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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-22
CHAPTER VIII.

THE Young man who called himself Larrabee Damon
was ordinarily sufficiently steady-headed. Even
during the bad Pacific storm, through which he had
recently passed he had not lost his sense OF balance
But now, as he looked at Angela Give coming toward
him with an expression of profound amazement touched
with something like fear he was struck with dizziness
The missonays house. the cleared space the bush out
of which he had emerged began slowly to swing before
his eyes, The loud camor of the breakers beating
the reef seemed to become thunderous The shock he
felt increased his feeling of illness, the blood rushed to
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aware that l had ever met him
S for the cruise were under way"
know him very well?" inquired
in the least to telling you. Until
we began this travelling l knew
him very slightly. That-that
encounter which you witnessed
was on the occasion of our sec
ond meeting. He thought |
had some information that
he wanted. Being drunk, he
didn't act like a gentleman.
Since we have been on the
yacht, of course, we have grown
to know each other better. For
one thing, we had to preserve
a superficial appearance of po-
likeness; for another, he was
really sorry for his rudeness.
Then, in way, our fortunes
are connected"
lie knew how; he understood
L l that she was referring to
the will of Iarrabee Damon,
the elder.
at has sometimes occurred
to me-" said Angela slowly,
that we are not taking merely
an airnless cruise"
He checked a sardonic laugh.
He could have told her that
Wallace was looking for Hen
derson and himself: but at
least what she had told him
proved that Wallace had kept
his intentions fairly well con-
cealed.
"For one thing" she went on,
"the route has been so very in
definite. Once or twice we
have turned back on our tracks.
| have begun to be certain,
she added, "that whatever Mr..
Wallace's plan is, Mrs. Beldon
knows all about it.
"Mrs. Beldon!7 he said,
startled.
eyes. / wonder if it was
not he who first proposed the
cruise to her. But l don't know
anything about it. AS | say, l
am not in her confidence in this
natter"
Damon's thinking powers
had been lying dormant. He
had been absorbed in the fact
of the miracle of being with her;
then he had been arrested by
what she was saying. Suddenly
the full significance of what she
had been saying burst upon
him. Wallace was here too
near him! The last thing in
the world he and Henderson
wanted was to meet Wallace,
or to have him following them
to Arapi Island. He stood up
hastily.
"Where is Wallace now?"
"Over on the yacht, on the
other side of the island. We
put in here on account of the
storm"
"Miss Give" he said, Il
have no right to ask you to
trust me, and yet you may trust
me. Can you say that you be-
lieve in me??"
nd, with a little smile. II am all
ster,' she said, "but l do believe
[ ask YOU not to mention to Mr..
4 L
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lifted her face, started, and gave low cry. Then he
knew he was not dreaming. With arms outstretched,
he was walking toward Angela Give.
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ment as if he was going to faint.
Then everything cleared. He
saw steadily that slim figure in
black, the blue eyes in the
gentle face, the soft black hair
falling softly against her tenn
pies. She and he were the only
real things in the unreal Pacific
world. 1t was she who spoke
first. She came close to him.
Isis it your" she whis-
pered. "Or am | Just-Just
dreaming?"
"Then you have dreamed of
me?" he asked joyfully.
He felt an intense desire to
get away somewhere alone with
her. Since the missionary's
house stood there, inside it
must be people. He saw an
other clearing a little to the left.
He took her hand and hurried
her there, walking until he had
put a screen of palm trees be-
tween them and the house. 1t
was a bleak spot enough,-a
bit of weedy sand, f1anked by
badly grown trees, tortured
with the nagging day-fy,-but
to him it was elysium, because
Angela Give was there.
They sat down and looked
at each other without speak
ing for moment. On his face
was unalloyed JOY. He wore
the expression that a woman in
love with a man would be glad
to have him keep forever, if
such a thing were possible in
this imperfect world; for that
look said that the world didn't
matter. Work, other people,
the thousand occupations of
daily living, did not matter.
Nothing mattered except that
they were alone together. All
of him was absorbed in his de-
light in her. Her face wore an
expression of wonder, of doubt,
and perhaps of distress.
"Have you thought of me,
dearest Angela Clive?' he asked
softly. "Have you thought of
me since I've been gomez"
She dropped her eyes, and
her voice took on a kind of stiff
ness as she replied, 1--WE met
very pleasantly, Mr.. Sylvester,
and IL have thought of
you"
Mr.. Sylvester! There it was!
The name brought back to him
his unstable position, the curl
Gus double sort of game he was
playing. No person on earth
knew who he was, not even him
self. To no one, not even to
Henderson, had he been able
to confde his difficulties. How
ever much he might love Angela
Give, he had no moral right to
tell her so. The very first date
at which he might reasonably
speak would be after he had
fulfilled his commission for He
pleted his service to her.
"Yes," he said gloomily, Eye:
only way in which you can ans
The beautiful moment was Q
and Angela Give belonged to e
like the dream it was. Side by S
but the width of the Pacific mi
so far as real nearness went.
gether. The practical side of
IL L.. Ii -.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-02-06
Viewpoints
Those Who Work.

