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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-27
Begin Here Today.

Dolly q governeSs, Is III love witt
her poor suitor, Robert Durham.
When Nigel Bretherton, who has
money, falls in love with her, Dolly
| gives up Robert and marries Nigel
The marriage proves an unhappy
one.
When war is declared, Nigel is
| glad to enlist. He leaves Dolly in
| the care of his friend, Mary Furni.
val. Mary is in love with Nigel and
tries to make his wife happy. Dolly
regrets her. hasty marriage with Nigel
| and tells Mary she is sorry because
| she did not marry Robert.
When Nigel leaves for the front,
Mary and Dolly decide to live together
in Dolly's flat. Dolly takes walk
and, by accident, meets Robert Dur
ham. She notices that he looks pros
porous. Now so on with the story.
"I've fallen on better days since
since we met He turned his eyes
from her face painfully. do you re-
member how you used to laugh at
me when l said that / knew my ship
would come home some day? Well,
it's come now. I'm not ii poor man
any longer. IL you'd waited"
He caught himself up with an
apology.
I'm sorry-I shouldn't have said
that. l hope you're very happy"
She answered him shakily.
my husband is at the front-he's
been out there seven weeks"
There was little silence, then:
baf L., DAl
she asked. 'Mayn't 1 be interested?"
He, answered evasively.
Il got an appointment Abroad
am leaving England in three weeks
time"
She echoed the word voicelessly.
"Abroad?"
"The Argentine-yes.'
1t was nothing to her where he
went, of course; it could never be
anything to her again, but yet-she
pulled herself together with des-
perate effort.
well, I must Je getting on"
Her voice sounded far away
stupid.
"Goodby."
He raised his hat stiffly, and turned
away. He did not once look back,
and Dolly went on, feeling as if she
had to forcibly drag her feet every
step that led her away'from him.
1t seemed afterwards that she
must have walked about the street
for hours; it was quite dark when
she reached home.
The door of the flat stoop open. Tn
the lighted hall she could see Mary
Furnivat and the little maidservant
standing together. They both turned
as she entered.
'I'm sorry I'm late" Dolly spoke
the words constrained. Il went
for long walk-it was such a lovely
evening"
She stopped. '-
"Why are you staring at me so?"
she asked. with sort of dull anger.
The little maidservant flung her
apron over her head and burst into
noisy weeping. Mary stepped for
ward and put an arm round Dolly.
There is news-bad news, dear"
she said. Her voice was kind, but
cOld-so cold "You must try and
be brave. Come and sit down. and |
will tell you" But Dolly did not
move; she felt suddenly as if her
feet were frozen to the spot where
she stood.
Her voice was sharp-almost shrill.
Il know what it isl know. Nigel
Nigel is dead"
There was a moments silence,
broken only by the little madser-
wants hysterical weeping; then Mary
Furnival echoed Dolly's words:
"Nigel-Nigel is dead!" But the
agony, of the widow was in her voice,
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-27
TALKING ABOUT HUSBANDS

| A young married woman, the guest
at a recent dinner party. RECALLED the
company with a long and intimate ac-
count of something her husband had
done. 1t was not particularly amusing,
Just one of those rigamaroles in which
people indulge, sort of photographic
repetition of the latest thing that has
come to mind. Nobody enjoyed it, least
of all the husband who was present.
He squirmed and looked foolish, and
finally made some sort of feeble protest
that could easily be translated into a
smother ed desire to tell her to hush up
Why do women talk about their hus-
bands in that tiresome way? 1t is a
question that might well be asked. Men
do not talk about their wives, that is,
in the sort of she-said-and-I-said man
ner. unless they are tabby-cattishi gen
tlemen who are bores no matter what
they may say. Suppose the woman is
devoted to her husband; suppose he is
her, sole and only interest; suppose she
hangs upon his words, takes her opin-
ions out of his mouth. believes in moth
ing but what he believes, and is fine
exponent of what people have recreated
out of whole cloth and called the "old
fashioned wife'--suppose all this and
more, should this wife then not take pity
on the female creatures who have no
husbands to talk about; or the woman
whose opinion of her husband is "the
less said the better" or the men who
know the husband in question and do
not recognize him as set forth by his
wrife. At any rate. it shows poor taste
and poverty of conversational re-
sources that makes the company sorry
besides being bored.
There are times too when it shows
deeper forces at work. Who does not
know the woman who talks a great deal
about her husband. particularly about
what he does for her, how devoted he
is to her, how they have been planning
this and that honeymoon together? Her
purpose is to- conceal the fact that this
conditicS does not exist Her pride
prompts her to show to the world what
is not in existence with the mistaken
idea that she can create the illusion in
the minds of her friends.
This is one Of the most common and
transparent of psychological subterfuges
AZ really cowardly person seeks to cam
outage this cowardice with large talk
of wha; daring thing he would or could
do Mothers whose children are dis
appointments, often extol their virtues
to the world. Women whose reputa-
tons are shady are great sticklers for
the outward forms of convention. Women
whose husbands are untrue to them, are
vast advocates of devoted family life
always with the suggestion that such a
state in their own case exists
In talking about husbands, however
and no one need suppose that the pleas
ant habit will be abandoned over night,
it might be suggested that the CONVERSE
tion be confined to something that is
interesting and amusing as a story.
But the narrator should make it snappv,
and not bring out some personal foible
that reduces the company to the un-
comfortable consciousness that they see
and understand much more than they
should.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-27
CHAPTER v
"Died From Wounds. ("

