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IT'S AIN DRAP o. DEW"

Confide ye aye in Providence,
For Providence Is kind:
An bear ye a. life's changes
WI calm an tranquil mind. -
Though pressed and hemmed on every side
Haze faith an yen win through;
For ilka blade o grass
Keeps its. ain drap o dew.
Gin reft frae friends, or crossed in love-
As whites nae doubt we've been.
Grief lies deep-hidden in your heart.
Or tears flow frac your cen,
Believe it for the, best, and trow. -
There's good in store for you;
- For ilka blade q. grass
Keeps its ain drap o. dew.
In lang. lang days O. simmer
When the clear and cloudless sky
Refuses ne wee drap o rain
To nature. parched and dry.
The genial night. with balmy breath,
a. Cars verdure spring anew,
An"ilka blade o. grass "
Keeps its ain drap O. dew.
49,,
Sac lest mid fortunes sunshine
We shoufd feel owre proud an HE.
An in our pride forget to wipe
The tear frae poortith's e'e.
Some wee dark clouds o sorrow come,
We ken nd whence nor hoo;
But ilka blade O grass ......t.....n
Keeps its ain drap o dew.
james Ballentine.
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FABRICATING THE ISSUE"

The old political process so familiar
to American citizens is being oiled again
in preparation for the 1924 presidential
race. But no ovcrhauling has been done,
and the mechanism is bound to fall to
pieces sometimer-or else the voters might
as well resign themselves to the fate
of those who do not get out or the way
of juggernauts..
1t will be the voters fault. however.
il the. process works as insidiously this
time as it has formerly done. Theoreti-
cally the people of the United States
determine political issues. Obviously it
is the object of the so-callcd League
Of Nations Non-Partisan- Association to
make an utter fiction out of that theory.
With an organization that. according to
their own declarations. will, soon be ac-
tive in every. congressional district in
the country, self-appQinted iovcrsccrs OF
the United. States have declared that
they will force all presidential. candidates
and every member and would-be member
OF the Senate TO. recognize. the league
question as the paramount issue and
take definite stand on one side or the
other.
Has there been any popular demand
for reconsideration Of the country's de-
cision TO enter no entanging alliance
with foreign nations? Have, 'thc great
newspapers" urged the acceptance OF the
Versailles treaty, whose terms have
proved vicious and unwor,;ablc? Wave
Americas 100000 young soldiers
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CHAPTER III.
The Friends of Paradise.

The summer was glorious upon the
land. The sun was high in cloud
less sky and little wind came eter-
nally in from the bunch-grass levels
Under the light the wide alfalfa
| fields, of which John Harmon was in
ordinately proud and which the ranch
men hated, lay Ike spread emerald
toward the south. Scattered against
this vidid green the Red Brood grazed
in opulent plenty.
Redcloud. the big savage stallion.
Hotfoot, old but built like racer and
with the look of a colt, Downright the
evil one, Firebrand and The Flame,
they were sight for gods and men in
their perfection. They ate of the
sweet forage with daintiness, raised
their beautiful heads from tim to
time to look over their world. and
called their shrill challenges to all and
sundry beneath the high blue sky.
Only Redstar across the fence in a
separate field gfazed in quietness, I'M
mindful of the ramping creatures that
came and raced along the fence with
lifted tails and snorting nostrils.
He had no need of buster, of wild
ness.
Little he cared for the Red Brood's
challenge.
He was the king and his behavior
was fitting his royalty.
The hatred of one stallion for an
other was in Redcloud's scream of
anger when he passed, but he had
never been known to answer it. IL
was as if he felt a mighty contempt
for the wild red horse, a bit smaller
than himself, not so dark in color,
heavier and of less speed.
"Redcloud hates tn king" said
John Harmon, smiling. "but Redstar
don't know he's on earth. It's the
heart o. tn thoroughbred in him, tn
instructive knowledge that they amt
rivals-can't be nohow."
But Lightning, the beautiful gel
ding. slim, graceful, tall and swift,
gentler than all the rest, was of
nearer mettle. If there was one horse
on the ranch that could hold n candle
to Redstar, it was this dark bay beauty
with his name like lady's tresses and
his gentle eyes.
But Redstar's eyes were gentler. his
soft coat darker with n. faint black
shadow, drifting through it along
shoulder and hip where the dim. black
dapples shone, his regal head higher,
his nostrils smaller. more delicate. his
slim legs longer, his massive withers
higher.
When Val Harmon looked at Red
star a mist of tears sometimes dim
med her eyes, "A lump rose in her
throat.
at doesn't seem possible that n
horse could be so grand. $3.50 hu-
man, she said once, "he's more than
a horse in all truth. There's a spirit
in him that's like a soul"
And she was right, for when she
came to the upper bars and cupping
her hands to her scarlet mouth sent
out the double whistle that, was be-
tween them only. it was more than a
horse who raised his splendid head
alert enough now--lifted his flowing
tail trifle, arched his high neck and
sailed away across the fields toward
her-it was a friend.
Nay. more-it was lover.
A lover who smelled Of her hair
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EDITH


