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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-06-24
( LETTER From
AVRDGE EIANN
juno "a, 1924.

Folks:
II isn't intention take today boost Tho uco
convention that getting remember when
carly youth began that ancient November William Ion
Dinss Bryan
For half generation the presidential years AZ every mimi;
nation William JcnninBs appears Perennial selec,ion
seemed 70 DC ther safest bet and here's election he's
Is -"
The platforms Bryan them in tho boze
know he tried to save US In half usedob
campaigning seems to me- full issues never
whning--lko free SILVER n O. ~
He'd and defeated; forget him maybe t,cr mo-,
otter he'd retreaed he'd be bobng with energy b
daze lie was leader OF their nesuntl they azzcs All
the Vote for Bryan slgnsl "'t
And tho he presidential race his hama
perhaps rs stronger and he's a plnce No omoc,
convention VIII be quite the the papers cease a.
mention william Jennings Bryans namc 100 ~
Myzaae Mao~v
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-06-24

Q. What percentage Of the pam.
Iaiion Of the United States is forsIrs
BORN
4. I5s per cent
O When was Oklahoma admit,s
as state7
4. Norember 10. 1907.
Q. How old Is Reginald DENNY
4. 7hiriy-three.
Q. what Is black frost
4. Frost forming on fender reoe.
tables and freezing the sap "a fhen.
causing nc icaUcs and stalks 70
Utlt aud turn black. Is kHopu a.
black frost. but biacL frost e nsr
properly a freeze than a frost.
Q. What causes yawning?
A. 4 muscular contractors due %
fatigue.
Q. What is Louise LOrrains's sa-
dressF
A. 1888 N. Edgemont are.. LsI
Angeles. Col.
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KNOW YOUR CITY!
my Favorite Spot" by Readers
of The Star

hat
s.,eat Their ere thousand. Of
thar 200 words The Chamber
pr
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and exit. hy tho way. should bo
better marked for tho benefit OF
the stranger.
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QUESTIONS
AND
ANSWERS

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question Of fact or iuforrrs.
ton BY writing 20 Ths Qussiis,
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Ienu. 1892 y. Y. ave. WashlnKto,
ID. G. ibclOninE ? cents 10 stsms.
for reply. Medical. legal a.
marital advice cannot be alive,
nor can extended reseaFch 81 IN.
osrtakep. Unsigned requests csu.
not be HnsveTed.-EDITOh-
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-24
BETTER KEEP 1T Az HOME.

A motion picture film Just completed
in France and exhibited to a distin.
guished gathering, including the presi
dent of the republic, the American am
bassador and Count Bertrand de
Munm. name that will recall gay
memories to those who used to get up
at noon and begin the real days work
after the theater. The picture shows
the vine-growing region of France,
the gathering of the grapes, the bare
footed peasants "trampling out the vim
tage" and carries the process of mar
keting the product through to. the
point where it is exported to "all the
countries. OF the world save one."ky
A brief item from Paris describing
the first view of the pictures says they
are intended for exhibition in Amer
lea where they are expected TO serve
propaganda for the French wine grow
ers.
1t may be there is nothing in Ameri-
can law TO stop the show. We are not
certain. But while this country gives
respectful attention to disinterested
advice from whatever source it may
come, the French exploiters are likely
TO find that Americans are growing
little tired of foreign attempts TO
mix in their personal and political
affairs from motives of self-interest or
for self-aggrandizement. That sort of
thing is peculiarly irritating form
of impertinence.-Det Free Press.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-24
CURRENT EVENTS

Not long ago, national magazine,
in sending out one of those question
naiIes in which national magazines de-
light received an answer that gave some
thing of shock. In reply to the ques-
tion-"Do you approve of the Volstead
act"-a farmer up in the Northwest
answered with another question: what
is the Volstead act?'
Now there might be people who have
asked that same question but with a
different meaning, no doubt, it being
assumed by the nature Of the other re-
plies to the other questions received
from this Northwestern farmer that he
asked his question for the reason that
he had never heard of the act. There
were certain suggestions put forward at
the time about framing him and putting
him on exhibition as curiosity along
with the dinosaur eggs discovered BY
the Roy Chapman Andrews expedition
into Mongolia. But the proposed frame
will have to be stretched.
Two men were hailed into court in
St. Louis the other day and defended
'hNheSiNcS WIFI inc prOIeStdtlOn That
they had never heard OF prohibition"
As ignorance of the law is no excuse.
these men had to pay their fines in the
federal court. But the United States
district attorney told the court he was
convinced that the men, who lived in
dugCut near St. Louis, were telling the
truth when they maintained that thew
had never heard of prohibition.
There are those, of course, who would
wish never to have heard of~it" in the
sense of its not existing, and others who
will say that there has been entirely too
much talk about it one way or another
But actually never to have heard of a
law that has caused more protest and
been combated more strenuouslv than
nearly any other ever enacted, about
which mountains of words have been
spoken and written argues state OF
ignorance or rather of dumbness to the
world around one that is difficult to
comprehend.
Still the time comes sooner or later
when ignorance betrays itself. Then
the modern world, which is devoted f.
the dissemination of information, sees
that the ignorant one by way of fines or
penalties, brushes up on current events
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-24
CHAPTER XXIII.
The Walls Of Pride.

