Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-02-07

and American beauty roses were quot
ed at fabulous prices.
Helen" said one Of the coeds
you'll bankrupt 500. rich though Iun-
derstanC he is. Charlie Nelson sent m~
one rose last night, and one of the girls
told me she had asked the price or
beauties and they were $3.50 each"
noull 90 something worse tham
bankrupt poor 500, Helen" said an
other student; you'll break his hesra
unless you keep it sound by marrying
him. Frankly, dear child, every BODY
is talking about this thing, even tho
professors. Why don't you MARK
him" the girl questioned, half mis-
chievously.
Helen flushed. The idea of marrying
500 was preposterous. do you sup
pose any American girl would marry
an oriental?" she said. "The far east
ern peoples have no more conceptions
of the rights of a woman as a wife
than has the unspeakable Turk. They
may think they love a woman. but not
one OF them would sacrifice his OWE
pleasure for her, let alone anything
higher"
An instructor came into the studio
ana called the students out. Behind
screen in the corner stood a man
man in truth, though in stature he
was but child. 1t was 500 Tokion.
He had been at work on a clay model
when the students entered. He warr
about to make his presence behind
the screen known, when there came
the words which held him silent. Nour
10 troy
thing in the depths of his orientaK
eyes that was past sounding. "Nga
such thing as sacrifice known to my
people for those whom we lover" he
murmured to himself. "No regard
for the rights of woman as a wife SO
Then 500 Tokion murmured SONG
thing in his native tongue that sound
ed like prayer. &
The next day there came a blow CO..
Helen Sturtevant. Her father had
failed, failed utterly and miserablr,-
and she must give up her course. The
girl was crushed bodily and mentally
Inc news flew through the university
Helen's fathers business had gone tn
the wall and Helen was to leave. The
stage dream had vanished with the
rude awakening.
500 Tokion heard. He sought tia
girl out. She was sitting alone in q
corner of music roof. He went tay.
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
Il 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 IL he had seized hey
hand, kissed it and was gone.
Two days after the body of man.
little man, was recovered from the
waters Of the big lake. 1t was nos
hard to identify the drowned.
One week afterward Helen Sturte-
want was informed by law firm thas
she was the sole heiress to S25 600
the entire fortune of 500 ToLion, uni.
versity student.
with the announcement was in
closed this letter, addressed to Helen
in handwriting she knew well:
"You must keep on with your stud
les. / loved you. We of the east con-
slider it virtue TO do things for those
whom we love-"
There is little chapel now being,
built near the Presbyterian mission
in a village just outside Yokohama
1t is to be called the 500 Tokiou
chapel. The village was the birthplace
of 500 Tokion, student at an Amer
lean university. The money was made
over to the missionaries by some ONE
known to them only as a classmate of
him for whom the memorial was to be
erected. The chapels cost was S25.
O0o
In an American city a regal looking
girl with sad eyes is working her way
slowly but steadily upward in the pro-
| fession of dramatic art.-Chicago Rec
ord-Herald.