The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-13
THE FARMER: MAY 13, 1912

with it's full excitement and allure was for the time Automatically in- terrupted in all of Louisville's profes- sional establishments.
 This condition of affairs was sev- ere deprivation for Ellinger. Lewis interests in life were few, but were fnversely intense. These interests fn- cluded the race-track; the prize-ring; the theatre on its vaudeville side and in its reminiscent aspect; the fluctua- tion of the stock-market in so far as that fluctuation affected the quota tion of a single railroad stock; the American Association of Professional Baseball Clubs; the show-window dis play of certain importing tailors; the afternoon parade on Fourth street, particularly on Saturday after the season, not because of Lew's partici- patton therein, but because of the superiority of the flavor of fresh game over that of cold-storage supply; the conservation of one or two dwindllng supplies of certain vintage of bour- bon; his diurna1 pink for the button hole and somebody's eau de Quinine for the hair; but first, last, and con- tinuously his greatest interest was the professional game of hazard known as faro. To take this from him was to make of Lew, in his own language, "a widow and an orphan"
 With faro eliminated Lew's mind had more time at it's disposal than it's degree of activity demanded. The world grew gray, the universe seem ed a complicated machine for the production of sorrow.
 Lew's associates and nearest ac- Quaintances were men who, like him. self, felt particularly aggrieved by the drastic action of the authorities; men txynn yi1Fn hivoe than in- dignant at Hardmuth's assertion and his betrayal of their interests; men naturally watchful for additional grounds of criticism of their common enemy. Hardmuth's conduct of the Whipple trial took it's place in their bill of grievances. Lew's own resent ment of this part of Hardmuth's rec ord made him doubly sympathetic to- ward the members of Brookfeld' s home. Nor was his sympathy unac- ceptable to Helen, in whose greater trouble any disposition to criticise Lew's past social record or present standing disappeared.
 Lew was a welcome visitor. As 8 frequent escort to both Helen and Viola, he began in a measure to fill the void which in that department of usefulness had been created by Clay's enforced absence.
 In times of deep and persistent sor- IO# IuSIG HIo I0W COIuPdn1OA6 HUI v acceptable than a loyal, undemandiny, mature, mediocre friend-one whose vanity is not offended by long silences whose watchfulness prompts to small and unimportant services, whose con- fidence is unquestioning, and whose punctualty and dependability banfsh friction from the small affairs of daily existence. Lew regarded the position in which the ladies found themselves as indirectly attributable to the busi- ness of a fraternity of which he was an open and avowed associate. His present loyalty, among it's other qualities, was therefore fraternal. | Such entertainment as Lew was competent to suggest was exactly of that variety most salutary in its char acter for Helen and Viola. It uni formly demanded some physical ex- ertiOn, an interest in material things, an attention to the outside world as opposed to speculation and introspec- tion. It was to ride in the automo- of thoroughbreds, or to make the ac- Quaintance of the excellence of some road-house cuisine. On such excur- sions Lew systematically devoted him. self to Viola or Mrs. Campbell, or both, and thus left Helen the fairly uninterrupted society of Jack.
 During all this long and trying period Brookeld astonished Helen by the considerate delicacy of his atti- tude and bearing. Her thoughts were diverted from rather than in- vited to any mutual sentimental rela- tion. Brookffeld, while something more than a friend, was studiously lively to divine that fn this period of Clay's peril Helen would not only re- gret any thought she might be in- duced to bestow on her own future happiness, but would remember un- favorably any attempt on the part of another to so direct her attention.
 If Jack were careful of her physical or mental health it was that she might have strength to devote to her boy. The many thoughtful acts that were done in her behalf were appar- ently prompted by Mrs. Campbell; the numerous expenditures made neces- sary by her presence and for her comfort, entertainment. and diversion seemed always incurred by Mrs. Campbell. That hitherto unreliable and flighty lady was suddenly endow- ed with masculine provision, gener- osity, and executive ability.
 This indirect service could not fail of appreciation by a woman of Helen's delicate fibre rendered acutely sensi- tive by the recent cumulative tragic events. The more unkind the world seemed, the more generous Jack ap- peared: the closer and more inexor- able the menace of the law, the more wonderful the tnterposing courage of Jacks defence; the more vulnerable she and hers became, the more price less his protection.
 We grow in character through ser vice. Broolxfield himself was happily conscious of a spiritual growth. With every unselfish effort he felt an ac- cession not only of compensating but of compounded power. He felt, too, an increasing calm. Something of this calm he had always possessed and to an enviable degree but heretofore it had been the sufficing calm of boise and self-control.
 This increased calm, whether because it was of another origin or whether reserve and surplus of power always to act, he found to his surprise had a compelling quality. Men of con- trary minds seemed to fall easily into the line of his wishes, not through any expression or any argumentatfve of his desire, but by it's silent and serene tenure.
 In his mental search for the source of the power residing in himself, Brookf1eld came again upon his larg- CT conception of the interrelation of oped philosophy plainly religious in it's character. When he held in associa- tion the fact of his newly accepted be- lief in the oneness of life, and the truth by him more recently noted, that any expenditure of force in the unsel- fish service of others was apparently repaid, and in larger quantity, his ac- tive imagination began reaching for some explanation of this apparent re-