Mary Furnival opened her eyes to
the angry sting of chill raindrops on
the window, and the sullen breath OF
October wind shaking the easement
Nearly a month had swept itself
away since that day when they heard
of Nigel's death.
''Died from wounds" '..
Mary wondered. as she lay back
on the pillows with closed eyes, il
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-27

Bee; use of the foot and mouth disease,
500 tourists are stranded in the little
town of Kolb, California. Tourists are
lucky to get away from California even
with a germ or two left.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-27

1t is rumored that two more Ameri-
cans have been killed in AlbaSia. How
ever this is nothing to be ALARMED, about,
because 10000 Americans were muir
dered last year in America.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-27
Only n Refuge.

A man was charged with
his wife. and after the evil
in. the judge asked if it /
1T is not. Your Honor" ID
man earnestly. 81 am not
but a refugee"
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-27

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OF April. A. D., 1924.
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Evening star., 1924-12-21

is your notion?" For a moment Col.
Swank did not reply. His hands
moved: the long sharp blade of the
knife peeling off ribbons of pine from
the piece of soft wood. There was no
one in sight on the rear of the deck of
the freighter; but at the moment
Swank began to speak, one of the
Chinese crew appeared. The colonel
lowered his voice, and what he said
passed in a whisper to his compan-
ion. Bow Bell looked quickly about
the deck. The individual of the Chi
nese crew had passed behind the lep-
rous stack of the freighter. Mr.. Bow
Bell spoke softly, and leaned over
toward his companion. You're going
to get a lot of ash on your shirt, col
onel," he said; and taking hold of the
hand in which his companion held the
knife, he brought 1t up with a firm
grasp, and drove the long blade into
the mans chest just under the heart.
For a moment the huge body of the
man did not move. Then, his eyes
widened. and his mouth extended in a
sort of wonder. why, you dirty little
BEAST" he drawled. You dirty. little
beastw Then his head fell forward,
the great slack body quivered, shud-
reded and was motionless.
A little later Mr.. Bow Bell lifted
the apparently opium-drunken body
Evening star., 1924-12-21

of Col. Swank to his feet, and helped
him to the rail of the ship. There
the two stood for a moment close to-
gether as in confidential talk, until,
as the gunman turned away, the
opium drunken colonel, by some loss
of balance, fell forward over the rail
into the sea. With a cry Mr.. Bow
Bell ran forward to report the acci-
dent.
TT was midnight when Marion Dill
lard returned to the silent house.
The door to the library was gone. She
turned from the hall into the room;
but on the threshold she stopped The
figure of a man leaned over the Ii
brary table, cap pulled over his eyes,
a dark handkerchief tied around the
lower part Of his face. He held the
massive carved ivory crucif1x in his
hands, and he was intent on some un-
dertaking with it.
The girl took a step forward, and,
at the sound, the figure turned, and a
weapon flashed in it's hand. Imme-
diately the silence in the room was
shattered by the explosion of a shot
Marion billiard imagined that the
burglar had fired at her; but, if so,
why did the creature come to sway, to
put out a convulsive hand, to drop his
weapon gathering on the rug, and
Evening star., 1924-12-21

