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niK HEE: OMAHA. THUKNDAY. .IUXF. in. i t Bees HoMeTMaaziiiie Pa Read It Here See It at the Movi's Men Arc Only Fractions Instead of Complete Things Must Learn from Each Other If They Hope to Develop Their Limited Faculties T1 "i The Most Imposing Motion Picture Serial and O IP R Tirfe 1 ri 3 C5C? Story Ever Created. :::::: ihe m i Re4 It Here See It at the Movie nroostrcnra EARLE WILLIAMS m Toaamy Barclay ANITA STEWART - M Taa OodaseS Written by Gouverneur Morris com of Mon wotrtu nr. area la American XJteratare) Dramatised Into a Photo-Play by CXAJaX.XSJ W. OOSSAAD. Author of Perils of Vanll&e" Tne Dzploit. of Elaine" Tommy Draws Oelestla to Him, Telling Her He Loves Her. Copyright, IMS, by the Btar Co. All For eign Rights Reserved. "rnoasle of Prerloae Chapters. After the tragic death of John Amea burjr. hie protetratrd wife, onn of Amer ica' rreateet beauties, dies. At her deah. Prof, tmilltar, an agent of the interests, kldnape the beautiful i-year-old baby girl and brlnge her up In a paradise where, she area not man. but thinks aha 1 taught by angels, who Instruct her for her mission to- reform the world. At the age of IS ahe la suddenly thrust Into the .world, where agents of the Interests are ready 'to pretend to find her. The one to feel -the loss of the little Amesburg girl most, after she had been L aplrited away by. the Interests, was T'ominr Barclay. Fifteen years later. Tommy goes to the Adlrondancks. The Interests are respons ible for this trip.-By accident he Is the first to meet the little Ameebry ajlrl, as she comes forth from- her paradise as Celestla, the girl from heaven. Neither Tommy or Oelestla recognise each other. Tommy finds It an easy matter to rescue Oelestla from Prof. Btllllter. and they hide In the mountains, later they are pur sued by Stiltter and escape to an Island, where they spend the night. FOURTH EPISODE. Tho blow dazed his senses and he leaped backward as if from a living enemy who had struck him, and struck the back of his head against anoDer tree. After that he cowered for a while on the ground, whimpering and blind blind as a mole. Then he began to scream for help. After an hour his screams grew hoarse and faint and presently his vocal chords relaxed and hto could no longer make a sound. Bo It was to be death, was it? Death In the damned forest, when he was still In the prim of life? Death because a little boy loved a little girl and always stood up for her! Well. It had to be' and he tried, to resign himself to it and be cairn. Suddenly he heard a sound that gave him fresh terrors many sounds, ' the sounds of many soft-padded feet coverg ing upon him from three sides over the dead leaves. Closer and closer they Came, very slowly, and Stilllter howled back and he leaped to his feet and ran. Thorns tore hit clothe from his body, the flesh from, his bones, and the merci less trunks of trees dealt htm blow after blow, but still he ran to escape from the thlrut that had howled. ' AU at once the ground became firm and even under his flying feet; he no longer encountered trees or buhes.v He had escaped from the forest and from the think tlg-it howled. There wss still hope for him. He might still live to be the greatest man that had ever lived In the world. And then the next step that he took his foot never touched the ground at all: It lust went down and down and head over heels he followed and fell through apace. He woke so frightened that he was half dead In reality. And It took him some time to pull himself together. Well, the party landed and took up the long trail to Four Corners. About leaving Tommy without colthes, Stilllter had no compunctions. The young man might suffer. He would undoubtedly catch a frightful cold, but he wouldn't actually die. "He'll awlm across," Stll liter thought, "and would naked until he reaches the outskirts of Four Corners. Then he ll hide in a bush and cal plteously for help. I wish I could be there to aee. The scene should have In It .the true essence of comedy." SUlUter had no beliefs that could not be gratified in a scientific way, but he could not - altogether explain away the miraculous coincidence ot Tommy being the very first person that Celestla should meet. "Why pick out to meet her when she comes back, from all the millions who might be the first to meet her, the one person who was unhappy when she was taken away. Well, they won't do any more meeting, if I can help it. It really looks aa If forces, of which we under stand little or nothing, were at work to bring these two together and spoil my plans." "Why," said Celestla. "do you make me go with your "It's my . duty," said Stilllter; "yeu can't live In the woods, at the mercy of the first young man that comes along." "He was going to take roe to New York." "Well, so am 1; by the next train. But took here, you seem to talk rationally mourn. ha lauched. wnnA-nut .irrA)v Sou'U forgive me, but I took yoi for a Somen ted person that costume, yon know, those jewels In your hair. Vou I wouldn't expect a sane person to dress ilhat way for a fishing trip. Won't you veil me who you areT" "I am Celestla." she fald. "I come from Heaven to make the world happier. She spoke these words in a clear, rather loud voice, so that the two guides turned to look at her. and the younger of them having looked, sheepishly pulled off bis hat. and during the rat of the march held it la his hand, lie didn't quite be lieve that she came from Heaven. He didn't quite believe that she didn't. He proposed to take no r bancs. At least abe was the moat beautiful creature he had ever seen, or ever hoped to see. HtlUlter passed over the question ef Oeltia's origin; he appeared to accept U la a natter ef courae. "I hope yon will succeed." be eald. "I ooald ataad being kappier myself- Won't you tell me how yon propone to go a boat the matter.' "If you like." she said ; and then for . long time she talked reform and poll- tics to him, exactly lis he had taught her to talk them. .with the same eager, simple faith and serene conviction. He pretended to be Immensely Interested in her eohemes. But he doubted their practicality. And he tested her with numerous questions, to which during the long years of her training he had taught her the answers. Toward the end ot their conversation he made less and less opposition to her theories. He began to accept and to agree with them. And In three-quarters of an hour ehe had per formed the miracle of converting him -Y f" v I Telling i . . f'J S X Loves l(Z K v ; -r n I x ' v. 1 wcr i I vxiU.