The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1903-04-16

me one rose last night, and one of the
girls told me she had asked the price
OF Beauties and they were $3.5G
EACH"
You'll do something worse than
bankrupt poor 500, Helen said an.
other student; you'll break his heart
unless you keep it sound by marrying
him. Frankly, dear child, everybody is
taking about this thing, even the pro-
fessors. Why don't you marry him ?"
the girl questioned, half mischievously.
Helen flushed. The idea Of marrying
500 was preposterous. do you sup
pose any American girl would marry
ON Oriental?" she said. 1.-THE Far
Eastern peoples have no more concep-
ton of the rights of a woman as wife
than has the unspeakable Turk. They
may think they love a woman, but not
one of them would sacrifice his own
pleasure for her, let alone anything
higher"
An instructor came into the studio
and called the students out. Behind a
screen in the corner stood a man
a man in truth, though in stature he
was but child. It was 500 Tokion.
He had been at work on clay model
when the students entered. He was
about to make his presence behind the
screen known, when there came the
words which held him silent. Now he
stood trorohlipn ond with CON, ofhipcy n,
the depths Of his Oriental eyes that was
past sounding. "No such thing as sac
rifice known to my people for those
whom we lover" he murmured to him.
self. mo regard for the rights Of
woman as wife," Then 500 Tokion
murmured something in his native
tongue that sounded like a prayer.
The next day there came blow to
Helen Sturtevant. Her father had
failed, failed utterly and miserably,
and she must give up her course. The
girl was crushed bodily and mentally.
The news flew through the university.
Helen's fathers business had gone tc
the wall and Helen was to leave. The
stage dream had vanished with the
rude awakening.
500 Tokion heard. He sought the
girl out. She was sitting alone in a
corner Of a music room. He went
to her softly. He carried one rosebud,
spotlessly white, in his hand. The girl
looked up as he came. She saw him
and above her own misery came the
thought of what she had said the day
before, and her heart smote her.
81 have heard, and I am sorry, Miss
Helen" said 500. He put the white
rose in her hand and then started to
speak again, but his voice broke. He
uttered the one word "Helen," and be.
fore the girl knew it he had seized her
hand, kissed it and was gone.
Two days after the body Of man,
little man, was recovered from the
waters of the big lake. It was not
hard to identify the drowned.
One week afterward Helen Sturte.
want was Informed by law firm that
she was the sole heiress to $4,000, the
entire fortune Of 500 Tokion, univer-
sity student.
With the announcement was inclOsed
this letter, addressed to Helen in
handwriting she knew well:
you must keep on with your studies.
loved you. We Of the East consider
it a virtue to do things for those whom
we love-"
There is little chapel now. being
built near the Presbyterian mission
in village just outside Yokohama.
1t is called the 500 Tokion Chapel. The
village was the birthplace Of 500
Tokion, student of an American uni
versity. The money was made over
to the missionaries. from some one
known to them only as a classmate of
him for whom the memorial was to be
erected. The chapers cost was $685.
900.
In an American city regal-looking
girl with sad eyes is working her way
slowly but steadily upward in the pro-
fession Of dramatic art.-Chicago Rec
rd-Herald.