TAFT COMES
LEAGUE PLAN
Puts It Into Plain Language Free
From Legal and Diplomatic
Verbiage, in Response to Re
quest.
MANY ARE CONFUSED
BY PRESENT DEBATE
Danger That People Will Lose
Sight of Basic Principles Dur
ing Discussion of Complicated
Details and Technicalities.
(By ex-President William H. Taft.)
The plan for a League of Na
tions is l»ased on a few simple
principles, which are not hard
to understand when lifted out
of (he morass of technical discus
sion and freed from legal and
diplomatic language. As the
one authority best able to pre
sent these points without par
tisan bias, ex-President Taft
has been asked to put the
league idea into a few plain
words for the benefit of millions
of Americans who desire a bet
ter understanding of the plan
but find themselves confused by
the debate in the .United States
Senate. In response to this le
quest he has written the follow
ing article.
Purpose of the League.
The chief purpose of the League of
Nations is to keep the world in a
state of peace. Another way of ex
pressing it is to say that the league
is designed to prevent wars.
We have just finished the greatest,
which is to say the most horrible, of
all conflicts between nations. We
have won a glorious victory. But that
victory will be wasted unless this war
has made the nations ready to
put aside their differences and co
operate to end war forever.
It is not enough, however, to pro
vide for the prevention of wars and
the settlement of disputes after they
have arisen. We must foresee causes
of trouble and remove them before
they have reached an acute stage.
'Hence there must be provision for fre
quent consultations of members of the
league for exchange of information,
for agreement on common policies and
for the gradual formation of rules of
international law which at present are
uncertain and incomplete.
The representatives of the great
free nations which won the war have
met at Paris and, after long consulta
tion, have drawn an agreement which
they believe will accomplish these
ends. At the very least it will set in
motion great changes which will re
sult In universal benefit to all man
kind. This agreement is called the
Covenant of the League of Nations
and it is a part of the peace treaty.
There will be 110 league worth talk
ing about, however, unless the United
States is a member. The decision as
to whether the United States shall
join rests with our Senate. The Sena
tors, chosen by the people, will in the
end vote as the people desire. For
this reason the people themselves will
decide whether or not the United
States will join the league. In this
question every citizen should have a
voice. He or she can express opinion
either by writing direct to Senators,
by letters to the newspapers, by
speeches in his lodge or local union or
In conversation with friends.
Methods of Maintaining Peace.
Since the prime object of the
League of Nations is to preserve peace
—and to reap the benefits of peace—
let us see how the league will operate
to accomplish that purpose.
In the first place it will seek to re
mote the main causes of war. By tile
formation of an international court It
will create a means for the peaceful
settlement of disputes between na
tions. Then it will seek to compel the
nations to make use of this court.
This is nothing more nor less than an
application of the rules and customs
governing private individuals in civil
ized communities to the relations be
tween nations.
Secondly, the League will seek If re
move a great temptation to war by
the general agreement to reduce the
size of armies and navies. This will
halt the race for military and naval
supremacy which was largely respon
sible for the war just ended. The
amount of armament any nation may
maintain will be strictly defined.
Thus it will be impossible for one
country to overwhelm its neighbor by
unexpected attack, in the way that
Germany crushed Belgium and would
have crushed France"had not the other
democratic nations gone to her aid. The
idea Is that each country may k*ep
an army and navy large enough to en
able it to fulfil its responsibilities as
a member of the League, but no larger.
The United States, for example, prob
ably would be expected to keep a
check on Mexico and the state of con
stant turmoil in that country would be
taken into consideration in deciding
how large an army we should need.
The third important safeguard
which the League will set up is a sys
tem of penalties. This will make an
outlaw of any nation or group of na
tions which goes to war in violation
of the rules of the League. The out-
lawed nation will be boycotted by all
the other members of the League and
will find itself cut off from both busi
ness and social communication with
the rest of the world.
How It Will Prevent Wars.
It is not claimed that the League of
Nations will do away with war alto
gether. Every possible provision that
human intelligence can devise will be
made to settle international disp ~es
peaceably. Hut should all these meas
ures fail and two nations go to war,
this is what will happen:
If both parties to the dispute have
observed the rules of the League, the
other nations will stand back and let
them fight it out. War under such
circumstances is difficult to imagine,
however, because before the angry na
tions will be allowed to fight in ac
cordance with the rules of the League,
so much time must elapse that in all
probability their anger will cool and
they will reach an amicable under
standing.