That evening DR.. Beamfsh return:
ed, bringing with him. as on the &C.
casion of his first visit, public ex-
aminer. This official came to assure
himself formally of the doctors asser-
ton that a cure had been seffected.
HOLES, awakening from eleven hours
Of uninterrupted lethargic sleep, but
still heavy with lassitude, stood duly
at hand whilst the examiner held his
formal inquisition int othe condition
of the patient, of Mrs. Dallows, and
Of HOLES himself
When the examiner and the doctor
passed at last from the room, r1olles
dragged himself YEARLY after them.
He followed them below-stairs. and
remained there alone after they had
taken their departure.
For 2S days he was doomed to i'm
prisonment in this house, and he made
his dispositions. That night he slept
in a back bedroom on the ground
floor. In the morning. having pre-
pared himself breakfast in the kitchen,
matter in which Mrs. Dallowes came
to his assistance. he went to straighten
out the dining room so that it might
serve him for lodging during the pc
riOd of incarceration that lay ahead.
He found the room in utter dark
ness. 1t had not been entered since
the night Of Nancy's coming thither.
He CROPPED his way across to the
shutters, which be remembered to
have closed by request of the ex-
aminer, after carrying Nancy from
the room on that terrible night n
week ago. He pulled them open and
let in a flood of daylight upon a
scene each detail Of which reminded
him poignantly of the happenings of
that night.
Fallen between the daybed and the
window, he found the slender dress
rapier which Buckingham had useds
For the rest, guttered candles, with
cred flowers, and rotting fruits en-
numbered the table, and the luster of
glass and silver was dulled by a film
Of dust. -
HOLES flung the windows wide. and
spent some time in setting the room
to rights, and Kidding it of all that
refuse.
Thereafter he lay on the daybed
smoking and thinking. and very list
less. And it was thus. in the days
that followed, that most of his. hours
were spent.
Whitehall was empty now OF all
its courtly tenants with the single
exception of the Duke of Albemarle.
Honest George Monk had elected to
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, explains 1t. But what is he, then
who has all but given his life for you?'
She hesitated, at loss how to de-
fine their relationship. At last:
"Once he was my friend she an
swered.
"Once? The physician raised his
bushy brows. "And when, pray, did
he cease to be your friend-this mer
who stayed with you in this infected
house when he might have fled; this
man who has denied himself sleep oil
rest of any kind in all these Gays
that he might be ever at hand
against your need of him; this man
who has wrestlcd with death for you
and rescued you at the risk of tax.
ing the pestilence a thousand times
for your sake?"
"Did he do all this?" she asked.
DIR. Beamish entertained her with
the details of the heroism and self.
sacrifice that Holes had displayed.
When the tale was done, and she
lay silent and very thoughtful, the
doctor permitted himself a slyly hum
Orous smile.
"He may once have been .our
friend, as you say he concluded
smiling. But j cannot think that
he was ever more your friend than
now. God send me such a friend in
my own need :"
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-24
MODERN "BEEFEATERS'

The Beefeaters of the Tower are one
of the sights of London. Dressed in the
medic eval costumes worn by wardens
OF prisons, when such prisons as the
Tower of London were an adjunct to
political life, and the great were impris-
oncd for political offenses and lost their
heads, many of them. upon the block,
these guards OF the Tower help to main
tain the spirit of that ancient, historical
pile.
To travellers OF certain type, visit
to the Tower of London is like Jour-
new back into story books and histories
read when child. Memories swim be-
fore one OF the little princes smoth-
cred in the Tower; of the tragic fate
of kirgs and princesses' and lords and
ladies who 'languished" in its dungeons;
of boats sweeping in with the Thames
tide in the darl; of night to land some
till-fated prisoner at the Traitors Gate.
And then to find the guards decked out
in all the paraphernalia OF those stored
days, is to find the picture, even in this
day and time, complete.
But the Beefeaters are quite modern,
| it would seem. Though their uniforms
bark back to the days when a mere
workman or guard or soldier thanked
his lord and master for the privilege OF
living and shaving for him unnumbered
hours. it now appears, according to a
dispatch from London, that the present
guard is contemplating a strike
They claim to have received prom
Use OF an additional five members to
their corps. whiclsis made up of old army
scrgcants of spotless records. Their
number thus increased. their individual
working hours would be cut down from
ten hours day to eight. But the five
have never been appointed. So the Beef
eaters threaten to walk out
Viewed in the light of their medieval
costumes, trunk and hose and, doublet
it is almost as if the figures in mu-
scum threatened strike. But anyone
will agree that ten consecutive hours
in any museum is TOO much.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-24

