The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1916-08-03

seemed 10 see ner as plnlnly as ever I'D
the darkness, though he did not look at
her. And all the mighty chanting OF
the organs multitudlnous voices that
afternoon seemed to Blbbs TO be cho-
rusing OF her and interpreting her.
singing her thoughts and singing for
him the world of humble gratitude that
was in his heart because she was so
kind to him. II all meant Mary.
But when she asked him what II
meant, on their homeward way, he was
silent. They had come few PAGES
from the church without speaking,
walking slowly.
an tell you what It meant to me-"
/ she said. as he did not Immediately
reply. almost any music of Hnndel's
always means one thing above all 9th
ers to me: Courage! That's II. II
makes cowardce or whining seem so
infiniteslmal--lt makes most things in
our hustling little lives seem infinitesi-
nal."
"Ies," he said. at seems odd.
doesn't 1t, that people downtown are
hurrylng to trains and hanging to
straps In trolley cars. weltering every
way to get home and feed and sleep
| so they can get downtown tomorrow.
And yet there isn't anything down
there worth getting to. They're like
servants drudgng to keep the house
going, and believing the drudgery IT.
self is the great thing. They make so
much noise and fuss and dirt they for
get that the house was meant to live
| In. The housework has TO be done but
| the people who do II have been so
overpaid that they're confused and
worship the housework. They're over
paid. and yet, poor thingsl they haven't
anything that a chicken can't have.
or course, when the world gets to pay
ing its wages sensibly that will be dif-
ferent."
"Do you mean 'communism'T she
asked, and she made their slow pace
little slower-they had only three
blocks to 20.
whatever the word is, I only mean
that things don't look very sensible
now-especially to a man that wants
to keep out OF 'em and can'tl Com
munlsmT Well, at least any decent
sport would say it's fair for all the
strong runners to start from the same
mark and give the weak ones a fair
distance ahead, so that all can run
something like even on the stretch.
And wouldn't 1t be pleasant, really, II
they could all cross the winning line
together? Who really enjoys beating
anybody-if he sees the beaten mans
face? The only way we can enjoy get
ting ahead OF other people nowadays
Is by forgetting what the other people
feel. And that" he added, sis nothing
of what the music meant to me. You
see, II keep talking about what II
didn't mean | can keep from telling
you what 1t did mean"
"Didn't 1t mean courage to you, toe
"a little2" she asked. Triumph and
praise were In II, and somehow those
things mean courage to me-"
Eyes, they were all there" Bibbs
said. II don't know the name of what
he played, but | shouldn't think II
would matter much. The man that
makes the music must leave II to you
and what 1t can mean to you. and the
name he puts to II can't make much
dlfference-except to himself and peo
pie very much like him, suppose"
81 suppose that's true, though I'd
never thought OF II like that"
81 imagine music must make feel.
ings and paint pictures In the minds
of the people who hear It," Bibhs went
on, muslngly, according TO their own
natures as much as according to the
music itself"
The musician might compose some
thing and play II, wanting you to thinl
of the Holy Grail, and some peopl,
who heard 1t would think OF prayer
meeting. and some would think OF how
good they were themselves, and boy
might think of himself at the head of o
solemn procession. carrying a banner
and riding white horse. And then
If these We're some jubilant passages
in the music, he'd think of a circus"
They had reached her gate. and sh'
set her hand upon It. but did not opeI
II. Bibbs felt that this was almos
the kindest of her klndnesses-not t.
be prompt In leaving him.
"After ALL" she said, 'you didn'
tell me whether you liked It."
"No, didn't need to-"
"No, that's true. and I didn't neet
to ask. | knew. But you said yol
; were trying to keep from telling INT
: what It did mean"
? 81 cant keep from telling It an!
! longer" he said. "The music meant 4
melt meant the kindness of-o
/. you"
E "Klndness7 How?"
I "You thought was sort OF lionel!
/, tramp-and Sick"
"No." she said, decidedly. 81 though
D perhaps you'd like to hear Docto
t Kraft play. And you did"
] tits curious; sometimes II SCENE,
e to me that 1t was you who were play
D ing"