Edith. the silent stars are coldly cleaning.
The night wind means, the leafless trees arc
still,
Edith. there is life beyond this seeming,
So sleeps the ice-clad lake t,neath thy hill.
So silent beats the pulse of thy pure heart
So shines the thought of thy unquestioned eyes.
o, life. why vert thou helpless in thy art?
o. loveliness. why seem'st thou but surprise
Edith. the streamlcts laugh to leap again:
There is spring to which lifes pulses fly:
And hopes that are not all the sport of pain
Like lustres in the veil of that gray eye.
They say the thankless stars have answering
vision.
That courage sings from out the frost-bound
ways;..
Edith. | grant that olden times decision
Thy beauty paints with gold the icy rays.
As in the summers heat her promise lies.
AS in the autumns seed his vintage hides
thus might shape my moral from those eyes,
Glass of thy soul. where innocence abides
Edith. thy nature breathes Of answered pra Ting ::
III thou dost iye. then not. my grief. is .vaip:.
Beyond the nerves Of woe. beyond delaying,
Thy sweetness still to rest the Winters min
William Ellery Charming.
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with long limitations, as If he drew
the beloved scent Of her into bis lungs,
who rested his great muzzle ON her
shoulder. rubbed his check on hers
red satin ON tawny velvet--who nib
bled her hands with his soft lips and
searched her garments for tidbits.
When Redstar swept out from the
wide ranch yard and sailed away down
across the levels with Val in the sad
die, her father sometimes stood and
watched them with such look of
pride as a king might wear beholding
his domain from the mountain tops.
And Val, loose in the saddle as an
Indian, shot through the soft blue at
mosphere like bolt, her dark eyes
half closed, her lips apart, smile
dimpling in her checks. drunk TO the
heart on the glorious speed, the keen
singing of the wind in her ears, the
humming thunder Of Redstars shining
hoofs.
Redstar himself was no less drunk
en- with his own perfection. He had
run always-always, since those dim
days which he had nearly forgotten
and the open sage was TO him an
amphitheater. There was nothing in
all the blue distance TO stop him.
There was nothing in the land to
catch him-had never been. He had
run with Redcloud, sAd with the
slim young racers Firebrand and The
Flame, and with Lightning, but al
ways he had run away from them.
Dawnlight had screamed and fought
her bit. and ragged like a fury because
she fell behind. had stopped and
plunged and acted like a maniac, and
John Harmon had never let her run
again.
Only Lightning, of all the speedy
crew, had hung on Redstar's flank
for any length of time, and the mas
ter had looked at him with new in
terest.
There's somthin' by-ordinary in
this Lightnin' horse, Tom." he had
said. "for tn Redstar's high gauge
to judge by-a damn high gauge"
On that soft warm dav when Lolo
Sanchez carried her gold down through
the gaping street Of Santa Leandra
and did not see the gazers for her
dreaming. Val Harmon drifted down
across the bunch-grass levels on the
great red king and smiled in the joy
Of freedom, the splendor of her youth
and the glory of the'o open spaces.
Continued in Our Next .Issue.)
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man OF integrity Will not consciously
set out to violate his oath, it would re
quirc one OF less than rock-ribbcd morals
to take part in the enforcement OF. law
which he believed to be vicious and de-
structive OF orderly government.
III prospective iurers--and nearly all
citizens are within this classification
do not believe in prohibition. is it any
wonder that the practical meaning OF. the
word can. be conveyed only by the use
of quotation marks
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John Harmon, wealthy ranch own.
er, his blind wife, Belle, and their
bcautifuI daughter, Val, live happily
together in lannon's wonderful ranch
home, Paradise. Harmon. the great.
est power in the mesas country, loved
by his family and hated by his neigh
bors. is the richest land owner in that
section. His wondrous Red Brood OF
horses is the envy of all cattlemen.
In Hunneweil's store in Santa Le-
andra, nearest own TO Paradise
ranch. game is running.
Brideman. man of mystery. wins
steadily until stranger, accompanied
by band of horesmen, appears.
The Stacks of gols at Bird; ans
hand pass gradually to the strangers
side. Lola Sanchez. rose of Santa
Leandra. watching the game. proposes
that Brideman stake her to the
stranger.
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A Puzzle a Day