Editor the MissOurian:-We all
admire the man who works his way
through college. To us, rather cal
lous nation. devoid of any excess
sive sympathies. he is the man of the
future. handicapped by poverty from
the very first, but rising despite it
all. We dismiss him from our minds
by saying that it will not harm him
to work. and that he will be bet
ter man in the end.
Too many are craving for this
fond approval now. Working ones
way has become quite a fad. The
natural money getter is not content
with the allowance he gets from
home. and he seeks work. He has
more wants than conservative
father at homo thinks necessary.
and he supplies these by little en-
ira work.
But in doing this he is displacing
another student who perhaps gets no
allowance from home at all. The
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-02-06
THE DEMAND OF WAR.

ANY nation that wages war against
another unrighteously has to pay
her unspeakable ;ribulatiOn sooner
or later, or God is not just Italy is
now paying her retribution in terms
of defeat and the suffering of her
soldiers from disease.
1t was easy TO take possession of
Tripoli but it is not so easy to main
tain it. While the Italian official re-
ports gave Italian victories. private
soldiers wrote back home about their
defeat. The Turks and Arabs at
tack the Italian troops every day and
night. How long Italy will be able to
stand that condition of affairs re-
mains for time to prove.
The conQuerors are no better off
than the conquered. Then, why
should nation wage war against ma
tion?
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-02-06
THE NATIONAL HIGHWAY.

A bill has been introduced into
Congress which provides for the pay.
ing of National highway to eX-
tend across the central part of the
United States. The proposed route
through Missouri is over the Old
Trails Highway.
A National Highway such as the
bill provides would have a great ef-
feet on the prosperity of the states
through it would pass. 1t would af-
ford an easy and convenient means
of looking over the cities and lands
on the route, and in this way, in
vestors would be brought into the
different sections. 1t would prove
of incalcuable value to the farmer in
marketing farm products.
Lastly and of most Importance, a
movement for the paving of roads
leading to such a highway would
stimulate the improvement of roads
everywhere throughout the United
States
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-02-06
GlinpseS of China

China is the land of opposites. In
America the man opens the door for
the woman to pass before him: in
China such an act would be extraor-
dinary. Here the girl in the home
is sheltered and protected; there she
is regarded as a nuisance. Girls
have to do the menial work. and in
many parts of China there are baby
towers where the undesired girls are
put away to die. Young girls are
made to carry the babies of the
household on their backs, at the
same time doing the chores. They
have their feet bound at an early
age. this being done while the bones
are supple and conform easily to the
tight bandages that are put on Many
a night is the whole family kept
awake by the moaning of a girl
whose feet are causing her intense
pain. Gangrene often sets in from
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-02-06
Gelle,l,ld!

Exams are On-be the holy gadS,
and my head is a melon pie. | have
stopped it full of medley dope. in
the vague. uncertain, unhOped for
hope of ''swatting prof i'm the eye
But ! sit up here with sneaking
fear of fate in the sOles of my socks; 8;
and | feel like the keel of a squirm-
ing eel in nest of knife-edged
rocks. Exams are On-be the
jumpin' Jud, and I'll wade her
through or die, with many a moan
of greedy grOan from the depths
of silent sigh. And | sit with the
dirt of a shiny shirt round the green
of my sickly grin. and | wonder
whence i'm the NAV of the past is
the source of my deadly sin. Yes.
exams are On-be the humped-up
Swede. and the pain in the pit of
my core. If | chance to live through
the query sieve. be my giZZard hag-
gard and hOar. I'll mend the way of
my wicked day. though | know not
what I've done. to be punished thus
till my bleared eyes cuss the dawn of
the rising sun.
H. J. Mex
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-02-06
Columbia Needs Street Cars.