What we have to fear is that some
nation will go to war in defiance of
i i;e League, HIMI every precaution has
been taken to suppress such a nation
by the immediate use of the united
jMjwer of the other nations. If inter
national boycott failed to bring her
to terms she would have to face a
combined international army and
navy. The founders of the League be
lieve that the mere possibility of such
a situation will prevent any nation
from violating its agreement. Does
anyone think that Germany would
have begun war five years ago if she
had known that nearly all the other
srreat powers would combine against
| lier?
Doing the World's Work.
In addition to settling international
disputes peaceably the League of
Nations will provide means for doing
much of the world's work more sys
tematically and effectively than can
be done now when each nation is
working only for itself. The people
you know best and like best are those
who work with you on the same job.
11 will be the same way with the
nations of the future. The more they
work together, the soone'r they will
come to understand and like each
other.
For example, the League will estab
lish an international organization for
the bettering of labor conditions in
different countries, for the protection
of women and children and the native
inhabitants of civilized and semi-civil
ized countries. One of Germany's
greatest crimes has been her barba
rous treatment of the helpless people
in some of her colonies. One of the
i chief tasks of the League will be to
look after peoples that are not strong
enough to protect themselves.
The League will appoint commis
' sions to take charge of various inter
national undertakings so that they
I may be carried on, not for the benefit
I of any one nation, but for the benefit
!of the whole world. Provision will be
made for promotion of fair and equal
| trade conditions.
These are only a few of the benefits
, the world will derive from the League.
1 As time goes on we sliali find more
and more tasks at which the nations
can work in common and a greater
number of opportunities to remove
causes which stir up jealousies and
animosities between races and peoples.
Objections Answered.
Of course we cannot hope to make
the great changes such as the League
of Nations will bring about without
opposition. Fortunately the war lias
taught us the great advantages of
international co-operation. It was
only by good team work that the free
liberty loving nations were able to
whip Germany.
The treaty which the United States
Senate is debating obligates the mem
bers of the proposed League to pro
tect one another against attack from
enemies outside their own boundaries
bent upon conquest. Although this
agreement (Article X of the Cove
nant) is vital to any arrangement
which seeks to prevent war, it has
been attacked on the ground that it
would draw the United States into
wars in various parts of the world and
force us to send our boys to fight in
quarrels which did not concern us.
We should remember, however, that
the main purpose of Article X is to
frighten nations tempted to wars of
conquest from yielding to the tempta
tion, by the certainty that they will be
crushed if they begin such a war by
a universal boycott and a union of
forces of the world against them. If
a big war breaks out again, the United
States will be forced to take part in
it whether we have a League of
Nations or not. We tried hard enough
to keep out of the war with Germany
but found we couldn't.
A little war contrary to the League
rules could be handled by the powers
Close at hand. Certainly it would not
be necessary to send American troops
to suppress an uprising in the Balkans
when prompt action by the armies of
Italy or some other nearby powerful
nation could suppress the fracas be
fore American troops could even get
started.
Great Gain for Small Loss.
We had to make many sacrifices to
win the last war and we made them
willingly because we knew they were
worth while. It will be the same In a
smaller degree with a League of
Nations. When men form a business
partnership each one has to make
concessions to the views and opinions
of the other members of the firm.
When we enter the League of
Nations we may have to give up cer
tain privileges, but the losses will be
small compared with the profits.
The United States will not have to
sacrifice her independence or right to
make her own decisions.
The council, the chief governing
body of the League, cannot take
action without unanimous decision of
its members and since the "United
Stati will have u representative in
the Council our interest will be pro
tected there. We hear it said that the
League is formed for the benefit of
Great Britain or Japan or some other
one nation. This is not true. All the
nations will gain by it, not only the
great nations such as the United
States, Great Britain, France, Japan
and Italy, but the lirtle nations which
in the past have been oppressed by
their big neighbors. The international
court will give an opportunity for the
settlement of old grievances which
have long troubled the peoples of the
world.
It has been said that the League
will interfere with the Monroe Doc
trine, but the League Covenant ex
pressly protects this Doctrine. In fact,
through the Covenant the Monroe Doc
trine receives recognition throughout
the world and its principles become
forever established.
WOMEN DEMAND
WARS SHALL END
Peace League Means More to
Them Than It Can Mean
to Men.