to crumple in heap? The voice of
the detective whom she had found on
guard at the gate as she went out
gave the explanation. The man came
forward from behind the curtain of a
window.
bad gunman." he said. wanted all
over the world. I had to kill him"
And he indicated the crumpled body
of Mr.. Bow Bell.
But what was he doing to that
ivory crucifix. 1t looked like he was
trying to twist it,"
Marion Dnlard went forward and
took up the heavy piece of carved
ivory. The head, crowned with
thorns, had been twisted around un-
til it faced backward. 1t was loose,
and she lifted the head out of the
carving. The whole interior of the
ivory tree was hollow, and packed
with rice powder. Hard pellets We're
embedded in the rice powder, and
when she released them. great orr
entail pearls appeared-huge magnifi-
cent, a double handful of them
matchless. priceless, worth the ran
som of a province.
And at the moment, the clocks
sounded above the city, commemorat-
ing the hour of the birth of the Saw
ior of the world
iCODTrirhr
Evening star., 1924-12-21

He did not understand, but he un-
derstood its physical essentials-that
| the God of the Christians had been
crucified on a tree and that this con-
crete representation was therefore
sacred, as the images of Buddha in
his eternal calm, with the lotus flower
in his hand: that the cross meant
to all Western religions what the
| image of Buddha meant to Asia. He
understood crucifiXion. 1t was a tor
| ture of death known to the Chinese
but reserved only for the lowest
| criminals. He interrogated me
| minutely upon the details of the cru
cifixion and l gave him an accurate
! picture of 1t. But in the translation
Ecade use always of the Chinese
word for tree, a lack of precision
IN language which had presently a
definite result.
For a week I remained in the
monastery as guest of the viceroy
| was treated like a prince, and then
| l was given a present for Mai. Dill
| lard and sent on to the American
division. / travelled in a chair like
! an envoy, parallel, but at some dis
! tance from the line of march, and
| overlook him before he reached
Peking."
And what was the PRESENT." said
! Bow Bell. Twelve she asses laden
| with gold?"
NO" replied the colonel in his
weary drawl, "it was not 1t was a
carving in ivory, representing the
crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth as ]
| had described it. wrapped in a piece
| of black silk embroidered with a
! white cross, not worth a pound and
6 pence. The carving, a mediocre
work Of art, might have been worth
hundred dollars in America.
| You will recall that 1 used the
word tree in my description to the
| Viceroy, and this carving represented
an ivory tree made of the whole seq
| ment of an elephant tusk. 1t was
| about four inches in diameter and
| 10 inches high. The base represented
the roots of the tree spread out, so
that the thing would stand In bal
ance. Broken limbs represented the
| crosspieces, to which the hands of
the figure were nailed. The feet We're
/ spiked together on the trunk; the
head thrown back and encircled with
| a crown of thorns made the entire
top of the carving, that is, the top of
| the tree"
| We'll, for heavens sake" said Bow
Bell. "A piece of carved elephants
tusk for a job like that, Did you
steal itr'
| Col Swank went on. "And it was
carved in tiny English letters around
the base with legend, not badly
worded for a pagan imitation of the
Scriptures: Inasmuch as you turned
! your head to save us, may He turn
His head to save you No I
didn't steal 1t. How could I steal
it? There was a Chinese runner on
each side of the chair. 1 was never
out of sight of them, and they each
had knife. 1 delivered it to the
major.
Well. he didn't get much for his
trouble" said Bow Bell. It's no good
to be good" His voice descended into
confidential note; he leaned A little
| toward his companion. Now, you said
| you had a notion about this thing
at the beginning of your talk What
was that notion. colonel? You say you
! were going to find that crucifix You
said you had a notion about it. What
Evening star., 1924-12-21