With three straight cuts, with n
pair of scissors, the two hexagons, A
and b, can be arranged so that they
will piece together to form a six
pointed star. How should the cuts
be made?
Yesterdays answer:
A man is II years old and his son
is "a. When the father was 90 IL
years old, he was then three times
as old as his son, who was IS IL.
When the father reaches the age of
"A, he will be then twice as old as
the son, who will be 81.
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manifested any disappointment because
OF the voters adoption of Washington.
advice?
Former Supreme Court Justice Johr
III. Clarke and his co-agtators may be
able to force the league issue into thC
next presidential campaign. simply by
treason of the fact that the great body oil
| American citizens. unorganized, have nc
definite issue of their own. But whether
they may be deceived concerning the ma
turc of the enterprise which the mon
partisan" association is launching might
well be regarded as a test OF their fitness
for sclf-government
Thinly vcilcd misrepresentation has al
ready appeared Justice Clarke and 9TH
err pro-league zcalots arc obviously try
/ ing to create the impression that the
present administration has deceitfully
turned America against world peace.
They are consistent in one sense: the
league opponents in the last presidential
campaign profcssed to believe that the
institution created by the Paris peace"
conference and assigned functions stipu-
lated in the Versailles treaty affords the
only possible means OF preventing war
/ Justice Clarke and his associates have
re-adCr Pied or are trying to rcsurrect, the
old fiction. despite almost universal
knowledge of the fact that the chief sig
natories of the Versailles treaty and the
league covenant have violated the ideals
to which they protested to have been
converted with the creation of the
league.
Here is what has actually taken place
since the last presidential election, so far
as. Americas interest in the establish
ment OF world peace is concerned:
The European Allies. in effect on pro-
baton. had an opportunity to live in ac-
cordance with the ideals they protested
during the war. They could have ostab-
lished new order if they had been
willing, Individually or collectively, to
make any.,sacrificcs toward that end. But
they have been quarreling with each 9TH
er, as OF yore. again threatening the
peace OF the world. They have displayed
no signs of actual regeneration. There
fore. the United. States has held aioofs
ave- ting such signs before joining them
in any pact which would bipd this.coun-
try to any course OF action calling for
sacrifices on. Americas part. What the.
Europeans have wanted of America is
money or its equivalent-money with
which to. continue the pursuit of their
old course in the direction of trouble.
To Join the European Allies before
they had. abandoned their old ways
would have been comparable with the
act of a woman who marries a nan to |
reform him. 1t is highly risky VEN
ture.
But II the ;non-partisan" association
does force the league issuc. the outcome
can hardly be in doubt The voters will
confirm their decision OF three years ago. |
II they shouldn't, they would be confess
ing a degree of gullibility which would !
cast grave doubt upon tirerr- fitlrcss for
.e.
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gloves burst out with, saw, / may as
we'll tell the truth. I'm just out of
prison. My husband is still in. We
were sent up for raising bills. I used
to slice the bills edgewise and he
would paint the blank sides. But now
| want to go straight"
"That's all right, little girl" said
the employment manager sympathetic
ally. Talent like your isn't going to
to be wasted long. Come right along,
now. We have a job for you at the
roast beef counter"
1t was his first morning at the coal
yard and he was instructed to deliver
a load. As he failed to return a
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THE MORAL IS OBVIOUS


