The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-05

time, must have gone on very InuCn Us y
was going on. She believed firmly in what
she preached. She belived that she came
from Heaven and that she had come to make
the world better safer to i've IN, cleaner anu
happier.
Tommy argued with her so necessarily and
often intolerantly that II she hadn't been
in love with the mere sound OF his voice, she
couldn't have stood 1t.
Late one afternoon she came home to heH
little city OF tents very tred ana lay p rsst
In spite Of her Celestial origin, Celestia was
very human, and just as attractive to
sticky house fly as any other human being.
Such house fly made dead set for her,
and she found it impossible to rest. SO she
went into the headquarters tent which was
the biggest and coolest, and the days work
being over and the secretaries gone. tried 70
rest there. And couldn't. She was tired and
been doing too much. and she was discour-
aged because she was tired. Tommy had an
uncanny faculty for dropping in upon her
when she was in those moods Possibly Fred
die, the Ferret had something to do with
this faculty, for he worshipped Tommie. Be
that as it may Freddie was about the tents
when Celestial came in tired. He vanished
presently and little later Tommy appeared.
looking very brown and manly and refresh-
Ing.
Celestia heard his voice and called out to
him, a little petulantly perhaps Tommy poked
his head in through the door OF the big tent.
and greeted her loudly and joyously. The
moment she saw him she felt, little rested.
Meanwhile, Professor Stilliter, in his tent
reading a deep and thick book on The Psyche.
logy Of Government, heard the two voices
and couldn't read another work
'Celestia." said Tommy. you look so little
those curtains, that I'm tempted to pick you
up, put you in my pocket and take you some-
where where you can't get into any more
II dare you to try!" exclaimed Celestia.
Then they both laughed and Tommy ad.
vanced into the tent.
So much artculated speech Professor Still.
liter overheard, but no more. After that there
came to him only the murmurs of one voice
enf1, dc t<, inoln
were far more provocative of impotent rage
than actual words would have been.
He stared at the book in which he was no
longer able to read word, and eat his
heart out as the saving is.
"One of these days. he thought, Shell say
yes to that modelling fool and leave all my
fine schemes high and dry -. ii. really
thought that, and sometimes I really do think
it, I'd pd"- 1919 a
Now the Professor took Off his eyeglasse,
and thought very hard indeed And looked
very horrid and blind and evil. Every now
and then he murmured to himself My GOD
why not?"
$50 you dare me to try. do you?" said
Tommy.
Her eyes sparlled now; she was feeling
very much rested.
yes. do"
Quick as. any. cat, the young man leaned
over and picked her up from tho midst OF
the curtains as easily as If she had been
kitten, and so held her almost at the level
pletely rested. 1t was as If she had received
refreshing strength from Tommy's STRONG
arms.
oh" he said, "if deluded nation could
behold you now!"
Put me down. she exclaimed, somebody
might see u.s.
:Of course they might" comforted Tommy.
THE tent flaps are wide OPEN But don't
care If never put you down."
Tommy" she exclaimed.
81 should worry" said Tommy, but when
she began to struggle he put her down.
And what did you mean" she asked, hey
great eyes flashing, but not with anger, and
her cheeks flaming, "By a1deluded nation"
on don't look as If you could" said he,
"but you've deluded several million people out
of hundred million and it looks if you
We're going to delude the rest. But you'll
be sorry enough for yourself when they find
I've the most love for you that anybody in
the world has for anybody Isn't that
enough? You love me. don't you?"
you assert and assert and assert, but you
don't reason
II don't reason! Well I like that"
Give me just reason then for thinking that
too much efficiency is dangerous thing"
~ That's challenge" said Tommy, II ac-
thing a government that was too efficient
would do would be to muzzle the press so
that nobody could complain of its efficiency.
When you muzzle the press, you extinguish
liberty. And tell you that would
rather be poor, filthy and free, than a rich
slave There's only one real difference be-
tween an aristocracy and a republic" The
newspapers of a republic print the news and
the newspapers of an aristocracy DON'T
self away and went back to the town
Celestia would have liked to have sat on and
on in the darkness thinking long thoughts
But her revery was interrupted by voice,
which it's owner, without great effect, was
evidently striving to make agreeable.
Are you ready to talk a little business
now! May come in?'
yes come in"
There was a reluctance and petulance in
Celestia's voice which did not help to as
suage the jealous frenzy which possessed
Professor Stilliter.
Celestial" he said, look at me and listen
to me-
She looked and listened.
Presently her eyes faltered and half closed
her head dropped. An equally extraordinary
change came into Stilliter's voice. 1t became
at once greasily soft. caressing and trt-
umphant.
Come to me. Come close"
1t was now very dark in the tent
Kiss me! Kiss mei'
AT that moment from far off there sounded
the whistle of a departing train On one OF
the platforms stoct. a young Uornan, thiclsly
yelled, who might have been mistaken for
ladys maid. She was waving hand to
friend who waved back, with the other she
appeared to be somewhat significantly tap
ping the neck of her dress.
The friend on the platform looked Surpris.
inGlv like Mrs. GunSdorf