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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1914-03-20, Page 5THE INSPIRATION lariats 0 of toria the late Louse sital, resi- rnity the 'linin Drug .rich, will vhen ng a. 1 the lens pson day re- ! ail- iverd on full logs to here Ilid- the Dint stip. The vere ►der 'on tool will 26: ey had quarrelled over some - or nothing. She w.es young, ti£ul and very rich; he was some, young and poor, etrug- to complete a musical edea.- They gizarreleed very bitter- ad he left her in a rage, yow- ever to look upon her beatutiful again,. She had wounded him e quick of -his exceedingly tem - ental . em -ental. soul, watched, his departure. gh her tears, even though she ed how unbecoming they were, the vowed that never in all her voukl she forgive him, for he urt her . to the •depth of her otic heart, wrote several volumes of s to her, and he lay awake $'h many nights, dreaming of ad praying for forgiveness. comee he allowed himself to for a sight of the beautiful ith the deep, tender eyes, and s difficult to restrain his ar- but at such times he would al- iimself the pain of writing ardent letters, telling her and again of his great love, either time nor eternity could hangs. laid the letters carefully in lavender, and found that ach new one the.pain of doing. ut shim was less. She was. be- g .-too learn that in life -there be more than the first 10 138. he was young and very fair to upon. . 'ear after he parted from Syl- rever an opportunity was of - him to go abroad to study Johara, the foremost violinist e world. three years he worked with a onsuming fever, one minute ly forgetting Sylvia in the of his music, the next his would be crying for her, his seeming to thrill him to the core of his being. Ied the life of as recluse, and Johara ever came close enough 1 to see below the calm ex- . So it was Johara who Gile- ad the genius for composing eouiful melodies that he play- arently unthinkingly and al - with his eyes closed. all the yeses, of his study Syl- as his guiding star his inspire - or her he worked, to ultimata: as, and .played ' the exquisite oxales,:that trete one'day to en= e''the great world of music. was in no way a freak—merely ins; and so from the beginning love for Sylvia'.. it had become it for him to stand for hours, in resting lovingly on his viol - his eyes half -closed, seeing nee of the sights about him, g ,only into her eyes and see- er as the only one "weelan he ever love. At times after long ntrati,on he would be able to ne the sound of her voice, raising his bow,. he would Sonietimes the music would right and -happy, ether times it ague and shadowy ; but always was; a plaintiveness that suge d Sylvia. • ter his fifth year in Germany, as brought, to America to play neert with . i'ohteee . e first concert was in the after- , and was attended by thous s of...• enthasiastic . women. ding on the platform bowing - oaks, he looked Mit' over the, seaof Laces, hoping to findeSyle but ahe was not there; at leasts tiltheeet'see her; - en he arrived at- the theatre e -set and -concert is, letter mitliadr hand was among the y'„given .ta hini. In eaeeite:men6; ,paned' it, tb find' it was really rSylviia a wrote that- she • had heard 'him , and that it had thrilled her nd.words, and his presen,ce•had lied so many tender memories -she believed she must see him to 'She invited him to •lu lohaeon, ng the. l'ay and hour. ai h --a keener sense of excite- !: then he ;had. felt since hie first ert ehe .•wllllrted in front +iaf= Syi= home-, The house. Hooked just same, thhougli it' was six years he had lasts seenit. it. Tine. rang. bell sharpie and waited impa- le foe the door to be opened; was ushered into the familiar N reception -room, where in- tly lie noticed the .'scent of 'her its flowers, It Seamed ttooa be Hint With her lirestnee; he Med soft ., the . 'Valet Ilya-: e that scent ofthe thaa< flower r �e brought, into- his mind;` Xt had • the first `piece • dedieated to oh ;'' Thera was a slightt'catoh ter yoke, its' tl dugh the rush .nroeles had been toostrong fee lie heard the swish of her gown, and because -he was -so einxiceu:s, , he forced himself to wait for her .to speak before ho -turned around. "Sylvia I” So long, had he dream- ed of 'this meeting that unconscious- ly he held out his arms; but they. dropped helplessly when he Saw her, and a, low sigh, almost a moan, escaped him. Sylvia was there before him; he. rubbed his eyes distractedly. She was still &arhming, with dark .hair and midnight eyes, only' now—he sighed again ---she was hopelessly, distortedly fat, • He, raecovered..himself•:quickly m,ed shook her .hand heartily, murmur- ing commonplace• `words—just what he never quite knew. She was glad to see him, and seemed- to expect him to be as he had been in the