DR. SHAW'S STIRRING PLEA.
(By the Late Dr. Anna Howard Shaw.)
Seven million one hundred thousand
men who had laid down their lives in
the great war. Think of it! Seven
| million, one hundred thousand young
\ men had died on the field of battle!
What does that mean to the women
of the world? It means that seven
million one hundred thousand women
walked day by day with their faces
toward an open grave that tliey might
give life to a son. It means that
j seven million one hundred thousand
, little children lay in the arms of a
i mother whose had made them
j face even the terrors of death that
! they might become the mothers of
• men.
It means that year after year these
| women had put up their lives into the
j lives of their sons until they had rear
|ed them to be men. For what? In
j the hope that these sons of theirs could
i give to the world the things for which
[ women dream, the things for which
j women hope and pray and long. These
were the things that the women had
In their hearts when they gave birth
! to their sons.
But who can estimate the value of
seven million one hundred thousand
dead sons of the women of the world?
Who can estimate the price which the
women have paid for this war; what
it has cost them, not only in the death
of their sons, because that is a phase
of our war to which we look.
The Courage of Women.
We hear our orators tell us of the
courage of our men. How they went
across the sea. Very few of them re
member to tell us of the courage of
our women, who also went across the
sea; of the women who died nursing
the sick and wounded; the women
who died in the hospitals, where the
terrible bombs came and drove them
almost to madness. They tell us
nothing of the forty thousand English
women who went to work back of the
trenches in France.
They tell us nothing of the thou
sands upon thousands upon thousands
of women who not only toiled and
worked and slaved in order that the
war might be successful, but we do
not hear of the thousands of women,
not alone in Armenia, not alone in
Montenegro, not alone in itarbia, but
in Flanders, in Belgium, to Rumania,
in Russia—the thousands of women
who lie in graves today, murdered,
so horribly murdered that men dare
not speak of it.
And yet we women are asked what
we know about the League of Na
tions ; asked what we can understand
about a League of Nations. Oh men!
the horrible deaths; the horrible lives
of thousands upon thousands of wo
men today in all these nations, who
must live, and who must look in the
faces of children unwelcomed, unde
sired —of little children —and know
that these are the result of war.
And then ask women why they
should be interested in a league of
peace?
Women Suffer Most From War.
If there is any body of citizens In
the world who ought to be interested
In a league to ultimately bring to the
world peace It is the mothers of men,
and the women who suffered as only
women can suffer in the war and in
devastated countries.
And we call upon them, we women
of the world call upon the men who
have been fighting all these battles of
the years, the men who have led
armies, and led armies close to their
deaths.
We are now calling upon the men
of the world to in some way or an
other find a passage out of the sea of
death. We are asking them to form
a league which will bring hope to the
women of the future. If women are
to bear sons only that they may die,
if women may not have hope
and aspirations for their children,
if women may not dream the dreams
that have in them the hope of the
highest civilizations, the highest moral
and spiritual life of the people—if wo
men may not have these in their
hearts as the mothers of men, then
women will cease to desire to be the
mothers of men. And why should
they not? Why should they not?
2? X *
<| A Double ||
H Re-Union l\
II II
l<s vl
11 By CECILL2 LANGDON
(Copyright, 1919, by the Western News
paper Union.)
"But it was only a harmless little
tiff." said Kitty Willis. "I was petu
lant, he was impatient, and we parted
as if we were utter strangers," and the
final tones quavered and broke.
"No 'tiff.' as you call it. is harmless,
my dear," replied the soothing voice
of Mrs. Mayhew, the housekeeper, to
whom Kitty always carried her little
troubles. "Once 1 hud a husband and
a home. Both are gone now. And all
through my unjust suspicion and will
ful ways. My husband was a man of
ea'sy ways, and often his persistent
silence when I scolded and his refusal
to quarrel with me led my wayward
tongue to utter bitter things. He had
been a musician, and whenever a com
pany of strolling players came to town
lie delighted in hobnobbing with them.
One night with some old actor friends
he was gone hall the night. I re
proached him cruelly, and in the morn
ing when he announced to me that
somehow be had lost his pocketbook
containing lii-s monthly .salary I ac
cused him of squandering it in gam
bling and drove him from the house.
He did not come back that day nor
the next, but after that from another
town 1 received a letter. It inclosed
the salary which a friend had found.