The New York Herald announces ;
miniature newspaper for the busy man.
1t is issuing a small newspaper con
tanning digest Of all the important
news OF the day. In making the an
nouncemcnt, Frank A. Munscy, the pub
Usher says: 9
The average man hasn't. more
than about 20 minutes for his morn
ing newspaper and the average man. .
with so little time for his morning
newspaper doesn't get very far with
the news of the day
MI MunSev, expresses belief in this
connection, that the miniature news
paper NAV prove to be a very great
contribution to newspaper making.
Viewed from that angle, the proposition
rs Of deep interest to newspapermen,
who have long seen the inevitable in
rnu1ifng newspaper publication.
But this innovation in New York is
far. wider in effect and OF deep interest
to a host OF businessmen outside the
profession of newspaper. making. In
fact it * not alone OF interest TO the
reader OF a morning newspaper who,
periorce.. must. hurr.N through the front
page headlines and dash away to work.
Every businessman who spends dollar
Tor advertising is more deeply interested
in Mr.. Muif<ey's pronouncement than
ANYBODY else. 1t is 4 direct admission
that the morning newspaper is not read
except by./a very limited leisure class
and that in reaching the average .Ameri-
can, the morning newspaper is an utter
failure.
Twenty minutes. Mr.. MuHsey finds, is
the average time that the average man
can give the morning newspaper. When
one considers in this connection that
the average man is a slow reader, it is
not possible for him to read the front
page much less the editorial page, the
classified pages and the many advertise
mentS. Moreover the bulk OF circula-
ton OF the larger newspapers is i'll cities.
Hence the Average businessman who
reads the morning newspaper carries it
on a street Car away from home. The
housewife who does the principal pur-
chasing.in the average Apcrican family
does not sec the morning newspaper at
all or il so, a mere glance at the head
lines before it is whisked away by the
busy man of affairs en- route to lis Of
flee or job.
That the morning newspaper, every
where, is dwihdling, dying newspaper,
both in size and in advertising merit,
has long been known within the profess
sion and to some extent among advertis-
ers. Many large advertisers do not place
any advertising in morning newspapers
except on Sunday mornings. havirg
learned that the only time of dav when
the average American has time to read
is in the evening. That is why, all over
the United States, the principal advertis-
ing growth is in the evening field.
Whether or not Mr.. .Mlmsey has cor
rectly gagged the public need for an
attenuated newspaper such as the Her
aid has launched. remains to be demon
strated. But it should not be surprising
indeed, il the ultimate fate OF the morn
ing newspaper comes to be a diminutive
handbill publication for busy people, con-
tanning only, a hrief digest OF the i'm
portant happenings during the few hours
that elapse between editions of the even
ing newspaper.
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fail to recognize this somewhat OBJ.
scure person and was greatly relieved
TO find when lord Salisbury entered
the dining room little i<ser that he
Immediately engaged their homespun
guest in conservation, which he kept
up yigorosuly till the end of the repast,
when the squire rather hastily took
his leave. Lord Salisbury then casu-
ally remarked. l was glad Lord Rob-
crts dropped in to luncheon today;
But fear he is not what he was in
tellectually. He appeared to me to be
remarkably vague as to our military
dispositions in Egypt and his views on
Indian questions seemed even more
nebulous. But we all grow older"
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which the cook could not get him to
leave.
what do you mean by such con-
duct?" the manager asked him.
"Why," he replied simply. Il
thought I was sold 9TH the COAL
was weighed with it"
Two Essex fishermen were arguing
about arithmetic. Finally, the skipper
proposed a problem.
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60 ON With abe Story.


