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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 11, 1919)
-r~ \ | The Finding of Jasper Holt Grace T/ivingston IJill I/utt * Author or "Marcia Schuyler'1. "Phoebe Deane", "The Obsession of Victoria Grocen", etc. i:_ .= Sometimes the longing to hear from Holt grew intolerable. Sometimes she almost yielded to her mother's sug gestion that sh makee Eleanor another Vait; but something always held he" tack What was she waiting for? \ sign from Holt? No. that would prob ably never come. He had said he was unworthy, and he would not self cross her path again. But sh could not go after him. He might have forgotten, yet she believed in her heart he had not. Her faith in him glowed bright as ever. Even when hor common sense got to work •and told hor he was but human and by this time the incident of thoir days together was a thing of the past to him and she ought to be satisfied if her Influence had helped him even tor a time to let people know the good that was in him still she did not believe that he had forgotten. She believed he was doing Just what he had promised to do, and she must stay here and trust him. At least, if ho had forgotten, she would rather never know. So she lived her life, and struggled with her heartache, and when the pain was too much she knelt and prayed for him she loved. Then at last one day there came a great, fat letlor from Eleanor, addressed to Jean. Most of Eleanor’s letters were addressed to their mother, so that when Jean took this one from the postoffice she caught her breath and her heart beat a tr-fle faHtor than usual. What could Eleanor have to say to make such a nice thick letter, and why was It sent to hor instead of to mother? Per haps she war worried about mother, or perhaps she wanted to toll some trouble to her and not worry their parents. But always when a letter came from her sister, she felt thoro was that blessed chance that perhaps she might say some little word about Holt, Just to let her know he was alive. It was foolish, of course, be cause she never had done so. and ypi. hope is a subtle thing and often abides without reason for its hiding and springs forth at the least encourage ment. Then, there was always a little comfort that she said nothing against, him, for she knew that Eleanor was so | constituted that if llolt had done any thing which the town considered very atrocious Joan would huve had to hoar of it within the next 24 hours; for Eleanor like to establish her theories by facts oven if it were years after they were uttered. Jean did not open her letter ai the office. Hor hand was trembling too much and her heart beating too wild ly. She did not wish to have any one watch her while she read that letter, for blio had a feeling that her face might toil its secrets when she was off guard, reading. So sho held the let ter with a firm little grip and walked down the leaf strewu street among the falling golden foliage, trying to grow j calm, and remember that this was probably Ju..t a regular commonplace j letHT tihout everyday uffaire and noth i lng unusual In ft at all; and she must | not be disappointed nor expect any j thing great. She (lid not open the letter until elie ; •was uafe on the vine covered piazca uftt home, Bitting in tlio hammock where Rlie would not be disturbed. ;Sor,ic el range power held her from taking it to her mother und sharing ltB reading with her as Klie usually did any letter* she received, eapeelal ly one of EUeanor'*. Afterward she j ■wondered at this; wondered too, as | she remembered how cold her hand had been, and how It had trembled wh( n she tried to open the envelope ■ with her hat pin. She was so agitated, so turo by thiB time that something was the matter, that us she took the folded sheets from the envelope she .■closed her eyes and breathed a quick ■petition: "Oh, dear Father, make me strong . for whatever tt la." '! hen Bhe unfolded the thick sheets ‘-anil read the letter. „ CHAPTKR XXI ••Lear Little SWter: "1 have a strange task before me, bo tell you of the Oneness and great nerti and goodness of a man i ouce told you was not rood enough to save your life. I feel as If 1 must ask your forgiveness and his. You were keener n lited than we all and we are ashamed! Jean, what w you say when I tell you iliat ,1 Holt lies in our guest chamber, your old room—dying, 1 am afraid? And that we have him to thank that our precious baby did not die a horrible dotkth? “Lei me go back and tell yon the whole Btory. “After you went away James had the moat extraordinary change nl mind about Jasper Holt 1 ever aaw in him. He Just turned right around ami began to talk in bis fuvor, oven