Editor the MissOurian:-COlu
has much that many of the neighbor-
ing towns haven't got. But this is
no reason why she should not have
other improvements.
One of the things that the town
needs badly is street cars. There are
many towns all over the country
with no larger population than Co
lumbia which have street cars. Ii
is quite a distance from the west
side to the business section of the
town. 1t is good long distance
most anyway you take if one under
takes to walk across the town. In
cold and rainy weather it is quite
disagreeable to have to walk any
long distance. Many people have to
keep horses or autos and these are
rather expensive.
The cost of construction of lines
in Columbia wouldn't be great. A
line running east and west out
Broadway and one running north
and south along Ninth street with
about four cars and fifteen minute
service would be all that would be
necessary.
A good street car system would
benefit the city in many ways. 1t
would keep the town from becOm-
ing congested. 1t would do away
with so many little tenant houses.
The people could move to the su-
burbs. This would be beneficial to
the health of the town. Street cars
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number of good. willing men who
leave school at the end of every Sc
mester. perhaps never to return, is
tremendous. They came here with
the intentions of working their way
through school. The competition for
jobs was intense. In its fierceness
they lost out. This competition was
made fiercer by the partaking of
those who were not really in need of
the jobs they sought. Usually it was
not the rough work these were after.
but the creamy kind. and every time
one of them was placed he sealed the
college hopes of another man who
could not get i'm. b. S.
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would take a good deal of the traf-
tic off of the streets and thus make
the cost of the keep up of the streets
less. 1t would be move in the
right direction toward the proposed
electric lines to the adjoining towns.
This is a matter that the CONNER
cial Club should boost. Some pri-
vate company could be induced to
put in the system. Eff.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-02-06
A CIVIC CENTER.

Columbia will soon be forced to
erect several new civic buildings
Her city hall is crowded and no long
er worthy of housing the city's gov
ernment.
The fire department must be en-
larged. 1t should have a building of
its own with living quarters over
head. 1t is difficult TO plan an ade-
quate department to be housed in the
present building.
A police building. in which the
city Jail and the police court could be
located. is badly needed. The pres
ent Jail is as much a disgrace to the
city as the county Jail is to the cour-
ty.
Of course, it will be inadvisable to
attempt to erect all of these build
ings at once. Plans for such a GEN.
ter should be drawn up soon. howev-
er. and then the new structures
adapted to it as they are provided.
The results of indiscriminate civic
building are eXemplified in many
cities. Columbia should profit by
these failures.
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sh came over and sat down by me.
She told me that the boy who had
just married was a sweetheart of
hers. He was only Il and the girl
he married was 21. She said he had
been going with her for three years
and had even talked of marrying
her. She said they had a falling out
just few nights before be married
and she knew he couldn't love the
other girl so soon. 1t was Just
breaking her heart and she did not
know what to do.
Il told her not to let him know
she cared anything about it and to
have good time like the other
young people. told her he was too
young to marry anybody and would
not be happy and it was better that
she had not married him. She said
had given her better advice than
anybody. When we came to her home
town she said, Il wish | could stay
on the train and hear you talk some
more, you have made me feel so
much happier
"YOu know some people are not
content with anything on the train
and are always ready to quarrel with |
the conductor. Some of these people |
| can rule by being pleasant and !,
laughing at what they say; with 9TH
ers | have to use force. Some of |
them seem to think they can do as
they please on the train. A number
of negroes who worked in a coal
mine seemed to think they ran the
Wabash. BY little harsh treatment
ment | soon settled them. One of the
negro women died not long after
that. and as none of them had any
money with which to bury her they
came and asked me if | would let
them have enough to buy a coffin.
bought the coffin for them, and every II
time | saw them after that ! would
remind them that the money was due
certain day. When the time came
they paid me.
1t pays to be pleasant There
are many things said to a conductor
to make him angry, but it is best for
him to keep his head. If have to
call anyone down | seldom become
angry. If a person says something
to me in order to make me angry,
usually just smile and go on. They
sometimes try to make me angry II
by being slow in giving in their
tickets. They sometimes say to me
Come back and will have my
ticket ready just stand there and
say. L am in no hurry OF course
there are many silly questions asked
One of the most foolish, it seems to
me. is is this my train ! look at
the person and if | see he will not
get angry. | answer. i don't know
whether it is or not
Il have little trouble about stu
dents not paying fare. | can rely
on a students honor. If, however,
| find that any person has no ticket
and cannot give any explanation |
put him off at the first stop. | have
had some peculiar experiences i'm
people pay fare. but not
very many with students NJ. c.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-02-06