He wrote a very brief note. He said
that evidently we could not get on to
gether and that maybe all he was good
for was to blow a cornet, and I've
never seen him since, and to the end of
my life I shall regret the bad temper
that has lost me a husband I really
loved. *
"Perhaps Norman is really quite
angry with me and will not come to
hglp me entertain the little ones at the
children's party this evening," mourned
Kitty contritely.
"Oh, yes he will," soothed Mrs. May
hew, fondly caressing the sobbing
penitent.
Norman Blair at that very hour
brought his automobile to a halt be
side a lonely country road, his usually
pleasant face wearing a dissatisfied
expression. Of Kitty ke was thinking
and of their petty tiff. He longed to
see her and make up, but pride ami
stubbornness led him to draw back.
If he could only find some plausible
excuse for visiting the Willis home!
It was presented, strangely, ama::ingly,
at that moment! The echo of a pro
digious groan drew his glance to a
little thicket. There stood an aston
ishing figure—that of a man with big
staring eyes and bulging cheeks and
paunch, rotund grotesque, and wearing
the eosturhe of the conventional circus
clown. Such a presentment in that
quiet spot completely mystified Nor
man. He had to smile. As if all ready
made up for the sawdust ring, the
stranger's face was powdered and
tinted; he wore the fool's cap, his face
was newly painted. Suddenly he no
ticed Norman and came toward him.
" "Don't stare so, don't laugh!" he ut
tered complainingly, "but tell me what
to do."
"Why, what is the matter?" in
quired Norman, lost in wonderment.
"Ruined! homeless! doomed to face
a cold, cheerless world in this outland
ish garb! I'm the clown of a Humpty
Dumpty company. We had to steal
away from Watertown with our prop
erties, all but busted. We halted in
the woods here to rehearse our enter
tainment at Mayville. I strolled off to
take a snooze. When I woke up my
comrades and the property wagon
were gone. The landlord of the hotel
at Watertown had pursued us and had
seized our wagon and wardrobes, and
my po<?r friends were visible half a
mile up on yonder hill, in hock and
without money and prospects. That
had to come eventually."
,A quick light came to the eyes of
Norman Blair. "I say, my friend," he
spoke rapidly, "if 1 agree to provide
you with a good sum of money to re
place your wardrobe will you sell me
your professional services for two
hours late this afternoon?"
"You're a life-saver!" almost shout
ed the other.
"Then get into my auto. A friend of
mine is to give a cYldren's lawn party.
When it's over you shall have a liberal
compensation.
And driving later to the Willis home
with his odd companion, the grand ex
cuse Norman had for showing up there
was readily approved by Kitty, and
the tiff of the preceding even forgiven
and forgotten with a loving kiss.
WTiat a rollicking, roystering time
the little ones had! What a rare, jolly,
funny, engaging clown held them spell
bound with his comic antics! Then at
last as he produced a trick mouse and
feigned desperate fear, he pressed the
air vent of his false front and col
lapsed into a flat, ordinary human be
ing amid the delirious shouts of hi»
appreciative audienc^.
Norman escorted his new friend into
the house where he could wash the
paint and powder fremi his face, pur
suant to taking him to town to be re
habilitated in every-day attire. As the
clown came outside again there was
a shriek.
"Abner! my husband!" shrieked
Mrs. M* yhew, and tiew to his side and
threw her arms about his neck, and
fainted there, while her husband, gaz
ing tenderly into her colorless face,
leaned over and kissed her, while Kit
ty, in happy tears, blessed her loyal
lover for having brought about this
double reunioa.
EASY TO TALK TOO MUCH
One Must Admit There Is Much Truth
in the Sage Reflections of
Mr. Goslingtcn.
"It is my opinion," said Mr. Gosling
ton. "that beggars talk too much. For
instance. this morning I met a man
who asked me for a nickel with which
to buy a cup of coffee. As I wa»
reaching for the nickel he kept right
on talking, telling me among other
things that he hadn't had anything to
eat for three days, which I knew of
course was false, aud which detracted
very much from my pleasure in giving.
"I am an easy mark. Perhaps as I
grow older I shall grow harder, but as
I feel about it now I would rather give
to a dozen frauds than take a chance
of missing one man who was hungry.