eral and State governments have been
particularly vigilant in recent years
in preventing the shipment of trees
from areas infested with gypsy moths.
Trees are carefully examined by these
officials and moved out under license.
The quarantine areas are usually
small in size and do not materially af-
feet the total available supply of
trees.
A particularly appropriate oppor-
tunity to display the Christmas spirit.
say the Forest Service officials, is the
manner in which persons getting
Christmas trees direct from the for
ests cut the evergreens for their holi-
day celebration. Each year thousands
of dwellers in towns and cities turn
to outlying tracts for their Christ
mas decorations. No harm is done
where the trees are cut according to
the recommendations of the Forest
Service. but the tendency of many is
to slash into the growth without re-
gard to conserving the forest re-
sources.
The point particularly emphasized
by the Government foresters is that
tree selected for cutting should be
one which is part of a group of COM
paratively compact growth rather
tndn a more OF less lSOlaCeO tree, the
absence of which would make a de-
cided gap that future growth could
not fill.
Objection is sometimes made 20 ee-
lecting for Christmas purposes a tree
standing close to others because the
one chosen is apt to be unsymmetricaI,
the lower branches particularly be-
ing irregular and unattractive. This
difficulty can be overcome by select
ing a. tree several feet taller than the
height desired and cutting off the
lower end. By using only the upper
portion well shaped, pleasing orfa-
ment can be obtained, and at the same
time a selection Is made which re-
suits in no harm to the forest.
Very large trees selected for mu-
nicipal celebrations or church use
Evening star., 1924-12-21
$500 Pecan Tree.

A PECAN tree, 16 years old, near
kosciusko, Miss. was sold for
S2,500. This represented its value in
dollars and cents, not in sentiment
The tree began bearing nuts of enor-
nous size nine years ago, 25 of them
averaging a pound This made it of
great value for grating purposes
and the nurseryman who bought II
will make much more than $4,000 if
the tree lives it's allotted time.
Evening star., 1924-12-21

need not be symmetrical in their nat
ural state, as they can easily be made
so by boring holes in the trunk and
inserting sufficient limbs of proper
size to give the tree a well rounded
appearance. Frequently, where large
tree is to be carried a considerable
distance, practically all the limbs are
cut off and then replaced in the man
ner indicated.
Evening star., 1924-12-21
Biplane Ducks.

EMANUEL REINHART OF laucas
- ter, Pa, has a pair of airplane
ducks. The ducks were Matched by I,
hen and seemed to be the same as ali
other ducks until their wings began
to develop and then it was founG
that the ducks had two pairs of
wings. They soar along just in:a
an airplane, according to thair owne.
Evening star., 1924-12-21
Pond Falls Into Mine.
EoRTY-Two miners perished

EORTY-TWO miners perished. when
l. the bottom fell out of a small
pond and flooded the workings of an
iron mine near Crosby, Minn. Only
seven men were able to gain the
safety of the shaft and ascend to the
surface. North of the mine lies
Island Lake and between the mine
and the lake was a small pond. 1t
was the water from this which pour
ed into the mine when the bottom
dropped out
Evening star., 1924-12-21
Worlds Christmas Tree Trade

tn HE New England woods for
weeks have been ringing with
the crack Of axes and the
shouts of woods bosses.
STAND by," some one wells
Evening star., 1924-06-01
HERE ARE SOME SHUT.INS
STARS RADIO FUND WILL AID

Pathetic conditions in the homes
of some of Washington's poor and
needy ''shut-ins,'' into whose
lonely lives The Star hopes to
bring little joy through the me-
dunn Of radio. are described in
letters written by the invalids or
their friends.
One tells of woman who has
been paralyzed for fifteen years.
Il lived in her neighborhood until
about three months ago." said the
writer, and, being the wife of
her pastor, had an opportunity to
become very well acquainted with
her Her husband is quite aged
and almost an invalid himself.
X y x r
A woman on Bates street wrote.
Il am sending you the name of an
old lady who has been cripple
and .shut-in' for more than ten
years She is very poor and know
a radio would be wonderful for her"
From a friend of 'shut-in"
came this letter: For more than
twenty years Mrs has been an
invalid, and for over five years of
that time has been confined to
chair in her room. l feel that IL a
radio set might be secured for her
in some manner it would be greatly
Evening star., 1924-06-01