-' A. i . t . i y- Ja. j ' - -" ' ' 1 ' Vy to his own bollefs. If he was amused, he was also excited and exhilarated. "She plays her part to perfection," he thought. "Well." he said at last, "I believe you aro right. Whether you can put your schemes In execution Is another matter. Talk to the guides; tell them what you intend to do. See if you can convince them." Ho while the party rested at a spring, Celestla talked smoothly and earnestly to the guides. The younger never took his eyes off her face; but the elder, after a while, looked only at the ground, and occasionally nodded. As for the old Indian, he, too, listened, and It seemed as If some feeling akin to remorse was gnawing at hie leathery heart, lor he was seen to oast sidelong gtaaoeg at the bundle he had made of Tommys clothes, and later when the party had resumed Its way. It seemed an If the bundle had become too heavy for him, for when he thought no one was looking he cast It from him Into a thloket. This was an act of conscience. He had stolen. That couldn't be helped, but at least he wouid not profit by it However. I regret to say, a few days later the old man re turned for the clothes and sold them. (To Be Continued Tomorrow.) Br DTV. CHARLES II. F ARK II UTVST. ' H-V i It works to human disadvantage that each one of ua. Instead of being a com plete thing, Is scarcely more than a frac tion, and not Infrequently an absurdly small one. It was . one of the conceits of the Oreek philosopher iTIato that each man waa originally a complete and fin ished product, but that subsequently he was silt longi tudinally Into halves, and that since that time each half has been going about In search of Its lost companion. Plato's view of the case waa rather a generous one, for It would appear that when Mm slit was made If ever It waa made we were cut Into sections considerably smaller than halves, and that It would require, at the least, half a dosen of us to eompose one complete human. But, all jesting aside, there Is some thing to this theory of Plato's as there Is to all his conceits, absurd aa they may sometimes appear at the first glance. For, however, the fact may be explained, we are certainly, each of us, far from summing up Into a complete man. When we have reckoned In all our personal assets what we lack la almost more conspicuous than that In which we abound. This situation proves disastrous In a number of ways. This wtlcle concerns Itself only with one, this namoly. that the point of view which we occupy In re gard to any question of moment is nar rowed to a degree proportionate to our fractional condition. If we wore per sonally filled out so aa to have many sides as have the truths and the prrfe lems to which our faculties of mind and conscience have to apply themselves, then we should be able to eee every side and arrive at comprehensive and safe con elusions. If I am called upon to state the color of a sphere, each of whose four quad rants has a separate color of Its own, I shea describe the sphere as carrying the color of one quadrant that happens to lie In the plane of my vision. If that quadrant is blue, then I shall say that the sphere Is blue, although that would be only per cent true and 7S per cent false. That Is a single illustration ot the (act that our Judgments are accord ing to our particular angle of vision. In such caee our Judgment te true to our selves, but it Is not true to the truth. My neighbor, situated Uu degrees front me, and seeing' only the red aids, calls me color blind for saying that the sphere Is blue; and I reolpronate by calling him maliciously prejudiced for saying that It Is red, and so the world-battle goes on. We are both right so far aa It' la possible for two men to be right, each of whom la only a vulgar fraction, and both wrong the balance of the way. That la the secret ef the large propor tion of dlaputea that prevail regarding questions of sericua import. In general they are not to be attributed to con scious dishonesty, but to the narrowness ef men's mental and moral h orison due to personal oontrantedness, either Intel lectual or ethical. The world Is aa wide or as narrow as la the open window or the knot-hole through which one surveys the world. These limitations, of which we are all of us to a greater or lesa degree tho vic tim, will. If rightly considered, restrain us from Impatience at what naturally seem to ua the bigotry, infatuation and one-etdedneea of other people. They are undoubtedly one-sided, and so are we unless we are ourselves a vast Improve ment over the Immense majority. If We have v mmmn Iwa Am 9 hun). J try to talk to each other and get mutually iout of patience because the other does jtiot understand, we have a lively picture of the situation when two people, not ' deaf In their hearing, but In their mental understanding, undertake to argue with each other. If they were talking about the same thing they might get alung well enough together, but they are not; each la discussing something of his own. One is arguing about blue and the other about red, ao that the longer the argu ment continues the farther they are apart. The blue man grows