warn «d me (O invite him to dinner once tt was coma business, of course, tbs hi (bought be could help him ini hu he real'' got to liking hUv -v littb —-J w 1 could aee. I suppose it was that tournament and his riding so well; though I uever could understand why men make so much of sports. But after It happened you didn't hear nearly so many people talking against Jasper Holt I think, too, your being bo good as to ride around the track with him had something to do with It. People saw you were not ashamed and thoy had a good look at him and saw the possibilities. They say he was askod, yes, just actually begged, to come in the next tournament and ride, but he wouldn’t do it. He hasn’t ap peared that way since you left. Ho Just went about his business gravely, and everybody began to have a lot of respect for him. They say he has done a lot of good to those, men he has living on his place, and they sim ply worship him. Somebody told Janies there wasn't one of them but would give his life for him any day. Well, that’s something, of course. Strange we. never heard about It be fore. Why, people used to be actually afraid of him and bis men. But he has been doing some splendid things hero lately. When Mr. Whateley died, Just before .the harvest, and Mrs. Whateley was left to look after her five little children he took his full force of men over to her place and harvested everything, and fixed up things a great deal better than they were ever fixed up before, tor Mr. Whateley wasn’t much of a manager. And when L,ucy Whitcorn was lost for three days he organized his men and went out and searched till be found her. They took hold of hands and marched across country, through the wheat fields, over every spot so the> couldn’t miss her; and her grand mother Just put her arms around Jas per Holt's neck and criod and kissed him when he brought L.uey back asleep In his arms. “But. the greatest thing was when he made the raid on the saloons. You remember Slosson’s and The Three Geese? They used to have terrible carouses there. Slosson built a con cert room over his saloon, and ad vertised—had balls and dinners there, and The Three Geese got a moving picture- show over their place; and between them they made a pretty fair imitation of t.h bottomless pit in Hawk Valley for a while. People got to gether and talked about it, and said something ought to bo done to stop It, and Salle White oven started n petition about it and got some people to sign, but it was near election and no one dared do much. Then one night when things were at. their height an dthore had been a shooting affair or two, we heard the silver whistle of Jasper Holt’s men, and the whole cavalcade of them cantered by on horesbaek. They went like a streak on their dark horses, and they rode straight up to The Thre Geose and dismounted. Before anybody knew what was happening they hat marched into the bar room and the concert hall and taken possession They hand cuffed everybody in the place and bound them, men and women, and then they set to work and emptied out. all the liquor and turned the big fire hoBe Into every room till there wasn't a smell of whisky left, and It fwas cleaner than It ever was sineo It was built. They wont to Slosaon’s and did the same thing. Slossou, and Craven of The Three Goose, they put into Jail, and some of the others who had lioen most criminal, and they cleaned the whole place out. Jasper Holt took some of the prtsouers to Ills owu house and kept them there till he roformed them, and he has been keeping an eye on them right along ever since. Of course after that peo ple rallied around him and were only too glad to be counted In with him Thoy all admired his nerve, and they saw ho could make things go, so they turned to work and last month they made him mayor of the town, and he has reformed everything In the place till you wouldn’t know it for the same town. Now, that’s the preface and 1 ught to have told you long ago, ltttle ter, but 1 suppose l was asiiaui "jj .Tier all I had said. nut now i m coming *i» site tv* litory, the one that brings the teari to iny eyes and makes mo feel liki sobbing; and I have to stop writinj and go and kiss my baby before I car go on. “This morning (it seems a woe! ugoi 1 sat at my desk writing my po per for tho next club meatlug. Bab; I was out in tho yard In his white romj j ers and his little white hat, with hi i now red cart that Janies brought hit I from Chicago on his last trip. Tho wii j dow was open and l could see hii I gathering leaves and carrying them 1 ! his cart to the sidewalk, where h 1 (lumped them in a pile at the edge < j the road. I had been having a terribl .search for a word In