CONTINUED from First Page.)
wished to make a statement, but
Joseph w. Sharts. his attorney, said
the defendant would submit writ
ten communication to the court when
it meets for sentence next fall.
Bishop Murray pronounced a bene-
diction of peace and the proceedings
were finished.
In a statement issued after the trial
Bishop Brown declared himself grati-
fed with what had been accomplished
''in making the public see the real
issues involved in all heresy."
The trial has brought light into
the illogical darkness. and the dark
ness comprehended it not said the
statement
The document reiterated Bishop
Browns regard for the church. COM
Blained because the defense had not
drawn from the court "a standard of
orthodoxy" and added:
Says Trial Is Not Over.
The inference is that one may be
very liberal. SO long as no bishop is
shocked thereby. But every new
thought is shocking, and so long as
the church assumed to set limits to
human thinking 1t must exhaust its
time and energies hunting heretics."
The statement concluded:
THE trial, Of course. is not over.
Long before the his:her ecclesiastf-
cal courts can pass upon the uues-
tion it will have become obvious to
those whose minds live in this
scientific age that charge of heresy
cannot be sustained. More than that.
1t will become obvious that such a
charge cannot even be stated And
what is obvious to every one must
sooner or later become obvious to the
the heologians."
Evening star., 1924-06-01
DENIES SCIENCE KNOWS
SECRET OF LONGEVITY

Old age is problem which has
long interested men of science, par
ticularly biologists. Whether life can
be prolonged or not has always been
a question that fascinates any one
science. If we read ancient books
we learn that the men of former
epochS reached a greater age than
we do. writes Dr.. Lafora in "Revista
Argentina de FilOsofia" (Buenos
Aires). translated for the Mil
waukee journal.
1t is quite natural, therefore. that
our scientists should study and try
to reconstruct the conditions under
Longevity seems to most men a very
desirable thing.
The great Russian biologist, Metch-
nfkoy. believed that old age is caused
by gradual intestinal intoxication
This intoxication destroys slowly hut
the human organism, and when this
process has reached an excessive de-
gree 1t causes death.
Prof. Lorand and his followers
have different theory about old age;
natural phase in the great cycle
of human life and that it is due to
perfectly normal weakening of all
cells in the human body. This theory
is combated by Prof. Bfedl who be-
HeNes that changes in glandular Sc
cretlon cause a decay of the brain
cells and all other human organs.
| have studied the symptoms OF
pathological aging of the brain with
particular care. | found that they
are nothing else but eXaggerations OF
the symptoms of normal old age.
studied the structural pathological
injuries of the brain of insane old
men and took photographs of them
which show clearly all the signs OF
senile dementia in the nerve fibers
of the brain.
The process of mental decay Is
slow and moderate in normal old per.
sons, while it is quick and prema.
ture in the case of pathological
senility. 1t is very probable that the
injuries in the brain are not the cause
of old age symptoms, but are, rather
the result of an intoxication of the
brain cells, which determines the be.
ginning of old age.
Is 1t possible to fight old age and
fits symptoms? Is it possible to re.
store youth to the brain cells anf
to the human body as whole
Science has not yet been able to Civ.
satisfactory answer to this ques.
ton.
Evening star., 1924-06-01

Dora S. Pierson, 3522 Park place; NJ
c. Smith. post office box 1852, Wash
ington, D. c.; Earl S. Crogan. Cairo
Hotel; f. l.. sherwood, 1907 9th
street, Albert Trew. S11 f street
southwest: S. G. Murdock. 1513-A
Sd street; William ID. Wentzell
614 18th street UVoi; V. IL.
Brown, 1l24 B street northeast Cthree) A;
Edward Wilson. Ontario apartments:
Mrs. Il. Partridge, Ontario apartments:
John l.. Stauffer. 3647 18th street
r. l.. Rothger. 1908 B street south
west; George E. Sartwell, 1911 Jeffer-
son street; r. A. Buckler, 1862 36th
street; Mrs. w. B. Turpin. 403 Clifton
Terrace; w. NJ. Brooks, Bennings
station, route 1, box 1855, District of
Columbia; G. W. Sint, Cherrydale, Va.
no name, and Star Radio Company,
4l5 11th street (flfteen).
Albert Trew, S11 Z street south
west. donated a coil of wire, and the
following donated headphones:
Harold F. Lane, S. Z. Murdoch
1513-a 3rd street: John +. Stauffer,
3647 18th street; r. l.. Rothger, zoos
B street southwest, Mrs. w. b. Tur-
pin. 405 Clifton Terrace, and DR.. and
Mrs. NJ. L. Turner, Berwyn. Md