past, and appar- ently was waiting for him to speak of love; but with evenderful tact he kept the -conversation from. -too inti- mate personalities. Several hours later he left her, and jumping into a taxi, he sank back wearily and gave himself up to utter despair over the physical ruin of the girl he once loved. So lost in contemplation was he that he did not realize the taxi had not moved, until he looked out to find he was still in front of Sylvia's home. He was artistic to his finger tips, and he had been rudely wakened from ihtie dream. of a lovely woman. Sylvia was much changed; but she was his inspiration, and had always been; and his only one, and he—he was temperamental, and inspiration was a necessity to his nature. Hos leaned out of the window and spoke to the chauffeur. The taxi started quickly, then stopped sud- denly ; something was wrong with the engine. "Oh, curse it !" he exclaimed, as he opened the door and alighted. "I will return, for she understands my nature, and she will not be. jealous." He ran lightly up the steps and •rang the bell. He took off his 'hat and, standing barehead- ed in the cool air, he said quite plainly- ; 'Sylvia the gg r1 is dead I Long live Sylvia l" Then the door opened and closed him in, and Sylvia came forward smiling, her face radiant ; and to him she was as of old, for in the living Sylvia he saw only: what lie desired --his renewed in- spiration. WISE AND OTHERWISE. • All bets are. on sure things,' hu some are sure to Iose. Few men can remain cool whe they encounter aefrost. It is perfectly safe to trust th devil to collect what is due him. Girls make up their complexion before trying to make up quarrels Each inmate of a lunatic asylu firmly believes that all the other in mat -es are crazy. If wiehes were automobiles walk ing. would 'net merely be' unsefe—i wotild be impossible. , -Bright future prospects some tim so dazzle the eyes that present ad- vantages cannot be seen. Some people have the faculty o being disappointed at ,not getting 'somethitt thef never 'exapecte'd. • The dollar that you did not eat peat is 'larger than the ten dpllars that you knew you would get. Ignorance may be -blies; but the. fellow in a position to enjoy its ad- vantages doss -not 'know enough to know it. The man who claims everything in sight is., in trouble when' the ertrcle under discussiou isaatolen•prOperty. The reitulte :seem.: to show that many men take moree care in trains ing their moustaches than in direct- ing. their children, No. man knows -the 'Value of ah. do her who has not earned one, but he may know. the value of' what the dollar will buy. The .queetioar as to the comparative cost and worth of being dead or alive might be -.settled if an inter- view could be had with afellow who had ti'ied.:both. t n. e s m t e f British -Columbia new has ,n offr. tial censor,whose-duty it ia: to look after films for moving pasture Shower A boy agedelevenhas been giv- • ing his views regarding the ' other sex. He is at least hank : "My opinion its that girls are more trou- ble than they are. 'wortah• -Because , they are always wanting sosnethieg, 'When they grow up. Ittney.find a rn,aan -soft ensug,•dm to marry them, said the Men always wish they diadnever ,seen : their wives. if a main never gate stuerelect, i -e ie. better off than if lie does, because. women want their husbannds-.to buy ' them bed - roe= tufts and wardrobes. So yqu ogee weeren .arse not aatiasfied wi,tll izhaat, .lau•l;'they. have to pester men's lives out," • VILLA, .BANDIT AN ii BitU - The Mexican General Who liturder- ed William S. Beaton. Imagine a vicious -faced m,an, of 35, 'very much in need of a shaave a3 person, of big tmu.s,cles and swag- gering gait, unkempt of deers and body and crude of speech, in every way unattractive and even repeal- sive—then you will have a' picture of the type to which belongs Gen. Francisco Villa, or, as he is.better. known in biehome State of- Ohiihua.- hue., "Pancho Villa, the bandit." He is the man who murdered Wil- liam S. Benton, the British ranch - man, on;the pretext that lie had in- sulted him and had attenuated to bake his life. Villa's story is feet ly disbelieved in .both Great Britain the United States, and, his re- fusal to make immediate delivery. of the dead man's body, isinterpreted as. a defiance of these , two great. powers. .Britain is sending a con= sul to visit thespot where Benton, was killed, and it is certainly with- in the range of possibility that Pres- ident Wilson will be forced to send an armed force into Mexico to pro- tect the lives of foreigners resident there. . . There was a revert a few days ago that General Villa. intended to de- clare Northern Mexico,, over which is now supreme, a republic with himself as president. It is more likely, however,, that .he will con- tinue