Brideman stared for moment in
dull amaze.
Then his great laugh doomed in
the room once more, the sparkle came
/ swiftly back TO his blue eyes.
Done" he cried, "come on. young.
lfl, il you're slayer. / stake Lolo
tn Rose o Santa Leandra, against
your whole pile"
And he waved a steadied hand
grandiloquently toward the stacks of
gold and silver.
For the first time the stranger
raised his eyes and looked at the girl.
but she did not meet his gaze.
Sanchez forged forward and caught
his daughter roughly By the shoulder.
but she put her hands on her slim
hips and shook him off disdainfully.
I'm nineteen" she said. Ego on.
Brakeman"
Sanchez flung up his hand. snap
per ms fingers. His brown face was
ashen gray.
For second or so the stranger
hesitated, scanned the faces of the
principals in the little play. Then he
smiled, picked up the cards, deity
shook them together and showed them
over
"All right he said, "and you may
have the deal in the bargain. One
hand TO draw"
'Brideman. steady as a rock. dealt.
laid down the pack and picked up
his band. p
He discarded two. picked up the
pack again and looked at the other.
The young man threw down four cards
|; The girl By the table flushed like a
sunset. A slight chance he took to
win her. in an truth
In silence Brakeman dealt him four
cards. took his own two. and in silence
they both spread down their hands, /
face up.
Brideman bod two queens and
jack. a five and trey.
The stronger held four kings /
straight. and n nine spot-the card
he had held from his discard. Lolo.
watching. saw this card turn M and
the flush deepened In her dark
cheeks.
With an oath Brakeman b,isled
w rum tnc taDle. ...
Devils luck" he said hoarsely.
but you're sold. Lolo, body an
soul with which word and a mock
ing laugh he lurched to the bar. 4
And Lolo. looking up with her wide
black eyes and her pomegranate lips
parted like moist rosebuds, smiled at
her master like n siren.
The man. looked down at her and
the smile died on his own face. For
q. long moment he regarded her.
gravely.
Then he stepped to her side and
took her hand.
Little. bold. pretty thing he,|
said. "don't do these tricks any more.
Here. hold your SASH"
And .be caught the broad end of the
striped vanity that swung Mt her
knee. snread it. gathered its end tight.
closed her hands about the knot. and.
turning to- the table. swept into the
sack thus formed the load of gold and
silver thercupon. 49,,
Then he stopped end kissed her light
ly upon ihc rosebud of her mouth.
$50 home with vour dad" he said,
"and be good Irl"
Then he gathered his men with his
Quick glance. walked to the door and
out into the afternoon snnshine.
In, ten seconds the whole bunch.
after dashing, rafting, and scrambling
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Pointed Paragraphs.

1t is better to be big man in
small town than small man in big
town.
A girls smile often tows a young
man in and her fathers boot toes him
out.
This country has turned out some
great men-and there are great lot
of others in office that should be
turned out.
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Where to Go

Vaudeville. .
Majestic-Vaudeville and pictures.
Stock.
Royal-Edna Park and players in
Three Wise Fools"
Motion Pictures. e.
+, Palace-"Omar the Tentmaker"
Rialto-"Thorns and Orange Bios
sons" trA
Empire-"Rscing Hearts"
Princess+"Sure Fire Flint"
Rivoli-"One Clear Call"
Musical Comedy. -
Grand-Tom O'Keefe's Follies Of
1923.
Clubs.
Tourist club, 115 East Crockett
open from s to IL n. m.
Luncheon Clubs.
Thursday.
City Club at the Gunter. 1900.
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thing about her
CHASTITY pallor and
nervous shyness
that arrested at
tention. where
did you W or k
last 2" she was
asked. The girl
after writhing her
shoulders a n d
. a., =, L.
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far into the reckoning.
"1s it cod, ye say" asked one, turn
ing to the skipper.
.".Yes," was the reply.
"Deg ont" exclaimed the hand, in
disgust. "That's the reason 1 can't get
an answer. Here have / been .a-figur-
ing on herrin' all the time!"
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search was lnStl-
tuted, and he was
discovered at the
house where he.
had delivered the
coal.
After putting it
in the cellars he
had taken up his
quarters in the
kitchen, from
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MARCH CIRCULATION
me paid circulation OF The san Antonio Light
ing the month Of March. 1879. day by day vas as

Daily Average. sass
TIE above totals and averages for paid eircu-
,ztiea EXCESSIVE OF al spoiled copies snd any free
ccrsss % any nature
We hereby s-szr that the foregoing s:a;eEnen; o.;
PAID cl-rulntios : s31rcct-
H. c BROWN
Circulation Manager
c. L BUCHANAN.
Business MANAGE.
sworn ard s.YRs;rihed before this End day. OF
ArriL A u ,s.s.
T. V WHITE
Notary Public.
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IF ye sold 120
pounds o cod at
nine pence a
pund," he said,
how much would
re make on't?'
His tao hand0
Norked away with
rncils and paper,
but neither ap-
neared to get very
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The season Of the year is at hand when
the woman cleans house and the man
insists on makinga garden in the back
yard.
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A Laugh or Two

The great Lord Salisbury was noted
Tor his immense capacity in failing to
recognize even those with whom he
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tact. In his remi-
niscences Douglas
Ainslie relates the
incident of the
neighboring squire
dropping in to
lunch. Lady Sal
isbury was rather
apprehensiye that
her husband might
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It's getting so that wealthy men have
got to have all ladies searched for con-
cealed siX-shooters at the door .-.-,.