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The Washington herald., 1914-03-01
Beth S Patient

Her second case was the typhoid one.
and 1t bothered her. She had never be-
fore lost her professional grip on her
brown haired boy lying back on the pill
lows, his voice pleading with her all
through the long hours of the night,
that had stirred an unsuspected force
lying dormant in her nature.
He was about twenty-six, with face and
body that told of clean, right living
Sometimes he called her Carol, sometimes
his mother. At first she had tried to
quiet him, TO turn his mind on something
else, when he would beg pitifulIy for he-
to stroke his head for him, to slip her
cool palm under his cheek so that he
could rest. Then he would lay II across
his lips, and kiss IL. 1t was all very
disconcerting when one was alone, and
the hours stole by slowly.
The doctor had told her he had wired
for his mother from the East. and she
would arrive any time. She wondered il
Carol" would come with her, IL she had
a right to come. Oddly enough, she be-
gan to resent the idea. But the days
passed, and no one came for the patient
in 12-6.
The day nurse was an old-timer. cheer
full and thoroughly used TO habits and
customs of typhoid cases.
MY goodness, they all make love to
you sooner or later" she laughed, when
Berth asked her rather shyly IL the
patient acted strangely in the daytime.
I've had more proposals from my ty-
phoids than any others. 1t seems to be
part of the disease, their falling In love
with their nursesp
'tOh, but it isn't with me. He only
takes me for somebody else" said Beth,
hastily. HE calls me by a girls name"
He'll call you by your own before
he's sitting up, my dear. About three
weeks clears the brain, and they never
remember who they loved before. Do
you like him?'
Beth flushed hotly, resentfully, and the
day nurse laughed.
.Oh, you needn't tell me IL you don't
want to. always enjoyed my typhoid
cases my first year or two. He does
seem a pretty well built youngster, and
hetaiks well, too. Doctors says his name
is Randall Sears. and he's from Pitts
burgh."
The third week the doctor said they
had heard from his mother. and she had
been abroad. Beth thought of her a
good deal the night Of the crisis. He had
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NSVteriknt' lSitl
'T should humor him until the crisis
is past. Miss Powell. In these typhoid
cases, we find some peculiar manifesto
tions as the patient loses strength. He
is totally unconscious of who you are
and merely connects you with this other
mental picture. You understand"
Yes, Doctor" returned Beth, obedient-
ly. She stood by the cot after the door
had closed. looking down at the patient.
He had been brought in the week before
from one Of the large hotels. She uri der
stood that he seemed well supplied with
money. His doctor had engaged private
room and nurses. She was the night
nurse. 49,.
1t was her first year OF active service.
Up home in Oregon they had taken 1t as
sort of joke when Beth, joyous. out
door loving Beth, decided to leave her
garden and books and mountain life ard
so down to San Francisco to enter the
hospital $50.
'Beth's never been just like the rest
of us, though" Margaret had declared.
one Deen IKE Joan OF Arc, dont you
know, seeing visions in her garden. Now
Val and Dot and never think of hos
pitfalls or troubles of other people. Lordy.
haven't we enough OF our own to worry
over. But Beth's been. bandaging her
dolls ever since 1 can, remember. and
putting ice bags on their poor little heads.
It's too bad because girl loses all her
chances going way of like that"
Chances Of what?- Val had asked, in
terestedly. Val was fifteen. and curious
over the vital issues Of life. Il think
Beth's wonderful"
Lots Of good ii will do her shut up in
a hospital. The very best they ever do
is to marry DOCTOR" said Margaret
vaguely.
Yet Beth had gone down to the hos
pital for her years of training. That
summer she had had her first long visit
back home, but when the first tang of
cooiness came in the fall air. 1t had
called her back to the long white wards.
and the duty that was her life.
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BY lz@la F0rTeSteT