fighting until 'he takes the capital. If he wins Mexico City ab is as certain as- anything- can be that he will demand the reward that every Mexican -conqueror demands and receives, the Presidency of the republic, And what a President Villa, would make ! Even thethought of it makes every decent - minded man in Mexico shudder,. for Huerta, though cruel and brutal, is a -saint compared to the outlaw of the mountains of Chihuahua. • As has so often -been the case in Mexico's revolution -cursed history, Juarez was the place from which began the triumphs of the rebel chieftain. When the Madero revolution started Villa was a. hunted man in the fastnesses of the Chihuahua, Mountains, His was the most hated name in that part of Mexico. "Half Indian and half beast" is how an El Pasoan once described. Villa. He is half Indian, and whe- ther the 'ether half is beast let the record tell. The complete list of murders, the responsibility for which directly or - indirectly rests upon the shoulders of Villa,' alias never been written.. It probably never will be. It can be stated, however, that a score is an estimate so Moderate that it would Began at Juarez. General Villa. nuke any ordinary C.hihuahuan ,laugh. Villa. started his killing of. men about nine yearsbefore the fall of Diaz. They, tell a story in Chi- luaiiva that be killed, his first man because that naa1`a had insulted a woman member of the Villa elan. But not teeny people. believe that yarn, for Villa is not the kind' of as man who kills for'itatters of simple honor. When lie fights it is for re- ward, and the ,' reward, if` he can menage- it, must be paid in gold. . Was Rented for i0 Years. Before he betrame an outlaw Villa, owned a sell ranch it Chihuahua,. about .200 .mike- south , of ii l Paso, Texas, As a, ranehmsn he .:was, a failure, and so.in=course of thus --he became a bandit. rSrxoh he contin- ued to hey until; the advent. of :t'ran- oiseo I. '.Madero,' -Jr., At that time Villas, was a. bandit outlaw, and the ruralee of Diaz had been 'phasing him 'withont<, suooess 'foe imearly ten, years, Ii, was ‘ttaid that there was. not a waker'hole icor a trail nee a carve big eitottgh to hide in through- mens rclf the Ohihua" hue ' mountains thart villa and his men did not know about. It was an impossible task to capture hien as Diaz's men soon found out. But old Porfirio appreciated the menace of a live Villa, and so the rurales kept on chasing the outlaw. When the ill -clad veterans of Madero switohed the war against Diaz into O'hihuahua, Villa, came out of his retreat and sought an in- terview with the rebel leader. Ma- dero was impressed with the man, andthotigh appreciating to the full tlte;.bandit's .vicious nature, he de - :aided, that 'Villa .w .n' e ,p oodr terata to have around, if for nothing else that his hatred. of Dietz. So Madero tools Villa into the insuereoto army and commissioned him a colonel. Thai:oomnv;ssion made possiblethe capture of Juarez and the invest - Meat of the City of Crhihuahu•a. Villa,. who, had left Chihli -Mem se a f1';gitive -weeted for eiiie de' in the first '.degree; ,because of;that favor sof Madero was able, then yeers:later, to rerenter it a conqueror. A. Jealous Nettie°. 'Ovide in the Madero fold Villa be- e:so a one of the fiercest of `all the Madero subordinates, -His is a jeal- ous• nature, and he wanted all the glory'for himself. That was why he soon. beeanie the, bitter enemy' of Pascal Orozco, 'another Madero lieutenant, and of Garibaldi, the young Malian, whose•ability.'as' an artilleryman did so much in. the ac- complishment of the Madero tri- umph. In battles fought in and around Ahumada and Oasis Grandes,. en- gagements that preceded the final and decisive battles 'Haat were to complete the triumph of Madero, "Rancho, the Tiger," as they called Villa, fought •like the beast whose name•had been given him. He rea- lized that. he was fighting against the man who had tried to bring him to justice and who had placed a money reward on his head, He was.. not • lighting for constitutional rights. He was inspired by ven- geance, not by love of country or his fellowman. When Madero entered Juarez and proclaimed the city as his provision- al capital, Villa expected that loot- ing"would be permitted and that Madero would take no pains to care for his Federal prisoners. Villa does not believe in mercy even to a t aptured enemy, and he was the ail ri .man;.:,a,n Chihuahua, when 'Madierd ordered all the' whiskey in Juarez ;dumped into' the gutters and gave instructions .that his prisoners of war vere to be humanely treated. Ie the weeks Haat followed the fall of .ivarez, the weeks in which Diaz through his trusted agents begged for terms of peace that would at least permit him to quit Mexico with honor, Villa remained sullenly in his headquarters irt