l.. +. Hill. conductor on the Wa
bash from Columbia to Centralia
has found that it pays to be pleas
ant-which means that Mr. Hill is a
diplomat. One has to be a diplomat
to hold job as conductor on a
branch line, especially when that line
taps college town. Mr.. Hill deals
in applied psychology, but he states
the fact in simpler terms.
''As rule" he said the other day,
| can tell by lOking at a passenger
how | should treat him in order to
get along with him. Sometimes, of
course, | am mistaken, but not often.
Some passengers are hard to please,
while others take things just as they
come. If | look at a man and see
that he will be hard to please, | i'm
mediately try to think of plan | can
use with him.
Experiences. have all kinds.
and some are not pleasant by any
means. A short time ago a boy ran
away from home and got on the Wa
bash train. His father telephoned to
me to watch out for him. found the
boy on the train and told him he
must go home. He said he would not
go back. His father had married
again and he could not live with his
stcpmOther. | tried to reason with
him and told him to go back and
settle with his father. 1t was late
when we reached his home town. so
fixed him a bed, and the next next
morning | sent him home.
Il have brought runaway girls
home as well as boys. Once II
brought three girls home on
the train and their parents have new
er found out that they ran away.
They lived in country town at
which the Wabash stopped. The
girls decided to steal ride to the
next town and stay there until the
next train returned. 1t was a sum-
mer evening about o'clock. When
the train stopped | saw the girls
standing in front of the little station
and spoke to them. for | knew them,
but never noticed that they left the
station. After the train had gone
several miles ! found the girls rid
ing on the engine. | asked them
where they were going and they said
to the next town. | took then in
one of the coaches and told them to
stay there. When we reached the |
town they wanted to get off. but |
made them stay on the train until it |
reached their home town. told
them | would not tell on them if |
they would go home and not try to
run off again. They promised, and
have kept their secret.
''PeOple even come to me for ad- |
vice. Not very long ago saw some
some girls that | knew get on the
train at little town. carrying a bag
of rice. or course my curiosity was
aroused and | asked them where |
they were going. They replied |
they were going to the next town to |
rice couple that were to be mar
ried. They took the next train back |
and on the way one of the girls said,
Mr.. Hill. | want to talk to you
After | had collected the tickets
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the stOppage of circulation and the
girl loses a foot.

the stOppage of circulation and the
girl loses foot.
In the way the Chinese eat are
seen many differences from the Occi-
dentals. They use no tableclOth
and spit the bones out on the floor or
on the bare table The food is set
i'm the middle of the table in basins
from which they help themselves.
That old standby, the basin of rice,
is refilled from a bucket close at
hand. The food is often kept hot by
being placed in copper cOmpart-
ments around a charcoal stove in the
center. very much like a Russian
samovar.
If one guest thinks that another
should eat piece of fat pork. he
puts it in the bowl of his friend. who
in courtesy has to eat it. unless,
thinking that his neighbOr needs it
worse, he passes it on. Thus may
piece of fat pork go the whole
round of the table. waiting to be eat
en- by one of the guests.
When one has finished eating the
chOpSticks are placed side by side on
top of the empty bowl with the COM
mand to the ethers to eat slowly
Hot water and towels are used by
the higher classes of Chinese after
eating. The labOring man drops into
a restaurant. where for 3 cents he
can get all he can eat. This will be
rice and salted cabbage. with a bowl
of steaming hot tea. This man will
then then go out and do the hard
manual labor that the American does
who lives on meals costing from 25 to
30 cents.
No Chinese shaves himself. Try to
imagine a man shaving the top of
his head and then it can be seen why
he cannot do it himself The place
in society regulates the number of
visits to the barber shop. Three
times week is good average The |
ter, shaving it off with raZOrs made |
from the hOrSeshOeS of old Liverpool |
horses that have been shipped to the
Orient by the ton. When the hair
is off the top of the head, the queue
is unplaited. cOmbed and replaited. |
This is followed by massage of the |
back and fingers. ending !
with resOunding whack on the back |
that can be heard many feet away
from the barber shop.
For the poor man who cannot |
spare the time to go to the barber |
there is the travelling man who goes
where he is needed. He carries his |
outfit with him, the customer sitting |
down in convenient spot and being |
treated in the same way as in the |
shop.
Often wedding cannot be told |
from funeral in this land of Op-
pOSiteS. In the front of the process
sion in either case the gifts are borne
and cymbals clashed. and until the
main part comes into view. showing
red for the wedding with the we'd
ding chair. or white for the funeral |
with the coffin and the mOurners.
spectators are sometimes puzzled
Z. r. A. +.
Col,o,,,,1I
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-26
GEhnEMEN d Sal.
FA-Pa-RA-Ra.