Still I don't like the fraud to be too
obvious; and I am sure there must
»e many prospective givers who, when
the beggar keeps on with that sur
plus talk, rescind their original deter
mination to give and keep their monev
n their pocket. Surely you would
think the beggar would learn wisdom
and talk less, wouldn't you?
"But the beggar is not the only
man. How often do we hear it said
of some banquet speaker that he is
a good talker but be talks too much!
This may seem a harsh way of put
ting it, but that's what people say.
This speaker starts ingagingly and
talks for a time to the pleasure of ev
erybody, wandering on then intermi
nably to the complete obliteration of
the first favorable impression. Here
the only result is the tiring of the
speaker's hearers; but talking too
much might have a far more serious
result in the case of, say, a man ap
plying for a job.
"Many n man has talked himself
out of a prospective job. He goes to
the employer with what he wants to
say clearly laid out in his mind, he
says this clearly and simply, and the
employer has practically made up his
mind to take him; but then the appli
cant keeps on talking, to bis own un
doing. As lie talks he reveals himself
in a light less favorable; he discloses
perhaps some peculiarity that may no 1
really be a detriment but that strikes
the employer not agreeably; and so
this job that at first the applicant had
felt perfectly sure of slips away front
him entirely and without his realizing
just how it all came about.
"The beggar is far from being alone
in overtasking. There are many men
in many walks who lack the fine gift
of knowing when to stop."
Fascination of a Helmet.
The Hun helmet possesses a strong
i fascination for the American soldier.
I Apparently he is not able to resist the
| temptation to capture one whenever
ior wherever he sees it. A news story
from the Rhine country tells us that
German policemen of the towns oc
cupied by the American troops have
given up wearing helmets. Many of
the policemen gave them up because
they had none to wear. Others dis
! continued their use because the Amer
| ican officers made the discontinuance
a request. The American soldiers, It
is explained, couldn't resist the im
pulse to capture them. The. German
policemen were rushed all along the
Rhine and deftly *nbonneted. It all
shows tjiat the primitive instinct that
urges a victor to take from the con
quered some symbol of his submission
continues strong in the warrior breast.
—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Old Mexican God Unearthed.
A statue of "Xochlpllli," Aztec god
of flowers, has been discovered by Wil
liam Nivan, an American archeologist
who has been in Mexico recently. The
statue, the representation of the god
known to have been discovered in
; virtually a perfect state of preserva
tion in modern times, was dug up
at Atzcapotzalco, a suburb of the cap
j ltal, and which, prior to the coming of
Cortez. was the seat of a powerful In
dian nation, but which, at the time of
the conquest, was the great slave mart
of the inhabitants of Tenoxtitlan, home
of the Aztecs and the site of the mod
ern city of Mexico. In addition to its
slave trade, Atzcapotzalco was noted
for its expert jewelers and wonderfully
cultivated gardens. "Xochipilli" is sup
posed to have presided over one of
these ancient gardens.
Yet Another.
The number of proposed undersea
tunnels is increasing every day. Al
ready to that under the Straits of
Dover has been added the suggestion
for one tinder the Irish channel. And
now comes Colonel Rubio y Bellve.
who has obtained permission from the
Spanish government to carry out the
preliminary soundings with a view to
connecting Spain with Morocco by
tunneling the Straits of Gibraltar. The
proposal Is that the new tunnel should
Fink west of Tarifa and come to the
surface again east of Tangier. This
would make It. roughly, some twenty
miles long, which 'ft within three
miles of the greatf**f breadth of the
straits, a breadth vhich varies from
eight and a half to twenty-three miles.
Swallow Is Enemy of Mosquito.
If you want to free the neighbor
hood of mosquitoes encourage swal
lows to make themselves at home, says
the American Forestry association.
These birds feed almost entirely upon
obnoxious insects and they will do i
much toward protecting orchards and
other trees from insect pests. No fet
ter investm*%it can be made, therefore,
than some houses set out for martins
or other swallows. Of the blue swal
lows the purple martin is the largest,
the male being entirely blue above with
a gray breast. Swallows are highly
migratory, most of them spending tlie
winter in South America,
if |
if Long Journey |i
it By WINIFRED L. JEWELL
(Copyright, 1119, by the Western News
paper Union.)
Rodney Price was mad and ashamed,
both at the same time. People stared
at him and he was humiliated from
the fact that they stared also at the
big policeman who bad just led him
from a drinking place and now kindly,
though, reprovingly, took hlai to the
corner with the words:
"Go home now, young man, and
thank me for saving you your mosey
and perhaps your sense. I fancy you
don't know the reputation of the joint
you went into."