the dictionar; j and when I looked up a^aln 1 saw bab J stkndln gcut in tho middle of the rua working away with all Ills might t ■ j hack np his c.art, the way he saw tl , big carts do, arid dump his loarea h the outside of thu pile. I didn’t thin fmueh about, because there are «** I teams around in the early morning usually, and the autos, the tew we have in town, don’t come on this (street much; but, just as I was begin ning to write again I heard a horrible i roaring sound, and horses feet flying I down the street. Something gripped | my throat with fear and I could scarco I ly get cut of my chair. I could see the baby standing perfectly still, looking jat something coming towards him. His ! little red wagon was standing on end, the red paint gleaming in the sun. Then I heard that roar again and I called to Jamio to come in quickly, but he didn’t seem to know Just what to do. He took hold of the handle of 'his cart and seemed to be worried for fear it would be run over. He tried to hurry with it on to the side walk, but belag on end it wouldn’t work quickly. On came that terrible roar! I don’t know how 1 got out on the : porch, hut there I saw a great, angry bull bearing down straight upon the I baby. I scroamod and tried to run (down the steps, but I was so fright ! ened by knees just Bank under me. and there I was in a heap on the steps struggling to get up. and my baby standing still, not 10 feet from that snorting, fiery creature, with its horn lowerd at him. I shut my eyes, it was so terrible, like a nightmare, you know, when you can’t do a thing. 1 thought I was going to faint, and 1 tried to call James, though I knew Do wasn’t at homo. Then a wonderful thing happened. A horse was flying down the street from the opposite direction, straight at the bull, but baity was between. I hadn’t time to think before the man on the horse swung over from his saddle, gathered up the baby and dashed sideways out of the bull’s way. It was Jasper Holt, and ho picked up Jamies Just as he did your handkerchief that day at the tourna ment. The poor little mite held on to his dear red cart handle till he was Up in the saddle, hindering the horse's movements, of course, and it dangled for a minute right in front of the in furiated bull’s eyes, wbo charged at H viciously. Then the weight of the cart wrenched tt from amle's hand, and it fell clattering under the horse’s ftset, but the bull turned and made tor the horse, who dashed back and forth from side to side, dodging those awfnl home as tf he werea human being and knew how to reason. Jasper Holt tried to get near the fence to drop the baby over, but every time he came near the bull was in the way. It was only a second of time that it all took, of course, buit seemed hours; and I could only scream, but the bull roared stj loud that I couldn't be heard. Then the dear black horse plunged right over the bull and started down the street; but the bull turned and caught hTm in the thigh with his horn and tore a great gash—oh. Jean, I can't describe it all! It makes me faint even to think of it again. The horse stumbled on bravely tor a few paces, but you could see he hadn't a chance with the bull any more for he was crippled, and Jasper Holt saw it. too. “By that time some men had come with guns, and that splendid fellow, with the horse staggering under him and bull charging straight at him. held the baby up In the air and told risk to himself, of course, because Iv the men to shoot. It meant a terrible was In the line of fire. But tb-rre was nothing else to do. They shot as care ( fully as they could and In a minute or I two the bull gave one awful roar and : lurched back. The horse sank, too, and j some one took the baby. It is all con j fusion in my mind. I don’t really know | what happened, only that after I got ! Jamie in my arms and had hugged him and ktssed him till he cried, I looked up and saw them bringing Jasper Holt In at the gate. His eyes were shut and one arm hung at the side. They said ■ he had been shot, but had held up the ! baby till the bull was out of the fight. "I made them take him to your room j and someone brought the doctor al most at once, but it was serious thing. ' 1 could see from the first. They would not let me in the room. 1 telephoned ' for James, and put the baby to sleep 1 for he was all worn out with the ex citomont, and kept starting awake and crying out, ‘Naughty cow! Naughty ' cow*' but Just as I laid him down in : his crib the doctor came and said Jasper Holt wanted to see me. j “Jean, I din't think a few minutes j could make a difference like that In a great, big, strong man. He lay i there sos still I thought he waR dead ; at first; and white under all his fine tin he was white as a ghost, with his , head all done up in bandages and his : beautiful hair clotted with blood—one ' of the shots plowed doap into the scalp, it seems. He opened his eyes— what wonderful eyes ho has!