the family. and as il she herself were a
part of it.
The next weeks passed swiftly. AS
soor as Randall was convalescent. his
mother took him to the mountains, and
Beth went with them as nurse. Mrs.
Sears said she would feel safer to have
ner near for fear OF a relapse, as Ran
dali had acted weak Just as soon as Re
had been told he was to leave the hos
pital.
And the spring days stretched into
JUne. Beth, who had been bon a noun
tain girl, enjoyed every moment of her
freedom. 1t was part of her patients
0aily regime, the long walks. the horse
hack rides, the games of tennis, and
sleeping out of doors. For nearly three
months they had seen each other con-
stantly day after day. and when she
spoke of leaving to go back to the hos
pital, he threatened a relapse.
'Why won't you let yourself be frank
with me, nurse" he said one day, as
they rode slowly toward the lodge.
You know I'll never let you go now"
It's only a part of the typhoid
symptoms" laughed Beth. do you
know that all through your delirium
you made frantic love to me. not ex-
actly to me. either. To-Carol."
II was out at last, and she. felt bet
spread first a look OF bewilderment.
and then he laughed.
Did / call you Carol? Il was surely
delirium. Now listen, dear. and be
fair. I've been an everlasting chump.
Dad left me money with mother as
trustee. and she's been too good to
me. I've been writing a play, and
called it Carol It's pack of non-
sense. too. and fired IL before came
down sick. But suppose the thing
ran through my brain"
But you kissed my hand, and want
ed me to
Beth hesitated.
ITO what?.
Smooth your, hair. and hold your
hands, and-and when you were near
the crisis, had to kneel beside you all
night. because you wouldn't let so Of
my hands,"
Great Scott" gasped Randall, and
had all of that and didn't know IL.
Beth, get or that pony. just for a min
ute. I've got to talk to you, I've sim
ply got 10. II you don't stop. I'll have
a relapse"
Il didn't know this was an incurable
case" laughed Beth, refining up. and
slipping from her saddle into his arms
After a minute, Randall answered:
It's chronic, nurse"
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sunk into a stupor. breathing slowly and
tiredly. His forehead was cold and damp.
She bent over him after the doctor had
made his rounds, mad laid her hand OH
his head, but he did not stir. And a
strange thing happened IN 12-6 through
the weary hours before the gray dawn
showed under the window shade. Beth
knelt beside her patient praying over
him. talking to him. pleading him to
fight against the gray mist that was
closing in around him, begging him to
hear her and to fight, fight. fight for life.
She did not care then what he called
her his mother. or Carol. or any name,
Just so long as he listened and heard her,
and il gave him strength. Several times
she fancied she felt a pressure from the
fingers she held in hers, but when he
looked at her, his eyes seemed to have
lost their brilliancy. and he did not rave
any more, only slipped back into the
sleep that seemed the last.
1t was after four when the doctor came
in. He smiled at sight of the night
nurse. She was on the chair beside the
cot, her hands holding the patients
against her own warm glowing face as
il she would have given him some Of
her strength so.
Better, nurse?''
Yes. He's all right. I think. Isn't
he sleeping normally now?"
The doctor nodded.
His mothers down stairs. She can't
come up. but she wont go away. You'd
better go down and calm her. Tell her
he's out of danger now. but can't be
seen for a day or two"
She was the only person in the recep-
ton room. Plump and rather tall with
beautiful gray hair curling around her
fresh young face. and eyes just like the
patients upstairs. Beth caught her
breath as they looked at her beseechingly.
you're Randalrs nurse, the doctor
tells me- Ny dear. Is he really better?"
'Oh, very much. The crisis is past and
he is sleeping normally for the first
time, so you see how dangerous and
unwise il would be to waken or startIe
him. And he thinks you were with him
anyway" She took the hands out
stretched towards her. and went ON
pluckily. "Au through the nights he has
called me mother and Carol
:'Carol?" repeated Mrs. Sears. HE
doesn't know anybody named that, I'm
sure, Carol 1 don't understand st
ALL
Beth went back feeling comfortel
some way. Even his own mother didn't
know who Carol was. She began to feel
that Cayol was distinct interioper into
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he gave the Rube bartender the high sign, and the
latter pushed forward two glasses and black bottle
1T wouldn't have been bad if the show had
gone to pieces in some burg where the people have
insomnia in the daytime the Juvenile growled But
here, Mike, the go to work in their pajamas and
the town hasn't any street because the conductors
bell sounds too much like alarm clock, and it might
wake the Mayor"
Il tell YOU Mike" the Juvenile went on "Im too
delicate for this one-night stand gag I'm going to
New York and build theater"
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Splashburg,
Middle West
Boon. Burg,
Where
Trains Never
Meet
and
Drummers
Invariably
Do.