Increasingly confident that th. sphere Is blue, and the red man that It la red, ani while they may part without coming to fisti cuffs, they will each carry away from the disputation the aaaured conviction that the other Is a htgot, even if not an ass. That Is all that arguing usually amounts to, and Involves ordinarily a great waste of time, breath and good nature, without any compensating discovery of truth. There Is a great profit, however, In dls cuaelng if the argument Is properly con ducted and If each of the two dlaput ants hn for his purpose not to hsmmer his own Idea Into the mind of the other, but to discover what is already artuallv In the mind of the other. If the man with the blue idea wilt be accommodating enough to step around to where the red man stands, and then If the red man will exchange courtesies with his blue brother, the result will be that each will make hlmaelf wleer instead of making himself more foolish. The solution of the difficulty Ilea In securing an Increase of Intellectual hospitality, by which I mean a readi ness to entertain views It at are foreign to our own system of belief. Entertain ing them doee not necessarily mean adopting them. Receiving a stranger to cur table docs not mean making him a I ermanent member of cur household, but it goes aa far aa to entrr Into amicable relations with him and thereby coming sufficiently Into eympathctio relations to be able to understand what sort of s creature he Is. He may. on acquaint ance, be found to be an Interesting and valuable adjunct to our circle of ac quaintance and frlentlohip; If so It. will be a gain to us to have welcomed him Instead of thrusting him out of doors. All of which might lx comprehensively stated by saying that we must get out of the bigoted habit nf aupposlng that we know all that there Is to be known. Your Chief Asset Character By JOHN LA LANGS When UOOO.OW people set their wits to work to decide which of two men they will choose for a position, they are worth while paying attention to. Moat of us want to get on In the worM, and we cannot do It without the approval of other people. What Is the best way to get It? What do they vote for? "Look at that fellow over there," said an old acquaintance to me the other day as we were ws Iking down a street. He Indicated a man passing along on the ether side of the road, and uttered a grunt of disgust. "That beggar la a mystery to me. What there la about him I can't make out, but he gets on In the most unaccountable fashion. He's the fellow who got the post at Snod grass that I was after. Rompa Into things somehow In a queer way." tome people have the knaok of "romp ing" Into other persons' approval In a much greater degree than others.- My companion had his own Ideaa as to how It was done. They were not complimen tary to "the fellow over there." "My dear Trd Beaconafleld," a lady remarked to him of another lady who had attained a popularity she did not at ail approve ef, "men are Idiots. I would not be spiteful for the world, but If the creature's hair had been black Instead of auburn I rail It carroty my selfshe would not be admired a bit, believe me." "Most people seek to grow In clever ness," said Prof. John Stuart Dtackle, "but very few seek to grow In charac ter. They are content to leave that to ohance, and the consequence Is they don't develop as they should. Success comes to ability and character togother.' "People have got bralna on the brain.'" declared Spurgeon. "If you say that J on don't like a person, someone Is sure to remark. 'Oh, but he la ao clever.' Juat a If that were a reason In Itself for liking a person. Cleverness la not everything. fk.metlrr.es It la the very thing that fills one with distrust of a person he or she may be only made dangerous by It. Make the moat of your bralna. but don't think they are the only thing worth cul tivating." James Fayn, the novelist, remarked of one woman who used to say the most brilliant things In conversation that If she had only devoted half the time she stent In thinking of them to considering whether the brilliant things would be tn r-Kd taste and not arouse 111 feeling, she would have been ten times more popular. As It la, she waa not voted a delightful person by any meams. While a food number of my eoqualntancee are desperately In earnest In lunrnlnr different things that . they Imagine will secure them ucoeee, they are at the same thne not giving a thought to tbe cultivation of the quali ties necessary to gain them the oppor tunities of. exercising their abilities. I heard Max O'Rell orrce tell the atery of a young lady who acquired three lan guages while doing her hair. Then she trotted her three language around, and found, to her urprlse. that no one seemed particularly anxious to engage her. They really could not stand the look of her head. She discovered the cause of her failure at last, when one very Irritable old gentleman ahe called on told her that he would prefer one language to three If a brush and comb were thrown In with the one.' She had sacrificed habits of tldlnesa to the at tractions of Irregular verba He&r irouir f avosife muasic oe ihe Vidrola any -Victor dealer TIT iadly play it for yona The following Omaha and Council Bluffs dealers carry complete lines of Victor Victrolas, and all the late Victor Records as fast as issued. You are cordially invited to inspect the stocks at any of these estab lishments. SehmoDer & Midler PIANO COMPANY 1311-1313 Farnam St Omaha, Neb. Rear the) Jew Kerarato ta Ov Newly Kensodoted Demanattrsufcfcg Hooaos on Ue Main Vloam. Branch at 334 BROADWAY Council Bluffs Corner 15th and Harney. Omaha. Geo. E. Mickel. Mgr. !yck C. Daily demonstra tions. Go today cud see and hear the vari ous styles of Victors and Victrolas -$10 to $250. Victor Talking Machine Co. Crrwfon, N. J. 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