Rodney Price did not reply. He
traced in going into "the joint" a step
down an incline whither he had been
headed for some time past. He had
gone into the place because he had not
the moral strength to resist a panacea
for a headache, a trembling frame and
a general sense of collapse, due to
over-indulgence the night previous.
The dutiful and friendly officer saw
to it that the man he had rescued
was not followed or headed off. He
kept his eye on Price until he had
turned a corner. Half a square further
progressed, the latter stumbled where
there was a loose sidewalk tile. He
steadied himself and did not fall, al
though his head was dizzy and a sub
tle drowsiness was overcoming him.
Contact with the obstruction had rip
ped off the heel of one shoe. Price
pickea it up and passed on his way
seeking a shoe shop and at last came
to a sign telling that repairing was
done inside.
A woman, her back to him, was hold
ing out two little shoes and explaining
that she wanted them ready by noon,
when she would call for them. As
Price plunged heavily into a seat she
addressed the cobbler.
"It's my little one's birthday, Mr.
Akers," she said, "and I've promised
to take her to a movie this afternoen.
"The cost will be nothing, raa'aia,"
observed the gentle hearted ••bbler.
"I'll send them over before noon, and
you can tell your little one that the
mending was my present, and if I waa
a little better off I'd give her a b*a»d
new pair."
Rodney Price held his senses diz
zying and muddled. Somehow, how
ever, he roused up as a vague recog
nition of the soft lew tone of the wom
an reached his hearing, but he could
not trace out tiie suggestion. I»i a
maudlin way he gained the counter
unsteadily.
"Just fix my heel, will you?" he
spoke, and handed it and the shoe he
had taken off to the cobbler. "And let
me snooze for an hour, I'm terribly
dozy. When you wake me up have the
little girl's shoe fixed, too. I've got
an idea. See?"
The old shoemaker did not "see"
anything further than an inebriate
talking incoherently. When the hour
had gone by, however, he came from
behind the counter, the mended shoe
in his hand, He had some difficulty
In arousing Price, who unknowingly
was the victim of o drugged drink.
The latter put on the shoe, produced i
well-filled pocket book, selected a
bank note and threw it on the counter.
"No change," he ordered. '"Hello!"
as his eyes fell upon the little mended
shoes, and then his hand passed over
his brow confusedly. "Oh, yes, I re
member now, poor woman, the child's
birthday. And you, good old soul, was
to fix the shoes for nothing. A capital
job, too, neatly patched and polished
up nicely. Here," and he tendered a
second bank ndte to the astonished
cobbler. "And here," he added with a
reckless laugh, "I'll uo my share," and
he stuffed a handful of bills in one of
the tiny shoes. "Now then, you let
me deliver them, won't you? Where
does the little one live?"
"Second floor, No. 182, six doors
west There's a sign in front —'dress-
maker.' "
"All right. Poor little shoes. Poor
little child. Anil me a regular goody
two shoes, eh? Well somebody will be
happy, and tl»e bewildered shoemak
er's visitor left the place unsteadily,
the two little shoes in his hand.
His gait was unsteady, his sight
blurred, for the drugged «Jrink had not
yet lost its effect. He located 182, how
ever, and the fcign "dressmaker" and
the second floor. About to approach a
door he slipped to the floor of the hall
way Instead, for a second time rob
bed of his senses by the drug.
"Oh, mamma !" exclaimed the little
child, as she chanced to open the
door, and, startled, noticed the pro«»
trate man. "Here's someone sick, or
asleep, and oh, my shoes! all fixed up
beautifully, and oh. mamma ! they are
full of money!"
Lost in amazement the mother view
ed the situation.
When Rodney Price aroused again
he lay on a couch in a neat but poor
ly furnished room. He fancied he
was dreaming as a familiar, long
sought-for face seemed to flash across
his vision. He reviewed the past, a
wife abandoned, two years of reckless
inebriety, a fortune won in a mining
camp, a search for the woman he still
loved, despair, a return to strong
drink, but now —
One won! she spoke—his name. One
look she bestowed —of love. One treas
ure he had not known —the little child
—sh£ heJd towards him, and Rodney
Priafe realized that he had reached the
en*f of a long journey.