The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-30

beside the Father of Waters, and also the great mills wherein grind meal for the feeding of the nations.
 And the queen looked. and, behold, mean rooms wherein were no windows. And the beds of those who came and went stood in tiers one above an other And in one bed lay a man sick of a fever and in another lay a man with consumption. And the man sick of the fever and the consumptive arose and went, forth into the streets and other men did occupy their beds until they began to slliver and to cough, and he that owned the house bade them be gone. So they, too, went forth, and, behold, they met other men,, who thrust the tongue in- to the cheek and said one to another; Go to. here is easy game. Let us take stupid and sick, then shall we not have to work it they, did. Let us now go into the place of strong drink. There will it be easy to rob the sot. And robbed did they drag away for that he was beastly drunk and his face was as threatened the charioteerss in the street with his fist, saying, Because I am poor and thou art rich has this hap pened to me. And he bided his time to get even by violence.
 Then was the queen moved to conn passion and said: Oh King, oughtest thou not to give sunshine and cleanly beds to these men who bring thee money? And oughtest thou not to save him that is well that he sleep not :n the bed of him that was sick, lest both fall into the sickness?
 Then answered the king and said:. teAm my brothers keeper2''
 And the queen said: Thou art thy brothers. keeper when he is sick and ing, yea, and when he sins and thou sendest him to jail. Whether is better, oh King, to smash the vase and then mend it, or to keep it from being smashed?
 The king answered: No man can do everything. But many things I do. Come now and behold my great shops and my warehouses and hearken to the roaring of my trade that thou mayest remember it and advertise me when thou art afar off.
 And they went forth. and the won- an slipped on the sidewalk, for nc man shovelled it, and To, a man sweep ing from an alley behind fruit store, and the things that he swept were bananas and oranges and rotten ap- pies. and they lay in the street and the stench thereof went up to heav- en.
 And the queen answered and said: If this people would see with their eyes and smell with their noses they would see germs and smell the breed ing of levers. But behold they are blind., And she lifted up her eyes and behold a plague. for there came a dense rain of blackness from heaven, and the faces on the street looked gray, and the rain of black fell on the JuSI ana the dnJuSL, ana all the c1Iy was black Then was the king might fly pleased, and he said. Dost thou see the smoke from my thousand chinn- neys? I am a mighty man and a great king, and behold I make this rain of black that both the just and the un- just shall have their lungs filed there of.
 And the queen answered: Verify thou art a great king, and thy pros perity. is greater than I have been told, but this civilization of thine is too much for me. It is high: I can not undeFsragd g 1,lgs IL +rai dhep pilest up yet thou protectest not the young child that he sin not, neither the weak that he fall not into greater weakness. Is not the life more than riches?