The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-08-14

this half, and perhaps'n double it next
| if l keep in her good books"
Thus began friendship which last
ed through all their school days and
| meant much to both Of them. Friend
| ship and loyalty and good sportsman
ship are great features in this book,
which shows an insight into the brain
and heart Of a boy which Is Just as
wise in the year of our Lord 1919 as
| it was in the days Of William the
Fourth. Tom and East were together
| in games, in mischief, in fights, in
good deeds, or in devlltry, as they
were in ingenious syndicating methods
of working out the mysteries OF the
Greek and Latin languages. And years
| later, when the wise Doctor" Arnold
OF Rugby, decided that Tom was head
ed towards destruction, it was by
means of friendship for a weaker boy
who needed his protection that he
rescued him. What was the marvel of
the Doctors power over boys? Eve
couldn't enter into half that we heard:
we hadn't the knowledge of our own
hearts or the knowledge of one an
| other; and little enough of the faith,
| nope and love needed to that end.
But we listened. as all boys in their
better moods will listen (aye, and men
too, for the matter of that,) to a man
! whom we felt to be, with all his heart
and soul and strength, striving against
| Whatever was mean and unmanly and
unrighteous in our little world 1t was
not he cold clear voice of one giving
advice and warning from serene
heights to those who were struggling
and SHINING below, but the warm
living voice Of one who was fighting
for US and by our sides, and colling on
US to help him and ourselves and one
another. And so, YEARLY and little by
little, was brought home to the young
boy, the first time, the meaning Of his
life that it was no FOOLS or sluggard's
paradise into which he had wandered
, by chance, but battlefield ordained
! from of old, where there are no
spectators, but the youngest must take
! his side, and the stakes are life and
death. And he who reused this con-
sciousness in them showed them at
the same time, by every word he
spoke, and by his whole daily life,
how that battle was to be fought;
and stood there before them their
! fellow-soldier and the captain Of their
guard. The true sort of captain, too,
for boys army, one who had no mis-
givings and gave no uncertain word of
command, and, let who would yield or
make truce, would fight the fight
out $50 evry boy fel) to the last gasp
and the last drop of blood"
And so Tom lived his life from the
first green days to the last memoir
able night, when he was "chaired'
round the quadrangle by the eleven,
shouting in chorus, For he's a jolly
good fellow himself as great boy
as all the rest, despite the passage of
the years and his dignity of captain.
1t is story of humanness, with all
its good points and its frailties, but
especially of loyalty and Of friendship );
Of games, SO much like our own in
spirit, and yet SO different in details :;
of East and Arthur. of the brutalities
Of the old tagging system, the school
bully and Toms classic fight with
him. of the final war Of independence
gaainst what was mean and sordid.
" I want to leave behind me- said
Tom, speaking low, the name Of a
fellow who never bullied a little boy
or turned his back on big one.' And
then, 4 would sooner have the Doc.
tors good opinion Of me as I really
am than any mans in the world
!; Copyright. 1919. by the Post Publish
ing Co. (The Boston PosO Copyrigh,
in the United Kingdom. the Dominions
it's Colonies and dependencies, under
the copyright act, by the Post Publish
ing Co., Boston, Mass. U. S. A. AL
rights reserved
(Publshed by special arrangement
All rights reserved).
"Dombey and Son." by Charles
Dickens, as condensed by Miss Carolyn
Tiekner, will be printed tomorrow.