What with?' sneered Low Comedy.
With reporter / know on one of the papers,
the Juvenile chuckled. "Say, what the OF
that town We played night before iast?'
"Alurphy's Landing, wasn't z" Mike answered
Il guess that's right, because Murphy landed on
good and hard" the Juvenile said Remember
those nice white doorknobs for breakfast next
morning? The waitress said they hot biscuits,
but had to eat mine with nut cracker. I've got it
in my pantry yet. and every time | walk around the
knob turns, and can hear door open somewhere"
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steb Stephens,
Head Clerk
Commercial
House,
KNOBS
HumQnItvS
Funny Foibles
and
Flash Kids.

Whats the of this mnt,g asked the villain.
Steb told him.
TO the towpathr' said Barrett Macready Were
outside the life lines. We thought it the Liver
wurst Hotel, where they throw things your appe-
tite for 81 day. double. To the left, wheel For
ward, march,
followed the two troupers out to the dinky bar
room because it looked about eight they'd pull
a few wheezes and I'd get a few CUFFS.
The woods for ours! Isn't this bird of place
for show to get stranded? groaned the Low Comic,
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Mikes double chin showed signs of agitation
Stranded here in this jay town. The Juvenile
grabbed the black bottle and upset it again. Say,
Mike what we need is guardian And while we're
at it let's pick out with money we can wire him
for little price help out occasions like this.
The next manager that wins away from the stock
yards will have to gold-plated oyercoat and
stand in the wings every night where he can throw
ten-dollar bills at me when make my exit. No more
sob mpsesarios for minc with nothing in their inside
pockets but a date book and hearty appetite
Same herep Low Comedy nodded. The next
manager that picks me out will have to drag me down
to his bank and let pick his coupons off the shelf
before I'll sign"
Bumped good and hard, here in the tall grass"
the Juvenile complained again, "and not cookie in
the lunchbasket. Say 1t has me wingng, all right.
and that's idle hootl This is the third troupe that
blew its handspring for us this season. and Pm
beginning believe ought to get vaccinated How
| going to do Hamlet in New York this winter.
I'd like to know? Eight weeks since left Chicago,
three shows to the bad. and still thousand miles from
the Great White Way. Say Mike at this it'll take
about 6e9 shows to get to Jersey City. Are you
hep?
Mike laughed dts the old story my boy; we're
a sad bunch of powboys on this old farm of world
when we haven't little mazuma in the vest pocket.
I've got bit of recitation spiel cooked up last
night when | couldn't sleep. lis called Knock and
the World Knocks With YOU and III put you jerry
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Seeing Life With John
(Copyright, IoI4.)

n F YOU'LL look real close you'll find Splashburg
on map of the Middle West.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-19
In a Nutshell.

The primaries are yet to occur. but
everything mt the denatured conven-
ton in Saratoga yesterday indicated n
regular. old fashioned, stralghtout Re
publican canvass this fall: BARNES In
control, WHITMAN running for Gov
ernor and WADswoRTH for United
States Senator, and HINMAN, as the
representative OF Rooseveltian plastic
surgery, In the vocative.
The development Of the Progressive
campaign under these circumstances
may be watched by Democratic aspir-
ants with philosophic tranquility.
We observe that FRANCIS LyNpE
SrtrsoS. replying TO Mr.. HENNEssY's
Invitation to Democrats Of the old
Cleveland type to support him in order
to put Tammany out OF existence. was
reported yesterday as expressing more
enthusiasm for the idea of Tammany's
destruction than for the Idea OF Tam
many's destruction through the instru-
mentality of HENNEssY.
IL am in favor" said Mr.. SrETsor
"of Governor GLyNN's denomination
and reelection. lie has been one OF the
best Governors we have ever had. II
the people use good Judgment they will
keep him In office"
This was not exactly the response
which MIR. HENNEssY expected from
that particular quarter.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-19
Three Sentences From q Letter Of
Mayor Mitchcrs.