BONES a FREh' OF r4Ine ann
MYSELF NEARLY HAD an
ACCIDENT VEST ERD6T
InTERLoCUTOR- IS TBeT So
BONES YES. YOU KNOW we
Was OUT IN HIS n1oTAH
BOAT. eve RTTHGHG WENT
Al RIGHT TILL We WAS
COMM INTO De DOCK. Den
Nah EPeH FOUN De
ENGINE wOUL DHT REVERSE
am we was GoIH F0LL
TILT Fo' DAT DOCK. SUDDEN
~ ne REMEMBERED Dat
De NJ RkET QUOTATIONS.
70 To6ACCo IN De r1oRhIn
PAPER SHo NED p SLIGHT
ADVANCE SO HE PULLED DE
P9PE 2 OUT OF HIS Poo kET
AID Read De 0OoTATIoN.
ihTEPLoCUTo8-HHY DID Ne Do THAr
EoHES- 70 RRCK Her Up a FEW POINTS.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-26
dO -

JAKE The TEAr4STER WIS on
HIS way TO THE F9CToRI
WHERE THEY MADE SWISS CHeEaE
WITH = LoAP OF HOLES FOR
THE CHEESE MERELY He
BUh1Pe > ALoh6 OVER THE HARD
ROAD OH tn. - KID 6Y TIE
w6HSIDE YELLED OUT HEY
MISTER. a LOT OF XoOR HOLES
HRUE FALLEN OFF, jake
Locke D BACK AND oAWTH6
KID WIS TELLING The TRUrh
THEY GATHERED THEM Up AND
ia kE SAID ToTHE kip "IF YOU
Co n TELL NE ONE THING III
GiVE YOU n RIDE To THE
Factory
WOULD YOU SAY THE
STUDENTS OF c6RLISLE
WE'RE WELL RED MEN"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-26


The KH0ckE RS CLUB WIS
HoL DING a SECRET MEET
-inG. EACH H4Er1oE r HAD Her
KNOCKS To STRIHE OFF
65oUr FER rIEi6HoRS arc
SARAH FILM ThE 4oSHkosH
6eSRcAT WIS TELLING hER
FRIENDS WHAT - NOISE
Her nEI6BBoRS DOGS
MADE WHEN = P1ESSE NICER
FLEW IN. RON hInk UP To
Sarah HE HANDED we
a TELEGRAM WHICH READ
m DEER IS p STAG is a
BUCK STA eGER.-
mr.. HARRY NrVHEATLEY WILL
NOW SING
We FEED THE BABY 6ARLlt
SO WE c6N SIhD HIN ~
TIVE DIRK.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-26

RA -HA- IN A
" H1OR ~ A 5NALL
DWN NONN- a 1pE
, GET OP AZ 6
WALK T0MY OFFICE
R6AD ny MAIL
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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-26
RAILROAD rIOKTABIE

RAILROAD TIMETABLE
All trains arrive and depart from
street All arrivals and departures
given in FL Paso or mountain stand
ard time
For Albuquerque. Denver, Chicago.
Los Angeles-Lv- S:45 a m and 7:05
From Albuquerque, Denver, Chicago,
Los Angeles-Ar. $40 a m and $40
p. m
Ell PASO & SOUTHWESTERN.
CWestern DiTisIOn.)
For Arizona and Sonora-Lv. $50
a. m. sos p. m.
From Arizona and sonora-Ar. 700
a. m. $3.50 P m.
eastern Division.)
For Kansas City, St Louis. Chicago
Lv. 7:45 a m, 12:45 p m. 5:25 ?. m.
From Kansas City. St Louis, Chicago
Ar 6:3S a m, $3.50 p. m, TAO ,. m
g., H. & 5. A. AND :. p. TRAINS.
For San Antonio. New Orleans,
Westinghouse 500 a m. 1000 p. m.
From San Antonio. New Orleans,
WashingtOn-Ar- $50 a. m, 1880 D. m
For Arizona and California-Lv. $50
a. m, 40 a m. 9:15 a M 400 p m
1906 p m
From Arizona and CaIifornia-Ar.
6;53 a m. 1920 p m. 5:12 p. m
TEXAS & PACIFIC.
For Dallas and St Louis-Lv. 1880
a m; 7:15 p m.
From St. Louis and DaIlas-Ar. 500
NATIONAL RAILWAYS OF MEXICO.
For chihuahua only-Lv. 7:Ss a m
From Chihuahua-Ar. S:35 p. m
MEXICO, NORTH WESTERN.
For MADEIRA. Pearson and Chihuahua
From MADEIRA. Pearson and chihua-
hua-Daily, 7:05 D.