San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-13
FINDS PEACE AT LAST

might get some information for my
thesis. i acquainted the superintend-
cnt with the object of my visit, and he
gave me access to the inmates. Tho
first man l met was, to my surprise,
a brother of one of the most prominent
citizens of the county, a man Of
wealth. family and influence. l found
that this inmate was an unmarried
man. My questions did not bring ont
much information beyond the fact that
he had not saved anything. and found
himself a pauper during his later
days.
The second man I met was also I'M
married, and | jotted down ''celibacy"
as cause of paupcrism. l began in
my mind to sketch the path of the un-
married man without responsibility.
He gives free rein to his desires and
pleasures, wasting his life in enjoy
ment, and finally comes down to old
age with no provision made for the
days when his strength fails. L
thought i had made some progress in
preparing my case.
"Are you married." inquired when
1 met the third inmate.
"Ycs, my fourth wife left me when
came here" he answered.
Have you any children! =,
"Twenty-six," was the reply, and
my first theory was exploded.
COURTSHIP EXPERIENCES.
Returning to Eveland again, can
not resist the temptation to record
three facts that come to memory when
the name of this dear friend is re-
called. First was one Of his expc-
riences in courtship. was rather
patriarch among the boys during my
last year in college. Although l had
reached my twenty-first birthday less
than three months before graduation,
/ was engaged" during my entire
senior year. This was known among
the boys, and some of them came to
me for advice-among them Sam.
He took me aside one day, and
with evident emotion, told me that he
had at last found the girl for whom
he was looking. He described her to
me, and according to his description
she would make a model wife for a
pastor. He said that he had laid his
claims before her the night before,
and that she had accepted him. L
was rather surprised at the sudden
ness with which he had proposed, and
suggested to him that it might have
been better to have gone about it more
gradually, but he was a very practi-
cal sort of fellow.
Having found the kind of wife for
whom he was looking he did not see
why any period of romance should be
injected between the discovery and
the filing of his claim. l congratulate
ed him, although confess it was with
some misgivings as to whether the
agreement reached was really conclu-
sive.
SAM WINS SISTER"
A few days afterward the poor
fellow came to me distressed beyond
description TO tell me that he had
called upon the yGung lady again, and
found that she, lid not, understand
that they were engaged. In fact, it
was not long before he brought back
that familiar report that although she
could not marry him, she would al
ways be his friend. Later he was
more successful, and found an ex-
emplary lady about his age and deep
ly religious, who became his wife.
One day Eveland was describing
the change that his conversion made
in his ideals. He said when he was
tramping through the woods his only
literature was the yellow-back novel.
One day he read n story about a
girl named Sal. She could ride bare
back and shoot Indians ON the run.
l remember the expression on his
face now rs he related this. and said :
And to think that l was 50 enthused