to do thing than to oppose their doing
lit? Opposition not only stiffeus per-
sons resolution to carry out his inten-
ton but shows him reasons for doing
what he wanted that would never have
entered his noodle ii he had been let
alone. What better way of curing some
one OF an exotic line of conduct than
to let them have large dose of exactly
what they want OF course, one hears
immediate protests that the drug habit
and the drink habit would be intensified
by such methods, but on the other hand
drunkards or drug addicts arc rarely il
ever cured of these habits until they
themselves have experienced complete
revulsion against what they do.
Whole schools of medicine. like homeo-
pathy, have been built I'D upon the theory
that like cures like" The Abrams treat
ments are founded upon that theory that
like vibrations nullify. like vibrations.
While practical applications have never
been completely satisfactory. the idea
is attractive enough to claim considera-
ton in other departments of life than
those dealing with chemical reactions or
where the laws of physics are concerned.
From the standpoint of ethics and
morals. whatever anyone may actually
mean by morals" the term generally
resolving itself into the emotional feeling
for certain customs, the emphasis has
always been so Overwhelmingly one OF
exterior compulsion that it is purely
speculative to dwell upon the idea OF
interior control. The ou-shall-nots
have heretofore ruled the world. neces-
sary ruling, no doubt. as what we call
human nature, which the old religionists
united in. clubbing Original sin" has
rampaged nightly about. But in spite
of the need for restraint and discipline,
the mind always comes back to this
No complete change has ever been eff
fected in an individual in regard to some
so-called evil habit until the change came
from within.
Perhaps. when we are sufficiently civ
ilized. to have under better control some
of Our worst and greediest instincts, the
thou-shall-nots. working from the OUT
side will be driven out of court. and the
thou-shals. operating from the inside
will say: "Our candy is pure and fresh
You are privileged to help yourself at
all times. Eat all YOU want" Then the
wants, not having to fight stiff fight
for bare existence, from interior reasons
purely. will not go beyond temperate
and balanced amount.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-24
HOMEOPATHIC TREATMENT

There is chain of candy stores in
New York City about which something
has just been written that has TO do
with the business policy and the treat
ment of employees, and this apparently
insignificant thing is really significant.
In every one of these stores placards
announce to the clerks:
Our candy is pure and fresh. You
are privileged to help yourself at all
times. Eat all you want
There IS sound psychology in that
simple matter and the results are what
might be expected. Very little of the
candy is eaten, in fact, so little that
the amount is entirely negligible The
point is therefore suggestive of much
When will ii ever become apparent
that much of the socalled wrong doing
in the world, much OF the breaking OF
rules and laws, the trespassing upon
property, the general RIGHTEOUSNESS. has
its main spring in the fact that Cor
hidden has. been scrawled across the
sky: What better way to get anyone
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-24
D PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

Let me live in my house by the side
OF the road and sell oil and gas to
man.-Little Rock Arkansas Gazette.
Many man is Mt loss to know
whether he should take something for
his liver or his observation-disclosures
State Journal.
Some folks are born dumb. but you
can't be sheik unless you acquire the
habit.-Rockford Republic.
So serious has the situation in the
Senate become that the Senators have
taken to writing poetry. There's no
hope after that.-Bridgeport Post.
You can say one thing for the hold
up man he doesn't call it economic
pleasure. Miami News Metropolis.
Nothing is impossible: Congress has
been in session three months and has
passed an appropriation bill.-Little
Rock Arkansas Democrat.
: Nobody can say just who let the cat
out of the bag in Washington, but he
seems TO have liberated lot of kit
tens. too.-Detroit News.
The advice of that old-time polite
ian-"don't write send MANS
evidently still good. And one might
add, "don't telegraph either--even in
code. columbus Dispatch.
Doctors Wife, see in the paper
where a man was killed for three dol
lars.
Doctor (absently)-What a small
fee The fellow who did the work
must have a fake diploma.-American
Legion Weekly.
1t is charged that American girls
are becoming hardboiled. but be that
as it may, Leap Year is the year they
scramble.-Sandusky Register.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-24
FRUIT CAKE. ROMANCE.