an adobe hut on the western outskirts of the city. ' - . He Reappears. Not much had been heard of Villa for some time until five months ago. Then he loomed large. Instead of being at the head, of a. few hundred men, banditslike himself, he comes to the front as "Gen. Villa, with an army of several thousand, an army that is growing all the time. Several, big, citiesfall before his ad- vance and in all - of them he de- mands and gets tribute of money. A maonth:ago he appears in north- ern Chihuahua with a bigger army ender his co/emend than ' Madero had when he overthrew Diaz. The biggest and one of the rich- est States in. all Mexico is Chili -liar hue, and Villa is its ruler. Will Villa:make, good bis promise to ad varice on -Mexico City? That is a question uppermost in the minds of those who are watching Mexico. IiITCH'N ''R' S STORY. Thus East and: West Do Occasional. ly :Meet. "There was a young woman, a pronounced brunette," said Lord g'itohener of'I hartoum, "who came' out to Cape Town' disguised as a lady nurse, her object being deo keep her eye on her husband, who held a billet under General Forrestier- Walker at the base. Later on he was unfoetamnately sent to the front, where, still more unfortunately, he was forthwith picked off by a. wan- dering •Neuter bullet, The widow was such a 'victim to the luxury of unrestrained griefthat it was eh- -served `her raven Jocks turned am- ber in . a single night, "Th s," added his Lordship with os malicious grin., "Past ,and West do occasion- ally meet The stricken widows- an' the Ganges puts ashes on her heard as an indication for her barea,ve- manta and the widow from the. banks of, the Thames. applied per- oxide oh:hydrogen es an advert.iae- f a controllable sorrow,". Y: THE 11 WHAT 66 + .NJt,fk. NI y''g yy �1 '�r7 Q� IiI].LLI,D ,14 �$J BEAR? Y No ,Signs of Blood, Not Been So Much As a Scratch. Our shook camp, up in the Maine woods writes a. Youth's -Companion contributor, was a long, low struc- ture of rough lumber. It looked a, good deal like en old bowlieg alley, for it was as much as eighty feet long. In making oak shooks for hogsheads and tierces, you need plenty of room for shave horses, steam boxes, and so forth. At the far end there ^spas a small steam engine. We were about the camp only by day. No one slept there ; bunt we ate our lunches there, and often threw out wraps of f iod. An old bear got in the way of ocemi.ng round at night for what he could pick up. The door was. made of rough plank; but it would awing to, and usually, but not always, it latched itself. Two or three times we saw signs that the bear had been inside the camp; and one morning, when. BobMurphy and I went in we -were startled to hear a loud 'snort, and to see the bear coming straight far the door ! I turned, to run. The bear was quite large, black as a coal, except his jowls, and he looked teement dously savage I But Bob pulled the door to, as I dashed past him, and held it fast. "We've got -him!" he exclaimed. "Run down to the sawmill and fetch a gun !" The mill was half 'a mile o'r more from the shook camp, but I made great time. The men there were just beginning to work. In response to my hasty summons Jim Doolittle ran for his percus- sion -cap rifle, and we all set off for the camp. When we got there, we found Bob dashing round outside, yelling like a stentor, and propping up -boards at the 'windows to keep the bear in. It had already broken several pains of glass, and was go- ing like a race horse from. one end of the long camp to the other in the effort to find some way of escape. T 11 fix him," said Jim•, and thrusting the muzzle of the rifle in at ono of the broken panes, he fired; but either the bear was going too fast or 'Jim was too much out of breath to take steady aim; he mused. clean. The report end smoke only added -to the creature's terrors. A bear is called clumsy, hut I never saw an animal rue so fast or leap to high, Jim reloaded' the gnu; but when he tried to cap it, -he discovered that he had forgot- ten er lost the cap box. So Jim, followed by his brother Am, started to run back to the mill, to look for the etas box. The rest of us stood outside, and listened to the bear as he ran back and forth. We couldn't help laughing to hear the tools and shave horses crash and raattle. Just outside the camp doer hung a tin dinner horn. Bob seized that, and opening the door a little, blew a, loud blast. That frightened the bear. even more than the gun. He growled • and whimpered as he ran, and whined aloud when Bob blew another blast in at a broken pane. Not to be outdone, I caught up an ash pole, and began to belabor the sides of the' old camp. It made a. fearful noise. They could hear it at III the mill, half a mile away. At length we stopped for a mom- ent, and peeped in again. To our