—and looked at me as if he were pinning his lust hope upon me, und he smiled Just I faintly. I never knew what perfet lips and teeth he had before—and his smile Jnnt like a ltttle child's! “One could see tt was a great effort . | for him to speak. I “ ‘Will you tell your sister that I've [ I kept ray promise?" he said, slowly and l distinctly. ., “When I told him I would, his eyes j Itghtod up. as If the sun were shining behind them, and then they fell shwl r ■ and 1 think he must bavo fainted again • 11 came quite close and tried to tell i j hjm how grateful I was to him for sav >j ing the babyp's life, but hie eyelids • | never even quivensd. Then tho tine i1 tor drew me away and said it watnn’i J! any nee to talk, thf.t he couldn’t hcai w j me, so I came awny. but I cnuldn? I .iio a thing but Just hover around tin »! door till James cams. Then ho went r> | in and found out. ho» tiling* were. C ¥ , seems the bull gored -him—that la thaj ill call it a ‘scratch,’ buV'by their fae« 11,1 know its a protty aeriou3 scratch. c , "Threo shots entered his buoy, one i dtxrp sea?(■ wound, <r, » ia ills sboulde: k .and one in his aria. VUey huts heee ' probing the wound and having some kind of an operation. They don’t know whether he will pull through or not. | They say the only thing that is in hia favor is his splendid health. The men ; are talking now about his fine clean 1 life, and the way he has been doing lately, especially. It seems he never drank nor did a lot of things that people took for granted he did. Oh, Jean, I can’t stand it if he doesn’t get well so I can thank him for saving! my baby to me. To think that ifl weren’t for him lying there dying now I should have nothing left of my beau tiful baby but a little manglod corpse! "Jean, I know now why you looked that way when you said I did not know Jasper Holt—the fine, true strong, brave, tender-” But the tears blinded Jean's eyea and she could read no more. For a moment site bent her head and sobbed behind the vines. But only for a mo ment. A frenzq of fear seized her. He was dying perhaps, and he needed her! She lifted her head with sndden re solve and hastily read the closing sen: tenons of the letter. Then gathering up the scattered sheets she hurried in to her father. (To be continued next week.) An Appreciation. H. K. Holsman, In “Architecture." The world Is fast becoming aware of the great value of the professional man. He la the man who stands ready to serve other men in their health and happiness, ini their organisations and enterprises, in ail their conceptions and achievements. What’ great commercial enterprise or what) mighty utilization of forces would have' been achieved by the so-called masters of Industry had It not br^en for the pro fessional man who patiently and sys-; tematlcally worked it out, practically for the Joy of achieving It; or what one of the great maehlues of finance or industry, or what government in war or peace could1 survive and develop, but for the continued1 devotion of the professional man? His1 service* are not paid for in proportion to; their value, and for some things he can not be bought. He is born of the people, seldom if ever of autocracy. Hi* equip ment is inherited from society and he is the safest and most important trustee for the preservation and development of so ciety the world will ever know Marshals’ Baton. From the Christian Science Monitor. The baton of a marshal appears to be » somewhat Inconvenient possession on such occasions os state processions. What to d® with it, in fact, visibly preoccupied Marshal Foch on a recent occasion, at tho London victory procession. Sir Douglas Haig had had enough of his In Paris, and discarded it for an ordinary whip, which he grasped in his left hand along with his reins. France has changed the appearance of/ tier marshals’ batons to sutt her regimes. Before the revolution the baton wa* decorated with the lilies of France, bees) took the place of the lilies under the em pire, and now, under the republic, the marshal s baton is ornamented with stars. One cannot speak of batons without think ing of that delicious Sans-Gene—Madame la Marechale Lefehvre, Duchesse de Dant 7.1g, under Louis Philippe. She visits Soult, then minister for war, and presents him with the baton bestowed on- her husband by Napoleon. Soult expresses astonish ment that Lafebvre’s iiarents do not care to possess so- glorious a memento of their I son. “Why. Monsieur le Miuistre,” she, says, “what would they do with, it except to knock nuts off the trees-!” A Gusher Job. From the New York World. Frank Hedley tells Mayor Hylan that he does not recommend that the "busted" Interborough be turned over to the city "because I- am not insane." Since Mr.’ Hedley’a compensation ob general man ager of Interborough properties is J£0,iK» a year, besides nearly as much In royalties' on inventions, it le easy to get his point of view. He Won. From the Dallas News. A. certain member of the California leg islature Is given to making very elaborate and florid speeches, and one day recently he closed an address with “Vox populi, vox Dei." One of the audience said to a friend. ‘Til bet you don't know the meaning of that last phrase." “I don't know! Why. of course 1 know," •‘You don't know for $10,” suggested the challenger. The wager was posted. “Well, now, talk us what It mean*," said the challenger. "Vox populi. vox Del.” quoted the ae^ cepter of the challenge solemnly, “as, everybody knows, is French for ‘My God. why hast Thou forsaken mo?" The Mirror. I lift baby up to the mirror And let him look in the glass To offer to the reflector His flower or leaf or grass. And- the baby he sees In the mirror Returns his very smile And offers a flower or leaf or grass 1 And Is Just as free from guile. I And God lifts me up to the mirror. And holds the world as a gloss; ,, I offer his life reflector Love's flower oc leaf or grass* And the world I see In the mirror Returns my very smite. ! And offers a flower or leaf or erase If ft finds me tree from gmle. For what after alt Is the gift divine I That 1 can offer a world 1 Save a hopeful smile In life’s ml" r i That iny soul may bo unfurl, .. I — Harold W. Gammons. In the Nautili:, j “Gttvo him the money." said the clial 1 longer. "Domed If he don't know, after ' alt" Got the Job. From the Buffalo Commercial Galboy— Why did you leave your last ; placet \ Comely Applicant—I was caught kissing, ! my employer, sir. j Galboy—Br-um-i’ou can start tomorrow | morning. | A Child's Quandry. From the Boston Transcrtpt. A western monthly tolls of a little girl | with a Methodist father and an Episcopal mother, and the poor child never knows In saying hor prayers whether to end with ‘‘A-men" or ‘‘Ah-men." As It la Today. From IJfa Employer—For this lob you've ret to 1 know Frenoh and Spanish -end the pay Is 1 $1* a week. "Isaed mister! I ain't got no edlcatlon: | I'm after a Job In the yards." “See ths yard boss. We'll start you In i at HO." , A message from Budapest save the rec tor of the polytechalcum has ordered all Jewish students expelled at the request I nil commit oe at the real of the students. « The Saga of Pearl Harbor. j -, Frot*i the Boston Transcript. The official opening of the great drydock of the United States Havy at Pearl Harbor, for which ceremony Secretary Daniels went to Honolulu, marks the successful completion of one of the greatest engineering enterprises ever undertaken by onr government, upon which work has been in progress for 10 years. It also marks the culmination of an interesting series of diplomatic, political and some times military operations covering a perifld of 44 years. It was in 1875 that the United States first made a treaty of com a radical "new departure" in American relations with those mid mereial reciprocity with the kingdom of Hawaii, and thus made ^ Pacific islands. Thitherto we had agreed with Great Britain and^<^^ l1 ranee that there should be an “open door and equality of privileges’’ in Hawaii, and had maintained that policy, at cost more than once of menace of war. Acting upon that policy, therefore, Great Britain in 1881 sought a similar treaty of reciprocity with Hawaii, which King Kalakaua would have; granted but for American objection. Under the strenuous direction of James G. Blaine our state department objected and forebade the island king to make such a treaty, laying down the principle that American rights and interests in Hawaii were superior to those of any other power. That was the same principle that John Quincy Adams had long before enunciated in the case of Cuba. Great Britain protested, and a sharp passage of diplomatic arms ensued, in which the United States was victor. Renewal of that mutually advantageous treaty was sought by Hawaii in 1887, and was granted by the United States in consideration of the cession to it of Pearl Harbor, seven miles from Honolulu, as a naval station. In view of current discussions of “interpretations" of treaties, it is instructive to recall that the Hawaiian government “interpreted" that cession as merely temporary, during the existence of the