1t has remained for Mr.. Mclean
and his correspondents by code to give
a touch of mystery and romance to
the sordid story of oil. This is not
unnatural since he belongs, in a sense.
with the tribe of writer's. Reading
the code messages one finds that as
literary men, his correspondents by
wire are of the futurist school of lit
erature.
1t is also clear that his group ,is
fond Of fruit. Mr.. Fall had a similar
taste. "The Champion" had an in
tefesting conversation with an "apri-
cot" and earnestly advises the pub
Usher to have nothing to do with the
peaches" and to shy away from sap
PIES" 1t is possible to understand
the friendliness of this advice for the
disclosures have revealed quite few
peaches" and they are mostly rotten.
Unhappily Mr.. Mclean was not warn
ed against lemons and when some dis
tinguished friends handed him a few
he took them They were sour. But
there was some recompense in "cher-
ries' which were "very good" Thus
we have fruity flavor to the whole
connection. -.-
But the note Of high romance sug-
gestive of the good old days when the
robber barons sailed forth from their
castles on the hills to rob the publiv
on the highways is not missing !:
Captains from his own camp have
not, deserted stricken aud beleagured
chieftain," runs one message. On the
contrary they are standing by ready
to aid and to fight"
We are grateful for this one mes
sage representing the old school of
expression. Nothing of the futurist
about that. The chroniclers of the
daring deeds OF the r0bber barons of
the good old days have made us all
familiar with the phrasing.-New
York World.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-24
A Puzzle a Day

The figure shown above is COM
posed of square and another square
just one-quarter its size; the two
squares being Joined together. BY
means of two straight cuts, the
figure may be sliced into three pieces,
which will join together to form a
perfect square. : Can you make the
cuts?
Yesterdays answer:
The man (A) had one companion
OBJ, who was related to him as fol-
lows: l. His fathers brother-in-law
for B had married the sister of AS
father.
2. His brothers father-in- law; for
AS brother had married BIS daugh-
ter. (B had been married before).
3. His father-in-law's brother; be-
cause AS wife was the daughter of
BIS brother.
A. His brother -in-law's father; for
AS sister had married BIS son.,
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-24

rcmain undaunted at his post as the
representative of his King, to per-
form in the Kings name-and whilst
his ma Jest was. busy at Salisbury with
the nmorous pursuit of Miss Frances
Stewart all that which king him
self should be at hand TO perform in
time of national stress, to mitigate
the POPULATIONS of his subjects.
Hopefully HOLES inquired of Beam
ish il he knew aught of Buckingham.
Hopefully, that is, because he wis ex-
pecting to hear that the Duke was
laid low by the infection.
CONTINUED in Our Next Issue). :
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-24

probably would require that more atten
ton be devoted to the tremendous phys
I, ical and mental strains which Mr.
Lloyd George has undergone during the
last ten years than the ANONYMOUS
writer has given them In fact, he goe:
to an extreme in the opposite direction
by saying that the former premier is
not as spry as he used to be-, and by
subjecting him to the doubtful test Of
Tered i'll the assertion that ones ability
or inability to walk without faintness
when he reaches an advanced age at
lords an index to his character. There
is an element OF truth, psychologically
in such test. But there are degrees
and degrees of physical and mental
stress, and degrees and degrees OF
faintness. Moreover, suppose, man
has a rheumatic malady; then, it he
tottcrs, or displays fatigue or faintness
is the prescribed test of character to
be relied upon:
At the end OF the world war David
Lloyd-George was tired man.. both
mentally and physically: that ought to
go without saving and one who re-
fused TO accept it would be betravins
a pre-conceived notion that the little
Welshman was super-man. indeed.
This suggests an error into which
many OF Mr. LioydGeorge's latter day
critics Seem to have fallen. He under
took SO much and achieved so much
that they expected the irtf ossible OF h;:n;
and whc1 he. mere MORTAL. alter all.
|failec to achieve the impossible their
new conception OF him was Just as in
temperate, in the opposite direction, as
their old one had been.
There was period. just after the
World War when Mr. Lloyd-George
did betray the shortsightedncss of a
mere politician. For time he devoted
his energies to crying out that Ger
many must be made to pay for the
war, and that the 'ex-kaiser must be
personally punished. Germany should
be made to pay for the war in so far
as that might be done without destroy
ing her. and consequently injuring the
allies themselves. And the kaiser ought
to have been brought to account--if
finite man is competent TO render a
just Judgment in such matters.
But the point is that these projects
were far less important than. that OF
general rehabilitation of Europe.
However,. Mr.. Lloyd-George seems
tc have discovered his error rather
quickly. Then he counscled resort
to common sense. The allies would
not listen to him. Even some OF his
own people turned from him or against
him. He was tired. He had helped
in a large way to win the war. He
was not so young as he had been. And
people about him seemed to have lost
perspective, so that he could not con-
fidently depend upon the intuitions, the
sense of justice. which had made him
so great a leader of men. The task
of Saving Europe" must have seemed
to him to be almost hopelesS-not al
together because he was tired. but be-
cause those about him. lad set them
selves against reason.
So. it may be that the author OF "Mir-
rors> of Downing Street while truly
striving TO be just, has unconsci2usly
wronged the principal character of his
book.