Mayor MITcHEL's letter transmitting
to the Board Of Estimate the requests
for appropriations for 1915 Of the
Twenty-Five city departments over
which he has direct control through
the powers OF appointment and re-
moval contains three sentences worthy
Of particular attention. Two Of them
fall into natural sequence and AFFORD
gratifying evidence OF his recognition
that there is at present particular call
for economy Of expenditure:
The developments OF the past weeks in
Europe make imperative every possible
economy. As a general policy OF the city.
II will be necessary for US to carry on
the current operations OF the depart
ments most conservatively and economi-
cally."
That Mayor MICHEL has borne this
condition In mind Is apparent from the
fact that the total Of appropriations
requested Is $3,881. 8S less than the
amount allowed for the twenty-nine
departments this year. The sum IL
small, but when 1t Is remembered that
the course OF expenditure has been
steadily upward; that the activities,
advised and Ill advised, of the depart
ments are continually increasing, and
that the cost Of supplies Is higher than
heretofore, II indicates substantial
victory over waste and extravaganza.
The other sentence in the Mayors
letter embodles a constructive sugges-
ton that every intelligent student Of
city affairs who has no axe to grind
wants to see put into practice The
Mayor writes:
I'VE are still obliged to purchase the
Sl4,0O0,000 to sl5.000,000 OF supplies
bought each year through several scores
OF purchasing agencies, when every one Is
agreed that central purchasing agency
along the lines followed by large corpo-
rations will effect vast economies"
How large this saving might he II
one purchasing agency, honestly and
capably administered, were substituted
for the present wasteful system can
be Judged from the remarkable econ
omles effected in the stationery account
of the city under the administration of
Supervisor FERGUSON. lie buys for all
departments, and by the application of
strict business methods and careful
marketing he has saved literally mill
Ions Of dollars to the taxpayers in the
last five years. The same record could
be made as to other supplies, and tn
render 1t possible the Legislature
should promptly authorize the creation
of the department the Mayor desires
That done. the people Of New York
may be trusted to find honorable men
to administer It's important affairs.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-19
studying the jews In Russia.

Fortunately the present situation In
results Of the investigation into the
ethnology of the Jews, which had
progressed far before war was de-
clared. The investigation was the first
scientific effort to learn something
about the Jewish people In Russia.
Suggested by the ethnologist RAPAPoRr
the scheme was made financially posi-.
bic by Baron VLADIMIR GUINsBuRG and
through smaller subscriptions. Its sue
cess has restored to the knowledge Of
the world to-day many social facts and
traditions OF the Jews IN Russia which
were fast disappearing.
1t Is to be hoped that the war will
not end the investigations Of RAPA-
PORTS expedition, which In sixty-fve
towns of the provinces OF Wohlynlen
and Podolien collected such rich mate
rial that the later results would have
been awaited with equal interest. More
than two thousand folk stories and
proverbs, twelve hundred old Jewish
melodies, which were caught on the
gramophone, many songs and original
documents important to the history Of
the Jews In Russia, were here discov-
cred. Half hundred manuscripts in
Hebrew give a glimpse into the spirit
ual life OF Josefgrad, and there are the
records of "a ritual murder trial held in
this closely sealed community.
Even II the Investigations are halted
by the war there are already enough
objects TO form Jewish historical
museum of great interest. There Will
also he room there for objects Of art,
since there are drawings and paintings
by Jewish artists In Russia in the fl.
teenth and sixteenth centuries.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-19
BRAVE LITTLE BELGIUM.
How Arc Her losses by the German
Invasion 10 he Made Upr

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: How
Interested have been and am still In the
letters In THE SUN! One thing has struck
me very forcibly. For two DAYS ! have
read authoritative statements from Ger
mans that all the Belgian losses will be
made up to her after the war.
Is the Kaiser the right hand OF God
that he can raise from the dead the hum
dreds of innocent soldiers whose only
crime was the protection OF their state
against an unfaithful neighbor? Has the
Kaiser some special knowledge whereby
he can bring back the devastated homes,
heal the broken hearts, restore shattered
limbs and ruined health? Do the Ger
mans mean that they will pay In money
for the harm they have done? How far,
how very far they are behind the think
ing people OF to-day!
Let the Russians, the Germans. the
Austrians and the Servians Kill each
other; II seems their meter; but Is there
one real man living who can defend the
invasion OF Belgium?
Some one has said to me that II Is all
right to break treaties In time of war
thought that was the time they were not
TO be broken. M.
NEW YORK, August IS.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-19
1.-THE EMPIRE or THE AIR."
A Phrase n Jean Paul Richter and .
Pacm Of schiller.