reciprocity treaty, while the United States government insisted upon “interpreting" it as perpetual and absolute. Again the British government protested, and another sharp controversy occurred, in which Thomas P. Bayard ably maintained the American side, and won for us another diplomatic victory. Thus there was established, largely because of the incomparable value of Pearl Harbor, that paramountcy of American commercial and political influence in the islands which eventually led to their annexation as territory of the United States, Hope. -- By Newell Dwight Hillis;. Columbus is the type of hope for men who plan large things. X stranger in Spain, penniless, without friends, one day he walked by the seashore. Sud denly a wave rolling in from the west cast a limb upon the shore. The wood was strange and new, suggesting a world beyond the horizon. It set Columbus' imagination on fire. In thought he passed from the pebble caught In the crack of the loge to the' vast continent from which It came; he leaped from the bough to the forests of which it was a part. In that hour hope lent him wings and supported him in his work. One day he set sail in pursuit of yonder setting sun. On the prow of his ship there stood an invisible pilot—the Angel of Hope. When his men became alarmed and would have turned back, hope pointed to the lands of gold, yellow as the western sky. When winds were contrary and waves were high hope whispered that the greater the obstacle the greater the victory, once it is overcome. When he had sailed many days further than he had expected, hope urged that the broader the sea the larger and vaster the land must be lying beyond. When the sailors threatened violence, hope sug gested that he offer a rich reward to the one who first saw land. One morning Columbus noticed a golden bough with scarcely faded leaves floating on the wave; on the bough a strange bird had alighted to rest its wings. In that hour hope's plumage took on a golden hue. When Columbus landed and gave the world his new continent, when he sailed homeward to receive the idolatry of the people and the welcome of kings and adulation worthy of a god. he carr'ed with him the consciousness that the faculty that had saved him and mad. 'm equal to his task was the faculty of hope. !ng his thoughts and words like seeds, man must wait for his bar- id hope helps him. Dally it Is his staff and support. Indeed without this inducing faculty man could not live. At first childhood is saved by hop. coming youth; in youth the boy, conscious of his rawness and imma turity saved by hope of a coming mature development; in old age when the man a.cs upon the western piazza and waits for the sunset signal and realizes that his life 1b now all behind him, he Is saved by hope that his plans that are rotted on earth will ripen and wave their fruit in heaven. Not one other quality is so practical. Hope does more for field and factory, and office and library, than any other gift or grace. Ambition plants the seed, faith waters it, work tills the soil, but hope points to the coming harvest. Hope Is a refuge from life’s fierce heat; it is a hospital for hurt hearts; It is a shield for defense; tt has wings for uplift; it is also the star towards which man Journeys. Great is the power of work, of courage an! persistence, but it is hope that nourishes. Invigorates and sustains the other faculties. Filipino and Moro. From the Seattle Times. Evidently the United States has done mors than "get together" with the Fili pinos. It has gotten the various groups, long at swords’ points, together with themselves. And this has been no small task. The principal division in the Philip pine islands always was between the Fili pinos and the Mores. Religion, customs and traditions all are different respecting these two peoples. The Moros. who are Mohammedaris, rive only' in the southern islands, raaJmy Mindanao and the Sulu group. They never were a part of Emilio Aguinaldo’s Insurrection, although they have had their own grievances against the United States, often viciously expressed. For years it was necessary to handle the Moros and the Filipinos with widely dif ferent governmental policies. However, there was one fundamental idea identical 'in Uncle Sam’s scheme of things directed toward both groups -education. As a slight but nevertheless significant indication of this "getting together" un der the inspiration of education is the ar rival in Seattle on the same steamship of two young women representing two different peoples that no student of Philip pine affairs 20 years ago could have been made to believe would seek anything in common. To have suggested two decades ago that the