“Why where did you get all tba
! money?" inquired Leila.
“From Porter. I went to him las
evening and told him what I wanted
and he said he would do anything t<
make me comfortable and happy witl
you."
"But you can't do any work on i
farm,” she said.
“Oh, yes, I can. Iieila, I'm going t<
tell you a secret. I have been able t<
see for over a month. I just pretendei
not to since then, to work this scbeim
on Porter."
She stood facing him. tremblln;
from head to foot, lie fairly shrlvele*
as she denounced his petty meanness
as she told him that if he did not a
once return the money to Porter sh'
would expose him to the world. Thei
she left him and he. even more desplr
able than she had dreamed, rhlnklni
more of the money than herself, dlsaj,
peared that same day with his ill-got
ten gains.
The truth came out. as it was bourn
to, and after a while Wilbur Porter re
newed his appeal for Leila's love. I
had already be**’ his—-longer befor
1 than he realized.
Physical Development and Sports
By John (Jack) Tholmer
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SPLITTING THE PLATE
By John A. Tholmer
4
Enter Babbling Club,
1 attended a meeting of the As
sociated Babbling Club recently and
among the topics discussed was one
advanced by a member (married)
whose better half is (certain) that
no other woman has a possible chance
of robbing her of the affections of
said lovie-dovie. By the way it may
not be amiss to give a short descrip
tion of the beau. Height five feet,
weight about quarter of a ton, face
cannot explain, general form, would
give the pigs a hard race for first
prize. Question before the assembly:
Ho women love to be petted, caressed
and kissed?
While members wrangled on this
important subject and nearly all voted
aye, your humble servant sat in a
corner and thought a lot, but said
never a word until asked directly for
an opinion, and here is part of the
answer: “Gentlemen, I want to be
extremely careful of how I attempt
to answer this question, because the
puzzle is puzzling indeed,” and they
thought it a queer reply from a mar
ried man. Said I if women love as
you say to be so cared for, why is
it that most sweeties spend more mo
ments of their time worrying about
inconsequential things, inconsequen
tial as far as they should be con
cerned because whether they lose
sleep about them or no papee will see
that all ends well just the same.
Not done. You argue that women
love to be kissed. Mostly the kiddies
of the game of life, but after a lit
tle while the flame dies out and be
comes tiresome. How can I claim
that? Simply by studying conditions
of old and tracing them to the pres
ent time. Do you remember how
the fellows of long ago to save them
selves the trouble of having to wash
their faces permitted the fuzz to in
terfere with everything but the holes
in their maps? Well to thin out the
yarn, they had more girls ganging
around them than a Broadway matinee
idol does these days. Why? I don’t
know, but that’s the dope as I got it
from the good book. And the girls
who laid claims to the swains of an
tiquity were not so selfish as the
girls of nowadays are either. For in
stance, Rachael owned our old friend
Isaac, yet she didn’t mind loaning
him around a little, just so long as
; she assurer! herself he’d return to
the tent where she and the children
kept house.
Said she to Leah one fine day:
“Give me some of your sons man
eckes" (eats) T suppose. Answered
Leah: “Sure, if you’ll loan me your
husband." Agreed.
Oh, boy, if they carried on the
same business to this day where
would the divorce courts get enough
coin to pay the window washer? and
how would you like for- wifev to loan
you to her pal ?
No boys, that game was more a
game of policy than true love. Of
course we are drifting away from
our real subject of kisses and caress
ing. My final answer to the confer
ence is: I’ve made up my mind that
women don’t care much for that game
because the more fuzz a fellow has on
his mug, the prettier the woman he
seems to be able to corral. I’d ad
1 vise you, boys, to grow hairs on your
’ faces long enough to hang yourselves
and win the daisies. Only do not hurt
our friends the barbers who know the
art of putting on the fine touches
i and making you doubly valiant.
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And Jacob said to his sons, Simeon
and Levi, who had treacherously and
, cowardly slain Shechem, an honorable
I man, his father and the innocent
Hivites, and ruined their country, be
r cause Sheehem loved Dinah, Jacob’s
• daughter: “Curs, criminals; you
1 have made me to stink amongst re
spectable peoples, because of your
: infamous acts." Do governors ol
states, agents of law and justice,
ministers of congregations, whose
I members commit most unholy crime?
. against their fellow beings, who call
t themselves worshippers of God ever
> think, think seriously when they read
I such passages in their books?