surprise; we could see no. bear ! We reconnoitred through holes and cracks for some time, but we dared not venture in. We were •still re_ connoitr5.ng when Jim and Am re- turned. At last Bob stole in. He came out with a. jump„. and clapped the door- to, for lie had caught sight of black hair down -behind a tier of shhvoks in the far corner. But the bear did not stir, and after much cautious peeping, Jim drew near, and poked him with apole. He was stone dead. "Wal, I hit him after all !" Jim exclaimed. "He's bled to death." But when, we hauled the carcass out, we could not find a sign of blood, or even so much as a, scratch. If it wasn't heart failure, what was it? Convincing. "Mr. Lahe called again . this morning sir maid the new office boy. as Irl [r. Stuart entered the of- fice, r'Did you. ,tell him I'd one to . Euro ''e,, en I told you to, Edward I" asked Mr, Stuart, "Yee, sir.," answered the boy. r'I. told him you started this niormng. "Tiiret's a good boy, " said Stuart, "Auld whet did he say 7" "He wanted to know when you'd be bark," replied Edward, "and I told him '.After h erele' sir, FROM MERRY 019 [NEIN NEWS BY MAIL Ai3OUT JO11.1 BULL :AND HIS i"Eor deterrences in The Land !4'W Reigns Supreme in the Com. merviui World. Coven'ta y and Lincoln have sided to present Mr. Oarne,ie wl the freedom .of their respective i ricipalitiss, Lewisham Borough Council b under consideration an extents sahenae of improvements to seve teen roads to be carried out at estim'ate'd cost of $15'i,00o. A further tribute to the mane of the late Lord Lister has he paid' ,art King's College, Londe where a memorial tablet has _ lea unveiled by Lord Rayleigh, The death took place at 'Wive] field, Sussex, of Mr. Alfred Ly. son of the late Sir Alfred and La Lyall, and the father of Mrs. Ali; Askew, the authoress. The Pontefract Guardians ha defeated the proposal of a le• olergy,anan to substitute manger for butter for the use of the roma, of the workhouse. As the shelter for tramway p. aengers at Blackfriars is lotted be inadequate, it is proposed erect a shelter in three parts the east -of Carmelite -Street. An unofficial poll of the voter: Bootle has been. taken > on the qu; tion of Sunday public -license ot. ing and the figures were : F. 8,412; against, 1;035; neutral, 27 After ten days' fishingtthe trawl. Arctic has returned to Boston, Li oolnshire, with a catkin which so for over $1,800, which is a 'reco. for the time occupied. Three tenement • houses in Helm Street, Hull, were badly damag by an explosion of gs.s. A wo named Hill was buried to the kne in bricks and had a leg broken. Having worked single-handed a chimney sweep until the age 68, although totally blind fr birth, Henry Thorpe has died Thetford Workhouse .sit the age 78. The Lord Mayor of Newcastle Tyne entertained at the Manse House representatives of the th trice' profession and the manag of the local theatres and net halls: The death has occurred in B,-"; ing of Mr. F. E. Blaclnm:ore, one the best-known exponents of -t game of bowls in the South of Ex land. He was a member of Reading Bowling Club. A young mill hand named I 131and was shot dead by her lo-' John Pitts, in a lane at Eoclesh near Bradford, after which he to ed the revolver on himself, inflict' fatal injuries. Nottingham, where the late era•I Booth was born, is to hav: Booth Memorial Hall, 'the cost he defrayed by public subscripti A contract for building -a large 1 has already been accepted. • The death is announced of Henry L. Jephson, a London Co ty Councillor, whose strenuous forts to secure a municipal a lance service for the metaespelis expected to bear fruit shortly. It has been announced that d ing the summer 'the military thorities will place an aeroplane the disposal of the British Cross Society for experimen'ti with transporting the wounded fa: a field of battle. WATCH TO EAT BY. Business Man Uses a Cheap Wai. at Lunch Counter. Before going to 'luncheon a We, ington business man who habitual 'carries a three -hundred -doll watch took a cheap nickel -ca timepiece from his desk and put into his pocket. "That," he sal "is to time myself while satin When I am in a big hurry, as I to -day, I eat with my a a>tnh• lying the table in front of me. It is busy place --that lunch —count where I feast at noontime. The are plenty of other poen there aa:l, in a hurry, and who eat with th watches laid out in plain sight. the shuffle there is danger of a ani up. That happened to sue once. fine.gold watch WAS, picked up by neighbor when I happened not be looking. To prevent a rape tion of that experience T keep 11 ,two -dollar affair for lunch pur'pos,- so that if anybody does take it., shan't lose much." One Riad. of Single Tax.' ."Jones insists that there oug to be a tax on bachelors," "He must he one of ;biose sing! tax theorist's,"