daughter of General' Agui naldo, leader of the Filipinos, would be found on her way to college in company with the niece of the Sultan of Sualu would have seemed prepostorous. For perhaps a century and until the United States injected education into tlu* situation no Filipino and Moro mat e-xoept to draw bolos. Alabama Wants More Water-. From the Now York World*. As every schoolboy knows, the state of Florida when viewed from this dlre<wtlon resembles a boot hanging upside down with the foot extending westward along the gulf Originally, or when the terri tory was acquired from Spain, the foot reached to the Mississippi river, and neither what is now the state of Mtssia »!ppi nor the state of Alabama bad any access to the sea The toe of the foot was then made tc recede, and the m*w state of Mississippi was given u broad opening on the gulf Bui Alabama was left with r*nly tbe nar row win** * seaward about Mobile, whik a narrow snip of Florida formed its wholt southern boundary otherwise. The Ala bam a legislature now proposes the cession of that strip from Florida. It will create & boundary ccmnr.ssiofi and ask Florida to do the same. AUen Enemies’ Names Stricken Frcrr Election Lists. From West’s Docket. Mandamus to compel the city clerk: ol Topeka to strike from the registratloi books of tlie city the Ramos of citizens o Germany and Austria-Hungary who bar declared their intentions to become natur UU-d citizens of the United States. am wi;' iacl been registered as qualified vot o’- was brought In the supreme our ol Ansas on the relation of the atiorae: Th-’ state constitution provide that aliens shall be deemed qualified elec* tors who have declared their intention of becoming citizens, if they are otherwise qualified. The court, speaking through Chief Justice Johnson in State vs. Co veil, 175 Pacific Reporter, 989, says in part: “It is said that the constitutional provi sion in express terms and without qualifi cation confers the elective franchise on aliens. True; but there are aliens and aliens—those who have friendly relations with our people and government, and those who are subjects or citizens of a hostile nation; and the latter class must be regarded as having assumed the hos tile attitude of the belligerent nations to which they owe allfcgianco. Alien friends may become citizens of our country, but alien enemies cannot,, ar.d evidently the people who framed and adopted our con stitution were speaking of that class of aliens who might complete naturalization and become citizens of this country, and not of those who could not under any cir cumstances be admitted’ to citizenship. Under the federal law. an alien enemy cannot be admlted to citizenship, “It certainly was not Intended that peo ple at war with us should have authority to select a congress which is empowered to declare war and provide for carrying it on, and also to help elect the president and other officers who direct the war officers to whom the conduct of our na tional affairs and the integrity of the country are intrusted.’* Judgment was rendered as prayed for. A Famous. Lawyer. From the Buffalo Commercial. In Little Hock, Ark., there used to bo a very powerful trial lawyer, whose name iwas Murphy. He was well loved in Arkansas because oi* his honor and bo* cause of bis eccentricities. He was a power before a Jury. On one occasion In the trial of xv case before a jury in a miasmatic district ot Arkansas, the Just ice was clearly against him in his rulings and would take no eognizance of the iaw a* Murphy road it to hinu Murphy A-earied of this after a while, so h<* arose and deliberately picked up the law book® and flung them, one by one, out the open window. “If law doesn't go here, we'll try something otse," said he. Thereupon he turned to the jury, and in a quiet voico said: “Let us l K»el in prayer.’’ Murphy got down on a knees, ar.d so did tha jury and tl dge, after hesitating .v while, foil' suit. In a few momenta ever od .as on his knees, and thou Murphy mad© the most eloquent prayer that probably was ever heard in Arkan sas. Needless to say, he won his case. *>n another occasion a young lawyer, opposed to Murphy, was demonstrating hrti knowl edge before an Arkansas Jury, but the classics availed but little when Murphy arose in reply. "CSentleincn of ths jury, the young lawyer who just address***! v *u has roamed with JU**raUa. canted wulv. 'Mr.tarid.23. ripped »»•«*. iduripkta*. »ue.k~i .vith Socrates, but Whai une.s uo km.w about the laws •* A V 'wvm? The municipality of Cantor, is a franchise for the construction of a l tramway 10 mils® long around the ri»yt upon tha site of the cily wall?!. vlocU . are being demolI*h#«|. i