If Simeon’s and Levi’s misdeeds
made Jacob feel that he stank among
the inhabitants around him, why is
it that most of our pious gentry never
feel, never smell their own stench?
Truly Jacob must have walked with
God.
6
Seems as if wine added to longe
vity for both Noah and Lot took a
sip occasionally and each lived to a
ripe old age and retained their youth
ful vigor, too. We are forced to be
lieve that because the good book
says so. However we feel that the
vinurn was the kind that Bill Bryan
advocates with only a little K. O. in
t, and not the camouflage stuff with
snuff and other junk that develops
oodles of cases of bug house ma
terial. Get rich quick concerns have
certainly ditched lots of folks, even
the kaiser. Now the demeratic party
is in line to be kicked off.
7
Times were good in Egypt once.
If one knew' how to salute properly
and found grace with a half nude
king, it was a cinch he’d stake you
to a lot big enough to house a na
tion and throw in cats and men ser
vants and women servants and cattle
etc. Too bad tmes have changed.
Now that we all know the salute
stuff wouldn’t we have a cinch.
8
Now that drunkenness is abolished
after nearly five thousand years, peo
ple begin to dope out as to what will
likely be the next victim of the wing
css angels. My guess: Kissing your
wife. Surely the hopping birds would
claim that too much time is wasted
in a foolhardy occupation. Why not
give that time to listening to them.
Aren’t they the disciples who were
appointed to lead you to heaven ?
9
One thing is certain, if the old
sphere keeps getting dull it will be
come so dead be foie long that we’ll
be sleeping and thinking we’re awake.
You know, one of those sweet dreams
you fall into sometimes and don’t care
if you never wake up.
Play ball—three down. You heard
me.
We must deal with pleasure as we
do with honey, only touch them with
the tip of the finger and not with the
hole hand for fear of suifeit.—Ven
erable Bede.
Get a new Subscriber for The Mon
itor. It is only $2.00 a year. It is
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per. The Monitor must go into every
Colored home in Omaha. Help us put
it there. Thank you.
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out it.—Sir Joshua Reynolds.
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Philippine Commission of Independ
ence Issues Statement.
Our press bulletin has been exten
sively quoted in connection with an
article in the New York Times of :
August 24, the headlines of which are
as follows: "Negroes of World Prey
of Agitators—Campaign, Hacked by
Bolsheviki and I. W. W.t is Opened
for Self-Determination—Paper Here
for Lenin—Says Similar Leader Is
Needed to Emancipate the Blacks—
Other Races Besiege Capital.” j
We claim no connection whatever
with Lenine and the I. W. W. and the
Bolsheviki and the other gentlemen
in the world with their advanced so
cial ideas and ideals. The Philippines,
the “pearl of the eastern seas,” is a
country where, to use Manila’s motto,
"nothing knocks but opportunity” It
is inhabitated by a Christian and dem
ocratic people practicing the art of
self-government under the benign in
fluence of America. Landed prop
erty is evenly distributed among the
people—and the liberal homestead law
gives every hard-working individual
a chance to work and own his home
and farm. A system of popular edu
cation offers every child the only way
to leadership—for no caste system ex
ists, and intelligence and honesty are
the only tsets applied.
The Filipinos have no grievance
against America. On the contrary,
the recent war has proved their loy
alty to her. But loyalty to Ameri
ca and love of independence are not |
inconsistent. As a matter of fact, i
it was America’s promise to grant in- j
dependence that ultimately won the!
heart of the Filipinos. And it has j
been the increasing knowledge and ap
preciation of American traditions, and;
institutions that have served to in
tensify the Filipino’s desire of inde
pendence.
It is true that we are keenly watch
ing America's dealing with othei
small nationalities of the world. And
we are often at a loss to understand,
in the words of the Journal-Gazette
(Fort Wayne, Ind.), of August 26,
why “these gentlemen (the senators)
have been very determined in theii
opposition to granting self-detei-mina
tion to the two peoples to whom they
have the power to giant it (Porto Rico
and the Philippines), and yet “very
enthusiastic about the rights of peo- j
pies to whom they have no power to 1
grant anything.”
But the Philippines case is a do
mestic American problem, and the
1 Filipinos will not air their plea before
any foreign government. America’s
| pledge has been made, and the Phil
ippines need not make common cause
; with the world’s agitators to gain
their objective. A nation that went
into the war to make the world safe
for democracy will not treat the acts
of her own congress as a mere “scrap
of paper.”
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