To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN--Str: Der
many depends on her powerful air
squadron to bring her victory" says
despatch. In another sense the empire
OF the air was long ago claimed for the
German race by one OF their greatest
writer's, Jean Paul Richter. At the be-
ginning Of an essay on this author Chen
little known and that little misknown
by England) Thomas Carlyle said:
Except by narns Jean Paul Richter Is
lit,e known out OF Germany The only
thing connected with him. we think. that
has reached this country Is his saying i'm
ported by Nine. de Stael. and thankfully
pocketed by newspaper critics providence
has given to the French the empire Of the
land. to the English that of the sea, to
the Germans that OF the air." OF this
last element, indeed. his own genius might
easily seem to have been = denizen.
Jean Paul, Of course. had special ref
erence to the German as poet and meta
physician; his efficiency as a military
genius had not been adequately recog-
nized by Europe at the time Richter
wrote Schiller took this saying Of Rich
ter and elaborated II into poem. THE
Division OF the Earth" In which the
Imaginative side OF the German character
Is enpha sized at the expense of Its com
mon sense:
Here, take the woridl" cried Jove from his
high heaven
To morta,s. Take II, II Is yours. ~ elves:
TITS yours for an eternal heirloom given;
Share II like brothers 'monsst yourseives."
Then FASTENED every one himself to suit.
And buaily bestirred them old and young.
The Farmer seized upon the harvest fruit;
The Squires horn through the woodland
rung.
The Merchant srasped his costly warehouse
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-19
America First.

President WILSON'S recommendation
Of q dispa ssionate neutrality Of Ameri-
can expression and opinion in regard
to the war is perhaps little idealistic
In its injunction to be impartial In
thought" A mans thought is his own,
and impartallty Is not the easiest or
the Intellectual or moral virtues. But
the Presidents advice is thoroughly
sound and patriotic when he asks his
countrymen to 'think first Of" America
'.and her interests" Discussion of the
causes of the war. which will be wran-
gled about hereafter by historians as
"impartial" as the rest OF us, Is vain
and wcarsome. What's HECuBA to us!
We all have perfect right to think
what we please about the war. to say
to write. but what's the use? That
passionate partisanship which divided
Americans a hundred-odd years ago into
Freuchmen and Engllshmen seems now
an incredible state Of undeveloped ma
tionaity. A composite of races. as Mr..
WILSON says. the United States Is
friendly to every nation and makes "a
favoritc of none. Whatever heat may
slzzle in the cerebral chambers Of few
partisans. n mighty majority Of Ameri-
cans are free from any excess OF SYM
patty or fractional adherence to one
side or the other.
They will not he dragged into the
war II they can help It. They certainly
will not he dragged into it by the So
licitations or propaganda. should such
he used. OF touters in this country who
want TO use It for the benefit OF any
Of the contesting nations.
What shall he done to recover the
American prosperity injured or threat,
ened by the war? Americans have n
fight. an economic and financial strug-
gle. on their hands too complicated and
too severe to give them time, II they
had the desire to quarrel with one
another over past history and censored
war news. Across the Atlantic the Is
sue Is on the knees Of the gods. Here
all the wisdom, energy, patience, shrewd
ness and inventlveness OF Americans
Ia more than needed to mind and
mend their own business.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-19
The suffrage Amendment.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Str: After
I pointed out in THE SUN that by the
Bristow- Mondell suffrage amendment, N
passed by the force OF three-fourths Of
the state Legislatures. the remaining
States will he deprived of their now ex-
elusive power without their consent, the
Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage
cites as "A precedent In favor Of such ac-
ton the Seventeenth Amendment, relating
to the election OF United States Senators.
In the matter of electing United states
Senators exclusive power was preserved
TO each State, being surrendered by the
Legislature thereof and added to the
voters thereof. In any State whose Legis-
lature failed or refused to ratify. the
exclusive power of electing Senators was
passed over the heads OF such Legisla-
lures by force OF the three fourths and
more than three -fourths OF the Legisla-
lures.
Using outside force to add and grant
an exclusive power to the voters OF
States over the heads OF their Legisia-
lures Is no precedent for using equal out
side force to take away existing power
from both. But n Congress submits and
a procedure to let the voters OF each
state consent or refuse TO consent 10
share their power with their fellow cti-
Gems, not quill upon the fretful porcu-
pine OF the state Rights doctrine will be
ruined. He will still be In exclusive con-
troll OF his own quilts,
JAMES YsARsLEy.
PHILADELPHIA, August Is.